Re: Chaos at the watchtower
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Even as the others arrive to help, the battle at the top of the watch tower comes to a sudden end, with Alara and Swift cooperating in the demise of the Orc Shaman. Swift strikes the final blow, although she and Alara are both coughing from the bitter green smoke the Orc created. Theoderic and Aelasuria get to the top of the tower just as the Shaman collapses.
Once the noise of the battle dies away, and calm settles over the watchtower, everyone realizes just how tired they are. Ovo is already catching his breath, as is Dagnish. Out in the town, without the tower, the Orcs defending are cut off from each other. They have nowhere to go and are trapped and killed, piecemeal, by the troops surrounding Viroviacum.
The group has a chance to rest, and recover. But there are still things to be done. Theoderic organizes his soldiers into searching parties, and they scour the town. He knows there was at least one survivor, Xybezza, and he hears of another, the young man rescued earlier, so he has the town searched in hopes of finding more. He sends out teams as well to clean up the battle sites, especially the Temple of Juno, and hopes that the clerics here can help purify the Temple of Juno, which will be pressed into service as a gathering point for survivors. Theoderic assigns a few of his men to watching from the tower. But he doesn’t want to use the place for any kind of temporary headquarters- he doesn't trust any place where the Blackguards and especially that Orc shaman were. Besides, Gellas is already setting up the “command tent” in the riverside plaza, near the Temple of Juno.
What happens now is kind of complex. There are a lot of characters here, and so it is best to sort out Viroviacum by place and subject, and ignore time. We will assume it is the day following the battle, as the characters will spend the rest of the day recovering, and then settling in for the night.
Also, the next day, there are additional reinforcements: Titus, Eadoin, Ali’cor, and Jaquen show up to the grand gathering, as does Cirrus, who has found herself traveling from Raviniacum far longer than she intended to.
From here, we sort out into different threads:
Viroviacum: The Command Tent. Discussions related to military and political planning will occur in the Command Tent.
Viroviacum: The Temple of Pluto Talking to Xybezza or others about what happened here.
Viroviacum: The Temple of Juno; gathering the survivors in the town.
Viroviacum: Regrouping: Social discussions between characters. Cirrus is headed over here, as are the other NPC’s who showed up with Titus and Eadoin.
If anyone needs a separate thread for anything else, please let the gm’s know.