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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 5898492" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 32</strong></p><p></p><p>Okay - even by our standards, this session was packed:</p><p></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">The battle with the sahuagin baron and his retinue took a rapid turn for the worse: in quick succession, the baron thrust his trident through Korrigan's shoulder, in a powerful blow that almost killed the Marshal outright, while the high priestess used a suffocating power to to take Leon out of the fight too.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Things went from bad to worse, with brave members of the strike force, lizardmen, slaves and marines alike, falling to the blows of the sahuagin. Even poor Will Stoutly succumbed to a fatal blow.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Matunaga was dropped too, and Krauss fell soon after.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">The turning point came when Oolsholeel slew both the baron and the high priestess, and Krauss managed to get himself back on his feet, using a healing suppository to assist Matunaga.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Shortly before he died, the baron used a magical conch to send a warning signal throughout the lair: Soon the sleeping hordes of sea devils the unit had seen earlier would be upon them.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Guided by Krauss, and bearing their fallen allies, they descended to the lowest level, where the water pressure was unaccountably high, and the waters cold and dark - magically recreatingthe conditions of the deep ocean.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Krauss said he would find the swiftest exit, but instead led them into a huge ritual combat arena.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Here, they found themselves surrounded by sahuagin and sharks, while Krauss (clearly mind-controlled) heralded the arrival of one of the Deep Ones.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">The creature (an aboleth) seemed to emerge out of a spiral of twisted space, nestled in a bubble of slime and flanked by thralls. It greeted the adventurers and told them it knew why they had come. It greeted Krauss in particular, as a master might greet a pet.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">It told them that the Deep Ones and their Sea Devil allies were here in pursuit of one thing only: Silas Fennac and 'what he stole from us'.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Immediately, the group thought of the Jade Idol, but the Deep One read their thoughts: "We would not travel half the world for a mere toy." If the idol was had been their objective, the matter could be settled very quickly, it said, as the idol was secreted on the unconscious form of Leon. (Uru checked, and sure enough, there it was.) But the idol would be useful in helping them achieve a settlement with the Deep Ones:</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">In return for their freedom and the Deep One's departure, the unit was to track down Silas Fennac and bring him and his journal (containing details of the Deep One's defences) back to the sahuagin lair. The idol granted incredible powers to sneak and spy unobserved, and thus would be invaluable in getting hold of the journal.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Leon, Korrigan, and the marines, slaves and lizardmen would remain behind as collateral to this bargain.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">The unit agreed and Krauss was freed from domination.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Appalled by the ease with which the Deep One had controlled him, Krauss took a pistol and shot himself in the head!</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">There was no time to mourn this desperate act. Oolsholeel, Matunaaga, Rumdoom and Uru headed through a portal the Deep One created and found themselves in Flint harbour.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Malthusius met them on North Shore beach. </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">They headed straight for the manse of Khaled Valchek, where Silas Fennac was holed up, concocting a plan as they went: Uru would steal inside, using the power of the Idol to gain near-invisibility, insubstantial and phasing, and a climb speed. Meanwhile, Rumdoom would enter and distract Valchek and Fennac, while Malthusius and Matunaga arranged delivery of a note demanding Silas Fennac meet them at North Shore beach, if he ever wanted to see the idol or his note book again. They made it seem as if the note came from the Kell Guild (signing off with their warning symbol of three crossed daggers).</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Uru stole the notebook from Fennac's safe.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Rumdoom learned that Valchek had left for Saltmarsh shortly after they did, in command of two mercenary vessels. </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Rumdoom was present when Fennac received the fake note and ran back to check his empty safe. Fennac, in a panic, promised Rumdoom 'immense riches' if he helped him deal with these 'criminals'.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">On the beach, the unit tricked Fennac into the water, where Oolsholeel (in octopus form) grabbed him. They then returned through the reopened portal leaving Malthusius behind.