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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverName" data-source="post: 1230226" data-attributes="member: 2591">Adventure 10The Belly Of The BeastContinuing the Journal of Gudlaug Hamarson (Jon Hanna)    When we realized that the Sahuagin were invading Jormunsteinn, I quickly transformed myself into an eagle and flew off to warn the city.  The boat itself turned invisible and flew back towards the docks.  As I was flying back to the shack of the harbormaster, I saw a giant shadow moving under the water.  The shadow was immense!  I realized to my utter shock that it was a huge sea Drake.  By Nature’s holy fury!  I increased my pace and flew down to the docks.  I turned back into my natural form and rushed into the harbormaster’s shack.  “You’re being invaded!”  I yelled at him.  “Hundreds of Sahuagin are heading this way now.  They have a sea drake with them.  Sound the alarm!”  The man jumped to his feet and ran to his window.  When he saw that the sahuagin had started attacking boats out in the harbor, he moved quickly.  He had a man light a huge bucket of tar that was up on a raised platform.  This was apparently some type of alarm system.  Huge clouds of black smoke billowed forth.  A man also started blowing on a giant dekkalfar horn.  A loud, low rumble sounded the alarm.    There was an Iconian war galley tied up at the docks used by the humans.  We could see that the sahuagin were attacking it.  The sea serpent wrapped a coil of its huge body around it, and was starting to squeeze.  “Hurry,” the harbormaster shouted.  ‘The Eorl’s son is visiting that galley.  He’s on that ship!”  I saw a dekkalfar up on the aft deck of the galley.  I turned back into an eagle and flew over towards it.  As I was coming up to the dock, I saw the Dragon ship with my companions appear as if coming out of a mist.  No one else saw it.      My companions immediately started attacking the sea drake, and the sahuagin that were swarming up onto the dock.  Urian and Dario attacked the Sahuagin with axe and bow, while Copoc, Andreas, and Malcolm tried to do something to the sea drake.  The head of the drake was quite large, but quick, as one of the humans on the galley found out.  The serpent swallowed him in one quick motion.  Malcolm, quaffed a potion of Spider Climb and litterally ran up onto it’s head and started wailing away with his axe.  I brought forth a fire elemental, and had it attack the coil of the drake that was wrapped around the galley.  The captain of the galley let out an even louder scream of horror than she was already wailing.  Apparently the cauldron of Iconian Fire that was on the galley was a little too close to the fire elemental I had unleashed.  Oops!  Well, that just gave us a new reason to get this over with quickly.      I flew up behind the head of the beast, with the intension of using a close combat spell on it, when suddenly it whipped its head around and gulped me down!   The vileness of that gullet is beyond my means to express.  I slid down its throat and found myself in its stomach.  It’s a good thing that I’m a dekkalfar, and can see in the darkness.  I cast a protection from fire spell on myself, as I sloshed around amidst the creature’s stomach juices.  Then I cast flamestrike on the spot I was standing.  BOOM!  The Giant Sea serpent apparently has an aversion for fire in the belly.  Its stomach rolled, and I, along with the other man who got swallowed, was vomited back out.  We landed in the sea with a splash.  The Sea Drake unrolled itself from around the ship and bolted out to sea.  Copoc, who could understand its language, heard it muttering as it left that no amount of money Abashag paid it was worth being killed for.  This name meant something to Copoc and Malcolm, who gave each other a strange look.    The Eorl’s son, Uller, ran off of the Iconian galley and thanked us.  When he was told that Abashag was possibly behind this attack, he grew quite concerned.  He looked across the bay towards a lighthouse that was on an Island.  When he saw Sahuagin going in to the structure, he became very agitated.  “I need your help, but you must promise to keep a secret.” He stated.  We agreed, and he continued.  “I think Abashag and the Three Mothers are after an item we have hidden out on the island.  I think this whole attack is just a feint, so that they can get it unmolested.  There is no time for the city to get troops out to the island.  Can you do it?”  We told him that we could, and he continued.  “The is a Horn of the Tritons buried under the basement of the lighthouse.  If Abashag gets it, we will be unable to call them to the aid of the city -- perhaps she could even use it to harm the Tritons, who are the enemies of the Sahuagin.  This would be disastrous!”      We promised to try our best to stop Abashag, as Uller ran off to see to the defenses of the city.  We got onto the boat, and told it that Abashag was in the lighthouse across the bay.  Apparently there is some history between the boat and Abashag, a sea hag that Copoc, Malcolm and the others had fought before.  They had killed her on an island out in Skia Thalassa, but had not burned her body.  Now she was back.  In all of the chaos of the battle with the invading Sahuagin, our boat was unnoticed as it turned invisible and flew out to the island.    When we docked at the island, we rushed in and found that some acquatic trolls and ogres had dispatched the Dekkalfar guards.  We set into them quickly.  Malcolm and Dario ran to the front of the fighting, and soon, our enemies were vanquished.  We searched the area and soon found some stairs spiraling down into the darkness.  We headed down, and heard some talking.  An awful voice was croaking out commands.  It was the Sea hag Abashag.  Apparently we were too late.  She and her trolls already had the Horn.  The others rushed towards the room where she was, while Andreas and myself hung back.  Malcolm engaged another troll, and Copoc started speaking with his spirits.  I asked Andreas if he had a spell of Dispel magic available to him.  He nodded that he did, and I told him to be ready.  I cast Rock to Mud on the floor surrounding Abashag and her minions, and Andreas quickly dispelled it, after they had sunk down to their ankles.  Now they were stuck in the stone.  We laid into them.  Abashag cast a dimension door spell, and disappeared.  She popped up in the room with the stairs leading up.  Andreas earned his keep by hitting her with a feeblemind spell.  Miraculously, it worked!  Abashag turned into a gibbering idiot, and fled.  She was much faster than us, and we thought she would get away.  Luckily Andreas also had a dimension door  spell, and he teleported back out to the boat.  When he told the boat the Abashag was about to run out of the door, the boat floated up and waited.  When the feebleminded Abashag burst forth from the door, the boat fell on top of her with a sickening crunch.  So much for that sea hag…</blockquote>

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