Are all our forces in the wagons right now?

> Can we get an updated battle map? Not sure what units are in what wagons.

A life elementalist should see to Lena, Wulf and any others struck by that divine sigil thing that Lena triggered.

>>14255730
thats current, next map will be after everyone jumps out to charge

so...everyone jump out of the wagons and charge?
Maybe support that with some earth spikes into one of the enemy groupings?

You nod to Collin as he falls into position with Laelith, Jayne and yourself. Seconds later the wagons trundle to a stop, only the screamed wrath of the onrushing cultists and utterly exhausted huffing of mounts audible for an instant, then you maniple deploys, mercenaries to the fore. Seconds later you are at the front of the Sunstorm, cultists still barreling towards you, the din of battle is accented by the Keranacs final death cry, your maniple eagerly awaiting your command.

>>14255967
Start whittling the oncoming hordes down with our ranged units I suppose. Perhaps the deadeyes try to hit their command group but I'm assuming that won't get much done based on previous attempts to snipe elementalists.

>>14255967

Can we have the Celtron and Neftius units break into two smaller units? One half of each unit takes up position on the flanks of the legionary units.

Legionary units take the enemy charge while the merc units descend upon the enemy flanks and move to envelope the enemy units.

In the center the warlords break into 3 groups, two taking the enemy's flanks and enveloping while the third group helps push the enemy unit's center to that Trentz and friends can break through to the enemy leader.

Our ranged units will fire at the enemy rabble until they hit our line, then focus fire on the enemy's command unit until it is either dead or Trentz reaches it to slay the beast himself

>>14256074
I counter-command this. Don't be stupid, we're not changing formation right before the charge hits. Our loses would be tremendous.

>>14256111
I have to agree. Back in our very first battle, the enemy warlords during our graduation test pulled a superfast charge on us and I don't want to risk that these raiders can do the same. Especially since they're god powered in theory. Better to let them take the charge in a ready position and have our maniple units be the ones to act as the hammer this time. Our valks should be able to do quite a bit of damage to their units as well so we might want to keep them on standby to hit any cultists that are doing well against our mercs.

rolled 38 = 38

Combat roll.

rolled 55 = 55

>>14256074
>>14256111
>>14256136

My bad, was unaware that we were taking the charge next round.

Elementalism roll for spiking the center enemy unit

After we finish with this we need to get some more elementalism training done. I want stonesense upgrades.

>>14256270
Or that overall increase in power. That might be worthwhile too if it's still an option.

>>14256281
Stonesense seems like it would lead into the manipulation of metals, though. And then we can crush knights with their own armor.

You shout to the mercenaries to hold fast, and signal for ranged units to continue their barrage against the cultists. Seconds before contact is made you unleash a well ordered row of earthen spikes before the cultists, resulting in a decent number of them being impaled before the melee is joined. Seconds after you use your elementalism Laelith incinerates a group of cultists, though her eyes are focused on the leader of the band of fanatics. The elf launches herself forward into the raiders, spinning and slicing, burning and screaming bloody vengeance, nearly outdoing Collin with her wrath. You press forward with your spear and shield, Jayne keeping pace with you. Behind the command staff quartet lies a path of eviscerated, shattered and broken cultists behind you. To your left the Celtron Guard are struggling to maintain their formation, some of their number preferring to use their shields as knuckle dusters or charge headlong into the cultists rather than hold, not that they are inefficient in their fighting. To your right the Neftius spearmen calmly take their charge, and professionally fight back, well ordered thrusts, rotating and advancing their ranks as they do so.

>>14256399
Hooboy. We need to reign Laelith in. She might get herself too far ahead or walk into a trap that the enemy leader wants her to walk into. That or beat her there.

The center formation looks like it should go down with there only 30 men left. We should have our ranged units focus on the side units to support the mercs and have our unit move to support them once we've dealt with the units in the front. Legionnaires can move in to flank I suppose since there's no point just having them sit in the back. If they got those javelins we were thinking of giving them, they could also use those.

> I'm really interested in joining this but lets face it, archived threads are WAY tl;dr. Is there a summary page with the characters and units or any basic info about the 'Verse?

>>14256465
There have been some summary posts in previous threads but I can't recall to be honest. I suppose you could pop into the IRC channel and ask any questions there unless someone posts a new summary type thing now. And I can't do something like that just now unfortunately, otherwise I would.