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">No sooner had they arrived and handed the screaming Fennac and his stolen notes over to the Deep One, but a dull thud and shudder presaged a bombardment of the island that could only be the work of Valchek and his mercenaries.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">And so the unit and their allies fled in one direction, while the Deep One and the sahuagin fled in another.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Once they had escaped the lair, they paused only to bury Crazy Krauss. To their surprise, it turned out he was still very much alive, despite the sizable hole in his head! The gunshot had been a form of emergency surgery to remove the mind control device which the Deep Ones had implanted in him during his captivity. Krauss was very cross about that and grumbled about it all the way home.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Unwilling to trust Black Star Mining any further, the unit decided against rejoining the <em>Rostinante</em>, and headed through the Hool Marshes on foot, on a five-day march. <br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Smoke rose from the lizardman lair. They approached cautiously and found Risuri military and Black Star mercenaries rounding up and hog-tying any lizardmen they had not killed. There were many dead.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">The unit's lizardman allies, fearing treachery, struck out at their erstwhile comrades and had to be subdued.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Lord Blackthorn turned out to be the leader of the mercenaries. He gloated and told the unit that their 'rising star with the Unseen Court had fallen'. Blackthorn had returned to avenge his wounded pride at the service of Khaled Valchek.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Valchek had sent his mercenaries in pursuit of the Jade Idol, thought to be in possession of the Lizardman Minister. However, the minister had escaped.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">The lizardman chief was dying. Although badly injured himself, Korrigan rose and healed the chief.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Krauss used his arcane powers to deliver a rousing political speech which all of the mercenaries and Risuri soldiers could hear. The stopped treating the lizardmen so harshly after that and eventually left empty-handed.<br /> </span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">Crestfallen and ambivalent, the unit struggled back to Saltmarsh, where Will Stoutly was laid to rest. From there, they returned to Flint - by road, at Rumdoom's insistence.</span> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="color: #696969">In all the confusion, it turned out they had been left in possession of the Jade Idol!</span> </li> </ul><p>All that in just over three hours! I'm exhausted just thinking about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 5898492, member: 79141"] [b]Session 32[/b] Okay - even by our standards, this session was packed: [LIST] [*][COLOR=#696969]The battle with the sahuagin baron and his retinue took a rapid turn for the worse: in quick succession, the baron thrust his trident through Korrigan's shoulder, in a powerful blow that almost killed the Marshal outright, while the high priestess used a suffocating power to to take Leon out of the fight too. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Things went from bad to worse, with brave members of the strike force, lizardmen, slaves and marines alike, falling to the blows of the sahuagin. Even poor Will Stoutly succumbed to a fatal blow.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Matunaga was dropped too, and Krauss fell soon after.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]The turning point came when Oolsholeel slew both the baron and the high priestess, and Krauss managed to get himself back on his feet, using a healing suppository to assist Matunaga.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Shortly before he died, the baron used a magical conch to send a warning signal throughout the lair: Soon the sleeping hordes of sea devils the unit had seen earlier would be upon them.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Guided by Krauss, and bearing their fallen allies, they descended to the lowest level, where the water pressure was unaccountably high, and the waters cold and dark - magically recreatingthe conditions of the deep ocean.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Krauss said he would find the swiftest exit, but instead led them into a huge ritual combat arena.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Here, they found themselves surrounded by sahuagin and sharks, while Krauss (clearly mind-controlled) heralded the arrival of one of the Deep Ones.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]The creature (an aboleth) seemed to emerge out of a spiral of twisted space, nestled in a bubble of slime and flanked by thralls. It greeted the adventurers and told them it knew why they had come. It greeted Krauss in particular, as a master might greet a pet.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]It told them that the Deep Ones and their Sea Devil allies were here in pursuit of one thing only: Silas Fennac and 'what he stole from us'.