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.

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