Eternal
Given that you feel responsible for the problems going on at Yaquan you think you need to go if only to try to fix things.
“I had a feeling you’d want to go to the Felkan front.” Alison remarks.
“Someone is going to have to fix this mess. I’m just hoping I can do something about it.”
Within the next few days Alison and you say your final goodbyes before you leave. You hope Alison will be able to deal with the gnolls with less troops, but she tells you to not worry about her problems and just focus on the task you’ll have to accomplish.
Your march to Yaquan is an uneventful one, but when you arrive you’ve got more than enough to deal with.
General Ackerson’s war camp is one of the most unorganized camps you’ve ever seen. He obviously isn’t that well respected either as he is arguing with a couple of his lieutenants and a mage of some sort.
“Galen, I’m sick of hearing your excuses, just get it done!” Ackerson exclaims to the mage.
“Oh yes, its so easy for you isn’t it? Just sitting in the back giving orders and not being in the line of immediate fire. Magic isn’t an unlimited art that we wizards can just keep on doing for days on end with no rest! It’s bad enough you wasted all of our golems and we’re reduced to salvaging the remnants. By the Emperor, at least Roldan tried to think things out, I wonder if you even passed the academy or if you just had a relative that promoted you…”
At this point Ackerson lunges at Galen and the pair have to be broken up. You help keep a little order and when they see who you are everyone straightens up a little more.
“Is this what’s been going on here? Petty bickering and incompetence on a scale that could be classified as treason? Everyone needs to shut the fuck up right now, because I’m not going to say this again…”
Doesn’t take long for you to establish a new order of things. Technically General Ackerson is supposed to still be in charge of this operation, but given your close ties to the Emperor you aren’t debated.
While you manage to reorganize the army and take new approach of attack, you can still see why Roldan was having so much trouble with this city. The gnome lightning guns are still ripping through most of the troops and its taking all the magic of the remaining mages left just to upkeep a simple barrier so the war camp can’t be targeted.
In fact you wish Roldan was still here just so you could promote him back up to help you, but unfortunately he was killed in battle shortly after his demotion. (Another one of Ackerson’s bright ideas to make a frontal assault on the city again) The svelk mercenaries at this point have left claiming that no amount of money is worth this meat grinder. All of this makes you really wish you hadn’t supported the Emperor’s idea to replace Roldan.
You decide to have tunnels dug under the city and bring it down that way. It takes longer than you’d like, but you can’t rely on mage support to help with it due to their main concern to upkeep the barriers.
Eventually your men break through to the sewer system where you believe it should be an easy victory from there, but unfortunately the gnomes trapped the hell out the sewers and you lose several troops in the process. One of the Felkans even manages to sneak about the sewers and collapse the invasion tunnels setting your victory back.
Meanwhile your troops on the surface are faring no better, though they fear you more than they did Ackerson or even Roldan and that fear is enough for them to make that push to finally break down the gates. Sensing true victory at last, you decide that you’re going to join the fight personally.
You enter the streets of the city with your troops, mopping up whatever pitiful resistance remains. There isn’t much though and soon the city is yours and you can’t wait to write to Alison about your great victory.
Unfortunately she will only hear of it from someone else.
War being what it is, is always a messy endeavor. Just when one thinks a battle is over, there is always that last hold out or trap and that’s what gets you.
The city’s mayor reportedly stayed in the city hall the entire time of the siege and is supposedly still alive. You, Ackerson and a couple of other officers enter the city hall for the purpose of dictating the Empire’s acquisition of this city, the changes that will come AND seeing if the mayor is willing to comply. Hopefully he does since it saves time on replacing him with your own bureaucrats which might take a while.
No sooner have you entered and you see the place is completely empty. At first you think its just because people went elsewhere, but it doesn’t take long for you to not feel right about the place.
“We need to get out of here…” is the last thing you utter before the entire place explodes. One final trap set by the Felkans.
You are eventually found half burned, blown up and crushed by the rubble. You’re barely breathing by the time they dig you out, and by the time they carry you out, you’ve already expired.
Your victory and death at Yaquan is remembered and used as a propaganda point for the Empire for the remainder of their war with the Felkan Kingdom.
