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    Doc rushes over to the tattered body of Munro. It's clear he can do nothing to help, but he checks anyway. Sighing in frustration, he collects a dog tag and starts arranging the body in a less undignified manner.

    Looks like we got lucky with that thing. They'll need some powerful magic to heal the limb. If it cares more about vengeance than recovery it could be back though, fatal that wound ain't.

    At the very least, we made a big old noise and we need to split. If someone clears some rubble I can try to break us into that tunnel under the bunker. Anyone see anywhere else we can head? I'm all ears for other suggestions but we gotta be fast!


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    Perception (1d20+5)[20] to see if there's somewhere else we can head to other than underground.
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    Wolf picks himself off the ground after the dragon departs and walks over to Doc and the remains of Monroe. On the way, he reverts back to his fully (well, mostly) human shape.

    He waves for the others to join them. Wolf also uses his whistle to signal K'ral, hoping he is somewhere in the trees and not dead from the dragon's blast.

    He responds to Doc, "Yeah, I'm guessing with that explosion more Kriegers will be here soon. The question is, though, is this now the best spot for the guys on the beach to make it up?" He shakes his head. "I still think we need to find others before we try to take out any Shielders. I wish Ordo was here with his radio."

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    Is mildly distracted by the beauty of the explosion.

    After a few seconds his attention returns to the task at hand.

    If we clear out that bunker, (Points)
    Then we give the shorebound a clear approach.
    If we aren't going to hold this AA gun, we need to destroy it before we move on.


    (Considering Doc's words)
    Lets hear if hes near by: (Casts Message)
    Ordo, do you read?
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    Gabriel's Message casts successfully, but appears to fail to find its intended recipient - there is no reply, either because Ordo is out of the spell's range, or worse. That's the bad news.

    The good news is that, Munro, incredibly, is alive - great gory rents in his scales over his torso and left arm and left and his tail are all present, but some quirk of his reptilian physiology has allowed him to bleed slowly enough that there's still time for Doc to save him.

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    I'm gonna ask you to roll, Doc - it's a little too touch and go for a take-ten here! Looking for a 15 for a stabilizing; less for less, more for more.

    As for looking for alternative destinations, you can head up or down the line to attack another bunker or AA gun - but that may not be the best use of your skills as Skyknives, precision instruments meant to leverage opportunity. You could try to work on clearing the ramp down below the bunker, try to help the poor schmucks running through the minefields... But damn, if the battle isn't too big for you to take in completely. You're a private, and a sawbones; if there's a strategy the generals have cooked up to win this mess, you can't conceive of it.


    K'ral and Catchell emerge from hiding, crowding around to watch the procedure.


    There is a pattern of structures along the Defiant Wall - bunker, AA turret, bunker, AA turret, though not quite regularly spaced, to accommodate terrain. There's another AA turret far enough along the other side of the bunk, but it seems to have fallen victim to a devil-may-care bombing run by a pilot who came close enough to fly behind the Kreigshields, only to hit one target and then... Well. You hope, got away. Further down the line from where the turret you've cleared is situation, there is indeed another bunker, its gun chattering away at targets on the beach; but it seems they have their orders. You would have expected more resistance, up here - possibly, the attack on the beach is so fierce that the commander of the area has called trench warriors out of the line and to the beach itself. A weird lull falls over your immediate zone, as if fate, or whichever gods preside over such awful moments of history, has permitted you a lacuna of peace in which to watch Ssassten die... or live.
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    My gods! Quick boys give me a hand, he's bled a lot but that plump broad ain't singing yet. Push down hard where I tell you whilst I stitch the worst bits!

    A flurry of frenzied suturing and primary compression follows, sweat dripping down Thaddeus's brow. What he wouldn't give for a scrub nurse now!

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    I can restore a downed person to 1hp with a healer's kit use thanks to my feat, in case that helps at all?

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    K’ral climbs onto the ruined bunker, scoping out the battle below to see where he can offer his support
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    Do you recognize anyone down there?

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    Wolf slings his firearm on his back, kneels down and tries to help Doc as best he can.

