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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 238597" data-attributes="member: 93">An Unidentified Island in the Retic Sea, June 28th, AE 420Hidden by the fog, Jalea slips over the wall and up to the first watcher.  His sword bites deep into his foe’s side, but doesn’t kill him.  Thanks to the sword of speed, he finishes him off before he can react.  He dumps the body over the wall and into the sea, and turns to find the other watcher.The figure moves towards Jalea through the fog, and strikes quickly, drawing blood with a shortsword.  Jalea fights back, but is a better fighter when he has the drop on someone.  He cuts his enemy, but not deeply.  One more slice from his enemy cuts Jalea, then the figure slips back in the fog, disappearing after ten feet or so.Jalea stops and listens.  He hears nothing for a while, then the sounds of feet running across the bridge to the fortress. The elf checks the roof quickly; he is alone.  He picks a spot overlooking the seaward door of the gatehouse, and hems himself in with caltrops, so that no one can approach, and then turns to watch the bridge.  Moments later he sees Glaron run to the fortress.Meanwhile back in the rowboat, the party has identified a problem with their original plan.  The walls of the foundation of the fortress are forty feet tall!  “I could cast fly on myself,” Jovah says.  “Then I could go check things out…”“Could you carry us over there?” Aris asks.“Not really,” Jovah replies.  “I can only carry as much as I normally could.”“Then cast it on me,” Brennen says.  “I can carry quite a bit.  Especially after a bull’s strength.”Reana is speaking to the fishes.  She dumps a little chum in the water to find a shark, and one shows up distressingly fast.“Hello,” Reana says, using speak with animals.  “Are there any more of you in the area?”“Oh, yeah,” the shark replies.  “There are about five of us.  We’re watching the fortress.”“Have you seen any sahuagin?” Reana asks.The shark nods.  “Can we make this quick?  I’m hungry and there’s a body in the water over that way,” he says, indicating the fortress.  “If I don’t go now, there won’t be anything left.”“Uh, wait!” Reana says.  Oh no, Jalea! “Can you go over there and bring the body over here?”“Umm,” the sharks responds, “do you need all of it?  I can probably bring a piece or two…”“No!” Reana says sternly.  “All of it!”The shark darts off into the distance.  Brennen and Jovah have worked out the particulars of having Brennen fly the party to the fortress.  Reana informs them of what the shark had to say.  Shortly thereafter, the shark returns, with an arm clenched firmly in its razor-sharp teeth.  The arm is muscular and tatooed, clearly not belonging to Jalea.  The party breathes a collective sigh of relief.“Can you escort us over to the fortress?” Reana asks.“Sorry,” the shark says.  “We’re supposed to attack anyone that gets closer than this rock.”“Who told you to do that?”“The fish-people.”“I see,” Reana says.  “Where are the fish people?”“There are three or four right under here…” the shark says.As soon as the shark says this, the sahuagin burst forth from the water.  Two on the starboard side of the boat grab the side of the boat, and pull down, while two on the port side push up.  Caught off guard, Corwin tumlbes over the side and into the surging sea.  Jovah nearly follows him into the drink, but his cloak catches on a slightly raised nail in the seat of the rowboat.Jovah used up a re-roll from his Luck domain to not get tossed in the water!Brennen, Gavin, Reana, and Aris swiftly fight back the sahuagin, killing three.  The last one lets go of the rowboat, and drops into the inky water.  Reana looks around – the shark is nowhere to be seen.  They fish Corwin out of the water, uninjured.Jovah casts fly on Brennen, and silence on Soldago.  He also casts water breathing, dividing its duration up amongst all party members.  Then, the swordsman grabs Reana and Gavin and flies off.  They land on the edge of the fortress’ main section, atop the flat base of the foundation, overgrown with grass.  The fog limits their ability to see beyond ten feet or so, but as soon as they land, they spot a guard.  Soldago puts two arrows into him, and Reana drops him with a shortsword blow, all in utter silence.  Brennen flies back to the boat, picks up the others, and flies them back to the fortress.  They regroup, and begin to make their way to the center of the area, where they had seen a courtyard-like area, several floors lower.  Visibility is a little better the further in they go.That helps them see the three squads of assassins as they slip into flanking positions all around them, each one glimmering with a dark nimbus of black energy.  Arrows fly, catching the party off-guard…</blockquote>

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