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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 5868649" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 25</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Session 25</strong></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">In an attempt to link back up with Rumdoom and the Stoutly brothers, the unit found itself beset on all sides by lizardmen.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blackscale bruisers proved to be tough opponents, and things went badly for the unit.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">More lizardmen joined the fray, led by a one-eyed, hook-handed chieftan. Will Stoutly went down under a hail of gunfire, and Lord Blackthorn was also felled.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Realising their situation was hopeless, the unit sued for surrender, but had to restrain Rumdoom, who feared a potential 'bad ending'.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The lizardmen led their captives to the throne room. The chieftan told his men to beware of harming the group, led as they were by 'one of the Fey Lords'. But they were angry, accusing the unit of advancing with weapons drawn, and refusing to accept that they had come to investigate the disappearance of ships. The tribe denied any involvement but said they thought they knew who might be to blame...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Negotiations were led by an incredibly old, and unusually intelligent lizardman minister, who admitted to being the 'fork-tongue' the shamans had spoken of. (The shamans were opposed to the advancements the tribe were making - the purchase of guns, and the use of doors and furniture in the lair, and were inimical to his council of the chieftan.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The minister explained that they had been buying guns to try to defend themselves from an incursion of 'sea devils'.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It turned out that the tribe had only moved out of the deep marshes because their island lair had been invaded by these ferocious creatures. It seemed they were in pursuit of a man who had fallen from the sky.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This man turned out to be a Risuri named Silas Fennac, whom the lizardmen held prisoner. He was gaunt and unshaven but very grateful and relieved to see the unit. He told them ian incredible story. He was an explorer, who had found his way to the deep sea stronghold of the 'Deep Ones' - creatures who the 'sea devils' served. There he had witnessed their invasion strategy and - stealing the jade idol the unit now possessed - had fled back to Risur to warn the RHC. This long journey had seen him taken by pirates and finally escape in a dirigible which had crashed over the Hool Marshes. And so Silas Fennac had fallen into the hands of the luckless lizardmen.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The surprising thing was that the sea devils had somehow followed him thousands of miles, and invaded the lizard man lair in attempt to reclaim their stolen idol. The lizardmen had tried but failed to sue for peace, and were now in the process of attempting to form an Aqueous Alliance with the local aquatic denizen - locathah and koalinth and tritons. But none were too keen on tangling with the sea devils. The unit were led to a deep pool (the sea cave Oolsholeel had glimpsed earlier) where they were greeted by these aquatic ambassadors. The triton in particular was courteous to Oolsholeel.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Korrigan then offered to help the lizardmen in exchange for their release, but the chieftan was cunning: the sea devils were as much a threat to Risur as to the lizardmen. Yes, the tribe would be grateful for such help and would ally themselves with any who sought to drive the devils away, but such action would not serve as recompense for the wholesale slaughter the unit had wrought.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Fortunately, the lizardmen did not share the warmblood's emotional attachment to their fallen kin, but nontheless demanded reparations in the form of weregild - payment for each fallen warrior. But the unit could not afford the huge sums in question. (Normally, they would eat their defeated opponents, as they had done the adventurers who had been sent by the Saltmarsh council. Hence the dwarf on the spit in the kitchen. But the minister advised against this.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">So the minister and the chief arranged a compromise. As they were preoccuped defending their new lair, the lizardmen could not afford to deal with a seperate problem: a giant crocodile that had crossed over from the Dreaming had taken up residence in some prime hunting grounds. If the unit could deal with that threat, the lizardmen would consider the weregild paid.