>>14256465
You could ask questions at the IRC at the sup/tg irc, see #CommanderQuest

>>14256436
Seconding. If Lealith goes for a 1v1 with the enemy (the other wife?) we may need to use force and remove her from the battle. Perhaps an earth wall between the two?

Do we have numbers on the enemy command group?

>>14256501
I don't know about removing her from it, but we most assuredly need to keep an eye on her and move to support/reign in if she starts getting in over her head.

The last of the cultists falls to your spear, his entrails hanging from the serrated edges still after you pull it from his gut. You move to shake the spear clean as you sprint to catch up with the force you chose to strike at the leadership of this cult. Behind you the shriek of Valkeries can be heard, most likely they are about to sweep into the remaining mobs of cultists.

Before you stand the ten most grotesque Lacertans you have ever seen, all of them a dark seaweed green, slime oozing out from between their scales, and hiding the definition from one scale to another. Several have masses of vestigial tentacles hanging from their chins, others are in possession of massive, bulbous black eyes, or slimy, thin webbing between their fingers. the clear second in command has all of those traits, and towers a good head and a half above his comrades. All of the mutated lacerta have sigils to Karythria etched into their skin, the scars still fresh, though healed. All of them wield great cutlasses or hammers, and are waiting your onrushing group eagerly. Their leader is a tall woman, long black hair hanging wildly about her shoulders, seaweed tied into it at random, in her hands is a cruel looking trident, and light blue robes barely cover her generous form. At her neck is a large locket, blue-white water inside it. the Widow is stalking towards your onrushing elf, a predatory grin on her face, she pops the locket open and douses the ground around her with the arcane waters inside.

>>14256836
Ah hell no. We cannot let Laelith take her on alone. I imagine earth elementalism does well against water. I think we might want to either seperate Laelith from this fight so we can take her on or we join her. I'm personally pushing for taking her on ourself.

>>14256836
WOAH WOAH WOAH!

HOLD THE FUCK UP PEOPLE!

WAIT FOR THE MERCS!

THAT MEANS YOU, LAELITH!

>>14256886
I'll agree with this, though I vote we take her on together with Laelith rather than alone. She seems to have a grudge to settle.

Also, call everyone back and wait for the mercs. Fighting 11 v 4 is stupid. Swarm them, drown them in bodies.

>>14256907
She's lost her sense at the moment. She's not going to hold up I imagine unless we make a really awesome command roll. Definitely need those mercs to move up so we can swarm them with numbers. Ranged units can just continue to whittle down the other cultists and have our maniple units move in to support them. Regardless, we cannot let Laelith fight the leader on her own at least. I rather have her focus on the lesser minions but I don't see her listening right now... Sigh.

rolled 86 = 86

>>14256836

How large of an area has been doused in the arcane water? I imagine we're not going to be throwing spikes up through the doused area any time soon...

Use fissuresl to create cracks that will move her arcane water deeper into the ground!

Dice don't screw us now! Elemental roll

rolled 89 = 89

>>14256966
Damnit Generic. Again you have failed us! Heh.

rolled 15 = 15

>>14256966
Neever say dice dont screw us now, when has that ever gone right?

rolled 67 = 67

Rolling to see if we should botch.

>>14256945
Well, we could pop up a circular wall around her. That will sure as hell get her attention.

rolled 12 = 12

How about this:

"Laelith, STOP."

Command roll.

Signal the Sunstorms and the Warlords to catch up to us asap. I'm assuming that they don't even need command rolls right now.

(Keep trying different things until we get a good roll, guys.)

rolled 56 = 56

Combat roll.

a map of the empire

You catch up with your small group as Collin lays into the leftmost flank of the Widows command group, cleaving through the blade of one lacertan, through his overly taught skin and gut. the blade sails onwards and upwards, removing the arms from another before the brute can bring his hammer down on your blademaster. Two more lacertans rush in to take the dwarf as one, finally stopping his momentum. To your right Jayne sidesteps a downward strike, and catches a hammer-blow from a tentacle-chinned cultist on her shield, not sliding back an inch from the bruts attack. In fact, she pushes the huge lizard back, and smashes her mace into the other Lacertans gut, sending his body flying back and into the finally dead Keranac. Futher down the line Laelith generates a blinding flash, stunning the guard in front of her, before taking his head with her sickle.

