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Post by Admin on Nov 30, 2022 8:17:29 GMT
As they run the cynical guard says "You bumbling fools! The general should never have bothered with this useless land and pointless allies!"
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Post by Admin on Nov 30, 2022 8:18:40 GMT
Kat enters the hidden passages and works her way towards the throneroom. A foul.smell rises up from. It growing worse with every step and rung she takes.
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Post by Brian on Nov 30, 2022 8:22:08 GMT
Ooc: the other guard in the bear heraldry is an outsider she has never seen before. Ooc: she meant the guards detaining us.
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Post by Brian on Nov 30, 2022 8:24:21 GMT
Brian rushes away from the guards. Gets lost in the maze of corridors and halls of the castle. He eventually finds the Main door. It is barred and a dozen guards wait. They all can hear the crying and screaming from the people on the other side. Ooc: Can I see the odds outside? Is there a path for me to go out/allow enough people to come in and fight the demons? Is it a situation where there is a draw bridge for the castle?
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Post by Katerina on Nov 30, 2022 9:19:17 GMT
Kat goes back to her own form and uses her conjuring to make a filtration mask to filter out the worst of the smell and some nose plugs to stop it assaulting her nostrils. She wonders what is going on; this cannot be good. Then again, nothing that has happened since she got home has been good, so she's not expecting her luck to change for now. Her adoptive father holds many of the secrets of this place and only he will probably be able to give her answers that might help her save it.
She presses on.
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Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2022 20:19:00 GMT
Brian: there are no windows in this room. There is a drawbridge, so the calling from the people must be coming from the ditch surrounding the castle and the last bit of road where the bridge drops down to. He doesn't know of any sally ports or postern gates. How would he?
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Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2022 20:24:09 GMT
Kat:
She works her way deeper into the castle. She knows the smell is getting worse from the little odor that seeps through her mask.
Her sight into the throne room is blocked by a pyramid of severed heads.
She can hear her father's voice from the other side of the pile.
"Is the castle still secure?"
"yes, my lord."
"And what of the reported assassins?"
"Still on the loose. The guards say the destruction of the wall distracted them enough that the prisoners escaped."
"Then the castle is not secure."
How can they sit and covers in the middle of this foul reek?
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Post by Brian on Dec 4, 2022 20:29:24 GMT
Brian: there are no windows in this room. There is a drawbridge, so the calling from the people must be coming from the ditch surrounding the castle and the last bit of road where the bridge drops down to. He doesn't know of any sally ports or postern gates. How would he? I turn to one of the guards by the gate " can you lower the gate enough for me to get people in? I am willing to go outside and buy some of the people time to get in."
If there is no way to help people get in I go to try to work with a bow and arrow/balista/whatever they have for such defensive positions to try to give the people outside a breather
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Post by Admin on Dec 4, 2022 21:53:11 GMT
"Are you mad?" the guard says. "The peasants'll overrun us. There's not enough food for them here and no space either. If they'd volunteered to serve on the walls, they might not be begging for help now."
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Post by Brian on Dec 4, 2022 22:14:39 GMT
"Are you mad?" the guard says. "The peasants'll overrun us. There's not enough food for them here and no space either. If they'd volunteered to serve on the walls, they might not be begging for help now." I scowl at the guard.....he is out of line, but he is right. "Is there some place I can get eyes on whats going on outside?"
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Post by Katerina on Dec 4, 2022 22:20:27 GMT
[OOC - Just to confirm that they are human severed heads - yes?]
Kat shakes her head sadly. Is this what her home has come to? She expected a steadfast resistance. Plans using the mirrors for the defence of the walls. Not recriminations and traitor hunts. What had happened to her adoptive father and the people around him. Her duplicate no doubt, but even this was extreme.
She waited until the guards headed off, hopefully leaving the King alone in the throne room. If they didn't leave she headed round the back of the throne room to the secret passages into the private apartments.
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Post by Admin on Dec 7, 2022 5:04:55 GMT
Brian:
The guards are surprised that someone in the castle doesn't know their way about. They then pay closer attention to Brian. And draw their weapons.
"Silence, stranger. Submit to the command of King Edgar and surrender."
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Post by Admin on Dec 7, 2022 5:06:08 GMT
Kat:
The guards do not leave the room. Kat goes to the private apartments.
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Post by Brian on Dec 7, 2022 5:33:23 GMT
Brian:The guards are surprised that someone in the castle doesn't know their way about. They then pay closer attention to Brian. And draw their weapons. "Silence, stranger. Submit to the command of King Edgar and surrender." " No. I'm here to do harm to the army which seeks to do damage to your castle. Surrendering would make it so I'm unable to complete that task. How about we do this: show me to where I can hurl some death at our enemies outside....then I can talk to edgar?"
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Post by Admin on Dec 7, 2022 6:03:32 GMT
"No more words!" the guard shouts.
"We already break the law of death to all strangers in this castle. To your knees and throw your weapons down."
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