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They insisted that one person remained behind. Leon volunteered, as he was keen to investigate the jade idol he now had hidden on his person. (And his player is absent next week.)</li> </ul><p>I have woven a subplot into the original adventure, the story stolen wholesale from <em>the Scar</em> by China Mieville: The fallen dirigible pilot, the jade idol, and the motives of the sahuagin are all additional elements.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 5868649, member: 79141"] [b]Session 25[/b] [B]Session 25[/B] [LIST] [*]In an attempt to link back up with Rumdoom and the Stoutly brothers, the unit found itself beset on all sides by lizardmen. [*]Blackscale bruisers proved to be tough opponents, and things went badly for the unit. [*]More lizardmen joined the fray, led by a one-eyed, hook-handed chieftan. Will Stoutly went down under a hail of gunfire, and Lord Blackthorn was also felled. [*]Realising their situation was hopeless, the unit sued for surrender, but had to restrain Rumdoom, who feared a potential 'bad ending'. [*]The lizardmen led their captives to the throne room. The chieftan told his men to beware of harming the group, led as they were by 'one of the Fey Lords'. But they were angry, accusing the unit of advancing with weapons drawn, and refusing to accept that they had come to investigate the disappearance of ships. The tribe denied any involvement but said they thought they knew who might be to blame... [*]Negotiations were led by an incredibly old, and unusually intelligent lizardman minister, who admitted to being the 'fork-tongue' the shamans had spoken of. (The shamans were opposed to the advancements the tribe were making - the purchase of guns, and the use of doors and furniture in the lair, and were inimical to his council of the chieftan.) [*]The minister explained that they had been buying guns to try to defend themselves from an incursion of 'sea devils'. [*]It turned out that the tribe had only moved out of the deep marshes because their island lair had been invaded by these ferocious creatures. It seemed they were in pursuit of a man who had fallen from the sky. [*]This man turned out to be a Risuri named Silas Fennac, whom the lizardmen held prisoner. He was gaunt and unshaven but very grateful and relieved to see the unit. He told them ian incredible story. He was an explorer, who had found his way to the deep sea stronghold of the 'Deep Ones' - creatures who the 'sea devils' served. There he had witnessed their invasion strategy and - stealing the jade idol the unit now possessed - had fled back to Risur to warn the RHC. This long journey had seen him taken by pirates and finally escape in a dirigible which had crashed over the Hool Marshes. And so Silas Fennac had fallen into the hands of the luckless lizardmen. [*]The surprising thing was that the sea devils had somehow followed him thousands of miles, and invaded the lizard man lair in attempt to reclaim their stolen idol. The lizardmen had tried but failed to sue for peace, and were now in the process of attempting to form an Aqueous Alliance with the local aquatic denizen - locathah and koalinth and tritons. But none were too keen on tangling with the sea devils. The unit were led to a deep pool (the sea cave Oolsholeel had glimpsed earlier) where they were greeted by these aquatic ambassadors. The triton in particular was courteous to Oolsholeel. [*]Korrigan then offered to help the lizardmen in exchange for their release, but the chieftan was cunning: the sea devils were as much a threat to Risur as to the lizardmen. Yes, the tribe would be grateful for such help and would ally themselves with any who sought to drive the devils away, but such action would not serve as recompense for the wholesale slaughter the unit had wrought. [*]Fortunately, the lizardmen did not share the warmblood's emotional attachment to their fallen kin, but nontheless demanded reparations in the form of weregild - payment for each fallen warrior. But the unit could not afford the huge sums in question. (Normally, they would eat their defeated opponents, as they had done the adventurers who had been sent by the Saltmarsh council. Hence the dwarf on the spit in the kitchen. But the minister advised against this.) [*]So the minister and the chief arranged a compromise. As they were preoccuped defending their new lair, the lizardmen could not afford to deal with a seperate problem: a giant crocodile that had crossed over from the Dreaming had taken up residence in some prime hunting grounds. If the unit could deal with that threat, the lizardmen would consider the weregild paid. [*]They insisted that one person remained behind. Leon volunteered, as he was keen to investigate the jade idol he now had hidden on his person. (And his player is absent next week.) [/LIST] I have woven a subplot into the original adventure, the story stolen wholesale from [I]the Scar[/I] by China Mieville: The fallen dirigible pilot, the jade idol, and the motives of the sahuagin are all additional elements. [/QUOTE]
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