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There are some loose ties, you dreamed of just yesterday.
>The whole matter of your name. Name is part of a dragon's power and you didn't go through naming ceremony. Highborn elves might know were an elder dragon could help you.
>An infernal dwarven engine, heart of mighty machines if you know how to pierce its secrets.
>The glowing arcanic dwarven fountain of the second floor. No clue what it could be used for.
>The matter of food. For now, you are all small and rats have decency coming back to fill your cellars. But how to ensure subsistance in the long run to four apex predators, five counting the griffin?
>The human late-teen girl you adopted, suffering from an head wound she never developped intellectually and emotionnally. You'll need time to mend her inner wounds.

Pastebins :
Character sheet : https://pastebin.com/yStUJtfH
Siblings sheet : https://pastebin.com/11Kh8vR9

You just came back to your hold; and have a little bit of time before the rat tide comes for you.
>Try to install the skaven's lighting canon and see if the humans can figure it out (High DC)
>Try to give the stronger archers the Jezzai gear and help them understand it (Lower DC as you've seen the rat using it)
>Heal your siblings and you before the incoming fight

>>5343554
>Try to give the stronger archers the Jezzai gear and help them understand it (Lower DC as you've seen the rat using it). Let Purple explain it. She is better with such contraptions than you are. Just help her along a bit

>>5343554
>Try to give the stronger archers the Jezzai gear and help them understand it (Lower DC as you've seen the rat using it)
>Ask Little Blue how much healing salves we have left. We have a few more hours to prepare for the army.

>>5343582
[Woops; haven't made a stockpile paste yet.
You still have 8 doses of balms after applying some to the flogged man to get him back to battle condition. However, Balm "just" ensure no infection and improve recovery speed of wound; they are not potions of healing]

>>5343583
Remind me what glasswalk does again, and how often can we use windshield? Did Green already try to use self healing?

>>5343594
>Glasswalk : Walk accross a mirror, crystal, glass or other translucide structure. (from the pastebin). Almost mana-free.
>Windshield : narratively use a little bit of mana; takes one "combat action" to raise. Auto success for yourself, barring crit fails. More success = ability to stop stronger projectiles, or protect close allies too.

>>5343571
>>5343582
[Locking that one.]
>Roll me 3d20. DC : 12 (partial application of Tinker trait for -2; -1 from first-experience of the weapon)
>In this quest, rolls are made mostly by players. 3 anon roll me 1d20. Double-rolling is allowed after 20 minutes

Rolled 14 (1d20)

>>5343677

Rolled 13 (1d20)

>>5343677

Rolled 10 (1d20)

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First thing you do upon reaching the hold is dropping the skaven's engine in the hold himself, near your lair, and refill your necklace with rocks for one airstrike.
Then, priority will be using the rat's gear against themselves.
In a last-minute attempt to increase your fighting capacities, you and your sister Purple attempt to teach the humans how to use the skaven's riffles.
>14,13 for DC 12 : Two successes
All archers try to shoot a couple round with the riffle on targets. Most are not way worst with the unknown technological device than their dear bows, training marksmenship since they are around eight year old.
However, two of your archers stand out being naturals. As accurate with the riffles than the bows, at targets higher distance. That won't make for month or years of training, but they are at least already used to ranged weapon fighting.
>Two of the archers have been promoted to Jezzai Sharpshooters (2d20 on a target each)
>Jezzai range: around twice the sling's; outrange the bows.
>Trait : Neophytes. -2 to rolls made with that weapon.
>Trait : snipers. Can point them to any unit in the army in range and try to get 'em, instead of random members of the pack

>Do you assign the last riffle to another archer (-4 to rolls) or leave him with his bow?

Ratmen are close. You can see their battle standards.
Lead by some form you still can't discern on top of a bell mounted on wheels, and the big rat you didn't fought nor meet lead his own elite force, made of big soldiers with a fur as black as night in your parent's cave.
There are two packs of sling-wielders, and one pack you didn't noticed before : weaklings, starving rats, merely standing up by themselves. Canon fodders.

On your side, you have 13 archers and 5 soldiers lead by the one named Hector. You also have four wounded wyrmlings and one griffon.

[time to explain how battles work : Each time one Regiment attack another, d100 are involved. Modificators are applied : 10 chaos warrior will have something like +35 against a single pack of rats.
Exact rules will be subject to fine tuning, but engaging with a second pack on the rear or the flank will grant advantages.
Pack can have a command group, made of a Champion, a Standard Bearer and a Musician.
Champion is the mightiest opponent of the pack, such as the Rat that fled the hold. Musicians help with the coordination of the army while Standard bearer increase moral. Standard bearer are hard to get down as another one can just pick up the flag.
Elite troops, such as your Jezzai Sharpshooters, will resolve their actions using d20. A key factor of the battle is Moral : Heavy damages on one pack will make them take a leadership test; a demoralized pack might flee the engagement]
>Roll Strategy for the battle plan (DC is 15 but clever write-in will decrease it)

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>5343838
>White will fly far up and out of range and begin his first bombing run on the more elite rats. It wont be really accurate but if we murder the stronger rats the slaves will break more easily. With a lucky shot we might be able to take out the Boss.
>Snipers try and gun for the Packlord
>Bowmen use your range and elevation advantage to pepper the enemy
>Hector hold the Entrance together with Green and Purple
>Blue keep in reserves to either help with remocing casualties from the frontline and treating them or using her breath

>Do not assign the last Rifle to another archer. That will only be a cause for disaster if the Thing explodes.

[forgot to say, Strategy is 3d20]

>>5343851
[It's been one hour; feel free to double-roll]

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>5343838

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>5343838
It looks like the skaven army is traveling through the base of the valley, using the natural terrain to reach us. We can take advantage of this by having little green use his Geomancy to harry the incoming army sith rockslide to kill them. Being green himself he should be well enough camouflaged from their snipers, and the rock slides he be more or less able to hit them since they're confined within the spaces of two valleys. Better yet, if Green is fast enough, he could cause an avalanche in front of the army, and behind or in the middle of it. That would briefly box the skaven army in, and cause them to slow down and force March through rough terrain, which would mean they can be picked off by our snipers as they're delayed, and they will have to abandon their war machines or else get sniped!

Give the last bowman the sniper. When the skaven army reaches normal ranges to utilize the bow, then all snipers can switch to bows.

Until the Skaven reaches Jezzai Sharpshooters range, Little White is to use divinitation to determine what the officers within the army looks like. The snipers are then told to target said officers for the purpose of damaging enemy morale and cohesion.

All Jezzai Sharpshooters are to continue firing their rifles until the skaven army reaches bow shooting range, to which they will then switch to rely on the bows which they are more proficient with.

For Hector he I'd to organize the snipers and bowmen to ensure group cohesion.

If we successfully box in a portion of the skaven army within the valley, or at least kill a bunch of their leaders to reduce group cohesion, all dragon siblings and griffin can go in for a synchronized dice attack with Little White at the fore front to tank all the sttacks utilizing wind Shield, then dump ALL his rocks on the enemies.

>>5343907
>hurray not death!

>>5343851
Maybe we can combine a bit of both plans? I dont know how long divinitation takes, but maybe Little While can do his rock bombing runs as Little Green boxes the enemy army in, or maybe something else?

Wait these guns explode? Ah who care.

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>Strategy : 20
A mix of common sense and divination magic bring you a clear vision of the beginning of the battle to come.
Sending forward the weaklings, the elite troops pack will walk behind their meatshield; both groups holding wooden ladder.
The slingshoters will open in arc on the west and east flank of the melee fighters. The west pack will use a rocky ridge as an impromptu coverage while the east pack will walk while out of range to position directly on the east of the hold.
The real menace remains the bell rider; your visions indicate magics such as turning the sling stones into unhealthy green things with a nasty smoky trail.
You see several path in your vision; one where you get shot down by the pellets and one where they fail to reach you thanks to your windshield; allowing full aerial supremacy only contested by the priest sickening arcana.
You also see the ridge collapsing, trapped by green's geomancy.

Good thing your vision indicated that.
>2 anons roll me 1d20 for green; DC 12 thanks to the crit revealing exact location to sapper
>Also, still waiting on tiebreak for giving or not the riffle

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>5343937
Sure lets give it to him. if it explodes in his hands i will have the last laugh. and it will be a good thing we saved our healing.

