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>>2096431

7th Kriegstrom Platoon
Comprised of the most well-armed and armoured troops, 7th Platoon offers the meanest, fiercest and, given the mortality rate, dumbest soldiers to be found in the Black Company. A more bizarre collection of fighting men and women has likely never been seen. Down-on-their-luck heroes with a magic swords and brooding pasts like Cairsun; escaped slaves with a penchant for magik like Nissar; disgruntled veterans of the Nuemunster Legions like Corporal ‘Jack’ Marcus; Scarred Wildborn ‘Smiles’ (because fighting is really all a Wildborn knows); aging Skald huscarls like Hirstun of Ligh that should have retired long ago. You even have a mute rotten undead warrior, ‘Mask’, which is one even you haven’t heard before. Nevermind the fekking Dragon.

They’re your men (and women). Mercenaries, that kill for money. Warriors, with the right degree of pride and stubbornness. Soldiers, that fight for the man next to them. You never wanted this position, deciding who dies where. Dark Father knows it’s only a matter of time before you get them all killed.

The Fallen
The annals record those who have died in the line of duty under your command. Those whom you have failed.

‘Auntie’ Goodkind. Throat ripped out by a Grenn wolfman during the storming of Kresden.

Pietre Verdun. Struck down from behind in the storming of Kresden. No one saw where the blow came from.

Unhappy Sam. Mauled to death by the Grenn during the storming of Kresden.

‘Snake’. Summarily executed for disobeying orders. Members of 7th Platoon refused to elaborate further.

‘White Bitch’ Tara. Slain in the defence of the 7th Platoon campsite by Neumunster ambushers during the Northern Offensive.

Twice-in-One-Day. Skewered by Neumunster swordsmen during Day One of the Siege of Kresden.

’Kid’. Hewn in twain by a Neumunster halberdier during Day One of the Siege of Kresden.

Regrets-the-Rain Struck by a holy weapon of the Chevalisse Paladin orders on Day Two of the Siege of Kresden.

Arlen Rivers. Thrown from the walls by a Chevalisse Paladin on Day Two of the Siege of Kresden.

Not sure about you, but I reckon this is the perfect theme for Prince trying to both win the battle and keep his men alive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVXTmav24Wk

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>>2096458

Recap

It all comes down to this. Or several days of 'this'. Every choice you’ve made, every success and every failure. It’s all led to you and the Company fighting to stave off the marshalled strength of the entire Free Alliance from the walls of some northern town while you wait for your dread employer, The Necromancer to relieve you with his fell host. Maybe you fekked up somewhere along the line, but for the life of you its impossible to figure out exactly where.

You lost men, brothers. Some you didn’t know too well, it’s the harsh reality of your position as an Officer. A battle is one thing, hours of movement and running around followed by minutes of terror and screaming. One way or another, it's all over soon enough most of the time. Humans weren't meant for sieges, days and days on end of the same pants-shitting terror knowing it will happen all over again tomorrow, if they live that long.

You thrive in this hell, you and people like Bad Hand. You feel better now than you did before the siege started. But your lads... they're only human, you wonder how many will survive this. If any of them will. The butcher's bill grows steeper every day and you still don't know your esteemed employer will bother to keep you among the living. This is a tough time for the Company, the most desperate of measures are being taken to last out another day. Last night you killed a insubordinate officer who defied your Captain, and you still don't know if you did the right thing.

Perhaps half the Company now wouldn’t mourn your death, and those in the 4th Infantry would gladly give you that final, fatal nudge over a line you’ve been dancing on for years. But everything you have done, it's all been for the Black Company… hasn't it? Has it instead all been for Captain Kiranova? You’ve begun to wonder whether you would do anything asked of you by the cold-hearted queen of ice you love so dearly, even against the interests of the Company.

Or maybe none of the above is true. Perhaps you’ve always liked killing, and any moral hand-wringing done after the fact has been to assuage your own dark inclinations. You’re not just an officer, a cynic, a tired veteran of fighting for coin. You are a monster. But perhaps a monster is what the Black Company needs right now.

>>2096471
Slight delay, sorry lads. 1 hour until next post is up.

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In the meantime:

It is now firmly established that Lieutenant 'Prince' belongs to the Captain.
>Do you, as a player, regret this?

>>2096527
Regrets are for people who don't enjoy this descent into madness and dark magic. We tried being a good man and that little piece of us died with Whitebitch and Kid.

>>2096527
Sort of backing >>2096560 but also I think tough situations are more interesting to play through anyway... so a definite
>no

>>2096527
What do you mean belong?
Belong as in we are loyal to her above the company no matter what? No.
Belong as in waifu? Probably.
Also, at what point did this group fall into another world? Before Croaker's time or what?

>>2096527
I do not regret this
Monsters stick together
Mybe if we had chocain a differnt path for him both skills and other things
Then mybe going for saint would have been it
Men dont fear men they fear monsters

>>2096527
No it isn't. I feel like he could refuse her in face of saving the company. I could even see him helping Saint in removing Kiranova from the equation if it meant a better future for the men.

>>2096659
Also love how we failed every flirt roll we had with her

>>2096670
Idk
We have done everything she has told us to do.
I mean she would had to be doing something that would distroy the company.
She asked as befor if we could take the money and run with the company but we said no

>>2096527
She's the captain, she gave an order and recieved insubordination during one of the most desperate, life threatening the company has had to deal with in a long time, if ever. We did our job, didn't enjoy it, didn't even completely disagree with the officer and I'm sad to see him go, but we have a job to do and Id rather have the men alive and hate us, rather then dead in a ditch because we were soft.

>>2096527
My only regret is that we failed to get the Captain and saint to love us.

>>2096793
We actually rejected the captain, at least technically, and saint isn't lost yet. She will be lewded anon, mark my words.

>>2096816
Dat dosnt mean it will be from us

>>2096816
We just turned down the job she was offering us

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>>2096823
You get the fuck out of here

Bros before hos, celibacy before degeneracy, etc. No need for lewds.

>>2096527
Yeah man, again. I think you're way off base on that.

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Very well said. I'm glad to see that generally the players opinion reflect my own on where Prince is at.

>>2096672
Flamboyant gestures always had a low chance of impressing her. Your work ethic (not only seizing Kresden but kicking the Free Alliance in the teeth while you were at it at the cost of your own face) did more to impress her than declarations of love or naming man-made lakes after her.

She shows affection to her favourite and most loyal tool, certainly. But love? Who knows.


>>2096627
I imagine the most easily justifiable time would be at the Many Deaths of the Black Company book, or far before during the initial world travelling. If it's the former, then the annals were lost to this segment. If it's the latter, this Black Company's history has evolved concurrently with the books.

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“SEVENTH KREIGSTROM PLATOON!” SGT Bad Hand roars, spittle flying past his ill-kept moustache, at the armoured figures milling around in the courtyard “ATTEN-SHUN!”

The armoured soles of 2 dozen of the hardest killers on the face of the earth stamp to attention in perfect unison. These are the men, women and everything else that Chevalisse and Neumunster mothers tell stories about to their children to make them behave. That Free Alliance enlisted men whisper about around the campfire and look into the darkness in fear.

You stand tall before them, an imposing figure with in your wicked Blackthorn Armour and Cloak of Command billowing behind you in the chilling early-winter breeze. Your face is a wreck, the scar enough to churn the stomach of any comely tavern wench. But your men don't want pretty, they want hard. Hard leaders for hard times.

“This is it, soldiers. Our backs to the walls, our lives at stake and the Company itself fighting to survive. But that is nothing new. The Company itself has a long and well earned reputation for being vicious and unpredictable. When necessary, we've even been our own Monsters. Black hearts. Cold Steel. Dark deeds.”

”BLACK HEARTS.” There is a thump as the 7th Kreigstrom chant. Fists against chestplates, scabbards against stone pavement.

[1/3]

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>>2096930
That Prince is dedicated to the Captain is beyond question, surely? Whether that equates to something approaching what they had in the past is up for debate.


