20000922 MopUp

<H1> Mop Up Duty </H1>
<H2> Role Call </H2>
<TABLE>
<TR>
 <TD> Travian </TD>
 <TD> 10th Human Paladin </TD>
 <TD> Robert Giedt </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Grackle </TD>
 <TD> 6th/7th Half-Elf Fighter/Rogue </TD>
 <TD> Mark Whisler </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Auric </TD>
 <TD> 8th Human Druid </TD>
 <TD> Keith Farrar </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Colin </TD>
 <TD> 13th Human Fighter </TD>
 <TD> Jim Yonemura </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Kieran </TD>
 <TD> 7th/5th Half-Elf Cleric/Wizard </TD>
 <TD> Ray Chiang </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Prince Donner </TD>
 <TD> 6th/7rd Human Fighter/Wizard </TD>
 <TD> John Speck </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Ox </TD>
 <TD> 4th Human Fighter </TD>
 <TD> Bruce Franklin </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Kill'Dar </TD>
 <TD> 10th/3rd Elf Wizard/Fighter </TD>
 <TD> Rick DiRicco </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Fingle </TD>
 <TD> 3rd/9th Gnome Cleric/Illusionist </TD>
 <TD> Richard Jacobsen </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<H2> Session Summary </H2>
<P>
Travian: -5/94 HP
<BR>
Grackle: 24/85, 5/10 CON
<BR>
Auric: 11/57
<BR>
Colin: 9/121, 12/14 CON
<BR>
Kieran: 32/100
<BR>
Donner: 4/99 HP, 5/14 CON
<BR>
Ox: 4/26 HP
<BR>
Kill'Dar: 83/83
<BR>
Fingle: Max HP
</P>
<P>
Dawn comes. The party sees a glorious sunrise through the smoke
rising through the city. There is still skirmishing going on
throughout the city. The battle lines mostly held, and now the
door-to-door fighting, putting out the fires, and bringing out
the dead.
</P>
<P>
Colin looks out the city, but does not see any signs of combat.
</P>
<P>
Donner's commanders come to him and ask "What next?" Donner
assigns responsibility to his lieutenants. Kieran begins healing
the party--by the time he finishes most of the characters are down
by half.
</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Lieutenants:</B> What are your orders sir?
<P>
<B>Donner:</B> Talk to my lieutenants. Colin is in charge of the
 cavalry, and Travian is in charge of the infantry.
	 Kieran is in charge of the spellcasters.
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
Those who are awake notice most of the orc ships are floating
way out in the lake. Once in a while, there appear to be several
orcs who are swimming out towards the ships, but they disappear
before they can reach the ship. The party assumes that the
lizard men are still out there.
</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Kieran:</B> We're looking for Korla. If he shows up, please send him over towards command headquarters.
<P>
<B>Guard:</B> Should he be considered hostile?
</P>
<P>
<B>Kieran:</B> Um...
</P>
<P>
<B>Guard:</B> If he resists coming, should we arrest him?
</P>
<P>
<B>Kieran:</B> Uh no. I expect that he will gladly show up.
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Lieutenants:</B> How are we to spread word about the amnesty?
<P>
<B>Colin:</B> For now, if you run across any humans, you can tell
 them that they will be granted amnesty if they're
	 not under arms.
</P>
<P>
<B>Lieutenants:</B> What if they resist?
</P>
<P>
<B>Colin:</B> Kill them
</P>
<P>
<B>Lieutenants:</B> Usually we XXXX. So are we supposed to be
 performing field executions?
</P>
<P>
<B>Colin:</B> Uh
</P>
<P>
<B>Lieutenants:</B> Are we accepting surrenders?
</P>
<P>
<B>Colin:</B> Uh
</P>
<P>
<B>Travian:</B> Well, mine are.
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Hagal:</B> My men will be sleeping in 3 hours shifts. The rest of the time my various men will be on patrol.
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
The heavy infantry commander had been commanding the entire infantry
since the death of the commander of the light infantry. Now that
Travian has been assigned to infantry, he is effective commander
of the light infantry. Colonel Galex is the man in charge of the
heavy infantry. He makes recommendations to Colin and Travian about
field promotions among the survivors. Colin looks around and it
appears as though most of the casualties were among the infantry--the
only officer to die was the light infantry commander.
