>bumping with your updated terakenisis skills, and since I started early after damn near disappearing for the last few weeks

>>14746435
>derp

Stone Spike: combat capable. largest possible 10' L, 3' C
Rend Earth: combat capable. largest possible 18'L,4'6" W, 6' D
Quake: combat capable. richter 6 over a 40yd circle
Wall: combat capable. 6' high, 3' wide, 8'long
Impact: combat Capable. 20' C circle instantly drops 4'
Sculpt Stone combat capable. re-shape 120lbs of stone , can rudimentarily affect new forms

>>14746347
Fuck Yeah CQ.

Yes I do. Get the civilians to get get out all the barrels, buckets, tarps, anything that can collect water. We need to save and keep all the water we can wring out from this storm.

>>14746446
>I dont like to go off of single posts so I'll wait a bit more for a second but if it takes to long I'll go with this I guess

>>14746522
I think its because you're quite early today. None of the named are out I believe.

>one more bump for an extra opinion then I guess I'll go with whats been given...

Shit, reading.

>>14746599
Also can your siege weapons reach the towers the enemy elementalists are on? If we can, perhaps we can shake them by launching some big rocks at them. Furthermore get Kyria to etch anti magic runes to 2 of the rocks and the last rock used should have a fire rune on.

>>14746603
We were expecting you in the IRC, and since we didn't see you, didn't know that CQ had already started.

>>14746446
Seconding. Also have some overhands and such prepared along the walls so that archers can stay dry while they fire.
The enemy will use the storm as cover to attack, I imagine. Have all troops on alert.

>>14746347
Huh. Didn't see you in the IRC and I missed this somehow. I'll second what's in >>14746446 but I think we should have Wulf focus on making sure the enemy can't use their air units in this assault but I doubt the enemy is silly enough to use them during a storm. I'd like to say try to mess up their siege towers but I imagine they'll be protected by their elementalists/mages... I guess focus on damaging their men rather than the towers.

You nod as you turn to face your aid "Have the civilians get as many empty containers out as they can to collect additional water, we have the well but..."

"I understand Commander. And Degrian already has the siege equipment safely stored for the storm, the balistae on the wall are the only engines we cant guarantee the safety of." Sansa replies cheerily, before heading off to see your orders carried out.

>so, anything else you want to take care of before the storm, or move ahead to tomorrow? (its early in the night right now)

>>14746779
Part of me wants to do some talking with people but I kind of want to get this going to the next battle... I guess skip ahead for now. Can't think of anything immediately that needs to be settled unless people want to deal with Seventus in the chance he dies.

Damn, I hope this storm doesn't screw up our ranged units too much...

>>14746446

Sounds like a plan

>>14746779
Make sure that all troops are on alert. Were we able to get more volunteers to make up for the City Guard that were lost on the West Wall?

See if those siege towers are in range. The enemy doesn't know about our anti-magic shells yet, they might not be concerned when we attempt to range in our ballistae with conventional ammunition.

Have Kryia inscribe anti-magic runes on as many ballistae bolts as she can manage. She mentioned that fire runes were unstable, but maybe we just light the tip of the bolts on fire before we shoot them.

Have the siege engine crews find some way of keeping lit fires going during the storm. Same for all friendly ranged units.

Have the catapults fling out the caltrops before we put the siege equipment away. We had them made so we might as well use them.

See if we can build some sort of shelter for the heavy repeaters, so that we can keep using them during the storm.

Last minute repairs to the walls and pit traps.

Daeseu should see if any infiltrators made it into the city, and if so, hunt them down. Don't want someone opening the gates at the worst possible moment.

Maybe while Blackbird and his men are scouting, one of them can try to sneak Aquila out of the siege lines? So he doesn't get hit by enemy CAP when he tries to fly to DragonsReach?

That way we can get our message to the Second.

rolled 3 = 3

Test roll for likely combat.

One more thing: Since water will be abundant during this assault, check our water elementalists. See if they can, working as a group, replicate that hydro-shield that the Uurlanthi raiders used against us.

>>14747081
Dat cook.

Test roll I guess.

rolled 47 = 47

>>14747081
Heh. Watch the cook is awesome now all of a sudden. Let's see if that last roll was luck or not.

rolled 91 = 91

Oops. Good thing I'm test rolling.

rolled 26 = 26

Err......