>>2096939

”Sometimes we pretend to forget, but those words hold us to the truth. And every black decision, every cold slaughter, every dark deed done would be done again. Because every one was paid for, in the only coin we can never lose but always spend. The coin we pay with is not what we get from the Employer. The coin we pay in is loyalty. Loyalty backed by Cold Steel.”

”COLD STEEL.” Another thump. You see the odd head bob in agreement, a grunt of affirmation here and there. It’s the truth, rarely spoken but always acknowledged on some level. The Company is family, this is who you are.

”We’ve lost comrades. Friends. Family. Because that is what we are. The difference between the Black Company, what makes us a Family despite being a bunch of bastards who often dislike one another because we're all bastards, isn't that the Company always keeps its contracts. It isn't that we have our history written down, uniting the past members with the present. It's that the Company always pays back what it owes. The meanest, roughest, most unpleasant thug among you, probably myself out of everyone here since being in charge means I have to be just to keep the other real bastards in line - if I wasn't so pretty I wouldn't have any friends at all. But I trust every one of you with my back in a fight. We all do despite not being heroes or noble idealists. Dark Deeds.”

”DARK DEEDS.” *Thump*. You know some of these faces will be as cool and pale as the steel in their gauntlets by the end of today. Even as you speak with passion you didn’t know you had, you wonder at the cost.

[2/3]

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>>2096954
[3/3]

”And now, the Captain has asked for more than ever before. To pay the Brothers of the company in that coin of trust, to bear the cost no matter how high for us, so that the Company can not just survive but to do everything possible that we all survive with it. I know that what she asks will cost us all a lot, the dead should be allowed to rest. They should be, but for us they’ll fight. Once more. One last time for us. For you. We will all survive this together, the dead saving the living. Never forget that this is who we are. Once your name is in the annals, you are our brother one way or another. Eternally. Black Hearts. Cold Steel. Dark Deeds.”

“BLACK HEARTS. COLD STEEL. DARK DEEDS.” THUMP In unison.

“BLACK HEARTS. COLD STEEL. DARK DEEDS.” THUMP Again. You love your lads. Your family.

“BLACK HEARTS. COLD STEEL. DARK DEEDS.” THUMP By the Dark Father, you are home.

”Well?!? You heard the man, what are you fekking waiting for?!” Sergeant ‘Bad Hand’ Hadrien leers at the assembled chanting troops, flecks of spit flying and eyes bulging madly. “Breakfast was 10-fekking-minutes ago lads, get your lazy, bed-wetting arses to the fekking walls and TAKE SOME FEKKING HEADS!!!”

”HOH!” Murderous men, deadly dames, gruesome Gren. They’re practically running to the walls, black banner held high, as the Free Alliance trumpets sound the attack.

>2 Success. 7th Kriegstrom Platoon is now at [8/7] Discipline.

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The dead are dead. Let’s look to the living. [+1 Black Heart]
>1 Wall Section does not drop by 10DC. The cultists raise your casualties almost as soon as they fall.

No one else dies today. Not if I can help it. [+1 Secret Softy]
>The first instance that you suffer a lethal casualty Prince takes -5HP and the casualty is ignored. Single use, automatically goes off.

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>2 Success. 7th Kriegstrom Platoon is now at [8/7] Discipline.

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The dead are dead. Let’s look to the living. [+1 Black Heart]
>1 Wall Section does not drop by 10DC. The cultists raise your casualties almost as soon as they fall.

No one else dies today. Not if I can help it. [+1 Secret Softy]
>The first instance that you suffer a lethal casualty Prince takes -5HP and the casualty is ignored. Single use, automatically goes off.

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>>2096979
>>1 Wall Section does not drop by 10DC. The cultists raise your casualties almost as soon as they fall.
It's time for war.

>>2096979
>No one else dies today. Not if I can help it. [+1 Secret Softy]
>>The first instance that you suffer a lethal casualty Prince takes -5HP and the casualty is ignored. Single use, automatically goes of
Company man, through and through

>>2096979
>The first instance that you suffer a lethal casualty Prince takes -5HP and the casualty is ignored. Single use, automatically goes off.

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>>2096823
SON.

>>2096816
Saint path died with kid. +5 DC you say?

>>2096527
As others have pointed out, we turned down the Captain. We support her because she supports the company. If she ever turned on the company . . . .

But her actions, while harsh, are what is necessary. She has proven that she won't shirk from her obligation to save the ompany no matter the cost to herself. Nobody can think that what she does is easy for her, because the easy way was always an option. Instead she stands and takes the abuse of her own men and carries that weight of having to give orders that lesser men balk from.

She doesn't have the luxury of surviving and saying that what let her live wasn't what she wanted. Or even that she would rather die than do what had to be done. Because she isn't just responsible for herself, but for all the men of the company. Both living and dead.

The recent decision to have the fallen fight for us isn't the first such choice of ethical debate the company has made. It's not even the first she had had to make, because that's what command is.

The decision to abandon a cut off squad. To sacrifice one group holding a retreat. To send men to almost certainly doom to save others.

The troops have the luxury of almost never facing the truth of it directly. This time it's unavoidable as they face their fallen comrades once more. But for those in command, they face it directly all the time. At night when they wrestle with all the ways different choices could have turned out. With what they know after the battle that makes a mockery of the hopes they had. When seeing new squads formed from broken ones bond. When new troops fill old spots.

Why do they think we hate paperwork so much? Seeing the holes made from our failures written down in ink to be kept forever in the annals.

What the commander of the 4th did was right, but selfish. He knew there was only one response the Captain could give his insubordination. He robbed his platoon of their father, and weakened the company at a critical time because of HIS personal values.

Maybe we're a monster because we sacrificed our own values for the good of the Company. But we're the COMPANIES monster, us and the Captain, and all the other officers who make monstrous choices so that the rest live another day and get paid to do so.

I do think that the raised should get paid for their continued service by the way. A reminder that they aren't being used or were discarded after death, just that their service is still needed and that even in death the Company us family.

>>2096979
>No one else dies today. Not if I can help it. [+1 Secret Softy]
>>The first instance that you suffer a lethal casualty Prince takes -5HP and the casualty is ignored. Single use, automatically goes off.

Weren't we very nearly at the Black Heart threshold last time? Whatever that means...

>>2096979
No one else dies today. Not if I can help it. [+1 Secret Softy]
>The first instance that you suffer a lethal casualty Prince takes -5HP and the casualty is ignored. Single use, automatically goes off.

>>2096979
Yay my speech got used.

>>2096991
I see this as being told to Saint and the other officers afterwards. To remind them that they are called upon to be sometimes better, sometimes far worse, than those under their command.

They should love their lads and spend them sparingly, but spend them they shall when necessary to save the rest.

>>2096979
> Getting the Necromancer to raise Kid for real if we leave the Company to serve him

Why has this option not come up yet?

>>2097080
>Leaving the company
Anon you just answered your own question.

>>2096975
>No one else dies today. Not if I can help it. [+1 Secret Softy]

>>2097116
I said the choice should come up, not that we would ever take it.

Saint, on the other hand . . .

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>>2096986
>>2096990
>>2096992
>>2097003
>>2097117


No one else dies today. Not if I can help it. [+1 Secret Softy]
>The first instance that you suffer a lethal casualty Prince takes -5HP and the casualty is ignored. Single use, automatically goes off.

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The Big One, Day Four. Outside Kresden, In the Enemy Encampment

”Catapults ready!” The Master-Chief from the 2nd Imperial Engineer Corp bellows, the clanking of machinery and hollering of well-trained teams of men continue even as the masses of Free Alliance formations begin their advance on Kresden's walls.

As a universal standard, the Neumunster Engineer Corps are known to set up an entire battery of siege equipment in a matter of minutes. From the caravan to firing rubble at fortifications, the whole set up takes less than an hour at most. But with the giant, scaled terror in the sky every attempt to do so has resulted in broken equipment and burnt corpses. That changes today.

