Battle for Girard's Gate

Battle for Girard's Gate
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Conflict: Hunt for the Gates
Date: Year 1184
Place: Girard's Pyramid, Windy Canyon
Outcome: Tactical Order of the Stick victory Girard's Gate is destroyed before it can fall in the hands of the Linear Guild, the Empire of Blood or Team Evil. The Linear Guild is decimated.
Belligerents:
Order of the Stick and Allies	Linear Guild	Empire of Blood (late battle)
Commanders and Leaders:
Roy Greenhilt Haley Starshine Captain Julio Scoundrél (late battle) Beatrix "Bandana" Secundus	Nale† Sabine	General Tarquin
Strength:
The Order of the Stick 1 Fighter Roy Greenhilt 1 Rogue Haley Starshine 1 Bard/Dashing Swordsman Elan 1 Wizard Vaarsuvius (late battle) 1 Wizard familiar Blackwing 1 Cleric of Thor Durkon Thundershield† 1 Ranger/Barbarian Belkar Bitterleaf 1 Ranger companion Mr. Scruffy 1 Allosaurus Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator (late battle) 1 Cleric of Hel "Durkon" (late battle) 1 Summoned Fiend "Spiky" (late battle) The crew of the Mechane (late battle): 1 Unknown/Dashing Swordsman Julio Scoundrél 1 Rogue Beatrix "Bandana" Secundus	1 Fighter/Rogue/Sorcerer Nale† 1 Cleric of Nergal Malack† 1 Wizard Zz'dtri† 1 Imp Sorcerer Qarr 1 Fiendish Rogue Sabine 1 Unknown Tarquin (early battle) 1 Winged Kobold Kilkil (early battle) 1 Vampire Thrall Cleric "Durkon" (mid battle) 2 Summoned Fiends "Spiky" (mid battle) 7+ Draketooth mummies	Imperial Army 355+ Footsoldiers 16+ Dinosaur Riders 13+ Pterodactyl Riders Vector Legion 1 Unknown Tarquin 1 Psion Laurin Shattersmith 1 Wizard or Sorcerer Miron Shewdanker
Casualties and Losses:
Durkon Thundershield	Nale, Malack and Zz'dtri Sabine is banished. 5+ Draketooth mummies	102+ soldiers 3+ dinosaurs 6+ pterodactyls

The Battle for Girard's Gate was a race between the Order of the Stick and the Linear Guild to reach the gate of the Snarl guarded by the Draketooth Family in Windy Canyon. Following the Linear Guild's decimation and the destruction of the pyramid, the forces of the Empire of Blood under General Tarquin arrived at the scene and turned the battle into Tarquin's personal fight to control the story and his son Elan's position as hero of "his legacy".