I suggest to continue TDW as if nothing had happened.

I dunno about you, but I won't wait to have our previous posts back.

My concern is that we may find when more details become available that we shouldn't have posted on the crippled thread, in case this in some way affects the possibility of bringing back the old posts.

However, I see you've posted, so I suppose we may as well continue now. If there is any effect, then I doubt that deleting posts will help - or if it does, then any and all posts can be saved, deleted and restored once the old ones are back.

I'll try to get the update up tonight. Various parts of it are written, I just need to tie them together and make an edit or two where the fact that I couldn't refer to the old thread has screwed it up (Borrowed longsword? Damn it, I just resolved a fight with Wolfe using his greatsword...).

According to the Invision FAQ, there shouldn't be any adverse effects to posting in a pre-existing thread. However they do recommend not doing so anyway.

Also, the lack of punctuation in the quote is not ironic considering the banner.

There does not need to be an apostrophe, and it is a direct quote in which no apostrophe is found.

No, there is a missing apostrophe in the banner itself. It says "Dont" where it should say "Don't"... just after it says "Indeed."

Really?

*watches*

That's actually quite hilarious.

Also hilarious is the fact that I was confusing apostrophes and commas.

:rolleyes:

Could we please stop arguing about a missing apostrophe? There's quite a difference between someone who forgets an apostrophe once in a while and someone who uses SMS or 1337 all the time. I entirely agree with Luc's sig, and I think we all do.

LOL ZOMG luc ur sig is soooopooo kewl !!!1!!111one!

On a, aha, more serious note, perhaps it would be better to create an "aside" thread to continue the game in, in which case when (if) the old posts are resturned, the mods could do a bit of coyping and pasting. That way there would be less of a risk to the old posts.

Yes, I know what I'm doing right now. Sorry. But ... @ztech started it!

<runs away, yelling "rofl">

'S far as I see, @ztech's posted, so we may as well use the old thread now. As said before... if anything could be achieved by deleting @ztech's post, then it would also be achievable by deleting any posts that came after. So not much point making extra mod-work. This from the completely unbiased viewpoint of the mod who will certainly have nothing to do with the stitching-back-together of the RP he certainly does not run.

Anyhow, I have an update to finish, and the ghost writer has just clocked off for the evening, so I'm going to have to do it myself. No more OOC gibbering for me...

EDIT: And here it is.

I can't update your character sheets until they come back, but for the record, here is the stat info. Remember, injury totals are not what they were after the large attack, as Alexander has seen to Alphonse & Lothar since then - however, by no means are they completely healed either.

Artur took 6 damage to the left arm (stab) and 4 damage to the torso (arrow).
Egon took 5 damage to the head.
Alphonse took 8 damage to the groin.

Karl... who knows? Not moving much, from what you can see, though...

And just so's you know... anyone who thinks they can see Dietrich and the lady is wrong. There are quite a few tents in the way. If he sounds the alarm, you'll hear him, but otherwise, the people who are on the slope (those who ran after Artur) or at the southern stockade staring at the action (Alexander, Beringar, the other sentries who were coming up) do not have LOS. The nearest awake people to Dietrich will be Susanne and her guards, and they probably can't hear or see much that's going on from inside the barrow.

The point was that a signature espousing the merits of good grammar had, in itself, bad grammar. It's entertaining, that's all. And ironic. And, therefore, whoever first guessed it may get a prize.

Ouch. It was quite a bloody fight... Had I known that it would turn out that way, I certainly wouldn't have charged. But I really couldn't control my anger... Even though I hate to admit it, I would risk my own life for my squire.

I'll never be able to fully repay Alphonse and Egon for bravely saving my life. I'm truly sorry that they were wounded because of me, especially for my sergeant Alphonse, who took a really horrible wound... I swear on whatever is left of my knightly honor that I'll be there is you find yourself in danger, sergeant. I owe you a lot. (But I still don't support your choice of joining Möhring's company... oops, did I say that aloud?)

I can only pray for Karl's life... I couldn't forgive myself if I had risked the lives of six of our men without even managing to save him. But most of all, I couldn't forgive the b***ards who have stabbed an innocent child for no reason.

If we get through this alive, Fiedler should keep his mouth shut about the bodies I didn't bury. This evening has been hard for me, and if he makes me even more angry than I am, I'll break his jaw even if that means being fired from the company.


Edit: I just realized that the Elf who escaped was the one who had shot Alphonse where it really hurts, had wounded Egon at the neck and had stunned then stabbed Karl. I hope we meet this one again: he has a few blood debts to pay... <_<

I still wonder why they wanted Karl alive. I suppose we'll know it someday...


