Objective: Take full control of the city, and prevent its recapture by discouraging further hostilities from the Elves.

Losing Conditions: Capture of Lady Hinter, You are defeated or control of the citadel lost.

*Reinforcements are currently not expected to arrive. Other nations are washing their hands of this incident, or have their own hands tied. The enemy may also receive reinforcements soon themselves. An eventual long march might compromise the rear of the citadel which is vulnerable to an attack from the rear. A plan for the distribution of forces and resources is needed, the elves will attack with their own plan, and you need to be best prepared to counter them or overcome their prepared defenses.*

As for the map...

EVIL QUEST! YESSSSSSSSSS!

1: West dock slums
2: Exterior Harbor
3: East dock slums
4: East Angelfalls (mostly residential)
6: Interior harbor
7: Central Angelfalls (craftsmen and shipwrights)
8: Angelfalls Market
9: Church and city gardens
10: West Angelfalls (mostly residential)
11: Warehouses
12: Angelfalls Citadel (each a tower on separate sides of the river above the waterfall connected by a stone bridge)
13: Nobles district

Blue: Friendly occupied
Green: Enemy occupied

Yellow Diamond: The Great Lift
Purple Square: The Lighthouse of Angels

Uh, what's 5?

I assume grey is neutral ground?

>>13774596
We don't talk about zone 5.

>>13774596
Shit. It is North Residential. Merchant Barons mostly, high class homes in the lower part of the city closer to the actual functioning city.

Okay, Evil, where are the mage children?
We have a tower to corrupt.

>>13774616
Destroyed. Thanks to you, many people and elves died.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/13056167/

>>13774647
Oh, I see. For that matter, where are our apprentices? And Quoth?

Façade is weak, you are covering your face with your hood. If I am not mistaken, the children were sent away to the refuge camp, they can be brought back with an order. Quoth is MIA.

Where ever you lend your presence success is more likely since you can intervene on events that will pop up and have to deal with.

Isn't the city kind of sloped from the top down to the river?

Can we get a shit load of rocks and start flinging them down at Elven forces?

>>13774587
Best plan would be to set enough men to defend 13 and 12 from any counter attack and focus on taking 5 and 2. Seal off that side of the city from elven presence and we only have to defend the ports from further attack. Which would let us focus on the other side of the city.

>>13774688
We must have the tower. Get the children.

>>13774704
City is built in tiers, I have not made a side view, but think of it as a staircase viewed from the side.

>>13774718
the tower was destroyed, the children are irrelevant at the moment.

take zone five, it would allow more freedom of choice of where to focus our forces not having to worry about that pocket area

>>13774749
Tower was not destroyed, but you did kill their prince in there.

>>13774761
Well then call them. And sacrifice them to corrupt the thing.

>>13774749
Taking 5 and 2 would be ideal so we could limit their movement of troops into the port and thus that side of the city. We just have to make sure the left side has enough troops to hold.

>>13774761
ah, misread some posts up there, my bad dawg

And where will you personally grace the ground with your presence? And division of troops? Ordering the children to be brought to the tower and sending out the troops can both be done.

Agreed, call those children.

Did we soul oblit that prince?

>>13774817
Bring the cavalry, 1000 men at arms, 5000 militia (1000 crossbows) and 3 cannons. I say we join the assaulting force and leave the Duke to hold the defenses.

And we won't be sacrificing the children. They're supposed to be raised to be our mages in the future damnit.

>>13774829
You sucked the life force right out of him to mend your wounds. Bits of his soul may or may not have been flayed off in torturous ethereal pain.

>>13774817
Pincer formation into 5 with the levy, backed by men at arms. Bring some cannons, given how well they worked last time.
We shall of course be in the tower with the children

>>13774839
We can't corrupt it otherwise. At least bring them to figure out how to corrupt it.

>>13774851
Ah, that's right. I couldn't remember if we had turned him into an item or not.

