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The Indomitable wrote: Patrick.vtap wrote:

The Indomitable wrote: The Haradrim begin moving from the countryside to the immediate vicinity of the city. Thet start erecting barricades, and doing... something. They erect a few ballista, trebuchets, and several stolen cannons, but they appear to be waiting for something.

(Can I have either a popular uprising amongst the inhabitants, and locally recruited troops, or a successful mining of the walls?) The inhabitants of Umbar are restless. Many see this new conqueror as a liberator from Gondorian oppression, and it would take little for the city to revolt against their oppressors. Meanwhile, in the countryside, there are several slave rebellions against their Umbarian overlords, seeing them as weak and hoping for freedom. After the mobs begin to form into a ragtag army, they are met by a full detachment of Serpent Guard. Whose arms, and armor gleam in the setting sun. They halt, and wait on top of a nearby hill, beginning to jeer, and fire arrows at the slaves.

A lone priest, preaching that the heathens who forbade worship of He That Laughs are doomed to die by the swords of his warriors. For this, he is beheaded for treason, as is common in more rebellious regions. Umbar prepares for a battle, and the trebuchets and balistae within the city are being prepared. Soldiers from all of Umbar are gathered, even some conscripted slave-soldiers.