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<blockquote data-quote="Jaelommiss" data-source="post: 6672908" data-attributes="member: 6775925"><p>I didn't explain the distances and time properly in my first post. The castle I was headed to is in a forest roughly 25 miles north of the town. We came across the orcs at around 2pm, roughly 30 miles NE of town and 20 miles ESE of the castle. All of us were mounted, so I made it to the castle in 4 hours (6pm), spent an hour talking to the leader (7pm), Long Rest because I'm up to nine hours travelled already (3am), four hour ride to town (7am/dawn). The orcs, I assumed, would reach the town around 10pm at a fast pace and on foot. If the fortified town would fall in nine hours then the presence of a single extra fighter would have likely made little difference overall.</p><p></p><p>I agree that it would have been entirely my fault if I had planned on being gone for even longer though. The timing just happened to work out perfectly for what I wanted to do. We'd known that the orcs were coming at some time since we'd found advance parties as long as fourteen months previous, but we didn't have an exact date. When the DM rolled a 20 followed by a 17 for a random encounter he decided that it was time for something big.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaelommiss, post: 6672908, member: 6775925"] I didn't explain the distances and time properly in my first post. The castle I was headed to is in a forest roughly 25 miles north of the town. We came across the orcs at around 2pm, roughly 30 miles NE of town and 20 miles ESE of the castle. All of us were mounted, so I made it to the castle in 4 hours (6pm), spent an hour talking to the leader (7pm), Long Rest because I'm up to nine hours travelled already (3am), four hour ride to town (7am/dawn). The orcs, I assumed, would reach the town around 10pm at a fast pace and on foot. If the fortified town would fall in nine hours then the presence of a single extra fighter would have likely made little difference overall. I agree that it would have been entirely my fault if I had planned on being gone for even longer though. The timing just happened to work out perfectly for what I wanted to do. We'd known that the orcs were coming at some time since we'd found advance parties as long as fourteen months previous, but we didn't have an exact date. When the DM rolled a 20 followed by a 17 for a random encounter he decided that it was time for something big. [/QUOTE]
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