Coe 3 Aar

[st.patrik]

Well I might have guessed this would happen - when I got to the swamp I realized that it was far too small to create the massive terracotta army Godegisel wrote so excitedly about. In fact it was drained before I even got to set off - after making only 2 soldiers! Ah well, those are the breaks! I have decided that I will journey on with Godegisel for a few months, since he clearly isn’t really ready for this task.

[Flop]

This is great reading. Thanks for posting it.

How does the swamp thing work? Is there a chance every turn that it will be drained, when you're making terracotta soldiers, or does it have a set number of resources for making them?

[st.patrik]

Godegisel and I ended up parting company rather quickly in the end. In a moment of genius I realized that in the winter the river would freeze, enabling us to cross over, so I sent a small detachment of troops with Godegisel across the frozen river. I will continue to the north while he will head west.

[st.patrik]

Godegisel reports he came upon an ancient forest peopled by giant praying mantis. I think he’s trying to impress me. Giant praying mantis indeed!



I found another coal mine, guarded by some archers and spearmen. Under normal circumstances this wouldn’t be too much of a challenge, but I gave several men to Godegisel, and so I only have scant forces myself. However, I have an edge in that I have mastered several arcane techniques. Unfortunately many of them won’t help since they protect my army (if you could call it that) against fire or poison. However, I do have a technique to increase the armor of my men. I have committed it to memory, and deliberately NOT studied the other techniques, so that when battle comes I will be fighting with magically enhanced troops!