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5343937
Give rifle! If they get too close, he can switch to the bow.

Note to self: if we win ask humans how they preserve meat. Weather the humans like the idea or now, we gotta eat something, unless they want to give us their cattle and animals instead. They gotta show us how jerky is made, or we get a human to do that for us.

Come on Green. You got this.

>>5343945
>>5343951
>11 : Green, as usual, don't got this
Green goes and try to do his stuff. But the rat advancing and the scold of not taking risks deter him for taking a bit more risk and he instead comes back to hold the door with Purple
>Let's start the Battle plan. I'll need 3 anons to roll me 2d20. First couple are DC 16 (+1 to advantageous position, -2 from malus), last roller will have to beat DC 18. Those are the Sniper attempt on the slave pack, first in range, to get their command group down
>I'll also need a roll of 3d20 acrobatics for white

Rolled 6, 10 = 16 (2d20)

>>5343963

Rolled 3, 5 = 8 (2d20)

>>5343963

>>5343963
Has Green used his Tough ability yet to regenerate?
While the slingers are still out of range, could he instead take the time to make the terrain rough to slow down the army?

>>5343977
>Toughness : Yes he failed last thread
>could he instead take the time to make the terrain rough to slow down the army?
No, he was busy getting back after failing magic

>>5343964
>>5343971
Double-rolls allowed after 20 minutes

>>5343984
Silly brother being silly. His breath attack will work wonders in spaces like hallways since the AoE is almost as wide as it is long.

Rolled 2, 6 = 8 (2d20)

>>5343963

Rolled 1, 9, 10 = 20 (3d20)

>>5343963

>>5344000
Pain. Good ideas, bad RNG.

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You rise in the blue sky of that nice day. Everything will be fine. You are prepared, stockpiled and have a good plan
>>5343964
>>5343971
>>5343991
>Sniper attack : Failure, failure, failure
A few bolt beams from the mountain; raising dust in front of the marching column. It's ok, after all those shot could not have been taken with bows so you lost nothing while missing them right?
>>5344000
>1 : critical failure
Distracted by your cope, you get frontally hit by a sickening green thunderbolt. Falling like a rock amoung your cargo of stone you dropped too early under the shock, the world is fading to black.
But there is still a light between you and oblivion : your potent magic and your healer's heart.
>4 anons Roll 1d20 for healing; DC13.
If you fail, the quest might become really !!!FUN!!!

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>5344004
it burns me..... but the Dice Gods said fuck everyone and everything we hold dear.

>>5344008
well lets see if we fall to darkness right now.

Rolled 8 (1d20)

>>5344008

Rolled 9 (1d20)

>>5344008
i do wonder how good that Shaman rolled to Oneshot us or if that warplightning is just that powerful

Rolled 19 (1d20)

>>5344008

You're all welcome

>>5344039
>>5344038
Jesse Maria und Josef. Thank you very much man.

>>5344038
SUSPENSE!

>>5344008
What's the range of White's dragon breath if he practices his sniping skill?

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You gather your energy, trying to recover from the chest hit and the damage dealt to your organs.
>>5344009
>5 : Failure
But the pain is unbearable. You almost pass out when you hurt one of your rocks, losing the precious white mana.
You gather your power again and open your inner eye
>>5344015
>8 : Failure
But the sheer size of the task burn your hope like a twig. And you realize the hope was a metaphor for mana. It's not over yet; there is still some time and a bit of energy
>>5344028
>9 : Failure
The floor is half a second away, and your heart is almost stopped. You'll need a miracle to make it.
>>5344038
>Success
As a last gambit, you burn everything in reserve.
Mana to the last drop, muscular energy, power from your breath. A vigor fill you, enough to flap your wings to the fortress. Humans look really concerned. You must look at least half as pathetic as you feel.
>19 : You are stabilized, at 0 wound with 0 bad conditions. The almost-crit grant you the right to stay awake and lead the battle. I'd advice not getting wounded any more.
>New turn. Roll me :
>1d100+33 for archers. (+5 from high ground; +13 from the number of soldiers, +15 from troop quality bonus). Specify if you aim them at the weakings or the slingers on the roll post. Higher is better; require 50 to hit)
>3 times 2d20 for sniper. Specify target among slaves leader, sling leader or blackfur leader on the roll post.

[Last update of the night.
>>5344062
At least as much as riffles ;) ]

Rolled 61 + 33 (1d100 + 33)

>>5344073
Shoot. If we're about of breath attack energy, focus on strategy and using our insight to guide the archers and snipers. Get some of Little Blue salves to ease the pain.

Rolled 4, 20 = 24 (2d20)

>>5344073
Target the slingers. No fire support dor the rats.

The snipers should aim for the Slave Leader. If we kill the Slave Leader it will probably cause panic and if someone else takes over their attention will be divided.

We can wi. This fight by breaking the enemies morale. Wipping tvem out is probably not necessary

>>5344079
+1

Rolled 19, 14 = 33 (2d20)

>>5344073

Rolled 8, 6 = 14 (2d20)

>>5344073
Shoot a leader. Pray you get lucky.

Rolled 2, 16, 19 = 37 (3d20)

"Arrrcherrrs... At my worrrrd... Now!"
>>5344078
>94 : 8 victimes
A rain of strokes fall upon the slinger, before they can position. A little less than half the pack is pinned down on the hill.
>>5344079
>>5344082
>>5344088
>19,20 : 3 kills
Meanwhile, the snipers recalibrated their riffles and tried again. The champion and command leader fall at the same second. A second shot get the standard bearer down.
Both packs look heavily shaken
>Rolling for the general's diplomacy.
DC 11 for the first (15 -2 for the bell, -1 for the Champion, -1 for the Standard bearer);
DC 15 for the second (-2 for the bell, +2 for being shaken after leader get exterminated)

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>>5344514
>16,19 : double success
Even if both the pack looks shaken, the toll of the screaming bell coupled with orders barked from their leader hold them in place. After all, life is cheap among ratmen. Another slave picked up the slaves' standard and they resume their march onward. Meanwhile, slinger get ready to shoot at Archers.
>New turn. Roll me :
>1d100+26 for archers vs slings. (+5 from high ground, +5 from fortification; +1 from the number of soldiers, +15 from troop quality bonus).
Higher is better; require 50 to hit)
>3 times 2d20 for sniper. Specify target among slave Standard bearer, sling Command group, blackfur command group or the fighter leader on the roll post. Blackfur are harder to hit because of their meatshields.

Rolled 22 + 26 (1d100 + 26)

>>5344521
Is this +26 gimmic borrowed from WesternQM?

>>5344527
[Not at all]

Rolled 14, 5 = 19 (2d20)

>>5344521

>>5344527
Ouch.
>>5344529
I like it. Adds a lot of flavor. Personally think it looks better on d20 with small, varied numbers, tho.

>>5344540
[Last turn, you were shooting on walking troop. This time you are trading blows. Could you roll me 1d6 in addition?]

Rolled 19, 1 = 20 (2d20)

>>5344521
Second time

Go for the sling Command group

Rolled 3 (1d6)

>>5344548
sure

>>5344527
>>5344535
>>5344551
>>5344561
Alright; I still need 2d20 for the last sniper (the DC 18 one) to finish the turn.

Rolled 1, 15 = 16 (2d20)

>>5344521
Last Shot.

Slingers. He cant hit the Black Rats

Slingshoters are positioned, launching a hail of projectiles on the archers, which in turn answer with their owns.
>>5344527
>48 : one more down on your side than theirs
>>5344561
>3 : 3 humans down, 2 skavens
Some of your followers get hit by the stones. One ducked quickly under the rock, definitely saved by the makeshift fortifications you spent some time building.
>>5344535
14 : Success
>>5344551
19 : Failure
>>5344581
1,15 : Won't count that as a crit fail due to beating "normal" DC. Lucky you.
A coordinated wave of green beam fall upon the rats, killing their musician. Champion is still up; you're pretty sure standard switched hands at some point. Less than ten of them remains.
[Rolling for the slingers moral. DC : 15]

Rolled 17 (1d20)

>>5344587

Rolled 5, 2, 7 = 14 (3d20)

>>5344588
[Bravest rat warriors ever.]
The priest start incanting on his bell...