“I had a feeling you’d want to go to the Felkan front.” Alison remarks.
“Someone is going to have to fix this mess. I’m just hoping I can do something about it.”
Within the next few days Alison and you say your final goodbyes before you leave. You hope Alison will be able to deal with the gnolls with less troops, but she tells you to not worry about her problems and just focus on the task you’ll have to accomplish.
Your march to Yaquan is an uneventful one, but when you arrive you’ve got more than enough to deal with.
General Ackerson’s war camp is one of the most unorganized camps you’ve ever seen. He obviously isn’t that well respected either as he is arguing with a couple of his lieutenants and a mage of some sort.
“Galen, I’m sick of hearing your excuses, just get it done!” Ackerson exclaims to the mage.
“Oh yes, its so easy for you isn’t it? Just sitting in the back giving orders and not being in the line of immediate fire. Magic isn’t an unlimited art that we wizards can just keep on doing for days on end with no rest! It’s bad enough you wasted all of our golems and we’re reduced to salvaging the remnants. By the Emperor, at least Roldan tried to think things out, I wonder if you even passed the academy or if you just had a relative that promoted you…”
At this point Ackerson lunges at Galen and the pair have to be broken up. You help keep a little order and when they see who you are everyone straightens up a little more.
“Is this what’s been going on here? Petty bickering and incompetence on a scale that could be classified as treason? Everyone needs to shut the fuck up right now, because I’m not going to say this again…”
Doesn’t take long for you to establish a new order of things. Technically General Ackerson is supposed to still be in charge of this operation, but given your close ties to the Emperor you aren’t debated.
While you manage to reorganize the army and take new approach of attack, you can still see why Roldan was having so much trouble with this city. The gnome lightning guns are still ripping through most of the troops and its taking all the magic of the remaining mages left just to upkeep a simple barrier so the war camp can’t be targeted.
In fact you wish Roldan was still here just so you could promote him back up to help you, but unfortunately he was killed in battle shortly after his demotion. (Another one of Ackerson’s bright ideas to make a frontal assault on the city again) The svelk mercenaries at this point have left claiming that no amount of money is worth this meat grinder. All of this makes you really wish you hadn’t supported the Emperor’s idea to replace Roldan.
You decide to have tunnels dug under the city and bring it down that way. It takes longer than you’d like, but you can’t rely on mage support to help with it due to their main concern to upkeep the barriers.
Eventually your men break through to the sewer system where you believe it should be an easy victory from there, but unfortunately the gnomes trapped the hell out the sewers and you lose several troops in the process. One of the Felkans even manages to sneak about the sewers and collapse the invasion tunnels setting your victory back.
Meanwhile your troops on the surface are faring no better, though they fear you more than they did Ackerson or even Roldan and that fear is enough for them to make that push to finally break down the gates. Sensing true victory at last, you decide that you’re going to join the fight personally.
You enter the streets of the city with your troops, mopping up whatever pitiful resistance remains. There isn’t much though and soon the city is yours and you can’t wait to write to Alison about your great victory.
Unfortunately she will only hear of it from someone else.
War being what it is, is always a messy endeavor. Just when one thinks a battle is over, there is always that last hold out or trap and that’s what gets you.
The city’s mayor reportedly stayed in the city hall the entire time of the siege and is supposedly still alive. You, Ackerson and a couple of other officers enter the city hall for the purpose of dictating the Empire’s acquisition of this city, the changes that will come AND seeing if the mayor is willing to comply. Hopefully he does since it saves time on replacing him with your own bureaucrats which might take a while.
No sooner have you entered and you see the place is completely empty. At first you think its just because people went elsewhere, but it doesn’t take long for you to not feel right about the place.
“We need to get out of here…” is the last thing you utter before the entire place explodes. One final trap set by the Felkans.
You are eventually found half burned, blown up and crushed by the rubble. You’re barely breathing by the time they dig you out, and by the time they carry you out, you’ve already expired.
Your victory and death at Yaquan is remembered and used as a propaganda point for the Empire for the remainder of their war with the Felkan Kingdom.