You attention is dragged away however, as the leader of the Widows guard rushes at you, a pair of cutlasses in his hands, speckled with rust and holy sigils. His vambraces and shin guards obsidian, and wickedly bladed, you catch his leading blow on your shield, and the follow through with the haft of your spear. You step ahead and plant your elbow in the massive warriors tentacled chin, only to have it snugly seized by the superfluous appendages. You pull it free to reveal a defiled obsidian anvil and bloody hammer tattoo on the things neck. Both of you step back to evaluate your foe before the melee resumes.

You glance over to the white-hot cloud of mist to your far right, and catch a glimpse of Laelith dueling the Widow, arcane fire, water and ice arcing and jetting in loops and spheres, colliding and exploding in brilliant clouds of mist. Amongst the mist the two beaties spin about each other, slicing and stabbing, seemingly evenly matched, though you do notice Jayne focusing on the elf at every chance she gets.

>>14257428
Looks like we need to deal with our foe before we can help Laelith. Someone else roll this time but we may want to try to fissure the area around Laelith still just to help her out. Or maybe we should focus on taking out the brute in front of us first.

>derp, forgot some things

Behind you the cry of diving Valkeries can be heard, shortly afterwards the demented symphony of steel on steel, blood, death and pain subsides. You realize that most of the maniple is now watching the duels unfolding before them, afraid to interfere for fear of causing one of their own to die due to the soldiers lesser skills, though something does feel... off, about the ground you stand on.

rolled 73 = 73

Combat roll.

>Finally, elvernot
Captcha is enjoying the show.

rolled 100 = 100

Shout out "She did something to the ground!"

Attempting elementalism roll against our opponent.

rolled 84 = 84

>>14257518
YOU ARE FUCKING KIDDING ME

>>14257428
God damn it. Rock wall around the guy we are fighting, move to help Laelith immediately.

>>14257518
you son of a bitch

rolled 23 = 23

>>14257518
Botch time.

rolled 25 = 25

Again, rolling to see if we should botch. However, use our elementalism to attempt to "push out" the magical water from our vicinity.

rolled 51 = 51

>>14257518
You are no longer allowed to roll tonight.
I'll try a botch though

rolled 18 = 18

>>14257474
IN THE NAME OF THE BOTCH GODS

Combat/Elementalism roll

>>14257541
seconding

I shall roll no more for the evening, for I have shamed the Trentz.

>>14257587

You charge back towards the leader of the guards, and thrust your spear at him, he twists to the side, and your spear barely grazes his thigh. The brute grins a needly, feral smile at you as the cut seals itself over, then reaches over with his off handed blade and smashes it into your gauntleted hand, sending the spear flying from the hand. As you move to draw your sword the brute lands a blow on your shoulder, and sends you sprawling to the ground. YOu roll out of the way of the decapitating strike, and the following thrust to your heart. You are able to spy Collin shift through several stances, dancing between and around the lacertans accosting him, before releasing one of the guards heads from its possession. To your right you see Jayne ravage a second Lacerta, though she is noticable sweating as she finally gets around to caving the cultists head in.

Peering through the mists created by the arcane fire and water flying about your elfs battle you see both of the combatants are cut, though none of the blows went deep. With unbeleivable grace your elf parries a thrust from the trident, sidesteps a sharp shard of ice and spins around to attempt to hook her foes leg, and sever it. However, a gout of steam catches Laelith fully in the face, sending her stumbling back, stuttering and spluttering, barely avoiding a trio of thrusts from the woman in blue robes.

rolled 47 = 47

>>14257689
Finish this Lacerta off then wall Laelith off if she begins obviously losing, or save her with a well placed spike into the wife's leg/disarm her.

rolled 60 = 60

A good cross stone spike combo will deal with the mutant when he tries to finish us...
Elementalist

rolled 91 = 91

Assuming that previous roll was combat roll. Elementalism roll.

Try to wall off the Widow instead.

rolled 66 = 66

Rolling for elementalism- Spike the nearest few Lacerta so we can help laelith with Collin and the others' help. Gang up on that bitch!

rolled 6 = 6

>>14257689

So our foe can regenerate?

See if he can regenerate his damned head.

And if he can... we're fucked!

>>14257689
God damn it, we just got that face fixed!

