BoG'r OOC.

Yess.... B urning as in burning with a B, here, well ehm, he is right out of the monstrous manual so... look him up and it will say Flight 60ft Poor Manouvr.

I simply dislike my name being misspelled thats all, you make a lot of spelling mistakes, and I correct u and any others that make them, just as much as my DM's correct me... I like to have a clean and good written game with as good a spelling as we can try, no sloppy writing, regardless of who you are, i myself use Word just to check spelling of certain words, if i am not certain. lighten up plz, i was not condescending..

aGREED, zIMMY

Still here. Reading to catch up.

Edit: Damn, I'm sorry I couldn't post. I'll get something up after classes.

Assuming the raid is successful, would it be feasible to sow their fields with salt?  (Ya'shenn would be happy to suggest it if so.)  Of course, rendering the fields infertile might mean the githyanki would have little need to raid Assam some more in the future...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salting_the_earth

I think I'm going to have to back out. I'm sorry I didn't commit earlier, but I can't stay in good conscience and keep everyone waiting.

OOOoo, multiple independent scouting reports, lol, who will tell what to whome, hehehe

Aha, amongst the group or to all npc's included?

Ii'Jyka would not per example tell her findings to much to any npc's.

That is, she would tell parts of it, as she sees fit to diverge to any non allied Gith.. (allied to our group on a reasonable basis)

Assam:

The city has no walls, but there is a castle made of thick wooden palisades, and a stone tower, next to the river. It looks fairly new.

* The castle is fairly recent, built after the first few githyani raids.

* The castle itself is protected from scying.

* The tower in the wooden 'castle' is pretty stout, and has balistas on top for defence from air attack.

* Ya'shenn only sees three guard patrols, but they have over a dozen heavily armed (with bows as well) warriors each.

Outside the city are two camps made up of wagons. The one with fewer wagons has more horses, in fact it seems to be transporting horses as its chief ware.

* The wagons are actually owned by a few merchants banding together for protection. 4 different merchants with different wares. In order of number of wagons; 1. Barrels of pickled fish and other preserved foodstuffs, 2. Tools and stout wooden tool-handles, guarded by dwarves, 3. Textiles, some made into clothes or other items, but most in lange bolts/rolls, 4. A couple of wagons of bric-a-brac, gypsy-types selling whatever they've found in their travels.

The city seems underpopulated, with several unoccupied buildings, including one small street seemingly devoid of graith.

[Ya'shenn examined the empty street more thoroughly -- nothing obviously interesting here]

At the time of day, early evening, most graith were either in their homes or congregating at one of three tavens in the town.

The town square is a couple of blocks south of the ford. The ford is very wide, but only about a foot deep.

* There are also a couple of stone civic buildings (newly repaired) in the main square that could house a jail, armory, treasury, etc. These buldings also have anti-scry wards.

The town square includes a large inn/tavern, a couple of civic buildings, and many store-fronts. Several of the store-fronts are empty, but about two-thirds seem to be active (stuff in the windows). Most of the store-type businesses in the central square have one or two floors above the store. Almost all of these are actively occupied by graith.

Churches: 4, and some minor shrines.

Water sources: There is a public well in the main square, and a few private wells here and there.

-outside the city-

The strike-force will be coming from the south-east. On their right flank is the wetwoods, a swampy forest upstream from the ford at Assam. There are a few fishing-shacks in the woods, but little logging activity.

*The wetwoods constitute a pretty major obstacle for anybody trying to go through on foot.

OK.    I'll (re)post later today.

Done.  Sorry for the delay, guys.

Woot !

I was wondering whether we should try doing anything mind-control-wise prior to the battle, or at the very beginning of the battle. For example, there's the dramatic possibility of having some charmed farmer/herdsman/whatever walk into the city, climb a rooftop near the town square, and proclaim exactly why Assam is totally doomed and why its people must leave and never return -- right before the overwhelming attack on the town begins!

Alternately, the githyanki could grab a couple of herdsmen/etc outside the city, charm them, and (just before the battle) have them start running through the city screaming at their top of the lungs "We're doomed, doomed, doomed, we have angered the gods, this land is cursed," etc.

Or we could do both!

On the other hand, we don't want to give the defenders too much warning that the githyanki are about to attack.  What do you think?

So, about that tower. It's unscryable, so teleporting directly into the tower isn't an option currently. I'm not sure how much Ya'shenn knows about magical combat, but I figure it's possible that one or more mages might sit inside the stone tower and toss medium- to long-range spells (fireball, lightning bolt...) at the raiders.  If so, I'm not sure how to counter that strategy.  Basically, the githyanki might have to force their way into the tower in that case. Another point:  The tower's ballistae (and archers) should be torched right off, either by Kirath's fireballs or breath weapons.