Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/21(Sat)17:14 No. 80534 ID: 718d88
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>Go and help him up, he may need medical attention.

you help your friend up, and while he's conscious, he can barely stand. you can see that he's missing half his tail and was probably running on pure adrenalin since the retreat.

>>80534
Maybe you can find the rest of his tail and reattach it?

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/21(Sat)21:35 No. 80685 ID: 718d88
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>Maybe you can find the rest of his tail and reattach it?

Oh sure, let me just get out my magic wand and speak the words of power that will allow the halves of his tail to fuse back together!

I don't know what wondrous fantasy world you live in, but here in Teagea, grievous injuries can't simply be undone by finding the severed body part. Perhaps next you'll be trying to tell me that there's a cure for polio, too.

Anyway, you get Frederick back to camp. He's lost a good amount of blood, he's exhausted from fighting all day, and on top of it all he's lost his spear. He'll recover in a few days once he gets some rest and some extra food, but the battle will likely be over by then.

Yeosophine is the most concerned for Frederick; the two of them are very close.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)10:07 No. 80797 ID: 718d88
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The morning greets you with the sounds of trumpets and drums.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)10:11 No. 80798 ID: 718d88
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Upon getting up and stepping outside you see that the larger companies have mustered and sallied out to the field.

You also notice some new banners, reinforcements must have arrived during the night. you spot markings from one elite goblin regiment and two of Shistershire's wurstgarde bands.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)10:22 No. 80799 ID: 718d88
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"Squire Francis!" a voice calls from behind. You turn to see a goblin messenger.

"You are to report to the General staff tent, sire!"

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)11:31 No. 80816 ID: 718d88
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in the General staff tent, you see the commanders presiding over this battle.

General Shaudayr of the Souther auxiliaries, to his left Rear Admiral Floyd of the Goblin air navy, Arbitrator General Baron Oglaf, and Commandant Pubah, leader of the kobold scouts.

they seem to be in a heated argument over how to proceed.

"I've lost three airships already, Arbitrator general." says Rear admiral floyd, "I refuse to risk any more of my air crews to that meat grinder!"

"I assure you, If you push your ships forward once more we'll be able to breach their lines and press on to the fortress." replies Baron Oglaf.

"I recall that's what you said yesterday, and we all know how well that turned out for us. I refuse to endanger my fleet any further, at least until my ground parties can recover the Kirov." snaps Rear Admiral Floyd.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)11:54 No. 80828 ID: 718d88
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The generals barely notice you, but you've never been one to let arguments and politics get in the way of your mission.

It's obvious if someone doesn't do something this battle will drag on until the Aztecs win. but where can you lead your small band to do the most good?
You see that there is a large artillery camp(1), probably the cause of all the downed airships. you might be able to infiltrate the camp with the aid of the kobold scouts and sabotage the guns.

To the north you see a slave-powered behemoth(2), you could convince the REar admiral to risk one of his airships to place your party on it, to eliminate it from the inside.

The Rear Admiral claimed that he needs to recover the Kirov(3), you've already fought there and are somewhat familiar with the difficulties. Further, it looks like the Goblin Air Marines are fighting there right now.

far behind the lines, you notice the icon of army command marking the known position of the Aztec general's camp(4). If you kill him it may throw the enemy into disarray or even demoralize them into retreating.

what will you do?

Souther, huh?

Does the enemy have Northers?

Infiltrating the HQ sounds stupendously dangerous. We probably won't be able to convince the Goblins to send an airship to deposit us on the Behemoth without something in his favor first, which means either taking out their artillery or recovering the Kirov. Retrieving the airship seems really dangerous, since the enemy's focused on it. Moreso with their artillery still going.

I vote an attack on the artillery (1). It's away from the front lines, but probably not loaded with elite bodyguards. If you can get in quietly, and get out quickly, you should be able to avoid the main body of enemies.

Speed's essential, but you guys are PCs, so you can probably go fast. Still, I'd request some high-speed assistance for this. Not a whole army, but a little help if things go bad. Cavalry riding something exotic and sneaky, or maybe Souther auxiliaries. Those guys are fast, right?

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)17:37 No. 80978 ID: 718d88
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>KILL THE CANNON

You respectfully interrupt the general staff's argument and propose a daring plan for you to infiltrate the artillery camp and disable the guns. After some boring debate a rousing brainstorming session gives birth to a intricate complex attack:

with the aid of the kobold Scouts your party will disable the Aztec guns, upon completion Rear Admiral Floyd will position his air ships above the behemoth where his air marines will board and capture it. Meanwhile the souther auxiliary will maneuver around to support your mission.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)17:38 No. 80980 ID: 718d88
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Elite kobold scouts have joined your party.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)18:06 No. 80989 ID: 718d88
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after some boring travel and arguing with Yeosophine over how she doesn't need to look after Frederick since he's perfectly capable of washing and feeding himself but giving up after the third time she punched you you have arrived at the large artillery camp.

It is obvious at this point that "large" was in reference to the size of the guns.

You also realize that you have no idea how you're going to disable the guns.

Give us a closer look at those guns using your trusty spyglass. How do they work?

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)18:44 No. 80999 ID: 718d88
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>Give us a closer look at those guns using your trusty spyglass.

My what? I'm not getting any closer until we have a plan.

>How do they work?

I've only ever heard stories about cannon from maimed war vets before today. I assumed they were like really accurate catapults, but they look nothing like any catapults I've ever seen.

Do you have any means of lighting fires?