Seriously, what the fuck? Just throw up a wall of earth and get over there. Enough fighting with this guy, Collin can handle it no problem.

Kill count

Collin: 3
Jayne: 2
Laelith: 1
Justinian: 0, getting our ass kicked

We are embarrassing ourselves in front of our subordinates again. :(

You scissor your armored legs into your foes, spilling him to the ground for long enough for you to push yourself to your feet. The two of you meet in a flurry of steel as the beast rises seconds after you. After a few incredibly loud seconds you manage to plunge your blade into the beasts arm "Regenerate this" you taunt, before tearing your ferreted blade back from his shoulder, spraying a thick, almost black blood into your face. You step back and wipe your eyes in time to see Collin setting up to finish his foe off, and Jayne stuck in a deadlock, her breaths coming in ragged gasps, her left arm now bereft of its shield.

Laeliths duel continues, the searing mists growing thiccker still, gouts of flame and shards of ice periodically flying from it, though you can discern none of the physical combat. Again you try to use your elementalism, though the mud and muck, combined with the fighting you are locked in cause it to be so grossly inaccurate as to seem more of a waste of energy than anything.

>>14257776
Well, to our defense, this guy has ALL of the upgrades of the other mutants and is bigger.

rolled 50 = 50

>>14257829
Finish this fucker off/impale him, we need to disable him for now if not kill him.

Coup de grace our guy then move to assist Jayne. We'll want to make sure he stays dead.

Is our foe dead? Try to kill him fast if he's still alive.

Have Collin help Jayne. Then both of them can converge on the Widow.

Somebody else roll.

rolled 66 = 66

>>14257829

In the name of the Butcher!

TAKE HIS HEAD!

Combat roll

rolled 20 = 20

Combat roll to finish off the head mutant.

>Captcha: eybrou SOLUTION

Stab him in the eyebrows! (does he have those?)

>>14257829
Jesus christ COME ON GO FUCKING ASSIST OUR LADIES. You can't tell me Justinian didn't learn how to disengage a foe during his combat training.

rolled 26 = 26

>>14257923
He learned how to disengage with soldiers without special powers. Granted we do have our own special powers to try to disengage, which is why I said trying to impale him just to disable him even if he can manage his way off and regenerate will give us enough time.

rolled 3 = 3

>>14257829
Elementalism roll.

Terrakinesis several rocks into the side of the Lacertan's head who is engaging Jayne.

rolled 77 = 77

after taking out the Lacerta fighting Jayne, if we have sufficiently disabled the mook in front of us, tell them to help Laelith.

rolled 21 = 21

We should help Jayne next turn while Collin finishes off his last opponent. When everyone's good and dead, we all gang up on the Widow.

>>14257958
And throw up a wall between us and our foe here and get over to Laelith ASAP.

Your attention is pulled back to your foe as it lets out a mighty, wrathful, wholely unnatural wordless warcry, and charges you, its left arm now completely gone, the wound not even bleeding. You sidestep the bullrush, and nick the back of the divine warriors head as he passes. The brute whirls around, leading with his blade, you detly catch the blow on your sheild, allowing the beast to push you back a few steps before you move up and run your blade into his gut. The beast snarls as its blade drops from his hand, and rams the blades on the outside of his obsidian vambrace up and under your left arms pauldron, tearing at the shoulder as he falls back, dying. You drop your sheild from the weak arm,and decapitate the beast as you step over him, shaking the severed head free of your shin, though a few of his needle-like teeth remain in the armor.

Behind you Collin disembowels his last foe as you rush the lacerta Jayne is fighting, the noblewoman not even trying to maintain the illusion that her left arm is functional at this point. The Lacerta sees your approach and moves to step back, stumbling over Collins foot, terror flashing across the creatures face before the dwarf severs his head.

rolled 20 = 20

>>14258014
Elementalism roll to overcome the arcane/elementalism limiting us that the widow is using.

>>14258038
Woo!

rolled 18 = 18

>>14258014
Stones the size of watermelons at the Black Widows noggin,
If possible an incapacitating blow rather than killing.
I've a notion she knows a few more things of value.

rolled 46 = 46

Command roll to get Jayne out of immediate danger and heal herself.

