Yeah, sure, whatever. I rather use science solve fictional conundrums than have a petty argment with you.
Does it need to be explained though? Science is definitely necessary in real life, but explaining magic with science takes the fun out of fiction, IMO.
Lord Vamprah steps onto a balcony at the top of one of The Four Talon Towers. He begins moving his hands, and a vulture standing next to him shouts through a loudspeaker: "Attention, sentients in the Great Desert! I am Lord Vamprah, leader of the Brotherhood of Vultures. I am on a vow of silence, so I speak to you through sign language translated by my brother in arms. Hear this: the southern Great Desert [the part owned by the Crawlers] used to belong to us, until the Vulture Plague nearly wiped out our species, and we regrouped north. The cities that you Outlanders built are desecrations atop the unmarked graves of our ancestors! I give you arachnids and winged mammals a chance to flee before we freeze your buildings and retake our original homeland! Any and all beings who stand in our way will be frozen!"
The mobile Vulture HQ continues to slide south across the Outland Mountains, past the Gorge to its west. The HQ is followed by a trail of Ice the width of the base. Hundreds of Vultures, Ice Vulture Gliders, and Sky Scavengers swarm out of the HQ and fly West to the Crawler cities.
In the cities, not one single Bat or Scorpion retreats; the soldiers and armed civilians stand firm to valiantly protect their last remaining cities (besides that one in the Grassy Plains and the ones in the Scorpion Caverns) Bat: "We will never surrender!" Scorpion: "Fire the catapults!!" Flaming boulders are launched into the air, taking the jets by surprise and striking and exploding many of the vulture jets at the front of the charge.
Although many Vulture vehicles are destroyed by the flaming boulders and arrows from crossbows, the sheer amount of ice and vultures overwhelms the brave Crawlers. Hundreds of chi Ice lasers and Ice missiles bombard the cities as the Four Talon Towers smash through the walls from the east, sliding down the mountains and smashing into the cities, freezing anything they touch. Scorpions finally begin to retreat as the buildings are frozen and crushed, and the bats are frozen. However, all Vulture mechs that run across the sand toward the walls are blown up by the underground mines (put there in jammered moves a while ago and recently). The 400 mines utterly decimate any Vulture forces on the ground before they get to the walls, and as a corner of the base of the Four Talon Towers unavoidablely slides above the mines, a huge hole is blown in that part of the base from the bottom. One brave Bat launches a giant flaming boulder from the last remaining catapult right before he's frozen and the catapult is destroyed by an ice missile.
The boulder comes right at the top of the tower, where Vamprah stands inside the top room. Vulture: "Intensify forward firepower!" Another Vulture: "Too late!" The Vultures at the window jump out of the way as the flaming boulder comes crashing through, but Vamprah stands as still as a statue, glaring at the boulder without a flinch. The battling Brotherhood and Imperial forces hear and see most of the top of a tower exploding in a burst of fire, pieces of rock and ice falling down from the wreckage.
-last edited on Mar 20, 2018 18:56:56 GMT by Dr. Matthews
Post by Dr. Matthews on Mar 20, 2018 18:54:30 GMT
@thefreindoftfd : The Bears and Rhinos mobilize and the "Great March" begins. Blitz leaves the HQ for the old raven HQ. Ronegan takes command od the March in the meantime. All the Forgotten warriors are given new weapons and gear id they need it.
I was an avid reader on the MBs and not a user. You will not recognize me but I will recognize you...
Although many Vulture vehicles are destroyed by the flaming boulders and arrows from crossbows, the sheer amount of ice and vultures overwhelms the brave Crawlers. Hundreds of chi Ice lasers and Ice missiles bombard the cities as the Four Talon Towers smash through the walls from the east, sliding down the mountains and smashing into the cities, freezing anything they touch. Scorpions finally begin to retreat as the buildings are frozen and crushed, and the bats are frozen. However, all Vulture mechs that run across the sand toward the walls are blown up by the underground mines (put there in jammered moves a while ago and recently). The 400 mines utterly decimate any Vulture forces on the ground before they get to the walls, and as a corner of the base of the Four Talon Towers unavoidablely slides above the mines, a huge hole is blown in that part of the base from the bottom. One brave Bat launches a giant flaming boulder from the last remaining catapult right before he's frozen and the catapult is destroyed by an ice missile.
The boulder comes right at the top of the tower, where Vamprah stands inside the top room. Vulture: "Intensify forward firepower!" Another Vulture: "Too late!" The Vultures at the window jump out of the way as the flaming boulder comes crashing through, but Vamprah stands as still as a statue, glaring at the boulder without a flinch. The battling Brotherhood and Imperial forces hear and see most of the top of a tower exploding in a burst of fire, pieces of rock and ice falling down from the wreckage.
OOC: Did Vamprah just get smashed?
OOC: I never though fighting with yourself could be so dramatic.
