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

Comments

[royal_venant]

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

[weifinder]

Wei Wuxian is absolutely down for coordinating this, his questions would be practical to start: how does aiming this fire work, can you build in exclusions, can you make a fixed target? His army is shadow undead (more or less) so spirit, not physically bodied unless he shoves one into a body to possess them, which he could, but generally does not

Can Regulus target with his spell? and so forth! Or does it need someone to be hit and then spread it around by contact?

[royal_venant]

Okay, Fiendfyre. It takes the shape of monsters (chimeras, snakes, dragons) in the form of flames, and is almost sentient (which helps with control). It is difficult to control, but a skilled caster of the Dark Arts can control it and direct the flame monsters where he wants them to go and what he wants them to burn.

There is a counter charm to distinguish the flames so if needs be that can be utilized to halt the progression of the flames, and then it can be recast in another direction. (Perhaps Lily can be on hand to help cast the counter charm to better control the direction of the flames.)

If Regulus and Wei Wuxian can coordinate via the quartz translators, Regulus could direct the fiendfyre in a way that distracts or outflanks the undead to route them in a direction towards Wei Wuxian's army.

Does this help?

I don't know if the flame monsters would affect spirits? Not something addressed in canon at all. They seem to seek out material things to burn, and spirits are immaterial, so I think they'd be safe from the fire.

[weifinder]

I'm going to guess spirits won't be affected, but it also means that as far as kind of controlling the field, Fiendfyre is going to be better at it than his spirits, as they're only tangible enough to harm a portion of the time instead of at all times!

That in mind, having it flank the undead so they can't retreat and end up crushed between Fiendfyre and Wei Wuxian's army sounds like a decent way to go, with Regulus and Lily working together to keep as much control of the fire as they can! Wei Wuxian will be in contact the whole time as needed, and it'll be a busy channel I can assume since it's still all-PC public at all times, but he can tune out what he needs to in order to listen to what needs to be heard too!

Probably try to avoid setting any part of the forest on fire, but also don't avoid it if it helps crowd control the undead, and can be extinguished after the fact before going out of control

[royal_venant]

This sounds like a great plan! And Lily is on board with helping control the flames.

Regulus will be too exhausted afterwards to do much more than exist in a spot.

[weifinder]

This is how Wei Wuxian will largely feel too, so a nod of the head in total, and this sounds like a good and sound plan all around!

Because a lot of what I'm doing is network heavy, I'm going to try and make that a network post here in the next few days, if that's any fun for talking on and having them ICly chatter as this all goes down!

[royal_venant]

I think doing it that way will be fun!