>>14258014
Charge to the rescue of Laelith. I'm pissed that LOL PLOT kept us from doing a basic combat tactic like disengagement, and our entire army is disobeying orders to watch us get the shit beaten out of us.

Floggings are going to be in order.

>>14258057

How do we prevent a water elementalist from doing damage with say... sweat, urine or saliva?

We should just go for the kill.

>>14258107
Disengagement would have allowed the Lacertan we were fighting to go after Jayne, who was deadlocked. Are you saying that you value Laelith over Jayne?

Also, there are problems of bringing in too many people to fight a single person, especially if said person is quite capable of running into and bowling through a shield or spear wall.

rolled 18 = 18

>>14258125
A cold metal box with airholes facing the wall.

You know how his 'wives' were just twisted brainwashed women under the thrall of Khalless and the bitch god

You tilt your head, exert your will, and the ground beneath you dries up, almost to the point of cracking "Jayne, to the medicae." you order the woman

"But.."

"Flesh wound." you reply, wiping the blood from your armor. You nod to Collin and wade into the cloud, the thin sheet of sweat on your body doubling in thickness within seconds of entering the cloud. A spike of ice whistles past your head, and a flash of blue shows you where your foe is, still dancing with a figure in orange. You haft your sword and charge after the shape highlighted in blue, she doesnt even notice your approach. An instant before your blade strikes true, you notice how impossibly tall the woman is... you barely re-direct your blade-arm in time, with the momentum behind it. You shake your head and move for the figure in orange, blue rather, now that the mists are no longer hindering your sight. Three traded blows with the Widow, one of them glancing off the vambrace of your left arm is all the more time Laelith needed. A blast of fire catches the womans legs, melting away flesh, and searing bone clean. The elf moves in before you can say anything, whispering something into the womans ear, before burying her sickle in the cultists gut, smiling viciously. You feel the elf stumble onto your armor through the dissipating mists, putting her full weight onto your recently injured shoulder. The field is a slaughter, you realize as you step clear of the obscuring mists, your maniple standing awestruck now that they are at the feet of the great beasts you felled.

>>14258157
He could easily have been engaged by Collin instead, who didn't seem to have any trouble at all.

>>14258178
Sigh. Pick her up and carry her to the medics, fuck the pain. Tell her that we are going to have a very, very serious lecture for her after she gets better.

>>14258181
Collin was engaging two at once; no guarantee that he would have been able to intercept the third one in time while still engaging the current two. Also, as soon as they saw that Collin needed to aid Jayne, the two fighting Collin might disengage themselves and come after Trentz.

Far too many assumptions to have safely disengaged.

>>14258213
Save any warnings of a lecture until after she's got checked by our medics. Also we need to make sure we have scouts on the lookout for any attack. I'm going to assume our enemy knows about this and might try something while we're recovering. Might as well see if the crazy water lady had anything that might help us regarding the cult as well.

>>14258178
Confirm that the Widow is dead, as well as her guards.
Then bring Laelith to the medicae tents.

rolled 38 = 38

we go back, and recuperate set up defenses have some delicious crab and prepare to deal with the things that we ACTUALLY came up here to deal with

>>14258238
Kay. Carry her there then after she gets checked out give her justinianIsNotAmused.jpg and tell her we're going to have a lecture for her later.

>>14258238
Both the valk unit and the griffon unit should be able to do recon now.

>>14258178

Remove the widow's head and carve the death goddess's symbol into her heart. We know undead are coming in the future and don't want this bitch coming back again. (carving the death goddess' symbol into her heart should do something to prevent that, right?) and claim that amulet of her's for our arcana stash. Perhaps our water elementalist can use it if it doesn't go "lolgodgiftturnstomist" on us.

rolled 89 = 89

>>14258277

More this, less forgetting arcana leaving it on the battlefield like a dumbass.

>>14258341
Hey, just because we're escorting Laelith to the medicae tents doesn't mean we forgot the arcana.

The arcana can wait; their owners are dead and unmoving. The living still need tending to first.

>>14258277
I have to recommend against that on the grounds of it looking rather odd for us to do that in front of our men. Furthermore, we have no idea if it'll help or not. For all we know, it might make her an agent of Neshai's in some form or another. I think as long as we decapitate her, it should work out. I think Pax said enough damage to the body would stop the undead so if we do that in the first place, it shouldn't revive.

