USH'S LOTR RP Game part 2- The Fortress of Baranar

You can cover tracks, Palanfirith- this is your area of expertise! Not on a road, though. Cross country. You can lose them- might slow you up, though.

(Zink is having trouble logging in, says his password isn't legit, and he's too lazy to get a new password. 🙄 He'll post some of his actions with me, so I'll make it clear which is his and which is mine.)

Anglomir tells his men to start trailing the orcs until they set up camp to sleep during the day. "William, ready your arrows."

ZINK: "I will," Will says, taking out his bow.

Problem is, you two are not expert trackers, so you would have to keep them in sight. I will not disguise the potential risk there- do you wish to proceed?

hmm "blood thirsty elves??? that's a first, but bring em on I am always ready for a nice battle"

damn ! and I said to take the cross country.😄
I think we should cut the plan a bit and miss Bree.Take it as much as it can be taken streight until the last bridge.We'll be on cross country and I'll do my job at covering our tracks.....what do you say ?

Well, you are already past Bree. If you go off-road, Weathertop makes a handy landmark to navigate by.

Do the others agree to leave the road?

I don't mind, I am quite sure I can guide Emoras through the country fast enough

We'll keep them in view, Ush, and then when daylight comes, we'll get some distance away while they set up their camp.

Ok then! Palanfirith and co head out into the countryisde. Within a day you lose the Dunlendings. Are you going to head to Weathertop- risking the possibility of others there- or try and head through RHudaur- risking... well, risking going through Rhudaur!

William and Anglomir, you follow the Orcs all evening, and indeed, as the morning approcahes, they start to set-up camp...

Back at Baronar- during the night, a large armed camp appears to have been set up outside the Fortress! Aiwendil and Talin and co, you can see it easily...

I think we should choose the Weathertop because a higher position can be to our good,since we would be fewer then them...

(Zink hath returned!)

William waits for the Orcs to finish setting up camp and fall asleep.

"Anglomir, I suggest we murder them in their sleep, handling any watchmen they may have quickly and quietly."

yea I don't feel like traveling to Rhudaur

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yep..me neither. weathertop it is

Very well. You make it to the Weathertop that night.

This long destroyed tower does, of course, represent the mid-point of the three kingdoms of Arnor, Wars were fought between the three over who owneed this tower and the land nearby. In the end, though, it was here that the last great battle of this Age was fought.

Back then, of course, Amon Sul was not a crumbling ruin but a defensive bastion, a powerful Watch Tower on a par with Orthanc at Isengard in Gondor, complete with its own Palantir. When insidious corruption, betrayal and final invasion destroyed Rhdaur, the Witch King's armies hammered at Cardolan for many years afterwards, until eventually the combined armies of the Northern Realm- the remnants of loyal Rhudaur, and the grand armies of Cardolan and Arthedain- met the Wtcih-King's army here for the final showdown.

As has now been well-recorded in these stories, this grand alliance did not go to plan. Arthedain got a nice early start to turning up to the battle- long enough to get into the Tower, take the palantir, and then bugger off back to Fornost, waving their comrades a happy "Cheerio" just before the bad guys arrived.

Cardolan never forgave Arthedain for this- nor would Rhuadaur, had the loyallists in any way survived. The good guys lost and Cardolan's fate was sealed. Their nobles fled to the Barrow Downs, and as you now regret, buried their dead. The Great Plague killed the survivors over the next century.

Had the Elves not intervened, Cardolan would have been occupied then. As it is, it was shattered forever. And now, your kinsmen Elves are no longer helping.

So the ruins of Amon Sul lay heavily over history. Seems you aren't the only ones interested in it lately- smeone has been digging holes around here.

William- you find an Orcish scout. Not quite in the manner you wanted though- you catch sight of him ten feet away from you, to the side, in a bush, about to fire an arrow at you.

hmmm Wholes??? do I know of any foul creature that digs wholes to sleep in like orcs or anything like that??

mayb more palanfirith his thing

Nah, these look more like excavations to you, Palanfirith. There are skeletons at the bottom.

William strafes and puts an arrow to his bow, firing it at the Orc's head before he can fire.

"Anglomir, make for the camp!"

I think at funeral burries.....hmm....we'll go to sleep I guess,and me and Vardalain will stay at watch.We should leave Argentis to sleep,these humans,need to sleep so often....
We should be prapared for anything & stay low and maybe hidden somewhere,to avoid any creature of the darkness with heat sensors...even our elven eyes cannot b that fast to see them.(thinking at the birds)

"humpf"