>>14747076

Sounds like one hell of a risk.

test roll bandwagon!

rolled 77 = 77

>>14747076
I honestly think it's too risky to send him out. Even if Aquilla can successfully be sent (In this storm remember), he's not going to be able to get back to us.

rolled 95 = 95

Roll'n Roll'n Roll'n
Test Roll!

rolled 44 = 44

>>14747152
bah.
It's all a conspiracy.

rolled 20 = 20

Test Roll.

rolled 60 = 60

>>14747080
Fuck it, test rollan

>>14747237
whoops. didn't mean to quote anything there

The rest of the night passes uneventfully, save all of the men staying on alert. The balitae get hasty coverings, and the fields are filled with caltrops. You pace and plan, Kyria carves runes slowly and carefully, a pair of dwarves from the city studying her books. No sun rises through the clouds in the morning, and the crow of roosters and chirping of songbirds is overwhelmed, or silenced by the howling of the wind. The skies are as black as midnight, the rain already heavy, though not a single bolt of lightning has lanced the sky yet. By midmorning, the entire city is hiding, and peering out of windows or from under awnings, getting steadily wetter. All save for Wulf, who stands atop the gatehouse tower facing into the wailing wind and driving rain, his posture aggressive, cloak tearing back away from him in the wind, Tassadus perched on his shoulder. On the top level of the gatehouse's south tower, the one your protege is perched on, Jayne, and two of the life elementalists sit meditating, sending strength and energy to the young man, Lena pacing nervously between them, waiting in her combat robes, arcane designs thick on her arms, and visible, thinly, down at her ankles.

The first bolt of lightning stikes midway between the uulanthi camp and the city of Northmont. The crater it leaves is nearly 15 feet in circumference according to your stonesense, and half as deep. The thunderclap knocks many of the men on the wall to their backsides. The next bolt is shredded in twain, one almost striking your walls, the other nearly the enemy camp. Then the storm begins in earnest, scores of lightning bolts erupt in the sky, half of them going unused, though the others begin to dance and snake, smashing into walls and siege engines, though none seem able to strike towers or trebuchets.
>cont'd

Until noon Wulf commands the storm calmly, unmoving, his arms crossed at his chest, unflinching even as the tower explodes next to him from lightning strikes. The men hoot and howl, cheer and taunt, almost overcoming the storm at every bolt that strikes enemy soldiers, or ruins a catapult.

By early evening the storm still rages, the enemy still waiting. Even if you had wanted your men resting they would not have been able to for the tremendous roaring of thunder engulfing the city. As night falls again, Wulf smashes one of the smaller siege engines, and the men cheer, though subdued by sleepiness. The elementalists are working in shifts, save Jayne who faithfully remains to support her young friend, and all of them are dripping sweat with the effort, and Jayne is soaked worse than she would be from stepping outside from it. Onward Wulf battles, though by early night he is leaning heavily into the wind, hands back and clenched into fists, his face sunken from exhaustion. The land is a blasted hellscape about the city, mud like rivers flowing towards your pits, or away from the battlezone, and onward the storm rages through the midnight hour unabated in its wrath.
>cont'd

In the small hours of the morning, the amount of strikes on both the city and the enemy camp begin to skyrocket, as if the dueling arcanists are desperate to pull every last ounce of power from the storm. Your soldiers had been trying to sleep in shifts when it became apparent that the enemy was not striking during the storms full wrath, though the thunder prevented them from getting more than a Felixsians Rest. The walls, and arrow shields take multiple hits, as do the outskirts of the enemy camp. By late morning Wulf scores a decisive hit, obliterating the top of one of the oversized towers, and an enemy elementalist with it. The top of the tower simply disappears, and you see the entire enemy camp seemingly leap up at once, as if all save for the ones struck by Wulfs Wrath had been suddenly awakened by the tremendous thunderclap that accompanies the strike. Wulf topples backwards after that strike, though no more lightning is to present to be utilized. The storm quickly dies down to naught but a moderate rain, one that would take an hour to drench a grown man. the enemy camp is mad with activity, and you suspect that they will strike within an hour, though bereft of many of their catapults, some of their trebuchets, and a good portion of their smaller siege towers, they will still be more than capable of a staggering blow should things go poorly for you.

>>14747351
>>14747362
>>14747377
HOLY SHIT WULF! YOU'RE GONNA GET A CHAMPION OF THE DEGNARIAN EMPIRE AWARD/MEDAL/LANDS/SHINY THINGIES AFTER THIS

>>14747377
Pull Wulf, Jayne, and the life elementalists back to the medical tents.

Send out an alert to all walls to prepare for an enemy attack.

"Men! We are what stands between those Uurlanthi curs and this city! We are the chosen through whom the enemy would break! Unbought by blood, this day shall not be theirs!"

>>14747455
Retinue deployment:
Laelith on East Wall.
Lena and Bellatrix on the South Wall.
Collin on the West Wall to rally the City Guard.
Daeseu to go to whichever wall feels like it might get breached.
Sansa to be with us on the East Wall.

Ask Degrian if it's safe to bring our siege equipment back out.

>>14747455
>>14747507
Seconding these.

Do we have more of that oil we made from uurlanthi corpses? If so, how much?


While the rain will fuck with most of our fire-based attacks, oil doesn't mix with water and won't give a single fuck!