Edit #2: @ Chili: How serious are Wolfe's wounds? Can he still use his greatsword?

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Chili: Feel free to have me getting the sentries re-organised, etc. It's what I'd do, but I've forgotten where I'm standing in the middle of all this.

This may change if Dietrich calls an alarum.

Oh, Wolfe won't get off that easy. I have a good mind to put him back on grave duty after he gets his wounds tended to. Dietrich did warn him about stopping...

@ztech: He could use it with difficulty. Painful but not crippling stab wound in the left elbow. Arrow wound (not that deep, thanks to armour) in the chest.

For the record, on injury: Egon can talk, walk and the rest, he's just got a rather painful gash in the side of his neck. Flesh wound. Alphonse, on the other hand... well, the arrow didn't hit the bullseye (you can tell 'cos the damage total is too low... the location would have to be a couple of injury levels worse before I could in fairness allow that to happen), but pretty damn close. 'Twould be very difficult for him to walk. And quite a lot of pain. Especially while the arrow is still in the wound.

Benedictus: Beringar is over by the stockade with Alexander and the other sentries, finding out what the hell's going on and wondering whether Alphonse is going to be a counter-tenor for the rest of his life.

Kael Anduar: A post would be much appreciated, so that the chaps at the stockade can know whether just to rush off to help the wounded or if they have a decision between that and rushing back to see what all the noise is about.

Just to clarify, in case people were wondering:

Beringar and Alexander would have heard Dietrich clearly, as would the other sentries who came to look after the first lot charged off with Artur.

Lothar would have been able to clearly discern the words "wizard", "attacking" and "to arms".

Egon, Artur and Alphonse and the three sentries who chased the elf would have heard the shout, but would be hard-pressed to work out the specifics of what was being shouted.

Be very careful what you wish for, enemies who inflict significant damage and survive are not the ones you want to be messing with. They're the ones you hope get eaten by a bear and are never seen again.

@ Chili: As far as our sentries can see, is the Elf alone? (I'm talking about the one who is probably about to jump at Fiedler's throat with her dagger drawn.) My bet is that she's not. Or if she is, she has probably a few tricks up her sleeve. I think we should be careful...

Does Alphonse need help to walk back to the camp?

And even though Alphonse, Egon, Wolfe and the others didn't hear what Fiedler was shouting, could they at least understand the urgency of whatever he said?


@ Luc:

Perhaps... I'll wait to see whether Karl survives, then I'll decide what I really wish.

On a side note, it looks like Alex is going to be very busy tonight...


@ Rogue-Gladiator: We're waiting for your orders, sergeant. I know it's difficult for you to talk clearly with that between your legs, but we must act quickly: we have four wounded (including yourself), and Fiedler just bawled something that looked important.

The sentries can't see the elf, as she and Dietrich are in the midst of the tents: they are mostly crowded round the southern end of the stockade, staring up at you lot. And the last elf they saw was Stabby Mcb***ard who ran off after knifing Karl.

Wouldn't you?

Aye. Although Artur and Alphonse have more quite pressing worries of their own right now...

Obedience is a fine thing, but so is initiative.

Meself, I'm mainly waiting for Benedictus to give me a reaction from the guys within striking distance (i.e. Beringar and the lazier sentries) before I update on the whole "will the heavily-armoured mercenary beat the unarmoured woman" problem.

Not trying to lull anyone into a false sense of security.

At all.

*whistles innocently*

@ Chili: Sorry if I sound impatient (I am actually impatient), but now that Benedictus has posted, can we expect an update in the near future? My imagination is already boiling with ideas of what I'll do if this or that happens, and it's unwise to let my imagination wait too long. Maybe I'm over-enthusiastic, or maybe the rest of my life is just boring...

@ Luc: Do you think we should carry Karl and Alphonse back to your tent, or would you rather tend to them right here?

I believe that both of those are waiting on me, I'll be posting my diagnosis for the wounded just as soon as I can get my tired mind to focus.

No prizes for guessing what spell she used there...

Anyhow, Dietrich is pretty badly hurt: 18 damage to the right arm, 3 damage to the torso (thank goodness for armour) and 2 damage from general bleediness. Beringar is unscathed, Werschler is deaded, Kruger is only scratched, and the elf is probably down to her last pint of blood, considering the number of wounds she's taken (Dietrich got three nasty stabs on the bear before she took out his stabbing arm).

This could be on Channel Four... "When Assassination Attempts Go Wrong!"...

There is now a slight time-lag between the battered bunch up on the slope and the bear-baiters down in the camp. Lothar would probably be able to arrive on the scene about now if he'd been running as fast as he could limp, and didn't really care overmuch about getting Alexander's supplies. Egon could follow and arrive pretty soon after if he so desired.