Idea for future use Evil: After soul obliting someone, their body burns up/turns to sand/ash whatever and falls into a pile. We bag up that ash/sand/whatever and it has some kind of magical property. lol i dunno

>>13774839
Future mages are all well and good, but not if we have no where to base them. Time is against us, bring the children if only to threaten the elves with no way home if they continue to figh.t

>>13774937
As far as I'm aware, we already know how to power the crystal and I don't think just sacrificing them will corrupt it. The children are more valuable as a long-term investment and I don't think they'll be willing to power the crystal for us at this point since they're still scared of us except for the one kid.

After some thought in silence you respond to the Duke, "Take the bulk of the forces and secure the East half of the city. Attack from both entrances from the market and east Angelfalls."

The duke nods a few times with his chin held in his hand, "Yes, that seems prudent." He almost doesn't notice as you turn to leave toward the rear exit of the citadel. "Wait! Where are you going, that way is to the noble-"

"I will be taking care of something else for now. I will return when the fight is over."

The duke was ready to protest further, but Catharine gives a light cough and shakes her head at the Duke and thus he steps down. Then grabbing his helmet he leaves to issues the orders himself.

>>13774952
Willing has nothing to do with it, we just need their bodies. Whether we use them or not can be decided later, we should at least keep them close along with our dread mage to be. If I remember correctly we could slowly corrupt the crystal with our power alone, it just took time.

Do you think there will be time for a parlay before any major fighting? I think we have a strong legal case against the elves.

>>13774957
Ugh. If you guys wanted to work on the tower, do it after we've secured one half of the city. Us being there would of saved us a lot of troops.

Every dead human makes it that much harder for the elves to resolve this without making themselves look like monsters.

>which esences
Which indeed captcha, which indeed...

In the refugee camp, the scared citizens of Angelfalls those too young, old, unfit or cowardly to fight along with the women huddle in makeshift shelters. As you stride into the camp your arrival was not surprising, since seeing you arrive from a distance away is not hard at all. As you walk past with a modest escort of soldiers the people swarm begging for food and relief, there is fresh water for them to drink from the river, but they protest about their suffering. Whether you care about them or not...

Continuing your march you finally come across familiar dressed and forlorn looking men. They certainly look like sailors who have lost their ship. Seeing your arrival they salute at your arival.

"Yeah boss, wez got all dem guests of yers safe and sound. Few of the boys packed up and scrammed with others who done gone run further down river, don't expectin they be comin' back. What you wantin' to do wid em?"

>>13775007
If we can get this shit working, we won't NEED to attack the rest on foot.

>>13775052
"Bring them to me. I have plans for them."
Shadow Step with the kids to the tower.

>>13775052
With who? If they mean the prisoners have them escorted to the Lighthouse. Anybody asks, we're securing vulnerable refugee children away from the rigors of camp into one of the hardest to reach places in the city. Send a decent contingent of the sailors with them. The deserters are a problem to be dealt with later.

>>13775052
go hunt the deserters for sport

“Right, we’ll get right friendly wide em. Cunt there wid em owes me a silver still he does.”

Inside the tent the sailors have set up you have to bend over to fit your frame through the flap. Inside Gregor and Miranda huddled to the right and to the left the children huddled together, with one boy standing in front of them, but from under his arms a small girl approaches and looks up at you with a book too large for her in her arms. A few hands went out to grab hold of her, but they remember too late and missed their chance.

“Hello!” Andrea says cheerfully.

>>13775155
Later, man, later. We can tear their heads off and eat their hearts once we rule here...
Insect.

>>13775170
"Hello, Andrea. Tell me, do you know anything about that tower?"

>>13775170
*Smile*
"My dear Andrea, how are you? Any luck with reading your storybook there?"
Be sure to show approval to the boy gotta keep him nice and mean, I forget his name.
Coerce the engineer and his apprentice to go with the kids to a more secure location.

>>13775214
"Tower is asleep. Been for a long long time. Elves woke it up with their magic."

>>13775265
"What if I told you you could come and see it from the inside?"

>>13775239
His name is Garreth.

Andrea smiles, "Okay!"

You give a signal to one of the sailors waiting just outside and they file in quickly and round of the inhabitants.

