Assigned Tokens
Final Advance

The March on The Pit will consist of four phases: the Approach across the Fuligin Field, the Battle of the Worms, the Battle of the Rim, and Harkan's Last Stand.

General Tokens

1. A detailed description of Nathan's nose.
2. Inexperienced NPC team on the battlefield (recurring)
3. Lightning storms
4. Illusionary enemy forces
5. The last gift of Father Crane, long after his death
6. Arrival of a flight of Brownstone Dragons
7. Roving packs of wild fuligin predators
8. a zone where our Gifts don't work

Phase One: The Approach
This is the advance across the Fuligin Field, facing off with the forward units of Harkan's armies, including millions of Pit-monsters and the corrupted Harkanians and undead of all kinds. It will begin with the landing at the southern shores and end with the fall of the Bulyemeh and the advance over the Fields to the Worm-Scar.

1. Organizing the march into the Fuligin Field - vignettes of the Alliance getting organized, 7 tokens (one per player/GM)
   1. Billy - Ghef'fhardim and The Queen discuss command, and she tacitly approves of him.
   2. Dani - The first day's march. It starts well for the prepared but not so well for the more unseasoned and disorganized troops.
   3. Kei - Sewael inspects her troops, defining to them their role as defenders, while mentally assessing them.
   4. Ian - As the Hunt prepares for battle, Prax wanders through Dream, searching for guidance as he once searched for Dream-wisdom.
   5. JT - Curl helps guide ships into port.
   6. Benjesus - A shipment of boots is missing.
   7. Nathan - Gustav Illyanovich arrives in the allied camp alone and unassuming, no one knows him or recognizes him, and he just walks around and talks to people--and poisons a great many of them with gift of wine (or other rations?)--casually before making formal diplomatic contact.
2. Initial conflicts - the Alliance and the Enemy meet in battle in the early stages of the Field, in which old NPCs and PCs get moments, 14 tokens (two per player/GM). If we are taking up the full arc of certain NPCs, use this to introduce ONE of your chosen.
   1. Billy - King Suk Boon-ja flies his new banner, the Uruoese flag now with a great star in its center, as he rides into battle.
   2. Billy - A small, unnoticed miracle saves the life of a minor NPC leading a unit from a lesser nation.
   3. Dani - Aisling Caillte laughs in the face of an enemy bearing an iron weapon at her.
   4. Dani - A supply train is attacked and must be defended with a brave calvary charge.
   5. Kei - Deyn wields his ancient ailsilver saber, raising his archer corps above the lines so as to bring a rain of death upon a Harkanian unit.
   6. Kei - A company of scouts leads a successful strike-and-fade mission against a Harkanian unit, drawing them into an ambush.
   7. Ian - Nathan's dust storm below is shot through with iron filings, making it tough going for the fey contingent.
   8. Ian - Prax flashes back to learning about war as a child with his father, learning about rage for the first time through a historical appraisal of minotaur tactics. He returns to the present stronger, reconciled profoundly to this war. Ass is kicked.
   9. JT - Ledyim Lilac sneaks into battle against the recommendations of his advisers.
   10. JT - Arlie and the Toy help break a contingent of mages.
   11. Benjesus - An enemy unit surrenders to an unpopular ally.
   12. Benjesus - Dullahan halts his ride.
   13. Nathan - Fuligin dust storm
   14. Nathan - The initial charge of the enemy nearly frightens the front lines into retreat, but Gerrick (and Tam Lin, pending approval) holds them together. The initial morrale boost from this gives allies long-lasting momentum for the rest of the fight.
3. Enemy response - the Enemy fields a huge push to try to break the Alliance early, introducing some of our lesser villains and involving the defeat of small sections of the Alliance. 7 tokens for villains, 7 tokens for defeats (1 per GM/player). At least two defeats must be caused by the Bulyemeh, which does not count as a lesser villain. Use the Armieslist to pick nationalities of units.
   1. Billy - The Bulyemeh decimates a Carnasan unit of splicers, whose psionic assault fails on the massive monster.
   2. Dani - Khanga wreaks havoc among some of the Order's troops. Dhunic forces crumple and defenders from the Desert of the Winds, the Bronccourian Church, and the Cult of the Mouth take hard hits. The Guardians are only barely able to keep her from completey devastating the last squad of Dhunic defenders.
   3. Kei - A sudden charge of pikemen and halbardiers throws a mounted force from The Riding into disarray, the resulting havoc from panicked and wounded horses leading to more injury among nearby Allied forces.
