[X] Plan Ranged Dueling
-[X] Assign Semi-Halting Vortex, unassign Heated Shroud
-[X] Invest 3 Orthstirr in Hugr, 1 in Composure, 4 in Tactics, 4 in Silver-Tongue, 3 in Scouting (-15 Orthstirr)
-[X] Remove one Bomb Boulder from our Fylgja and give it to Farbjorn, replace it with a Glue Pot, have our Fylgja get ready to feed us items quickly. Put Sagaseeker in our Armory Pocket and pull out our Bolt Thrower instead, which we'll start with slung over our back so we can pull out and throw a boulder when needed (we'll drop it and draw Sagaseeker when and if needed).
-[X]Activate Banish The Night
-[X] 83d6 Attack (74d6 tricks)
-[X] 28d6 Defense (28d6 tricks)
-[X] 0d6 Intercept
-[X] Put 4 Orthstirr into 8 layers of Reinforce Shield before the combat begins (-4 Orthstirr) and activate our Explosive-Reactive Armor (-9 Orthstirr) using our armor's Orthstirr reserve.
-[X] Activate Stoker State 3 (-9 Orthstirr), Slipstream (-8 Orthstirr),and Ember-Wing Cloak (-6 Orthstirr) as combat begins (all subsequent rolls include the +1d6 from Skyfire).
-[X] Put up a 50d6+9 (w/Hugareida) Semi-Halting Vortex to protect us andthose near us from ranged attacks, do not use it against melee attacks (-50 Orthstirr).
-[X] Make a 70d6+5 Orthstirr-Enhanced x17 Chuck attack w/Puncture with a bomb boulder (-30 Orthstirr, -1 Odr) once we have an opening to do so at the gate, also make a total of up to nine 8d6+5 Sharpenedx3 Basic Attacks using our Bolt Thrower (-3 Orthstirr each) and up to six 7d6+5 (w/Hugareida) Orthstirr-Enhancedx3 Kindle Spinners (-5 Orthstirr each) opportunistically.
-[X] Against a wave of javelins, throw out up to two 27d6+5 (w/Hugareida) Orthstirr-Enhanced x13 Inertia-Arresting Throws to protect other groups of people not immediately around us (-19 Orthstirr each)
-[X] Against the first attack by the 8th Decade bird where the range makes it viable use Contested Movement adding all our Stoker State dice tothe action (-3 Orthstirr, 23d6+5 or higher on the roll) counterattacking with a quick-drawn Glue-Pot w/Puncture (-9 Orthstirr).
-[X] Against melee attacks by the 3rd Decade bird (if it comes for us) use Contested Movement alone (-3 Orthstirr, 8d6+5 roll) and counterattackwith a Firebomb-Strike + Stunner Slam combo w/Puncture (-23 Orthstirr) intended to be nonlethal and knock the bird out.
-[X] If something specifically with Puncture heads at us, have the Semi-Halting Vortex ignore it, and pull a shield from our Fylgja and use that to counter it. Otherwise, by default use our ongoing Semi-Halting Vortex to defend against ranged attacks against us or those near us, if anything gets through that or looks too big for it to work against, or against melee attacks from non-birds, try and throw up a regular Halting Vortex (-4 Orthstirr) again to defend against any attacks against ourselves and anyone near us if possible and use Sidestep (-2 Orthstirr) if it is not, and if something that ignores that or otherwise gets through and Reinforce Shield is down or somehow out of commission use up to four 60d6+9 Reinforcedx58 Sway defenses to save ourselves (-60 Orthstirr each).
-[X] In the unlikely event we go down to 100 Orthstirr or below stoke Frami
-[X] Tactics – Tell Barki to specifically go for the less powerful bird and to incapacitate without killing if possible, and have Vagn stick with us as much as possible. Give a Boulder-Bomb to Farbjorn immediately pre-combat and suggest he use Odr on it (that part using Eyespeech) and toss it at the gates, providing us a means of entrance, then prepare he, Stigulf, and their other people to intercept Serge and defend us all from his charge (we assume he knows his business about how to do that). At that point, our forces advance into the courtyard, with Halla in the air providing defensive overwatch from Javelin attacks as best as possible and taking potshots with Kindle Spinner. At our first opportunity we throw our remaining boulder bomb at the second gate and pull our Bolt Thrower off our back and start using attacks with that as well (including at the more powerful bird). Hopefully, all of this draws the more powerful bird into attacking us.
