I’ve gotten a bit behind on these as properly… so…
Just a few weeks again, the Retinue of Girl Ismira Ravensflight buried their companion Yodrick and continued alongside their method to the Hamlert of Gromlet. Alongside their method they famous deserted farmsteads. It was tough to inform what had develop into of the inhabitants.
Had the households died of plague? Had they been murdered by raiding ratlings? Some had been burned down. Different merely deserted. Some had been deserted way back, others extra lately.
After they lastly came across an inhabited farmstead, they found they had been very near Gromlet. There have been fairly a couple of farmsteads now packed in tightly across the hamlet. Certainly, the hamlet itself was a small cluster of a half-dozen or so farmsteads with a small neighborhood corridor and dilapidated chapel and a blacksmith.
The neighborhood was ambivalent to the arrival of a feudal lord returned to reclaim their ancestral lands, complaining that they’d already been taxed twice this season… and it wasn’t even harvest time! The tax collectors claimed to be the King’s tax collectors, although when leaving the capitol, the King himself mentioned taxes had not been collected from the area for a few years and acknowledged that was one of many principal causes he’d urged Girl Ismira to return to her lands
The neighborhood was shocked and dismayed that the retinue had encountered ratlings on the street, which that they had slain, and now feared reprisals. The Ratlings had been a nuisance for various years now, however the villagers had found in the event that they put up no resistance and let the ratling raiders steal the occasional livestock (or babies) they would not kill too a lot of villagers – to them it was simply ANOTHER tax they needed to pay.
Initially, Girl Ismira had deliberate to proceed her march to Ravendown, however stayed on to pacify and present she was keen and in a position to defend her peoples towards the scourge of the ratlings.
Because the villagers appeared to suppose they ratlings at all times got here from the East, they camped out within the farmstead furthest to the east for the primary night time, saying they’d sound Girl Ismira’s warfare horn as a sign for the entire villagers to come back to the defence of the city… Fortunately, nothing occurred.
It occurred to them nonetheless, that there was doubtless little probability that anybody within the area would HEAR the warhorn of their farms, unfold out over a number of miles, and fewer would trouble to reply the decision. The subsequent day, they organized for a gaggle to remain every night time on the neighborhood corridor and a few would hold watch and if there have been indicators of a raid, would march out from the central location. Some weren’t impressed with this concept – as it might imply the outlying farms – by which ever course the ratlings got here from would surly be razed (and presumably occupants killed!) be the response group may presumably get there… however additionally they couldn’t be certain the place the ratlings would come from and which farm can be hit first.
A really small group of farmers and a woodsman armed with a bow gathered to remain on the neighborhood corridor. Because it turned out the second night the ratlings did assault. The sentries preserving watch alerted and awakened the group within the corridor after they noticed a fireplace off to the east. Shortly thereafter, farmers and their households from the japanese farmstead got here operating into the hamlet correct fleeing the ratlings.
The group marched out to satisfy their foes…
The met the Ratling Raiding Get together close to one of many farmsteads east of Gromlet!
The defenders shortly took up positions at a hedge surrounding the farmstead.
The Ratlings attacked!
The Ratlings had a wizard who was throwing fireballs round, lighting up the night time!
The Ratling Wizard (or “Rizard”, because the gamers stored calling it?!) made the error of getting too near Granny…
pelting it with stones, the Rizard was taken out of motion!
(I feel it may need been a Grotesque kill and half the ratlings failed morale and fled…? that is what occurs once I write recreation reviews three weeks after the very fact…)
Ratlings assault the opposite hedge line and Girl Ismira fights the Ratling Commander!
At one level, Girl Ismira was knocked down and issues regarded just a little perilous…
However she obtained again up and minimize that Ratling commander down and the remainder of the Ratlings fled into the night time!
Of the Raiders, solely about half had been slain and it was determined that they need to increase a drive to trace them again to their lair and take care of them for good!