   4. Ian - The fuligin storm seems to scour away the stuff of stories, and many lesser poioumenonists begin to falter. The Clementinian contingent is hit particularly hard. Prax is forced to embrace his newfound power, and he perceives and directs the narrative flow like never before against a power that ends things before they begin.
   5. JT - A sandstorm that blocks out the sun, faith, and drops visibility to zero. Forces grope in the dark as the silent Bulyemeh stalks through and picks off whomever it chooses.
   6. Benjesus - Tom Fool finds a weak point in the alliance.
   7. Nathan - A giant fuligin ant-lion funnel opens up beneath an entire vanguard of more than one advancing army, who then have to work together with crackerjack timing and complete trust in each other to get out and pull back. Some don't make it of course, and even the ones who do can only pull back to a defensive position, their advance is halted. I also recommend enemy troops harry the allies as they're trying to escape the funnel, and some battles in the funnel would be really cool.
4. Behind the scenes - reactions to reports from Alliance and Enemy leaders (3 Enemy tokens, 4 Alliance tokens)
   1. Billy -
   2. Dani - Reports of a fresh set of losses from the front result in the upending of an entire table of maps and markers.
   3. Kei - A Harkanian commander tries to convince Wei to bring the bad news to the King, and he refuses ever so politely.
   4. Ian - The warlocks see many of their plans (not necessarily related to ours) fall to pieces in the conflict, and several curses are let loose. None of them do much damage either way, but the warlocks themselves feel better, and begin to evaluate their policy of detachment.
   5. JT - After a large expenditure of power from the Nameless Vizier with no obvious target, forces start pouring in through an obvious weak point in our front lines. Our strategists struggle to figure out what has happened: who left the hole, and how to shore up our defenses. The power expended only becomes obvious on later retrospection-- the Nameless Vizier has retroactively removed a platoon from existence. No one can be sure of the true damage wrought. People on the edge of the blast radius have clear memories of being drafted into the army and living normal lives despite being born without left arms or left legs, barracks are suspiciously empty, etc.
   6. Benjesus - A child delivers an ultimatum from the enemy.
   7. Nathan - Pulling it off would necessitate a real-time in-character argument between Nathan and another player/GM: Angela Murray, Gerrick Mac Boon, and Tam Lin vs. a lesser fae queen have a falling out on how to proceed. If it leads to a divided effort, a rivalry, or something else, it could up the dramatic tension.
5. The Bulyemeh cripples the Allied advance until something draws it back. Anyone may decide what that something is.
6. Token - The World Tree pierces the desert around the Pit with roots, seeding the it with life, albeit not strongly yet. No one who sees this incursion can doubt that she will win this fight or die.
7. The Outcroppings - the Alliance pushes through the forward bases of the Enemy at various Fuligin Outcroppings, though they take heavy losses. 14 tokens, 2 per player/GM. One of these Outcroppings will hold the Hollow Child of Undeath. A major NPC will die here.
   1. Billy - A major NPC dies facing the Hollow Child of Undeath, but the Hollow Child is destroyed in the following onslaught.
   2. Billy - Bluebird Hrielle commands a host of strange and dangerous undead against a major NPC.
   3. Dani - A trap is sprung in a narrow pass between two Outcroppings.
   4. Dani - A particular bloody battle sees the Alliance battered but victorious until white moths start to crawl out of the mouths of the fallen enemies.
   5. Kei - The hatred from the enemy grows to be too much for Shara's new Gift-given sense, leaving her momentarily incapacitated until she can push through it.
   6. Kei - Avery/Nimbleford scouts the base of a major Outcropping, discovering an entrance that allows Allied forces to route it.
   7. Ian - Bramiel flanks the Hunt with undead hunters of his own. An aerial clash erupts, and Mara Tslea leaps from her mount to strike at him.
   8. Ian - Sli attends the death of the major NPC, breaking from the Hunt to do so.
   9. JT - Noraqqalmud sacrifices several of those dying around him to demons. When confronted, he explains that death by demon is better than death by fuligin, especially if it can save someone else's life.
   10. JT - Viollca's gifted blood to burn spectral undead fails in a random zone where Gifts malfunction. She has to fall back to undeath magic to emerge unscathed.
   11. Benjesus - Rhomara makes an interesting discovery about the fuligin-rich environment.
   12. Benjesus - Nas takes action for the first time since arriving at Starfall.
   13. Nathan - Mudpie uses himself as bait with Prax backing him.
   14. Nathan - Tamlin saves Gerrick's life as he tries a high-risk-high-yield gambit.
8. Mudpie faces and defeats the Bulyemeh