    He is vaguely aware of K'ral moving towards the bunker and takes a split second to say, "Someone - Catchell - keep a lookout for any Kriegers coming our way from the land!" He sweeps his arm away from the beach. He then goes back to (ineptly?) following Doc's orders to try to save Munroe's life.

    If Munroe manages to comes around, Wolf suggests, "Now would be a good time to use your ring, Munroe. We need you up and moving around, soldier."

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    Doc does his work on the suffering Pvt Monroe. The lacerations are so numerous and deep that it would take a full surgical team many hours to do the necessary life saving work. So he does what he's trained to do - what the Med-Corps calls Cure Triage: preparing the wounds by removing foreign objects, settling splintered bones together, and generally reassembling a body as much as possible so the maximum amount of healing magic from a cure spell can go into the life-saving repairs, and isn't burned out doing the things that the surgeon can do. This also involves making hard decisions, and in this case, in involves bathing the wounds on the chest and neck with pos-gel and the wounds on the arm withneg-gel. When the lizardman comes to, reptile eyes wide and confused, he hears Wolf's voice enjoining him to use the emergency measures in his ring. He weakly clenches the hand with the ring on it and hisses out a gasp as mild divine light flickers from it, up his arm, partially sealing the wounds of his torso and critically, unseen, repairing the organs within enough for him to live. What he doesn't know - what Doc does know - is that the hand on which that ring sits, along with the arm it is attached to, will have to be amputated after the battle. The bones and sinews within can be supported with a sling and splint and splint now, but a reconstruction on that level us beyond the expertise of modern medicine even with the aid of curative magic.

    "D-did we get it? Iss it dead...?" He puffs, talking deleriously to avoid cringing constantly at the pain in his body.
    "It's run off," offers Catchell. "The bomb you pulled out went off with the corporal's grenade, and did the trick." This isn't the whole truth, but it's kind to offer to the critically wounded soldier. Ssassten will live - but he's not much use to you now, and is best left here in cover while your group continues its effort to secure the victory in the battlezone.

    Meanwhile, at the edge of the cliff, K'ral looks down. A sea of olive drab heroes are grinding against the grey-and-black defenders, including dozens of small, previously hidden trenches in which semi-elite Krieger trench warriors are holding back the tide. Those, K'ral surmises, were probably up here holding these trenches, but forced forward by the aggression of the amphibious landing. That's probably why you've met so little resistance. But all those warriors are too far out to make out individuals.

    ...But below you, down about 80ft of prohibitively steep cliff, you see a mangled machine gun nest, and the contrasting shapes of the largest, and smallest officer in Echo company. Lt. Bathory and Pvt. Gamble are hunkering in the ruins of the next they have apparently cleaned out, with half the sandbag wall facing the beach sheared away by the flammenwagon that tumbled off the cliff earlier and continued on all the way to the beach to explode below.

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    Doc winces whilst fiddling with a bandage on Monroe's should so that the lad can't see his face. He can barely rake his eyes off the wrecked arm that he might have been able to save on a better day.

    Well, son, you're still alive and you did great. You gave as good as you got, I'd say. We've patched you up for now but I think you've done enough heroics for one day. Sit tight here, keep that arm supported and don't even think about busting any of those stitches! If I make it through I'll come look you over again after the battle, see what we can do about long term rehab and recovery.

    Keep your head down and stay safe. I don't want to have wasted my good needle on you!

    He gently pats Monroe on the back then hurries over to the wrecked bunker. He immediately sets to heaving wreckage out of the way, hoping the exertion will vent some frustration and hide the tears running down his cheeks.

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    ”Looks like the Lieutenant and Gamble are still alive, hard to pick out anyone else.”

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    "Alright! You have a story to tell your grandchildren now, Munroe! They should make a special medal for surviving a dragon's bite." Wolf grins, elated that most of their small unit is still here, and completely missing Doc's worries.