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>>5344590
...And a layer of green energy fell on the decimated slinger pack. The layer create a green aura around the musician, starts expanding, and is dissipated by the clean Jezzai shot.
>New turn. Everybody barring the priest is at bow range. Priest himself is at riffle range.
>Second slinger pack is positionned to open fire
>Rat slave will reach the walls next turn. They still carry ladders.
>Every pack is at reach of Ballistas. However ballistas are manned by your lancer.
>Griffin is still undeployed. The middle pack can be covered by both slinger packs and the priest. The west slinger pack and the priest are mutually covering each other. East slinger is on its own; but 20 rats hurling pebble are probably enough to get the mythical animal killed

>Write in targets of bowmen, riffles, ballistas

>>5344594
Bowmen: target their slingers so we can safely deploy the Griffin.
Riflemen: all focus fire on the bell priest guy. Hes very dangerous and is augmenting their army. We take him out, we dont have to deal with super charges up pebbles.
Ballistas: half target the priest, the other half focuses on the leaders.

If a good number of slingers are killed and the priest is dead, send out the Griffin to destroy the ladders and kill the slaves.

>>5344599
[You have 3 ballista, please clarify halves
Assuming shots on the east slinger pack?]

>>5344603
Bowmen are to target western pack since they're the ones closest to the priest.
Sniper are to target priest. If the priest dies and we still have some queued up shots, target the champion.
I forgot ballistas dont have the sniper ability. Ballistas fire at the the ladder carry group. I assume when next turn arrives that will mean the ladders are set up and they will begin ascending, which would mean we our archers and Lancers would have to deal with melee combatants, which is bad.

If that is not the case, and when next turn rolls around the skaven slaves will only p r e p a r e to scale the walls with the ladders, the ballistas are to target the eastern slinger pack.

>>5344606
Supporting this

Dont forgrt that we can just habe the dragons breath down the ladders. The Slaves would be easy fodder there

Rolled 60 + 5 (1d100 + 5)

>>5344608
>>5344606
Allright.
>1d100+26 for archers vs West slings. (+5 from high ground, +5 from fortification; +1 from the relative number of soldiers, +15 from troop quality bonus).
>3d20 for ballistas against weaklings
>3 times 2d20 for Snipers
[Personnally rolling for the east pack. You hope for a low roll]

>>5344629
[The -5 get turned into a +5; result is 55]

Rolled 59 + 26 (1d100 + 26)

>>5344629

>>5344638
[As every other player look on holidays, feel free to double roll every 15 minutes]

Rolled 10, 19, 13 = 42 (3d20)

>>5344629


>>5344668
Sorry about the long wait. I was in a meeting for thr last couple of hours... and eating company provided food

Rolled 18 (1d20)

>>5344629

>>5344679
[You are required 2d20 per sniper squad, roll a second one please]

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>5344685
Ah sorry. Posting while at work is a bit difficult.

Rolled 8, 9 = 17 (2d20)

>>5344629
,go for the Slave Command Squad or if that is gone for the Shaman

Rolled 9, 17 = 26 (2d20)

>>5344629
Kill them all. But especially the Shaman.

Rolled 15 (1d20)

>>5344692
[Slave doesn't really have a command squad anymore. They have still a standard bearer.]
>Rolling for the slave's morale. Hope for low.

>>5344696
wow... those slaves are pretty morale friendly...... or more accurately they are probably more scared of the ones behind them than the dragons and Humans in front of them.

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>>5344694
>17 for sniper squad shooting on siege weapon (DC-1)
A green beam hit the bell. The nearby slingers turn around, waiting for a command
>5344679
>18 : Success
And spectate the monstruously muscular bell ringer getting a clean shot, falling from the dreaded platform, while the priest hold for dear life.
>>5344638
>Archers attack : 85
Inattention cost them life. Staying up idle, they make easy targets for your archers.
>Congratulation, you cleaned the west slinger pack

>5344629
However, the other slinger pack takes opportunity to shoot your own archers. They have quick reflex, and hide behind the fortification just in time, except two slowest ones.
Attrition is starting to wear them down, and so many enemy remains.
>8 archers still in fighting condition.

>>5344677
>Ballista shot : 19
In the same time, three heavy spears fly from the ballista. One of them fly over the head of both packs while the other is sidestepped and buries itself.
The sidestepping, and overall lack of coherence of the leaderless pack, lead to bickering over tail stomping. Distracted, the last bolt hit the heart of the weaklings'pack.
Ladder carriers are aligned by nature, after all. So is the trajectory of the bolt, empalling four of them in a nice Shish-Kebab as would say the Khans of the Ogres tribes.

>>5344696
>Leadership : success
Alas, more scared of the blackfur behind them than the human, they press forward and lay down two ladder, the third one getting picked by other troops.
The first rats are climbing them.

Rolled 19, 8, 14 = 41 (3d20)

>>5344734
[Woops.
DC +1 for the priest as he's lightly stressed]

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>>5344742
A green glow linger on the slave pack, giving their weapons an eldritch taint.
Battle status :
>West slinger got exterminated
>East slinger alive and shooting
>Priest war machine suffered two wounds
>Slaves lack command group. They are under the cover of the mountain so shooting them will give up the fortification bonus of the archers. Plus, they have a weapon buff.
>Blackfur is in full health.
>Priest is at bow range. Everybody is at bow range.
The current plan is :
>Deploy Green and Purple on the raised ladders to breath on the weaklings
>Do you support them with your fighters? Or are they still manning ballista? If on ballista, who are they targetting?
>Who is the bow targetting
>Who is the sniper targetting?
>Deploy Griffon? Where?

>>5344749
>Deploy Green and Purple on the raised ladders to breath on the weaklings
>Support them with two ballista Crews. One on either side to push the Skaven back down.
>Last Ballista shoots at the Bell
>Snipers target the Priest and his Bell
>Bows target the last standing slingers.
>Griffon screams. Maybe we can intimidate the Skaven Slaves into running away. Keep close to the backline just in case any skaven Break through we will need to push them back but not expose ourselves yet.

>>5344749
>>5344755
Alright, we'll go with that plan.
>Roll for me :
>3d20 for Green's breath
>5d20 for Purple's breath
>1d20 for Hector's Ballista shot
>6d20 for snipers
>1d100+13 for bowmen
>1d20 for Griffon

Rolled 13, 3, 2 = 18 (3d20)

>>5344827
For the Green Ones Wind

>>5344827
do we get some reduced DC because the Skaven are on a very narrow Path that they can not really stray from if they want to advance?

>>5344843
[Fair point. DC are 10/15/20]

Rolled 14, 5, 15, 18, 1 = 53 (5d20)

>>5344827
Purple has a lot of breath skill....... wow. 5 Dice.

>>5344852
[4dice + 1 for the lancer's help]

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>5344827
I believe in Hector.... to at least nit destroy the Ballista

Rolled 1, 9, 4, 3, 18, 7 = 42 (6d20)

>>5344827

Rolled 30 + 13 (1d100 + 13)

>>5344827
Rolling for bowmen. Got a moment free at work to catch up.

Rolled 1 (1d20)

>>5344827
So will this be an opposed check with Griffon Roll VS best of Rat General Roll?

>>5344916
uffff...... Face Palm....... this will panic the humans will it not....

>>5344916
And you though a screech would be a good idea?

>>5344923
I thought it might help break their morale. They might have expected the Dragons and Griffons to kill each other. Realizing that not one set of young Apex Predators but an Adult Griffon were residing in here peacefully with each other might have helped break their morale.

And be honest what else could the Griffon do here? Not try anything?

>>5344927
It's a fucking Griffin. It could attack, and the enemies make their own morale checks to determine if they fail or not if we kill enough of their leaders.

>>5344937
>It could attack,

And get shot down by several dozen Stones to the Face.

But the Plan is set now. We can send it out later if nothing goes wrong to majorly.

To be honest i would have liked to have this discussion hours ago when it was still relevant. I could have used some more input.

>>5344943
I was asleep then. Well if anything I dont see why our Lancers can just kick the ladders over.