Notes:

1. Pit-monster horde

1 Wei, the Agikaani ambassador to Harkanheim 1 Wei, the Agikaani ambassador to Harkanheim 1 The Bulyemeh

1. The Hollow Child of Undeath

Phase Two: Battle of the Worms
This is the battle for the Worms of Law between Da'sabash/Khal'maqua and Lilith. It involves a huge battle of armies as the struggle goes on for the Worms, which will allow use of faith in the Fuligin Field if controlled by your allies. It will begin with the clashing of armies and end with the victory over Lilith, who shall escape.

1. Billy will introduce the Worms of Law and Lilith in a Behind the Scenes vignette.
2. The Alliance advances to the Worm-Scar, a portion of the Fuligin Field with gullies and ridges caused by worms. During the advance, they face the remnants of the forward units of the Enemy. Vignettes of established villains pulling back or dying, introduction of new villains. Vignettes of minor NPCs. (14 tokens, 2 per player/GM)
   1. Billy - Tecumseh leads the charge against Bluebird's retreating host.
   2. Billy - A minor but named NPC gets lost in the gullies and has to be guided out by distant allied farseers.
   3. Dani - Red Cloaks must pass over a gully with a precarious crossing whilst under heavy fire, while leaving no man behind.
   4. Dani - The Worms of Law devour an entire squadron which does not take precautions to hide their movements on the sands.
   5. Kei - A large wave of undead meet blazing defeat - almost literally - at the hands of Maraddonian mages.
   6. Kei - Deyn's ailsilver saber alerts him to the approach of the Worms thanks to its unstable earth sense, allowing him and his company to seek safer ground.
   7. Ian - Prax flashes back to the sundering of the Maze, and returns riding a tide of leaping roots into the fray.
   8. Ian - A fortuitous cave-in saves someone important.
   9. JT - Noraqqalmud calls out Alianean warriors there out hypocrites.
   10. JT - Rindacsa's shields her children from a fatal blast when they rush into battle without her. Tensions begin to mount about bringing family into a war zone.
   11. Benjesus - Tom Fool's pawns make their move.
   12. Benjesus - A group of allied soldiers is sent back to the landing point.
   13. Nathan - Mudpie (and Prax?) hunts the creature from the ant-lion vignette.
   14. Nathan - Gustav lures Gerrick and Tam Lin into a deadly cat and mouse game, Gerrick teaches Tam Lin the mentality of a Troublemaker.
3. Initial failure to capture a Worm of Law by Da'sabash and Khal'maqua, with side vignettes of battles won and lost. 7 tokens, 1 per p/GM. Dani and Billy will work out the failure together as an 8th token.
   1. Billy - A major NPC is caught between a large Pit-monster and a spectral undead, and must choose which s/he will face.
   2. Dani - The Hunt routes out an enemy platoon from a deep gully and forces them to a timely craggy death.
   3. Kei - Shara is cornered by a fuligin-seared undead and uses the Bennu Feather quill to prove the old adage that the pen is mightier than the Sword, though she does not escape unscathed.
   4. Ian - Prax tries to intuit the course of the worm, but his poioumenon can't seem to predict it -- with bad results for Mudpie.
   5. JT - Sand wraiths rip through the troops, converting our forces into spectral undead while they are cut off from their faith.
   6. Benjesus - Dullahan prevents a disaster from turning into a catastrophe.
   7. Nathan - Mudpie faces the worm, but something it does "injures" him, lessening his power/abilities, and it escapes him. He won't heal without using blasphemy.
4. Behind the scenes - Alliance and Enemy. (4 Enemy tokens, 3 Alliance)
   1. Billy - See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil contemplates his own identity as he sits blinded by the order and structure of the calm camp. He waits for the chaos of battle to return his vision, and he "sees" with his psionics, taking stock of the dispositions of various commanders.
   2. Dani - The Grey Army commander has had enough. He tells Rosamonde to depart with her undead batallion.
   3. Kei - Jheshimirath offers an ear and advice to a concerned Ghef'fhardim.
   4. Ian - Bramiel rages at the Hollow Child's death.
   5. JT - An unfortunate lackey has a conversation with the Nameless Vizier-- their name and identity slowly erodes during the conversation.
   6. Benjesus - A being of cosmic power asks Ennasrion a difficult question.
   7. Nathan - Angela Murray makes a cold-blooded, ruthless decision that sacrifices several units of fae for a dramatic advantage, insuring the hatred of the lesser queen's holdings in the fae court against her.
