OOC:
Here's the deal: skill challenge! If you guys were to go straight up against the army, you'd almost certainly lose. Tactics will play a bigger role here, so skills are weighted more heavily than attacks.
You guys need to rack up a total of 65 points. Here's how you get those points:
DC 16 skill check - pass, you gain 5 points. Fail, you get a complication determined by me at the end of the round.
One option for this is to make a 'tactics' check which will be proficiency +INT modifiers if your character has military knowledge. This is probably just for Al and Zen.
AC 14 - you get 1 point for each successful hit. You take 5 dmg for each miss.
Spell - you get points equal to the spell level plus one. So a cantrip would get you 1 point. A 1st level spell would get you 2, etc. No chance of failure with a spell.
As per usual with these challenges, you describe what the threat/event is and how you try to handle it. As examples, some threats/events could include: goblins, orcs, ogres, giants, wolves, spellcasters, archers, sheer numbers, fires, slow townsfolk, wounded militia, etc.
Allies: You do have some friends: the militia, Ulbrex, Erevain, and Aeri. Aeri, Erevain, and Ulbrex will get their own turns, while the militia are assumed to be mixed in with your turns. You guys can decide how to write them up (take turns, or assign them) or tell me in the chat what they should do and I'll write it up.
Every round, everyone (including allies) takes 10 damage, guaranteed. More might happen for missing attacks (as above) or from complications (determined by me).
Also, something must be done every round to keep the army from breaking away and going to pillage the countryside. You don't have to make a check, but one person will have to spend their action doing this every round. You can choose one person to always do this, or pass it around amongst you (including allies).
Hop to it!