>>5344984
[For the same reason ladder were historically used : it's freaking hard to push one down. To do so, you'll need to push it at more than 90°; and assaulters were not retards and put them around 1.5 meters away from the wall so defender need to push 3 meters. Some specialized tools exist for that purpose but you don't have any of that available.]

>>5345042
Do they have some form of spikes or Anchors at the top that stop them from just being pushed to the side to topple over?
>>5344984

Otherwise we might have to grab the ladder with a dragon that then jumps out and away from the battlements to drag the ladder with them and then just continue flying after we dealt with most of their archers

>>5345042
Just dragon breath the ladders to destroy them and anyone climbing up.

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>>5344831
>13 : One. partial success
Green takes a deep breath and a rain of slashing death runs along the ladder. One of the slaves get literally cut in half. Alas, at the second he stops to get some air, an agile weakling runs on all four on the ladder, and step right on the second floor of the hold.
>Human reaction : 2
The lancer are frozen in fear. It's one thing training against straw dummies and scarecrows, real combat is always a trial the first time. A wooden pole don't strike back with a lethal intention, for example.

>>5344852
>14,15,18 : 3 success
On the east side of the fight, purple is luckier. Using her incredible accuracy, she spits an array of suppressing shots on the unlucky rats trying to climb. She waits until they're high enough to fall a fair distance before releasing the force bolts.
>Human reaction : 1
Meanwhile, the lancers supposed to help her are shaking. One even wet his pants.

>>5344876
>12
Hector, manning the Ballista, released a spear aimed at the rat priest. Shooting too high, it flies over the mighty opponent.

>Sniper squads :
>1, 9 : critical failure
>4, 3 : failure
>18, 7 : success
One of the sniper land another hit on the bell itself. The strange contraption seems on the verge of collapsing. The first sniper however had a technical issue...
>Roll 1d6 for misfire. Higher is less bad.
>>5344903
Bowmen and slings exchange projectiles again. One arrow strike true, but at the cost of two more archers.
The situation is dire. Welp, time for everybody to jump in the battle. You send a mental picture to the griffin, one of a dominating presence scaring all rats to their holes.
>>5344916
>1 : critical failure
The griffin is ridiculous in real life. A shriek ending in a strangle coughed, results of the ray wound suffered a few hours earlier. Wound clearly visible and bleeding a bit. The emotions of the rats are clear and submerge you.
Weaklings. Half-dead beast. A dozen monkeys still standing,
Your human fighters seems panicking.
"Onward, comrads. We must not fail, or this scoundrels will be the bane of our people!"
>roll 2d20 diplomacy for Hector to rally the lancers.

Rolled 2 (1d6)

>>5345104
BANG

Rolled 20, 6 = 26 (2d20)

>>5345104

>>5345122
Shot My Dick™

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>>5345122
>2 : Unusable weapon
You hear a sizzling sound, and no more light comes out of the skaven crystaline weapon. The wielder shrug, grab his bow, and join companions.
>>5345123
>20 : Critical
The spear-wielder doesn't seems much impressed by the speech. You're not sure they hear it.
"Well, time to do what I was learned to and lead by example"
Hector leaps forward and slash at the rat that made it to the top of the ladder. Properly cut in half, a second of silence spread over the battlefield while the corpses mangled part fell down.
>New turn. Current plan is :
>Green and Purple attack on the ladder themself
>Humans fighter try to spear eventual other ladders climber
>Bow fighter still dueling with slings
>Remaining snipers keep focusing the priest
>What do of the griffin?

I let you agree over the night, we'll resume the rolling tomorrow.

>>5345157
>Green, Blue, and Purple will try to destroy the ladders. Failing that they will join the fight.
>White will bellow commands from a vantage point and mentally communicate with the griffin, acting as extra eyes to ensure nothing backstabs it and it can dodge incoming attacks.
>White gauges if enough time has passed for him to recover his laser breath again.
>Human fighters and Hector defend everyone
>Bowmen keep attacking the slingers
>snipers target priest
>griffin just keep killing things.

>>5345157
Would it be possible for us to repair the destroyed golems in the future?

>>5345173
should the Griffin go after the Priest? Because plunging into an Infantry Unit with Halberds sounds like a good way to get skewered even with Dive Attack.

And to make sure that we can actually kill the Priest we only have two Snipers left.

>>5345262
[You don't know enough about runes and enchantment to answer that yet]

>>5345443
>>5345173
Taking this. Give me
>3d20 for green
>5d20 for purple
>3d20 for blue
>4d20 for snipers
>1d100+13 for archers
>3d20 for griffin

Rolled 4, 10, 1 = 15 (3d20)

>>5345501

>>5345173
>White gauges if enough time has passed for him to recover his laser breath again.
White is actively fighting to stay awake and not feint after the damage received. So, hard for him to do anything. Adrenaline is fueling your consciousness.

>>5345487
If kobolds do not exist in this universe, could we create or summon them then? Failing that, can we get those Slan lizard people to worship us?

Rolled 15, 6, 19, 9, 1 = 50 (5d20)

>>5345501
Here goes.
Hey wait where's White's roll? He not helping?

>>5345502
Fuck Green is not doing so hot

>>5345503
Oh. Tired babu.

>>5345507
>Kobolds :
Kinda. The dragon-featured skaven dragonslayer could be a lead.
>Get slan to worship :
Definitely feasible.

>>5345510
Cf.
>>5344073
>19 : You are stabilized, at 0 wound with 0 bad conditions. The almost-crit grant you the right to stay awake and lead the battle. I'd advice not getting wounded any more.

You are at 0HP/3HP; staying awake and commanding is a miracle itself.

Rolled 18, 14, 9 = 41 (3d20)

>>5345501
Blue

Rolled 2, 5, 6, 4 = 17 (4d20)

>>5345501
Snipers

[Feel free to double-roll for archers and griffin]

Rolled 1, 13, 2 = 16 (3d20)

>>5345501
Please a good roll

>>5345549
Oh come the fuck on......... why.... why.....

QM there is no bonus because the Priest was already getting shot at is there?

Rolled 6 + 13 (1d100 + 13)

>>5345544
ARCHERS DONT FUCK THIS UP I SWEAR ON THE OLD ONES!

>>5345554
>>5345555
Man this some bullshit. Why does RNG hate us?

[Thanks to the amazing rolls, give me 3d20 strategy]

Rolled 9, 6, 10 = 25 (3d20)

>>5345559
Oh RNJesus have mercy upon our poor plagued dragons

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>>5345561
He was not merciful

It seems I am too late to save the day, fuck.

Man win or lose, this battle had better been worth the EXP.

>>5345580
If worst comes to worst we grab the humans theiw them in the amulett, grab the chicks and ask that one of our siblings fly us out.

I would rather not become enslaved to the Skaven

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>>5345502
>Green : 10 for DC 10 thanks to the cutting property of breath. Success
>>5345508
>Purple : 15, 19 : two success
>Green and Purple's human scored double 1
>>5345519
>Blue : 18. One success
It was a bright idea targetting the ladders. Among the specific breath kinds of your siblings, Green's wind blade turns to be the most effective, splitting the ladder in the middle like Ogres' chopsticks.
Your sister's breath, although more controlled, are less effective and only manage to flip down the ladders. It will buy a little time, but not much more.
On the bright side, Purple's and Blue's ladder flipping have dealt some damages to the climbing rat. On green's side, they used the pole to slide down, unscathed.

>>5345549
>Sniper : Failure
>>5345549
>Griffin : Critical failure
You ordered troops to concentrate on the wizard. Sniper shots couldn't hit the fragilized bell's erratic movements nor its rider. And when the Griffin approached, he was repelled with the same kind of bolt you suffered moments earlier. She's still flying, but seems deeply hurt.
>>5345555
>Archers : 19.
On your ranged side, this time you suffered a lot. Six more archers are down, the only remaining are the girl champion and the sniper.

You take a bit of time to assess the situation.
>>5345561
>Strategy : 10
It's not over yet. Getting the leaders down, the rest of the army might reconsider... At least you have the option to flee.
>Flee! Flee for your life!
>Momma did not raise no quitter. Momma did not raise nothing, so maybe Pops did not raise no quitter?

>>5345584
>Momma did not raise no quitter. Momma did not raise nothing, so maybe Pops did not raise no quitter?