5. Worm-Gullies - the Alliance gets some footing in the Worm-Scar by scouring encampments of the Enemy. Vignettes of NPCs and PCs and villains. 14 tokens, 2 per.
   1. Billy - The Erlking and Tam Lin banter as they lead a group of hunters into an encampment, frustrating the Dollmaker.
   2. Billy - King Suk Boon-ja's recklessness gets his best commander killed, leaving him without his trusted adviser, lost, bereft in the encampment with everyone looking to him not just for inspiration, but for command.
   3. Dani - Katha'ane leads the Manifests' bodyguard in an attack which gets him cut off from his charges.
   4. Dani - The fey armies use an enormous joint glamour to amazing effect and victory over a stubborn enemy holdout in the Worm Scar.
   5. Kei - Avery and Madra frighten an enemy holdout straight into a waiting band of Tara'hinian forces thanks to Madra's terror-inducing bark.
   6. Kei - Minor NPC leads a small strike force through a maze-like cluster of tunnels and hits an enemy hideout from all sides.
   7. Ian - Prax flashes back to being tattooed with the symbol of the Fox by the late Murasakiiro No Yugure. Rafu and Prax, in fox form, bound through tunnels and rout a stubborn enemy contingent.
   8. Ian - Casur Fhi finds a difficult to recognize but truly wonderful artifact -- a bolt of wholly unique cloth -- in an enemy encampment, and is inspired to fight on.
   9. JT - Noraqqalmud wrecks truly horrible magic upon the enemy.
   10. JT - Rindacsa's children nearly get captured in a raid, but both make it out unscathed.
   11. Benjesus - Rhomara uses her discovery to terrifying effect.
   12. Benjesus - A group of Hul'tessaq are horrified by the discovery of a group of blasphemous human-worm hybrids.
   13. Nathan - Mudpie tries to shore up his own "injury," but the fuligin energies interfere. He has a spiritual battle with the fuligin that plays out in metaphor/dream, where he fights not to take in the blasphemous energy.
   14. Nathan - Gerrick and Tam Lin and Gustav accidentally "ambush" each other, Gerrick gets the Hammer knocked out of his hands by esoteric energies, Gerrick and Gustav kick the shit out of each other in a swashbuckling knife-fight that ends in stalemate when Gustav escapes. Tam Lin pursues, against Gerrick's advice/instruction. may need advice on esoterics that will come into play.
6. Da'sabash and Khal'maqua find the secret to commanding the Worms of Law in the ruins of a temple found in a cave beneath a Worm-Gully (7 tokens)
   1. Billy - The temple's altar is found to be stained with the blood of an apostate priest. Writings found there indicate this was once a holy temple, taken over by the Cult of Rejection, the Blasphemers, and that they were a doomsday cult that predicted and welcomed Starfall. Within the cathedral rests a huge Pit-monster, and the secret of the Wormsong that can defeat Lilith's control of the Worms.
   2. Dani - visions from the lifeblood of a law worm
   3. Kei - Within the temple are found the twisted, broken remains of half-eaten children, apparently fed to the Pit-monster while still living and pulled back to die as part of some dark and nameless sacrificial rite.
   4. Ian - Prax sees Mudpie's injury run black in the verses inscribed in the shillelaghs, but he dares not read ahead.
   5. JT - A fierce battle is fought in relative silence due to fear of cave-ins.
   6. Benjesus - The Khardantal'has face an subterranean enemy that seems to be one step ahead.
   7. Nathan - Mudpie (and Prax?) get separated from the unit by a major landscape collapse (related to discovery of the temple?), and have to fight alone together for survival on the shifting landscpe until help arrives. Mudpie's injury agresses, and will kill him soon.
7. Lilth vs. Da'sabash and Khal'maqua
8. Vignettes of the return of the power of faith throughout the Alliance (7 tokens, 1 per)
   1. Billy - Wactawa's faith returns in a burst of miracles that affect various NPCs.
   2. Dani - Near decimated forces of Tarahin are able to rally suddenly and miraculously against Rosamonde's undead batallion.
   3. Kei - Shara's wounds glow silver as her ashar burns the fuligin infection from her wounds.
   4. Ian - Prax is bitten by a vicious undead, which bursts into silver flames as his blood regains its power.
   5. JT - As Ledyim Lilac lies prone, about to be slain, the sudden appearance of the sun behind a cloud blinds his opponent, giving him a chance to retaliate.
   6. Benjesus - An enemy batallion is suddenly struck by a void attack.
   7. Nathan - Mudpie, now nearly dead from his injury, uses faith to heal himself, and delivers the smack-down to some powerful units chasing the allies.

