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8th of Jestaní, 429 PE

Defending the Great Wall

by André Pelnar

  • Alesha is preaching to Jim and the other Yuan-ti, who seem cold towards the ancient lost ideas but are not heckling

  • André restocks his magical supplies, getting Holy Water from Alesha and 3 diamonds

  • Faolan runs to Nikea to get a letter of marque for Mysteria to continue with it's piracy

  • After a couple days on Mysteria, a crew from Apepsos shows up at the docks. After removing their weapons but keeping their shields, we bring them to the Fort.

  • We meet with them in the barracks, and they explain that the Boverk Stormborn, the Aarumite general, is actively overrunning Nabiu, but the Cyrneicans can't hold out indefinitely.

  • Terruk's have been raising an army to meet Stormborn but they're otherwise focused on Gorachenya. The Huri desert is not exactly a target-rich environment.

  • We take the Nikean-gifted ship to Apepsos. 3 days on water, 2 days on land.

  • We're brought to the Great Wall. The Apepsos Guard presents the message that "By the Ordination of the Master in the Sky, Boverk Stormborn will make the rich, fat lands of Aeilla the new home for his people."

  • While we're discussing the positioning of the Peptide, Cyrenic, and Terruk armies, the General Alexios receives a note. The Cyrenicans have abandoned the plateau.

  • We suggest the Peptids send envoys to everyone they can, and to put out an order to willing Aaracokran volunteers to help bolster the wall's garrison. In the meantime, we're going to go out into the Huri desert to make contact with the Terruk army being mustered.

  • After 16 hours, we realise we never actually got info on where the Terruks were massing. I message the General, and hearing the facepalm in the reply he tells us it's 8 hours due west.

  • By midday the next day, we find that the Terruk army has been completely annihilated, with dead Aarumites and Terruks strewn throughout glassed sand. We'd guess that about 8,000 Terruks are on the field, and 5,000 Aarumites. There is a trail heading due south. It looks like the Aarumites have killed all the Terruk survivors, and might be carrying their own, slowing them down.

  • We wrangle up some surviving horses and speed off in the direction of the advancing army. After 4 hours, we find that the army is only a few thousand strong, with a hurricane surrounding them.

  • We teleport back to the wall, with the three horses. I pass my Lightning Bolt wand to one of the mages to help spread out the resources.

  • By the end of the day, we can see the approaching army. André makes his rounds to giving the garrison conjured coffee in the hours leading up to.

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