How it happened:
Knowing that no one on the council would be particularly excited about the prospect of the Crown Prince leading just over a hundred troops into Karrnath to find and rescue Duke Korlan, Oargev tries to mask his leaving. He has the members of the Prince’s shield spread word around Metrol and all the way to the northern border that the Prince is embarking on yet another mercy mission to war-torn villages. Intrigue Roll=18! Anyone who is paying attention to the Prince and his movements assume his northern trip is another mercy mission.
As the the Prince and his retinue camp in the north, they join up with one of the northern army encampments. The plan is to sneak across the river under the cover of darkness and be deep into Karrnathi territory before anyone notices they’d gone. Roll=13! The crew sneaks across the river and moves deep into Karrnath. They find a copse of trees to set up camp for the evening.
The plan is for the Order of the Prince’s Shield to travel into nearby villages and try to find out where the Duke might be held while the Warforged and Oargev hide in the woods, keeping a perimeter to make sure no one who sees them makes it out alive. Intrigue=30 and Combat=20. The order is barely gone one day before they return with very solid information that the Duke is being kept in the dungeons beneath the Fortress of Atur. The one patrol that comes across your hidden camp doesn’t make it out alive.
The rescue mission moves quietly across Karrnath, through the Karrnwood to get to Atur. Roll=19. They make it through silently and make camp again just southeast of Atur under the cover of the mountains and trees.
The Order of the Prince’s shield sneaks into the town surrounding Atur and hits the bars, drinking with the soldiers from the castle, learning what they can about it’s design and defenses. Roll=13! They find the soldiers tight lipped, and return to camp, determined to take another approach. Blade sends some of his best scouts to observe the castle over the next 24 hours, hoping they can find some weakness in their defenses that can be exploited. Roll=11! As far as they can tell, the fortress is impregnable. Amidst all of the waiting, Prince Oargev and Blade discuss amongst themselves old war accounts of Atur, and try to decide on an appropriate plan of action. Roll=17 Blade recalls a story he once heard about an Aundarian master spy who broke OUT of Atur. Oargev and blade piece together that story with the small pieces of information the Order and the Warforged are able to deliver and come up with a plan.
The plan is a concerted assault on a hidden sally-gate they remembered from the story that will take them into the dungeon. There they will kill the guards, grab the duke, and make their way quickly back south to Cyre. They make the attack! Roll=15 The fighting is brutal, and in the first assault, many members of the Order of the Prince’s shield are badly wounded, but the warforged press on, making their way into the dungeons. The dungeon guards, totally surprised, still manage to put up a fight. Roll=19! They find the Duke, break him out of prison, and flee the castle back through the way they came, disappearing into the dark woods, taking their fallen companions with them.
They move quickly, hoping to beat any border reinforcements that might be summoned, staying ahead of any pursuit. As they leave the Karrnwood, they are faced with a patrol that heard them coming. Roll=19. The fighting is close, and the patrol manages to contain them, but the Warforged keep fighting! Roll=17, Roll=23, Roll=12. It looks like the patrol is just biding their time. It seems that they might be waiting for a larger force to come up and finish the group off. Roll=8 A much larger patrol arrives, and surrounds the warforged, the Prince, the weak duke, and what is left of the knights. Roll=9 Things start looking very grim as the army closes around the squad. Roll=9. The fighting becomes more and more desperate. Roll=13 The assault from the Karrnath army breaks the circle of warforged. Prince Oargev is knocked unconscious.
The next the Prince knows, he wakes up in a tent, with Tact and Blade standing over him. When he asks what happened, he is told by Blade, “In the confusion, Tact and I were able to grab you and slip away from the fighting. Only a handful of your warforged made it away with us. We were unable to rescue any of your knights or the Duke. I apologize for our failure. We are back in Cyre.”
Your Mechanical Options:
Mission debriefing: Talking to the warforged, they tell you that, once it was clear they had lost the battle, Blade commanded most of the surviving warforged to hold the line while they got the Prince to safety. They also tried to bring out the Duke, but the warforged carrying him was struck down. You get the sense that Blade is deeply saddened by the loss of the warforged, but not saying anything. He does ask you if you plan on rebuilding the unit, commissioning more warforged from the Cannith forges. He mentions he would be more than happy to train new recruits.