Notes:

1. Fuligin dragon swarm
2. Gustav Illyanavitch, Vesturian ambassador to Harkanheim
3. Bramiel, the Angel of Bones
4. Lilith and the Worms of Law

Phase Three: Battle of the Rim
This is the battle at the edge of The Pit. It will begin with the routing of the armies and pushing them back to The Pit and end with the fall of Elpidian.

1. Behind the Scenes - Enemy reacts to the bad news (7 tokens, 1 per)
   1. Billy - Harkan kills the bearer of bad news.
   2. Dani - A prophecy trap is set using the corrupted waters from an undead sandworm's raising rituals.
   3. Kei - Wei is terrified and attempts to flee.
   4. Ian - Bramiel raises someone precious to the good guys.
   5. JT - The Nameless Vizier erases a key prisoner from existence, turning it into another nullman.
   6. Benjesus - The enemy calls in one a divine favor.
   7. Nathan - Gustav knows exactly what to do with this. Unleash the knights of Kael'Ras. "It is too early," Elpidian resists. "No. It is precisely the right time," Gustav insists.
2. Advance to the Rim - the Alliance advances across the Fuligin Field, over the course of a week (14 vignettes, 2 per). Includes villains, NPCs, and PCs.
   1. Billy - A major NPC uses newly restored faith to defeat undead and Pit-monsters in equal mesure.
   2. Billy - A minor villain defeats a major nation's best unit through guerilla tactics.
   3. Dani - The enemy starts to fight dirty with psychological torture upon the advancing Alliance.
   4. Dani - An alliance faction gets cut off from the main forces and nearly dies of thirst/starvation lost in the desert. A chance (miracle or something?) change of route leads them back.
   5. Kei - Deyn communes with the earthpower aether and summons a small tectonic disruption.
   6. Kei - Shara decimates an entire battalion - by the literal term of the word - using the Mastered Heart's ability to burn the unashamed.
   7. Ian - Prax enters a poioumenonic war-trance, and is many places at once. For much of the week, he becomes the war, and the Hunt is his heart. Prax and Sli share a moment out of time.
   8. Ian - The May Queen uses her cup, long held by Prax and now energized with narrative energy, to purge all fear from someone thought shattered by the war.
   9. JT - A battle is fought in a field with no faith, no magic, and no gifts.
   10. JT - Quicksand, blessed by undeath, claims many lives. Those who die within lie just beneath the surface, ready to drag others under.
   11. Benjesus - A corrupted Gift is recovered by the alliance.
   12. Benjesus - A colossal spectral undead passively blocks the path.
   13. Nathan - Tam Lin and Gerrick take charge of a stranded encampment of inexperienced NPC's, keeping every one of them alive through a hard, horrific night of siege. Tam Lin hardens a little in the process, and understands what it must be like to be a Troublemaker.
   14. Nathan - Mudpie is termporarily an avatar of Shem. He becomes a normal desert storm, warping the fuligin to normal desert where he passes, and making ash of the undead in a swath the size of a nor'easter. When he returns to normal, he will still have remnants of Shem in his head, altering his mind. He will also be, temporarily or for an indeffinite moderate time, short of energy.
3. Behind the Scenes - Alliance commanders (7 tokens, 1 per)
   1. Billy - Thannas spends the day among the common soldiers, performing miracles of healing, and weeps at night at the pain and suffering he is still unable to defeat, as the weight of messianity causes him to hear the prayers of everyone within miles calling for help. He reaches out, even in his dreams, to help them, but it's never enough.
   2. Dani - Pajah Harami must give up the search for a lost wounded red cloak.
   3. Kei - Sorosiphia notes a tendency for one wing of the enemy forces to fade back the exact same distance and regroup after a certain strategy is used and decides to make use of it in a sudden ambush on their next regroup site.
   4. Ian - Prax mourns with a stoic commander.
   5. JT - Diplomatic tensions flair as the Tara'hinian cannot find Ledyim, and think him dead.
   6. Benjesus - The Irriton Complex presents the alliance commanders with a weapon and then leaves.
   7. Nathan - the lesser queen and her allies try and fail to freeze Angela Murray out of her command. Before she leaves, she gives them one crucial piece of intel leading to a necessary victory.
4. Clash at the Rim - vignettes of wins and losses all around the Rim of The Pit (14 tokens, 2 per)
   1. Billy - A major NPC saves a legendary NPC from a gashadokuro.
   2. Billy - Bluebird Hrielle kills a minor NPC and raises him/her to taunt a major NPC.
   3. Dani - We see what a man is made of when he is literally pushed to the edge.
