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<blockquote data-quote="Shieldhaven" data-source="post: 2084485" data-attributes="member: 23427"><p>Our journey home by skyship definitely qualifies as another significant brush with death. It has been awhile since I’ve had one of those – a week or two at least – and I have to say that I am sorry to see such a thing again. On the first day of the journey from Varna south to Sharn, lookouts spotted black dots in the distance. As these dots drew closer, they proved to be raiders. Some of them were men riding gryphons, while others rode a flying carpet. We prepared ourselves for battle as best we could, and killed a few of the warriors with arrows and arcane bolts from my wand before they drew close enough to threaten us. A number of the sailors stood with us, while others fought in the aft of the ship (at least, I think that’s what the back end of a ship is called – do the names change when the ship is fully capable of flight?). My Scorching Rays were remarkably effective, more so than normal as our foes did not immediately engage Gerron and Fel in melee. The arcane bolts that I cast were reasonably effective as well, and I depleted much of my wand’s capacity.</p><p></p><p>That is about the full extent of the good news from this battle. A dozen or more sailors were killed. The leaders, an arcane caster of some stripe and a priestly necromancer, ended the fight by sparing Gerron’s life. The necromancer was devastatingly effective in the battle, though the gryphons were maddened by bloodlust and pain once their riders were killed and he had to defend himself against them just as we did. We nearly lost Gerron again; I had flashbacks to our first venture, to the Undercity. Their demands were rather confusing – I think they wanted us to come with them, but they gave up this demand when Gerron proved to be able to heal himself repeatedly. I am also a bit confused as to the necromancer’s chosen faith; if I recall correctly, he expressed devotion to both the Keeper and the Dragon Below. I suppose there is no practical reason that he should not look for offers of power from both sources, but I have not heard of such a thing before. First time for everything.</p><p></p><p>The four of us survived, well-nigh-miraculously. We were received as something like unto heroes in Sharn. I drank more than my fill for several nights, and I have not one copper coin less now than I did when I began. I also sold off the sword, buckler, chain shirt, and gems we found on the one gryphon-rider whose body we recovered. I’m a little worried that the merchant knew something I didn’t, because he offered a price for the lot that was substantially more than fair. Maybe I simply underestimated the value of the gems. Unless it was truly egregious, I have a hard time worrying about it, as the sale of the spectacles of arcane sight finally went through. </p><p></p><p>My dear cousin Manarix sent me a letter offering eight thousand, and I have accepted this offer. It is, to be honest, more than I had expected, even calling in the favor or two that Manarix owed me. I suspect that he’s also getting a decent cut that he’s not telling me about, but if so, more power to him. Two thousand for each of us will really make a difference. At the risk of counting my chickens before they have hatched, I hope to scribe several new spells into my grimoire with this money. I am putting the finishing touches on my knowledge of Aiysha’s Fleetfoot; a number of the other spells I have been studying are – pardon the image – percolating rather nicely. I cannot help but wonder how much of a difference it might have made if I had been able to cast Aiysha’s Fleetfoot before the battle against the raiders.</p><p></p><p>We also met with Dean Harrison, who has asked for a formal report of our observations. He remains vague about what he hopes to learn from this. He dodged a number of very pointed questions from Gerron as to the nature of our mission and the remarkable expenditure of resources that went into it. Gerron did get him to say that the whole ordeal was a test of sorts, though he still wouldn’t say what his long-term expectation was. He also avoided any discussion of recompense to us, as if the thirty charges I have spent from my wand of arcane bolts came without cost to me. While the wand is hardly devastating, it is reliable, and I will have to replace it before too much longer. I wish we had brought down the mage that fought with the raiders – he had a more powerful wand of arcane bolts that I coveted highly. I wonder if we’ll see the two of them again.</p><p></p><p>Some questions that remain:</p><p>What is it going to take to get the Dean to realize that he needs to provide a budget for more than just traveling expenses? What will the Dean be able to learn from my report, and will he tell us anything of the conclusions he draws? Now that the druids are dead, is there any way to get the other four lines of that blood-scrawl? Who were the raiders working for? Why would they want to capture us? Could they have just wanted a few more lives to sacrifice to the Keeper or Khyber?</p><p></p><p>----------------------</p><p></p><p>We finally had another session after missing two semi-weekly sessions. It felt good to get back to this game, and we finally hit fifth level! We'll be playing again tomorrow, making the first time we've played two weeks in a row. The DM wants to get caught up a bit for the weeks we missed, then go back to our old schedule. We'll see if that happens according to plan.</p><p></p><p>The encounter with the raiders was really super-heinous, by the way. There were something like four griffons (please excuse Teagen's pretentious spelling!), each of which had a rider - probably a Ftr2 or War3 - and then the mage and cleric were high enough level to take a few hits of their own. At the time I-as-player was very frustrated that most of the fighters were carried off by their griffons once they were slain, so we didn't get their masterwork gear, and the mage and cleric always had more tricks up their sleeve to let them get away. Low treasure distribution has been a frequent gripe of mine in this campaign, as is probably clear from Teagen's journal entry.