Discussion for a Kingdom of ashes OOC II

[The_Universe]

cool beans. Not sure what's up with Liz and I yet--as soon as we no more, one of us will post it. Otherwise, see you guys tonight!

Kaereth's intro is almost done. Barring disaster, I expect to post it tomorrow.

 

[The_Universe]

Prologue part III - Kaereth (The Monk's Tale) has been posted. Happy reading.

 

[The_Universe]

Treasure!

3200 GP
10 Gems (1910)
Boots of the Winterlands
Dust of Disappearance
Potion of Cure Light Wounds
1st level Pearl of Power
Potion of Invisibility
Wand of Mirror Image (47 Charges)
Rod of Enlarge (Metamagic)

You find the above on the bodies of the fallen in level 1 of the City Watch.

 

[Laurel]

Who would be the most likely to steal from our group?

Anyone declaring anything? Or can we just have Xath put it in the bag o' holdin' aka-Gerti gets to add it our pile for now?

"Rod of Enlarge (Metamagic)" I just have to say... ew.... oh wait sorry picking mind up out of gutter now.

 

[Laurel]

Prologue part III - Kaereth (The Monk's Tale) has been posted. Happy reading.

Looks cool... hehe... happy air...

 

[The_Universe]

Anyone declaring anything? Or can we just have Xath put it in the bag o' holdin' aka-Gerti gets to add it our pile for now?

"Rod of Enlarge (Metamagic)" I just have to say... ew.... oh wait sorry picking mind up out of gutter now.

No no no! You're thinking of the rod of splendor!

 

[Xath]

Ooh Ooh, let's use the wand of enlarge on Syvattagor!!!!

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Are people planning to eat before they get here or order when they get here or cooking when they get here?

Realize this is a little late... but, I didn't even know that people WERE coming over until after 10 last night...

Not a problem, though. I'm full of ideas!

 

[The_Universe]

Great job last night!

Now, make with the planning!

 

[Laurel]

Here's what some NPCs would suggest:

Approximately 48 hours after your palace experience, you travel on foot (or horse or griffon) to somewhere just beyond the edge of the no man's land. You choose a point of attack, and an agreed upon rendezvous on the other side of the wall.

Then, rather then depending on being able to see eachother, you depend on coordination. A mage of some sort casts invisibility on you, and you begin moving to the agreed upon spot, each with ropes and grapples. You will be unable to see eachother, so timing is of the essence. After crossing the no man's land (as quietly as possible) you all grapple the wall at pre-chosen places, and begin a fast ascent. The grapples (and ropes) may be noticed, so you'll need to ascend with the utmost speed.

[alternatively, you may wish to stagger your ascents so that some characters can provide a distraction while others climb]

Once at the top of the wall, you'll dispatch any opponents you may encounter as quickly as possible, and then move to one of the guard stations/towers as fast as possible. If you've encountered resistence, you'll be visible, so speed and silence are extraordinarily important. Moving to one of the guard posts should aid you, as just trying to cross the inner no man's land will attract undue attention. You'll descend where the draconids do, and move across the inner no man's land imitating them as well as is possible. Xath should be able to help a little, here.

check

Once into the city proper, initial scouting must focus on locating a temporary headquarters. HQ should be small, out of the way, defensible, and easily hardened against casual patrols and inspection. You'll need to hide right under their noses. Remember, undead, saurian creatures like Yoshi, and Wyverns all roam the area at will, so combat may be unavoidable. Should this be the case, speed and efficiency will be the watchwords of the day--be ruthless, and efficient, and above all, have your results, but not your persons be noticed. Silent weapons are a must--no steeldrakes except as a last resort, here. Justice will have to show restraint with her turning--it is a powerful tool, but easily observed...as long as ity can be done in secret, use it with impugnity.

Check -reminder the silence aspect...

One of the objectives of this mission is to strike a little bit of fear into our enemies, so any draconids must be made an example of--if the bodies are to be found, they must be terrible, indeed, to strike fear into the hearts of these black-hearted creatures.

Check to the ones on the walls and the ones we burned-- we need to keep the call card thing going

After establishing an HQ for further operations, several scouting attempts must be made, all while maintaining a low profile. Primarily, some attempt to map the extent of the sewers must be made--they could serve as a useful tool, indeed. If they are even half as well designed as the city streets, you'll have a veritable network of tunnels from which you may operate, unless the draconids have already taken advantage of them. If they have, you'll find out about it during this part of the mission. Once the undercity has been scouted, a secondary operation must be initiated. For our purposes, we'll call it Operation: Pet Rock (this is the planar ally plan). Communication and supply lines must be established between our forest stronghold, and whatever control point we possess in the city. Operation Pet Rock allows us to do so quickly, quiety, and without notice.

Check

After casing the sewers (or lack thereof), and connecting Oceanus HQ with Forest Base, the next effort must focus on observing movements and major choke points within the city. Where are the draconids sleeping (if indeed they sleep)? How many are gathered in what locations? Do they move in specific patterns? Are they preparing to move? If so, where? During this mission, any time targets of opportunity present themselves, they should be taken, and made an example of. Choose a calling card, and begin to leave it everywhere you have infiltrated.

Still lots of questions unanswered- are there other primary holding places for elves? are they doing timed scouting through the city? Are they concentrating in one area? What is Syvatagor up to? Do the troops sleep? Do they congregate in one area? etc. etc.
??Basically it comes down to what are we focusing on??

After having identified major choke points, a secondary (or is it tertiary by now?) plan must be made to hit, and severely damage at least one such point. Your goal must be to hit a target of importance, and wreak such havoc that it will cripple this arm of the invasion, at least until further reinforcements can arrive (or be created). Little planning can be made on this option until our initial intelligence needs have been met. If the target identified requires a larger strike force, acquire and brief said force. Speed will be of the essence, and those people we have trained will be standing by to assist should they be necessary.

Once at least one major target has been hit and disabled (destroyed is preferable), we will have momentary freedom to act while the enemy is off balance. Those of our kin that have already been taken to the palace must be assumed to already be lost to the clutches of our enemies.

check sort of... we did these in reverse order, got elves out now going to target and destroy part-
Other Possibities: set fire to Docks, destroy Ships, destory big evil ship, Barracks with guards in there, destroy the towers along the wall, take down part of the wall, kill guards along wall, release the ooze into the city, use gorilla warfare and hit parties of guards travelling through city, destroy the statutes they are defacing/changing (hey, they are putting time into changing them so it is some thought there).... etc.

The city watch, now serving as a holding cell, must be hit, destroyed, with any free populace within returned to HQ, and through the results of Pet Rock, moved to Forest Base. Once out of the city, our supply conduit (and Oceanus HQ) must be collapsed, and made unuseable for the enemy, unless the resulting escape has been unobserved by the enemy, entirely.

With valuable intelligence on the undercity in hand, we ought to have the wherewithal for Pet Rock II, III, and IV (etc.) operations, and have several new allies, as well as new respect from our foe...at best, we can hope that they begin to fear us.

Check for first pet rock, check for new allies though damaged and weak, check they now think of us a little problem. Now to Pet Rock II, III, etc.

If Pet Rock becomes compromised, it will be collapsed from Forest Base, and escape will have to made on your own terms.

Can not collapse yet, do we have an estimate on how long freckles will take with that?
If we need supplies we can send our last pheonix captain to go there and bringing a small group with him return with the stuff.