”We’re going to bag that dragon today. I fekking know it! Scaly Skewer, yessir.” The skinny Corporal cackles, giving the Ballista he is sitting on an affectionate pat. ”Reckon they’ll give me a fekkin’ bonus then, eh?”

The Elven Sniper does not respond immediately, his cool eyes scanning the skies.
”You are sure this contraption will penetrate its hide?”

”Hmph.” The Neumunster engineer grunts, as if personally offended at the slight against his machinery. ”Matilda here can handle ol’ lizard lips, don’t you worry. I’ve seen her shoot a Kalgarri War-Mount straight through the tusks and out the other side of the skull. You spot this dragon in time, then me and me boys will send 2 metres of Neumunster Imperial Splinter through his eye and right out ‘is arse!”


”I hope this is not typical human overconfidence.” Rolling their eyes is beneath the elves, but you can always hear it in their voice. ”For the moment of truth is upon us.”

The engineer’s eyes shoot wide open as he and the Ballista crew leaps to the ready, the shadow of Asgorga’s black wings blotting out the sun as he readies his dive.

”Load?”

”Ready!”

”Taut?”

”Ready!”

”Latch?”

”All yours boss.”

The Engineer Corporal can’t help but grin mockingly at the Elven marksmen, already ducking for cover, as he steadies his hand on the lever. ”One dragon kebab, coming up!”

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From the battlements above the Western Gate you watch as the Free Alliance marches
forward on a scale you haven't seen before. The Battle of Weylan river was a skirmish compared to this, a dress rehearsal. The devastation of Sarsburg was bigger, but at least the overwhelming numbers back then were on your side.

How are you supposed to survive this?

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Northern Section (The North Tower): STALWART
>DC 70
>Grisly Display +5DC
>Dead Heroes +5DC
>Attrition -10DC
A Neumunster Cohort from the III Legion assaults the North Tower!

North-Western Section (The North Wall): STALWART
>DC 70
>Attrition -10DC
>DC 60
A Neumunster Cohort from the V Legion assaults the North Wall!

Western Section (The Western Gate): STALWART
>DC 70
>Corpse Gate +5DC
>Attrition -10DC
>65 DC
A sacred band of Heigelen Guard lead a cohort of Neumunster V veterans through to the Western Gate!
>[Elite] 1 Auto-success

South-Western Section (The South Wall): STALWART
>DC 70
>Attrition -10DC
>60 DC
A sacred band of Heigelen Guard lead a cohort of Neumunster XI veterans against the ramparts of the South Wall!
>[Elite] 1 Auto-success


>I need 4 sets of rolls from anons. 2 sets of 3d100 and 2 sets of 2d100. No need to link them, first in best dressed etc. Since you’re rolling for the results of the Free Alliance, for once in this quest you will probably hope to roll high.

SO IT BEGINS.

Rolled 45, 18 = 63 (2d100)

>>2097248
Remove french

Rolled 91, 95 = 186 (2d100)

Hoping for a 100

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Rolled 42, 78, 13 = 133 (3d100)

>>2097248
Here comes the big one, kids.

>>2097262
>>2097266

Consider French removed , compadre

Rolled 35, 42, 50 = 127 (3d100)

>>2097248

>>2097266
You remember this is roll under?

>>2097282
You remember how to read greentext?

>>2097267
Wait nevermore I forgot this is rolling for the Good Guys.

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>>2097282
>he didn't read the greentext

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>>2097292
My rolls make sense in that context.

Man I hope Valen Quest runs tonight so I can really wallow in this feeling of failure.

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There is a cheer as the enemy siege equipment explodes in fire, flaming wreckage and pieces of timber and rope flying high as Asgorga wreaks absolute havoc. He pays special attention to one particular Ballista crew, hunting down each of the team and swallowing the unfortunate men whole. Asgorga holds up his front paw gingerly, a bolt sticks out of his foreleg. He spends more time than necessary venting his rage on the Neumunster Engineers, hunting them down long after the last piece of siege equipment is utterly destroyed.

>>2097262
West Gate

>>2097266
South Wall

>>2097267
North Tower

>>2097274
North Wall

Northern Section (The North Tower): COLLAPSING
North-Western Section (The North Wall): UNTENABLE
Western Section (The Western Gate): UNTENABLE
South-Western Section (The South Wall): STALWART

Uh oh.

Uh. Oh.

>>2097314
It's cool we prepared for this with a legless orphan.

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>>2097314

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>>2097314
>That should read:

South-Western Section (The South Wall): SECURE

The Neumunster march doggedly under bolt and arrow, over the corpses of their comrades that have made the same walk over the last couple of days as the stone battlements of Kresden loom over them. They carry on all the same, chanting the Neumunster anthem as ladders are raised and brave men clamber up.

Many die. But many more make it over onto the battlements, the Neumunster Legions have the manpower to spare.

The 7th Kreigstrom are already helping hold back the crack team of Heigelen Guard and their veteran support at the Corpse Gate. The 2nd Rangers, Ajiyimad and 4th Infantry are holding the line a the North Tower. If you can finish off the foe here, you may have time to redeploy and reinforce them. It will be a tougher fight, but the alternatives are risky.

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>Asgorga has been raring for bloodshed, he is not done yet. Fire the FLRE. Medium chance of success, medium risk of harm to Asgorga. [Experience]

>You knew that legless orphan would come in handy. Send in the Warmachine. Medium chance of success, medium risk of harm to Legless Jenny.

>Both. Both is good. High chance of success, high chance of harm coming to either Asgorga or Legless Jenny. [Courage]

> The men at the North Tower will hold. It will be a tough fight when you redeploy, but Legless Jenny and Asgorga can be held in reserve. [Elite]

>>2097314
Err. Have the 7th reinforce the North Wall.

Deploy legless orphan to Western Gate.

We may lose the walls, but we will make them pay dearly for it.

>>2097420
>>Asgorga has been raring for bloodshed, he is not done yet. Fire the FLRE. Medium chance of success, medium risk of harm to Asgorga. [Experience]

>>2097420
>You knew that legless orphan would come in handy. Send in the Warmachine. Medium chance of success, medium risk of harm to Legless Jenny.

>>2097425
>>2097420
Sorry. Sent before reading the last update.

7th keep holding the Western Gate. Don't move so that we get the bonus.

Send Asgorga to the North Wall.

Hold legless Jenny in reserve, but make sure she's ready to go if needed.

>>2097425
You are already engaged at the Western Gate, that is where the 7th started. Thankfully, that means the Heigelen won't get a numbers advantage.

>>2097420
That "high risk of harm" is that they're both at higher risk of harm? Or that they are both at equal risk of harm ND therefore a higher chance one will be hurt?

Of we send them both shouldn't it be less chance of harm as the enemy is split between them?

>>2097420
>>You knew that legless orphan would come in handy. Send in the Warmachine. Medium chance of success, medium risk of harm to Legless Jenny.
This is her time to shine

>>2097443
There is a higher chance of at least one of them being seriously hurt. But a bad roll could get both of them killed, certainly.

>>2097447
So the roll would be the same, but we would roll twice for both of them instead of just one?

>>2097458
Exactly. The roll for their injury will be separate from the roll for beating the enemy back.

>>2097420
>Both. Both is good. High chance of success, high chance of harm coming to either Asgorga or Legless Jenny. [Courage]

>>2097466
Decision made then. Get the bang for our buck.

>>2097420
2 for asgorga, 2 for Jenny, 1 for both!

Glad I could help.

Tie-breaker roll!
>DC 50
>Legless Jenny
>Asgorga

State your choice when you roll, first one to roll under gets their choice selected.

Rolled 3 (1d100)

>>2097505
Legless Jenny

Rolled 55 (1d100)

>>2097505
Both

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>>2097513
>Legless Jenny

”Trooper Jenny!” You bellow at the Warmachine in reserve as the Heigelen Guard start hacking at the Western Gate. With their Moonlight Blades it won’t last long.

