Heroes, Inc. Day 3+, Voyage to Sarkon

[frostrune]

Timrin takes a step back from the scene. Maggie's methods aren't exactly what he'd have used but they were nonetheless effective. "Perhaps I should just stay out of it?", he muses.

He watches Alethia and Maggie retreat below decks and decides that it might be best if he just avoids them for the time being.

 

[DM_Matt]

Alethia gulps for air as the force wave knocks her back. "No problem I think. You are the captain and I believe I may have overstepped my bounds." she says quietly. "I think that you really, really need to learn some diplomancy. I'll help you with that. I'm not exactly Timrin or Fin, but I have the basics down. You have the intimidation part down pat though,"

She said with a wry grin at the young woman as she withdraws her cure light wound's wand (the 20 charges one) and zaps both herself and Maggie with it. She gingerly gets up and hauls Maggie to her feat. "This won't take care of the hangover or the overexertion backlash, but I know a few tricks that'll help. We need to go down to the kitchen though," she adds. "And while we do, we can figure out how best to kill this thing,"

Well done, The voice says quietly.

Maggie summons up her floating disk for them both to use.

She says "I appreciate your understanding. I didnt want the others to notice, but I guess you can understand why I'm cranky this morning. That and I still feel a little tipsy. Diplomacy has its uses, but this wasn't one of them. I still dont remember waht I did last night, but I get the impression it was embarassing. Showing weakness would exacerbate whatever problems it caused. A show of strength is the way to ameliorate it. There is a real risk of these sailors seeing me as a nerdy little girl who spent her career behind a desk, and if they do, we're all in trouble."

They get to the kitchen.

 

[kirinke]

Alethia chuckled as they got to the kitchen. "Well, contrary to popular belief, more alchohol probably isn't the wisest thing, considering that that's not all you're suffering from. So,"

She rumaged around her bag of holding before coming up with her healing kit and went and got a kettle, filled it with water and set it to boil. "Willowbark tea for the headache and camomile for the stomach." she muttered to herself while fetching some bread and honey.

"This will help too." she grimanced as the kettle started to sing. "Honey doesn't help with this tea. It actually makes it worse," she told Maggie and got two cups and plates and put the tea into the pot to steep. "For today, keep away from sugary foods like fruit. Honey is okay, it'll help with the sick-stomach. Bread and other non-greasy starches are good too."

She poured the tea into the cups and proceeded to cut some bread for herself and slather honey on it, grimancing as she drank the tea. "For a couple of days, stay away from rich and greasy foods." she added.

"Once you get a hangover, nothing really 'cures' it. You can allievate the symptoms some. But," Alethia shrugged. "You'll have to wait it out. It's the gods way to keep us from overindulging. Doesn't always work though," she grinned again.

"When you go drinking again, it helps to eat before hand." she chuckled. "I really should listen to my own good advice,"

 

[DM_Matt]

Maggie thanks Alethia, then moves to other matters. "We need a plan. Me must gather your company, and Namor and Yolan, and determine what should be done." Maggie finds a sailor and orders him to spread the word to the right people. The meeting will be held in the large, plush captains quarters on the Rianna's Stygian Ironclad.

 

[DM_Matt]

All are gathered, and the floor is open for ideas.

 

[kirinke]

Alethia had the foresight to bring another pot of the willowbark and camomile tea with her along with three cups. One for her, one for Maggie and one for Dyria. She poured the three cups full and passed two of them to her equally hungover friends.

"Well. I have some questions. What is the history of this thing, how did you summon it or did it come to you? How was it bound to protect your people? What are it's strengths and weakness' and what sort of weaponry do we have on hand that might make a dent in it? This ship is well-armed and surely there must be something here." Alethia looked at the others questionally as she took a sip from the tea-cup, grimancing at the foul taste.

 

[DM_Matt]

Alethia had the foresight to bring another pot of the willowbark and camomile tea with her along with three cups. One for her, one for Maggie and one for Dyria. She poured the three cups full and passed two of them to her equally hungover friends.

"Well. I have some questions. What is the history of this thing, how did you summon it or did it come to you? How was it bound to protect your people? What are it's strengths and weakness' and what sort of weaponry do we have on hand that might make a dent in it? This ship is well-armed and surely there must be something here." Alethia looked at the others questionally as she took a sip from the tea-cup, grimancing at the foul taste.

Yolan tries to fill in the blanks. "The creature is said to have predated our civilization. Its origion is unknown. Additionally, there are no known ways of stopping it except through placating it with sacrifices, but it is quite possible that they have been always sacrificing to it, so that when it stops on its own, it APPEARS placated."


Maggie adds "The beast is extremely hard to hurt and even harder to kill. Our cannons can make a dent, but we lack the rate of fire and maneuverability to take it down before it goes after us, and even if the cannons get through, we may not be able to consistantly outpace its regeneration. It is highly resistant to magic and nearly unbeatable in melee. Its only weakness is that it is dumb. Personally, I think we should find ways to miinimize loss of life in the vacinity of the creature and then get to Sarkon before it does. It seems that the locals think it as a habit of going there every time the fire lizards, whatever they are, show up."


Namor comments, in typical dwarven fashion, "What those people need are tunnels and caves. Instead of these useless sacrifices, they should have been prepared to hide undergournd when the time comes, protected by the earth herself from giant beasts who cannot fit through the tunnels. They could have dug internal wells and stockpiled food. But for th emoment, while they can retreat to some antural caves, they have little opporrtunity for protection. Perhaps when this is all over we could arrange a meeting between their representatives and diplomats of the Great Rift. Perhaps they can trade agricultural goods for some help with engineering and stonework."

 

[kirinke]

Alethia nodded. "So these fire-lizard things are probably what sets it off. Maybe it was ordered to kill them long ago. Anyway. Your idea sounds as good as any. Evacuate the area as best as we can, hightail it to Sarkon, find the sword or swords and then get out of it's way," she sighed. "It couldn't hurt to sacrifice the ship on the offchance it might work, because we are going to scuttle it anyway." she smiled at Maggie. "Every legend and myth has a grain of truth in it. And the truth is sometimes wierder than the legends around it."

 

[frostrune]

"Maybe a question that needs to be answered is why the pirates and that weird metal man were trying so hard to disrupt the balance and provoke the creature? What is in the writings they were obliterating? What are the fire lizards that have supposedly returned? And just how in the Nine-Hells does this relate to what is happening in Waterdeep?"

"We need to start filling in some blanks because I personally do not enjoy being lead around by the nose; always one step behind." His frustration is palpable.

 

[Falkus]

After gulping down the tea, Dyria commented. "I was going to suggest that our plan should be: Charge! but I think yours is rather more elegant."