    He stands up and looks around. At K'ral's words, he practically shouts, "The lieutenant is down there?! Well, then we need to clear this out quickly." Wolf then joins the others trying to clear up the rubble, after making sure someone (Catchall?) is watching the area behind them.
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    Ell Tee, this is Pvt Ginger reporting. We are a small team up here, but the bunker above you has been cleared. Awaiting orders. (Cantrip)
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    Munroe takes his orders to rest and lay low, Ginger and K'ral keep eyes peeled, and Catchell ties off a length of knotted rope to a chunk of embedded rebar from the crumbled bunker, and throws the other end down to Pvt Gamble and Lt Bathory. Doc and Corporal 'Wolf' do most of the critical clearing around the hatch, finding it frustratingly closed and perhaps even impenetrable with a ring pull on its top but a locking mechanism that is beyond a simple pick-job. But then, unprompted, fate conspires to make their lives easier.

    Click click click bzzt.

    The mechanism in the door hums and whirs, and finally settles; and when there's enough of the rubble cleared to get leverage on the handle just to see if it's worth clearing the lot to open it properly, the effort applied raises the hatch a half inch before the weight of the remaining rubble pushes it back down. It's unlocked - but not from anything you've done, as far as you can tell.

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    The little vampire jogged up the cliff face, her feet sticking to the surface in seeming defiance of gravity, the knotted rope streaming through her hand in a loose grip. She stepped up and over, taking in the Skyknives present with an approving look. She waited to help Gamble up (As much as someone weighing a third of his weight as much could, anyway,) and stepped enough she wasn't an easy sight for any sniper. Without any immiment danger, she began to once again cycle her focus, recharging the ward that'd saved her life - oh, a good few times by now.

    "Skyknives, good to see you! Looks like you've been having fun up here," she said crisply, taking in the smoking bunker. "Report. Who else have you seen from the company? "
    And the far stars cried, and the planets yearned;
    But no man may know, for she'll ne'er return.

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    Doc backs carefully away from the now unlocked hatch, keeping a wary eye on it as skips across the rubble to the L.T.

    I'm afraid Pvt Curry didn't survive the jump. She was long gone when we found her. He sombrely hands over her dog tag. Monroe's arm is out of action, for good, traded it for that. He points to the severed leg, grimacing. He's resting in some cover over there. That's all I'm afraid.

    We were about to try to pop that hatch and get underground when the hell's cursed thing unlocked itself. Could be Kriegers seeing what the noise was or who knows what else! Do we unbury it fully or cover it up?
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    Orders delivered, he finds a nice piece of cover to look out from.

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    ”Glad to have you back LT, did anyone else make it down to the beach with with you?”

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    Wolf visibly relaxes a little when he sees the Lieutenant. He listens to the others, and decides not to add to Doc's report or to the questions being fired at her.

    Though standing at ease, his M1 is covering the hatch, just in case.

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    Bathory looked down at the little dog tags in her Hand, reading the tiny name engraved upon them. Internally she cursed at the lack of the Captain. The whole mission was messed up, but there was only pushing on. She slipped them into a pocket and cocked a finger ready at the hatch to cast, kneeling in nearby cover.

    "They died in the line of duty, " she said, red eyes narrowed. "They can rest easy. We, however, still have work to do. Cover that hatch! One of you, ready a grenade, and if a Kreiger sticks his head out, chuck it in. "
    And the far stars cried, and the planets yearned;
    But no man may know, for she'll ne'er return.

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    As an afterthought, Doc hands the diagram of troop movements to the LT.

    Don't know how old this is but we found it behind some crates in here. He glances round at the gang. If anyone shoots me they're getting my bluntest kit next time I patch them up!

    Doc moves round to the hinge side of the hatch and begins clearing rubble again. Fingers crossed if it opens up the hatch will give him cover so that the meagre squad can let rip at whatever fresh horror pulls itself out of the tunnel!

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    Private Gamble pulls himself over the edge of the cliff and steadies himself on his feet. He takes a few steps from the edge and looks at the situation. "What's next?"
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    At the Tail End of the Nightmare Assault...