”Yes Miste- I mean Sir!” The garbled voice emanating from the Albani Warmachine, already sporting streaks of pink you see, sounds nervous.

”I want you take Princess over to the North Wall, and I want you to help our boys there push back the Legionnaries. I need you to smash anyone wearing not wearing our colours.” You pause, uncertain how someone her age will cope with basic orders. ”Jenny, do you understand? This is important.”

”Yessir, Mister, sir.” The Warmachine drones overeagerly, already turning to stomp that way. ”I won’t let you down, Mister Prince.”

You glance at CPL Saint to your side. It used to be sending children into harm’s way would earn her ire, but she only watches the Albani Warmachine trundle off to the North Wall with slight concern. You suppose your influence hasn’t really encouraged her nurturing tendencies.

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(1) Legless Jenny vs The 5th Neumunster Legion
>Medium DC 60

0 = The North Wall has fallen. The fighting spills into the streets as the Free Alliance senses victory.
1 = North Wall Collapsing. Unfortunately, an Albani Warmachine can do a lot of damage to a structure even unintentionally. The North Wall can never be Stalwart.
2 = North Wall Secure. Unfortunately, an Albani Warmachine can do a lot of damage to a structure even unintentionally. The North Wall can never be Stalwart.
3 = North Wall Stalwart. Legless Jenny earns a page of her own in the annals. [Bonus to further Warmachine actions]
(2) Legless Jenny
>Medium DC 60

0 = Legless Jenny is slain. The Warmachine is in ruins. You got another child killed.
1 = Legless Jenny is seriously injured. The Warmachine is in ruins.
2 = Legless Jenny is fine. The Warmachine is operational.
3 = Legless Jenny is a natural. The Warmachine runs like a well-oiled… warmachine. Jenny finds out what 'the button' does. [Bonus to further Jenny actions]

I need 6 rolls of 1d100.

Albani-bots, transform and roll out.

Rolled 45 (1d100)

>>2097576

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>2097576

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>2097576

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>2097576
if another kid dies because of you motherfuckers sending them into combat I swear

>>2097612
You hypocritical motherfucker

>>2097612
Good god, man.

>>2097612
I still want those two other rolls. For reasons.

Rolled 23 (1d100)

>>2097576

>>2097612
This is your fault.

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>2097576

>>2097616
I don't suppose we could have our "no one else dies" kick in here to turn that 100 into a regular failure?

>>2097632
Unfortunately not, as Prince is on the western front that would not make much sense.

Two success + a crit-fail makes this very interesting.

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>>2097612
....Hate!

HATE!

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Prince will have to deal with the aftermath of this later. Legless Jenny is dead. If only.

The Big One, mid-morning Day Four. The Western Gate.

The gleaming moonlight blades of the Heigelen Guard carve through armour, flesh and bone alike. Chevalisse Paladins are renowned warriors individually, but these Heigelen fight as a unit. The wooden gates themselves prove to be almost no obstacle, carved to shreds. But the sheer number of corpses, debris and fighting bodies packed into the causeway means that the formation outside is reduced to a mad press of frantic shuffling bodies. But still, they’re winning. Undead skeletons, Yellow Dogs and Black Company brothers fall before their onslaught. If you’re going to attack and push them back, it has to be now.
Just as you get ready to give the order you hear female voice from the mess, hoarse and angry.

”Von Harti!” A Heigelen Guard steps out from the press, moonlight blade pointed in the direction of the Kreigstrom. Her helm has come undone, auburn hair matted over a cut on her forehead.

From Saint’s expression it’s clearly someone she recognises. Someone from her time before joining the Black Company. ”Ara…”

Saint draws her own sword, black mist churning from the hilt. Maybe it’s a trick of the eyes, but the blade itself seems to glow as if fresh from the forge.

When the red-haired Heigelen sees the blade in Saint’s hands she looks crestfallen rather than angry.

”Elia… So it is true.” The Heigelen’s expression changes, righteous fury belying the tears in her eyes. ”Traitor. Face me, Iscariot. It’s only right that I’m the one to put you down.”

Saint looks to you, the question obvious in her eyes.

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”Face your daemons, Corporal Saint. Bury them.” [Secret Softy] [Prince will face a random Heigelen foe]

”That’s a past life, Saint. Before the Company. She is mine.” [Black Heart] [Face Me! Prince will face Captain Ara von Ellisburg]

>>2097612
>>2097643
Don't leave just yet! You still have the chance to kill Saint. At least then nobody will make us feel bad for your roll killing another kid. Maybe you could taunt the RNGesus more first.

Really though this is war. People die. We aren't the good guys. This is like, the third kid we killed not counting all the orphans we let die at the beginning of the quest.

>>2097643
> ”That’s a past life, Saint. Before the Company. She is mine.” [Black Heart] [Face Me! Prince will face Captain Ara von Ellisburg]

Actually changing my vote. We don't deserve the softy.

>>2097634
We can't have her broken body brought to us so that we can spend our own life to heal her in a dark miracle?

Have her vengeful spirit bound to the war machine, after her body betrayed her with its weakness?

>>2097643
>”That’s a past life, Saint. Before the Company. She is mine.” [Black Heart] [Face Me! Prince will face Captain Ara von Ellisburg]
There's always been a bit of a soft spot for Saint
Make peace with the crit fails, anons. Relish the conflict that drives an interesting story.

>>2097660
>>2097653

Call me meta or whatever but our unlucky ass got another kid killed. We need to send Prince into as much danger as possible to repent for our demonic ways

>>2097660
Fuck that. Jew shit out of the GM like your last name is Cohen.

Besides.

Possessed war machine!

>>2097665
She's apparently not dead. "If only". So . . . A fate worse than death?

>>2097643
>”Face your daemons, Corporal Saint. Bury them.” [Secret Softy] [Prince will face a random Heigelen foe]

>>2097660
This quest has been hard since the start bud, whenever it was something important we rolled like shit, the only exception being the skald beatdown and dominating the dragon. There's fun twists, then there are constant fucking trash rolls. I've frankly stopped caring, but I feel the need to remind of the utter fucking cursed shitshow this quest has always been, and point to it as a mild justification for the few bits of powergaming we've done.

>>2096527
To basically honest she's the devil we know and is the better choice than the necromancer or whatever. I'm against her policies but we made our choice.

>>2097682
I'm fine with crits so long as we get to make hard choices to ameliorate what the extra bad outcome is when it's something like character death.

I mean I guess it's fine anyways. Not like I'll stop playing. At least Kids death was multiple shit rolls though.

>>2097643
>”Face your daemons, Corporal Saint. Bury them.” [Secret Softy] [Prince will face a random Heigelen foe]

>>2097643
>”That’s a past life, Saint. Before the Company. She is mine.” [Black Heart] [Face Me! Prince will face Captain Ara von Ellisburg]

>>2097643
>”Face your daemons, Corporal Saint. Bury them.” [Secret Softy] [Prince will face a random Heigelen foe]

>>2097643
>”That’s a past life, Saint. Before the Company. She is mine.” [Black Heart] [Face Me! Prince will face Captain Ara von Ellisburg]

>>2097643
>>”That’s a past life, Saint. Before the Company. She is mine.” [Black Heart] [Face Me! Prince will face Captain Ara von Ellisburg]
We don't fucking deserve softy after getting 2 children killed.

>>2097643
>”Face your daemons, Corporal Saint. Bury them.” [Secret Softy] [Prince will face a random Heigelen foe]

What do we say to the Black Heart, Prince? Not today!

>>2097749
3. We also sacrificed the child Emperor.

"I just wanted to have an adventure".

>>2097749
4 if you count our unborn child.

Honestly we probably deserve the title Childkiller.