   4. Dani - A fault line is used to cause a collapse of the pit edge and to win a battle.
   5. Kei - Avery finds himself pinned between the Pit and an enemy armed with iron. Jack the Diamond manages to reach him but is grievously wounded in their escape.
   6. Kei -
   7. Ian - Bramiel's newly-undead scion makes their debut with an early victory.
   8. Ian - Prax flashes back to his early medical training, and wonders if Shem could survive having the Pit amputated.
   9. JT - Ledyim Lilac uses Rindacsa's candle to lead his men out of a trap of undeath despair.
   10. JT - Endhathef loses control and goes on a rampage.
   11. Benjesus - Tom Fool steals Dullahan's voice.
   12. Benjesus - Enemy gnomes.
   13. Nathan - Mudpie feels the pull of The Pit, and uses the connection to transmit vital knowledge.
   14. Nathan - Gerrick and Tam Lin get stranded, rescued by the inexperienced NPC team they protected.
5. Rindacsa faces the Neverman
6. The Fuligin Twelve ride forth with Khanga, routing a portion of the Alliance front (7 tokens, 1 per)
   1. Billy - The breaking of the lines causes the med tents to overflow, and named NPC healers struggle to keep up with the influx.
   2. Dani - Khanga feasts on the fear and blood of fallen faithful.
   3. Kei - Edela finds herself caught in a masterful doublecross by a previously undiscovered double-agent mole that severly hinders Allied intelligence.
   4. Ian - Casur Fhi distributes wondrous, newly-woven fuligin-filtering masks to the army, but ends up in the med tents from fuligin inhalation himself.
   5. JT - Noraqqalmud, under siege, screams out blasphemy against the Silver Mother for creating the curse, betrays and kills his men, raises them as undead, and joins the enemy.
   6. Benjesus - A "flu" sweeps across the alliance.
   7. Nathan - Gustav figures out how to fool Mudpie's energy sense. Mudpie protects the wrong flank, to disastrous results.
7. The Alliance rallies - the Alliance rallies against the onslaught of Grey and Fuligin, though some fall (14 tokens, 2 per). Includes villains, NPCs, and PCs. Major NPC deaths occur here.
   1. Billy - King Suk Boon-ja rides under the tattered star banner with the remains of his men against a unit of undead chthonians. He is drawn over the Rim to a series of ledges, where he and his men face the terror of falling into The Pit as well as the burrowing undead monsters. The King risks his own life to keep his men from falling, and he is blinded in the fight.
   2. Billy - A major NPC is thrown into The Pit and hits the invisible barrier of curses, blasphemy, and esoterica that keeps people from teleporting in when they try to teleport themselves away to safety during the fall. They are ripped to pieces in the moment.
   3. Dani - Toves and other servants of Death make a last united stand against the Grey armies.
   4. Dani - Wormriders make a charge that results in a victory but also heavy losses of their own number and steeds.
   5. Kei - Avery finds a hidden route allowing an Allied force to hit the enemy from behind, enabling a successful pincer attack that all but destroys an enemy batallion.
   6. Kei - Deyn finds himself cut off from his unit and must conceal himself in a hastily-created shelter of stone and earth to avoid enemy detection.
   7. Ian - Prax flashes back to Sourav's death and Aeon-apotheosis at the moment that an NPC dies. Buoyed by the redemptive power of sacrifice, he does not lose heart, and his forces rally.
   8. Ian - Bramiel's scion is slain.
   9. JT - A mastered Gift is obliterated by Fuligin.
   10. JT - A swordfight suspended on a narrow ledge over the Pit becomes a fight of legend.
   11. Benjesus - Rhomara's sealcasters are slain, but she emerges transformed and victorious.
   12. Benjesus - Earthquakes.
   13. Nathan - Gerrick, Tam Lin, and the inexperienced NPC's lure the enemy into a vicious trap.
   14. Nathan - Mudpie slays a powerful enemy, but a terrible cost to his energy when the blasphemous backlash knocks him on is ass.
8. Prax and the 13 Hunters face Khanga and the Fuligin Twelve. (Dani and Ian)
9. The Enemy line collapses - vignettes of victories as the Enemy falls back further (7 tokens, 1 per)
   1. Billy - Bluebird Hrielle is defeated as his undead slaves are destroyed by holy powers.
   2. Dani - The Cult of the Mouth tears a large fuligin creature limb from limb.
   3. Kei - Wei, whilst trying to flee, is caught and slain by Allied forces.
   4. Ian - Prax slices one of Bramiel's wings off, but he escapes anyway.
   5. JT - The calvary (of some sort) arrives from the air.
   6. Benjesus - Alliance assassins strike in concert.
   7. Nathan - Tam Lin and Gerrick work together to take a powerful and valuable prisoner.

