Battle of Windswept

The battle of Windswept occurred at Windswept Port Town and coincided with the Windswept Isle centennial. During the centennial, as day failed to break, airships of an Infernal make entered the Cloudsea near Windswept Port Town, unloading a variety of devils and fiends, as well as azer and sahuagin. The attack force was primarily composed of lesser varieties of fiends, including nupperibo, lemure, seared devils, bearded devils, imps, and spinagons. Among the invasion force were two big bad evil guys, one being a huge flying devil of an unrecognized variety, and the other being a hell giant. Enemies appeared, disembarking from several airships, including two large infernal airships and three medium sized airships as well as an innumerable number of skiffs.

## The Battle

The main goals of the attackers seemed to be to kidnap townspeople during the chaos of the attack, and after taking stock of the captured, the heroes realized that Elder Bensen, Billy MacMurray, Malea Vizolbil, Jaylissa MacReady, and Aisling MacReady were among the captured. The main mode of capture was for spinagon to fly to the surface and throw nets over townspeople, carrying them back to the infernal airships. At least one cage was used, carrying prisoners to an infernal brigantine which the cage was attached to by means of an anchor chain.

The primary battlefields in the attack were the old Armory, the beach, the quayside wharf, and market street, with an air battle occuring overhead.

The air battle was primarily fought between the Goblin City Ship, Grimbone Bylg, and the Infernal Brigantines. Caerel Xiloru rode their mount, Tenderquill along with Norren Mothidral during the latter part of the air battle. One of the brigantines fired cannons at the City Ship, which sustained minor damage and countered by ramming the brigantine and causing total destruction of the brigantine in the process. During the ramming maneuver, a smaller airship — a whaleship of goblin design — piloted by Captain Rolk joined the battle. As the brigantine plummeted into the western shipyard, the remaining two brigantines exchanged maneuvers with the whale ship.

During the chaos, Caerel and Norren tried to catch up to a cage being hoisted by chain onto one of the remaining brigantines that contained the two captured MacReady sisters. They were intercepted by the huge flying devil, which guarded the cage and exchanged attacks with the group, dealing massive damage to Tenderquill. In the process Norren was bucked from the creature, which managed to stay in the fight with the devil.

While Norren fell, the whaleship unloaded two goblins with propeller packs attached to them via shoulders straps. The two goblins were able to grab onto a rope which Norrin attached to an arrow, fired in their direction. They used the rope to pull themselves closer to Norrin and ease him to the ground. As they escaped the air battle, a hell giant jumped out of one of the attacking ships during the battle's climax. Many adventurers and goblin-folk managed to push back the invasion coming together to defeat the hell giant as the attackers retreated.

The heroes split off into two groups. One composed of nine adventurers, who discussed their next course of action, forming the Adventurers Guild at the behest of Caerel. The other group was composed of eight goblins and Captain Rolk, who explored the crashed Brigantine that fell during the battle.

## Participants

### Invaders

* Infernal forces, including nupperibo, lemure, seared devils, bearded devils, spinagon, imps, hellhounds and two big bad evil guys: a mysterious flying devil and a hell giant.
* Azer.
* Sahuagin.
* Infernal airships: Infernal Skiffs, Infernal Zeppelin, three Infernal Brigantines, two large and distinct but unknown infernal airships.
* Mysterious serpent.

### Defenders

* Player Characters: Caitlyn MacReady, Norren Mothidral, Sije.
* Founding Adventurer Guild NPCs: Adi, Ahlyssaria Ssalyx, Caerel Xiloru, Drakneg, Druckhund Pitgazer, Oorus, Virgel Vizolbil.
* Watchers of the Core NPCs: Ezsa, Jaezgath Abbath, Malea Vizolbil.
* Commoners: Bill MacMurray, Fry (the fish frying Cloudforged).
* Goblinoid airships: Grimbone Bylg, Rolk's Whaleship.
* Grimbone Bylg crew: Captain Rolk, seven goblins, one blue goblin.
* Tenderquill.
* Animals: the MacReady donkey, a work horse
* Strigand the Owl