(11-09-2017, 12:42 AM)DM Dougfan Wrote: Kesten turns as Valdi approaches and gives him a grateful nod, accepting the mug of soup that Svetlana, despite how much work it must have been, managed to cook up for a force of 14 people. A flash of this knowledge runs across his eyes as he settles into a pensive mood. "Well...less questions than concerns. For one thing, the state of our defensibility is...suspect, at best. The watchtowers appear to have been scavenged for parts along the way. Sightlines are excellent...to the point that a man standing in one of them, or on the battlements, will be mostly open to enemy archers. The status of the walls is threadbare and the door looks more like a barricade than an actual gate. I marvel at how you lot were able to defend against a force that Oleg claims outnumbered you by almost double!"
He thinks again for a few moments. "Another thing has crossed my mind. I have counted and recounted the current occupants of this fort. We number at 14, and I am uncertain how well we will be able to fit within these walls without bursting them at the seams."
"I agree with your assessment of the defenses, as to how we were able to make use of them, it is simple, we did not. We let the enemy in and then attacked, using the defenses to prevent their escape. It would have been impossible to repel them, but they were not expecting resistance from Oleg and Svetlana, so we gave them none. At least not until it was too late for them.. We merely concealed our presence until the trap was sprung."
"As for bursting these walls, we shall have to see what Andra has in mind, but I suspect we shall be exploring and foraging. Hopefully that will continue to bring in supplies that you and your men might use to make improvements. At the very least it should give you the security to venture outside the fort to make those improvements. We need better walls. I had also noticed the lack of a well. Even if the walls are strengthened enough to actually defend, they will do little good if a foe can simply surround us and wait us out."
"Do any of your men have skill with carpentry or engineering, such pursuits are not within my skill. Among my people I am a warrior, hunter and battlefield medic."
