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[Ardas]

"You may not be convinced, but you rely on everyone else supporting you while you rush in to do your heroics. No my friend ,we are a team and we work with each other, not for one man's advantage because he brawls better when crowded."

[Shootandrun]

Roland's smile grew larger.

"For your information, I intended to use magic for this round - not that your comment on my fighting in the melee is relevant, since scouting wouldn't have changed their numbers or the fact that we were going to attack them. Besides, I see you accusing me of speaking only for myself - yet you did not ask the others either, and unlike me, you cannot provide any convincing arguments. Instead, you dodge my questions and treat me with disrespect, and then attempt to pass it off as though you are the sensible one. Attempt to pass me off as a reckless and mindless brawler as much as you wish, Patrizio, I at least know to fight with words as well as with any other weapon. If you are done attempting to weasel your way out of providing any good reason for scouting, can we move on with the attack?"

[Ardas]

"Of course, we will attack once scouting is done. Take your place and take your time, we need to count up everyone and get our forces into position."

[Shootandrun]

"Again you dodge and you duck! Are you capable of anything else? Scouting wastes time, puts us at risk of being discovered, thus putting the advantage of surprise in danger as well as playing with the lives of the mages inside, who'll pay dearly if we pay their cover while they're within bow range of the soldiers. You have failed to provide me with any reason to scout, and if that was not enough you are trying to end the conversation before we realize you don't even know yourself why we should go. To hell with your paranoia, Patrizio. Let us simply attack, and make an end!"

[gman8181]

Jim scratched his head and gave a short little laugh while looking to Detani.

You know it just occurred to me but if we saw the signs of our allies coming, there's a half decent chance the guards did too.

Nonchalantly kicking a rock and gazing down at the ground.

I wonder if there are any dead horses lying around. I'd like a zombie horse.

[Fniff]

"Don't fret about it. They hid themselves well enough... without my attentive eye and the assistance of a spyglass, they wouldn't have been spotted by me. As for the horse, I imagine they would be quite tame indeed, though I am not a fan of horses nor corpses."

[Ardas]

"I'm pretty sure it wasn't an overabundance of 'paranoia' that led to all the mishaps we had at the tower, but reckless behavior like yours. And its strange that you think that scouting and encircling someone involves parading in front of them. I'm sure we will do fine and if not ,we will attack them anyway. We got nothing to lose by not doing it."

[Unholy_Pariah]

summon another golem.

if majority rules for attack, use earth magic to destroy the supports holding up any structures the archers are standing on and begin hurling magical rocks at any who survive.
if majority rules for delaying, summon another golem.

[delay]

[Ghazkull]

go to the tower, train the Dark Minions in Bone Magic, with their help try to develop a ritual to summon something that can kick Wraith Ass.

[Terenos]

Chapter 3: The Blood Tide.

Part Twenty: No They Didnt Attack...Yet.

Players:

Spoiler: Jerik 'Corvus' Alquiar(OREOSOME) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Adept (20% to Initiate)

Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Bone, Blood

Wounds/Effects:
Missing Eye (Less perceptive overall)

Skills/Bonuses:
Bonespeaker: +1 to Bone Magic rolls.
Scavenger : +1 to Graverobbing/looting catacombs.
Self Directed Learner(Elements): +1 to learning elements alone

Possessions:
Old Black Steel Blade.

Spoiler: Roland Balkar(Shootandrun) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Apprentice (65% to Adept)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Blood

Wounds/Effects

Skills/Bonuses:
Trained Fighter: (+2 to all rolls in combat if it gets physical)
Brawler (You fight well when outnumbered.)
Dungeoneer (You should head into that dungeon, you do better in dungeons.)

Possessions:
Iron Wrapped, Enchanted Staff(+1 on spell rolls)
Hefty Axe
Well Made Spiked Round Shield.

Spoiler:  Helfd(Ghazkull) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Adept (10% to Initiate)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Bone

Wounds/Effects:

Skills/Bonuses:
Jack of All Trades (You can slip into most mundane roles with no trouble.)
Studious: +1 Study rolls.
Battle Command (Forces under your command are more effective)
Possessions:
Mail Shirt.