Alphonse, on the other hand, could not.

(The bear originally hit Werschler in the same place the elf hit the Jager. I think I have supremacist feminist dice.)

Poor Werschler. Did he rouse the camp?

I'm tempted to give her a counter-offer: We keep you here while we do our jobs and then you let us go. Otherwise, you die.

Thoughts?

[Incidentally, I realise now that she was the kestrel. Damn amber mages.]

No, but the others are doing so.

Hey- sorry I've not posted yet, but I've been busy. And now I'm going away for a week. Um. I'll post here when I get back, but I won't have any 'net access for the week I'm gone.

Chili may take control. He plays Beringar better than I do anyway. With regards the witch, we'll try and hold her to ransom, I guess. Or at least bargain with her/interrogate her...something.

In the meantime, I want a full search of the camp and the perimeter reestablished. I also want to know how she got past our guards and how that brat got taken. If he was beyond the perimeter, fine. I'll have Wolfe flogged (metaphorically speaking- I'll leave it for Alphonse to decide) for his brat's lack of discipline. If the guards were lax, that's a different disciplinary procedure (again, down to the sergeant's individual discretion, but HARSH). If everyone was in top shape but they got past us anyway, I want ideas on how to tighten security.

Okay. See you guys in a week. Try not to get me us killed.

Are we sure we can keep her alive? She looks badly wounded...

But it's a good idea. Elves will think twice before attacking again if they know that our knife is against her throat all the time.

For a dying woman who is surrounded by several armed men, she seems rather confident, and she might still have a trick or two. Let's just be careful...


Oops, maybe I'm talking a bit too much: my character isn't even supposed to know what the hell has happened back at the camp.

OK, update up. Quite long... kinda has to be, since the usual points where I would break it up are decisions for Beringar to make in any case.

So, to be clear: Alphonse asleep. Dietrich outside the doctor's tent, Artur inside the doctor's tent, Alex inside the doctor's tent with Karl still to deal with, Lothar and Egon getting time off for their wounds, the company is awake and has pretty much scoured the camp for any lurking elves and found nothing. Kruger and Susanne with guards inside barrow, which is also guarded on the outside by Somers and Pike.

Feel free to talk among yourselves, to the NPCs and so on. There's still the problem of whether Dietrich is going to make Artur dig the graves before I move us on to the morning, and I don't yet know whether Dietrich might want to talk to the captain or the wizard about what the elf said. Lothar and Egon would also have heard about that by now, considering the spread of rumour that would have occured from the two Foxes who witnessed the exchange - and considering he has his ear to the ground, Lothar has probably heard in a second-hand kind of way about the wizard's strange behaviour regarding his ruined tent, although he wouldn't have picked up much of the specifics.

Once the essentials are resolved, I'll move us on to the next day.

That doesn't look good for Karl... :(

Well, as someone here once said (I don't remember who), sh*t happens.

It's about time this long, tiring and bloody night finishes. But if the next day is like that, there won't be many survivors at the end. Now I'm waiting for Kael's post.

Sorry for the double post...

As you see, Wolfe just did something that could get him fired. But as he said, he doesn't care anymore: whether he stays under Möhring's orders or not, he's not going to leave the camp. He's now almost sure that Karl is going to die, and he's already thinking about vengeance. Money or loyalty are no longer important for him.

Punching Fiedler was a lot of fun. :D

Fired? Fired?

I think you just got Wolfe killed.

As a side note: I am curious about how things went down. For example, in TDW, when I wanted to stab Xarhain's character, I just wrote it in that I made the attack, so that Chili could roll it out or whatever and resolve what happened. In this case, you just wrote in that Wolfe kicked Fiedler's @ss, which may or may not have happened if Chili were to do it. Needless to say, I would like to get a ruling from Chili as to how this shold be handled. Its not that I'm particularly upset, but I don't know if you can just assume that Wolfe would have been able to get the drop on Fiedler. So basically, I want to ask Chili if Fielder would get a chance to defend himself in any way.

Besides, I had a good idea that was going to happen.

Speaking purely from a medical perspective, Wolfe would get owned.

And now that you've gone and attacked a superior officer, especially one as close to the captain as Dietrich, you've sealed a fate where being 'fired' would be a pipedream.

I was very tired last night when I wrote those lines, and I didn't really think about it... Yeah, perhaps I should have let Chili 'resolve' the fight. Or maybe I shouldn't have hit the sergeant.

I'll let Chili decide what to do: I don't have much time right now.

Maybe. But he attacked very suddenly.

When Somers attacked that guy of the Bestiarii (forgot the name) with a knife, he didn't get punished. When questioned, he replied that the other had attacked him first, and that one didn't even get punished either. I think a fist assault against an officer isn't so much worse than a knife assault against a soldier.