</P>
<P>
During this time, Kieran casts a Divination about securing the
inner keep:
</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
Misfortune and hazard concealed underneath
<BR>
The dagger looks harmless while still in its sheath
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
Six hours pass. The army breaks out rations for lunch. During
this time, the party is asked by the group. Kieran begins
crafting Runes of Invisibility and Fly and afterwards begins
scouting. There appears to be regular traffic of orcs going
both directions. The orcs going out appears to be carrying
full bags of loot and the orcs coming in appear to be carrying
empty bags of loot.
</P>
<P>
Compromise between Kieran, Colin, Travian about resting troops
first and then beginning securing the wall.
</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
<B>Kieran:</B> How about we wait for the first group of troops to
 rest and then take some fraction of them out to
	secure the wall?
</P>
<P>
<B>Colin:</B> I'm going to let my troops (the archers and cavalry) to
 rest until noon.
</P>
<P>
<B>Kieran:</B> (To Travian) Well, as much as I would like to secure
 the wall now, the only troops ready to do this is
	the spellcasters. I'd prefer to get some rested troops
	for support.
</P>
<P>
<B>Travian:</B> That sounds fine to me, but I'd also want some archers
 for support.
</P>
<P>
<B>Colin:</B> Fine, we can take a quarter 
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Hagal:</B> Speaking as a man whose troops are not paid by loot. One consideration is that we need to secure the city. We also need the goodwill of the citizens of this city to hold it. 
</BLOCKQUOTE>
 <P>
 We have 950 of our original 1000 who could fight.
	 150 of those are wounded significantly or incapacitated
	 for other reasons. We will be carrying the 50
	 casualties with us.
 </P>
<P>
Kieran flies over to the Aquitanian transport ships and take
the drifting orc warships away.
</P>
<P>
Donner wakes up, memorizes, and casts Detect Scrying. The
orcish fleet appears to consist of 20 ships, 6 of which are
heavy warships (couple of swingable ballistas and a central
catapult) with the rest war transports. All the ships
appear to be equipped with rams.
</P>
<P>
The casualty count comes in.
</P>
<P>
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
 <TH> Category </TH>
 <TH> Original Count </TH>
 <TH> Fighting Condition </TH>
 <TH> Wounded or Otherwise Incapacitated </TH>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Archers </TD>
 <TD> 1200 </TD>
 <TD> 600 </TD>
 <TD> 300 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Light Infantry </TD>
 <TD> 2400 </TD>
 <TD> 1000 </TD>
 <TD> 600 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Cavalry </TD>
 <TD> 300 </TD>
 <TD> 200 </TD>
 <TD> 50 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Knights </TD>
 <TD> 100 </TD>
 <TD> 70 </TD>
 <TD> 20 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Heavy Infantry </TD>
 <TD> 900 </TD>
 <TD> 500 </TD>
 <TD> 100 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Scouts </TD>
 <TD> 100 </TD>
 <TD> 80 </TD>
 <TD> 10 </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</P>
<P>
Estimated enemy casualties come in as well. Conservative estimates
are 5000 orcs, 40 war trolls "confirmed" destroyed, 1200
orogs, 6 giants (2 ettins, 4 hill giants).
</P>
<P>
Donner is given a summary of the situation. He declares that the
looting must be stopped. He assigns the various units to their
respective duties. (Light Infantry = fire fighting, Heavy
Infantry = fighting house to house, Cavalry = clearing streets)
He asks to have the Black Lions secure all paths to the inner keep.
Donner also uses some of the wounded and half the Light Infantry
to secure the perimeter.
</P>
<P>
Travian, Colin, and Ox travel with the troops. Grackle, Kill'Dar,
and Fingle wait with Donner. Donner begins casting scrying to
find some of the enemy character party.
</P>
<P>
Auric takes the form of a bird and runs around the back part of
the wall. There, he continues out beyond the outer city and
sees many small groups of orcs fleeing the city, most of them
down the river.