If we have only a small amount, we create a few 5-10 man teams (say from blackbird's unit), each with a pot/jar or two. When the enemy gets siege towers to our wall, the men throw the jars into the mouth of the siege tower's assault ramp. The teams would either work with a fire elementalist to light oiled rags going into the pots, have the elementalist throw some fire in there, or someone would just throw a torch with the pots.

unit objective: deny enemy the use of any siege towers that reach our walls, even if it only works until the oil burns off. (in which case we keep it alive with a few more pots)

Distribute remaining corpse-oil between the 4 walls. Instruct the men to use them to set the siege towers / the tower ramps on fire, if said towers make it to the wall.

>>14747608
Burly infantrymen can take up this task. Five-to-ten men teams like you said. Have the captains select the ones with good aim and good throwing arms. Don't want to get those oil on friendlies.

Degnar grenadiers, ho!

>>14747608
>you have enough oil for 150 small pots (easilly palmed, only good for a handful of enemy men)

"Sansa, see that the life elementalists and Wulf are moved to the medicae. Lena is to aid the South Wall, And Collin the West. You and Laelith will join me here. Move quickly love." Sansa nods and hustles off, rubbing her eyes. You turn to face you tired looking men "Sons and Daughters of Degnar!" you bellow "Today our foes, these Uurlanthi curs, look to despoil our city as their presence does our homelands soil! They think that the lure of sleep will somehow be enough to weaken our arms! That the battle just waged by Wulf and their own elementalists will leave us scared and cowed!" Lena and Jayne walk past, carrying the passed out Wulf, Tassadus riding his chest, hooting gently. "Yet two of theirs, no doubt aided by a choir of life elementalists were barely able to make one of our own sleepy!" you continue, the soldiers rising, their faces draining of tiredness. "We shall not be cowed, nor beaten!" you announce, you own tiredness draining away "We shall paint these walls a Degnarian Crimson with the blood of these animals gathered before us, and they shall again be bested by our wrath!"

The soldiers still sitting or leaning jump up, cheering, smashing their weapons on their shields and armor. the enemy lines begin to advance, and Sansa strides up to you energetically "Collin wants to know your orders, should our foes not strike at the West Wall."

>>14747775
Then he is to assist High Commander Seventus on the north wall.

>>14747775
Not much we can do until they start to get into range. Have our ballista act like we did last battle for now but once their armoured units are in range, it's time we show them the power of our batteries.

Let's hope our elementalism rolls are better so we can topple those towers onto their men or at least stop their movements. Does each unit have ladders or only the levies?

>>14747817
Actually, I suggest the South Wall.
The North Wall has Seventus and battle-hardened front-line Legion units.
The South Wall has city garrison troops.
Weaker, and less of them.

>>14747838
Fine with me, but only if there was no attack on the west wall. Warn about the invisible units. Maybe have the city guard occasionally fire out a volley into the ground below?

>>14747833
I say our ballistae should just fire at their maximum firing rate once enemy units are in range. It's too late for the enemy to counter them, if they do not have a counter already ready.

Focus ballistae fire on the major towers.

>>14747775
"If they do not he is to aid the South Wall." you reply, looking at your own men as they fall into battle formations.

Sansa runs off, as a Daeseu approaches you "Two large towers north, one south. the opposite for regular towers. The west wall only has ladders to contend with. Would you like me to continue hunting for enemy infiltrators, though I expect none survived the Night of Thunder." he informs you, though you are more in shock that Wulfs battle already has a name then Daeseus efficiency.

>>14747933
Where does he think he can make best use of his talents? If he doesn't have a suggestion or doesn't want to volunteer for anything, he could guard the gate controls to the east gate.

>>14747933
"How good of a shot are you with a bow?"

Was Kyria able to produce any anti-magic arrows? Daeseu might be good as an anti-mage archer if we have any runed arrows available.

>>14747933
Urgh. I hope the other walls can hold... No doubt those large towers are filled with their best troops. Have Daeseu do whatever he thinks is best at the moment. Not really sure what else he could do if there are no infiltrators left.

"If the infiltrators are dealt with, wither go where your blades could be most useful, or grab a bow and some of the magic piercing arrows Sansa and Aurelius have and help with mages near the gates." you reply before turning back to the battle. The enemy line was approaching at a faster pace now. They were not singing this time, though they were creating their own thunder, smashing their shields down their lines, one battalion at a time, and offset. The effect offset by men falling as they step on caltrops.

>>14748103
I assume nothing is in range of our elementalism so there's not much we can do about that. Ranged units open fire when they get within range. Also Pax, any sighting on their air units?

rolled 7 = 7

Let's give these fuckers our OWN song! Degnarian battle hym, go!

Also, test roll.

rolled 38 = 38

Considering that we aren't in range for elementalism on the towers, let us concentrate on preparing a solid elementalism hit on the lead tower.

focus on getting an area before the lead tower ready to be turned into a giant earth spike/pillar.