>>2097643
>”Face your daemons, Corporal Saint. Bury them.” [Secret Softy] [Prince will face a random Heigelen foe]

>>2097643
> ”That’s a past life, Saint. Before the Company. She is mine.” [Black Heart] [Face Me! Prince will face Captain Ara von Ellisburg]

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>>2097760
Killing kids is easy modo though.

"Childkiller" doesn't impress anyone as far as badass titles go.

>>2097760
We're a very bad person indeed.

Black Heart takes it by a close margin.

All these people not wanting saint to have a moment
And not wanting to see how she fights argest an ex girlfriend ??

>>2097758
I'm surprised sacrificing the Emperor did not lock us into the Black Heart route.

>>2097777
He was a dick anyways
Nice quds

>>2097777
I'm surprised killing our and our Gods unborn child didn't do it either.

Arguably the Emperor was an enemy, and it was part of our contract, and for the good of our Company.

We killed our own blood and an innocent, betrayed the God whose powers we've benefitted from, and it did no good for the Company but merely filled our need for revenge.

>>2097789
I maintain my position that we did our child a favor by killing it.

1. White Bitch would have been a terrible single mother.

2. There is this horrible Necromancer that's taken over a large part of the continent.

3. The new Emperor would soon be dead, with no heir. So even if/when all the baddies are defeated, Neumuster is going to be in civil war mode for years.

The living will literally envy the dead.

>>2097794
Let me rebuttal by saying

> It would have been the avatar of the Dark Father

Besides White Birch showed that she was willing to do anything for her child. I don't think she would have been that bad of a mom.

Besides if a shitty life isn't worth living why haven't you killed yourself yet?

Way do you all wamt prince to have every vip kill?
Share that shit around

Test

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Sweet, we're back in business.

>>2097768
Indirectly through the plagued grain the number of waifs dead by your hands is quite high. It's keeping children alive that is the hard mode apparently.

>>2097777
It did lock out the Manifest Destiny route. The 'good' ending, esentially.

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You shake your head solemnly, donning your Blackthorn helm.

”That’s a past life, Saint. Before the Company. She is mine.”

”I know, sir.” Saint says with a sad smile. ”I had hoped to spare her from your attentions.”

The Heigelen Captain’s eyes flick your way as you step to the fore, your Kreigstrom slamming into the Heiegelen that had broken through all around you. ”Hiding behind your master? Add craven to your list of failings, Elia. Another thing I never expected from you. First him. Then you.”

Her stance is firm and steady, she is clearly equal or even superior to Saint in terms of pure fighting prowess.

”Heigelen Guard! There stands the Black Prince. Cold-Eye. Murderer of our Holy Emperor. Killer of Children. Poisoner of Peasants. Glory to the one who kills him!”

She has no idea how true that is. If you include the old Emperor, fed to Asgorga, you’ve actually got a double regicide under your belt.
>Stay back Saint: -1 Severity to Saint casualty rolls (given that she already has an NCO re-roll, this includes the +1 bonus the Heigelen Moonlight blades grant)

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> Lieutenant 'Prince' [20/25 HP]
vs
> Captain Ara von Ellisburg [25/25 HP]

(1)Attack
> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order
>Ajiyimad Pistol +30DC

(2)Stance
>>Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)
> Sidewinder Wingshark (+1 Damage, +5DC)
>Addled Left-Lane Mutt II (+10 DC, -6 damage received)

(3)Orders (-10DC to Personal Combat for every order used)
> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
> Forward you dogs! (Double discipline damage, take 1d3 casualties)
>His Blood For Mine (-15/25/35% HP to restore 1/2/3 previous casualties. Does not work on Gruesome Death)
>Call of the Night (Your opponent suffers -10DC in personal combat and battle progress as they are beset by bats, wolves or other creatures. This lasts for the entirety of the engagement. No other orders may be used this round.)

(4)Prince Abilities
>My Blood For His I, -15%HP, +10DC
> My Blood For His II, -25% HP, +30DC
>None

(5) Saint Abilities (select one)
>Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)
>Officer Material: (Prince gains a +1 Free Order) and (Once per battle: ignore a random casualty suffered this round)

>>2097815
>Pistol
>Carnotaur
>Call
>Blood 2
>Dark Disciple

Going for the one hit kill

>>2097815
> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order

>>Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)

>Call of the Night (Your opponent suffers -10DC in personal combat and battle progress as they are beset by bats, wolves or other creatures. This lasts for the entirety of the engagement. No other orders may be used this round.)

> Forward you dogs! (Double discipline damage, take 1d3 casualties)

>My Blood For His I, -15%HP, +10DC

>Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)

Time to show her the beast

>>2097815
>>Ajiyimad Pistol +30DC
>>Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)
>Call of the Night (Your opponent suffers -10DC in personal combat and battle progress as they are beset by bats, wolves or other creatures. This lasts for the entirety of the engagement. No other orders may be used this round.)
>>Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)

>>2097815
>Ajiyimad Pistol +30DC

>>Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)

> Forward you dogs! (Double discipline damage, take 1d3 casualties)

>Officer Material: (Prince gains a +1 Free Order) and (Once per battle: ignore a random casualty suffered this round)

>>2097822
>>2097820

Here I am trying to minimize casualties and fighting.

>>2097815
> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order
> Sidewinder Wingshark (+1 Damage, +5DC)
> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
>My Blood For His I, -15%HP, +10DC
>Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)
>Actually saving my shitty edit

>>2097815
>>2097826
I'll switch Forward to Call actually since it looks like we're using Dark Disciple.

I like using Officer Material to cancel out one of possibly three casualties from Forward but it doesn't look like it's happening.

>>2097828
People wpre going to get hit any ways

>>2097834
We get to stop one person from dieing anyways from the buff

>>2097815
Also can we correct her on the regicide? We really do deserve to be known for killing two kings, because it highlights the fact that we own a dragon they could only hold (barely).

It's not about who is right or wrong, we were simply better than their very best that ever was. That's why Saint doesn't need to fight her, because they would just be competing for second place anyways.

If she really wants, we could offer her a job too. After all her old employer is now literal Dragon shit.

>>2097844
Lt. Prince "Crownslayer"

>>2097815
>Ajiyimad Pistol +30DC
>>Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)
>Call of the Night (Your opponent suffers -10DC in personal combat and battle progress as they are beset by bats, wolves or other creatures. This lasts for the entirety of the engagement. No other orders may be used this round.)
>None
>Officer Material: (Prince gains a +1 Free Order) and (Once per battle: ignore a random casualty suffered this round)

>>2097851
>>2097832
If yall gonna vote for a free order, use it.

Stand Firm at least

>>2097850
Damocles.

>>2097851
>>2097858
Free order is Call of the Night?

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>>2097832
But it's beautiful. Too pure for Prince.

>Lieutenant ‘Prince’ [16/25 HP]
Clever II (+10), Elite II (+10), Courageous I (+5), Experience I (+5), Well-Equipped III (+15), Cloak of Command (+5), Ajiyimad Pistol (+30), Carnotaur Stance (+0) MBFH I (+10), Order (-10DC), = +80DC
*Leaping Carnotaur (x2 damage to enemy)
*Order: Call of the Night
*Dark Disciple: Boost to Call of the Night
*MBFH I (-4HP, +10DC)


>Saint-Captain Ara von Ellisburg [25/25 HP]
Veteran (+10), Elite II (+10), Well-Equipped V (+25), Courage (+5), Moonlight Blade (+5), Defensive Stance III (+15), To Me! (+40) Low rations (-5), Order (-10) = 95DC
*Defensive Stance III (reduce damage by 6, On DC 20 ignore all damage)
*Moonlight Blade: (enemy Armour Effectiveness halved after taking damage)
*Order: To Me! (+40DC, one round only)

>DC 35

>Captain Ara von Ellisburg activated To Me! [Single use] Platoon Combat is ignored for this round.

3 rolls of 1d100, lads and ladettes.
Time to Summon

Rolled 18 (1d100)

>>2097869

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>2097869

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>>2097870
>>2097873

Where were these rolls for Jenny? Truly, Prince does not deserve happiness.

