Posted by Falkayn on September 25, 1998 at 05:37:52:
Tonite the tavern was attacked by the scum that likes to call
themselves the Xiles of Helll. They seized the tavern and attacked
Perianwyr himself along with several others. Thrawn was at the
tavern and dispatched a message to me on what was happening. It just
so happened at the time that three of the seargents of the Yew Militia
were meeting with Keuldan at the abbey to discuss the new uniforms.
Keuldan, Cass, Vargen, myself and Keuldan's guildmate Calsted immediately
recalled there. The scene was one of chaos. XH had seized the tavern
and ensconced themselves inside. Most of them displayed a good reputation
and they were abusing Lord British's flawed reputation system to kill anyone
who attacked them. We stood at the door for a bit and fired arrows and
spells back and forth. But it was a stalemate. So I and a few others
walked inside. More than one can use that rep system. My goal was to taunt
them into attacking me so they would be attackable by the others. It seemed
however that the XH guildmaster Magnus had managed to just get himself marked as
a murderer. We managed to kill him and I had a seat at the bar. Beside me sat
SmoltenSoul, an XH who had managed to get himself marked as a criminal. I traded
arrows, swordstrokes and spells with him for some time. Both sides were healing
he and I, and several others were attacking him too. He had the annoying habit
however of hiding ever few seconds which was useless as far as remaining hidden
since I was right beside him. But it served his purpose of having archers lose
their target on him. Eventually he succumbed and ordered the rest of his cronies
to attack me. I might have survived the barrage of energy bolts if at the very
same time the gods of lag had not struck. So I died. But the rest of the defenders
slowly forced their way into the tavern and eventually routed the rest. Several of
the XH members were killed, but so were some of us. The tavern was finally cleared
of their stench. But unfortunately there were looters and thieves drawn to the
battle as well. I lost everything but my reagents (thanks Aragorn). Several others
had items stolen in the lag.
Perianwyr, we need to come up with a better defense plan for the tavern. I have a
feeling they will be back. Its far too hard to drive them out once they get inside.
Perhaps when the militia gets better organized. The drake they kept trying to get
in there was pretty useless. A squad of about 6 archers with mages behind healing
and revealing would have been much more effective.