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== Getting Back into the City ==
== Getting Back into the City ==
{{OneTusk}}: Needs must, and we can't interrogate them about the airship. Odilon has arrived with a squad of irregulars, and we need to get back into the city and deal with our key priorities: Maude and the Stag Lady. We slip into the city, not unnoticed, but uncontested. There's some discussion: maybe we should suborn the Stag Lady instead of assassinating her. I'm unconvinced. Odilon gets a little lippy with Ehsan, but he survives the experience and trots off to be our diversion.


== Storming the Palace ==
== Storming the Palace ==


=== Wine Cellar ===
=== Wine Cellar ===
{{OneTusk}}: We slip in through the sewers up into a bathroom. Getting in is a bit of a challenge for me, but I've prepared for the trip by stripping down to a loincloth. The privy is in the winecellar, which raises a lot of questions about the overall construction and the sewers of this town- weird mountain geography is involved, I suppose.


There's some brandy, and I grab a handful of bottles. Nothing fans the flames of revolution like actual flames.
=== Foyer ===
=== Foyer ===
{{OneTusk}}: We plan an ambush- Ehsan on the balcony, us attacking from various angles. The plan goes sideways in a few ways. First off, Odilon's "diversion" is to enter the foyer and start negotiating with the Stag Lady. He'll trade Hernaut's life for her loyalty. Maude is on the fringes, in a poor position to engage her.
Ehsan slaughters the group, tagging Odilon and killing the Stag Lady. So far so good. Maude escapes, and I trail her.


=== Ballroom ===
=== Ballroom ===
{{OneTusk}}: There's some sort of fete going on in the ballroom. There's a crowd of Stag Lady loyalists, toadies, and as I discover in a moment, some closeted revolutionaries. As I chance Maude in and challenge her, a madwoman hefts my cannon and fires it. A tameblood who can do that without breaking their arms is remarkable.
Maude has some Red Wolf support in the room, and she turns invisible. It's a mess, quite literally, as Ildefons uses his powers to make everyone in the room ill. I take advantage of that reaction, quite revoltingly, to spray my own sick in the region where Maude *was*, which has the effect of defeating her invisibility.
Maude dies. Abiline, one of Odilon's irregulars, disguises herself as the Stag Lady. I'm not happy about co-opting the chains of nobility to erect an emergency structure. It's not just counter-revolutionary, there's also nothing more permanent than a temporary solution. Still, we have an army and a dragon coming.


== Prep for Attack ==
{{OneTusk}}: We haven't long before the assault. The weakest gate is, well, the weakest gate, and while we need the ability to move reinforcements through it, we'll be less impeded than an invading army. So I demolish the gate, reducing it to rubble and a tight passage. Seeing how tight the result is, I worry that it's not entirely too our advantage, but I think I can make it work for us.
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Starring: 🐺 Ildefons, 🐘 One-Tusk, 🏹 Ehsan
Guest Starring: Maude Dumont (Prestidigitator), Odilon Paradis, Stag Lady, Grace, Hernaut
Challenge: Storming the palace to take out Maude
Location: High Horn Pass
Date Played: 06 Mar 2019


Getting Back into the City

🐘 One-Tusk: Needs must, and we can't interrogate them about the airship. Odilon has arrived with a squad of irregulars, and we need to get back into the city and deal with our key priorities: Maude and the Stag Lady. We slip into the city, not unnoticed, but uncontested. There's some discussion: maybe we should suborn the Stag Lady instead of assassinating her. I'm unconvinced. Odilon gets a little lippy with Ehsan, but he survives the experience and trots off to be our diversion.

Storming the Palace

Wine Cellar

🐘 One-Tusk: We slip in through the sewers up into a bathroom. Getting in is a bit of a challenge for me, but I've prepared for the trip by stripping down to a loincloth. The privy is in the winecellar, which raises a lot of questions about the overall construction and the sewers of this town- weird mountain geography is involved, I suppose.

There's some brandy, and I grab a handful of bottles. Nothing fans the flames of revolution like actual flames.

Foyer

🐘 One-Tusk: We plan an ambush- Ehsan on the balcony, us attacking from various angles. The plan goes sideways in a few ways. First off, Odilon's "diversion" is to enter the foyer and start negotiating with the Stag Lady. He'll trade Hernaut's life for her loyalty. Maude is on the fringes, in a poor position to engage her.

Ehsan slaughters the group, tagging Odilon and killing the Stag Lady. So far so good. Maude escapes, and I trail her.

Ballroom

🐘 One-Tusk: There's some sort of fete going on in the ballroom. There's a crowd of Stag Lady loyalists, toadies, and as I discover in a moment, some closeted revolutionaries. As I chance Maude in and challenge her, a madwoman hefts my cannon and fires it. A tameblood who can do that without breaking their arms is remarkable.

Maude has some Red Wolf support in the room, and she turns invisible. It's a mess, quite literally, as Ildefons uses his powers to make everyone in the room ill. I take advantage of that reaction, quite revoltingly, to spray my own sick in the region where Maude *was*, which has the effect of defeating her invisibility.

Maude dies. Abiline, one of Odilon's irregulars, disguises herself as the Stag Lady. I'm not happy about co-opting the chains of nobility to erect an emergency structure. It's not just counter-revolutionary, there's also nothing more permanent than a temporary solution. Still, we have an army and a dragon coming.

Prep for Attack

🐘 One-Tusk: We haven't long before the assault. The weakest gate is, well, the weakest gate, and while we need the ability to move reinforcements through it, we'll be less impeded than an invading army. So I demolish the gate, reducing it to rubble and a tight passage. Seeing how tight the result is, I worry that it's not entirely too our advantage, but I think I can make it work for us.