Under siege

[jethrien]

Last night, I dreamt that I was part of some kind of expedition through a vast grassland. We were following a river north, and were heading for a lake that was marked on the map as being exceptionally deep and suitable for ships. The lake was fed by a waterfall which was guarded by an outpost. When we arrived, we discovered that lake had filled up with silt and was now about a foot deep. The guard outpost was expecting an attack from an army very shortly, and the few people manning the fort were about ready to desert. We insisted that they stay and spent a frantic few days shoring up the defenses. There wasn't much in the way of weaponry - we rigged pulleys and brought up a lot of rocks from the lake to be thrown and catapulted. We built kind of a roof to protect people on the battlements from arrows from above, but rigged it so it could be tipped over the wall if they used fire arrows. We prepared for a siege.

Then the army showed up.

And it was made of monsters.

Huge monsters, the biggest of which were nearly a third as tall as the front wall. We tried using the catapult, but we had been expecting a horde of little people, who wouldn't have all been able to get out of the way of a falling rock. The big monsters saw them coming and dodged with ease. One of them clawed its way up the front of the battlements. I was trying to poke it in the eye with at stick while it tried to eat my arms with an enormous beak. Below, I could see that most of our people were trying to shore up the door while the monsters battered their way in. We changed plans, and were going to try to escape out the back to the lake. They had nearly broken in when I woke up.

Comments

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

Alright young lady, that's enough fantasy gaming for you! Go read a book about bunnies.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

...we're playing a modern-day campaign of late. It's not exactly hugs and puppies, but there are no catapults, battlements, or iant beaked things. Just invisible snipers and theoretically infinite ninjas.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I actually suspect a bunch of this came from the last trade paperback of Fables I read. What with hopeless battle against monsters attacking a walled fortress, and trying to hold out long enough for people to escape in a boat out the back.

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

Oh. So plagiarism. Here we all thought your subconscious was being so original.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Hey, George Washington was all me!

[jeths-mom.livejournal.com]

I want to be theoretically infinite. Just theoretically, though.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Well, it didn't work out too well for the ninjas. A werewolf used one ninja to hit most of the other ninjas. And then the gay pirate attacked.

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Then you don't want to be a ninja. Recall the Inverse Law of Ninjas: The more there are, the weaker they are. One ninja is invincible. Theoretically infinite ninjas could be trounced by Don Knotts as The Incredible Mr. Limpett.