Restraining the beast

With the zhentarin of Shadowdale advancing in the build of a great road, a group of people entitled rebels give them some headache. Any zhent guard or soldier saw in any road 1 mile away from Shadowdale is target to be killed on sight, by arrows, swords or magic, all tools are confiscated by these rebels, and jobless people working are given 100 gold and adressed personally. They finish with potent magic that leaves craters and fissures that ruin that part of the road entirely.


Aside of this and unrelated with these events, the Cormanthor areas are patrolled by Akh'Velahr constantly, such patrols enforced by Myth Drannor.

Tohrm would approach the roads, after dealing with any Zhent patrols that were there or not, before speaking to the workers and handing out their gold if they decided to return to Shadowdale.

"I'm jus' real curious... after fightin' this bloody war fer, several years now... why is it yer all happy sittin' in bleedin' Warlockdale? Keepin' yer heads down, lettin' the Zhents kick yer an' yer families 'round. Myth Drannor takes refugees, the Rebels figh' fer yer freedom. Oh aye, we figh', wha're yer doin'? Workin' fer the same people oppressin' yer?

How 'bout a change, eh? How 'bout yer put down these tools o' slaves, an' take up the tools o' freedom? How 'bout yer take up a sword an' drive these devil lovin' bastards outta yer homes? Alrigh', yer scared, I understand tha'. Yer think we ain't as well? We ain't afraid a dyin' or somethin'? 'course we are, but we'd rather be dead than let the Zhents have Faerun! So if yer think yer got some morals, if yer got a spine, yer so brave keepin' yer family fed in these times, nows the time t' prove it, t' yerself an' t' the rest o' bloody Toril!

An' if this's all tha' matters, keepin' yer head down an' on yer shoulders, if tha's all yer care 'bout, 'ere, take some gol', an' bugger off back t' Shadowdale. An' iff'n yer want a better life, if yer want t' see the Zhents gone, yer come wit' us... an' yer figh' fer wha's righ'. Myth'll take yer, the Rebels will take yer, we ain't one t' leave people on the streets like the Zhents do."

With that, Tohrm would help guide families and individuals to Myth Drannor, and also buy weapons or armor for those who would rather fight and get them settled in with the resident Rebels. If they chose to go back to Shadowdale, he would pay some of his own gold and leave them to make the walk back themselves.

Maskedshini wrote:

A lone forest walker is seen at times, inspecting the damage, quite sad to see all the destruction, any damage to trees, plants, animals and the like are healed, and any bodies left to bleed on the ground are buried where they died

She finds not even a single tree or animal dead, as the damage was entirely restricted to the road construction area, whoever did this had absolute control of their magic. The only damage to forests was done by the road construction itself, and that seemed to be unattended by druids until now apparently?

In Iwean's search for Architect Smith he sees Mylanis. After observing he sees she is here for the same reason as him. "Hello, ma'am. I'm Iwean, it's nice to see someone else with like interest." "How long have you been doing this?" "Would you like to join forces?"

Should any battle take place too close to the Black Hounds Compound, Cruven would shout at those involved with a bellowing roar:

"OI! GET YER BLOODY ARSES OFF MY LAWN!"

tjhyland wrote:

In Iwean's search for Architect Smith he sees Mylanis. After observing he sees she is here for the same reason as him. "Hello, ma'am. I'm Iwean, it's nice to see someone else with like interest." "How long have you been doing this?" "Would you like to join forces?"

"as long as I've been here in the dales. you're welcome to join me, but I will simply do what's needed then be on my way, there're other places that're in need of my attention, not to mention other people."

She then resumes her work

Massive piles of earth are deposited on sections of the road that were completed. These piles would cover the width of the road and be a few meters high. Just enough to block traffic. As if some very large elementals were playing in a sandbox...

///*sighs* as far as I know, the road building has not even started, guys. The work crews are being assembled, the stone sources are still being looked for, and discussions are taking place about how to minimise damage to the environment. People are still looking for architect smith!

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Perhaps you might like to look at what's actually been done, which so far isnt much, and certainly hasnt reached outside Central Shadowdale, if even the first stones have been laid. Which they probably havent.

Road building is a veyr big project, it needs a lot of resources and the work crews would of course be heavily guarded. The RP has been waiting on the DMs, Architect Smith and the rp around getting the resources and crews.

Simply saying that everything's been built and the guards and work crews would be killed (on, mind you, work that hasnt even been rp'd yet) is also pretty severe godmodding.

It woudl be an idea if both sides could work with each other oocly to have a bit of give and take so both sides win a bit, loose a bit, maybe.

So Im not sure what you want to do with this thread, but im afraid that you've jumped the gun by a very long way. Perhaps you might like to coordinate ooc with the people in charge of the road project because this current rp above simply can't have taken place. If it does, then please don't just go ahead and rp that you've destroyed heavy guards and work crews.

((fact is, the road will not be build peacefully, its a war act, if you post the road build we post its destruction - if heavily guarded expect heavy assault - I dont see godmodding here more than in the road build, so to me sounds fair enough -> if the road wasnt build yet, consider this is what will happen as soon as it reaches over 1 mile, like stated in first post))

/// Well .. I'd like to think you post Roleplaying trying to destroy it. Allowing some actual rp to come out of it, not just squashing the Roleplay

You might also like to wait until ... it's actually being built?

((so roleplay trying to build it))

/// Please do look at the original thread linked and read the post.

the people who've started this idea -are-. We're waiting on the DMs.

In the end, what do you want to do with this thread? Because it's basically a lot of speculative rp that's based on next to nothing that's actually happened.

((I read all, so please look at this original thread and read the post too - its the same thing about us))

// ok so you're just going to go ahead and squash the entire rp before it's even started? By saying everything you'd do, and not actually letting it unfold?

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((just cutting my ooc chat and to make it clear - this is what we plan to do, the results are another thing - just like you say what is your aim (build the road) we say what our aim is (kill zhents, save innocents, protect Cormanthor, destroy this project))

By the way the road is already there its just getting repaired. Please go to them original tread and continue there.

//alright, lets please not take this further until a dm weighs in on npc actions and what's been done and what hasn't. please understand why someone might be shocked or dismayed by the above - we're talking about auto-killing npc's who may or may not even be exposed - that's for a dm to decide

i should take a moment to clarify what's being done, though, since I don't think we're all on the same page. We're talking about relevelling an existing road and possibly regrading it in parts so its more easily ridden by wagons. there was some discussion of environmental destruction in another thread - i'd imagine its minimal - certainly in comparison to blasting craters everywhere.

for the record, i don't mind people rping attacks on the worksite, its fun for rp, and it was expected (which ought to tell you something, btw). Lets just not jump the gun, shall we?

((please understand this is what we plan and not actually what will happen necessarily, avoid imply we are metagaming))

//Also please remember the majority of the people posting here are not allowed in Shadowdale under pain of death. We were told we could RP the construction project as well. We are just making sure that it is posted that any projects dome by the Zhents outside of the safty of Shadowdale will be met with stiff resistance. There would be elven sneak attacks, speaches from rebels to the workers and other magical attacks. This post was made to not hijack the RP thread in Shadowdale and avoid metagaming and godmodding. We just want the opposing side of the situation to be represented so the staff can see it and have a betteridea of how to move forward.

//please stop the OOC here, this is a IC forum. the DMs involved will contact all involved parties.

\\I like Vall Moons initiative here, but I suggest that you guys decide together first what is going on oocly to prevent confusions.

Thread locked because it is not a RP one anymore.