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located in Iskjerne Bay, a part of The Multiverse, one of the many universes on RPG.

Iskjerne Bay

Iskjerne Bay is a remote Viking settlement which features a motte-and-bailey Ring Fort, a large Mead Hall made from an overturned longship, and a statue of Sigurd Hring the Dragon Slayer.

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Character Portrait: The Berserkers Character Portrait: The Svinfylking Character Portrait: Sigurd Hring Character Portrait: Uhtred the Godless Character Portrait: Dainn Character Portrait: Dibble Character Portrait: The Ljosalfar Character Portrait: Ubbe Ragnarsson Character Portrait: Lagertha Character Portrait: Harald Fairhair Character Portrait: Indisla The Beautiful Character Portrait: Ivaldi Character Portrait: Volund Character Portrait: Iskjerne Ulfhednar Character Portrait: Iskjerne Berserkers Character Portrait: Iskjerne Svinfylking Character Portrait: Iskjerne Hrafnfylking Character Portrait: Iskjerne Kattrfylking Character Portrait: Iskjerne Hornuglar Character Portrait: Iskjerne Hestahar Character Portrait: Halfdan Ragnarsson Character Portrait: Grimnir the Hooded
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In the following days, King Harald Fairhair had issued his orders to reinforce Iskjerne Bay and make use of the additional fortifications put in place by Ivar the Boneless during the previous establishment. The Vikings had sent horsemen into the Weargtooth Mountains, using the stairway to the Rainbow Forge to setup traps and insurance policies around the mountain tops. The Iskjerne Vikings had been known to hold a great reverence and respect for nature. Gaia was not just the planet they lived on. Gaia was a giantess and a great goddess of earth. They utilized the earth, the forest, the mountains, the sky, even the sea, taking full advantage of whatever they could gain by protecting their village.

Carts and wagons had been setup behind sandbags and stone walls, providing areas in high places on top of their many towers, bastions and cliffs where the Vikings could hurl boulders and other debri at anyone who tried to attack Iskjerne Bay from below. King Harald had added another long chain to be stretched across the open channel, where it could be used to trap, capsize or destroy any unsuspecting ships that tried to make a naval assault into the shipyards. Barrels of tar and pitch, and flammable oil had been dispersed to different areas in strategic locations around the village, hidden in the rocks and hills, and near the cave entrance. These were accessible to the archers in case they needed to spicen things up with their flaming arrows and explosive bombs and weapons. Some of the farmers and common villagers had dug trenches and pits, filling them with water or slushy mud in order to make traveling difficult over the terrain outside the village, building small makeshift wooden fences and labyrinths to detour any unwanted visitors.

But there was more to King Harald's plans. He had forced some of his slaves to build several large wooden medieval weapons to help protect Iskjerne Bay from any aerial assaults or attacks from the sky. He ordered them to construct large catapults and ballistae to be affixed to the walls and towers, resembling massive spoons for launching rocks, and enormous crossbows designed by expert dragon slayers for the sole purpose of taking down large objects. Some of the ballistae featured strong nets, while others fired huge darts attached to ropes which enabled them to be used like fishing reels. Iron spikes were added to the bridges and gateways, then double reinforced with iron cages that could be dropped on top of their enemies from above, trapping them inside. But the greatest addition to King Harald's arsenal was the newly acquired mangonel and onager his engineers had learned about from previous battles. The mangonels were a sort of traction trebuchet which could sling a projectile for over a quarter of a mile, enabling King Harald to attack his enemies from a considerable distance away. The onagers were more like giant spoons attached to four wheels, which made them mobile and could be repositioned unlike the swiveling fixed catapults which could only turn 45 degrees.

The Vikings built many other traps and snares, and boobytraps mostly employing the use of swinging logs, whipping branches and spikes, and a few hidden manholes for escaping and hiding underground, or spike pits covered with sliding lids hidden beneath the snow. For the little foxholes they dug out in the hills, they used branches and sod to cover them. These areas were very small, only large enough for one person to hide in at a time, but they were a nice addition to King Harald's overall security. As a final touch, he ordered the moats to be filled with poisonous snakes and alligators that would rip apart anyone who tried to get over the bridge or into the castle. The pig pen was moved closer to the gateway so that if the Vikings needed to, they could unleash a herd of pigs across the bridge to disrupt intruding armies, while similar fences were placed around the village itself to do the same with horses and cattle. King Harald had the Vikings construct a hidden dam near the north end of the ring fortress to be used in case of emergency. The dam overlooked a flat dry dirtbed in the snow. This was the only flat land that seemed suitable for invading armies. It was in a good strategic location that could be moderately defended whilst providing some better access to the inner settlement. But it was also a rouse, since the Vikings had set up the dam in order to drain the fjord channel and flood the basin if things got too out of hand for the kingdom to handle.

With the defenses in place, and the Vikings in position, King Harald Fairhair focused his attention on the cave system. His spies had reported back to him from the watch tower near the cave entrance. Ubbe Ragnarsson, Halfdan the White, Rulav the Varangian and their Vikingr leidang had successfully made it passed the portal into the Taiyou chamber, but had been cut off from their reinforcements on the other side. This was bad news for Ubbe's band of ulfhednar on both accounts, as King Harald sent his messenger to pull the remaining Vikings out of the Rikkisopi Caves in order to commence with his alternative plan, for the barrels he had ordered to be placed in front of the cave entrance were actually bombs. Rulav's team had only several more minutes to complete their mission and open the Taiyou Gateway back up so that the rest of his team could enter before King Harald's messenger arrived to pull them out. After that, they were instructed to blow up the cave system from the inside out so that the tunnels collapsed in on themselves, sealing the caves off for good so that nobody could go in or out. Just as King Harald was finished giving orders, he heard the low rumbling sound of thunder coming from the mountains to the south. It sounded like a storm was approaching from the distant forest, many miles away. But it wasn't just any storm. It was the Argosians, firing their cannons into the forest.

The Seige of Iskjerne was beginning...