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Hmmm, I seem to have an idea. For a better story, Keavney, since the sheep heads can't really do anything at all about the serpent, why don't you leave it to the merfolk, better yet, why doesn't Lodevar go on a quest with the Merfolk, and slay the serpent. And meanwhile he does that, why doesn't some captain lead an expedition to sail up with some small cog into the fleet they are building, set the cog on fire, and then jump off and let the cog sail in and burn all the other ships, knda like the the Spanish Armada. That way there could be two mutual quests at the same time, we would get a break off Lodevar for a few paragraphs, and it would also be a nice break from just talking about how the raids work and all that.
- D-Lotus |
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"The prophet who foretold the coming of Leviathan. Was that Nelectitus the satyr?"
"Yes, it was." "I see. He's done us a great service. I hope you reward him for it." But his eyes narrow as he speaks, leaving you uncertain of his meaning. |
keavney wrote: |
Thanks for the great suggestions so far. Here is some background about your situation to help in the discussion:
Re archers and fire: Your people are very knowledge and skilled at using/starting fire, many of them having been given that responsibility as household slaves. And you have plenty of lantern oil captured in raids that you could use for military purposes. But you have fewer than a hundred archers, and they're not very good. You've only got whatever bows and arrows you could steal from the Bullroars, and the Bullroars themselves aren't very big on archery. And of course, none of your archers has been practicing for longer than a few months, since no one practiced archery as a slave. Given that, it's very unlikely that, shooting from the water, your archers could hit the ships that are being built in Dorax. That doesn't mean that you couldn't try to set them afire, but you would have to get closer, at least partway up the hill, and you might also need to use javelins or spears, which you have more of, and possibly even do it by hand. Incidentally, the best archers in the Wheel are the centaurs, who live on the other side of the Great Sea, and so far haven't responded to your requests for talks. Re trade and supplies: The Bullroars traded with all of the races on the shores of the Great Sea: the centaurs, satyrs, and Mist Islanders. The Bullroars are skilled in metalworking and have lots of iron ore mined by sheephead slaves, so they would typically trade finished metal products, everything from silverware to doorknobs to weaponry, in exchange for wine, food, ceramics, furs, spices, and other such things. Most of the merchant companies who ran this trade were Bullroar, although there were some ships of other races as well, especially Mist Islanders. When the merfolk blockaded the seas, they stopped all of the seagoing trade to and from Kria, although of course the other races are still free to trade amongst themselves by sea. Most of the Bullroar merchant companies still do the same trade but take the overland route, which is much longer and more expensive. Your people have been getting most of your supplies from raiding the towns along the coast. You've accumulated some other plunder as well, much of which is not immediately useful in your war. So far, you haven't attempted to trade or buy anything with this. In addition to surviving off of raided supplies, your people fish and have begun to plant crops on Freehome. Re the necklaces that allow breathing water: You gave these back to the merfolk when you returned from underneath the sea. You don't know how common these are or how many the merfolk have; you would have to speak to them to find that out. Hope this helps answer some questions. Please let me know if you have more. |
D-Lotus wrote: |
Maybe we should also get the bullroars to pay huge amount of taxes to be able to pass, or to release sheepheads to free home.
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D-Lotus wrote: |
If all the bullroars are on that one city, maybe after we foil their plan, we could go and try to take another city by the coast or the inland, and start building up there until a bullroar army arrives. If the army is too powerful, we could always retreat. Could we do all these things in one chapter?
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D-Lotus wrote: |
Is the merking a very powerful magician too?If so, he could certainly afford to get one of those pearl neclaces for his son, right?
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D-Lotus wrote: |
Does Petrosian distrust in the satyr because he talks too much?Anyway, hope you can answer my questions Keavney.
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D-Lotus wrote: |
Well, then I think that at least two of my ideas can be used. Oh, maybe we could block trade of other countries who own sheep head slaves and make them pay? Maybe if we emerge victorious from this battle, we can start taking cities, we need to start stepping forward, cause were kinda stuck in freehome, and anyway, the mountains are our land, we would have advantage! I don't know... Another idea I had was maybe boarding the ship in the night and maybe steal some!! |
keavney wrote: |
Thanks for the great suggestions so far. Here is some background about your situation to help in the discussion:
Re archers and fire: Your people are very knowledge and skilled at using/starting fire, many of them having been given that responsibility as household slaves. And you have plenty of lantern oil captured in raids that you could use for military purposes. But you have fewer than a hundred archers, and they're not very good. You've only got whatever bows and arrows you could steal from the Bullroars, and the Bullroars themselves aren't very big on archery. And of course, none of your archers has been practicing for longer than a few months, since no one practiced archery as a slave. Given that, it's very unlikely that, shooting from the water, your archers could hit the ships that are being built in Dorax. That doesn't mean that you couldn't try to set them afire, but you would have to get closer, at least partway up the hill, and you might also need to use javelins or spears, which you have more of, and possibly even do it by hand. |
Smee wrote: |
Hey there Conor.
It's 'oars' by the way. Ores is the spelling for the stuff from the ground, like iron ore. I agree. I've shot a long bow a couple of dozen times. It's relatively easy to shoot the length of a football (soccer) pitch, quite a bit further with the height idea you had. Wanders off muttering... "purple = Ravenwing , red = Conor, orange = Emperor, white = any guest but probably D-Lotus Ha, got it sorted for when you all forget to log in 8) |
Reiso wrote: | ||
Silver=Reiso (and half a dozen other people, but dammit, it's cool.) |
Anonymous wrote: |
Are they using long or short bows? The only real difference is the range and the pull. If any of them are strong enough to really pull back, they should be able to get quite a good bit of range. You might, if your are worried about range, put them on the mast of he ships so they are shooting downward which would greatly extend the range, but make it harder to light the arrows before hand. they could also use drift wood, or trees with targets to start working on accuracy. |
D-Lotus wrote: |
Is the merking a very powerful magician too?If so, he could certainly afford to get one of those pearl neclaces for his son, right?
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To add to the plan, the remaining Sheepheads could be preparing defenses of Freehome, ready to repel anything from the mainland that they don't know about |
Mother Goose wrote: |
Does Lodevar ever get a chance to talk to Lalomea? She must know something about the Leviathan, and if she's not too much under the thumb of her father, and Lodevar has succeeded in winning her trust a bit, she might be able to tell him something useful. |
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thanx Smee for the spelling fix |
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anyone else actualy interested in the relationship between Lodevar and Lalomea? |
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