You step back and hack the head from the Widow with one stroke, catching Laelith as she falls from your unexpected movement, sweeping her into you other arm as you sheath your blade. "You nearly scared me to death, charging like that." you chide the elf as you walk her to the medicae tent.

She flinches as you brush up against one of her many steam burns "I, sorry... I was eager to put the last of my past behind me." she replies, looking up into your eyes "I only have my future now."

Back at the medicae tent the surgeons are calmly seeing to the wounded. In on e corner Jayne is down to naught but the wrap covering her breasts as a life elementalist works with her shoulder. Next to her Wulf is laid out on a cot, sweating profusely, tossing and turning, a red-eyed, disheveled Lena next to him, hands firmly clasped around his right arm. Outside you hear the cry of several shocked folk, and the fluttering of wings as you set Laelith on the cot next to Wulf.

>>14258438
I really want to check on Wulf but we should see what's going on outside first. If it's nothing serious, let's see just how bad Wulf is. If it's bad enough, we might have to go talk to a goddess and slap some sense in to her... Okay maybe not the slapping part but a chat might be in order if Wulf is doing bad enough or it's worse than I think.

>>14258438
Go out and check what's going one; I suspect that it's our recon team coming back with bad news.

If it's not, then we need to get their report then search the battlefield for arcana.

>>14258453
>>14258457
these in that order and then see what the deal with the fluttering was

You poke your head out of the medicae tent to see what the commotion is, and are surprised by a fluttering yellow and white creature flitting through the opening. After you re-gain your balance and bearings, you notice a large, stately yellow and white feathered owl perched next to Wulf, looking at him with its piercing light blue eyes, the young mans thrashing slowly easing. You warily make your way over to the boys side, where you are greeted by a silent, bleary-eyed Lena, and a gentle, almost soothing "hoot" from the owl.

A yellow and white owl? What? Please tell me other people can see this thing. It sounds like we are seeing a hallucination or something.

>>14258563
Hmmm. A gift from Eago perhaps? Can't recall what else it might be.

Go check in on Wulf then?
Ask Lena what the owl is on about.

>>14258563
Okay, looks like Wulf will be okay.
Nod knowingly to the owl/Avatar of Eago, then go outside and begin cleanup.
We're looking for arcana and anything usable.
I'm tempted to have the valk riders track the path that the cultists took, to see if we could find their base camp if they had one.

You head back over to Wulf, Lena now looking curiously, and gratefully at the bird sitting next to him. It is about half again as large as any other owls you have seen, though its attention has returned to Wulf. "How is he doing?" you ask Lena gently, sitting next to her.

"He... better now." she struggles out, now that your closer you can almost smell the guilt on her, if her posture and face werent enough of an indicator. The boy is lying more peacefully, though he is still sweating profusely.

"Nomad Owl?" you hear Laelith ask no one in particular, incredibly exhausted sounding now that she is laying down.

>>14258712
"what's that love?"

>>14258712
>"Nomad Owl?"
Go over to Laelith.
"It's a large owl, with yellow and white feathers, and blue eyes."

>>14258734
Can't really think of what else to say. Not sure if she means if it's a nomadic owl or if it's something specific.

>>14258712

"Nomad Owl? Is that what it is?" Ask Laelith what she knows about it.

"Youve heard of these creatures before?" you ask the nearly comatose elf. But she is unable to answer properly.

Jayne tries to fill the gaps in "Its an incredibly rare breed of owl. Rumors were that some prefered daylight to the night, or that they never slept, always stayed on the move... Their beautiful, now that I have seen one." she tilts her head in Wulfs direction "He should wake eventually, though I cant say when." this sends Lena into another bout of crying.

>>14258795
Lay a comforting hand on Lena's shoulder.
"Wulf will recover, our life elementalists will see to it. You should rest as well; you know he'll only work himself into a fit if he sees you exhausted."

>>14258823
this

>>14258795
"It's alright Lena. He'll be fine in time. There's nothing else we can do now but let him rest. Don't blame yourself for this. Our enemy has had months to prepare her vengeance and there's no way we could have expected everything she had up her sleeve."

At this point, I don't think there's much we can do until our scouts return. The men are likely exhausted so let them rest and see if anyone comes to us with anything until the scouts return.

>>14258827
Don't forget to scour the battlefield for enemy arcana and any letters between the Widow and the rest of the cult.