@thefreindoftfd : The Bears and Rhinos mobilize and the "Great March" begins. Blitz leaves the HQ for the old raven HQ. Ronegan takes command od the March in the meantime. All the Forgotten warriors are given new weapons and gear id they need it.
*The Rock arrives in a rock flinger, flanked by 2 rock flingers, 10 foot soldier troops, and 5 speedorz on either side.*
Although many Vulture vehicles are destroyed by the flaming boulders and arrows from crossbows, the sheer amount of ice and vultures overwhelms the brave Crawlers. Hundreds of chi Ice lasers and Ice missiles bombard the cities as the Four Talon Towers smash through the walls from the east, sliding down the mountains and smashing into the cities, freezing anything they touch. Scorpions finally begin to retreat as the buildings are frozen and crushed, and the bats are frozen. However, all Vulture mechs that run across the sand toward the walls are blown up by the underground mines (put there in jammered moves a while ago and recently). The 400 mines utterly decimate any Vulture forces on the ground before they get to the walls, and as a corner of the base of the Four Talon Towers unavoidablely slides above the mines, a huge hole is blown in that part of the base from the bottom. One brave Bat launches a giant flaming boulder from the last remaining catapult right before he's frozen and the catapult is destroyed by an ice missile.
The boulder comes right at the top of the tower, where Vamprah stands inside the top room. Vulture: "Intensify forward firepower!" Another Vulture: "Too late!" The Vultures at the window jump out of the way as the flaming boulder comes crashing through, but Vamprah stands as still as a statue, glaring at the boulder without a flinch. The battling Brotherhood and Imperial forces hear and see most of the top of a tower exploding in a burst of fire, pieces of rock and ice falling down from the wreckage.
OOC: Did Vamprah just get smashed?
OOC: No.
IC: Despite parts of the Vulture HQ and vehicles being melted by the fire weapons, the Brotherhood forces overwhelm and freeze the Imperial forces, making the size of the scorpion army decrease even more. The vultures spread out and freeze all the damaged crawler cities and the Outland Gate Bridge. Although the Imperial forces here fought valiantly and held the eastern Great Desert for a long time, the Brotherhood forces defeated them with sheer numbers and unimaginable powers. Most of the scorpions and all the bats here are frozen. The remaining scorpions scatter; some make it to the Crawler settlements in the formerly unclaimed land, the croc swamp, and the southeast Grassy Plains, while others return to Scorpion Cavern Castle to join the Forgotten in a fight they actually have a chance of winning, and others still (the majority of the remaining scorpion soldiers and armed civilians here) go into the Outland Mountains, detaching themselves from the fallen Empire and forming somewhat primitive tribal colonies, while waging guerrilla warfare against any Ice Hunters who enter the Outland Mountains.
Meanwhile, the Vultures cheer victoriously at their victory, now that they've finally reclaimed their territory that they lost so long ago. The completely frozen streets, buildings, and walls of the former Imperial cities are claimed by the Vultures, and they begin calling them official cities of the Brotherhood of Vultures. Vulture: "Lord Vamprah, awake!" Vamprah wakes up and climbs out of the rubble. He has a few burns on him, and his cybernetic wing is destroyed, but his extremely cold body temperature cools down the burns, and a new Wing already begins to be built. Vamprah looks up at the destroyed top of the tower. It matters not, he thinks, remembering the tower almost destroyed by a cannon strike and a magic explosion in the Iron Mountains, that has since been rebuilt, ...the eastern Great Desert once again belongs to the Vultures.
A Sabretooth Scout descends from the mountains and heads towards the Four Talon Towers on a Speedor.
A well placed land mine blows him sky high.
OOC: What mine is this, and who placed it there? He's following the trail of the Four Talon Towers, so the mines planted by the Crawlers there should already have been triggered, and even if they weren't they are buried beneath a thick layer of ice.
OOC: What mine is this, and who placed it there? He's following the trail of the Four Talon Towers, so the mines planted by the Crawlers there should already have been triggered, and even if they weren't they are buried beneath a thick layer of ice.
OOC: We have freaking scorpions that could vanish out of thin air! An invincible glacier! A snarky crocodile scout! Why not a working mine?
OOC: What mine is this, and who placed it there? He's following the trail of the Four Talon Towers, so the mines planted by the Crawlers there should already have been triggered, and even if they weren't they are buried beneath a thick layer of ice.
OOC: We have freaking scorpions that could vanish out of thin air! An invincible glacier! A snarky crocodile scout! Why not a working mine?
OOC: The fact is, you have to post you laid a mine field in the Great Desert. If its not posted, it doesn't exist. And what's this about disappearing scorpions?
I was an avid reader on the MBs and not a user. You will not recognize me but I will recognize you...
Absurd. 
Not sure what you mean by that second sentence. 
Not sure what you mean by that second sentence.