(WL) Athendore (Sprout, Dan Petersson) - Age of Wonders Heaven Forum

Sprout
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posted 02-11-03 01:58 PM EDT (US) 1 / 39

Humans - Day 1

The beginning. It is a wide open world and we humans shall expand to take it all! We quickly recruit a 3rd hero, although no battles are fought today - we feel good about our future!

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-11-03 04:47 PM EDT (US) 2 / 39

Halflings day 1:

Our scouts indicate that there might be evil powers at work. They also tell about friends being in trouble not too far away. Cautiously we proceed forth to explore.

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-11-03 06:01 PM EDT (US) 3 / 39

Halflings day 2:

Caution is the key word right now. We don't want to lose our heroes this early, and we need them to claim some valuable resources.

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Sprout
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posted 02-11-03 08:15 PM EDT (US) 4 / 39

Humans Day 2,3:

Needing to fight off some druids we capture a power node and procede towards a dwarven village that seems reluctant to join our cause...they can be persuaded by arms I am sure

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-12-03 07:45 AM EDT (US) 5 / 39

Halflings day 3:

Lost a centaur today, but we took the Gautris gate. Rebuilding immediately started. New gains hopefully found at the other side of the gate.

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Sprout
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posted 02-12-03 01:35 PM EDT (US) 6 / 39

Humans Day 4

Lost our starting hero today An archer and pikemen were too much for him. (His followers muttered something about only a loser would swing and miss 4 times in a row and get slaughtered by two level 1 troops). Well, maybe it is better off this way after all!

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-12-03 03:44 PM EDT (US) 7 / 39

Umm, I didn't receive the turn. Can you please resend?

/Dan

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-12-03 06:19 PM EDT (US) 8 / 39

Halflings day 4:

Today a new hero joins our cause. Michiella the smiling is her name. A scout found her guarding a watch tower, but she happily joined our crusade in Athendore. Tomorrow Gauter's gate will be rebuilt. We shall see what we find on the other side.

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Sprout
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posted 02-12-03 08:12 PM EDT (US) 9 / 39

Humans - Day 5

More troops fall under the extremely difficult guardians of surrounding resources...our gold situation is getting better and better - even though we are not getting any new sources of income...strange, huh?

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-13-03 07:18 AM EDT (US) 10 / 39

Halflings day 5:

Michiella the smiling nearly became Michiella the dead today. She fought together with a pony and a slinger against four wild boars. The battle almost ended in disaster, and Michiella had to use ice shards to save her life. Lucky me that I had that spell from the start. Alone and with 2 hp's she emerges from the battle victorious. Need that Healing water badly now, but the earth node gained will help see to that.

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-13-03 04:19 PM EDT (US) 11 / 39

Halflings day 6:

Progress is very slow, because lots of our troops have been lost to guardians and indies. At least no heroes have been lost yet, and today a 3-hexer was forced to join us. With the help of healing water it went smoothly.

A lone pony scout was attacked during the night by three wolves, but the pony somehow managed to kill them all. A heroic deed that will inspire new songs to our bards.

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Sprout
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posted 02-13-03 09:02 PM EDT (US) 12 / 39

Humans - Day 7

Today we fought an earth elemental...a beast that had a few more hit points than we expected

During the night 2 rogues attacked us...those lousy Halflings. They will pay for this!!

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-14-03 03:25 PM EDT (US) 13 / 39

Halflings day 7:

Today the brave pony rider arrived at a nice halfling village, and he managed to bribe them into joining our empire. Then the brave rider led a couple of the villagers to another nearby village populated by dreadful skeletons. Those awful beings were kicked out easily, and installation of a nicer population is immediately started. Also some farms and mines were taken. All in all a good day.

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Sprout
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posted 02-14-03 04:23 PM EDT (US) 14 / 39

Humans - Day 8:

A troll attacked our poisoned and wounded hero and her companions...sadly the battle did not go as we would have hoped. At least our last hero is still doing well. Perhaps will will add city number 3 to our growing (slowly) empire!