Notes:

1 The Neverman 1 Bluebird Hrielle 1 Khanga the Fuligin Child 1 Khanga the Fuligin Child

Phase Four: Harkan's Last Stand
This is the battle with Harkan's core forces. It will begin with the push back from Harkan's forces and end with Harkan's death.

1. Harkan rides forth (Billy)
2. Major losses for the Alliance - The core of the Grey and Fuligin Armies has a series of sweeping victories (7 tokens, 1 per, all NPC deaths)
   1. Billy - Faith dies permanently in various minor NPCs as Harkan's full might sweeps over them.
   2. Dani - Aisling Caillte is choked to death by an undead monster with no light behind its' eyes.
   3. Kei - While attempting to rejoin the bulk of the forces, Avery runs afoul of a band of fuligin monsters. He manages to escape, barely, but the wounds received prevent him from returning to the field.
   4. Ian - Mara Tslea is carried off into the sky as Bramiel returns to the field, whole once again and wielding a terrible grey blade. She falls into the Pit singing songs of the sea and victory.
   5. JT - Rindacsa goes on a rampage and loses control when she realizes just who the Neverman erased.
   6. Benjesus - Rhomara becomes reckless and is overwhelmed.
   7. Nathan - Gerrick is wounded in the fight, and taken out of action, but still gives commands from the back, proving a brilliant commander. Tam Lin acts as his "avatar" on the field.
3. Miracle at the Rim - in face of enormous losses, a Miracle occurs (1 token, 7 authors? maybe?)
4. The Final Advance - the fall of the core of the Grey and Fuligin Armies. This should see the conclusion of almost every arc. (21 tokens, 3 per)
   1. Billy - King Suk Boon-ja has no time to get to the healers, so he rides forth without sight. His men guide him by voice during the fight, and he stands for a long time with their aid, but one by one, their voices stop coming as they are killed around him. Eventually, he, too, falls.
   2. Billy - A major villain is teamed up on by several legendary NPCs.
   3. Billy - A second Bulyemeh rises from The Pit.
   4. Dani - A massive joint faith effort/sacrifice tears apart a major fuligin contingent.
   5. Dani - An undead sandworm bears a powerful villain into battle.
   6. Dani - The Red Cloaks make a final stand against a fuligin race never before seen.
   7. Kei - Deyn leads his company in a sneak attack against a larger enemy force. The enemy is defeated, but Deyn is the only man left standing of his company.
   8. Kei - Aleel'aqallah, after a trying time and several failed attempts, succeeds in assassinating a key enemy commander
   9. Kei - Shara wins a desperate duel in which she wields the Sword with the skill of thousands of elves but still doesn't know what she's doing, trusting instinct.
   10. Ian - Bramiel is pulled from the sky by the united Hunt and slain by Prax wielding Foiche Maru, now blazing with Life.
   11. Ian - Rafu runs off on his own, speaking softly to the assembled armies, allowing a savage ambush to take place.