Elementalism concentration roll, i guess

You almost begin to pace as the enemy force continues to advance. Boulders begin smashing into the walls, and pots of lit oil sail over it. "Lighting to their thunder..." one of the soldiers near you quips, almost sounding impressed.

"As we march east to man the walls..." you begin, shouting so loud you feel you may go hoarse. Your men take up the song, smashing their own weapons against their shields to set the beat, as the sound of marching feet is not available. Bolts begin raining into the foremost enemy units, though clever use of shields is lowering the amount of men falling to caltrops. The steel armor of the advancing sergeants boots simply crushing them for the archers behind them.

>>14748331
Deploy Laelith to the northern section of the East Wall, right behind the 196th.
As for Justinian and Sansa, in the southern corner by the 454th.

Also, will this concentration check >>14748272 count?

>>14748331
>if your waiting for them to be closer just post an action and I'll skip time to when their close enough for it...

rolled 27 = 27

>>14748331

Wait until the lead tower reaches our concentrated area and then launch a giant earth pillar up into one half of it, hopefully flipping it without needing to defeat the enchantments likely on it.

elementalism

>>14748463
Well, that works for me. Let's start making some stone sculptures.

>>14748463
Wouldn't opening a pit under part of a siege tower be more likely to topple it?

You smash a fairly large pillar of stone up through the mud, skewering the right side of the center siege tower. It stops, and groans terribly loud, but dies not shatter. Quite unnerved your order for our soldiers to continue firing into the enemy soldiers. The Balista crews nervously adjusting their aim, track locks on the batteries open, awaiting your command. A boulder crashes into the massive wood and stone front gate resounding increddibly loudly and sending some cracks through it. The noise is simply drowned out by the singing, false thunder, the rain on the city behind you. Already the battle is enveloped in madness, and you know that it will only go madder.

rolled 73 = 73

>>14748627
Elementalism roll.
Open a big pit right underneath one side of wheels of the nearest siege tower, so that it falls in and gets stuck.

rolled 29 = 29

Should I just give up rolling for tonight.

rolled 46 = 46

>>14748627

I say we show them just what degrian's machines can do.

Stop limiting their rate of fire and put anti-magic bolts into that northern HUGE tower.

Any ballista without anti-magic bolts is to target the enemy's heavier units.

Hopefully the mud will at least tire our foes.

Order heavy repeater crews to open fire, aimed fire, anti-magic ammo, on the still approaching large towers. Switch to conventional ammo when their shields go down.

Seconding the order to rapid fire. Let's give these fuckers something to consider.

>>14748807
We might want to start focusing on their armored sergeants soon though. Let's see what one round does on the tower and based on that, we might want to switch to their infantry.

>>14748899
Agreed.
We need to see if these towers are shielded, or just have pure mass as their primary defense.

>>14748803

Ammendment:

The southern Heavy Repeater buried under those legionaries should use anti-magic ammo on the lead southern HUGE tower. preferably striking the ramp/top levels.

>>14748928
Second.

You calmly signal for the repeaters to unleash their full fury, and are satisfied by the sight of a light magic shield flashing, only to explode prismaticly from the runes. The hail of bolts begins smashing into and against the tremendous tower, some bolts embedding in the thing. It groans, splinters and its outer layer... tears? You realize, much to your horror, that it is a grown, living thing, as you see the wood from some of the larger chips slowly growing back. The repeater battery crews notice this too, and begin to focus their fire on the wounded spots on the thing, and the holes and splinters do begin to become permanent, but it still does not look good to you.

"Life elementalists, powerful ones." one of the legionaires beside you quips, and you immediately notice his seemingly wooden forearm "I have no skills with energizing others. All of my talent is in line with those that caused those towers to grow." ha says, almost apologetically, though the small tangle of vines that extend from his arm, their tips looking extremely sharp, and moist of their own volition ease your momentary anger.

rolled 81 = 81

Elementalism on the bottom tower. Let's do what was suggested in >>14748670.

>>14748990
"Tell me soldier, what have you found that the vine can do. Can it steal the life of the wood around it? Rot it?"

rolled 29 = 29

>>14749020
... Maybe I shouldn't roll tonight.

rolled 95 = 95

>>14749051
I know your pain. The roller gives good rolls when they don't matter.

rolled 92 = 92

>>14748990
Hmm. No one else has anything to say? We might want to start cutting down the levies rather than the towers at this point. It looks like it'll need a ton of fire power and I don't know if we have enough to get it done. What do you guys think?

Can we have Laelith sear the open wounds of the living towers to prevent them from healing and allow our ballistas to be less focused in order to be effective?

rolled 72 = 72

Alright, it worked once before, so maybe we should try it again:
Elementalism Concentration Roll to help the next elementalism roll.

rolled 1 = 1

>>14749132
Damnit, are we going to have another streak of absurdly bad rolls?

>>14748990

steam-repeaters are to switch to normal bolts and start removing lines from the incoming levy formations.

Heavy repeater in the south to target the 2nd wave of enemy infantry if possible. levy units if not.

