Heroes, Inc.: Kryptgarden

[frostrune]

Maggie responds "We must defeat him eventually. I question wether we can defeat him immediately."

"If the fight must come, and it must, I say fight him now while he is far from civilization. There will be no innocents to be concerned with. We can bring our full complement of evocations and summonings to bear", Timrin interjects.

 

[kirinke]

Alethia shook her head. "It's probably impossible to defeat Cronos immediately, we know too little about him or Calicos for that matter. What we can do is what they will not expect as Naverone suggests. We destroy the device. That will keep Calicos and others from using it against us. Admittedly, it will keep us from doing the same, but we have other options and that way, we will only need a relatively small strike force, perhaps with a larger force acting as a decoy to draw most of his troops away."

 

[DM_Matt]

"If the fight must come, and it must, I say fight him now while he is far from civilization. There will be no innocents to be concerned with. We can bring our full complement of evocations and summonings to bear", Timrin interjects.

"Far from civilization also means we need to fight an army alone. We do not know how many troops Cronos has or even where his base of operations is. If we want to defeat him, we must either find him and kill him directly, defeat his army with another. The former will be difficult and quite possibly require using the device for a long period of time. The latter will require quite a bit of diplomacy. We must consult the nations of the Innrer Sea, as well as tohse of the Sword Coast that can move a fleet with the Elfgates.

 

[kirinke]

"Far from civilization also means we need to fight an army alone. We do not know how many troops Cronos has or even where his base of operations is. If we want to defeat him, we must either find him and kill him directly, defeat his army with another. The former will be difficult and quite possibly require using the device for a long period of time. The latter will require quite a bit of diplomacy. We must consult the nations of the Innrer Sea, as well as tohse of the Sword Coast that can move a fleet with the Elfgates.

"We may not be without allies. Remember, Lord Oberon owes us a favor for killing that unseelie demon thing. Perhaps we could call upon him for aid." Alethia offered.

 

[frostrune]

"Far from civilization also means we need to fight an army alone. We do not know how many troops Cronos has or even where his base of operations is. If we want to defeat him, we must either find him and kill him directly, defeat his army with another. The former will be difficult and quite possibly require using the device for a long period of time. The latter will require quite a bit of diplomacy. We must consult the nations of the Innrer Sea, as well as tohse of the Sword Coast that can move a fleet with the Elfgates.

Timrin grins proudly as Maggie is begining to sound more and more like a military commander.

"I'm not sure we need to utterly destroy his army to win. Those airships are the pride of his force. They also represent their most expedient mode of travel. Destroy his armada and he has a dejected troop base trapped half a world away. They will be forced to negotiate for passage with the surrounding kingdoms or suffer terrible expense to establish gates just as we would."

"If nothing else it evens the playing field."

"Fin and perhaps the islander druids could wreak terrible havoc on such a force from relative safety. Dragon allies would be devastating as well."

"I think we have a real chance to make this work."

 

[Falkus]

"The airships are armed, correct? Perhaps if we could capture one or two, we could turn their weapons on his army," suggested Dyria. "I'm sure a suitable magic spell could get us aboard."

 

[DM_Matt]

Timrin grins proudly as Maggie is begining to sound more and more like a military commander.

"I'm not sure we need to utterly destroy his army to win. Those airships are the pride of his force. They also represent their most expedient mode of travel. Destroy his armada and he has a dejected troop base trapped half a world away. They will be forced to negotiate for passage with the surrounding kingdoms or suffer terrible expense to establish gates just as we would."

"If nothing else it evens the playing field."

"Fin and perhaps the islander druids could wreak terrible havoc on such a force from relative safety. Dragon allies would be devastating as well."

"I think we have a real chance to make this work."

Aleena is skeptical "If these were Halruuan force-ships or Lantanese Zepplins or Flying Machines, you could be right. But these ships run on powerful elemental magic, and as such probably have their own weather control biult into the way they operate. They may not be able to fully counteract weather magic, but they certainly would be resistant."

Its easy to forget that Aleena is also an accomplished wizard. One would expect Maggie to be the one to say this.

She continues "I see five options presented here. One, gather an amry, eventually, to defeat Cronos. Two, teleport in, temporarily seize the device, then use and/or destroy it. Three, do as two except establish a mmilitary bulkhead on the island and try to keep control of the device. Four, weaken Cronos before doing anytihng else, by attacking his airships or perhaps hijacking one. Five, eventually find Cronos and kill him without going through his army first."

 

[Hawkeye]

"Building a large quantity of gates such as that would be prohibitively expensive and take a great deal of time," Maggie comments.

"What about something temporary?"

Edit: OOC: The reason I say temporary is based on my use of a 2nd edition spell called Dimensional Folding. It allowed a cleric to link two places for a short period of time. I used it before to help stop a forest fire. The original spell had some possible side effects regarding aging, but when you are only transporting water, its not really a consideration. There has to be a 3.X version someplace.

Hawkeye

 

[Steve Gorak]

"Five, eventually find Cronos and kill him without going through his army first."

"What about something temporary?"

"hmm, a temporary gate to find Chronos, we get rid of him, and then come back. I like it! Chop off the dragon's head, and the rest of it becomes useless. Besides, I don't think destroying the device is worth it. If Calicos can use time magic, he could possibly go back in time to use it, if he needed to"

 

[Falkus]

"Now if only we had time magic, that would make this a lot easier. Go back in time and kill him before this even starts," commented Dyria.