Discussion for a Kingdom of ashes OOC II

[The_Universe]

Still being affected by con drain (anyone else?), so less HP, L'aurel will be needin' some healin' as well... though Archonus gets hit first- he looks like he needs it a whole lot more I just look like put my finger in a socket
Also I know we have two wands, but with a small breather in here should we get at least one more wand o' healin' for the fight ahead?
No sleep, so no spell rejuvenation.
We may have already done this and I just don't remember.

Wands of heal spells are also useful as weapons against undead. For them, healing = damage!

 

[The_Universe]

Well, I think we are out of time for the elves in the barracks (I admit I can be off on that), but we could still use the wand of seeming during part of the battle to add confusion we come in from one side seem a section of draconids on other side... I don't know... But of course we make sure we/our allies are not confused as well

Unless something big changes, the elves at the holding pens are probably doomed. According to what Nightgrove told you before he bought the proverbial farm, they were planning on forcing them to march ahead of their army (as if chasing them), hoping to convince the people at New Oceanus and Hyrwl to lower their defenses long enough to try to let the fleeing elves in. If they choose not to lower their defenses, they hope to demoralize the fighters on the walls as they watch while their former neighbors are either slaughtered or devoured, depending on what happens to be marching directly behind them. At worst, they can use the pile of bodies to climb up the walls...

 

[The_Universe]

Lean on me starts to play softly in backround:
Bill Withers - Lean on Me Lyrics
Sometimes in our lives we all have pain/ We all have sorrow/ But if we are wise/ We know that there's always tomorrow
Lean on me, when you're not strong/ And I'll be your friend/ I'll help you carry on/ For it won't be long/ 'Til I'm gonna need/ Somebody to lean on
Please swallow your pride/ If I have things you need to borrow/ For no one can fill those of your needs/ That you don't let show
Lean on me, when you're not strong/ And I'll be your friend/ I'll help you carry on/ For it won't be long/ 'Til I'm gonna need/ Somebody to lean on
If there is a load you have to bear/ That you can't carry/ I'm right up the road/ I'll share your load/ If you just call me
So just call on me brother, when you need a hand/ We all need somebody to lean on/ I just might have a problem that you'd understand/ We all need somebody to lean on
Lean on me when you're not strong/ And I'll be your friend/ I'll help you carry on/ For it won't be long
Till I'm gonna need/ Somebody to lean on/ Lean on me…

This may be the funniest thing ever posted to this thread. Kat, I salute you!

 

[The_Universe]

Hey--you DO have enough money that archon could comission his Tome of Gainful Exercise! And then some!

"And you know how I always said I wanted three pools with s-shaped hedges? And you know how I always said I wanted my own disco room with disco dancers? And you know how I always said I wanted two whole tennis courts? And you know how I always said I wanted an all-red billards room with a giant stuffed camel inside of it? Well I got that, too...."

 

[Laurel]

Unless something big changes, the elves at the holding pens are probably doomed. According to what Nightgrove told you before he bought the proverbial farm, they were planning on forcing them to march ahead of their army (as if chasing them), hoping to convince the people at New Oceanus and Hyrwl to lower their defenses long enough to try to let the fleeing elves in. If they choose not to lower their defenses, they hope to demoralize the fighters on the walls as they watch while their former neighbors are either slaughtered or devoured, depending on what happens to be marching directly behind them. At worst, they can use the pile of bodies to climb up the walls...

Too much creativity for evil people-- at least we saved over 400 hundred elves, not much in the grand scheme, but better then none....:\

 

[The_Universe]

Well, there might be a way to save them, but probably not until after they left the city. You're too far away, and events are moving too fast for that. But if you can think of a way to save them, I say do it.

You'll probably be looking at somewhere between 2000 and 6000 elves. Can you get them inside the walls? Only time will tell....

 

[AIM-54]

Without being the consummate ruiner of fun, maximum combat, it is unlikely that I can come up with something. However, as the consummate militarist, at this stage I think our best plan is to open the gates for those elves that can make it, while simultaneously striking from the rear, hard and fast, with the intent of driving far into the enemy formation, in order to distract as many as possible from the escaping elves. The success of this, however depends on several factors:
1) How the enemy is set up on the approach. If they pause an hour or so out of Hyrwl to consolidate their forces and then effectively strike the city with the full weight of their forces, this plan will be somewhat more effective. If the enemy forces are strung out based on the difficulties of moving thousands of soldiers over such a distance, then the rear attack will have a lesser effect as we'd be hitting the rear elements without having too much effect on what's going on at the front of the formation.
2)They have these irritating flying creatures that can alert them to our presence early or otherwise screw stuff up. We may have to trust our luck on that one, or have our magical assets concentrate on them to try and alleviate the issue.

So those're my thoughts on the issue. I'm sure someone else will come along with something better, more creative and overall less interesting to me.

 

[The_Universe]

My only workable suggestion on the subject of escaping elves thus far has been dubbed (by me) "Heroes Last Stand."

In this, you use your varying flying creatures to drop yourselves ahead of the oncoming rush of elves within a short-ish distance of New Oceanus and Hyrwl. Between your combat abilities, Xath's magic, and Justice's abilities to turn (and destroy) undead you might be able to hold them off long enough to allow at least some of the elves to get into the protection of the walls.

The problem is that your chances of survival are inversely proportional to the number of extra elves you save.

I dunno. Maybe someone else will come up with something. We do have a bit of time.

 

[Xath]

So I've been thinking quite a bit today on how to save as many of the 6000 elves rushing towards Hyrule as possible. Why? I was off of work. And I gave several people headaches by bouncing ideas off of them. I think my mom came up with a workable solution.

We teleport back to Oceanus and use our scroll of Summon Planar Ally to summon the Kool-Aid man. We have him break through the wall of the barracks, and in the ensuing confusion, we free the elves.

The scary part about this is that it is actually magically possible with the resources that we have. We could summon an Earth Elemental, use the wand of seeming to make him look like a giant beverage, and tell him what to say as he breaks through the wall. Then we murder.

 

[Laurel]

Can an air elemental become a tornado and just sweep them up and carry them to Hywrl depositing them at the gates long before the army can reach there? Though it would have to be a really soft, but really large so they are not killed by ramming into each other as the hurl around at high speeds....
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....I can now change myself into looking like a tree, wow what a spell....
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okay so back to plans that may actually do some good...

When we scouted did we see what the bars at the barrakcs were made of (stone/wood/metal/bones)??