If the towers are shielded and self healing then maybe we should have our more mundane artilery focus on the levies.

>>14749147
.....

>>14749129
This, Laelith is in position, have her cauterize the wounds of that living tower.

>>14749152
Second.
All legionnaires to prepare to repel enemy infantry.

rolled 32 = 32

>command roll

You try to focus your elementalism, but another stone annihilating itself against the gate, and several smashing the wall near you, coupled with the intensely uncooperative muddy earth simply causes sloughs of mud to shift back into, and mostly cover the already nearly full pit in front of the northmost tower. Luckily, Laelith sets most of the western holes and divots in the tower ablaze, nearly countering the disaster of your attempt at elementalism. The archers continue to rain fire down on the enemy troops, their own still ineffectually firing on yours. The sounds of fire and panic rising from the city behind you, and the steel serenade already loudly sounding from the northern wall, it all pauses for a brief moment, as a brilliant yellow-white flash can be seen from the south wall. You turn to see one of the smaller towers at that tower simply gone, and a good portion missing from the grown tower as close to the wall as the ones bearing down on your face of the wall are. "When the enemies living tower reaches us, you and I will cut our way to the thing, and you will use your vine to rot and disease the thing." you instruct the man next to you, who nods and closes his eyes, focusing himself. Very soon, the enemy will be ascending the walls.

rolled 87 = 87

>>14749270
>>14749270
>Elementalism

rolled 48 = 48

>>14749270
One last elementalism roll before the towers reach us.
Try another pit to stop the advancing living tower.

>>14749283
Damnit, that doesn't count I hit submit before I remembered to set a target

rolled 58 = 58

>>14749270
Ah hell. 5 towers hitting the walls. We don't have enough men to stop this... Rolling combat.

Man we suck at defensive warfare.

rolled 33 = 33

>>14749270
Laelith should hit the smaller tower nearest her. Everyone else to prepare to repel the assault.

>command roll

rolled 42 = 42

>>14749270
Have the artillery at center wall focus its fire on the closest tower to the south. If that one can turn and continue to fore on that tower even once it reaches the wall it should do so.

Do we have any way to fire those small pots of oil we have into the interior of that living tower once it reaches the wall and opens up?

>>14749529

we have grenadier squads set up to do so

The levies hit the wall first, their ladders up and men scaling at a speed achievable only by uurlanthi soldiers. The smaller tower at the north edge of your wall is the first to contact. Laelith sets it ablaze just before its door drops, and men armed with longswords, shields and platemail come spilling out, impacting Gaius' well ordered ranks and seasoned soldiers. the fire in the tower grows as pots of blazing oil smash into the men and the tower. The dwarves of the 65th begin firing back at the elves atop the larger tower that is slowly lowering its ramp to the wall, still protected by the tatters of the arrow shield, though you know that that will not last for long.

On your edge of your section of wall, the levies strike seconds after you use your elementalism to stop the tower you have as until now left alone. It is barely clipped by the hole, though with its rear stuck the men are forced to get out to push and lift it out. The southern smaller tower is slowed to pivot to align with the section of wall it is moving to, and will be disgorging troops soon. Knowing that you will be very much stuck in the combat soon, you stay back, only fighting those levies that come to you, conserving your strength. Hell is coming, you know, it is only a manner of time.

>>14749578
Wish I'd realized that sooner so I could have specified in my command roll.

rolled 77 = 77

>>14749584
... I'm risking it. Elementalism. See if we can stop a tower in front of us from moving or if we're really lucky, cause them to tip.

rolled 2 = 2

>>14749617
And I'm done for the night. I'll stop screwing things up for us.

rolled 11 = 11

>>14749627
maybe we should use our botch so as not to waste that two?

>>14749657
I think we should. I can deal with a 30. Much more than a 77.

>>14749657
sounds good

>>14749657
And to finally stall that one tower?

rolled 54 = 54

>>14749584

Steam-repeater on the north tower:

SHRED THAT HUGE TOWER AT POINT BLANK.

make anyone climbing to the ramp section piss himself.

Command, right?

rolled 29 = 29

>>14749584
Laelith to intensify the fires she's started. Continue artillery barrage on the large towers that haven't reached the wall yet,

>Command roll

rolled 24 = 24

oh, and can we try to send a thought to Garagush? (spell check on the war god's name?)

It would be nice to know if he'd lend his strength to our men, should we ask for it as a favor?

Roll is for attempting telepathy with a god that hopefully is watching this battle...

rolled 73 = 73

>>14749695
God damn it

>>14749738
Don't do it yet. Save it for the final attack that will likely happen. Just use that as combat. Plus I'm sure he's watching.

>>14749738
Jesus why are we trying to suck Garagush's cock so much lately?

