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Post by Katerina on Nov 14, 2022 9:09:24 GMT
Kat, who is with Eivor nods.
"Yes that's good, but what we really need here is a plan."
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Post by Eivor on Nov 14, 2022 11:45:51 GMT
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Post by Brian on Nov 14, 2022 11:56:24 GMT
I nod to her and turn to Kat "What can you tell me about the city. You likely know it better then anyone here. Any useful details about the city. "
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Post by Katerina on Nov 14, 2022 18:00:23 GMT
"King Brian, I can tell you everything about the city. I lived there all my life. What would you like to know? Sometimes its hard to pin down what you want to know and what is useless prattle. If anything I can say formulate a plan then I will be happy." Kat replies.
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Post by Brian on Nov 14, 2022 18:04:00 GMT
" paths of entrance and exit, any place you as a kid might have noticed but adults dont, how soft the ground is....stone vs wood buildings. Other then knowing you live there I know nothing about the place."
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Post by Katerina on Nov 14, 2022 18:30:45 GMT
"The walls and buildings in the capital are all made of stone. There is a quarry and sandworks just outside the town. On the other side is a shanty town, though I suspect that will have been abandoned now or the people who were living there are dead. To the south of the castle are the fields that would have had the harvest. I hope they've had time to harvest the fields, though I'm not altogether sure of the date. The castle has lots of secret passages within it. As a child I spent a lot of time exploring them all, which was kind of how I knew to look for them in Castle Amber. There's only one gate into the city on the Northen end at the end of the Processional. That's where the majority of the soldiers will be as that's where the barracks is located. The gateway has a murder hole within it. The walls have towers every so often which will all have a guard contingent in them and ballistas to shoot at any enemy trying to fly in. They'll have a number of weapons including boiling oil to prevent the invaders coming up ladders. The roads inside are solid, but there may be some areas of muddiness if its rained a lot. There's a well in market square which provides the city with fresh water, so they could last a fair time in a seige given enough people to defend it."
"They'll have saved their best troops to defend the city, but I fear they will not be enough if the full force of the Chaos army attacks. I'm no miltary strategist but I do know numbers matter. That's why I need this army to help attack when the are sieging."
"There's no secret ways in through the walls, but there are secret ways in and out of the Castle. I used them all the time and showed Lady Eivor one of my ways out."
"There are statues to the Gods in the Citadel of the Gods, but the detail of the Gods and Goddess' faces have long since worn down. At one time the Amberites were here I'm convinced, but I don't know who they were and no one has admitted to it. I do wonder if they were some of those of the family of Amber who died and never came back."
Kat brightens. "There is another way in. The mirrors here were always used for communication and transport. If I could make a mirror I could focuss it on some of the mirrors I made in the Castle and we could get some people in there if that's what you need."
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Post by Brian on Nov 14, 2022 19:56:48 GMT
I smile at Kat. " That likely would be a good way to insert a commando attack." I glance at Eivor for her thoughts
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Post by Eivor on Nov 14, 2022 21:55:07 GMT
"Remember Julia has walked the maze and can command its powers," Eivor warns. "She and Jurt have summoned powers we don't understand and we need to be cautious."
"I don't think we should be using the mirrors to access the castle, but that's just my opinion. If you think it's a risk worth taking, I'm not going to stop you."
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Post by Katerina on Nov 14, 2022 22:02:30 GMT
"Firstly you broke the Mirror Maze, so I doubt she can summon up its powers. Secondly to make a proper mirror takes many years of experience and training and the mirrors here are specific to Eshanta. I doubt that this Julia person has done all that and even if she did she wouldn't know of the target mirror. However Taky has, and can do what I can do, but I doubt that she thought of this. She's a bit more of the direct action type part of me. The only other people I know that can make the Mirrors are Princess Lorelei's people and one day when I have the time I'd really like to ask her about the person who taught her people the craft." Kat replies.
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Post by Brian on Nov 14, 2022 22:32:20 GMT
"Sometimes you have to gamble.....The fact is with the forces we have we will be running troops through a meat grinder if we try a full frontal assault. So we either have to get into the walls creatively or we have to bait them out. If they don't hold the castle we have to draw them away. Thats simple.....the techniques to make it work are the complexities."
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Post by Katerina on Nov 14, 2022 22:43:26 GMT
"It will take time to make a new mirror. If one of them partially survived from the towns and villages I can fix it far easier." Kat adds.
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Post by Ryland on Nov 15, 2022 2:05:58 GMT
Ryland walks up toward the tail end of the conversation. “Princess Katerina, how will the defenders react when we come within sight of the city? What flag or flags are we sporting? Will they be recognized?
I’m all for a nice plan, but I dearly would like to see the city first.” After getting the answers, Ryland prepares for the march that day.
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Post by Eivor on Nov 15, 2022 7:56:57 GMT
"We will be using the flags of King Edgar," Eivor replies. "We'll be treated with suspicion anyway, but to say we are here at the behest of the old monarch is the best course. Any mention of Lady Kat should be avoided while the field is contested."
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Post by Katerina on Nov 15, 2022 8:00:05 GMT
Kat turns to look at Ryland.
"The people are expecting the Gods to come and rescue them. From what I can make out the Gods who came here years ago were Amberites but somehow they forgot about this place. Claim to be one of the Gods, show them a few things using your powers and they will help you. Just don't mention my name in all that. Thanks to my mirror duplicate, my name with my people is like mud now."
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Post by Ryland on Nov 16, 2022 4:00:38 GMT
"A parley, leading with, "We aren't here to eat you." should get us far with the locals." Ryland thinks out loud.
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