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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jairami" data-source="post: 108234" data-attributes="member: 1148">The next morning, Khuuld stood at the door of the inn, looking like thunder as he watched down the main avenue.  When twenty-one men in barefeet and armor in variable states of repair each with a short curving sword and a heavy bladed knife entered town from the south and began apporaching the inn, he nodded grimly to himself and called in to the others in their preparations that they wouldn't have to go track down the ruffians.In the interim, the group had inquired about the ruffians and been informed that they were thugs and hooligans, cut-rate pirates of the sea who were tolerated because they had gold and because no one could really stand up to them.  That was about to change.The pirate's apparent leader stopped out in green and called for the backstabbing murderer who had killed one of his crew to show his cowardly face.Khuuld, Frederick, Andrew, and Collin came out with expressions like thunderheads.  Frederick declared their crimes as he could put them together (at which some of the pirates looked at each other in confusion--and were promptly barked at by their captain) and called for their surrender.  The answer was bared blades.Summoning forth creatures at range to attack the captain Collin identified himself as an arcane caster of some sort.  The captain ran a tight crew and promptly had the men near him fall upon the summoned monsters while several others advanced and threw daggers at Collin.  Frederick healed Collin on the spot and gave the captain another problem to deal with.  As both sides advanced cautiously, the Captain took more and more hits from summoned creatures that would appear, strike him, and then be struck down.  By the time both sides had closed with each other, all in a matter of second, the captain was gravely wounded.Swordswinging melee insued with the first mate doing his best to keep the sailors in line as their numbers failed to overwhelm the four.  People fell on both sides, but the losses weighed more upon the small group of four.Eventually the party was defeated, with one member running for help.  Battered and bloodied in an encounter that did not go anything as planned, the pirates dragged their wounded back to their ship.  When Collin returned with the inkeeper and the herbmistress, Frederick was doing his best to see to Khuuld and Andrew.  Licking their wounds, they limped back to the inn.The following day both sides clashed again, as the party was successful in preventing the pirates from setting the inn afire.  The battered pirates in bandages and slings were no match for the party healed by Equitus's blessings.  Those that did not scatter were captured or killed.  ((Sorry, still summing up.  Got a long ways to go.  Perhaps Velenne will fill in some details.))Lacking any established law system or court in Jigond, Frederick tried the remaining five survivors himself.  Their lives and all their possessions were found forfeit and would be auctioned off to make reparations for the damages they had inflicted on both the townsfolk and the party.In their search of the ship, they discovered a map with sketchy details regarding the locations of several ports in the sea and several possible locations they could travel to from Jigond.  But without the knowledge of how to pilot or navigate a ship, nor the crew to run it, they were stuck.  After a thorough interrogation of the captured crewman, it was decided that they would work off their debt in indentured servitude.  Teaching the operation of the ship and seeing to it's upkeep.  The cowed crewmen were thankful for their lives and accepted the terms as superior to death by hanging.  Though never enthusiastic, they would prove at least competent and pliable.But upon returning to town from the ship, the party found Tylette stumbling out of the inn, a vision still burning in her eyes.</blockquote>

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