>>14749738
Wouldn't Raynha be more appropriate seeing as how we are protecting something? Though I'd rather not ask for favours.

rolled 72 = 72

Rolling to psych our self up for the coming battle to reach the tower. maybe identify an easy rout through the melee

>Combat prep roll

rolled 46 = 46

>>14749815

The northmost living tower drops its ramp finally, and the colorful chaos that is a group of uurlanthi knights spills forth. With stoic determination the legionnaires of the 196th receive them, while their flanks butcher levies and men at arms alike. The latter only being slaughtered as the tower that they rode to the wall was reduced to splinters by the fury of the balista battery that turned to fire into it. You notice Gauis squared off against a quartet of knights, all in like heraldry, brothers no doubt. You see Sasna and Kyria reposition the 65th rangers to fire into the men disgorged from the enemy soldiery as they leave their tower. Men at Arms again, the repeaters cause massive damage to the unit, though they continue to charge forth from the tower. You continue to slaughter levies, before you look back to Gaius.

The old legionnaire stands astride one of the brothers, a second limping back, a spear embedded deep in his right shoulder, Gaius only sporting a single cut to his face for the trouble. you are pleased to see that the center living tower is now stuck in its tracks, though you cannot hear anything from inside it over the chaotic roar of combat.

rolled 78 = 78

>>14749946
>elementalism

Fissures to drop the stationary tower backwards

rolled 1 = 1

Laelith to intensify and add to the fires she started. repeaters to fire on the stationary tower, which I think has a mage in it getting ready to wreck our shit.

>Command

rolled 82 = 82

Combat roll. Fight our way to the nearest tower, life elementalist in tow.

>>14750002
OH HELLYEAH!

>>14750002
Why couldn't my elementalism roll have done that

rolled 73 = 73

>>14749946

North steam repeater:

Shoot the living tower at the wall. Mulch it.

South repeater:

shoot the living tower that is about to hit the southern wall.

Heavy Repeater:

hit the small southern tower if possible (not sure if crew has fled or they have aim...

Command Roll

One the southern most ballistae fire into the southern most small tower. Collapse it before it can disgorge more troops.

Oh and where are our southern corpse-oil teams? Do you see a siege tower hitting our wall? Then light that shit on fire!!

>>14750002
>>14749969
Maybe we'll be lucky and the artillery fire combined with our somewhat lackluster elementalism will tip it over

>>14750096
Fuck, I knew I forgot to add something to my command roll.

Have our mangonel do *something*. What can they hit?

>>14749946
Good job Gaius. If we survive, extra medal for you.

"SPLINTER THEIR TOWERS! PUSH THEM BACK!! CUT YOUR RAGE UPON THEIR FLESH AND SHOW THEM WHAT THE LEGION IS CAPABLE OF!!!!!" you bellow out, your voice cutting above the roar of the battle. For a second, time seems to freeze, even the ramp of the last moving Living Tower as it drops in expectation of striking the wall seems frozen. Then, your maniple surges back towards the wall, carving a blood path through the uurlanthi soldiers accosting your city. You lead the elementalist through the levies, and straight into the blademasters that disgorged from the tower, their badges and blades split evenly, indicating two units. Mere feet from the tower, you find yourself stalled, and being pushed back towards the line, still slowly inching forwards from the surge, of Degnarian soldiery. A glance behind you inbetween fevered blocks shows the 65th still being charged, the front rank already readying their battleaxes, Sansa standing with them, knives drawn. To the north the dead knights number still grows, though a handful are too far from the maelstrom of blood and steel that is Gaius, though his armor is visibly rent in several non-vital places. Again you step back, again you are unable to get on the offensive against the elfs standing opposite you, grinning as he stabs his blade through the meat of your shield arm, toying with you.

>SKILL GAINED!
>Inspiring Cry: A roll of 25 or lower results in all friendly units going up one morale level and all foes going down one (orange is the lowest they will reach from this technique). In addition, all friendly units gain a 25% bonus to martial actions.

rolled 40 = 40

>>14750258
Combat Roll to slice through the opposition and get our life elementalist in range to bring the tower down.

rolled 5 = 5

Will the panda redeem himself? Combat roll.

Oh, that elf just stabbed us? Signal flare IN DA FACE.

>you're toyedn
shut up captcha

rolled 26 = 26

>>14750258
combat roll, hope this doesn't go horribly

>>14750295
Yeah... can we make this command roll? Can Justinian still use signal flare IN DA FACE?

rolled 17 = 17

>>14750258
Elementalism roll here
I WANT A SPIKE HITTING EVERY LADDER SO PRECISELY THAT THE LADDERS LITERALLY FUCKING FLIP OVER TOSSING EVERYONE ON THEM OFF

that or

SPIKES COMING OUT FROM UNDERNEATH THE RAMPS ON THE TOWERS MAKING AN IMPROPTU SPIKE WALL GOING THROUGH THE RAMP PREVENTING ANYONE GETTING THROUGH WITHOUT THEM BASICALLY SQUEEZING THROUGH A LESS THAN FOOT SPACE

hopefully all this yelling will get me something

>>14750313
In terms of actual commands, I think we should have the 76th and their battery focus on the men in the north if they can. Try to whittle down the guys hitting the northern part of the wall. Laelith torch those knights if she can and... I guess everyone do their thing with who they can hit.

rolled 66 = 66

>>14750325
apparently the dice gods respect caps. who knew?

