With school starting up again for me on the 9th there next week, that's when I'll start up again after the holidays. (Well, okay, I didn't really plan for everything to shut down over the holidays, but that's just how it happened, and to be expected, really )

I know a couple of you are eager and raring to get going even before then, so if you see the chance and feel up to it, by all means jump right on in, the water's... filled with lizardmen... but that's okay, I'm sure it's a pleasant temperature!

I think the next stage we're looking at here is planning for your assault on the Thorn River camp.

Lizardmen <3

Hehe, I betcha y'all thought I was gonna crank out a post for Monday, didn'cha?

*sigh*

So did I... I was so naïve back then...

Between school, work and a case of a condition I call 'CMAS' (Compulsory Movie Attendance Syndrome), I was unexpectedly waylaid. In any case, don't anyone feel the need to await my kickoff.

There have been some vestiges of planning discussion going on, but it would be good to whip up some concrete course of action soon (in or out of character as you see fit, but I find little behind the scenes details like planning work best in Q&A, or at least it does in my imagination...

(I bet Communism was a pretty sweet idea back when it was in Marx's imagination.)

BUT ANYWAY! When you wake up in the morning and head down the river, you can follow the tracks to where the bandit camp lies in wait, and finally cast your gaze upon it for yourselves. The show. Has. Begun!

No, srsly, shoo. Get out of my head. I need to sleep there.

I'd say we go with our little Kobold's friends approach, and have him and our sneakiest other person go in and disrupt the camp at night, you know tie boots, move weapons and gear around if possible, steal anything small that could be of benefit aka exploding flasks of pain we aren't sure of yet but a certain kobold might find interesting >.> <.< *I wanna watch the alchemist fire wake up the camp.*

that unless my character wants to be found, he is pretty much invisible... all the time.

im all for that plan since its kinda sorta what i suggested in my post from before anyway.... isnt it?

Aye, Fel is acting mostly as translator so our little friend doesn't have to strain himself or we mix up plans over a fumbled word from either end. She will pipe in her two cents, and has, mostly concering the hinderance of weapon relocation or removal if it is viable. Trap set up, not so much unless the group feels we can and got the time to spare.

Zeakol means 'Syl', not 'Fel', but that's a side-note.

I just wanted to drift in here and point out that this plan currently forming involves giving the camp an extra day to plan out and prepare their reception. Whether you think this is any cause for concern is up to your own judgement--after all, they are already preparing anyway, so who's to say the exact benefit of further time? I know I won't

As for 'weapon relocation', I'll just go ahead and say that trying to take their weapons would probably be more risky than beneficial. Other things to screw them up should be good, though.

Like using an epic level gerbil and having it hide inside the leaders butt? causing great intestinal distress?

Lemmiwinks

Yup hehehehe hes gunna have an adventure!

O_o Oh my.

Do we have any idea how many people are waiting for us in the camp? 'Cause if we don't then I think waiting another day for kobold reconnaissance would be necessary to avoid life-challenging situations and severe out-numbering. We could also use the time to set up traps at a distance around the camp if we want, or take out scouts/guards, if we think they might not be missed.

Burn it with fire, all we need is kobold friend to grab two burning torches, run through the camp screeching and setting shtuff on fire when they are all asleep, then peace the heck out, then while the bandits are panicing and putting it all out, we spring out with a mechanical golem named jim and lay waste to them!

Let's see. A few months ago there were once about a dozen or so bandits that came to Oleg's, using the full force of the camp to intimidate them into submission.

You had captured four, two of which have returned, plus Lloyd. Assuming no other gains or losses, you can probably expect 9 bandits, two of which still injured likely, one leader, and one traitorous bastard. This is if the full force of the camp is at home at the time (and given the warning they got, it probably will be).

This might seem like a lot, but that's only about 2:1 odds (slightly better, but the leader probably evens it up), and you are Hero-level characters. That doesn't mean you should have it easy, but with some amount of surprise (if you're not spotted before things can get hairy) it could be doable. Note that I don't actually know how doable, I'm just applying a little metagaming to real-world/standard fiction logic. Feel free to let your own logic run on from what your characters know about the situation.

Ive got it Junn will dawn the batsuit and the kobold robin they will sneak in under cover if night and goball dark knight on there asses its perfect.....or they could run some form of distraction giving the rest if the group the object if suprise...i do like the idea of fire...more so though the idea of batman