Maacain Invasion: Ross Dattar's Group II

[NEO|Phyte]

Ferah

"Yes, the idea is to run FROM the approaching army, but where do we run TO? Unless we are the only survivors left on our side of this fight, simply running away does nobody any good. Somewhere there has to be a stronghold or something where we can regroup and figure out what exactly is going on."

[Solo]

Ferah

"Yes, the idea is to run FROM the approaching army, but where do we run TO? Unless we are the only survivors left on our side of this fight, simply running away does nobody any good. Somewhere there has to be a stronghold or something where we can regroup and figure out what exactly is going on."

And food. Food is important.

[Solo]

Marcus will ask the archer and the sorceress.

I would like to know how long we have to the invasion, and how many men will we be fighting. Tell, and your sins may yet be forgiven.

Diplomacy: (1d20+22)[42]

(If you judge intimidate to be the proper skill, take off two points)


Edit:

(Ha! A natural twenty! Show me anything that beats a natural twenty, and i will show you a bag of HATEFUL LIES! HATEFUL LIES!)

[Talfrey]

"We number about five hundred strong, the greatest of our number are a pair of war mages."

You find... Rubble, Barrels, and Gargoyles.

[Solo]

And from which direction will the attack come from?

[Talfrey]

If they come, it will be coming from the east. We were in the middle of marching towards the Elven Capitol.

[Solo]

Very well. I'll put a good word in for you when it is all over.

Marcus will now come up with a Cunning Plan (tm)

[NoDot]

Karsh

"It sounds as though heading to this Elven city might be our best bet. Fighting alone would be unwise..." Karsh trails off as he tries to recall if the noble's house he robbed before coming to the Academy was in the Elven city or not.

((Was it?))

[Solo]

I suppose we could also go there... but then again, I do hate to see this place despoiled... shall we vote? All fou-EIGHT! of us will vote for which plan to go for. Either stay and defend or move out.

[Talfrey]

Chris chimes in, "The Elven Capitol was decimated, wasn't it? I don't suppose my meddling could have changed THAT."

[Solo]

Hmm... wasn't there and Elf prince we tried to track down at the beginning of this mess that fled the destruction of the Elven capitol?

[NoDot]

Karsh

"Destruction of the Elven capitol... This is news."

[Solo]

So we're stuck here then.

[NEO|Phyte]

Ferah

"Why would an army be marching to a ruined city... See if you can get any more information from the scouts. There must be something important there, and if there is, We should get to it first."

[Solo]

Marcus interrogates the scouts yet again.

What business, praytell, would an army have marching towards a conquered city?

[Talfrey]

"We're just flunkies! We don't know!"

[Solo]

Sense Motive: (1d20+6)[22]

[Talfrey]

It would appear they speak lies.

[Solo]

Your thoughts betray you! Marcus snarls at the man. I feel the lies in you, the deciet!

And now, your highness, perhaps we shall discuss the location of your invading army, and their purpose here?

[Talfrey]

"Fine!" shouts the archer, "Der all goin' bouts the city o'er yonder ta catch a bunch ah hoodlums what plan ta wake up a certain beastie o' legend an' sic em on our belov'd guvna Amrien. Not ta kindo ting we take loightly. We has orders ta search da city for da passage wit da beast and get rid o' da sods afor the aformentioned wakening. Mission's important enough dey'd stick wit it, but I don't be thinking they can't spare a hundred or so ta deal with you sods!" Then he breaks into wet maniacal laughter.

[Solo]

"Fine!" shouts the archer, "Der all goin' bouts the city o'er yonder ta catch a bunch ah hoodlums what plan ta wake up a certain beastie o' legend an' sic em on our belov'd guvna Amrien. Not ta kindo ting we take loightly. We has orders ta search da city for da passage wit da beast and get rid o' da sods afor the aformentioned wakening. Mission's important enough dey'd stick wit it, but I don't be thinking they can't spare a hundred or so ta deal with you sods!" Then he breaks into wet maniacal laughter.

I warned you earlier: Join me or die. It seems you have already made your choice.

Marcus coup de gra's the man with a Sneak Attack Eldritch Blast, if no one has any objections.

The fact that you use too many double negatives has only given me more reason to carry out the execution.

[Talfrey]

The man dies, and with his passing, nothing particular happens.

Now you know how much time you have, and know what you have to do if you plan to survive the attack.

Hop to it!

[Solo]

I suggest we stall the army here so that whomever is working against Amerin in the city gets more time. All in favor if my aforementioned plan, raise a hand.

[Talfrey]

The girl finally speaks up, "You seriously think that a mere fifth of the army will be enough to slow down the deaths of the one's in the city? I'd not be surprised if they were already dead. And good riddance. They will be here within the day and you will all be dead."

[Solo]

Do you have a better idea?

[NEO|Phyte]

Ferah

"We need to get to the Capitol and warn whoever is there about the approaching army. We can certainly outpace an entire army, and if we also work to delay them, we could easily find the group and have everyone out of there in time."

[Solo]

Hmm.... also true. Why don't we do that?

But how do we get there quickly? Ferah, can you run while we ride int eh bag of holding or something?

[NEO|Phyte]

Ferah

"Not for the entire distance, but yes, I could run to get there swiftly."

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The SRD says that I can hustle to move 8 miles an hour (assuming plains and some form of road), every hour beyond the first giving me nonlethal damage and Fatigue, I can remove the fatigue easily enough with Iron Heart Surge, but the nonlethal damage will have me collapsing on the 7th straight hour of hustling.

Chris has the same move rate on the Overland scale as I do, but without knowing his level and HP, I can't say how many straight hours he can travel before passing out. Our best bet would be to swap out, giving the other a chance to recover the nonlethal damage.

Walking would be slower (4 miles/hour), but no nonlethal damage.

[Talfrey]

Chris raises his hand, "I can run pretty fast. I used to run Marathons before I cam here... Wait!" Chris smacks his head. "None of you have visited this place before, right? Then there should still be the secret cache. You can't even get into it until you've practically beaten the game... or alternatively memorized the formula for random combination generated by party composition... I'm the only truly random variable. I don't know our level, or my class... okay this might actually take me a while..." Chris pulls a tiny notepad with the men in black's logo on it and with a pen from the same place begins to make calculations.

"While I'm doing this, I need you Marcus, to teleport around as much as you can. Alright?"

[Solo]

This is going to be extremely interesting, isn't it?

Marcus starts teleporting around the campus, wondering what the heck is going on.

If it's in a safe, couldn't we try blasting it down?