Spoiler: Patrizio Bacchiani(Ardas) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Adept (20% to Initiate)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Earth

Wounds/Effects:

Skills/Bonuses:
Bookworm (+1 Research rolls)
Earthshaper (+1 Earth Magic Rolls)
Possessions:
2 Loot Tokens
Shaper's Gloves (+1 Earth Magic spells)
Absorbing Armor (-1 To enemy spellcasting, if targeting you)
Book of Rituals (Earth Magic, Initiate or Higher)

Spoiler: Detani (Fniff) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Apprentice (40% to Adept)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Void

Skills/Bonuses:
Violent Magic (Your magic always bends towards more violent means, Critical rolls are more dangerous.)
Sneaky (+1 Stealth rolls)
Combat Mage (+1 to magic rolls in a pitched fight)
Voidbringer (+1 to Void Magic rolls)

Possessions:
Plain Short Sword
Carved Gemstone
1 Loot Token

Spoiler: Sholan A'Valti(CyberGenesis) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Adept (30% to Initiate)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Blood

Skills/Bonuses:
Bloodcaller (+1 to Blood Magic rolls.)
Cryptologist (+1 to All Deciphering rolls)
Beast Hunter: You are better at tracking, and killing beasts of all natures.

Wounds/Effects:
Missing Eye (Less perceptive overall)

Possessions:
Enchanted Staff(+1 on spell rolls)
Unknown Blade (Effects unknown)
Carved Gemstone

Spoiler: Flint (Unholy_Pariah) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Apprentice (25% to Adept)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Earth

Skills/Bonuses:
Earthshaper (+1 Earth Magic Rolls)

Wounds/Effects:

Items:
2x Loot Tokens
Sturdy Wooden Shield
Battered Mace

Spoiler: Jim (Gman8181) (click to show/hide)

Magic Level: Apprentice (60% to Adept)
Known Spheres: Death
Known Elements: Blood

Skills/Bonuses
Spirit Conduit. (You may commune with spirits at any point, to gain answers or assistance)
Dominion of Blood (You are less likely to lose control of minions summoned by Blood magic.)

Items:
None.

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Known Locations:
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Suomi has been abandoned. Its people fled in the dead of winter to any nearby town.

Norvak A town with an unknown population. It seems to be primarily focused on cattle.  It is defended by a small fort garrisoned by veterans of the King's Army. It is affiliated with Welnshire.
Confirmed as having the Plague. Currently under Quarantine.

Vis Valdi is a looted husk of a town.

The Tower, is ramshackle and old. It possesses few amenities currently. Your best guess is its still an unknown location.
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Note, all resources/items are placed in the Tower Stocks unless declared otherwise.

Spoiler: Tower Information (click to show/hide)

Rooms: Catacombs, Living Quarters, Advanced Storage Vaults, Crude Altar.
Crude Stone Map
Exterior:
Crude Slave Pens (4/40 Slaves contained)

Defenses: Wooden Palisade, Wooden Gate.

Spoiler: Tower Stocks (click to show/hide)

1 Barrels of Blood
1 Tainted barrel of blood.
18 corpses (human)(Rotting)
2 Loot Tokens
8 Supplies

Spoiler: Tower Forces (click to show/hide)

Undead:
1 Bone Golem (small) (Helfd)
1 Gravehaunt (Helfd)
1 Skeletal Minion (Human)
28 Zombies (Helfd)

14 Skeletal Minions (Human)(Unarmed) (Jerik)
1 Zombie Salamander (Jerik)
1 Soulless

20 Ghouls (Sholan)
25 Festering Zombies (Sholan)
20 Zombie Salamanders (Sholan)

3 Stone Golems (Small) (Flint)
1 Stone Warhorse (Flint)

1 Iron Golem (Small, Semi-pure) (Patrizio)
10 Zombies (Patrizio)

22 Zombies (Jim)

13 Ghouls (Mine)(Guarding Mine)

10 Zombies (Tower Exterior, Guarding Slave Pens)
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Living:
3 Dark Minions (Magical; Spark)(Tower)
4 Enslaved Humans (Tower, Penned)
20 Enslaved Humans (Mine, Laboring)

Spoiler: Cabal Holdings (click to show/hide)

Level 1 Mine (20/20 laborers)(Provides resources: Ore, Stone, +5 supplies/turn) Stocks: 26 Supplies
The Tower.

