Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-25101508-20140710153417/@comment-25101508-20140722144726

Datadragon Odahviing wrote: (Sworn, taking your comments into account, I will adjust the plan. It's going to be dirtily realistic this time. I shall do a more subtle one. It will include sucide bombing and terrorist tactics, more in line with bandits. Also, Ancarion has a mini bio - he's not an average bandit, he's actually quite skilled, although not skilled enough to take on the other named characters. Vladimir has the same skill level as Ancarion, so the guard aren't carving them up any time soon.)

Ancarion waited for the Argonian to leave. He knew the timeframe was converging, Leon having sent a spy to inform him. Leon would be coming in five more minutes. He took up his dwarven sword. He was suspicious. Maybe the people caught wind of his plans! Turning to Vladimir, he said "Plan B. Plan A isn't going to work.

"Really? Sacrifice three guys?"

"No choice. Too many guards."

"I'll inform them. The plans have shifted. It means we kidnap the Jarl for ransom, forget the loot and Alyssa becomes second priority."

"Yes! Go!"

Vladimir departed from Proudspire Manor, running to the Winking Skeever. He walked up to his three hooded men, tapping them on their shoulders, shouting "Go! Plan B! Go loud!". Simultaneously, Ancarion made his way into the Blue Palace with his "guards". Everyone put on helmets, except for him, for he needed to maintain his guise. They would forget his armor, there were more sets waiting for him.

The patrons stared at him, seemingly hypnotized as the three men threw of their cloaks, revealing dwarven armor below. The men drew staves, two of them running out, the last one holding everyone hostage (I am not kidding here, this is serious. I figured a stave can have similar uses to a gun, a crossbow is too slow to shoot. He will blow himself up if anyone even opens the door).

Vladimir headed out with the two men. One of them screamed and sprayed lightning all over the marketplace, destroying a few stalls, killing a few civilians and the guards that came running. He zapped the guards with his stave until it was out of charge, before drawing his sword to fight the remainder.

The other one headed to Castle dour to block the archers and buy time. He held his stave, readying his modified scroll of fire storm. (This guy will run at the guards, kill as many as he can and suicide bomb. He will take out a fair amount of guards, not all of them).

Vladimir headed off to the small doorway. While too small to fit many men, he needed to let Leon Steelfang through. The temperature fell rapidly. Vladimir easily downed the two guards that stood there with a combination of swordplay, lightning and surprise, picking up the key and letting his boss in.

Leon Steelfang led three of his men into the city, all four of them cloaking (He taught this four invisibility). He immediately ran up to the city walls, butchering the archers that lurked there with ruthless effeciency (Leon is the very skilled one, the guards will rapidly take damage from his frost aura, plus invisibility is on his side.). Leon and his men drew crossbows, taking out the archers that tried to shoot them from afar (Overwatch), cloaking and chaging position constantly.

The other bandits came in in pairs, coming out onto the streets. They were to kill guards, find Alyssa and sacrifice themselves should the situation require it. After 15 minutes, everyone would recall. Two more went to Castle Dour to supress the legionnaires and guards (Three guys, all well armed, with the option to sucide bomb. If they self kill, all the guards in AOE will die. Waiting for the legion to come out. If they do, one of the bombers will run to the door and blow up.)

Sorin just entered the city when he heard the commotion. The whole place was filled with guards battling against enemies in dwarven armor. He drew his new ebony sword, scanning the situation. His brother was here, the temperature being much lower than normal. He would have to deal with the more mundane enemies first, though. He moved into the chaos carefully. A burly, bearded Nord attempted to kill him, an attack that would have been fatal had he not ducked out of the way. He replied with a vicious two handed slash and both men began to battle.

Alyssa moved out of her room immediately, as soon as she heard the commotion. A man in dwarven armor held a stave, seemingly holding everyone hostage. They obviously forgot about her. She called flames to her left hand as she drew her sword. Time to put Sorin's theory to the test. She fired a fireball at the man, who dodged and drew his sword. Alyssa locked blades with the man, using magic in her other hand to keep him off balance and in difficult positions. Finally, she scored a hit and the man collapsed, writhing as flames burned him. Alyssa left the Winking Skeever. It was a state of total Anarchy outside. Men in dwarven armor fought guards. (Whenever a Leon Steelfang bandit falls, he blows himself up in self sacrifice. So, one must kill them before they complete chanting the scroll.)

The guard in the Blue Palace locked the doors just after Ancarion made it in. Ancarion breathed a sign of relief as he walked up to Falk Firebeard, saying "It's chaos outside! I never should have come here! Hand me back my cash!"

Without further word, Ancarion walked up to Sybille and Bolgeir, drawing his sword. He plunged the sword into Sybille's chest, then blasted Bolgeir's face (It's the suprise factor that allows him to win, ala Assassin's Creed style, Sybille is dead, Bolgeir is writhing on the floor, injured badly.). Twisting around, he placed his sword across Elisif's neck, drawing his recall scroll. "Drop your weapons now! Or else your precious jarl dies!". There was no time for valuables. Shouting out to his men, Ancarion said "All six of you, come with me! We have to keep the prisoner in check! Plus, going outside is suicide! The money is from the ransom!"

The men all drew their recall scrolls. Ancarion and his men chanted the incantations and all that was left of the seven of them were shimmers of light.

A man in a black cloak stood atop the highest point of Solitude, a veiled woman standing beside him. He commented "Leon might actually get Alyssa this time. But his plan is too audacious. He might be killed.

The woman replied "Never mind. We can hire more people. There are always more willing to work. Or else, we can fund the Fosworn and guide them into a collision course with Alyssa.

The man and woman both drew recall scrolls and dissapeared.

(The breakdown. 23 Bandits followed Leon in. 3 carried out Vladimir's plans. Three bandits are with Leon and are excellent archers and assassins. 18 of them are duelling guards. Ancarion has the 6 best spellswords from the bandits (all can fight a chunk better than the Bosmer from training), all of them returned to the bandit camp. Vladimir is fighting Sorin now. One bandit is killed by Alyssa, three of them are waiting at Castle Dour to sucide bomb the guards that will come running. There are another 18 bandits in camp for a total of 50. I'm thinking seven bandits would die non explosively, so only seven people can access Leon's camp directly. I'm planning 30-33 bandits making it back, since they only fought a short contact. Leon will lose his three archers for sure. He'll go back alone. Better? Leon's death draws near. Then the arc will soon complete. If we are still not against the Fosworn by then, we can track down the mysterious forces helping Leon. I gotta go now, if there are any changes to be made, either: change them on the spot using edit function, don't OOC or ignore it completely and I'll remove it as well, as I probably won't be back for nearly 18 hours (weekdays are a bore).)

(Much better. Thank you. But I must say, by attacking Solitude, Leon postponed the Legion's march on the Reach.)