OOC Discussion

Still here!  Worse, so is Hengist, ready to kill all the right people for all the wrong reasons!

Excellent! I'll send PMs to the others, just in case they're not subscribed...

Not Gwydion, though, I hope!

What do you mean?  Gwydion's just people, right?  Elves are made from shadows and stardust and mainly come out at night.  /Hengist

Okay, I'm going to start posting again tomorrow. We'll see what happens.

;-)

We’ll see. The campaign is young :^)

Two things:

First, I wonder if we might learn something by trying to remove the gag from its mouth. Risky, I admit, but given that I am not attached to Gwydion in the least, I would be willing to try.

Second, I think this may put to rest any ideas about these Elves being good guys unless they captured this thing from bad guys (I carefully avoid THE bad guys) and were trying to figure out what to do with it.

At a minimum, let’s fortify the door and windows as well as clear fields of fire in the main room so archers have some protection in case of a main assault. We should also gather water in any handy barrels and buckets along with some blankets to give us some limited protection against fire. Anyone have some ideas about traps? Lastly, we should be better prepared than the Elves to escape out the back if need be.

So, if you're staying in the home and fortifying it, how exactly will you prepare? There is a rainbarrel outside near a corner of the building with a ladle and a small wooden bucket beside it. The main room has a table, a few chairs and a bench, and a cupboard comtaining simple clay dishes. A hearth stands on one wall. There a single door at the front of the home, along with two windows facing on to the street. There is a wooden ladder, of sorts, that can be used to climb into the loft; it isn't attached to anything. The loft contains several simple bedsteads with straw-filled mattreses and woolen blankets, plus the blanket-box that contained the corpse. 

Okay, based on what (and who) you found in the house, can we get a decision on what you're doing next? Hardrada (Gwydion) has suggested staying here and fortifying; there seems to be some agreement with that. If that's what you plan to do, I'd like some specifics. If not, let me know what the group is planning to do so we can move forward.

I'd suggest:  haul water barrel and bucket inside where we can make best use of it to put out spot fires.  Board up the windows we broke in.  Bar/block the lower door.  (Hengist has a hammer and iron spikes, but no regular nails.)  Post sentries/archers upstairs overnight.  Ready ropes so we can flee down over the wall quickly if need be.  I'll start with the water barrel in IC.

It's been long enough that I'll remind people of this post here. It lays out what you found on the pair of elves who had occupied the building. Keep in mind that one of them is still alive, but grievously wounded. Also, the Carpenter was killed by the party, and a raven clasp was found on the carpenter's body. Gwydion claims the Carpenter changed into a pale elf after death. Constable Aramis Thorsdun supposedly went to inform his master. The Baron seemingly wasn't in his manor when you went there. You recovered a map of the town with notes from these two elves.

I think that's the really pertinent information...

True, at some point we do need to get around to fighting over the magic sword.

(And I suppose there are other items to examine and split up too.)

As far as I know Hengist is walking around with the sword in his belt since here.  But that was without any discussion, which we are welcome to have; I may not be the best bearer.

(I also helped myself to the composite bow, which let me equip Dagmar with my old short bow, but that's not magical.)

Oh, one other thing: as you're staying, please give an order of watch and where those watchers are. You still have Andrew, Aria, and Miska available at the moment.

i will be in the roof, first watch, someone should take the second watch.

we should put some torches to lit the exterior, shoting someone from the dark its better than shoting to someone in the dark.

Please give me a watch order for the night in the house.

first watch on the roof.

Hengist on second watch and sending Dagmar to double on first; posted IC.

Do we still want torches lit around the place?  I don't know if we're covering every approach, but there's room to throw one down in front, and I have more torches.

Torches ready, I would say, but unlit. I wonder if it might be worthwhile to do a local patrol at some point? Anyway, I would like the last watch since I think I need uninterrupted rest for spells.