</P>
<P>
Travian and Colin lead their troops through the city. Colin
does a good job leading his troops (17), while Travian has
problems communicating with his troops (7). Ox got surrounded
by several orcs in an alleyway. Travian and Colin perform
well fighting during the day, breaking up several ambushes
and killing many orcs and orogs.
</P>
<P>
Kieran flies throughout the city and checks up on the fighting
going on throughout the city. Once the fighting begins, it
appears that most of the orcs start fleeing the city. Hagal
and the Black Lions secure the inner keep within 30 minutes.
The light infantry appears to be having trouble performing fire
fighting. Kieran talks to the light infantry commander and
helps them clear out some wells in order to start forming
bucket brigades.
</P>
<P>
Donner is nearly finished casting Scrying, when he realizes
that he doesn't have a finely wrought silver mirror handy.
</P>
<P>
After several hours, the troops appears to half captured
half the inner city, up to and including the inner keep. The
outer wall has been recaptured by the troops. Once during
the day, the party gets the "Come here now" call, where some
orog snipers are hiding.
</P>
<P>
As Kieran flies around, he sees that the troops have taken
an old horse corral and taken orcish prisoners. Kill'Dar
goes back to the hospital area and begins healing the
wounded troops. Donner goes with Grackle and tries to
help the troops that are securing the city.
</P>
<P>
Donner finds some of the Aquitanian transports and talks to
them for a bit. After some discussion, they do not have any
skill in operating the siege weapons on the ships.
</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Donner:</B> There are orcs escaping down the river.
<P>
<B>Lizard Man:</B> Our nets are full already. We've had to leave
 some floating.
</P>
<P>
<B>Lizard Man:</B> The current is very strong.
</P>
<P>
<B>Donner:</B> So, it would be hard to swim...
</P>
<P>
<B>Lizard Man:</B> We are pleased. We have much rope (?) We will eat
 well for months.
</P>
<P>
<B>Donner:</B> Uh...
</P>
<P>
<B>Lizard Man:</B> Can you convince any more to come out?
</P>
<P>
<B>Donner:</B> We'll work on it.
</P>
<P>
<B>Lizard Man:</B> When things settle down, can you tell us where you
 intend to bury the orcs?
</P>
<P>
<B>Donner:</B> We'll let you know what we do with them.
</P>
<P>
<B>Lizard Man:</B> Excellent.
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Donner:</B> Is Hagal around?
<P>
<B>Hagal:</B> So, how are things?
</P>
<P>
<B>Donner:</B> We've capture some orc ships. We were thinking about
 using them to blockade the river to prevent troops escaping
	downriver.
</P>
<P>
<B>Hagal:</B> You might be better off with archers. Siege weapons are
 a bit overkill for rafts.
</P>
<P>
<B>Donner:</B> Well, we figured you might have some people with the
 knowledge.
</P>
<P>
<B>Hagal:</B> I have very few siege engineers. My group consists mostly
 of adventurers. When we need to siege, that's what our
 spellcasting corps is for.
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
Fingle ferry archers from the city to the warships, in order to
set up a blockade.
</P>
<P>
In the rest of the fighting, nearly 200 orogs and 800 orcs are
killed. Also notable is that they encountered 11 mercenaries,
10 who were killed and one surrendered. Surrenders 350 orcs, 30
orogs, and 1 mercenary.
</P>
<P>
By late afternoon, the warships are armed and blockading the
river, the inner keep is secured, and most of the fighting in
the inner city is captured.
</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<B>Donner:</B> We want to interview the mercenary. Let's have Fingle and Grackle do the interviewing. Unless anyone else wants to go along?
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> No, I think we can handle it.
</P>
<P>
<B>Donner:</B> Let's put the orcs out to work duty.
</P>
<P>
<B>Kieran:</B> How about we go and find the civilian leaders of the
 city and talk to them?
</P>
<P>
<B>Donner:</B> Sure.
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>
The mercenary is a large human outlander. Fingle has never
seen anyone who dresses like this person. He appears to be
wearing some sort of skirt like garment. His hair is bright
red and fair skinned. Fingle has heard that the Cherek look
like this. Apparently, during the fight he fought very well.
</P> 
<BLOCKQUOTE> 
<B>Kill'Dar:</B> (Does Know Alignment-Chaotic Evil) 
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> What is a warrior of the Cherek doing working
 with trolls and orcs?
