2005-07-24
(sw-rev)
| 307, Dec 18th
| Erik Lands
| 10am | Erik lands, heads toward the coast, full sail, unalert
| | French start following. They are off Galway
| | 3pm | Erik enter Blacksod Bay
| | 3:40 | Erik Passes mouth of Bunnahowen Bay
| | 3:50 | Erik is one (1) mile from Bunnahowen.
Calm air settles on the keep
Zephyr passes mouth of Bunnhowen Bay
Erik sees Zephyr, turns towards the shallows to the south
| | 4:00 | Erik crosses over Srah penninsula
Zephyr tack to go around
Erik's crew finishes casting on-going spells
Erik runs ashore and grabs some rocks
| | 4:10 | Erik returns to ship w/ rocks
Zephyr clears headland
| | 4:15 | Erik crosses back
| | 4:30 | Erik passes in front of Bunnahowen Keep
| | 4:35 | Erik beaches his boat, sets a fog around it
| | 4:40 | Zephyr ties up at old moorings across from Bunnahowen
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| combat begins
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- 2 parties leave the Freja (Erik's boat): one is running
on shore, the other is running through the air. Erik is
running through the air
- The French Elves send some archers into the air.
- The airbourne parties get close. The archers are
maintaining distance and firing. They can't hit (Deflect
Missile).
- Erik throws a rock at the Zephyr helm, misses, smashs a hole in the deck. He throws another and it smashes the helm.
- Colin (Body of Wind) tries to incapacitate Erik, fails. Tries to knock him over, fails.
- Jehan, the French Captain, engages Erik.
- Erik cuts Jehan in half (ST 43!, 8d+1 cutting)
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- Fergus sneaks into the bay and swims under the Zephyr to try a lock it in the bedrock
- Guiot gets a critical success so that Regnault sees Fergus coming
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- The Vikings engage the archers in the air and start cutting them up.
- Colin knocks a Viking out of the air
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- the rest of the Vikings land behind the french on the shore, surrounding and killing them.
- the vikings charge the Zephyr
- the remains french archers are on the ship
- Estienne casts a Mass Daze on the Vikings
- The french archers start inflicting some damage on the vikings (they have a lot of armor)
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- Devon flies out the back of the keep and sneaks up on Erik
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Erik fails his Danger Sense roll to notice Devon coming in behind him.
Devon hits, does good damage.
Erik gets unlucky again and fails his HT roll, he dies.
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- Devon strafes a Viking and then a french elf on the ship
- Estienne sees the dragon and prepares spell
- When Devon strafes the ship again, he gets hot with a 'Loyalty' spell, and fails his save
- Devon decides that the Vikings are a better target and heads over to wipe out the remaining vikings.
- As Devon approches the Freja, the fog lifts.
- Devon aims towards the officers in the stern
- Haddig fails his one chance to immobilize Devon
- Devon then wipes the rest out pretty easily
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- Bruce and the Irish Elvish Knights leave the keep.
Bruce sends the elves head around the bay and then
charges across the bay himself (Walk on Water on the
horse).
- Estienne sees Bruce coming and acts shocked. He
pulls out a mirror and holds it up to Bruce.
- Those at the keep see a mounted figure spring forth from the mirror and charge Bruce.
they look the same.
They engage and soon noone can tell which is which.
- one Bruce gets a good hit on the other
- the injured Bruce gets a hit on the un-injured Bruce.
They both fade to a ghost-like appearance.
- They charge each other again, one gets unhorsed and
they both fade from view.
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