Whispers at the Fire
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The barricade is better than anything we’ve had here before. With skirmishers just outside the gate to harass them on the way in, then shooters, then those at the end of the barricade to pin them…to me, it seemed a slaughter.
He turns his helm slightly nodding to the nearest guard
Pile the bodies up high and set them alight, a signal to their tribe that none of their warriors will return from this battle.
The chancellor then moves to Shay and speaks with her a moment. She responds with a sharp “yes sir!” and goes about making preparations. Within a few hours, a small group of guardsmen led by Shay and Loc make their way west, leaving a trail of goblin corpses in their wake.
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The strategist and skirmisher called Caling (ex heroic knight of Sune) happens to be passing through Norwick on unrelated business during the hours of daylight. She overhears this exchange of views regarding archer visibility and deigns to offer her considerable experience
_'You know, Foily, He's got a bit of a point… If the archers had better visibility of the approach to the gate, like the guys on Sam's Hill have, they could maybe prevent the little greenboys from walking up and kegging it.
'Ooh, Maybe a double-gate between some earthworks! If that gave people a bit of access to get an angle to loose arrows -along- the wall, you could stop the guys with ladders too._
Assuming she doesn't have to flee an irate dwarven temper, she'll submit a sketch of two parallel ((1x3)) raised earthworks with 2 gates between them. Ramps to access the earthworks should allow defending archers a commanding view of the killing ground between the gates as well as visibility along the wall.
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_Overhearing William, Foilir points north and east with his staff informing him that Jiyyd and the Legion base is that way.
He also adds that he is more than free to stay, as his deaths have led to an incdredible increase in the local economy through sales of small diamonds and healing services.
The dwarf plants the staff into the ground and stands staring at the human, wondering how someone who has died more times than years he has been alive, can possibly think about speaking of tactics._
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_After a goblin assassin tried to kill the Chancellor during the attack William was heard to comment that this is one of the unfortunate consequences of having a defense that requires the enemy be allowed inside the gates to be effective.
During the attack, it is notable that the only people using the archer towers were Scouts attached to the Norwick Militia - and they used their bows almost not at all. The main group of archers stood just inside the gateway itself, since that was the only place in the defense they could make use of the full range of their weapons with an adequate field of fire, and also hit attackers close to the wall._
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_Foilir talks to the guards at the South Gate after yet another goblin attack.
The amazing resonance of the gong attracting folk from leagues away, clearly hit by an overzealous guard with all their might.
The overzealous 'outsider' defenders creating a small mob outside the gate, rendering the new norwick defenses useless.
Nonetheless, the armored dwarf is impressed at the lack of death, especially of the skinny known as William. He chuckles a bit knowing that somewhere, something of value is exchanging goblin hands as the friar's most frequent customer somehow lived this night.
He instructs the guards not to leave the gates but to guard on the other sides of the cross hatched wood defenses, with archers supporting them on the tower.
After barking out his orders calmly, he goes to find his cousin about some gates._
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Following shortly after the previous goblin events, a large scale goblin attack is launched all night at the town, with a strange grey beast appearing shortly after it finishes which vanished into mist when slain.
As the Dawn breaks, two men in the armour of the Watchfull Repose can be seen doing the long task of collecting all the bodies from the battlefield and creating a Pyre, speaking to Kelemvor to tell him of the Goblins passing so he may judge them, as the bodies are burnt, then the ashs buried.
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What the fark we got here? Jiyyd II? Folks think they can walk around skinnin greenskins and that they aint gonna rise up and cause us problems?
Dwin tells the guards to take names of anyone bragging or discussing the slaughter of goblins.
OH! and I found another farkin book outside me crafting hall…
Dwin stomps off to find Lucid.
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Those in the west rawlins may have heard high screams in the night. At daybreak any wanderes could find the bodies of two goblins skinned and stacked to trees.
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Dwin is seen carrying a few odd looking books through town and asking the guards who was sitting near the well recently.
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_About to go on one of his patrols to the west, lucidious pauses to look over the heads. Tracing a pattern in the air, he casts a spell and looks them over more carefully. The elf then slips his helm without a word and takes the heads back to the wall, again in a leather bag.
Lucidious then goes out on patrol as planned. Hours later he returns smelling of charred goblin flesh, his blade coated in dark blood. Still helmed, he spends some time cleaning the sword by the lake, then offers up a silent prayer before returning to the inner walls._
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This time, two human heads appear, in the same way as last time, somewhere to the west of Norwick, on the edge of goblin territory…their eyes have been removed, and stuffed inside their mouths.
Upon hearing of the fate of these two men, Shannon offers to perform Resurrection rights on each of them so that they may live once again, and so that their slayer can be identified.
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This time, two human heads appear, in the same way as last time, somewhere to the west of Norwick, on the edge of goblin territory…their eyes have been removed, and stuffed inside their mouths.
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Apparently out of retaliation, someone has put a couple of goblins to death and left their corpses out in the sun to rot. Just south of Norwick. Rumor says it was sponsored by someone in the militia.
A day later a man in the silver and gold of the watchfull repose removes the corpses a distance away and burns then buries the remains.
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Apparently out of retaliation, someone has put a couple of goblins to death and left their corpses out in the sun to rot. Just south of Norwick. Rumor says it was sponsored by someone in the militia.
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While reading in Norwick, just south of the North Gate, Ezachiel was approached by a woman those who know her can recognize Yolanda from the description, who thanked him for coming back for her body after she died at the duergar. Apparently feeling sorry for not being unable to prevent her from dying, he gave her a bag of coins, as a sort of compensation. After she left, he went back to his reading, spending some more hours there.
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the chancellor approaches the spot flanked by two guards. He orders one of the guards to take the human from the spike. The guard places it into a leather bag and swings it over his shoulder. The group then returns to norwick making their way to the barracks.
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Out of nowhere, a human head on a spike appeared in the Rawlins, not far from where the goblin heads can be found. No traces can be found, and at no time was anything visible, the head literally appeared out of nowhere.
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Rumour has it that a bunch of goblin heads on spikes can be found a bit west of Norwick, on the edge of goblin territory. Those who can communicate with animals, etc., might find out that something resembling a zombie killed a bunch of goblins, then ripped off their heads and put them on spikes. After that, it just dissapeared. If anyone attempts to search for tracks, they might find some, leading into one of the crypts in the graveyard, then dissapearing.
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Before the attack happened, a group of three returns from the woods, carrying two fallen men. Particularly odd a halfling woman carrying the corpse and belongings of a full grown human man. They make directly for the Friar. Those who spend a moment to listen to their tale despite Norwick almost immediately after besieged by all the forest has to hide, might hear strangely walking bugbears and warriors of a forgotten culture mentioned.
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Drow, beatles, bugbears, goblins, and shadow demons all assaulted the Norwick southern gate for a period of three days. The attacks only took place at night. A handful of adventurers defended the gate from these monsters without losing one of their own, even after the swarms of adult beatles and bugbear they encountered in the woods.