</P> 
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Making money
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> You would enslave humans?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> You think they take prisoners? I kill them
 and they pay me. If you want anyone killed,
	 I can do it. I killed two of your guys.
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> Are there any more of your kind working with
 the worshipers of Grummsh?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B>
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> How many war trolls were with you?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> A lot. I don't know what they wanted here that
 was so important.
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> What about the priest?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> What the shaman? Boy is he stupid. You don't make
 deals with demons. They will rip you six ways.
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> How many times did he do it?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Twice yesterday. He's done it a few times earlier.
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> 
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> They had giants, trolls, orogs. And they also had
 some of those black hounds. I didn't see much else.
	 That was mostly orog duty out there.
</P>
<P>
<B>Kill'Dar:</B> How did you get here?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> I was on the front lines and I walked over here.
</P>
<P>
<B>Kill'Dar:</B> What is the city to the south like?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> (Laughs) It's a bunch of mud huts. But they've
 got a bunch of tunnels. It's a huge maze--there's
	 a large 
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> Who is Narg?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Tough fighter. Bad news. Looks like a half-orc.
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> What about the other one?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> They hung out with some wizard guy and this creepy,
 dark little dude.
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> Did you know the name of the wizard?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> The wizard's name is Zillanel.
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> Did you see him much?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Oh yeah. He was always parading about...
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> Can you describe him?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> (Describes him)
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> Do you know where he came from?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> He's a mercenary. All four of them are--like me.
</P>
<P>
<B>Kill'Dar:</B> Do you know about traps in the city?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Nope.
</P>
<P>
<B>Kill'Dar:</B> How often do ships come?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> They came every day that I was there.
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> Do they have siege weapons down there?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Some. They don't have a whole lot ready.
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> How often do troops come up?
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Often. There's supposed to be a transport today.
 They'll probably see your orcs warships and turn
	 around.
</P>
<P>
(More discussion about enemy army tactics)
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> I don't know why there were so many troops here.
 It's like they knew you were coming. Most of the
	 war trolls only showed up in the past two weeks.
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Those orcs are as dumb as posts--boy are they dumb.
</P>
<P>
(Pause)
</P>
 
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Looks like you lost quite a few men. Could you use
 an extra hand?
</P>
<P>
<B>Grackle:</B> I don't know. I'll ask around.
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Fine by me. The people who hired me are all gone
 or fled.
</P>
<P>
<B>Cherek:</B> Hey, nice job with the city. Burning was a nice
 touch. Even the orcs didn't do that.
</P>
</BLOCKQUOTE> 
<P> 
By this point, it feels like the city is pretty clear of enemy
troops. At this point, patrols and other policing duties have
been set up. Colin orders the troops to pass word to the
citizenry about the amnesty and Donner's desire to talk with
them.
</P> 
<P> 
The conquest of the city leaves the army in the following status:
</P> 
<P>
<TABLE BORDER>
<TR>
 <TH> Category </TH>
 <TH> Original Count </TH>
 <TH> Fighting Condition </TH>
 <TH> Wounded or Otherwise Incapacitated </TH>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Archers </TD>
 <TD> 1200 </TD>
 <TD> 525 </TD>
 <TD> 350 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Light Infantry </TD>
 <TD> 2400 </TD>
 <TD> 900 </TD>
 <TD> 675 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Cavalry </TD>
 <TD> 300 </TD>
 <TD> 150 </TD>
 <TD> 90 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Knights </TD>
 <TD> 100 </TD>
 <TD> 60 </TD>
 <TD> 30 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Heavy Infantry </TD>
 <TD> 900 </TD>
 <TD> 425 </TD>
 <TD> 150 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Scouts </TD>
 <TD> 100 </TD>
 <TD> 80 </TD>
 <TD> 10 </TD>
</TR>
<TR>
 <TD> Black Lions </TD>
 <TD> 1000 </TD>
 <TD> 750 </TD>
 <TD> 200 </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
</P>
<P> 
Once again, night falls.
</P> 
<H2> Foes Fought </H2>
<P>
</P>
<P>
Base Experience: 
</P>