You're the British military. Defend Avalon from my PCs.

[Bagpuss]

Add to that how do you explain deploying troops in the UK to exclude entry to a tourist attraction for 3 days?

Even in the height of the miners strike with flying pickets and the like, only police were used. When they use to close of Stonehedge for the solstices to stop the hippys having fun again it was only police.

No one is going to believe a terrorist threat to Glastonbury Tor, they might believe hippy invasion depending on the time of year. How are you going to get away with any military presense let alone a massive one?

Most likely politically the only think you could deploy is unarmed police, in riot gear and dogs (with armed back-up ready to respond).

If you were to use military you'ld be better with covert denialable assests like SAS teams undercover, MI5 and the like. Rolling out tanks and helicopters just wouldn't be sensible. It's not the British way of doing things.

 

[Agback]

Minor nit-pick - it's actually in Somerset.

Oops! My bad.

 

[Agback]

Add to that how do you explain deploying troops in the UK to exclude entry to a tourist attraction for 3 days?

The people in charge don't have to. They are using magic to control puppets in the British government. They can do what they want and let their puppets take the fall for it.

Sure, heads will roll. There will be courts-martial. The government will probably fall. The Home Secretary, the Prime Minister, General Lamb, the chief constable for Somerset, teh lord lieutenant for Somerset, two justices of the Peace, and bunches of officers in 3 Divn will have their careers ruined and some of them will go to gaol. The glorious name of the Iron Division will be hopelessly besmirched after two centuries of outstanding service: its units will be dispersed, its number struck off the Army List. Perhaps some of the regiments and battalions involved will suffer a like fate. Very likely Parliament will pass a lot of acts imposing restrictions on the use of military force by the civil government.

But none of that will hurt the magicians who cast the mind-control spells.

Most likely politically the only think you could deploy is unarmed police, in riot gear and dogs (with armed back-up ready to respond).

You are thinking of Tonypandy? Times have changed since then. And in any case, political possibility is mostly restricted by fear of consequences. When the consequences do not affect the people making the decisions political possibilities are much wider than normally.

If you were to use military you'ld be better with covert denialable assests like SAS teams undercover, MI5 and the like.

Nitpick: 'MI5' is not part of the military, it reports to the Home Office. Its official name is 'The Security Service'.

 

[Bagpuss]

But none of that will hurt the magicians who cast the mind-control spells.

If they can really be that bold without fear of being discovered why haven't they already taken over the world? Or just Mind-controlled the players?

 

[Agback]

If they can really be that bold without fear of being discovered why haven't they already taken over the world? Or just Mind-controlled the players?

Beats me. Ask the DM.

 

[Bagpuss]

My modern setting the British Government have a special division for the investigation of paranormal and occult threats to this nation still run be Viscount Herbert Kitchener the original head of the department (well his ghost anyway). These mages wouldn't last 5 minutes if they pulled a stunt like that.

 

[Agback]

My modern setting the British Government have a special division for the investigation of paranormal and occult threats to this nation still run be Viscount Herbert Kitchener the original head of the department (well his ghost anyway). These mages wouldn't last 5 minutes if they pulled a stunt like that.

I take it you are a fan of Ultraviolet.

 

[Bagpuss]

I take it you are a fan of Ultraviolet.

Too true.

 

[RangerWickett]

I'm considering using the "crash a plane into the hill" idea, so that the military will be there for clean-up. The bad guys can't flagrantly mind-control because there is a sort of magical law enforcement group that might go after them, but mostly they don't need to use mind control anymore, since they had been subtlely befriending people over the long-term so that the friendship would last even after the spell ended.

A concrete cap over the Chalice Well sounds good. Any alterations the military makes to the area need to be things that can be relatively easily reversed, so no taking off the top of the hill.

Barbed wire and . . . what were those concrete barriers called? That's fine. It'll funnel the PCs in particular locations, which they'll no doubt try to avoid. Claymore mines scattered here and there are fine. As I understand it, they can be deactivated fairly easily, and so aren't like the mines that are banned by the Geneva Convention.

Two snipers atop the Tor will be watching the approaches to the Chalice Well. Motion sensors will be placed there in case the group does manage to sneak in, and there'll be a unit of about twenty soldiers guarding the garden. Their purpose is really just to slow down an attack long enough for the choppers to be called in.

The hill itself will have two lines of trenches, along with barbed wire and mobile machine gun turrets. Theoretically the PCs can approach from any direction, but eight emplacements would mean that two or three should be able to aim at any PC at once. Plus terrain adjustment will help direct the PCs in a particular direction.

(more in a minute)

 

[domino]

Barbed wire and . . . what were those concrete barriers called?

Jersey Walls.