EliteCommander

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

"I'll kill 'em with a rock if I have to, but yeah, I could do with a hammer. Oh, and could you get me another one of those potions. My knee feels fine, but might as well be safe." Lorag responded to Janius. The hangover cure had taken effect, so he no longer had a terrible headache, and he was nearly finished with his breakfast.

Meesei looked over Ariel's sketch. She had seen the place with her own eyes, of course, but there were other points of interest she wanted to know about. After examining it for a moment, she pointed to a location on the map. "Here, it is close enough to the broken tower, but not too close as to make our intentions obvious. If they suspect from the beginning that we intend to strike at the tower, even if they are not aware of the weakness it presents, then they may shore up their defenses at the rubble. No matter where we approach from, though, we will be at a disadvantage. The walls give them superior positions over us, so we will need to move quickly. We will need to give Ariel and Ahnasha enough time to sneak in, then scale the wall."

Ahnasha too was studying the plans, though her eyes were more on the interior. She supposed Ariel would already know her way around the keep, but she did have other concerns. "So, Ariel, how do we intend to actually sabotage this gas? I remember you saying it is unstable while in production, but what about the storage tower? We're going to need something to quickly burn it or crush it or...something. We'll also need something to set of the gas at the other tower without getting caught up in the blast ourselves."

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Nice, though it is, unfortunately, rather late here. I'm kind of tired, but I'll post as best as I can.

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

Freeshooter92 said
There's always your friendly neighborhood armored watchdog.

I have been curious as to how she and Ssarak get along now. It doesn't really matter to me who Ssarak approaches.

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

Alright.

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

Lucius Cypher said
I could have Satori approach.

Eh, I was more referring to a PC, like one of his friends.

Blood Act I~ Ghosts of the Past

Is there anyone at the feast currently who Ssarak would reasonably approach?

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Meesei gave the others a sly grin. "I happen to remember everything all of you did, but...perhaps it would be best for all of you if I did not share. Suffice to say you enjoyed yourselves, and I enjoyed watching you."

She paused for a few moments to eat some of her breakfast, then continued with a less jovial tone. "Now, unfortunately, I believe our fun is over for the moment. We need to move on to more serious matters. We will be assaulting the witches' coven either tonight or tomorrow night, depending on how quickly I can examine this thrall. We need to plan our attack in as much detail as is reasonable. Ariel, when you find the time, if you could draw up a sketch of the layout of the keep, that would be most helpful. Search around if you need writing supplies. I'm sure the hunters had them stored away somewhere in the cave. Ahnasha, you will be following Ariel's lead to the storage and production facilities of the gas, preferably without alerting the rest of the keep to your presence. You will also need to find the witch in charge of making the gas. Ariel has a plan for removing the knowledge from her mind, but if it fails...this witch cannot be allowed to continue producing this poison." Meesei said with a stern expression, her tone clearly conveying her meaning.

"The rest of us will provide a distraction to draw the witches away from our infiltration team. At first, we will start outside the walls, but we will not be able to stay there forever. They will have superior positions while on the walls, and we will be able to do little damage against them. If we try just to occupy them out of the walls, they may not divert enough of their people for the distraction to be effective, not to mention the risk to our own lives. We will need to get inside, and as I mentioned yesterday, the quickest way I saw to get in would be for us to scale the rubble at the broken tower. We will need to use our lycan forms for this task, and we may not be able to recover our equipment, so I would not bring anything you are not prepared to lose. Janius, Lorag, Fendros, I would advise taking temporary weapons and armor from the hunters' supplies. I'm sure not all of their weapons were made from silver. After all, silver is not a strong metal, so it is not very useful against anything but lycans and undead." Meesei explained.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Goodnight

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Meesei glanced over to Janius as he stirred, then back to Fendros. "Janius lost a drinking contest again. Not too much more than that. I made a few plans for how to approach the coven before going to sleep. I am going to examine this skeleton for most of today and attempt to create an enchantment to disrupt it. My goal is to finish it by tonight, but I am not certain if I will be able to, as that goal is an ambitious one. If not, I will push our raid back no later than tomorrow night. Once everyone wakes up, we can begin to discuss our plans for the attack in greater detail."

Lorag awoke in response to the conversation around the campfire. Thankfully, the fact that they were underground prevented him from being overwhelmed by light as soon as his eyes opened. The moment he caught the scent of Runt's hangover cure, he grabbed the bottle and downed its contents. He had drank this potion so many times that the terrible, terrible taste was associated in his mind with relief.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Meesei awoke soon after Sabine, who was proactive as always in preparing for the aftereffects of a night of drinking. Meesei took each cure as Sabine finished brewing them and placed the uncorked bottles near those who needed them. Janius and Lorag were both familiar enough with the scent of it to recognize it. Meesei's skeletal sentinel had stood guard all night, and was still perfectly stationary near the entrance of the chamber. She would likely be spending most of the day studying the construct, but for the moment, she needed breakfast. Deciding that she might as well make use of it, Meesei commanded the skeleton to take over for Fendros in preparing their breakfast. Of course, it did not have the intellectual ability to know how to cook, but if she gave it direct commands for every step, it could perform the task. Most of them would want to eat their breakfast raw, so most of the preparation simply involved dividing up the meat, but for the rest, Meesei gave mental commands to the sentinel to guide it through the process.

Ahnasha awoke shortly after Fendros an was quite surprised that the first thing she saw was a skeleton cooking a steak. She sat up, really not certain what she thought about that abomination. It wasn't attacking them, at least, so that was good, she supposed. After taking a few moments to wake herself up, she joined the others by the fire and looked to Meesei with a bit of apprehension. "So, um, that thing is still here."

"Indeed it is. I am trying to get used to commanding it, so I can better understand its mind. Plus, this means Fendros doesn't have to cook." Meesei said in a lighthearted tone. She already had her meal, so she commanded her thrall to deliver Ahnasha's to her. It dropped what it was doing immediately, grabbed one of the uncooked pieces of meat, then presented it to Ahnasha.

Ahnasha hesitantly took the meat while staring into the thrall's unsettling, lifeless eyes. "Uhh...I still don't like you." She said to the construct. Predictably, it did nothing but return to the fire to complete its previous task.