>"The wounded to me. If the worst happens we flee. And i will not leave you behind" Gather the humans in your amulett. At least those that might stand a chance surviving.
>Snipers target the Priest.
>Momma griffon. One more Attempt. We can just leave her nest behind.
>Green support the Griffon
>Blue and Purple scatter the Skaven slingers with your Breath

Just a preliminary plan. Anyone else any suggestions?

>>5345592
I am >>5345582
My internet my phone just lost all intrrnet for no reason

>>5345584
>Momma did not raise no quitter. Momma did not raise nothing, so maybe Pops did not raise no quitter?
Mom can fuck off, dad was the only role model we needed.

>>5345592
Gonna add onto this. If all the skaven that are on the second floor have been killed, all able bodied humans are to man the ballistas (only as many as needed) and focus fire all three ballistas on the bell. If the bell goes down, the snipers target the commander, else they will target the bell.
If the first or second ballista successfully destroys the bell, the third is to target the leader.

Also tell the Griffin parent to send their kids to us so we can carry them to safety as well if things go sideways.

Regarding our siblings, besides us our sisters are good sith ranged attacks. Little Green should be delegate to defending the second floor, and holding over water against more attempts to use ladders. His Dragons Breath only has a DC of 10 to kill and disable all ladders and their users. Which is really fucking good.

>>5345597
Oh right yeah. Definetly ammending my vote >>5345584
Instead of >>5345592
>Green support the Griffon

Make that
>Green destroy further ladders

>>5345597
And yeah. Dad was a real Role Model. If Mom shows up eventually we will have to collectively to go to hell and never return if she wants a pice of our pie that we are creating here

>>5345600
Tell mom to go to hell and never return*

>>5345600
Mom is or was the equivalent of a dad leaving to grab some smokes, then comes back ten years later then leaves again, or just never come back.
She better be packing heat if she comes around asking for a slice of our kingdom (if we succeed), because we ain't sharing.

>>5345592
>>5345597
[Mechanically, bell and priest share health pool]
>2 Sniper on priest (4d20)
>3 Lancers to ballista. First target : priest. If dead, report attack on slings (only reachable pack) (3d20)
>2 more lancers and Hector to help Green with defense of the ladders (2d20 for Green DC 10)
>Remaining archers on slings (1d100+7)
>Griffin on priest (3d20)
>sisters on slings (4d20 for purple, 2d20 for blue)

Rolled 17, 5, 16, 11 = 49 (4d20)

>>5345603
Might as well get this out of the way

Rolled 16, 7, 3 = 26 (3d20)

>>5345603
R-Rollan for Griffo

Rolled 1, 11 = 12 (2d20)

>>5345603
GO GET THEM HECTOR!

>>5345603
Snipers : >>5345605
Griffin : >>5345606
Remaining :
>3 Lancers to ballista. First target : priest. If dead, report attack on slings (only reachable pack) (3d20)
>2 more lancers and Hector to help Green with defense of the ladders (2d20 for Green DC 10)
>Remaining archers on slings (1d100+7)
>sisters on slings (4d20 for purple, 2d20 for blue)

>>5345608
HECTOR YOU CUNT HOW DID YOU JOB THAT!
HE better be taking some wounds instead of letting rats up. AT LEAST SOMEONE got a single success.

>>5345610
[You technically only rolled for green. Some skaven are making it to the platform; so we'll need 4d20 for Hector and his men. Feel free to dice hog this one.]

>>5345610
It might not have been Hector. There were teo other lancers with him.

So far he has been surprisingly capable.

Rolled 12, 13, 4, 17 = 46 (4d20)

>>5345611
>SCREEEEAAAAAMMMM!

Rolled 1, 4, 4 = 9 (3d20)

>>5345603
Lets go see what the Ballistas will do to the Slingers.... lets hope its good... for us.

>>5345613
So you got your wish. Hector got one of them.

>>5345619
I should just keep my mouth shut. Good lord. How many 1's can i roll today. My lack of playing DND is showing

Rolled 85 + 7 (1d100 + 7)

>>5345609
Archers? Hell's what are we gonna do with only 7 left?

>>5345609
We still need a 2d20 and 4d20, right?

>>5345632
Yeah 2d for Blue and 4d for Purple.

>>5345628
Apperantly a lot

>>5345628
[Nah; not 7 left. 2 archers. And the answer is : their goddamn best.]

>>5345636
If they some how pull a victory I say fuck it, reward then with something nice. Maybe make nicer bows or guns.

Rolled 14, 7 = 21 (2d20)

>>5345603
Okay.... Blue

Rolled 20, 3, 4, 11, 20 = 58 (5d20)

>>5345609
Doesnt purple roll 5d20 for breath attacks?

>>5345646
nope the fith was for the Help she had when holding the ladder.... Which is very sad i have to say... since that would be a beautiful double crit.

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>>5345646
MOTHERFUCK

Also, what are the rules on rolling multiple times by same IDs?
t. OtMmdELI

>>5345648
RNG! THEY TAUGHT US! MAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOPMAKEITSTOP!!!!!!!!!!

>>5345650
>rolls two 20s
>MAKE IT STOP
huh..?

>>5345649
its about fifteen to twenty Minutes wait between multiple rolls from the Same ID.

>>5345650
....... now they just need to fail a Morale Check. Because Skaven have notoriously High Morale as far as we know right now.

Rolled 3, 18, 2, 17, 18 = 58 (5d20)

>>5345605
>Snipers : 1 success
A well aligned shot. The cursed platform flinched and collapsed, the priest crushed under the weight of the bell he was riding in an ill-omen sound between the bell's "Doooong" and a tunnel collapsing.
>Griffin : one success
Her target out of sight, the mighty beast redirected her attention on the blackfur behind her. Easy prey, distracted by the loss of the general. One less to worry about.
Meanwhile, near you on the second floor, you crawl from fallen human to fallen human, putting them in the safety of your necklace. It's hard to know who will make it and who won't.
>>5345608
Green : 1 success
Green destroyed a second ladder, but two more are raised. A last one remains on the ground. Rats set foot again on the second level.
>>5345613
>Hector : 13. Human : 17. One success
The young knight bravely charge on the rats. The human, skilled with his blade, prevent the rat from progressing and is holding back two of them. His two companions, manning the second ladder, impaled and repelled one of the slaves.
>>5345619
> Ballista : critical failure
The scared human reorient the ballista from the fallen bell to the slingers. But one of them, his pants still wet from terror, released his bolt early. Way too early. One of the two soldier gets hit from behind, and fell among the rat, pinned to the ground.
"NOooooooo Joffrey!"
"What have I done what have I done what have I done what have I done"
>1 human dead, the one manning the ballista in mental breakdown

>>5345628
>Archers : 92 :
The two remaining archers lands arrow upon arrow on the slinger. They can shoot freely, undisturbed. The slingers, however, have multiple concerns preventing them from doing anything
>>5345644
>Blue : 14 for DC 13 (breath strong point is AOE) : 1 success
>Purple : 20; Counting that as two success [not counting the fifth die]
Dragons flying over their heads, hurling devastation. Purple sending force bolts, rats jumping out only to become prime targets for the two markswomen. One get surprised by Blue's breath width and collapse, inner organs reduced to a pulp.

>Rolling for morale check. 1d20 for the slaves, 3d20 for the blackfurs, 1d20 for the slingers

>>5345731
>Slaves won't climb the ladders until regrouped
>Blackfur and slings are undisturbed.

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>Validate plan :
Sniper's target?
2 lancers are manning the ballista, 1 is on breakdown, 1 is fighting the rats with Hector
Green is destroying ladders
Griffin is attacking blackfurs
Archers are fighting slings
Sister are fighting slings

Feel free to change orders/assignations

>>5345731
okay.... at least the Slaves broke. If we destroy the Ladders we can make sure that we are close to unassailable if the enemy has no more slings or magic.

>>5345752
Sniper Targets.
I assume the Blackfurs now do not really have their Meatshilds anymore so are normally vulnerable to Sniping their Command Squad now.

>So target their Command Squad with the last two Jezzais
>Blue continues fighting the Slingers to keep them disorganized
>Purple helps out the defenders on the Second Floor with her Breath Attack. SInce its a Magic MIssile it should help not just blow our own people away.

