Unhalad's knock knock knocking at your door...!

[groundrules]

Last few steps of the Sa-Hareth stretch come with Unhalad's mini 16-17 June siege event and the ensuing few days of marauding. Feel free to use that post as a log base, or do your own thing, and discuss any character plans here.

Many thanks to Kalyn, who is lending us Winnie as effective live bait over the event! She won't... regret it...

If you want to have characters severely wounded or killed, there will be more healers and necromancers available in both options for the upcoming arc — for a fee.

The sorceress Karsa will be available on premise once she enters the farmhouse, and you are welcome to NPC her helping your character's plans. To give you an idea, Karsa's primary offensive skillset is fire, so be careful what you have her do in closed quarters. She will not be able to teleport anyone out because the swarm of undead surrounding the farmhouse make it difficult to 'land' safely.

As a result of this... unfortunate domestic development, the Merchant won't be presenting his options on the 15th as initially scheduled, and this will have to be delayed to 17 June. But! Characters should still be out of Sa-Hareth by 21-22 June. Goodbye, winter wasteland. We barely knew ye.

QUESTIONS THREAD

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[downswing]

Who invited son to suicide????

[downswing]

Let's do this, GOT YOUR BACK, BRO

[downswing]

He'll have his quattz to viciously check where tf son and bae are, sadly

[weifinder]

Okay soooo:

Wei Wuxian will not be at the farmhouse when the attack starts! He will have been in the citadel having had a late trade night and planned to come back that morning after, only to learn about the attack.

He'll try to get in touch by quartz (with those at the farmhouse, and with Karsa) while heading back to the citadel and collecting the resentful energies he's familiar with there. To those he gets in touch with, he'll offer the following: in his room, there is a collection of talismans meant for reinforcing barriers to discourage and turn away evil spirits. Slapping these up on a surface can be an additional help. He also has a second, smaller pile, that is for attracting evil spirits. He'd suggest using both in order to help see if it controls where Unhalad's undead will make concentrated areas of attack, and to basically help control the battlefield from inside to whatever degree.

So in summary: talismans to repel and attract evil spirits/undead that he'll request they double check with Lan Wangji, Lan Sizhui, Jiang Cheng, or possibly Xie Lian to make sure they're using the right ones for the right purposes. All the cultivators from his world should be familiar with the potential uses of these talismans, considering they made use of his invention (the evil spirit attracting talisman) over the years he was believed dead. Hah.

He won't be attacking with his undead spirit army until the very end of this, which should be a nice coinciding with anyone making the outside rush and/or the run at Unhalad. Anyone sensitive to energies will note a whole bunch of resentful spirits are being mobilised and are amassing nearby beforehand, but the undead of Unhalad's are likely more pressing as a feeling so congrats when even more death is added to the equation. None of these spirits will attack the ragtam group of PCs or the NPCs who've helped them, with of note means Haltham's not a target even if he were somehow randomly around!

Subsequently to all that second-death dealing, he'll be passing out and in recovery until after everyone's decided where they're going next!

This does mean that most my interactions are likely to be over network, or with anyone else teleporting outside (Five, anyone Five moves) and then at the end of the siege, the full on attack with his undead spirit army. As you do.

Note that Wei Wuxian's gonna feel Very Death Energy after this, and during this, and probably will rate feeling similar to the dead so have fun with that, it's just your friendly neighbourhood necromancer joining the fight!

[weifinder]

Good then they can keep tabs on each other in high key distress and sorry bae but he's gonna go Yiling Patriarch here, but more sensibly, since his blade and shield is, well, you, and he's got just himself out here /yolo

[lancifolium]

Lily will be awake/lightly dozing off sitting up in the kitchen (that damn wind sounds too much like her sister for a gal to get any rest) when the wind and the rats do their foreshadowing thing she’ll rouse and be on edge. When the wards go off she will go find Regulus,per their agreement to have each other’s backs. She will be knocking on doors and yelling that something is coming on the way to him.

Expect her on the offense, doing her best to push back the undead and get noncombative individuals behind her and to safety. If she can make it to the front lines of battle without being deterred she will.