>>14750258
Artillery crews can pick their own targets and fire at will at this point. have the 76th and their battery focus on the men in the north if they can. Try to whittle down the guys hitting the northern part of the wall. Laelith torch those knights if she can

>Command

Rear ranks of the 454th, help out the rangers, dammit! Don't let our ranged units get charged without at least flanking the charging unit.

rolled 42 = 42

>>14750343
Crap, stupid captcha

>missed command

rolled 58 = 58

>>14750325
whoops, well 34 isn't bad either, accidentally had 50 instead of 100 from a previous thread

>>14750342
nah, I was holding shift, for emphasis

You sidestep your foes downward slash, and sever the elfs sneering head from his body. You block a blow, and dodge another to pick the head up off the ground "WHY ARE THESE DOGS STILL ON OUR WALL??!?!!" you shout, your voice still slicing the clamor and insanity of warfare "PAINT THE WALL WITH THEIR BLOOD, SET OUT A FEAST FOR THE CARRION BIRDS!!!" you bellow, the rain cleaning your blade and armor, still driving. You then proceed to turn and hurl the severed head at the nearest elf, stunned, you are able to step up to cut him down, and between yourself and the elementalist you are able to reach the tower. Sansa cannons forward along with the rest of the front rank of the rangers, light infantry with battle-axes, they die, but are not slaughtered. Sansa is beautiful in her wrath, leaping and spinning, her entire body a weapon, expertly wielded against Uurlanth.

Another blademaster, most of them already spread evenly throughout the enemy forces at this section of wall, comes at you, bringing your focus back to yourself. Again you are unable to best the elf, though the man you escorted to the tower now has his plant arm grown into the Tower "A little-... longer..." he strugles out, his whisper of a voice barely audible to you over the sound of the battle. A blade drops on his growth of an arm, embedding itself in the thick fibrous appendage, even as it grows from the mans forearm, and up to his shoulder before your eyes. You kick the elf back and nearly over the edge of the wall, but are again accosted before you can kill the soldier. Instead you settle for trying to ruin the ladders on the wall. Spikes of stone slice out from the wall and nearly push and shatter the things, however, your aim is not quite enough to accomplish that. You hear the call for hammers, and know the respite is very temporary.

rolled 65 = 65

>>14750489
going to do command this time

rolled 25 = 25

>>14750489
Terrakinesis to create a whirling shield of stones to protect us and our life elementalist soldier.

rolled 19 = 19

>>14750489
elementalism roll, perhaps not trying to spike or lift the ramp off, how about sloughing off the part that the ramp is sitting on, effectively dropping the ramp instead of letting it sit on the wall. should be easier considering we are working /with/ gravity instead and just basically forming slanted lines on the ramparts so that they just slide off, the ramp along with it?

rolled 33 = 33

Combat roll. Protect our life elementalist. Try to knock a torch into the tower if we can.

rolled 27 = 27

>>14750489
If our elementalist needs time then we buy him time
>Combat

>>14750507
Actual orders:
Rear ranks of the 454th, assist the 91st!
Center-South repeater batter fire on the levies and sergeants.
South heavy repeater, increase elevation to 0 and fire over open sights against all Uurlanthi coming over the wall.

The North seems to be holding their own. No change in orders.

rolled 77 = 77

454th should use this respite to help the rangers.

All ranged units not already caught in melee should fire at will.

You throw up a rotating shield of stones around the life elementalist, as you throw yourself into the fray with a redoubled effort. Several more blademasters fall to you, as your men press hard against the levies stranded on the wall. A pary-thrust-kick allows you to see Sansa, who is now covered in both blood and soaked with rain now, standing victoriously over the last of the live men at arms, the unit smashed by a flank from a portion of the 454th legionary.

The rush of a pair of blademasters forces you to observe the battle on top of you more closely again. However, when the wood shifts to a sickly, flaking rotting green the man draws back the space that would be his left pectoral and shoulder now dominated by his Syptionus vine "done" he announces, as you see a trio of robed urlanthi stumble from the bottom of the tower, vomiting. Balista bolts knifing through the enemy formations, you suddenly become incredibly optimistic about this battle, all you have to do is survive it.