>>2097876
we won't do much damge and we were looking at a 5dc without the pistol

Rolled 33 (1d100)

>>2097869
>>2097876
We had them, but someone nat 100 it.

Rolled 78 (1d100)

>>2097869

Rolled 29 (1d100)

Third

>>2097876
As much as i love how ahes this robot girl right now
I at frist wanted her to die
To keep up the lie we told saint

also using mbfh 1 is waste of time because of his blood for mine we are better bursting an enemy down and getting our health back

>>2097870
>>2097873
>>2097880
> passed a 35 DC but choked on Jenny

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>>2097876
It's okay.

Bad Hand will be there for us.

>>2097869
also I hope it hurts their force thowing men away like this kinda pissed me off that poster boy could spam forward you dogs with no ramifications

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>>2097892
It's a bit of an arse-pull, but the corpse gate bonus does come from the sheer amount of bodies they threw into that charnel house.

>>2097890
Don't jinx it.
>LT Prince inflicted 12 Damage!
>Prince Regen +1HP [17/25]
>Call of the Night Activated (Bonus from Dark Disciple) [-15DC to Enemy, will last the entire combat encounter]

A band of Heigelen Guard, those who have made it past the melee at the gate, rally around Captain von Ellisburg.

It is mid-morning, so the sun should be apparent even through the overcast clouds dropping flecks of snow. But it’s dark, or getting darker. The winter winds have arrived. Yet this cold that creeps now, between the legs of all the combatants at the western gate… it’s unnatural. A frosty mist that bites a the ankle and chills the bone.

Sensing some foul magik the Heigelen rush at you, Captain von Ellisburg at the front. A Heigelen comrade dives in front of her as you Ajiyimad pistol hits its mark, she leaps forward even as her dying comrade falls. You swat her aside as an adult would a toddler, the unnatural strength of your swing cracking bones and denting armour.

The power is flowing through you. You have felt this sensation time and time again, you’re beginning to like it. You have called and things have answered. Captain von Ellisburg and the other Heigelen Guard look up at you with sheer dread.

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I need votes for both A and B.


(A) Intimidation.

>”Foolish child. Run while you can.” [Experience]

>”I will grant you mercy. If you beg.” [Courage]

>”Witness true power.” [Elite]

>”If you’re going to accuse me of regicide, be accurate about it. It is two of your Emperors that I have had my hand in slaying.” [Clever]


(B) Combat.

> Lieutenant 'Prince' [17/25 HP]
vs
> Captain Ara von Ellisburg [13/25 HP]

(1)Attack
> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order


(2)Stance
>>Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)
> Sidewinder Wingshark (+1 Damage, +5DC)
>Addled Left-Lane Mutt II (+10 DC, -6 damage received)

(3)Orders (-10DC to Personal Combat for every order used)
> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
> Forward you dogs! (Double discipline damage, take 1d3 casualties)
>His Blood For Mine (-15/25/35% HP to restore 1/2/3 previous casualties. Does not work on Gruesome Death)

(4)Prince Abilities
>My Blood For His I, -15%HP, +10DC
> My Blood For His II, -25% HP, +30DC
>None

(5) Saint Abilities (select one)
>Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)
>Officer Material: (Prince gains a +1 Free Order) and (Once per battle: ignore a random casualty suffered this round)

>>2097929
>>”Foolish child. Run while you can.” [Experience]
> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order
> Sidewinder Wingshark (+1 Damage, +5DC)
> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
>Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)

>>2097929
>”If you’re going to accuse me of regicide, be accurate about it. It is two of your Emperors that I have had my hand in slaying.” [Clever]

> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order

> Forward you dogs! (Double discipline damage, take 1d3 casualties)

>Officer Material: (Prince gains a +1 Free Order) and (Once per battle: ignore a random casualty suffered this round)

>>2097929
>Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)

Forgot muh stance

>>2097929
>>”If you’re going to accuse me of regicide, be accurate about it. It is two of your Emperors that I have had my hand in slaying.” [Clever]
> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order
> Sidewinder Wingshark (+1 Damage, +5DC)
> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
>Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)

>>2097938
>>2097940

Also, with your layout you have two free orders. Unless you only mean to have Officer Material cancel out a casualty, regardless of the free order.

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>>2097929
>>”Witness true power.” [Elite]
> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order
>Addled Left-Lane Mutt II (+10 DC, -6 damage received)
> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
>My Blood For His I, -15%HP, +10DC
>Officer Material: (Prince gains a +1 Free Order) and (Once per battle: ignore a random casualty suffered this round)

>>2097942
Casualty canceling is my goal.

Unless I can say Stand Firm AND Forward.

>>2097797
My life is actually pretty good. Thanks for asking.

>>2097929
>(A) Write in: "You are going to die."
Said matter-of-factly, like someone saying, "it's going to rain".

>(B)
> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order
> Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)
> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
> Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)

>>2097945
They sound at odds, but yes you can so I will play it as that if it wins.

We'll justify that as a surge forward, then stand firm being used to stop any casualties affecting morale.

>>2097929
>>”Witness true power.” [Elite]
> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order
>>Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)
> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
>None
>Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)

>>2097954
I hold out faint hope.

>>2097954
Then again anyone notice our unit has yet to break discipline the whole game?

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Grabbing something to eat, be back in an hour max.

In the meantime continue voting on the above options as well as this one if you like.


Saint has changed under LT Prince's wing. She's harder, deadlier and more suitable to command now. But her hope and idealism, grating as it was, is well and truly gone.
>Do you regret the change in Saint? Do really you think it was for her own good?

>>2097929
>>>”Witness true power.” [Elite]
>> Sword of Sovereignty +5DC, 1 Free Order
>>>Leaping Carnotaur II (Double damage only applies to the enemy)
>> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
>> My Blood For His II, -25% HP, +30DC
>>Dark Disciple: (Boost Call of the Night & Black Prince abilities)

>>2097968
Yeah, I regret it. I was hoping she would be the moral person of our crew.

>>2097968
Well she's gonna have to kill a bunch of kids on her own some day, when we can't be around to do it for her.

Better than when she was pimping them for the nobility, even if she betrayed her oaths a second time by killing said nobility.

Honestly? She was weak before and her ideals did nothing for her other than give an excuse for her weakness. Otherwise she would have walked away. She might not feel better about it, but at least she's more productive now.

In conclusion we're a monster who breaks everything they touch and whose only path towards saving others is to make them as monstrous as ourself in return. So by that metric we've done a good job. We'll be well suited to survive in the tortured hellscape we've helped the necromancer tur the future into, together, in our twisted perversion of love and faith.

>>2097968
Bara Hand and Prince OTP anyways.

>>2097968
yeah I regret it but I don't know how we could of avoided it we are fighting the big one after succeeding all the pre battle bonus's and we are still getting messed up hard how much harder would it been if we were nicer

>>2097929
>”If you’re going to accuse me of regicide, be accurate about it. It is two of your Emperors that I have had my hand in slaying.” [Clever]

> Sidewinder Wingshark (+1 Damage, +5DC)

> Stand Firm! (Reduce Discipline damage taken by 1)
> Forward you dogs! (Double discipline damage, take 1d3 casualties)

>Officer Material: (Prince gains a +1 Free Order) and (Once per battle: ignore a random casualty suffered this round)

>>2097968
maybe but whats done is done and regardless theirs no stopping whatever road shes on now

succesor for prince you sya?

>>2097954
So what benefit does Dark Disciple actually give at this point if the vote wins?

it's cheaper on our hp to burst her down with a mbfh2 gain heal a bit the leaderless penalty of 40 then healing 1d3 causalities which will be 4 hp at minimum

>>2097989
*heal and gain a leaderless penalty of 40

> Legless Jenny dies

Sad, but topkek. Critical failures are a bitch, but between her and Asgorga...well, she was the lesser evil.