    Xilo, Salamir, O'Hara, Ordo and Jukebox all burst from the hatch in the moment of opportunity, and begin hoofing it toward the cliff wall. They are quite the party - a human, a kenku, a tortle, a tiefling and an elf, with nothing uniform about them except their skyknife uniforms specifically. So radical is the disparity in their physical appearance that they could not be mistaken as a unit representing any force but the Amcaran 'crucible of tribes'; and unknown to any of them in the moment, this scene and sentiment would be witnessed and imprinted on the heart of a private named Ursula Redspear, who would recreate that fivestrong dash in stylized rendition that would make its way on to the Amcaran silver dollar.

    And some of those five would even be alive to see it.

    At the top of the cliff, Gamble catches the message, looks around with bafflement to spot the approaching squad, and then begins conferring with his comrades in desperation to produce more rope. He has a little time to do it - without a better mechanism, the party on foot is forced to take the longer route parallel to the cliff wall, to the very base of the ramp, then to struggle up its harsh slope to where the rope awaits them. Naturally, this draws the attention and interest of all the Skyknives on the clifftop. But as the five down below strive against burning lungs and legs to make their way, the unfortunate truth is made understood - Catchell had that rope as a special requisition, but since it's not part of the standard Skyknives kit, there's none to be found beyond the one deployed already.

    Kreiger trench warriors begin backshooting at the penetrating force on the beach, bullets sparking and plinking off the hard working construct's shield. Jukebox, smaller than the other soldiers, begins falling behind, and Ordo dips back to grab him by the jacket and bodily assisting him with stumbling, dragging force. Once they get to the base of the rope, and the first man starts climbing, Ordo and Jukebox are catching up, with the little Kenku calling on his bardic talents once more to manifest, from sparkling motes of light, a grappling hook with a knotted rope cord attached to it, and then hurls it as he closes with the rest of the group. The would be laughable, if it weren't so tragic; the hook soars a whopping fifteen feet into the air, donks off the cliff wall, and flops to the ground again beside the wheezing, doubled over Kenku. Even the idea that the most atheltic of them could hurl the hook, with its tether, all the way up the cliff wall is a stretch; but Sgt. Xiloscient hooks it to Pvt. Salamir's pack as the tiefling is sent up the existing rope; and once he's at the top, the operation becomes much smoother. Gamble seizes the rope, and begins hauling up troops one at a time with big hand-over-hand reels of his goliath arms. With Salamir and O'Hara ascending the slow way, and Jukebox, Ordo, and Xilo taking the goliath express elevator, the squad ascends up and over the cliff of the defiant wall with Kreig bullets scattering around them. The enemy should be able to muster the firepower to penetrate the shield construct's barrier, but in a strange reversal, the Kriegers on the beach are being suppressed by the Skyknives on the clifftop.

    And then, like that, it's over - or over for the moment, anyway, as everyone gets clear of the fire lanes from the beach. It's the first time this much of Echo Company's 3rd Platoon has been together since the disastrous drop. For those on the cliff, it might seem miraculous that any Skyknives were able to slog their way here from the beach at all. For those from the beach, a very conspicuous, severed draconic limb suggests it may not be immediately apparent who landed in the best location, all things considered.

    Doc, as this reunion is happening, has cleared the hatch in the rubble - and nothing seems to be springing from it, just yet!

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    Everyone's together! Not enough time for a short rest, what with the war and all, but if anyone wants to do any healing or whatnot, or cast any preparation spells before (presumably) you descend into this new hatch, now's the time.

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    Doc mops his brow from the exertion of clearing rubble and catches sight of the beach party. A silent fist pump turns into an exasperated raising of hands when he sees that he has more work to do. He clambers back over to the group and starts to tend to Jukebox, pausing only give Sal a pat on the lower back.

    You made it, growing up in Hell must have made you tough at least! I'm guessing your little spidery thing saved me a bit of work too. That don't make it any less creepy though!

    He focuses hard on Jukebox, hoping to make a better job of thus arm than his last one. Finally satisfied, he regards the rest of the beach group.

    Well look what washed up, you all look a mess. If any of you have your own blood on you then line up here so I can take a look. Don't keep me waiting.