"Take Gregor and the girl down the river to safety. I'll be taking the children with me."

"And the other boys?"

"Tell them to be glad I did not have the time for them."

Sending the sailors down the river your escort of soldiers gathers up the children forming a square around them and leading them back toward the city. The people seem disappointed at the special treatment, but you leave them to starve so you're even.

Later you move to the west Citadel tower with your escort and the children. Climbing the stairs you reach the lighthouse itself and the large glass cylinder once again. The children behind you shake with fear, Garreth with hatred, you can feel him just waiting for a chance to attack. Andrea struggles to keep walking beside you.

With a clatter of boots hurrying up the stairs a messenger arrives, "Sir! The battle is joined in the city. The main elven force attacked trying to push into East Angelfalls, they are still fighting below. No word of movement in the west."

>>13775412
See, we should be down there to blunt that assault. Not fooling around here in something that will take too long to be beneficial. Maybe we should go with reinforcements.

>>13775412
"I trust all goes well?"

>>13775461
We're already here, lesse if we can power this thing and blow up some matchbox ships. They elves might think twice about attacking us or at least attempt diplomacy if we start burning their only way off this continent.

Ask Andrea if she knows anything about controlling/powering the device. If not take a kid with you and try influencing the crystal again.

>>13775481
"Sir, Stalemate when I was sent. Your orders?"

>>13775461
No. Unless you wish to assault the entire west side of the city.

>>13775495
Keep the elves out of our side of the city. Set fire to buildings and keep them contained and clustered. Concentrate artillery and archers on those clusters. Remind the men that the elves will not think twice about killing anyone in their way.

>>13775495
"Have the knights break the enemy lines. Keep some in reserve."

“Y-yes sir. We’ll hold the line and advance or scorch the city as we fall back.” With an awkward salute he nervously runs off back down the stairs.

Now to get things running...

>>13775496
Easy Angelfalls. Section 4 where our troops are. How is that assaulting the west on our own?

>>13775648
Address Andrea.
"What kind of magic is this, Andrea?"

>>13775650
We're simply keeping the elves busy until we burn them. It's not really an offensive.

>>13775669
Seeming a little proud she knows what she is talking about she explains, "Big mother crystal can hold a lot of magic. The little daughters gather it and give it to mommy."

FUCK YEAR,

Evil Quest!

>>13775695
"So, if the magic of the daughters changed, the mother would, too? Would it be possible to change the magic the daughters gather?"

>>13775732
"Different magic? There's no such thing as different magic. Is there? Just magic," she seems confused.

>>13775750
"Never mind. How would one go about putting more magic into it?"

>>13775770
She thinks for a little bit to herself, "By just wanting to put your magic in them?"

She is oblivious, the other children slink away in fear, and the soldiers present exchange glances with each other in a long awkward moment.

>>13775792
"You mean..."
Try it. Try to just let it flow into the little crystals. Just a little, to test it.

>>13775813
The crystals do not react to your power.

>>13775844
Hmm. Quite the quandary.
"Do you know of any, ah, rituals concerning this tower?"

>>13775867
We don't use magic like they do I assume. We need the kids to do it I bet. Too bad they're not going to be very cooperative unless we can think of a reason and I can't at this point.

This is just nitpicking, but why is our name Femento and not Femto?

Because Griffith's GodHand name is Femto. I assume that's who we're named after.

Does she have any magic? Ask her to show us how she does it.

>>13775878
How about impying that we will kill Andrea otherwise? She's happily oblivious, and it's not like we'll do it.

>>13775894
Because inspired by, not a rip off of.

When she readily puts her hand on the crystal and tries to put magic into it you can watch as her hand begins to glow blue and the one glass crystal along the outer ring of the main crystal in the center faintly glows. If you look hard enough you can see a faint line of light beam from the top of the small crystal into the larger one, but it doesn't even cause the one in the center to shine brighter at all.

>>13775953
Our magic is innate. Theirs is likely done differently.
But we cannot corrupt it without our presence.
We need a ritual centering around us. Any ideas, anyone?