Spoiler: Rituals (click to show/hide)

Unknown Ritual? : 2%

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Events:
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Patrizio, Flint, Sholan, Roland
[4+3] It is a simple matter to cause some impure iron to embrace the ends of the quarterstaff, to give it heft and weight when it strikes.
[3+1] Flint, you have an abundance of local stone to draw upon, and while your spellwork is not the most elegant, before long another golem joins your ranks.
+1 Stone Golem (Small)

[5] Practicing with your blood magic goes well Roland, but alas no greater insights are reached for now.

[?,?] Coming within sight of Norvak with your modest force of undead hidden behind, you find yourself with enough time to scout the forces ahead of you before you need make a decision about attacking. From what you can see there are scores of men-at-arms, they look disciplined and somewhat professional.  They are supported by small companies of bowmen. Their commander is an imposing man from a distance, and you can see he carries many weapons. He walks among his men with purpose in his stride.

Within Norvak, you see nothing. No signs of life whatsoever.

Deciding to wait, the group does not in fact seize the element of surprise and attack immediately.

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Jerik
[?] On a whim you track down one of those Dark Minions that are lurking around the Tower up to who knows what. You order it to stand near your Soulless, and you find that the chill aura makes him decidely uncomfortable. You further test it with a slave and find the same thing. Further testing reveals that most tasks are disrupted by the presence of your Soulless.

To join the assault on Norvak you would need to travel to catch up to your fellows, as you declined to join them when they set out.
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Helfd
[?]Your gravehaunt merely stares at you. Perhaps it has no answers to give.
Out of ideas you begin travelling back to the Tower. Evidence of predators is abundant but you are not bothered on your journey. You will arrive after another turn of travel. Then you will need to travel onwards to the wizard's dwelling.

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Detani, Jim
[1,4] Practice goes poorly for now, but as nothing interesting has happened, you continue on with it.

With the abundance of corpses locally, you raise an even dozen, and watch the east for signs of your brethren from the tower. Signs in abundance, as you believe you saw them approaching.
+12 Zombies

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Events in Near Proximity:
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Summer begins to bloom across the local area.
Further Catacomb exploration is Dangerous.
Note, There is now a map in the OP.
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Further Note: 19.5 was NOT a full turn update. It was not a refreshing of your actions. You got to do nothing extra. The only thing being decided was whether or not there was an attack on Norvak, which would have occupied a space right hereish.
So yeah. Jerik is still at the Tower, Flint summoned no additional golems, and Helfd is still a turn from the tower, heading there. Sorted! Carry on.

[OREOSOME]

Raise the corpses remaining in the tower's stores.

[Shootandrun]

Practice blood magic for the duration of whatever tactics, maneuvers, or actions are taken prior to the assault by Patrizio & co. EDIT: Unless they actually require some direct help in order for them to work, in which case help along... I guess.
Join in the actual assault, remaining in the back using magic only, unless an intervention with melee attacks could save someone in mortal danger more reliably than the use of spells. Strap the shield to a forearm in order to be able to use it with the staff.

[Ardas]

The soldiers are to be encircled. as they are surrounded, they should be looked at in detail for numbers and layout, archers in particular. Sholan and salamanders will ensure no one flees. Flint and the golems will go in vanguard, Roland will keep an aye out for others and provide magic support as pre his orders. I will follow and keep at range with magic.

[Fniff]

Sneak up to the guard wall with zombies and void magic at the ready. When the rest of the magi assault, break the walls and kill the guards with undead and void magic attacks, leaving them in a killing field between the rest of the magi and Jim/Detani's forces.

[Unholy_Pariah]

send my golems out to engage the enemy forces and tear down any structures the archers are using to gain elevatioon advantages.

hang back with the others and throw long range spells at the enemy until the archers are dealt with then ride my warhorse into the battle and begin hurling stronger short ranged spells.