[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

[Lord Windos]

They also tell you they are not the only ones left - 4 more are in the central room, pacifying your court and trying to ship them off to GOD knows where!

You now .....

A) Rush off to VANQUISH these FOOLS! You alone can slay armies - they will be no match for you!
B) Rally your Inner Circle and have THEM do the Job while you continue to grill this DISPICABLE Villian for all they're worth!
C) Activate the Defenses - force them to come to you as the very Halls spring to LIFE to show how much they appreciate their intrusions! Why not share a drink with your Lady too while you're at it?
D) Whatever suits your whim!

As for this FIEND's final fate....

Slay them, or grant them Mercy?

The cur will literally be spilling their guts when Darren is through with them, but not yet. He has the Knight, Swordsman, and Dwarf take on the invaders whilst he and the regal lady work the living one for more information.

(I deeply apologize for the delay, but things have been busy IRL and I had to keep up the pacing for the Major Encounter for a bit. Now that things have slowed on both fronts...)

The Lady in Red is a most persuasive woman with her words that dripped with the promise of Fates Most Foul if the cur didn't divulge all they had to offer, and you standing menacingly over their shoulder with your bloodied great sword proved to be a most effective force multiplier. Soon, they revealed the whole sinister, diabolical plot: they and their fellow villains had come to raid these Halls of yours for their reasons and make slaves of your people, in an effort to build up their own forces for a upcoming war.

This, rightfully, was infuriating and deeply insulting: this organization thought YOUR lands and holdings were weak enough for them pouch, their forces mighty enough to strong arm YOU and your Fellowship? Unacceptable, UNACCEPTABLE! You almost slew the insolent fool on the spot, so potent was your RIGHTEOUS WRATH, but your Lady in Red stayed your blade, softly urging your patience as she worked and for other uses of this brigand...

Eventually you got the locations of their nearest hidden lairs and fronts, and as you were beginning to think of ways to punish these fiends your Knight, Swordsman, and Dwarf all came bursting into the hall, dragging with them one thoroughly beaten villains each and roughly throwing them before your feet. They're quick to report that the situation was Dealt with: the villains have been defeated and either killed, repealed or, in the case of these three, captured for YOU to decide their fate. The Seamstress in particular had brought out her comically large and sharp sowing needle and was leering at these wretches with undisguised gleeful malice, not forgiving their trespasses and interrupting the splendid gathering like you.

As the curs before you slowly started to get up off the floor your Lady leaned in to whisper in your ear several suggestions, all of them appealing in their own ways.... :

A) Have these Curs fight each other to the death, and 'reward' the living one with their life and magically enforced servitude to You and Your Lady's Will
B) Slowly butcher them one by one, each death more prolonged and gruesome as the last to prolong their distress and suffering for their crimes
C) Destroy their Minds with Magic and Torture until they break, and turn them into mindless thralls to Serve until death or no longer of use
D) Whatever you wish - you were the Lord, and I'm sure you have plenty of ways to make these vile fiends SUFFER

That matter aside, there was the task to HOW you were going to respond to this incursion. Not responding in kind was out of the question: the trespasses they made were too great and too egregious to allow for anything other than retribution and RIGHTEOUS JUSTICE to be had. You already had to locations to their Lairs - marching out in kind with your Fellowship to deal with them was the obvious choice, but HOW so was the question ....

1) Direct and Great Force. Hit them fast, hit them HARD, and make them pay. Cover as much ground as possible, and leave as much devastation in your wake to give them no sort of time or reprieve, damn the consequence.
2) Illusive and Great Cunning. You Lady in Red is most Skilled in the ways of Stealthful Action, and with her magicks and leadership could allow you to sneak into several bases to systematically decimate them without them noticing - until it was far too late. Slow, but pointedly effective
3) Bait and Great Trickery. Let them think they won here by disguising you and your fellowship as these curs and take some of your prizes and people into one of their main depots, where you then will strike them where they are most vulnerable. High risk, and your Domain will surly suffer, but if you want this organization to HURT....
4) Other ideas are also welcome too - though these villains simply MUST be dealt with and SOON.