>>13775953
perhaps we can send our power through the child into the crystal, her acting as a "middle-man" so to speak?

>>13776035
Like using an American adapter in a power outlet in France!

>>13776048
It's worth a try. I say we do it.

>>13776048
exactly!

Who is being used for this experiment?

>>13776096
Ideally one who is afraid of us, not our sweet little half-elf. We need an expendable vessel in case it causes damage.

>>13776096
Someone with magical aptitude who is expendable.

Oh, fuck, I decide to take a break from /tg/ and come back to find out I was missing Evil Quest.

Wait, why the fuck are we trying to power the tower before we've secured the city? Even if we burn the elven ships in the harbor we can't burn the city itself. And how the hell do you plan on making the kids who hate us power the crystal?! And why did you order the buildings set on fire?! We want to look like a savior to the humans, remember?

Crap, what a mess.

>>13776112
That's pretty much all the kids but Andrea?

Hey Evil, are any of the dukes men around to see what we're doing?

>>13776160
We should definitely only practice magic in private.

>>13776108
>>13776035
>>13776048
>>13776065
This is a stupid plan, the crystal will work fine with normal magic, rather than experimenting, and possibly scarring poor little Andrea when we fail and turn her classmate into some kind of abomination, we should figure a way to make the kids want to channel their power into the crystals.

You beckon for one of the soldiers to bring one of the children over, they struggle and scream but one, a young boy, no older then 9 is dragged away from the group and pushed before you.

He tries to run away but you grab him by the arm and force his palm to lay flat on the crystal. Then you begin to pour your energy into the boy. You can feel your façade groan and crackle against the strain as black mist from your arm holding onto the boy sinks through the boy's flesh into him. That energy forces a blue aura out from the boy, your power and his magic power cannot occupy the same space, and yours is much heavier. It starts out slow but suddenly begins to cascade out of control from him. The boy groaning in pain from before starts to scream in pain, his entire arm turns bright blue as it pours into the crystal, and a thick line flows into the main one in the center of the room and the crystal slowly begins to shine.

However, from the boys mouth, his eyes and his ears blood begins to flow out, then into a stream as he continues to scream. You feel your façade shatter again and the lack of restraint when that goes has its consequences. You hear one pop, and blood oozes even more furiously from his ears. A crack, as blood flows from the boy's nose like a faucet. And then another pop as the boy's eye's explode and with one last scream hacked out from his mouth a blood and a strange unrecognizable lump of flesh.

The boy's arm goes limp, as does the rest of his body, as it still oozes blood.

The center crystal shines dimly.

>>13776198
brutal.... Evil..... purrfect....

>>13776198
Well, fuck.

There go all my fucking plans for the kids. And we didn't even have the foresight to have Andrea leave the room so she wouldn't see.

Can we please retcon it so that we didn't do this in open, in front of civilian witnesses, and in front of the person we're trying to get to be our willing servant?

>>13776229
Too late. We did it.

>>13776198
Quickly, >imply horror and pretend not to know what happened. Tell the men to take him to a medic.

>>13776244
Well, kiss our army, respect, name, and city goodbye then.

We'll also have to evacuate Catherine.

The world will know about us, and from this point on the quest will be significantly harder. We can expect elf-led raids and holy warriors hunting us.

Evil, you're not really gonna penalize us because a few people made an oversight, are you?

We'll have to kill the men. Regrettable. Blame elf assassins.

>>13776295
The men simply have to die, then. Then who's to know?

Ok, so, our facade is broken, in front of many witnesses no less. And no way Andrea is going to retain her innocent view of us after this fuck up.

Maybe we can threaten the rest of the kids into charging the crystal willingly rather than have us do this to them?

Might be a good idea to have Andrea escorted from the room, without looking at her, don't want her to catch a glimpse of our face with no facade. .

>>13776313
>>13776307
That won't work with our facade broken. Anyone can see us for what we are now. Hell, they don't even have to see us, they can just SENSE the WRONG that is us.

>>13776320
Are we not wearing a cloak?