Knowing that no one on the council would be particularly excited about the prospect of the Crown Prince leading just over a hundred troops into Karrnath to find and rescue Duke Korlan, Oargev tries to mask his leaving. He has the members of the Prince’s shield spread word around Metrol and all the way to the northern border that the Prince is embarking on yet another mercy mission to war-torn villages. Intrigue Roll=18! Anyone who is paying attention to the Prince and his movements assume his northern trip is another mercy mission.
As the the Prince and his retinue camp in the north, they join up with one of the northern army encampments. The plan is to sneak across the river under the cover of darkness and be deep into Karrnathi territory before anyone notices they’d gone. Roll=13! The crew sneaks across the river and moves deep into Karrnath. They find a copse of trees to set up camp for the evening.
The plan is for the Order of the Prince’s Shield to travel into nearby villages and try to find out where the Duke might be held while the Warforged and Oargev hide in the woods, keeping a perimeter to make sure no one who sees them makes it out alive. Intrigue=30 and Combat=20. The order is barely gone one day before they return with very solid information that the Duke is being kept in the dungeons beneath the Fortress of Atur. The one patrol that comes across your hidden camp doesn’t make it out alive.
The rescue mission moves quietly across Karrnath, through the Karrnwood to get to Atur. Roll=19. They make it through silently and make camp again just southeast of Atur under the cover of the mountains and trees.
The Order of the Prince’s shield sneaks into the town surrounding Atur and hits the bars, drinking with the soldiers from the castle, learning what they can about it’s design and defenses. Roll=13! They find the soldiers tight lipped, and return to camp, determined to take another approach. Blade sends some of his best scouts to observe the castle over the next 24 hours, hoping they can find some weakness in their defenses that can be exploited. Roll=11! As far as they can tell, the fortress is impregnable. Amidst all of the waiting, Prince Oargev and Blade discuss amongst themselves old war accounts of Atur, and try to decide on an appropriate plan of action. Roll=17 Blade recalls a story he once heard about an Aundarian master spy who broke OUT of Atur. Oargev and blade piece together that story with the small pieces of information the Order and the Warforged are able to deliver and come up with a plan.
The plan is a concerted assault on a hidden sally-gate they remembered from the story that will take them into the dungeon. There they will kill the guards, grab the duke, and make their way quickly back south to Cyre. They make the attack! Roll=15 The fighting is brutal, and in the first assault, many members of the Order of the Prince’s shield are badly wounded, but the warforged press on, making their way into the dungeons. The dungeon guards, totally surprised, still manage to put up a fight. Roll=19! They find the Duke, break him out of prison, and flee the castle back through the way they came, disappearing into the dark woods, taking their fallen companions with them.
They move quickly, hoping to beat any border reinforcements that might be summoned, staying ahead of any pursuit. As they leave the Karrnwood, they are faced with a patrol that heard them coming. Roll=19. The fighting is close, and the patrol manages to contain them, but the Warforged keep fighting! Roll=17, Roll=23, Roll=12. It looks like the patrol is just biding their time. It seems that they might be waiting for a larger force to come up and finish the group off. Roll=8 A much larger patrol arrives, and surrounds the warforged, the Prince, the weak duke, and what is left of the knights. Roll=9 Things start looking very grim as the army closes around the squad. Roll=9. The fighting becomes more and more desperate. Roll=13 The assault from the Karrnath army breaks the circle of warforged. Prince Oargev is knocked unconscious.
The next the Prince knows, he wakes up in a tent, with Tact and Blade standing over him. When he asks what happened, he is told by Blade, “In the confusion, Tact and I were able to grab you and slip away from the fighting. Only a handful of your warforged made it away with us. We were unable to rescue any of your knights or the Duke. I apologize for our failure. We are back in Cyre.”
Your Mechanical Options:
- You can redo Order of the Prince’s shield to recruit a new crew of Prince’s Shield.
- You can also do a Policy of “Purchase and Train Warforged Unit from Cannith” to put together a new warforged unit.
- The warforged unit you had has now turned into a Hero Unit (level 4) called “Prince Oargev’s Warforged Bodyguards.” This is Blade, Tact, and 8 other warforged.
Mission debriefing: Talking to the warforged, they tell you that, once it was clear they had lost the battle, Blade commanded most of the surviving warforged to hold the line while they got the Prince to safety. They also tried to bring out the Duke, but the warforged carrying him was struck down. You get the sense that Blade is deeply saddened by the loss of the warforged, but not saying anything. He does ask you if you plan on rebuilding the unit, commissioning more warforged from the Cannith forges. He mentions he would be more than happy to train new recruits.
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