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-14-03 05:44 PM EDT (US) 15 / 39

Halflings day 8:

A dwarven village joined us today. A rogue had to pay with his life in the fight to convince them. We tried to bribe another halfling city into joining us, but they demanded 3 more gold than we had, so we have to wait until tomorrow. Our heroes are moving around cautiously, waiting for some nice level ups shortly to come. More defense will be advised, since this place is crawling with beasts of all kinds.

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Sprout
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posted 02-14-03 09:04 PM EDT (US) 16 / 39

Humans - Day 9:

Not a battle today - we move, consolidating our forces to press onward into the world.

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-15-03 04:49 PM EDT (US) 17 / 39

Halflings day 9:

Today we bribed the greedy halflings into joining us. Otherwise an eventless day with cautious scouting for new resources that we can take. Some locations we don't dare to visit just yet.

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-15-03 06:52 PM EDT (US) 18 / 39

Halflings day 10:

Today we made contact with those blasted azracs. That is early, and it does not bode well. A djinn has found it's way into our lands already, and we have to move troops there to take care of it. I wonder how long this game will last? If the undead and orcs show up too, it might be a short game.

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Sprout
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posted 02-16-03 07:28 AM EDT (US) 19 / 39

Humans - Day 11

We dispatch some Azarc troops that had been scouting our lands...the fools shall learn to keep to their burning sands! A new hero, Draco, joined our forces today - he immediately started to work on preparations for the coming incarnate that seems to be a bit unstoppable!

Earth mastery was cast by the Undead today as well!! This means that our earth node produced a much needed Earth elemental, but we wonder (and fear) what the undead horde must be like.

Many of our troops are advancing and being awarded silver and gold medals for their brave deeds (that is the ones that have survived!).

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-16-03 05:07 PM EDT (US) 20 / 39

Halflings day 11:

Curse those sandcrawlers. Overnight they stole our earth node, therby also stealing our earth elemental. Now we have to fight the djinn and also the earth elemental, that should have been ours.

One of our heroes levelled up today, and now has 10 in defense. That will be needed when facing that elemental guy. Ohter level ups soon to follow.

One of our scouts was killed by some indie units, and another scout spotted an azrac hero. Cursed be his name. Curse upon all sandfolk.

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Sprout
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posted 02-17-03 00:12 AM EDT (US) 21 / 39

Humans - Day 12

Well, an incarnate in the body of a goblin hero captured a city during the knight, but our cavalier with a long range casting of enchant weapon and nature's blessing and even a silver medal rode against this foe - and was the victor! Ahh, it is a relief indeed...but now Captain Tenor is exposed. Draco who just joined was zapped by a lightning strike that we did not even see.

More doombats claim the lives of scouts...atleast our charltan continues to charm about 2/day to replace the ones that we keep losing :/

Somehow, I feel a little better towards the Azarcs after hearing the news of the hobbits Sadly, I think the sandcrawlers may give us many reasons to curse their name in the coming days!!

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-17-03 07:19 AM EDT (US) 22 / 39

Halflings day 12:

That earth elemental is threathening to take one of our lovely cities. Elemantal killing squad will soon be there. A brave volunteer took back the earth node, with the risk of getting killed by the azracs. Curse the sandpeople.

I also made first contact with the orcs today. Lets hope that they move in another direction. We don't like those smelly bullies.

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Sprout
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posted 02-17-03 01:37 PM EDT (US) 23 / 39

Humans - Day 12

Well, the night passed with no attacks and today no matter how hard we looked, we could find no one to attack! Perhaps it is true that we have finally established a little breathing space (although more likely that we just are so few in numbers...)

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-17-03 05:09 PM EDT (US) 24 / 39

Halflings day 13:

The azracs have retreated, just as my strike force arrives. Cowards!!! We will crush them like the cursed sandwords they are.

Level up for Michiella. More defense!

Spotted a goblin city today as well. No help to expect from our short evil cousins I suppose.

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-18-03 04:06 PM EDT (US) 25 / 39

Halflings day 14:

No sign of the azracs. Our powerful sandkillers must have scared them off. Let's see for how long. The goblins actually offered us peace. Amazed by their sudden glimpse of wisdom we of course accepted their offer. We have enough trouble fighting the other evil races. Let's see how the elves respond to our presence, as we spotted some of them as well.