</p><p></p><p>Shieldhaven</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shieldhaven, post: 2084485, member: 23427"] Our journey home by skyship definitely qualifies as another significant brush with death. It has been awhile since I’ve had one of those – a week or two at least – and I have to say that I am sorry to see such a thing again. On the first day of the journey from Varna south to Sharn, lookouts spotted black dots in the distance. As these dots drew closer, they proved to be raiders. Some of them were men riding gryphons, while others rode a flying carpet. We prepared ourselves for battle as best we could, and killed a few of the warriors with arrows and arcane bolts from my wand before they drew close enough to threaten us. A number of the sailors stood with us, while others fought in the aft of the ship (at least, I think that’s what the back end of a ship is called – do the names change when the ship is fully capable of flight?). My Scorching Rays were remarkably effective, more so than normal as our foes did not immediately engage Gerron and Fel in melee. The arcane bolts that I cast were reasonably effective as well, and I depleted much of my wand’s capacity. That is about the full extent of the good news from this battle. A dozen or more sailors were killed. The leaders, an arcane caster of some stripe and a priestly necromancer, ended the fight by sparing Gerron’s life. The necromancer was devastatingly effective in the battle, though the gryphons were maddened by bloodlust and pain once their riders were killed and he had to defend himself against them just as we did. We nearly lost Gerron again; I had flashbacks to our first venture, to the Undercity. Their demands were rather confusing – I think they wanted us to come with them, but they gave up this demand when Gerron proved to be able to heal himself repeatedly. I am also a bit confused as to the necromancer’s chosen faith; if I recall correctly, he expressed devotion to both the Keeper and the Dragon Below. I suppose there is no practical reason that he should not look for offers of power from both sources, but I have not heard of such a thing before. First time for everything. The four of us survived, well-nigh-miraculously. We were received as something like unto heroes in Sharn. I drank more than my fill for several nights, and I have not one copper coin less now than I did when I began. I also sold off the sword, buckler, chain shirt, and gems we found on the one gryphon-rider whose body we recovered. I’m a little worried that the merchant knew something I didn’t, because he offered a price for the lot that was substantially more than fair. Maybe I simply underestimated the value of the gems. Unless it was truly egregious, I have a hard time worrying about it, as the sale of the spectacles of arcane sight finally went through. My dear cousin Manarix sent me a letter offering eight thousand, and I have accepted this offer. It is, to be honest, more than I had expected, even calling in the favor or two that Manarix owed me. I suspect that he’s also getting a decent cut that he’s not telling me about, but if so, more power to him. Two thousand for each of us will really make a difference. At the risk of counting my chickens before they have hatched, I hope to scribe several new spells into my grimoire with this money. I am putting the finishing touches on my knowledge of Aiysha’s Fleetfoot; a number of the other spells I have been studying are – pardon the image – percolating rather nicely. I cannot help but wonder how much of a difference it might have made if I had been able to cast Aiysha’s Fleetfoot before the battle against the raiders. We also met with Dean Harrison, who has asked for a formal report of our observations. He remains vague about what he hopes to learn from this. He dodged a number of very pointed questions from Gerron as to the nature of our mission and the remarkable expenditure of resources that went into it. Gerron did get him to say that the whole ordeal was a test of sorts, though he still wouldn’t say what his long-term expectation was. He also avoided any discussion of recompense to us, as if the thirty charges I have spent from my wand of arcane bolts came without cost to me. While the wand is hardly devastating, it is reliable, and I will have to replace it before too much longer. I wish we had brought down the mage that fought with the raiders – he had a more powerful wand of arcane bolts that I coveted highly. I wonder if we’ll see the two of them again. Some questions that remain: What is it going to take to get the Dean to realize that he needs to provide a budget for more than just traveling expenses? What will the Dean be able to learn from my report, and will he tell us anything of the conclusions he draws? Now that the druids are dead, is there any way to get the other four lines of that blood-scrawl? Who were the raiders working for? Why would they want to capture us? Could they have just wanted a few more lives to sacrifice to the Keeper or Khyber? ---------------------- We finally had another session after missing two semi-weekly sessions. It felt good to get back to this game, and we finally hit fifth level! We'll be playing again tomorrow, making the first time we've played two weeks in a row. The DM wants to get caught up a bit for the weeks we missed, then go back to our old schedule. We'll see if that happens according to plan. The encounter with the raiders was really super-heinous, by the way. There were something like four griffons (please excuse Teagen's pretentious spelling!), each of which had a rider - probably a Ftr2 or War3 - and then the mage and cleric were high enough level to take a few hits of their own. At the time I-as-player was very frustrated that most of the fighters were carried off by their griffons once they were slain, so we didn't get their masterwork gear, and the mage and cleric always had more tricks up their sleeve to let them get away. Low treasure distribution has been a frequent gripe of mine in this campaign, as is probably clear from Teagen's journal entry. Shieldhaven [/QUOTE]
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