>>14750653
derp, map

rolled 65 = 65

"HONOR OR DEATH!"

combat roll

rolled 80 = 80

>>14750653
Let's make sure our elementalist remains safe and get off this rotting tower
>Combat

>>14750682
So glad you rolled before me

rolled 89 = 89

>>14750653

ARCHERS TARGET THE ROBED ONES!

command

rolled 6 = 6

>>14750653
Elementalism roll.
Earth spike to kill the enemy life elementalists before they can regroup or get away.

rolled 85 = 85

>>14750653
Tip the tower onto the enemy
>elementalism

>>14750715
>>14750720

Whoa, close one.

rolled 88 = 88

Have the 76th and 65th fire a volley of *fire* arrows into the rotting siege tower.

Command roll.

>>14750653
Laelith needs to amp up the fires around the knights in that tower. Punish them for still being in the tower.

>command

rolled 27 = 27

>>14750751
Let's see what you would have gotten...

As you backpedal with your life elementailst, you block a blow from a pusuing elf, and manage to skewer all three vomiting life elementalists. However, a trio of blows from the blademsater opens your sword arm. and right thigh through the armor, not deep, but enough that you are unable to get out any intelligible commands. As the enemy forces on the wall are whittled down to their elite, the sergeants begin to fall back to their lines. Realizing that victory is most likely yours, the exhaustion of your men begins to show. The archers mostly begin firing to deal with the elven archers atop the Living siege towers, clearly hoping to prevent any heavy objects from being dropped on the arrow shields keeping them from being taken to pieces in the night. The slaughter still continues, though the vigor of your soldiers is clearly flagging with rest now in sight.

rolled 26 = 26

>>14750803
command here
THE FINAL PUSH FOR NOW COMRADES!!!!

rolled 44 = 44

>>14750828
or something similar and to that affect, whatever you feel appropriate for that roll

rolled 90 = 90

>>14750803
Command Roll.
"Come on, men! One more push, and the drinks are on me!"

Have all repeaters begin firing on the retreating sergeants.
Archers and crossbowmen target the tops of the siege towers.
Legionnaires for one last push to throw the Uurlanthi off of our walls.

>>14750837
>>14750828
Okay....Good thing you rolled before I did.
Wanna roll elementalism for us too?

rolled 5 = 5

>>14750803
Earth spikes into the bottom of the sickened siege tower. hopefully to deny the men inside a means of escape.

Elementalism

rolled 8 = 8

>>14750848
and spoil my luck? no thanks......

rolled 65 = 65

*Fire* arrows into that rotting siege tower. Roast those blademasters alive.

Combat roll for fighting retreat to our troops.

>>14750828
>>14750858

I think this fight is over.

rolled 47 = 47

>>14750863
65, huh.
Since this is likely the last exchange, should we use our botch?

>>14750886
the battle isn't over until the enemy is completely out of our range.

Y'know, once this fight is over, since we're hurting for rations, I seem to recall boiled leather is edible, and we just got a rather large delivery of it.

>>14750938
Maybe, as emergency rations. We just need to last out another week and a half for reinforcements to arrive.

"FINISH THE JOB!!!" you shout, plunging your blade into the chest of the nearest elf. You immediately feel the retalitory blows, though your armor catches them, you know that you heard ribs give out. An arrow sprouts between the elf in questions eyes, and you turn to see Sansa standing, firing through the ranks and into the remaining Uurlanthi on the wall. The fighting continues apace, though most of the enemy sergants escape mostly unstcathed. Sighing relief, you move to cap off the battle by destroying the siege tower clinging dead and rotten to the wall. What surprises you, is when the stone spikes you put through its base cause it to... explode. Unfortunately, most of the men that could discern why the dead tree went up in a cloud of splinters and rot, taking a decent portion of your walls eastward face with it are already passed out. In fact, as the rain slows to a light patter, you realize that many of your healthy soldiers are simply opting to sleep on the wall. Not all that surprising when you see the moons shining through the comparatively thin rainclouds.

"We won the day." you observe, exhaustedly, to Sansa as she slides an arm around your armored waist.

"It was bloody all around." she tells you, glancing to the other walls, at the south Lena can be seen standing over a pair of Uurlanthi, the tatters of her robe barely containing her decency as she plods towards the barracks. To the north Seventus' second is ordering the High Commanders maniple about, the man himself being helped towards the medicae, covered in wounds.

>damn I'm beat, callin it here for the night.
>someone archive please
>I'll be back sunday at 10pmish server time (that Game of Thrones man, that Game of Thrones)
>if ya have any CQ/setting questions just e-mail me at paxcomquest@yahoo.com

>>14750923
I'm under the impression that we already used our botch.

At least our Uursan won't go hungry!

>>14750923
didn't we already use our botch?

>>14750938
We are not quite that desperate.


... Yet

I've been wondering, what the hell does that silver mark at the gate mean?

>>14750957
Damnation and Hellfire. We're going to need to get that wall fixed as soon as we get our ribs checked out.

>taking a decent portion of your walls eastward face with it

The explosion was bad enough to damaged the wall?

>>14750997
In the IRC, Pax said that the unexpected explosion was great enough to damage the wall.

Also, the session has been archived. Don't forget to vote.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/14746347/