Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160205120927/@comment-17114085-20160210214208

(@Pacman: I assume you mean both the bandit groups.

@Red: Sure.

@Dragon: You should timeskip to the current month.

@Maxi: Cyrus might be able to sneak into the fort at night, because he is adept at sneaking, but he has no forces that are sneaky. The only rogue-ish forces he'd have would be archers and archers aren't sneaky soldiers either. So even in the dark of night he wouldn't be able to sneak men into the fort without the bandit lookouts finding out. A force of 400 men wouldn't be able to approach the fort undetected. The bandits would have lookouts even at night and since the soldiers are not sneaky they would be terrible at approaching incognito. It just doesn't make sense.)

~18th of Second Seed

The bandits had come in handful of boats through the lake and landed on the Riften docks. When they did they immediatly went to plundering the nearest warehouses for goods and began taking them back to their boats. The 100 of them were making quick work of the raiding, as attacking so early in the morning meant that the docks were nearly abandoned. The citizens hadn't come to work yet. And the rare few that had, ran away screaming in fear of the bandits.

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~19th of Second Seed

Because of Emron's quick reaction, he was able to retreat from the battle with only 11 losses. The brigands didn't chase after them, for they felt that they didn't need to as they had won the battle.

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~20th of Second Seed

Fort Strand was home to a rather notorious band of outlaws that went by the name of the Golden Company. There were 200 of them and currently they were being paid protection money from Gweden. While the village could protect itself from the outlaws, but it would cause them to lose quite a few men and the village's lord was quite cowardly. Thus they preffered to pay the company instead of fighting them. Due to being constantly paid by the village, the fort was in great shape. The company had even been able to build two ballistae to defend it.

The company had enough supplies to last them a few weeks.

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~27th of Second Seed

Dreekius returned to Windhelm and reported to King Korst. "Cultists by the looks of them." He told the king. "I counted nearly 300, but there may be more. Most were Dunmer as well."

"I see. Good job, Dreekius. You may go about your business. I don't have any job for you currently." Korst told him.

The Argonian bowed slightly and went off.

An hour later, the king met with Haki in the war room adjacent to the throne room. "We will use this to test how loyal Uncle Dathman really is. Have mother send him a letter beckoning him to bring 200 of his forces to the fort to wait for you and another 300. He will be in charge of this siege, so listen to him."

Haki chuckled. "I don't think I will be able to, since you cut out his tongue."

Korst grinned, but then stopped when he was reminded that cutting out the tongue of a general was not a smart idea. "Make due somehow. I want Dathman to prove his loyalty and worth during this battle."

Haki shrugged. "Alright. I will leave with the men in a few days. We'll meet Lord Dathman northeast of the fort."

Later that afternoon, Fryssa sent the letter to Dathman. A raven was sent to deliver it to him.

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~28th of Second Seed

Lord Dathman received the letter from Fryssa with King Korst's orders. He decided to follow then and prepared to lead his men west to the fort.

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~29th of Second Seed

Haki and 200 of Windhelm's men departed towards Fort Morvunskar.

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~31st of Second Seed

Lord Dathman and his force left Kynesgrove.

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~30th of Second Seed

The 1200 soldiers that had taken Chasepoint for Hegathe reached Fort Bayside and besieged it. With the overwhelming amount of soldiers that they had, they didn't wait the defenders out. The forces had come in Hegathe's ships, most of the infantry was dropped off near the fort while the ships bombarded it from the water.

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~4th of Second Seed

They were greatly outnumbered, but bandits were bandits. They didn't surrender, but they weren't suicidal either. They attempted to abandon the fort, trying to escape towards the north.