Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20160205120927/@comment-24696651-20160212223237

(How can you have anything resembling a trench in docks?)

28th of Second Seed

The Black Hoods, now that the numbers were even, took a more aggresive approach. They sprinted and swam towards the boats, bypassing the defences where possible by free-running. Those who got in the way were killed, by bows if possible, assuming they wouldn't take too long to kill. When they reached the boats, they cut the ropes mooring them, and pushed them off, so the raiders would not be able to load their loot onto them.

4th of Midyear

Ugrak gro-Bhash swore. He was trapped in Fort Treva. He had been intended to slip in and out at meal times, when the bandits where at the mess hall. The slipping in part had been sucessful - they had been able to disable all the traps and take the jewellery without a single injury - but now Riften had occupied the fort. If they didn't get out soon, they would be captured. Gro-Bhash had a plan, but it wasn't great.

He looked through the fort to find a long piece of rope - at least twenty metres - to secure to the fort's tower. There, he and his Black Hoods could slide down - but it was exposed. Unfortunately, it was his only hope.

Cynric saw it before anyone else - black figures, abseiling the tower of the fort. He assumed they were Black Hoods. Who else could they be? Figuring that it would be best if no-one saw it, he ordered most of the archers to clear out the fort, which they had presumably left. Those he spotted as being poor shots he positioned on the walls, facing away from the tower, and the rest he moved down to the courtyard. That way, he could make things seem normal whilst ensuring that the only people who could see his Black Hoods had poor vision.

Skuldar spat on the ground.

"Damn cowards."

He knew that his cavalry couldn't keep up with bandits through the woods, and the bandits probably knew this area like the back of their hand. Instead, he had his men go back to the fort, but not before rounding up bandit casaulties. The dead would be burnt, the living taken prisoner, though they would likely die of their wounds.