Board Thread:Middle Earth Roleplays/@comment-26210095-20170418205753/@comment-26210095-20170425114033

TheShade6 wrote: OK pat you can just get rid of this if you object but I'm going to time skip

"Ok men, the transfer is just past this ridge. Umbarian forces will hand the prisoner over to a squad of gondorian soldiers. We wait until the Umbar force goes out of view, then Hank here will shoot the driver, best archer I have. You two will ride up ahead and put a stop to their horses. Rest of us will sweep in from the hills and finish off the squad. Once we've freed him we ride off with him, if there are survivors, let them spread the word."

The transfer goes well, just as Loreth (presumably, correct me if you object heart) promised, there's only four riders the driver and two guards in the coach. Easy target for his squadron of knights. Five of the 200 under the Tabor banner.

"Now" he shouts, an arrow whizzes through the air as the Knights urge their mounts at full speed to the caravan. The fight is swift, the soldiers pose little threat to knights of their status. Pane comes in to unlock the carriage and shackles "I told you I'd come back for you" he smiles to Herendil, "forgive my rush but without as solid of a leader as you I can only guess what the other revels have come up with, some of them lack certain qualities necessary to win a war. So let's be off to your home, I hear that's where most of them are gathered (before any of them leave like eradan)" (Ahem... The plan was to sail up the Anduin and transfer them at Osgilliath. I'll roll with this, though, but don't expect your escapade to be easy or successful)

Just as Pane and Herendil begin their escape, a horn sounds in the distance. In that moment, Pane realizes: this is a trap.

The light Gondorian cavalry unit rides out from under the hill where they were hidden. Perhaps there are thirty horsememen total, it is hard to tel in the dark.