Heroes, Inc.: Aftermath

[DM_Matt]

Possible, but moving lots of forces outside the city could provoke an attack, and without the bridges, moving forces in and out is difficult and timec-onsuming.

 

[kirinke]

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They've been decimated right? Low Morale and all that. What if we show up and give them a choice between surrendering and helping Silverymoon or dying? Considering that we killed Kastitos (bad spelling) and that unstoppable demon guy, not to mention lots of their forces, a chance at survival verses sure death would look pretty sweet in comparision. Especially if the offer was made by either Shando or Alethia or both in full glowy glory.

 

[Steve Gorak]

So after Murdoch reports this, wat does everyone do?

OCC: Sorry (again) for the delay - been travelling with no net access

IC: Murdoch reports telepathically what he sees. From 200ft in the air, he'll blast the forge with an eldrich spear-vitriolic blast.

Barnak, next to him, will try out Rain of embers, centered on the forge, and will follow up with storm of shards

OCC: I'm assuming 1 day has passed, if not, Barnak will only use Storm of shards twice.

 

[kirinke]

Alethia's brow furrows as Naverone relays Murdoch and Barnak's report. "Scouting. They're only supposed to scout the area! What part of that didn't they understand?" she muttered turned to Timrin and relayed what they're doing or considering to do.

 

[frostrune]

Timrin simply shakes his head. "Wizards have always been a headstrong lot. I gave up trying to control them a long time ago. Hopefully they know what they are doing."

"I would have hoped we might be able cause minimal bloodshed in retaking that sky fortress. Like it or not we may actually need some prisoners to crew the vessel or at least train a more trustworthy lot."

OOC: He knows they are not technically wizards but they are kind of all the same to him.

 

[kirinke]

Naverone snorted. I have another name for it. Then to Barnak and Murdoch (Both Alethia and Timrin can hear what he's saying). We need some live ones! Don't kill them all or we will have a most difficult time in trying to pilot that monstrous hulk!

 

[DM_Matt]

OCC: Sorry (again) for the delay - been travelling with no net access

IC: Murdoch reports telepathically what he sees. From 200ft in the air, he'll blast the forge with an eldrich spear-vitriolic blast.

Barnak, next to him, will try out Rain of embers, centered on the forge, and will follow up with storm of shards

OCC: I'm assuming 1 day has passed, if not, Barnak will only use Storm of shards twice.

Storm of Shards is always centered on Barnak, so he has to approach invisibly, cast Rain of Roses, land, and cast storm of shards form two or three squares into the rain of roses, since its doubtful then that anyone would be interested in walking up to to hit him him and taking that 10d6/round.

He does this. Much the the army is huddled around the fire, either keeping warm, or smithing.

Murdoch hits the makeshift forge with a blast of acid, destroying it. It explodes, and the acid gets caught in the fire, emitting toxic smoke. The roses and shards come next. As many as half of the force is killed, badly wounded, or permanently blinded.

An apparent leader, a middle-aged man, steps forward, and shouts towards Murdoch and Barnak "Soldiers of Silverymoon, please desist your assault. We surrender. We have numerous wounded, we are low on supplies, and most of our leaders are dead. Our lord Cronos will certainly pay the appropriate ransom for our safe return."

 

[Steve Gorak]

An apparent leader, a middle-aged man, steps forward, and shouts towards Murdoch and Barnak "Soldiers of Silverymoon, please desist your assault. We surrender. We have numerous wounded, we are low on supplies, and most of our leaders are dead. Our lord Cronos will certainly pay the appropriate ransom for our safe return."

Murdoch shouts: "Soldiers of Chronos, lay down all your weapons in a pile next to your forge. Any resistance will be dealt with brutally. Have all of your men exit the airship. Any damage to it will be paid in blood."

OCC: intimidate +13

Looking around the wounded soldiers (looking for some that are relatively uninjured (i.e. not affected by Barnak's spells, hence not evil)). "Who here knows how to fly this ship?"

Murdoch relays this to his companions. "You should come" he tells them, "If our ennemy learns that we have control of the airship, they may come back and Barnak I may no longer be able to control the situation".

 

[DM_Matt]

Murdoch shouts: "Soldiers of Chronos, lay down all your weapons in a pile next to your forge. Any resistance will be dealt with brutally. Have all of your men exit the airship. Any damage to it will be paid in blood."

OCC: intimidate +13

Looking around the wounded soldiers (looking for some that are relatively uninjured (i.e. not affected by Barnak's spells, hence not evil)). "Who here knows how to fly this ship?"

Murdoch relays this to his companions. "You should come" he tells them, "If our ennemy learns that we have control of the airship, they may come back and Barnak I may no longer be able to control the situation".

The leader, one of the less-affected ones, says "Do as he says. All of you," then turns to Murdoch "We only know bits and pieces. It was always flown by Calicos and his metal men. Using the controls requires an extremely disciplined mind adept at magic (i.e. Concenrtration and Spellcraft, UMB, and/or Know checks) to use the control crystals or some excellent knowledge of physics to operate it manually. We are unsure if e can fly it at all, but we are pretty sure we have repaired everytihng that is essential. we just need to get enough water out of it so it can be light enough to fly, and so we can unflood the control room. We have the power working again, and the force walls, too. I'm sure if we had powerful enough spellcasters there would be much easier ways to get the water out."

 

[kirinke]

Naverone relays the information and Alethia prepares some Teleport spells. "I have a few teleports ready, Timrin. I can take a few of us to the ship," she says.