If they're like normal cannons, they have powder which goes boom when you light it, creating pressure in a tube which hurls a projectile out. If you pile up that powder around the base and light it, the whole machine should detonate nicely.

Detail this plan to the others and approach.

>>80999
Well, one way to do this would be to spread out- even though the cannons are very destructive, they're limited in AOE and firing speed. If you spread out, you might be able to reach them before you lose more than one or two people, though you WILL lose those people.
I would advise stealth, trickery, or some kind of ranged fire, though you'll want to move immediately after shooting.

Don't charge the cannons. Goddamn. Sneak up on them. If you can't sneak up on them, forget it.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/22(Sun)20:58 No. 81054 ID: 718d88
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>powder that cracks with the thunder of gods when set on fire, LAMBDA OMICRON EPSILON, other strange gibberish and mad ravings

Honestly, sometimes I truly think I'm going mad.

>Don't charge the cannons. Goddamn. Sneak up on them. If you can't sneak up on them, forget it.

We've been sneaking up on them. they're about as snuck up on as they're gonna get. Any closer and I'll be able to spit on them.

I may not know how they work, but I know what cannons do. I'm thinking that they need to be pointing at you to make you dead, and they look so big that We can probably get in amongst them to make the prospect of using the cannon on uus a bad idea. I see some wagons and stuff and a long line of poorly armed soldiers moving boxes up to the cannon. and the cannon are of course making LOUD NOISES and probably making widows down at the front.

I'm thinking this might be easier than you're telling me it is, voices in my lunatic head.

>>81054
Slay them. Then take a closer look at the cannons.

If u guys are confident in your skills take the enemies out with stealth and suprise to capture theguns, they will come in handy

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)13:36 No. 81127 ID: 718d88
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>Slay them. Then take a closer look at the cannons.

If We kill them all then why would we... You know what, fuck it. I've been laying here for an hour and my balls are starting to hurt.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)13:50 No. 81128 ID: 718d88
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>capture theguns

I don't know what a... Oh! THE Guns. okay.


as you get closer you notice they don't look like they were expecting to be attacked.

Keep in mind you will eventually need to retreat. See if you can start blasting Aztec positions. In the confusion and... darkness...? (Is it night?) you can perhaps do a lot of damage. If the cannons prove too difficult to load and fire, or if the enemy rapidly gains its bearings to attack you, focus instead on sabotaging the guns by detonating large amounts of blast powder in/around them.

(If it is night, consider using Invert to turn your images into white lines on a black background, which is universally understood to represent darkness or similar esoteric effects.)

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)14:46 No. 81134 ID: 718d88
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After a short fight you kill all the gun crews and driven the ammunition bearers off.

You see in the distance the goblins have begun their assault on the behemoth.

you are now left with the question of what to do with the cannon.

Fire at their HQ or in that general direction

Don't fire at the Behemoth. You might accidentally hit the airship.

Fire at the HQ or at other cannons if you can't see the HQ.

>>81134
Oh man. Shoot the HQ. This will be awesome. Make sure to compensate for wind!

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)15:45 No. 81144 ID: 718d88
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>Shoot the HQ

I can't even see the HQ. how do you expect me to hit it with a siege engine I've never seen before?

>or at other cannons

This I can probably do.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)15:52 No. 81145 ID: 718d88
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{rolled 20-20-20: critical gunnery success}

HOLY SHIT I DID NOT EXPECT THAT.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)16:01 No. 81146 ID: 718d88
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Oh wow. I wonder what those crates were filled with...

>>81144
>I can't even see the HQ.

well, what can u see then?

What just happened?

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)17:58 No. 81172 ID: 718d88
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>>81159

Apparently, I'm awesome. I'm as shocked as anyone.

the cannon are removed from the fight, and the behemoth is busy being fucked up by goblins. so where to now?

First did you really roll? Second you know that the board has a rolling function for you right? Because I'm thinking that you might not have really rolled; the easiest way to prove if you did or not is just to roll on the thread itself.

GM gets to decide, regardless.

Blow up the cannon you just fired and get the fuck out of there before a tidal wave of angry Aztecs comes to fuck you up.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)18:43 No. 81182 ID: 718d88
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>Blow up the cannon you just fired
I'm thinking that everything we could have used to blow the cannon up with has already been blown up.

>get the fuck out of there before a tidal wave of angry Aztecs comes to fuck you up.

Good idea, we make it back to base, and are greeted by a cheering army. apparently what we did was a big deal.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)18:46 No. 81185 ID: 718d88
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After giving my account of the mission, we are informed that shortly after the behemoth was boarded the Souther auxiliaries assaulted the Aztec HQ and killed the general. there is now nothing standing in the way of this mighty army on its quest to push the Aztecs out of our lands.

Major Maxillary!!H3AwIyMwOx 2009/11/23(Mon)18:55 No. 81189 ID: 718d88
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[END OF CHAPTER]

enemies killed: 947
allies lost: 0
allies seduced: 0
enemies raped: 0
cities looted: 0
critical successes: 1
loot acquired: 0

>>81189
Seems like we did a good job here. What a talented bunch of squires!

Nice work.

>allies seduced: 0
Is anyone at the table a chick?

>>81242

Yeosophine is, but I dunno if you'd want to fuck a disfigured, emaciated amazon.

>>81273
I was more thinking about folks in the army.

>>81276

well, the sergal commander was female.

did you wanna fuck a sergal?

>enemies raped: 0

do dead enemies count?

>>81281
Not me personally, but I want the main character to.

>>81296

No. they have to be alive at the point of penetration.