Allansia Wildlands Campaign.

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"Dire news indeed! Your cousins from the west were set upon by the... 'sky lions' is it? We have travelled with them, helping them to reach safety here."

Banzo gesture to the sky when talking about the sky lions and the hillfolk refugees when talking about them and finally gestures to the place they are when talking about safety.

"Have you had much trouble with them yourselves?"

 The mans face grew troubled and he sniffed, " Then I have lost many family members today, I thankyou that more were not lost on the trek here."

" The sky-lions and their riders have passed over many times, and they demanded we return a crown to them some days back.....we have no need of such things so I do not know why they think we have it. Or why they are so willing to slaughter our folk in their attempts to retrieve it."

Zeltheris perks up at the mention of the crown, thinking hard to remember if he knows of any such thing.

History: 15

Herman is curious

"well, they must have said something else! Which crown? Why they blame your folk?" 

"Seems likely that someone took this crown, and that they are blaming you hillfolk for doing so." Brocc says thoughtfully. "Wonder what is so important about this crown that they are willing to kill and war over it..."

"It's not that simple. We have to find this crown, and we don't know where it is. Obviously if the sky-lion people were robbed of it, and if the hillfolk don't have it, that means someone else took it. And unless you know who, we kind of have nowhere to look." Hatch sighs and shakes his head. "Better plan is to convince the sky-lion people that the hillfolk really don't have it."

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"It's not that simple. We have to find this crown, and we don't know where it is. Obviously if the sky-lion people were robbed of it, and if the hillfolk don't have it, that means someone else took it. And unless you know who, we kind of have nowhere to look." Hatch sighs and shakes his head. "Better plan is to convince the sky-lion people that the hillfolk really don't have it."

 The headman pointed up towards the sun, " I think your about to get your chance."

As Hatch followed the line of his arm he saw a half dozen or so winged shapes with the sun behind them diving towards the hillfort....

" GET TO SHELTER!! ATTACKERS FROM THE SKY!", he yelled to the rest of his clan.

( There are 6 Griffons with riders....they are about 200 ft out with a flight speed of 80.  Lets go to Initiative and round by round.

Griffon Initiative- 4

Frostwind Skyriders- 4)

Init 18

I think we need a minimum description of the surroundings to know what is around us, where to hide and such

Zeltheris initiative: 11

Zeltheris holds up his empty hands and calls out to the riders, "Please hold your attack! Perhaps we can reach an accommodation!" 

Persuasion: 10

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Init 3

I think we need a minimum description of the surroundings to know what is around us, where to hide and such

 ( Bald hilltop. Large open area containing leather and wooden huts and tents surrounded by a wooden pallisade that looks like it might do something against someone advancing up the steep slope and basically nothing against airborne foes.    Ground is basically stone and grass. Majority of non-coms are just hiding inside the "buildings".)

As soon as the flying beings are visible, Herman asks to thr others:

"I am not the best at it but... Parley?!" 

Brocc initiative: 7

"Hey, if you want your crown, you best stop this attack or else you won't ever find it!" Brocc yells from atop his spider mount. (Giving the help action with the persuasion attempt...)

(Persuasion with help? 12)

(yay...)

Shalana watches the riders in the sky and darts to the nearest tall tree and begins to climb.

Shalana's Initiative: 8
Athletics: 12

Init: 12

"Aye y'all listen up THEY DON'T HAVE THE CROWN!"

Persuasion: 10

Initiative:

Banzo-13

Hatch- 12

Zeltheris-11

Shalana-8

Brocc-7

Wild Hill Folk Defenders-6

Griffons-4

Griffon Riders/Herman-3

Banzo becomes surrounded by a number of illusory Banzos, Hatch calls up to the attackers but his words fall on deaf ears seemingly, as do those of Zeltheris and Brocc

Unble to find any trees on the bald hilltop Shalana ascends the crude wooden defence towers manned by hillfolk firing bows at the attackers..

The hillfolks arrows fly towards the attackers though the majority miss and those that do hit seem to do little to slow the enemies descent.  For their part the riders cast down barbed spears as they dive.  Two of the hillfolk archers are struck and fall to the ground.

The attackers are dangerously close now....

OOC:

Griffons: Dash action.

Riders: ( Targets: 4)

Rider 1  Attack: 25 Damage: 8

 Rider 2  Attack: 8 Damage: 9

Rider 3  Attack: 6 Damage: 6

Rider 4  Attack: 13 Damage: 5

Rider 5  Attack: 24 Damage: 6

Rider 6  Attack: 24 Damage: 7

I must still do my turn1

Turn 1

Herman follows Shalana,

He has no time to complain about the poor archers dying, he picks up e bow and launches an arrow at the closest foe

"screw the parley" (bonus action entering RAGE) 

ACTION

Attack: 23 Damage: 5

(How close together are the flyers?)

( Wingspan 25', 15' between each one, V formation.)

Lacking much in the way of ranged attacks, Hatch will use this turn to ascend one of the defense towers while tying a rope into a lasso...and if there's time left, he'll try and lasso a griffin, otherwise that's his turn next action.

(let me know what to roll to lasso a griffon)