Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160531165159/@comment-24696651-20160615152702

(Thanks Harold :). As co-GM, do I have responsibilities other than handling NPCs?

Yeah, those are the only two bridges close to Ivarstead. Also, I made a slight mistake, they should be besieging the north and east.)

7th of Midyear

Cynric called an emergency meeting with his Black Hoods.

"We're currently trapped inside Ivarstead," Cynric explained. "Until the siege ends, we can't get out. Riften's forces outnumber Ivarsteads, and they have ready access to supplies. Therefore, I would suggest we try to destroy Ivarsteads food stores to end the siege."

"Why can't we just escape?" one Black Hood asked. "It's not like they'll see us."

"We have too many valuable goods stored here," Cynric said. "There are also valuable fences with us who couldn't sneak out. I suggest that we should reconnoitre the barracks and make plans for an infiltration. If an oppurtunity presents itself, we take it. Agreed?"

The Black Hoods begrudgingly agreed.

9th of Midyear

Skuldar had finished the construction of his camp's defenses, and had made preperations for another phoney assault. His trebuchets began firing at the walls, using hollowed out stones packed with hay, which, although they didn't shatter, were very light and didn't do much damage. Still, it would take a while for them to notice. The infantry was shouting and making war cries a few hundred metres away, just out of the range of the ballistae, and a very loose screening force of archers was firing at the walls of the town.

Cynric and his Blackhoods were in the husk of the building they set on fire as a distraction, just opposite the keep complex. They looked around to see if there were any guards.

20th of Suns Height

The occupants of Fort Winter were private mercenaries, an unscrupulous bunch who ran an extortion racket near the local towns and would occasionally do work for those who paid extra. They had stocked up on grain and salted meat offered by local farms as "tribute", and still had months of supplies left. The commander of the mercenaries was therefore uninterested in any kind of surrender.