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Adventurer
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Aelyria Prime
Posts: 116
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Chargul was escorted to the Keep. It was a bold sight. The keep kept watch over the forest and presented itself as a location from whence the provincial regiments could project their influence. That, Chargul felt, had to be accentuated with his new plans and desires to increase mobility to and from Everdark Keep as well as improve the state of it. There was much work to be done. Many tunnels needed to be carved, new buildings built upon the old and old buildings restored to their former glory. Gates needed to be fortified and walls polished.
There was much work to do and many people were going to be assigned to it.
Chargul entered the fortress and began to inspect it. He found it in good shape, but it needed repairs. Certain parts of the fort required new support beams, other parts new stones. Furthermore, it had to be expanded to accommodate more soldiers, more supplies and just generally more. This was to be Chargul’s duty and he performed it with pride.
Going from the innermost court, Chargul noted that the inner keep could be fortified by adding symmetrical gothic arches from each of the sides on the octagonal shapes structure. This would have the added effect of creating bridges and, if done right, could even improve the inner court’s appearance dramatically. This was duly noted with his peacock feathered pen.
The inner keep itself required little work. An additional layer could be added to create more rooms for whichever purpose, but this was given low priority. A higher priority was given to enlarging the basement an additional level lower. An examination of the surrounding terrain revealed that they would not hit the groundwater and thus cause flooding, so that was given high priority.
The outer courtyard was unimportant in Chargul’s eyes. It existed and should continue to exist, but an order was given: Spiked rods were to be placed at random intervals around the outer courtyard. It served little purpose as a wide open space at the time and merely invited potential invaders to teleport in or come in through other unsafe means. Placing these spiky rods would make such an experience dangerous and potentially short-lived. This was also to be the place where archery practice would take place, so archery ranges were set up. The spikes were to still allow horses to move about so that they could get to and from the stables. They were directed outwards, so that in the event that the defences actually fell all the way back to the inner keep, they’d serve a useful purpose in delaying attackers and assisting defenders. The mess hall was located in the inner keep, as well as chambers for the higher ranking officers and other adaptable rooms.
The outer keep included the first wall. On the outer keep, Chargul noted that the stables needed a serious expansion. They needed to be able to contain at least a hundred horses and Chargul told the stable boy to inform him how large it would have to be to be able to hold that many, if not more. There was an armory that would need expansion as well. Chargul decided that in this event, there was a special person he needed to ask and promptly sent a messenger to Taralon with a message to Zim Rage, the man who had commissioned his beautiful arbalest. Then there were barracks, two stories tall, that needed to be expanded to three stories in height. He’d be building more barracks on the other edge of the outer keep too, seeing as how it was also the inner wall. That could effectively house all the troops that were going to be passing through the area.
Chargul noted that a ditch needed to be dug between the inner wall and the outer wall and an additional wall had to be built as well. A ditch would be built between the outer wall and the outer rim and finally, a moat after the outer rim. He then proceeded to inspect the walls in greater detail. With the inner wall now also containing barracks on the outer edge, Chargul paid great attention to the two outer lines of walls, as they were going to be the most important.
The outer rim, which he was planning on a blueprint, needed fortifications that isolated soldiers into small packs. It needed to contain many heavily fortified chambers from which siege weapons and archers could fire en masse. Similarly, mages and others would be limited in their effectiveness, as they could not spread out their attack onto the entire wall. Focused attacks would meet focused defence and that was going to punish such efforts. The top of the outer rim was planned to be a slated roof, dropping immediately down after it reached the top. Units unfortunate enough to attempt the descent would find themselves spiked in 10’ deep pits after falling some 30’, once the walls were finished.
The outer walls, which were already built, needed to be fortified. He wanted iron bands to be added to interior of the walls wherever possible. He also planned to have many wooden supports propping up the wall from behind, even if it was only a minor difference it was going to make. He noticed the technology on the wall was outdated and ordered murder holes built along the length of the wall. This was going to be an equally effective defensive line with pots of burning hot oil and ample opportunity for archers to shoot at greenskins. It had to present an entirely different challenge to invaders and between it and the outer rim that was planned, he wanted a pit dug and filled with spikes, just near the outer rim for people to fall into if they attempted to scale the outer rim.
Outside the outer rim, which lay lower than the rest of the keep, he wanted a deep trench dug. He wanted it to be full of water and properly built to handle large volumes of liquid. This was going to be a moat unlike one seen before. He had bells ordered to be installed in all the towers of the keep that were already standing and planned several towers to serve as watchposts on the outer rim. They too had to have bells and he made sure that orders were made for those to be delivered as well.
Going further down into the ground, he wanted the basement of the existing outer keep expanded to be able to maintain more supplies of food, water and, in case of emergency, people and weapons. For this, he needed additional support beams to keep up what was clearly going to be an important part of Everdark Keep.
Clearly, Chargul had much work ahead of him to further detail the plans as they currently stood.
[GM Adder/Steve, if you want, we should probably talk about this in detail. IC posting would be best, I feel]
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