Gonna give hrunnwulf another day or two, then move forward...

Current map is in Group Two.

Another day for Ludvig and Vermundr then we'll move ahead...

Where is the big dude at?  Is the map updated?

dun dun dun.... suspenseful, ain't it?

I'm still a little confused.  Is the Big L near me and Klaengr the big fee fi fo guy?

He's not on the map, no... there is one Lemur who vanished into the darkness...

I'm also confused.  The boulder came to us and landed in the fjord .. . from what direction, roughly?

The fjord is to the bottom, the boulder came from the top, over the battle and into the water... the same direction the monsters came from.

Move on then?

waiting to see if anyone is going to attempt anything like a strategy, or if it is a free for all... pretty decent visual though, huh?

I will be away from home with questionable wifi for the next two days. DM, NPC me if you need to. Sigurd will try to find and use ranged weapons if possible.

Gonna give another few hours for final actions, then we advance...

Just saw this on FB... http://schwalb-entertainment.m...a-glorious-death-pdf

We have a new Klaengr, welcome our new comrade please...

Hello all. Looks like I will be picking up Klaengr. Looking forward to playing with you.

Hail the priest of storms and bacon!

Welcome to the game!

Welcome!

Tough spot we're in. As much as I don't want to rest another day before attempting to free the captives, I am concerned we are so battered that going in there before we have a chance to heal up a bit more will result in a TPK.

One good hit and Klaengr goes down. Many of the other PCs can take 2 or 3 good hits.

Sigurd's report of a "Large band of orcs milling about" leads me to believe we are outnumbered. Not a good situation to willingly go into battle if we don't have to. Much prefer to go in at a time and place of our choosing. Hopefully they orcs will be drunk and fat off plunder and not as likely to be wantonly killing survivors yet. It's a risk though.

Will try to have a map up tonight, but I'm not going to be able to get to it till late...

Okay. Sounds good.

I am in agreement with Klaengr.

Motte-and-bailey fortifications, according to wikipedia, could be made of either wood or stone. I'm thinking this one is stone since the Sn'orks would easily have burned down a wooden one, but I'd like to be certain.

Also: Sn'orks. One of them is an All-Star.

Wood is not the uber-flammable substance most people seem to think it is. I get wood designed for burning for my fireplace, and it can be a serious task to get it going.

In this case, and in this primitive world, the motte is raised dirt creating a man made platform about ten feet about the land around it, and bailey was a wooden palisade, not unlike the image of the forts of the wild west, long straight logs with pointed tops, and a raised walkway on the inside for guards.

The issue with this particular palisade is that the Jotunn who attacked this town, then the party later that day, smashed several sections of the wall to allow his minions entry.

With the population wiped out, and even the survivors (those the Jotunn could find) driven away, the Sn'orks had no problem moving in, looting, etc.

They will leave eventually, they are (to be generous) hunter gatherers and will run out of food when they eat the last of the scraps, corpses and prisoners, but I don't think the party wants to wait for that to happen.

Must admit, I don't get the Sn'ork all-star joke...

Has "Sigurd" been able to construct a crude map yet?

The quality of the map doesn't matter. I just am not feeling overly confident about blindly waltzing into a fortified encampment on the heels of a hard battle with no time to recuperate.