   12. Ian - Despite the best efforts of our healers, Casur Fhi's condition worsens. Prax flashes back to Sourav saving a pilgrim with silvran healing breath, his earliest memory of his ambition to tend the afflicted, and he returns having lost his sleep-breath power but gained a much more powerful version of his silvran racial ability. Fhi recovers and incorporates his recovery narrative into his breathing masks.
   13. JT - Noraqqalmud strikes the enemy from behind, dooming himself but saving thousands.
   14. JT - Ledyim suffers a mortal fuligin wound-- his faith severed from him, the Gods are deaf to him (and his descendents?) now.
   15. JT - Jheshemirath helps Rindacsa recover before her Ring can exact it's terrible curse.
   16. Benjesus - Dullahan chases Tom Fool into the Catacombs.
   17. Benjesus - An enemy cannibal has eaten our dead and gained their power.
   18. Benjesus - An enormous, fuligin-infused moth.
   19. Nathan - Both of Mudpie's gods do something, ironically at the same time and with the same intent, to make sure he lives through to face the Pit. Mudpie loses consciousness here, and can only be awakened by Inelle protecting him from the divine backlash. Mudpie is split into primal and celestial halves. Inelle loses her portion of the Gift in the process.
   20. Nathan - Angela Murray returns, and gives her life to save large swaths of allied forces from certain death. She is now returned to her god.
   21. Nathan - Tam Lin and Gustav have a "foe-tossing-charge" moment, they clash, and their fight ranges all over the rim. Tam lin faces certain death from a trap laid by Gustav, but Ansley sweeps in with the Troublemakers, allowing Tam Lin to finish pursuing and finish off Gustav.
5. Shara vs. Styrah Rhee and Rosamonde
6. Nas vs. Harkan
7. Vignettes of Victory - 7 tokens, 1 per (any loose ends)
   1. Billy - Cork quietly picks over the corpses on the field, unnoticed by others, picking up loot.
   2. Dani - The scene of a field hospital trying to evacuate remaining patients.
   3. Kei - Edela personally sees to the execution of the spy that nearly cost them the battle.
   4. Ian - Prax tends blossoms of the World Tree that somehow survive in the fuligin fields.
   5. JT - A surviving death priest holds a service for those lost.
   6. Benjesus - Enemy survivors surrendering.
   7. Nathan - Gerrick and Ansley offer Tam Lin a home in Carterhaugh, Innesmoor, and the two Mudpies get back together with the party.
8. Gathering of the Heroes (no tokens, resume normal play as Heroes gather and begin to descend into The Pit)

Notes:

1. The Witness of The Pit and her servant Bhorim
2. Tom Fool, Cyhyraeth Manifest
3. Elpidian, Hand of Undeath
4. Styrah Rhee and Rosamonde lead the final host of Bones
5. Harkan the Black stands against the world on the edge of The Pit/the Baaltree Seed
6. Samuel Jericho. That is /still/ all, no matter what anyone says. 1 Samuel Jericho. That is /still/ all, no matter what anyone says. 1 Samuel Jericho. That is /still/ all, no matter what anyone says.