RP: Wydmoor Endgame

City Leadership

• Ruler: None (Assassinated by Silverwalkers)

Unrest increases by 4 at every upkeep (monthly).

How long ago was the mayor killed? Unrest is likely to be stratospheric.

• Spymaster: Naprid

• Councilor: Haggar

Acting

• Treasurer: None (Killed by Hobgoblin Headhunters)

• General: Ralth

• Grand Diplomat: None (Assassinated by Silverwalkers)

-2 Stability

• High Priest: Hadriarch of Wydmoor

What is that guys damn name?

• Magister: Egg

Acting

• Marshall: None

• Warden: Teodora

Acting

Day 0

• Sneak back into city to magus keep
• Discretely/quickly meet with a few key people along the way to gauge the mood of the city and alert the rumor mill I'm back (1 hour)
• Return to keep and status update from Egg (8 hours?)
  • Already done

Comment

Want to bullet out what you learned here? It might make it an easy reference for the both of us, and give us a single point of reference for the final Battle of Wydmoor - whatever that ends up looking like. It'll also help me not repeat myself to you 100 times. Maybe only 50 this way.

--GM

Comment

Yeah, I'll put em here once I find them.

--Msallen

• • Do we have any food supplies of our own?
    • Silverwalkers have some resource (cure disease, purify food/water, create water, and spooooon), although the silverwalkers are gone and their resources are a drop in the pail anyways
    • Wraiths are providing half-rations to refugees
• Little sleep (2-4 hours?)
  • As per sleep deprivation rules...
  • One day away from being fatigued
  • Recovery sleep += 2 hours

Day 1

• ANNOUNCEMENT: Germain will be holding a rally in the early afternoon at XXXXX (prefer city center?)

Comment

Wot? Oh, jeeze. Check the map and see what not ruined location you want to meet in. Or what ruined one for that matter. I doubt you're trying to pull a permit or whatever.

--GM

Comment

Sorry, I missed some content here. I'm intentionally making a public announcement with enough time to reach the Wraiths, but not enough time for them to careful plan a response. I want to see what (if anything) they do.

--[[Msallen]]

Comment

Gotcha. Germain's not a military strategist, and hopefully this won't poison your decision making (since any outcome is going to be FUN!) from Germain, but I'd like to point out that I estimate the amount of time a professional fighting force on high alert requires to respond to an incident in their base of operations is going to be razor thin. But, yes, they will almost certainly find out about it once word spreads. I mean, they're the active peacekeeping/LEO force in the camps ever since the riots. I mean, they're officially there to bolster the numbers of the City Watch, but it's not like Teodora is issuing their orders. And, if push comes to shove, a tough city watch guy is going to be armed with a cudgel, a Wraith peacekeeper is going to have some form of medium armor, some form of steel weapon, and a lot of training in killin' folk. It would probably take under a dozen to neutralize the entirety of the city guard as it stands.

--GM

Comment

I'm leaving this here because I want to figure out some way to capture the information, but check my clarification below. I think I agree with the numbers, at least with respect to the guard loyal to me. If they tried to stop a large-scale riot, I think they might need more than 12.

--[[Msallen]]

Comment

Oh, I agree about that last part. All I said it would take a dozen or less to "neutralize the city guard" as it stands.

--GM

• RP: Heart-to-heart with Mar (2 hours)
  • A lot to be learned here, I think.
• Make way to XXXXX discretely and assess the mood (1-3 hours?)
  • What sort of state are the people in?
    • XX% is still pretty happy to be back into the city and getting fed regularly
    • YY% (mostly partisans and militia) are angry about being stripped of their weapons and the clampdown on their camps
    • ZZ% (mostly former professionsals and Wydmoor established) are vocally supportive of the Wrath crackdown
  • Has anyone, namely Wraiths, tried to prevent organizing?

Comment

You don't have to oppose what no one is attempting to do. Egg could barely handle dealing with the go-nowhere, rubber stamp council meetings, much less organize anything resembling a resistance. He's a level 9 mage running level 16 equipment because of our old friend UMD coupled with magic hax. When you talk about how recalcitrant Egg is, remember he's trying to punch way above his weight class.

--GM

Comment

See above. I'm particularly interested in whether they'll be preventing my rally.

--Msallen

Comment

Answering as I come to these in edit. I think my answer adds light to this discussion. For most of the siege, the wraiths have seem content to let the city manage itself, keeping to the ramparts and towers. Since the food riots of y'all's folks, though, they've taken a pretty active role in LEO and Peacekeeping. So they definitely have the capability to respond with agility and force to any situation that arises. I'm not sure how Germain would know what that response would be, however. The response will be whatever Naprid or Ralth orders it to be, it's your job to try to decide what that call might be. Left to their own devices, I imagine Wraiths would show up and just sort of stand around making sure no new riots break out.

--GM

Comment

I'm not being clear enough here. I'm going to do this. Period. The die is cast. I'm not asking what their response is GOING to be if I do it, I'm testing them to see what their response IS. If they put a cautious, but peaceful, guard on the event, then that tells me one this about how they will interact with me. If they unleash the hounds and turn on the fire hoses, then it tells me another things. Germain knows its political dick-swinging that might cost some innocent people their lives depending on how Naprid/Ralth respond, but he's going to swing away. Is that clearer?

--Msallen

Comment

I think I understood that, I thought you were asking more about how they would respond, and I basically was trying to say "you'll find out when it happens." We're still hours away, yes? You have the Mar stuff and the Gladhanding stuff and I'd like to see all that set in stone before moving on to some big event to keep you from going back at retconning some nonsense after the big event goes down. Cos you totally would.

--GM

• Gladhand and schmooze before the main event (12 hours)

Comment

This will get you a "Take 20" Diplomacy role result, as opposed to the normal "take 10" results that I'll use as default.

--GM

Comment

Well, wait and see what I try to do first! I'm expecting to have to make a bunch of 10s/rolls, although one roll or an assumed 20 is fine with me ;)

--Msallen

Comment

OH, I thought that was general "raise my response level above neutral" sort of general bullshitting. Specific task items will require specific DCs and checks, yeah.

--GM

Comment

Once we figure out how the wraiths respond, then I'll put what I'm going to do. It'll just be general strategy, so one of a few die rolls may well be fine. We'll figure out when we get to this part.

--Msallen

Comment

Hm? I think I'm misunderstanding, you want to see how the event goes down and then go back and do all your diplomacy?

--GM

• • More to come...