With Green destroying the ladders the rats hopefully will no longer be able to climb up to us and just leave since we then hold the range Advantage.

Anyone else any ideas?

>>5345758
i was thinking maybe instead of firing the Ballistae we just have the two fighters up in the front to murder the rats that got up there while green destroys the Ladders.

>>5345758
>Anyone else any ideas?
More rifles?

>>5345884
[I don't get your point at all... You are in the middle of a battle, the rifles were looted on all rifled unit, you break one and you lack humans able to wield them]

>>5345884
sadly one broke......

so we only have two left. WE have a Siege Engine... but yeah.....

>>5345890
shit did we dump the engine first before loading in the humans?

Please tell me we did..... no yes we should have since we had stones in the necklace that went wide when we got blasted from the Sky.

>>5345897
oh yeah my point >>5345884
We have no knowledge how to use it. So yeah. Rather not risk that one misfiring and exploding in our faces.

Maybe keep it as a last resort and fling the core into the blackfurs and use Dragonbreath to blow it up... hopefully.

>>5345752
White tries to use Pressence to calm down the panicked Lancer? Speech? Turn his fear and panic into hatred towards the skaven. If successful, 2 ballistas target the leader, and the other ballistic targets the black guards.
Snipers: if the ballistas succeed in targeting the last leader, switch to bows since those are safer, if not then keep using the rifles to target leaders.
Everything else is good.

So how many humans are dead, and how many are simply too wounded to fight?

>>5345758
I think we should keep our sisters focused on the slingers so ranged attacks dont kill us or the Griffin. If they prematurely finish their attack, then can then focus fire on black guards or any remaining rats on the second floor. That's my take.

>>5345897
I think we dumped the siege engine somewhere.

>>5345940
okay. sounds good. i was thinking that we might clear the upper ramparts from Skaven but you make a good point as well.

>>5345731
So yeah. QM.

>So target their Command Squad with the last two Jezzais
>Blue and purple continue fighting the Slingers to keep them disorganized
>White tries to use Pressence to calm down the panicked Lancer? Speech? Turn his fear and panic into hatred towards the skaven. If successful, 2 ballistas target the leader, and the other ballistic targets the black guards.
>Snipers: if the ballistas succeed in targeting the last leader, switch to bows since those are safer, if not then keep using the rifles to target leaders.

>>5345959
Looks good

[Nice plan. However the ballistas and bows cannot shoot immediately under the wall, where the slaves stay safe from projectile.
Sniper can shoot at blackfurs by climbing on third floor but being really exposed to slingshoters. Said slingshoters are a bit busy right now though.
The part where white tries to calm down the broken soldier is a nice find.]

>>5345988
okay.... then we fire the Ballistas at the Blackfurs and the Bows at the Slingers.

That should work as well.

>>5345988
So ballistas and bows cannot target the commander and the black furs because they are right next to the walls with the slaves? Then we can target whatever group is within their range.
Snipers are still expected to target leaders until leaders are dead, to which they will them switch to bows and arrows for safety reasons.

If all slingers are dead, and all skaven on the second floor are dead, all defenders (archers, lancers, snipers, Hector) are free to grab skaven corpses and YEET them over the edge for the purpose of killing the enemies with the corpses of their allies to break morale.

Next turn if White, Siblings, and griffin are free, would could try going for a group intimidation check. Just a suggestion.

>>5345994
+1

>>5345988
Obligatory humans must use racial slurs against rats.
>cheese munchers
>pox walking mutts
>inbreed rodent

>>5345752
>>5346000
>>5346000
Roll me :
>3d20 leadership for white
>4d20 for snipers on blackfurs
>2d20 breath for Green
>4d20 breath for Purple
>2d20 breath for Blue
>3d20 for Hector
>3d20 for Griffin
>1d100+27 for archers (15 quality, 5 High ground, 5 distracted opponents, 2 troop number)
Will deal with ballistas depending on the result of the earliest roll.
Double roll time set at 10 minutes so I can try to update once more before bed.

Rolled 17, 8, 11 = 36 (3d20)

>>5346035
Altight. Lets get this Show on the Road

Rolled 18, 17, 5, 16 = 56 (4d20)

Rolled 3, 6 = 9 (2d20)

>>5346035
Green.

>>5346046
wow... is his name cursed or something?

Rolled 13, 1, 16, 14 = 44 (4d20)

>>5346035

Purple

Rolled 15, 15 = 30 (2d20)

>>5346035
De blu!

>>5346056
Ddddduuuubbbsss!

Rolled 14, 14, 8 = 36 (3d20)

>>5346056
nice and with the AOE Breath as well

>>5346035
Hector.

>>5346059
Aww dang... lets hope it is enough to hold off a demoralized Skaven Slave

Rolled 9, 9, 2 = 20 (3d20)

>>5346035
Griffin

Rolled 96 + 27 (1d100 + 27)

>>5346035
ARCHERS!

>>5346080
WHOOOOOOO!
Those guys are shooting as if Belakor himself was after their souls. Why couldnt this have been our opening volley......

I should not complain. The opening was good aside from that magic Missile that took White out

Rolled 9, 1, 12 = 22 (3d20)

[Great rolls. My turn]

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>>5346038
You can not fight, but you can damn well talk. Specifically, to the trigger-happy mental meltdown monkey.
"Lisssten human. You'rrre not rrrresponsible. The rrrrats are..."
>>5346038
>17 : success
Lacing the words with image, the farmer get back to his senses
"Death to the pestilent rodents"
In the meantime, the snipers repositionned one the top of the heal.
>18,17,16
A coordinate salva takes out the second-in-command, atrocious rat with metal claws.
[Well, here goes the epic duel with Hector]
>>5346046
Green is overwhelmed by the ladders. Too much. Too many place require attention, not enough braincells. More rats start pouring on the top of the hold.
>>5346049
>>5346056
>16,15,15
>>5346080
>123
Meanwhile, death and desolation is laid on the slingers. After the devastating repeated attacks, an handful remains.
>>5346072
Nothing else have significant impact on the battlefloor.
>>5346091
[Leadership roll]
>Slaves : 9
>Blackfurs : 1
>Slinger : 12
Upon the death of their biggest, meanest warrior, the rat soldier probably coerced to fight turned around, dropped on all four, and are running away.
Slaves still downstairs, not pushed by bullies to stay in place follow. Slinger too.
>Critical failure of the not-insignificant regiment : they won't rally.
The battle is almost won. you only have to deal with the 6 poor slaves trapped with you.
>Roll 3d20 for Hector
>1d100+35 for lancers

What do you plan about the fleeing ones?
>Exterminate. All shall run and get them
>A couple arrow and dragon breath will be enough, no overextension
>everybody back inside as soon as possible to deal with wounded.

>>5346059
>>5346109
[Didn't write that one up... Hector held ground against rats already here; it's a new turn]

Rolled 18, 17, 2 = 37 (3d20)

>>5346109
Hector
>A couple arrow and dragon breath will be enough, no overextension
>Blue and Purple can chase them while Green helps mirdering the rats on the Battlements
>White releases the human soldiers and Blue can start trying to heal them before Shite passes out

>>5346118
Oh god. I meant just purple can chade them for a bit. Blue should help with the wounded.

Its too late to think

Rolled 40 + 35 (1d100 + 35)

>>5346109
>Exterminate. All shall run and get them
Green, Blue, and Purple will go out and kill all that flee. Prioritize the black guard as they have better gear and training, as by killing them will deprive the skaven of useful footsoldiers. Leave no survivors. Archers and ballistas are to target all that flee. Snipers are to abandon their weapons in favor of the reliable bows to aid in the killing.
The griffin will kill as much as it can.
Hector and the lancers will kill the slaves or force them to surrender. I dont know their morale is broken, so maybe make the slaves make a morale check. If they're useful they might live.
White uses presence to cow the skavens.

>>5346121
I JUST WANT TO KILL! But I agree that Blue should stay to heal while we pass out. At least have Green and Purple go out to maim the rats? Hector and the Lancers should be enough to defeat 6 rats.