Magically, at this point her make-up bag will have an extension charm on it, in addition to her belongings, she can (uncomfortably) fit another person inside of it, which she will happily do if asked. She is also willing and able to Transfigure things into weapons if anyone needs them.

In a moment of desperation, she may use one of the carp scales she was given at the trials.

Come throw hands, get a weapon, hide in her bag, I'm open to whatever.

[darkeststars]

the squishy DPS/heals is very grateful to have tank by his side lmao

[paperbutterflies]

And who else is dad going to trust enough to have his back... and possibly bring his body back...

also please don't die, son will break. (We all know son has stupid survivability rate.)

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[lancifolium]

Lily’s been wandering the farm and taking notes on the layout at night, how do those stack up against the map presented?

Big If, in a moment of presumably certain doom Lily uses one of her carp scales in likely magically produced, magically warmed water, to tell the carp that the group is in peril and ask for help what will happen?

I'm going to have more questions before this is over, and I'm sorry in advance.

[bearshermark]

Eleven will help fight the initial wave. He takes combat orders well, and wields dual blades effectively. Unfortunately his primary magical element is also fire, but he can wreath his swords in it and effectively combat the undead. He'll also be prone throwing arcs of lightning off his swords as a method of crowd control. If he can ever get outside, he has nice aoe scattered explosions for spells as well.

But given his skillset, I expect he'll swiftly be moved to heal the wounded and get them back into fighting shape once the injuries start to pile up. Of course, he will tire and need to rest to regain his energy and magic after some time.

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[groundrules]

The map is faithful to the current status of the farmhouse, give or take some less straight walls, so should work great against Lily's notes. Unless she's dreadful at cartography!

Ah, I was hoping you'd scale up your efforts. The fish can only act through water, but they will make that spot safe haven for one person within it, who cannot leave it. Advice: use it in the pond. But the moment Lily or anyone she uses it on leaves that area, the scale is forfeit, the shield is down.

[downswing]

Bae.

Bae, no.

[downswing]

CHILD, LOOK AFTER YOUR MOTHER

[groundrules]

Work with Karsa/Yennefer to burn the roof down towards the end, Eleven /chaos

[lancifolium]

Thank you thank you for the info! The scale is an in case of emergency break glass thing, she's more likely to use The Worst Spell She Knows before it, just wanted to know what would happen.

And see, another question: what would happen to Lily's bag (with the extension charm on it) if she put one of Wei Wuxian's offered talismans on it?

[groundrules]

I leave that to Rakel and you!

[weifinder]

oh good news! jiang cheng's out here too and possibly going to get severely injured and hand him zidian



bae's not gonna be feeling great, but at least he's not his almost twenty years younger self

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[royal_venant]

Given Regulus' particularly Dark Art skillset, could fiendfyre be utilized on the undead army OUTSIDE the farmhouse, like at the end? Or is this a bad-good-bad idea?

[foxable]

pls bring lee chang he wants to help

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[groundrules]

Liaise with Wei Wuxian's incoming army at the end, and don't kill the idiots attacking Unhalad (or maybe the fire can distract so they can get close?)

Either way, Regulus has to be exhausted after.

[foxable]

So uhhhhh.... who wants to be made into human lures with rigged mirror pieces to pull the undead away from the house.........

Re: MOD QUESTIONS

[royal_venant]

I'm down with all of this! Regulus can be completely exhausted after this and be out for the vote of where they go next.

[royal_venant]

Per this comment, can we coordinate this? I'm up for ideas. Way too excited to burn everything down!

[darkeststars]

Arche will be helping batten down the hatches and fending off undead to try to maintain some kind of safe perimeter for the noncombatants; you can expect him to be wading into the thick of things chopping off zombie heads and slapping some uncomfortable necromantic heals on anybody who looks particularly in need. Once Unhalad makes an appearance, though, he's making a beeline straight in that direction.

So, we've got Arche and Wangji and maybe perhaps Sizhui so far, who else is coming to kill the warlord hop in y'all we got a jerk on a horse who needs an ass kicking

[foxable]

Can Fox get a bit of a bump up on his understanding of magic in this world by basically gluing himself to Karsa?

Also just checking but - since the mirror pieces are basically useless to him, can he write over the enchantment to do things like, say, blow up once in the hands of an undead after 2 minutes?