>>2097968

As a player, I do. Saint's life ever since she joined the Company has been one trauma after another - not unexpected, since good people aren't going to survive in the Black Company.

As Prince, I don't think he regrets that. Hell, at this point I'm fimrly sure Prince doesn't regret much, but he still has that glimmer of humanity that makes him feel sadness at the cruel actions he has to choose.

Honestly, had she been killed when we met her we would have done her a favor...but I think it's fine. A theme of this Quest has been "Much of what Prince touches turns to shit", and this is emblematic - he saved Saint to be a good person once, and in the end he broke her.

>>2097989
Not if we roll unrealistically well.

>>2097992
kek implying with our rolls were not going roll a 100 and die next round

>>2097992
we also have 6 other waves to face and that's if the walls hold doing keep using foward and it be us on our lonesome running back and forth it's honestly a shit skill especially with a dead kid

>>2097994
it will just be us*

also where was the vote for the black guard skill we got from hanging the leader of the 4th

>>2097994
> Implying we were meant to survive this.

>>2098000
I'd rather fall before my men honestly go all out to unbreakable(-hp) become a monster to keep them alive

>>2097968
Her hope and idealism was on borrowed time anyways. We just came along first.

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>>2097869

>>2098001
Let's be honest here. Anyone besides Saint and the Captain is expendable at this point.

>>2098036
implying they won't die in a saint led murder suicide

>>2098036
You mean anyone is expendable at this point.

>>2097968
Congrats on making this emotionally grueling final event.

Just like in a real siege, I am now less concerned with the failures and focused on just lasting through the end with single minded determination.

Kill 'em all, we can't really have any more survivors guilt.

>>2098036
yeah no

the necromancer may be thinking that considering he may of fucked off and considers all of us here expendable but prince has never thought that truthfully

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>>2098050
Everyone is expendable.

>>2098036
> implying Saint is that valuable

But seriously, of course everyone is expendable at the end of the day. On the other hand, not all goals require sacrifices, so let's try not to go FULL EDGE here, mkay?

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Mixed feelings about Saint I see, but in a good way.

>>2098024
Saved haha

>>2098036
Even Bad Hand?

>>2097983
Promotions!

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As it is, I forgot to roll for Defensive III bonus. If Captain Ara rolls under 20 she will still be at full HP, all other factors should remain the same.

>>2098074
Expendable =/= suicidal

I mean.

Everyone fights though. So everyone might die. Especially the kids. But hey some of us might make it through.

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>2098076
>Defensive Stance III
>DC 20

And of course I forgot the 6 ignored damage anyway.

Rolled 82 (1d100)

>>2098076
So you gonna roll?

>>2097989
Look it this. The bitch is a tank. Better to focus on breaking her squad so we can gang up on her.

Saint with the Backstabbing?

>>2097986
It continues the -5DC malus, as well as boosting black tongue and Black Prince abilities if players go down that route later on.

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>Lieutenant ‘Prince’ [17/25 HP]
Clever II (+10), Elite II (+10), Courageous I (+5), Experience I (+5), Well-Equipped III (+15), Cloak of Command (+5), Sword of Sovereignty (+5), Carnotaur Stance (+0), Order (+0) = +55DC
*Leaping Carnotaur (x2 damage to enemy)
*Order: Stand Firm
*Dark Disciple: Boost to Call of the Night


>Saint-Captain Ara von Ellisburg [19/25 HP]
Veteran (+10), Elite II (+10), Well-Equipped V (+25), Courage (+5), Moonlight Blade (+5), Defensive Stance III (+15), Low rations (-5) Call of the Night (-15) = 95DC
*Defensive Stance III (reduce damage by 6, On DC 20 ignore all damage)
*Moonlight Blade: (enemy Armour Effectiveness halved after taking damage)

>DC 50


[8/7 Discipline]
Fight: (Veterans +10, Well-Equipped +5, Black Banner +10, Cloak of Command +5, Steel Brothers +10, Saint Nightblade +5) = +40DC
*Fearsome Reputation: Automatically inflict 1 Discipline Damage
*Stand Firm!: -1 Discipline Damage received

[7/7 Discipline]
Fight: (Veterans +10, Well-Equipped IV +20, Courage +5, Moonlight Blades +5, Sacred Band +10, Low-Rations -5, Call of the Night -15) = +30DC
*Imperial Champions (Always counts as having the Stand Firm order)
*Moonlight Blades +1 to Casualty Severity
>DC 60

You know the drill gents. 6 rolls of 1d100.

Time for things that go bump in the night.

>>2098082
BLACK PRINCE OR DEATH!

Speaking of which, did you decide which will be the Tier 4 Upgrades availabe to Prince (if he survives that long, that is)?

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>2098083
errr we go

Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>2098083

Rolled 74 (1d100)

>>2098083

>>2098083
that well equipped bonus on those soldiers wew

>>2098083

Rolled 92 (1d100)

>>2098083

Rolled 91 (1d100)

>>2098083

>>2098083
What effect did our intimidation have?

Rolled 86 (1d100)

>>2098083

>>2098084
It is looking unlikely that Prince will retain his humanity at this point.

There will be a moment of truth sometime soon.

>>2098093
>>2098091
>>2098088
>>2098087
soo this is how we die

Fuck, why did the we get the Bargain Bin Paladin instead of this monster?

Power of faith is bullshit.

>>2098091
>>2098093
>>2098097
...guess we'll have to pray to the Dark Father now.

this is honestly crap we sell our soul, poison their food bring night terrors to bare, and we barley their DC whats the point for feck sake

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>>2098094
It was dependent on whether or not you won the next personal combat round. Which you did.

But it seems that the Heigelen unit stands strong, perhaps the creatures that you summoned weren't choosy.

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3 rolls of 1d23. Followed by 1d6+1 linked to the casualty deciding roll.

1) SGT 'Bad Hand' Hadrien:
2) CPL 'Jack' Marcus:
3) CPL Hirstun of Ligh:
4) CPL 'Saint':
5) LCPL Lerrek Jurgennsen:
6) LCPL 'Murder' Meriam:
7) Knight-Taskmaster Cairsun The Morning Light:
8) Knight-of-the-Line 'Mask':
9) Trooper Nissar Belhamun:
10) Trooper Caroline 'Joker' Schuster:
11) Trooper Vendis Durvano:
12) Trooper 'Smiles':
13) Trooper Godric 'Golden':
14) Trooper 'Crackfoot':
15) Trooper Olly Hasselholf:
16) Trooper Oliver Hasselholf:
17) Trooper Harper:
18) Trooper Lokrey 'Brittle': .
19) Trooper Utred Horst:
20) Trooper Hans Rusti:
21) Trooper 'Pelt' Untergrenn:
22) LCPL 'Hard' Hida:
23) Knight-of-the-Line 'Spitfire' Spicario:

Rolled 14 (1d23)

>>2098106

Rolled 14 (1d23)

>>2098106
Good thing we chose to mitigate those casualties oh wait.

>>2098105
Those rolls wouldn't have worked against a half-arsed Neumunster cohort if we're being honest.

>>2098108
hey atleast we didn't foward you dogs and add 1d3 to this

Rolled 21 (1d23)

>>2098106
Fucking repeats

>>2098108
Discarded, please re-roll.

Rolled 4 (1d23)

>>2098106

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Rolled 1 + 1 (1d6 + 1)

>>2098107
>Come in here late
>Jenny's dead, everything's going to hell

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>>2098114

Rolled 2 + 1 (1d6 + 1)

>>2098112
>>2098106
Good by p

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>>2098114
aww hell

>>2098116
Good thing she has that reroll no?

>>2098110
yeah it just perturbs how shit we are without all the stuff we brought to bare take away the horrible shit we did saints sword and call of the night and the food we are looking at a 25 dc

>>2098119
She also has -1 to the injury due to the Black Heart choice earlier on.

>>2098119
just get her to a healable level with his blood for mine

>>2098121
35*

>>2098123
> Nobody cares about the puppers

Hey what's the severity of the d6 again?