>>5346109
Ammensing vote from>>5346118
To
>Green and purple go out to follow the rats together with Moma Griffon and murder them with their breaths and Claws. Pull back if they believe that they are overextending themselves. Though their wings will help them be faster and more mobile over the rough terrain
>Archers try to shoot as many Skaven down as they can but do not pursue them.
>White releases the wounded Soldiers from inside the Necklace
>Blue starts Treatment asap while Hector and Comapny clean up and start moving the wounded once we bandaged and provided emergency triage

>>5346159
Agreed, but siblings and griffins target remaining slingers before targeting black furs to ensure no ranged attacks can retaliate. They should all kill for as long as they think they can reasonably manage before coming back to rest.

Everyone is going to need some healing salve so we at least start the next day with +2 health, for White at least. If our siblings and the Griffin still has energy left today, they can go about collecting all the skaven corpses for looting, and bugging the humans on how to make jerky. Slings might sell for a bit in bump, but the bell and the wargear from the black guard is where the money is at. Same with their biggest guy who we killed.

The day tomorrow we'll need to ferry the dead back to town, but also maybe host a victory party to stabilize the morale of the humans. We could probably just use whatever money the skaven had on them, or just sell a few of their weapons. Easy.

>>5346203
I just hope that the Humans will be fine. I would guess that most have broken bones that we should be able to fix unless they have internal bleeding then only Helaing Magic will help them. At least they were not stabbed.

Also the one Chap with a Ballista Bolt in his Torso is not gonna survive

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>>5346118
>>5346140
>>5346159
>Hector : 17,18 : double success
Hector, feeling victory close but very little glory accumulated in the battle, is filled with determination. One swift blow, returning in a devastating arc, kills two of the rats.
>>5346140
>Pursuit/close : 75
The four other blackfurs are promptly dispatched, by arrows and spear thrust.
Your sisters finish off the slingers, while the griffin and humans have free targets running away.
>75% of the remaining troops have been killed.
>Survivors : 9 weaklings that scampered away.

Mustering your last force, you carry the burden of your necklace to various rooms, where you get the wounded humans on the various beds of the hold. You limp back to your lair, and succomb into torpor.
>2 anons roll me 1d11 for archers wound. [the biggest number is the number of archers that can be saved]

Rolled 9 (1d11)

>>5346792

Rolled 10 (1d11)

>>5346792
We'll save as many as we can. I hope we get to be heroes today.

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>>5346797
>>5346806
You sleep deep. But your consciousness still watch what's happening in your lair.
On your side, there are two immediate death : the poor sap suffering the friendly fire, and one of the archers hit by a stone in the temple. Other are still alive, most looking like they will make it.
>10 archers recovering.
>You have 9 balms. Using one balm one a human drastically increase the recovery chances.
>Balms can not be used on the dragons or griffin wound as they are internal, energetical-based
>Recovery of wound takes longer for non-draconic life forms.
>Assuming you will use all balms on archers, roll me 1d100+40 for the balmed human, and 1d100+10 for the unlucky one
>Your siblings, barely grazed, are scooping everything valuable back to the hold.
>Roll 1d100 for loot
The still-well human answered Purple's inquiry about creating jerky. As they have nothing better to do while their village pal recover, they help her set up smoker and work the ratmen meat. You feel their disgust, at the idea of eating anthropomorphs, eating rats, and mutilating corpses. A few of the vermin are left alive for the Griffin's cellar. There were some tensions around the impaled lancer's corpses, but human managed to unpin him and bring him in the hold's safety for carrying back to the village.

Rolled 65 + 40 (1d100 + 40)

>>5346839
Yeah we will use the Balms on the humans.

And once we recovered some we can use Healing Magic.

Rolled 30 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>5346839
All balms on humans.
White should inform them that they should look at it from our point of view. If they cows and they ate grass, and the grass talked back to you, how would you feel?
Skaven are mostly impolite jerks, but we eat them more out of necessity. Not unless there's a magic bread farm. Speaking of ask them if there is a way of rehydrating meat so we can combine meat with bread? Absolutely revolutionary!

>>5346855
Aight. I propose White sticks to light duties and naturally heals, but uses his one healing to heal the unlucky human to full health. White could read more of his strategy book to pass the time, or practice pressense by becoming a socialite with the humans. That's my suggestion at least. Paired with friendly and we not opposed to healing humans, and having a pre-existing rapport with the humans, I think improving his standing wont be too hard. Me thinks two separate DC's for rolls: one for socializing and one for exp gain?

>>5346856
Sounds good for a plan. But i think the socializing will give us Xp naturally

Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>5346839
Loot?

>>5346855
maybe also bring up that we need to eat meat and would rather not hunt the local deer and other animals to extinction.

If that were to happen then we would have to range farther for prey and we do not want to step on the toes of Humans and other Races by plundering their wildlife reserves and animals.

So as distasteful as it is the Skaven are the better way until we manage to find a sustainable alternative.

>>5346875
We should probably use what little clout we earned from this battle, in addition to some of the spoils of war to set up a frameworks of a farming community nearby. Farmers develop crops, crops get recycled or eatened by farm animals, farm animals shit and fertilize the crops. Rinse and repeat.
I monster want farms for pigs since they're easy to please. Pigs and maybe goats. If the farmers are smart they might know some useful agriculture techniques. Failing that we could be them via magic to make food last longer or take longer to spoil (i.e. artifical giant magic cooling box/fridge).

>>5346940
well we are in the woods. if they are more of the leaf kind instead of needles there should be loads of nuts and fruits that the Pigs can eat during the Summer and Autumn so less crop production would be needed.

With Goats we would have to be careful. if the walls are not angled enough they could just walk out of their coop.... but they eat a lot of different foods and give Milk and Wool that can be used by the Farmers.

And those animals will have to get used to the Draconic Presence that we have. Otherwise they will likely panic quickly and die of stress.

>>5346942
For run away animals we'll need several Shepard's dogs and a single shepard.

>>5346963
yeah thats kind of a given since we will likely need several coops and pens for enough animals to feed four dragons and a family of griffons. But it could be a very useful tool for Empire Building in the future. If we become accepted and the Griffons are cooperative we might amass enough interest to allow us to petition to become an imperial City whose main Export is Griffon riders and helpful Dragon Crafts.

Rolled 80 (1d100)

[Don't mind me. Trying to update in the next hour]

Rolled 4 (1d5)

>>5346847
You come back to your senses and another day passed. Strangely, some crystaline growth, no bigger than the tips of your claws, appeared near you this night.
>Little white recovered 1 wound (1/3 hp)
First thing first, you go check on your siblings. They are more than well (Siblings 3/3). Next, the humans who fight for you. Opening your inner healer eye...
>105 : going well for everybody
The one treated with balms looks like they'll make it; you expect them to be fully functional before the end of the decade for the less serious cases to half a year and daily exercises for the one getting a bad wound on the thigh, with an average recovery around one month. The balms and oil should prevent festering for now. Good. Turning your attention to the less lucky human...
>>5346855
You feel some blood poisoning. That guy, Roland, won't make it out without magical healing.
Your griffon friend is badly injured, too. Meat won't be an issue, as she stockpiled various barely alive rats, but her recovery time is estimated in months.
Next, spoils of war.
>>5346869
>16
The bell itself collapsed and bent. You might be able to fix it, but the main interest, the glowing green rock making the clapper shattered in dust-sized shards during the collapse.
Regarding armor, weapons and other metals or coin... Their smithing is awful. It would be a disgrace offering anybody such weapons, they are only worthy in your eyes as raw materials to melt and reforge.
Regarding meat, the jerky still drying will fill numerous barrels. You estimate more than two decades without the need to hunt. Good.
Your magic is back. But lots would need healing.
>Write in priorities. Here's some help
>The unbalmed human, good as dead without
>The Griffin; you can't afford her grounded for so long
>The girl. You're afraid more time between healing salvas will re-inflame the brain wounds
>The humans that will take long to recover.
>Yourself.

>>5347108
>You estimate more than two decades without the need to hunt.

Does this mean weeks? Because i do not believe these will be twenty years worth of Rations.

>The unbalmed human, good as dead without
>The Griffin; you can't afford her grounded for so long
>The girl. You're afraid more time between healing salvas will re-inflame the brain wounds
>Yourself
>The humans that will take long to recover.

