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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viking Bastard" data-source="post: 2546" data-attributes="member: 509">Act 2 – Carp strikes backThe next day the party heads over to Shadow Mountains with a raiding party of twelve well armed men aboard a City Guard aircruiser (notably known by the red sails and the big twin cannons standing out of the front). After four hour of cruising over plains and woodland the ship sails deep into the Shadow Mountains, beyond the mines and into the thick fog. After cruising straight ahead for a couple of minutes the fear of sailing straight into the rocky hills has nearly made them turn around. Those plans are abandoned when they see a strong blue light source in the distance. “A guidance beacon, Harrgard design.” Sergeant Carp’s voice becomes the one of a scholar, “You can tell by the blue flames that it’s powered by thunderstone.”As they come nearer the light, the ancient stronghold starts to come into sight out of the fog, the blue beacon shines in the rock above. It built into the mountain side out of light grey stone bricks, in strong contrast to the dark black rock that surrounds it. The Kentaaris obviously didn’t trust the native building material so they brought their own. Grunt’s ship is docked next to one of the two gigantic ground cannons which are located at either side of the base.“But what shall we do now?” Incognito asks his superior with a hint of sarcasm, “Do we just burst through the door and kill everything that moves?” “Sounds like a plan. Arm the cannons!” The sergeant tells the captain to stop before they come into sight of the bandits and signals the players to come and talk with him. He points at the two ground cannons. “On shot from either of those cannons are enough to take down the ship. The ship’s cannons can take one out but not both before either of them shoots. We need to get rid of one first. Do you understand?”They do understand. “Yes sir!” Stickler says. They arm themselves, two pistols, two grenades and a shotgun (the shotgun only hold one shot) and whatever melee weapon they usually use (Incognito grabs his rapier, Stickler his short sword and Kurk gets himself an new axe, since he lost his greatsword in the battle with Grunt). They climb down from the ship to a path in the mountain side which leads directly to the stronghold. They run after the path about 2/3 of the way and sneak as quietly as they can the rest. Finally, when they get to the stronghold, Stickler sneaks onto the small dock with a grenade in each hand. He hears some voices and quickly jumps behind some boxes.“I don’t understand what they need all this thunderstone for,” It’s a whiny squeaky voice. It sounds like it has done it’s fair share of complaining through the years, “I mean, we’ve stolen enough to blow up half the Serpent for God’s sake! And now the capes are on to use, this job has become way too high profile for me ye know.”“Sixteen good lads went down yesterday.” Another voice, much deeper. “Pity.” It sounds as it had done it’s fair share of following orders without any thought put into distractions like ‘why?’ or ‘what for?’, “Of course da boss probably has a good reason for all of this.”“Then why doesn’t he share it with us then? I mean, I’d really like to know what I’m risking my neck for! ”“But Scarran, if he told us we could talk.” The voice becomes little more serious, like a parent preaching the dangers of smoking to it’s child, “And we’d not like that, would we Scarran?” “Yeah, yeah, you’ve made your point. Man the cannon won’t you, old Bink said he saw something move in the fog. It’s probably nothing, you know how he is, we can all remember the incident last year.”“Yeah, we lost a lot of good men then.” “It’s hard to trust his eyesight after that ye know, but I’m not taking any chances after yesterday. I’m going down to the kitchen to get mister Grunt something to eat now, I can trust you.” That last part wasn’t really a question.Stickler hears the one called Scarran walk away, opening a door and closing it loudly behind him. He takes a look over the boxes, he sees a large orc. He’s wearing studded leather and holds a war hammer in one hand. He seems to be counting the fingers of the other hand out loud.“One, two, three... erm... four and... eh... six... no that’s not right... five! Yup, that’s it! I wonder how many my other hand has...”Stickler tries to signal Incognito and Kurk: “Pssst, get over here.”“Who is that?!” The orc jumps to full alertness, “Are you in the box?!!” He takes his warhammer and swings it at the box which splinters into hundred bits. “No, you’re behind box!” He swings his warhammer again, now at Stickler who just barely dodges the blow.“Crap!” Stickler grabs both his pistols and shoots the orc who falls down on his face dead with two bullets in his chest.The noise of the double blast was loud and didn’t go unnoticed. “What’s that?!” can be heard from a distance.“Probably just old Bink shooting himself in the foot again.”“We’d probably just check anyway though. If not Scarran will be angry.”Incognito and Kurk come running up to Stickler. Kurk kicks Stickler, “Stupid!”</blockquote>

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