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>>2098121
The Heigelen are the best of the best in the entire Neumunster Empire. You, a band of mercenaries, are going toe to toe with them and coming out ahead (on paper).

Just wait until pic related

>>2098124
If she dies there's nobody left to make us feel bad about Jenny though.

And we can capture and mind break this Ara monster.

>>2098128
3 is 30/30 chance of bleed out or maimed I think

>>2098130
Fuck them. We'll use the FLRE for that.

Because you deserve to have to cry too. The war machines weren't enough.

1 = Just a Scratch
2 = Walking Wounded
3 = Grievous Injury (25% bleed out, 25% Maimed)
4 = Mortal Blow (40% bleed out, 40% Maimed)
5 = Death
6 = Gruesome Death (-1d6 Battle DC)

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Still waiting on Saint's injury. Since anon is too chicken I will take the first one to link and roll.

These don't stack by the way, bleed and maimed are two separate rolls.

Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>2098135
I think it's a straight d6, right?

Rolled 1 (1d6)

>>2098135
rollin

>>2098138
we can heal that thats a 5

>>2098138
Man fuck you

>>2098138
Excellent.

>3
>-1 Stay Back bonus
>2

Walking wounded. Saint will be back in the fight tomorrow.

What are you, some kind of madman?

>>2098143
Sorry, I meant to say.

Saint get her NCO re-roll. Do you wish to use that? You have to stick with the second roll if you do.

>>2098130
The Black Company is scary not because they're the most well equipped (though some of them are ridiculously well armed and armored indeed) or the most magically powerful (though it has a reputation for attracting the extremely resourceful and creative in that vein) or that it has some kind of fiat protection from their enemies granted by a deity watching over them (just the opposite, really).

It's the willingness to use every means available to them, overturning every stone around them for the scant advantage it might present to them over their enemies, and withholding nothing in all the right order at just the right time to secure a victory, putting neither pride nor vanity ahead of survival and securing their contract just one more day to see just one more pay.

It is disheartening for the prideful, the elite and the advantaged to lose the day against mercenaries who all know they might not survive to spend their money, that indeed, sometimes the end of empires or civilizations hinged entirely on the clinking sound of coin upon coin echoing through the annals of history.

The Black Company is horrifying not for what they stand for or what they're capable of, but because they are capable of everything for, relative to other people's value systems, absolutely nothing.

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>>2098143
man she really will be a spiritual successor to prince once the company is done here

Rolled 2 (1d6)

>>2098144
Yes let's use it. Do or die.

Rolled 59 (1d100)

Looks like anon is wisely hedging his bets.

Rolling to see if Captain Ara deflects Prince's assault.
>DC 20

>>2098145
What? They're known to be hard bastards that are tricky as fuck.

We personally have a fucking DRAGON.

And a bunch of dudes empowered by a dead god.

Their main point is that no matter what, they stick to their contract. They don't break. They'll run if they can without breaking their contract, and they won't spill a drop of blood outside that contract though.

There's plenty more depraved bands than us running around. What makes the Black Company so dangerous is that they have a ridiculously strong set of values and conduct but that it's warped and twisted to serve a singular purpose.

In addition to be hard and sneaky fuckers with combat experience going back centuries thanks to the annals allowing them to change tactics and create situations their enemies are unable to respond to.

Plus being giant pieces of shit.

>>2098145
>The day the Black Company crushed your armies and destroyed your empire might have been the most important day of your life.
>For my employer, it was a Tuesday.
>For me, it was payday.

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>>2098152
>Plus being giant pieces of shit.

Kek.

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The Siege of Kresden, Day 4. The Battle at the Western Gate.
>Heigelen Guard suffered 0 Discipline Damage! [7/7]
>Black Company suffered 2 Discipline Damage! [6/7]
>LT Prince inflicted 0 Damage!
>Prince regen +1 [18/25]
>Captain Elia von Ellisburg lost the Courage trait
>Trooper ‘Crackfoot’ is Walking Wounded!
>Corporal ‘Saint’ is Walking Wounded!
>Trooper ‘Pelt’ has suffered a Grievous Injury! (25% bleed out, 25% Maimed)

”If you’re going to accuse me of regicide, be accurate about it.” You say matter-of-factly, the Blackthorn armour and unnatural energies twisting your voice into a sinister growl. ”It is two of your Emperors that I have had my hand in slaying.”

Saint-Captain Ara von Ellisburg readies her stance again, surprisingly intact after you had struck her into the cobblestones. ”You take pride in that, Cold-Eye? Just like you preen yourself over the title Killer of Children?”

”Why would I take pride in the slaying of little mortals?” Your armoured helm cocks quizzically as a hundred glowing yellow eyes peer out from the mist behind you. ”Children die easy enough.”

You extend a black armoured forearm out, as if to clutch the puny Captain’s skull in your grip and crush it with one hand. ”Now, witness true power.”

At your voice creatures burst forward from the coiling mists. Ravenous wolves leap into the fray tearing at the back of armoured legs or loose hands, shrieking bats flutter around visors blocking vision, rats scurry between legs and trip up fighters and occasionally something drags an unfortunate soul screaming into the darkness.

But the creatures of the night are not picky with their prey, or you have not yet mastered your control over them. The Grenn Trooper Pelt snarls and yelps at a misty pack of wolves, his white fur matted with blood. Trooper Crackfoot switches from fighting face-to-face with a Heigelen Guard to suddenly unwittingly fighting back-to-back with one against a horde of rats and snakes attempting to swarm them.

”Traitor!” A Heigelen Guard leaps through the mist at Corporal Saint, moonlight blade held aloft. She spits him upon her Nightblade with practiced ease, but with his dying breath he presses a glowing hand on her forearms that sets her screaming in pain. Damning evidence if there ever was that she has fallen far from the proud holy warrior days of old. Now Saint is the very thing that she used to stand against.

[1/2]

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>>2098165


The red-haired Heigelen Captain swats frantically at the mist, making panicked swipes at the creatures in the dark. Her posture is admirable, keeping the baying things away and suffering not so much as a scratch. But she’s scared, a primal fear that you can… smell? No. Taste is the word.

”Wh-… stand and fight, coward!” The knightly lass’ voice shakes. ”Foul daemon! W-where are you?”

Your towering figure looms before her in the shadows, great blade held aloft and red-eyes glowing with vile malice. Whenever you use your power you feel taller, stronger. Larger than life itself. You stand more than a head over the holy warrior now.

”Right here, little Neumunster Knight.”

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”You fight well, mortal. I shall make use of you. OBEY.” [Black Heart] + [????]

”Foolish child. You should have run while you had the chance.” [Black Heart] + [Lost Heart -30DC kicks in immediately]

”Another mortal shackle broken. I dedicate this slaughter to the Dark Father.” [Black Heart] + [????]

”Your friend Elia would have wanted me to spare you. Run home, girl.” [Secret Softy] [Lost Heart -30DC kicks in next round]

As the plucky Captain has not been reduced to low health, all of these options will require a tough roll

>>2098166
> Your friend Elia would have wanted me to spare you. Run home, girl.” [Secret Softy] [Lost Heart -30DC kicks in next round]

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>>2098166
>”Foolish child. You should have run while you had the chance.” [Black Heart] + [Lost Heart -30DC kicks in immediately]

>>2098166

”You fight well, mortal. I shall make use of you. OBEY THE BLACK PRINCE."” [Black Heart] + [????]

>>2098166
Alright, almost every choice here fekking scares me.

But I can't honestly choose to spare her, that's simply not that IC for Prince at this point. I can't even remember the last time he spared a foe in single battle.

Just a question QM, the Lost Heart malus applies to Ara, yes?

>>2098172
If you hit the right degree of success Ara will be removed entirely. Lost Heart is meant to apply to the Heigelen.

As for IC, that's up to your discretion given the clear connection between this person and Saint's past.