Getting back on our feet is something that we really need. We will make sure that the Life Threatening Injuries are treated first but we are worth Several humans already with our abilities and the more we can stay awake and help the quicker the other humans will be back on their feet again.
And i would think that the girl can take more than a day without a healing Salvo.

>>5347113
no wait i am stupid. You probably mean that it will be meat for twenty days. my mind just jumped to a decade being 10 years.

>>5347108

1. Dying human
2. Gryffin
3. Ourselves
4. Stable humans
5. Girl

She's made it this long, and I assume we'll have some downtime at some point.

A decade is typically ten years. Are you looking for a word like fortnight, which means two weeks or 14 days? Or just typoed autocorrect from days to decade?

Roll me 4d20.
In the settings, weeks are 10 days long, I'm using the Roman word for such weeks

Rolled 20 (1d20)

>>5347149
I will just do one so someone else also gets to roll

>In the settings, weeks are 10 days long, I'm using the Roman word for such weeks

ah okay.

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>5347149

Rolled 18 (1d20)

Rolled 12 (1d20)

>>5347149
Yayayayaya!

White is making up for yesterday's bad rolls in a hurry.

>>5347161
yeah three successes and that in a hurry. With a Critical Success. Lets hope we get to try and heal again.

>>5347154
>>5347160
do you guys still go ahead and support one vote or the other as a Tie Breaker for who will be the ones to heal after Number two and One?

>>5347165
I support this >>5347136

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>>5347150
>>5347158
>>5347154
>>5347160
>20,18 : Double success
First thing first, the dead meat popsicle. It's surprisingly easy. As you're healing him early, the cost of energy to clean his blood and body from the corruption, tainted in your eyes in the same green hue than the skaven's artillery shots, is seemless.
Next, the Griffin. With heavy internal damages, you focus your efforts in not repairing the bigger damage but bringing most tissues closer. With only a few days of complete rest, she'll be as good as new.
>Critical :
With energy left, you can try again, this time on yourself...
>2d20: DC 13

Rolled 11 (1d20)

>>5347178

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>5347178

>>5347178
3 healing attempts in a single day? We're getting better.

>>5347192
pretty sure that extra Heal is because of our Critical Hit. Otherwise we would still only get one Heal a Day.

We really need to up our Mana Capacity.

>>5347194
Cant really do anything besides waiting to be older, or doing magic research. Probably. Still three attempts even if it's just a crit is impressive in my books.

Directing the energy excess toward yourself, you try improving your condition...
>>5347179
>>5347181
But you've overestimated yourself.

Hector is knocking at your door, alongside the only competent warrior of his little troup.
"Excuse me, ... I still don't know how to call you...
How are you feeling? I've come to discuss important matters. Let me introduce you Guillot. You see my dear, Guillot is my minstrel. I do the whole errand knight thing : bravery, prowess, wooing the ladies, and my good Guillot here record and makes songs.
Yesterday was a tale of bravery, such a story will be sung thousands time. Such a good song come with influence. And we have several propositions about how we'll tell that story"
>Emphasis on the human's prowess. Griffin and Dragons are mentioned only as landmark name, if ever mentioned.
>Emphasis on the Mighty beasts. How mythical creature built a moat on the way of a dangerous vermin army to protect a small human settlement.
>Emphasis on cooperation. How improbable alliance granted a victory against an enemy with four times the men.

"There is also the matter of our dead and wounded. We'll need to get back as soon as possible to the village, so fathers can bury their sons and mother cry for them. You were right. The blood toll was inexistant thanks to your help."
>Send back all humans to the village
>Keep the most wounded archers in the fort, in case you can speed up their recovery

>>5347316
>Emphasis on the human's prowess. Griffin and Dragons are mentioned only as landmark name, if ever mentioned.

Best to lay low, you never know who might be listening.

>Keep the most wounded archers in the fort, in case you can speed up their recovery

Let's get these men on their feet in days, not weeks or months.

>>5347316
>Emphasis on the Mighty beasts. How mythical creature built a moat on the way of a dangerous vermin army to protect a small human settlement.
Woe is the sad mortals who forget the era of dragons, a time of power and majesty.

>You were right. The blood toll was inexistant thanks to your help.
See? We told you it was a good idea. Are we not benevolent and very handsome?

>Keep the most wounded archers in the fort, in case you can speed up their recovery
Only for a few days in case they come back. Blue can crease additional salves for everyone while we divine the fates of the rats. If all is well, we will help host a feast to our victory this day! Rejoice humans! It is not every day you get to lay waist to an army four times your size. Feel pride for your selves and fellow comrades.

>>5347323
Nah fek em', we deserve recognition.

>>5347331

Just worried about Slayers hearing about not one but four young drakes raising hell. But eh, we can always run again, and with windshield it's pretty tough to stop us.

>>5347423
Yeah, plus if we build up a great enough rapport, the dragon slayers will get all iffy trying to kill humans who actually want to protect some dragons. We might even get a chance to capitalize and kill them. We'll certainly have plenty of time to recover, and this battle has earned us a nice sum of EXP.

I think continuing to deal with humans, heal their infirm, and possibly teach those that are worthy and empathic how to ride hippogriffs.

>>5347316
supporting >>5347323

I would rather few people learned about us right now.

Also we might want to offer to give the most healthy people a lift in our amulet back to their village it would be quicker and safer.

And we could check if we can help them a bit. The Old Woman is gonna die soon if we can not help her and the other people could use some help so that the humans might be willing to help us with melting down the weapons into bars.

>>5347662
am >>5347194
not sure why my ID switched

>>5347323
>>5347331
>>5347662
Locking in focus on Human prowess.
"The battle was an opportunity for all to see what are they made of. Turns out, archers are warrior material. The lancers, not so much. I doubt they will take arms again. There is also the riffle matter... The one wielding them in battle would surely appreciate taking them home as trophy, but they are your possessions."
Well, you won't have to take that decision until you carry them back home.
It's around noon.
What do you plan to do of your afternoon?
>Divination. Make sure the fate of the rat is sealed
>Carry the valid humans to their village [you can't try and heal villagers today]
>Try to convince the cowards to stay working the earth for you

>>5347780
>Divination. Make sure the fate of the rat is sealed
Lets see if we can find out what the rats are planning and if we have to prepare for another quick assault or if we scared them away enough for now.

>>5347780
>Divination. Make sure the fate of the rat is sealed

>>5347788
>>5347813
>Give me 3d20 for divination

Rolled 14, 1, 4 = 19 (3d20)

>>5347816

Rolled 4 (1d20)

>>5347816

Rolled 2 (1d20)

>>5347816
If we fail, let's go bully our rat captives into telling us the locations of all their rat holes.

>>5347780
Btw QM. Is Divination easier when we tty it in our sanctum?

You said sonething about the chappel being ideal for spiritualism and scrying or something last thread

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>>5347820
>>5347821
>>5347832
You dive in the flow of past, future, present, here and everywhere.
14 : Failure
And get lost. Surely, the rats should have fled toward where they came from, right? But they didn't. You rewind and try to follow them from the moment the nine of them flee the battlefield, but you lost focus just before knowing what you haven't seen.
>>5347836
You expected divination to be easier in the sanctum. The place is great, maybe you can change it to fit your needs? After all, this is truly your lair : some white quartz is growing. You're pretty sure you can tune it to your needs.
Your reflexion is interrupted by your siblings. First, green.
"Green smart. Green have idea. Green fight Knight. Green gets hurt. Green gets better."
Looks like this idiot wants to get hurt on purpose to train? On the good side, since you fled the dragonslayers, he checks every initiative with you.
>That's even stupider that it sound. Don't, we have enough wounded around
>That's actually quite a good idea. Both him and Hector could train that way. And he might learn about consequences of his own actions.

Then, purple.
"Hello, brother. I was looking at the riffle that stopped firing. This is outside my expertise as I lack Arcanic sensibilities. Would you care have a look?"
>2 anons roll 1d20

Your other sister didn't come and talk, busy as she is with the humans...
>roll 1d20

Rolled 6 (1d20)

>>5347852
Arcana

>>5347852
>That's actually quite a good idea. Both him and Hector could train that way. And he might learn about consequences of his own actions.
>"No Claws or teeth or spikes and no attacks against his head. He is so much less tough than you or I and i do not want to have to explain to his father what happened should he die. Also you have to ask him yourself"