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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverName" data-source="post: 1228503" data-attributes="member: 2591">Adventure 9:New Friends and ObligationsContinuing the Journal of Gudlaug Hamarson (Jon Hanna)    The last few days have been…interesting.  I have continued to stay in close proximity to the human wizard Andreas, and his body guard Dario.  It seems wise to keep close with these two since our goals remain similar: The ultimate destruction of the Lich we have known as Volodya, or simply the “Necromancer.”  Our last month spent in Jormunsteinn has been refreshing for me, but I’m not sure how much longer my companions will want to stay.  It has been years since I have been to a purely Dekkalfar city, and I must say that I am enjoying it considerably.  I find the dourness and stoic quality of these people is like a balm to me, after having spent so many years in the company of the more spastic races.  I could easily spend much more time here, but I fear that I must soon move on and go about my duty.    A few days ago I was invited to view an unusual ceremony involving a dekkalfar initiate of the Halaglaz.  His name is Urian.  I have never met one of the Halaglaz, so I was pleased to get an opportunity to see what they are up to.  I was allowed to bring my two human companions, which I did.  Urian went through a ritual in which he fought some type of chaos spawn.  He defeated it, loudly and with much splattering of viscera, and the ceremony was over.  It all went rather quickly.  After the ceremony we were introduced to some companions of Urian:  Malcolm - a Cimbri warrior, Makar - a human sorcerer, Gann - a hobgoblin fighter, and most interesting, Copoc - a kulkan shaman.  I have never met a Kulkan before.  I find his beliefs and abilities to be most interesting.  Andreas and I talked with these men after the ceremony, and learned that they had been involved in some adventures that may have bearing on our quest to discover what interests Volodya my have in this region.  We were unable to discuss anything in detail, however, and Malcolm invited us to come take a cruise on their boat the next day.  We accepted.    In the morning we met with Malcolm, Copoc, and Urian.  It seems that Makar had been hired to provide protection for an outgoing merchant ship, and Gann had also found other employment opportunities.  It seems that their group is breaking up.  This disturbed Malcolm and Copoc.  They told Andreas and myself that they were in the process of going up into the Cimbri lands to hunt down a group of Yuan-ti who are trying to get a base of operations set up.  I found their story disturbing and offered any assistance I might be able to provide.  Necromancer or no necromancer, my duties as a druid require me to protect Faerie against invaders.    We were well out of the harbor at this point, and had moved some ways up the coast.  Hal, my rat friend, had climbed up onto the carved dragon head at the prow of the boat.  Suddenly, when my back was turned, I heard him squeal, and fall off into the water.  I went to the side and helped fish the swimming rat out of the water.  He told me that the dragon head had shaken him off after he had relieved himself on it.  I found this unlikely, but after Malcolm and Urian gave each other strange looks, they made us swear vows of secrecy, and told us that the boat was alive.  At this point the dragon head turned towards us and confirmed it.  I was amazed.  This boat is a dragon, apparently, that has been cursed into becoming a boat.  While we were marveling at this, suddenly the boat came to a halt in the water.  The boat told us that it couldn’t move.  Looking over the side, we were amazed to see a group of Sahuagin rising out of the water and preparing to attack us.  There were also sharks circling.  Apparently, they had a water elemental that they were controlling to hold and try to sink the boat.  If it had been a normal boat it probably would have succeeded.  The Sahuagin fired a volley of arrows at us, and the fight was on.  Andreas, Copoc, and myself began dealing out damage to them via magic, while Malcolm, Urian, and Dario dispatched the ones who climbed onto the boat.  These Sahuagin had attacked the wrong boat full of travelers.  There were about 20 of the attackers, lead by a four-armed cleric of some type.  They themselves were little match for us, but we discovered to our horror that there were hundreds, maybe thousands of Sahuagins swimming past us underwater.  They were headed for the docks of Jormunsteinn.  It was an invasion!</blockquote>

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