And if Wolfe decides to quit the Company, no one will have the power to punish him... Besides, it's Möhring's choice to decide who he fires and who he keeps.


But I can still change my last post. Or Chili can.

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Aye. For future reference, if you're going to attack another PC, it's best to write your post up to the point where you attack, and break off there, with OOC instructions for me if necessary (i.e. "I'm trying to knock him out" or "Gut the b***ard if at all possible"). Fights can usually go either way, and even in cases such as backstabbing/attacking someone in an injured or helpless position, I need to be able to roll the dice simply in order to translate them into damage. Plus dice are the fairest way to do it - otherwise if Dietrich ever finds the opportunity to retaliate, then he might 'attack very suddenly' and trounce Artur, and then it becomes a matter of he who posts first wins.

Kael: before I go in with my editing sword, assuming Dietrich doesn't get knocked for six in the first few seconds (I wouldn't say it was as one-sided as Luc does, Dietrich did just get savaged by a rather large bear), how would he respond? Just try to subdue Artur? Put the boot in a few times? Or more extreme?

@ztech, I assume that I should try to mirror the intention in your original post - angry enough to go for the kill. If not, say so.

Oh, but exaggeration is what I do. It's my middle name.

I'll edit my last post. On second thought, maybe Wolfe won't go as far as assaulting Fiedler, even though he would be sorely tempted to.

Sorry, I really wrote my last post out of an impulse, without thinking too much about the possible consequences. It was 11 PM, so I was kinda tired...

Edit: Just edited my post in TDW.

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Ahh... but it was so funny, it reminded me of how Xarhain ended up killing Leio in NOW by giving him that extra 'falling on a knife' damage. I laughed a lot when that happened.

Update done.

@ztech, I need to know if Artur will actually dig the graves now.

Any activity from the rest of you would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to volunteer, come up with ideas, or just chat with each other/NPCs. If your location or the location of the person you want to talk to has not been specified, assume you can find them without too much hassle.

Yeah, sure... He doesn't have any choice.

Once it's done, he'll want to go back at the places where the fights took place, to gather all the excellent swords and bows of the fallen Elves. So tell me already: are our attackers' corpses still there, or did they mysteriously disappear overnight?

One more question: where did you find all those German names?

I have a list of 999 Nazi war criminals and a random number generator.

You will find out whether the bodies are gone... when you go to see if the bodies are gone. It would have been hard for them to have been taken away, however, what with Beringar and the sentries watching.

Don't depend on the weapons being too spiffy. Remember, these are wood elves, not fancy-pants high elves with their 'forges' and 'blacksmiths'.

Update up.

>R-G, I need to know whether Alphonse wants to stay with the men on the walls (probably best if he believes the captain's hunch) or see the opening of the tomb. Also, if you have any specific men you'd like to choose for the job of opening it, don't hesitate to do so.

>@ztech, if you want to go and nab those swords/pop in on Karl, you'll have to be quick about it. Burying thirty men took a long time, and now it looks as if everyone will soon need to be accounted for. Thought I should give you the choice of whether you still wanted to go rather than work it into the update (and also I was too lazy to write more than that... it's late and I just had to teach a kid with Terminal Fidgeting Disorder maths...)

>Feel free to post about directing the planned defence/talking to the others/whatever you feel your character would do. Activity seems to have hit a bit of a low...

I think the Elven equipment can wait (if it's still there). I'll just pass quickly by the doctor's tent to check how is Karl this morning and greet Fiora. Then I'll go get my greatsword, put my armor on and join the rest of the Bestiarii.

I'll post tomorrow morning (mid-afternoon for you guys on the other side of the pond).

I'm back, but it might be a little while before I find my typing fingers, get caught up on email/webcomics/volunteerwebsitework, etc before I can respond. From what I've read so far (the first half of the first Chili post since I left, heh), it's looking good.

Damn witches. I knew that was going to happen, but it didn't hurt to try.

Rather, it hasn't hurt so far.

EDITED TO ADD: Ah, I finished reading what's been happening in my absence. Jolly good fun, wot? I have to commend Chili on his portrayal of Beringar: I honestly could leave the RPG forever and would still keep checking back every day. Awesome stuff.

Just two things:

1) Discipline is always, for the most part, a matter for the sergeants. They know what I expect, they maintain it. The lads should be aware of that as well, but if not, that's fine. If so, they should be grumpy with Dietrich and Samuel, not me. :P

2) I thought the orders I gave after the horse had bolted bore a striking resemblance to the orders I gave BEFORE as well. Humph. Still, I'll wager the men are extra sharp now.