1.3 Arrival at Fort Hope
Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2018 3:44 am
Date: September 4, 109 PA
Time: 0408
Weather: Normal for season (warm); light wind, heavy rain
Location: Fort Hope (Omaha, NE)
Ley Line: Very Large (three quarters mile wide, 2000 feet tall, 75 miles long), stretches 75 miles north of the fort (Whiting, IA)
Scene modifiers:
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The remainder of the trip upriver was relatively uneventful. Night fell a couple hours after leaving the village. The mercenaries and civilians settled down for the night, though the mercenaries, of course, set up sentries on their barges. The tow crew settled into their bunks as well, except for the pilot and a lone gunner up top on watch. Our heroes could set their watch, or not, as they wished.
After hours of travel, on the horizon could be seen the distinctive bright blue glow of a ley line on the west bank of the river. Captain Norris came up on the deck of the towboat and roused his crew as they approached what looked to be a jetty built out into the river near an earthworks fortification.
Suddenly from out of the darkness, shapes materialize out of thin air and a gruff voice yells a war cry as brodkil suddenly appear, or rise from the tall grass, attacking the barges and the earthworks. Laserfire lances out in the darkness from the demons and the soldiers in the fort, and the mercenaries and boat crew scramble for their arms. Several brodkill leap onto the barges in the midst of the civilians. Others fire at the barges from the shore, taking advantage of the complete lack of cover on the river vehicle, and others attack the fort.
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Time: 0408
Weather: Normal for season (warm); light wind, heavy rain
Location: Fort Hope (Omaha, NE)
Ley Line: Very Large (three quarters mile wide, 2000 feet tall, 75 miles long), stretches 75 miles north of the fort (Whiting, IA)
Scene modifiers:
- Light: Dim -1 (ley line is quite bright)
- Visibility: -2 from the rain
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The remainder of the trip upriver was relatively uneventful. Night fell a couple hours after leaving the village. The mercenaries and civilians settled down for the night, though the mercenaries, of course, set up sentries on their barges. The tow crew settled into their bunks as well, except for the pilot and a lone gunner up top on watch. Our heroes could set their watch, or not, as they wished.
After hours of travel, on the horizon could be seen the distinctive bright blue glow of a ley line on the west bank of the river. Captain Norris came up on the deck of the towboat and roused his crew as they approached what looked to be a jetty built out into the river near an earthworks fortification.
Suddenly from out of the darkness, shapes materialize out of thin air and a gruff voice yells a war cry as brodkil suddenly appear, or rise from the tall grass, attacking the barges and the earthworks. Laserfire lances out in the darkness from the demons and the soldiers in the fort, and the mercenaries and boat crew scramble for their arms. Several brodkill leap onto the barges in the midst of the civilians. Others fire at the barges from the shore, taking advantage of the complete lack of cover on the river vehicle, and others attack the fort.
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