Level up for Jadral today. Guess what, he got some more defense.

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Sprout
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posted 02-19-03 01:28 AM EDT (US) 26 / 39

Humans - Day 14 or so

Well, the 17th level Undead hero Jarax the DemonLord captured a vital city and easily slaughtered all in his path! We are thinking of plans to counter this, yet the leaders on the spot could think of only one: RUN!

The Azarcs are starting to be devilish to us as well. A completely unseen wyvern appeared and took our builders guild and may strike our poorly defended capital during the night.

Our force that has descended to the depths is fighting for their lives against the Undead that seem to be everywhere!! We did manage to free a titan and cavalier from a prison...they are sorely needed in the defense of our new city that we captured.

Both of our heroes leveled today - but unlike the halfling's wimpy heroes that focus on defense they choose to take a combination of hit points, resistence and defense.

(Side note: Not sure where, but the Undead cast Earth Mastery with only having 1 sphere of Earth magic...so they must have bought the spell somewhere....)

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-20-03 07:23 AM EDT (US) 27 / 39

Halflings day 18:

The world is on fire! Those cursed sanddwellers are responsible for this, and they will pay. We will cool them off with our strong and valiant forces. Lyan Dayel is driving forth in an attack on the azracs. A 3-hexer was taken without losses, and she will also level up again soon.

Jadral made another level today. Yesterday he fought in a prison battle, but he had to retreat without freeing the prisoners. The guards were simply too tough. The experience earned at least gave him a level up.

Yesterday a level 4 dwarf joined our cause as well. With mountaineering he can claim resources otherwise unreachable for us.

Michiella is moving towards Jadral to help fighting off those last prison guards. Jadral will have to rest a couple of days first, since he was cursed by a foul beast in the first battle.

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[This message has been edited by Dan Petersson (edited 02-20-2003 @ 07:23 AM).]

Sprout
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posted 02-20-03 11:22 AM EDT (US) 28 / 39

Humans:

Them halflings seem to be doing well...they list the heroes that joined...while we list the heroes lost!

Today Draco's short tenure with us ended on the spit of a Syron's long stick.

Twoblades made a valiant attack and managed to take down a 10th level undead hero, but the other high level heroes continue to pester us...and Twoblades may not live through the night as more undead forces close in!

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Dan Petersson
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posted 02-20-03 04:39 PM EDT (US) 29 / 39

Halflings day 19:

Lyan killed a few azracs and also an orcish scout today in our border lands. They must fear our brave heroes because there is no sign of large forces near us yet.

We spotted a 10-defense red dragon that might become a huge threat if it moves in our direction though. Let's hope not. Strange that the undead have launched such a massive attack on the humans, and still left us alone.

The dwarves offered us peace today, and it was welcomed of course. The frostlings weren't as friendly though, as they declared war upon us.

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[This message has been edited by Dan Petersson (edited 02-20-2003 @ 04:40 PM).]

Sprout
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posted 02-21-03 01:47 AM EDT (US) 30 / 39

Humans - Day 20

Since we were little children we have heard the stories of great heroes imprisoned for crimes they did not commit at the Pagon Prisons. Having grown up on this tale, Caption Tenor moved to find out the truth - for help is sorely needed. He took only the trusty gold medal Cavalier and Draco with him. Draco died in the attempt to cross the bridge...and today, Tenor and his trusty sidekick entered the prisons to free those unjustly imprisoned. First a mighty lizard hero (with dominate) and his pet Basilisk were freed, then with their help we liberated a somewhat less powerful Dwarven hero and her pet Firstborn. Along the way we picked up 4 other troops thanks to our new lizard hero (including 2 halfling rogues).

Elsewhere, our entire presence on the surface has been wiped out by the Azarcs and Undead.

However, in the deep dark depths, Twoblades continues to live, slaughtering Undead at every corner. The 4 hex city that we took from the Undead fought off an assualt during the night and continues to migrate to Human.

With the number of heroes doubling, it was overall - a very good day!!

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