>>13776339
It won't have to be US that speaks to them. Catharine can. The men still have to die.

>>13776342
>>13776342
Doesn't matter. With no facade our aura alone will be enough to turn people against us.

>>13776356
Not sure about that. I don't think Catharine has never seen us without our facade. Her reaction will be interesting, at least.

With the boy limp and dead in your grip you call out to those behind you, "Take this....boy... away."

The group of soldiers look confused but one soldier comes forward and picks up the boy in his arms and turns to leave.

"Do not look upon him." And quietly to him, "Take him to the river, and dispose of him. Tell NO ONE of this."

With a gulp he nods and leaves quickly with the body. "And someone take Andrea away, she has done all she needs to do here." Another soldiers comes forward hesitantly and gently takes the girl by the hand.

Andrea looks on confused, "Did I do something bad? Why do I have to go? What happened?" Her questioning voice eventually fades away into nothing as she is taken down the stairs.

To the rest of the soldiers you order, "The rest of you stand guard outside. I do not need you cluttering up this sanctum."

Cautiously and slowly they file out, but they file out gladly and close the door behind them. Not a single child remaining dares make another sound as you back is turned to them.

>>13776229
I have to agree. Why did we do that in front of everyone?

>>13776399
Address the remaining children, no need to face them:

"You can channel your magic into the crystal willingly, and live. Or I can do it for you, and you WILL die. Painfully. The choice is yours."

>>13776396
Without the Facade, no, but she saw us in all our horrific glory right after we slew the princeling and Duke way back when. She didn't even flinch.

>>13776450
Because she loves us. Or rather she loves who she thinks we are. Much easier to love a slightly unnatural man than a monster.

>>13776399
Test the crystal. See it accepts our magic. Fiddle with it until all the men return.
Then quietly kill them all. It should be no trouble.

>>13776444 Here

Look I'm not so good with dialogue, now would be a really nice time for someone else to offer suggestions or another course of action.

>>13776444
This. This so much.
Plus trips.

>>13776480
All the kids but Andrea ALREADY hate us. We're raising them the Sith way.
I say this makes the best out of a bad situation.

>>13776476
It won't accept us, our magic is unnatural. All our experiment did was show us that we could force the natural magic from someone else out of their body and into a receptacle. That's good to know for the future but it doesn't help so much now, unless we WANT to kill all the kids.

Wonder to yourself if it might be possible to find a ritual that would allow one to turn the life energy of normal humans into something workable.. consider raiding the library at a later date.

"You can channel your magic into the crystal willingly, and live. Or I can do it for you, and you WILL die. Painfully. The choice is yours."

The reaction from the children is as expected. Terror to the point of being unable to think properly. They feel as though one wrong step or word would result in their immediate demise.

And they are probably right.

>>13776551
Put your trip back on.

The crystal's corrupted. Raw magic will only add power.

Rage at the crystal.

No, seriously.

Accuse the crystal of "taking" the child, just an all-out manly-tears-of-rage bit. Slump down in front of it, turn on the faucet, yell out, "WHY?!"

Sure, they're crocodile tears, but our troops don't know that. If we're lucky, they'll believe us.

Promise them something, quick. Power. A place in a new order. Say that they are destined for great things, and should be proud.

Work that evil Emperor charisma on them. "Turn your fear into power."

>>13776551

>>13776444 here again

See, this is why I wanted more suggestions. It's possible for us to make them do it willingly, but if they panic we're screwed. We'll never be able to explain away all the bodies if we have to do this our self.

They need to be guided through it at least once, but if we actually face them I think they'll freak. And if that happens we're fucked.

Going to cut this one short. I don't have all night sadly. However, I'll continue this tomorrow and starting hours earlier.

>>13776551
Use your dark implication ability.

"This isn't so hard. All you have to do to be safe and cared for is to be useful. Be useful, and you are kept and protected. Resist or be useless, and you will be made to serve and discarded."

>>13776586
Don't do this.

Our troops are already gone, we made them leave, it's just us and the kids. Doing anything like that really will blow our chances I think.

Just don't disappear again, Evil