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Immediately, the group thought of the Jade Idol, but the Deep One read their thoughts: "We would not travel half the world for a mere toy." If the idol was had been their objective, the matter could be settled very quickly, it said, as the idol was secreted on the unconscious form of Leon. (Uru checked, and sure enough, there it was.) But the idol would be useful in helping them achieve a settlement with the Deep Ones:[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]In return for their freedom and the Deep One's departure, the unit was to track down Silas Fennac and bring him and his journal (containing details of the Deep One's defences) back to the sahuagin lair. The idol granted incredible powers to sneak and spy unobserved, and thus would be invaluable in getting hold of the journal. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Leon, Korrigan, and the marines, slaves and lizardmen would remain behind as collateral to this bargain.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]The unit agreed and Krauss was freed from domination.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Appalled by the ease with which the Deep One had controlled him, Krauss took a pistol and shot himself in the head![/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]There was no time to mourn this desperate act. Oolsholeel, Matunaaga, Rumdoom and Uru headed through a portal the Deep One created and found themselves in Flint harbour.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Malthusius met them on North Shore beach. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]They headed straight for the manse of Khaled Valchek, where Silas Fennac was holed up, concocting a plan as they went: Uru would steal inside, using the power of the Idol to gain near-invisibility, insubstantial and phasing, and a climb speed. Meanwhile, Rumdoom would enter and distract Valchek and Fennac, while Malthusius and Matunaga arranged delivery of a note demanding Silas Fennac meet them at North Shore beach, if he ever wanted to see the idol or his note book again. They made it seem as if the note came from the Kell Guild (signing off with their warning symbol of three crossed daggers).[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Uru stole the notebook from Fennac's safe.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Rumdoom learned that Valchek had left for Saltmarsh shortly after they did, in command of two mercenary vessels. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Rumdoom was present when Fennac received the fake note and ran back to check his empty safe. Fennac, in a panic, promised Rumdoom 'immense riches' if he helped him deal with these 'criminals'.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]On the beach, the unit tricked Fennac into the water, where Oolsholeel (in octopus form) grabbed him. They then returned through the reopened portal leaving Malthusius behind.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]No sooner had they arrived and handed the screaming Fennac and his stolen notes over to the Deep One, but a dull thud and shudder presaged a bombardment of the island that could only be the work of Valchek and his mercenaries.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]And so the unit and their allies fled in one direction, while the Deep One and the sahuagin fled in another.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Once they had escaped the lair, they paused only to bury Crazy Krauss. To their surprise, it turned out he was still very much alive, despite the sizable hole in his head! The gunshot had been a form of emergency surgery to remove the mind control device which the Deep Ones had implanted in him during his captivity. Krauss was very cross about that and grumbled about it all the way home. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Unwilling to trust Black Star Mining any further, the unit decided against rejoining the [I]Rostinante[/I], and headed through the Hool Marshes on foot, on a five-day march. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Smoke rose from the lizardman lair. They approached cautiously and found Risuri military and Black Star mercenaries rounding up and hog-tying any lizardmen they had not killed. There were many dead.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]The unit's lizardman allies, fearing treachery, struck out at their erstwhile comrades and had to be subdued.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Lord Blackthorn turned out to be the leader of the mercenaries. He gloated and told the unit that their 'rising star with the Unseen Court had fallen'. Blackthorn had returned to avenge his wounded pride at the service of Khaled Valchek.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Valchek had sent his mercenaries in pursuit of the Jade Idol, thought to be in possession of the Lizardman Minister. However, the minister had escaped.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]The lizardman chief was dying. Although badly injured himself, Korrigan rose and healed the chief.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Krauss used his arcane powers to deliver a rousing political speech which all of the mercenaries and Risuri soldiers could hear. The stopped treating the lizardmen so harshly after that and eventually left empty-handed. [/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]Crestfallen and ambivalent, the unit struggled back to Saltmarsh, where Will Stoutly was laid to rest. From there, they returned to Flint - by road, at Rumdoom's insistence.[/COLOR] [*][COLOR=#696969]In all the confusion, it turned out they had been left in possession of the Jade Idol![/COLOR] [/LIST] All that in just over three hours! I'm exhausted just thinking about it. [/QUOTE]
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