Also, some of the orcs that were attacked were taken as slaves; perhaps we should have some of our recon unit look for them; they will likely be at wherever the cultists made camp, and we might find more loot there.

You rest a hand on Lenas shoulder "Easy now, this was not your fault, this was revenge months in the making. You should rest now, I cant imagine Wulf would like you working yourself up so terribly over him when he'll recover just fine."

Lena nods at your soothing voice, though she is still at the young mans side when you head from the tent. Outside your maniple is already tearing flesh from the felled sea beasts, cookfires blazing into the late midday sun. Exhausted Valkeries are swooping down to land in the rapidly growing camp, in the same field where the Griffons are already on the ground. Rufus is already heading over towards you by the time you spot him, looking both excited and nervous, the captain of the House Morlan observers not too far behind him.

>>14258883
"Ah, Rufus! Care to join us for a midday meal? We're having seafood!"

They can wait. Loot loot loot. We want any usable arcana left on the field.

We should tend to Jayne and Laelith both. Put them both straight to bed after they get medical attention, no arguments. Not that I think Laelith capable of it.

>>14258883
"So, how did you like the show?"

>>14258883
Order Kyria and Finian to begin searching the battlefield for enemy arcana.

Also, we have a merc cavalry unit, right? If the valks are tired, have the merc unit and maybe Blackbird try to trace back where the cultists came from, and see if they can find the orc prisoners.

Then turn to Rufus and the House Morlan Captain.
"What did you think, Captain?"

I think Blackbird and Thomas (the hired guide) are busy scouting the forest.

All of our cavalry are exhausted, it seems.

It's probably too long a trail for the scouts to track. We should wait for the valks to recover.

"Rufus, my friend, I trust you were paying attention?" you greet the young man.

"Of course, commander." he pauses for a moment "I, ah, I realize that recent events prevented your helping me with, the, ah, the worries I have about my training, but you will still help me with that, right?"

Before you can answer the lad the captain of the griffon riders strides up to you and salutes "Most impressive Commander. I eagerly await another display of the worth of these newer tactics."

>you guys wanna keep going or call it for tonight?

>>14258977
Give us what arcana we were able to get from this battle.
Next session, we'll let the valks rest then send them to find the orc prisoners and the cultist's camp.

Also, how's morale? How did the soldiers like this new tactic of letting the enemy tire themselves out while we stay safely ahead of them?

>>14259013
this

Gentlemen, we've invented the running battle. Huzzah!

we need more elementalism training.

"My archivist is incapacitated for the moment. When she recovers, she will help you get started."

See what loot we got from the Widow.

Make sure that our prisoners and supplies are still secure.

After the valks recover, send them out to track the Widow's trail. Try to figure out where she came from, and what route she took.

Finian's scouts should keep watch on the forest for another raiding party.

After the seafood buffet, we should probably head back to the logging town.

>>14259025
huzzah indeed! Wait until we invent tank warfare

>>14259026
>More elementalism training
Well that's a given.

In terms of specifics, I'd like to work on team concentration and counter-elementalism.
Individually, all of our elementalists (excluding some of the life ones, Justinian, Laelith, Jayne, and Wulf) are weak. But working together, as a cohesive unit, they should be the equal of most current enemy elementalists.
We just need to make sure that they can work together as a single unit, and that they can shut down enemy elementalists with prejudice.

>>14259034
oh ho wulf is not going to like rufus training with lena *smiles mischeviously* oh the hijinks

>>14259046
Runic Steam Tanks, with heavy repeater ballistae as a main gun. Uurlanth won't know what hit'em.

You nod acknowledgment to the griffon riders dismissing them, before replying to Rufus "Laelith will help you with the initial training once she is revitalized. As to what Neshai would think of your talent, I will help you discern that soon enough. For now however, I still have work to do from this last battle." at that you head off to search the battlefield for any arcana, but are depressed to only find the Widows pendant in the way of arcana, everything else being ruined godly tokens or slightly rusted weapons. About halfway through your meal the Skywings are able to send trackers off to see where the Widow had come from, though you do not expect their return until you are back at your original camp. At least I got a good meal out of it. You muse to yoursled as Sansa and Kyria find seats next to you, plates full.

>blargh, I'm tired. GOnna call it here since we're slowing down anyways.
>someone archive please
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