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    Through the last few weeks on base before deployment, Salamir's frustration with the construct had grown near legendary. He'd swore at it more than anything else, missed drill and meal alike fixing it every time it burnt out it's own cores out, sent a total number of components weighing three times as much as the construct itself to the junkyard and getting in near literal flaming rows with logistics officers to get his hands on the right arcano-tech compnents from discretionary budgets. All in all Salamir had barey avoided scrapping the project and it was permenant source of woe for the engineer and anyone within earshot. Now though, he could kiss the damned construct.

    "You get to complain about Sparky being creepy when you get in front of a hundred odd bullets for the rest of the squad. And hey you don't need to tell me that I do your own job better than you can.

    The second part of the taunt was soon forgotten and Salamir's smuggness somewhat diminished when he got in line for Doc to look at the shallow lacerations running down his arm and side, speckled with glass and metal shards. Adrenaline had kept him going since the drop but running further with those in him was not gonna be a good idea.

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    While he did so of course, the newly dubbed Sparky ran around the feet of the other squad. Letting off ocasional pulses of shielding energy which clung solidly to their forms.

    Well, we haven't won our Aquit vacation yet. Where next LT? Good to see you and Gamble's gamble paid off.
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    Wolf waits for the those from the beach to get their turn with Doc and tells the Lieutenant about their local surroundings, not realizing that she may have a better idea of their location than he has. "Those of us up here landed in those woods over over there," Wolf explains, pointing. "The Shielders seem to be on the other side. But we gathered together and took out this bunker and AA gun, trying to find more of us before we go after the Shielders."

    He is ready to answer questions, but otherwise gets in line for Doc's attention. He nods to Doc when he he is finished.

    Wolf jumps a little when the mechanical creature pulses near him, but then rolls with it when he sees everyone else not reacting.

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    Sgt Xilo

    All those endless hours of obstacle courses were redeemed along the way up the cliff . They even got a quick breather at the top, in the midst of the legendary invasion.

    "Good job skyknives. Any idea what's down that hatch?" Xilo, M1 at the ready, keeps alert of their surroundings in case of any enemy finding their way over but takes a minute to study the situation Wolf was pointing out. Could he make out any points of interest that would point out where they were on the map to figure out where they were now?

    "Afraid of Sparky putting you out of a job Doc? Imagine them becoming standard issue. Many of the dead on the beach down there would still be on their feet. How are you on heal kits? I have a bunch." He gives Doc a handful of kits from his pack.

    While he waits for Doc's medical aid, he gives report. "Corporal Spade ate an artillery round down on the beach. The five of us made it through some of the tunnels. They're using illusions down there to confuse and invisible stalkers to do cleanup. Covering an eye avoids the illusion. Found a communications room that had a route back up to the beach. Hardline was already down. Three enemy KIA. Recommend using a Sending from the radio to inform command so they can spread work about the tunnels, the illusion, and that we're still in the game."

    "We're in a good spot to roll the flank on all these bunkers, help some grunts get up here to do it themselves, or stay focused on our mission."


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    ”We haven’t been down the hatch yet, but I’ll go ahead and scout it out unless there are any other volunteers”

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    "Right," Bathory mused to herself. "Very well. Good work, Xilo. I'm sorry about Spade. The Sending from the radio? If you can get through, do it."

    Bathory looked at her soldiers, battered but (mostly) alive.

    "Alright, my brave boys and girls. You might have noticed," she smiled wryly, "We're not quite where we're supposed to be. It'd be quite a trek to our objective, even if we could reach it," she said. "A few miles of forest, full of Krieg druids and only after that the target. So first, let's check out that hatch. Something opened it remotely for a reason, and we need to find out why they held it so important. Everyone! Check your supplies, I want a inventory of what we've got. Anyone lacking ammunition, share it around, make sure everyone can pop a Krieg if they need to."
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    And the far stars cried, and the planets yearned;
    But no man may know, for she'll ne'er return.

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    Pvt Gabriel Ginger

    I'm down a grenade and my Behir, used em on the dragon.

    I'll go with.
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