[SH]Yet another update to the Kingdoms of Kalamar in The Dream Runic Story Hour!

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Check it out here. It's different. How so? Here's an exerpt:

The creature jets away again, for a brief moment, then returns to slam into the barge once again. This time, the tentacles grasp at the side of the boat, but cannot find enough purchase to capsize the vessel.

The crewmen pull back their harpoons and launch them again, but they are still ineffective. The Kalamaran woman casts her spell; a ray of frosty magic shoots from her outstretched hands, but it slips through the writhing knot of tentacles and hits nothing. The Dream reacts to the casting by layering the deck of the garbage barge with a slick sheet of ice.

In order to keep his balance, the gnomish seaman wraps his whip around one of the spikes on Dakken?s armor. The massive warrior-priest gives the whip a great tug and sends the poor wee one skidding beneath the Fhokki?s legs, toward the edge of the barge, and out to sea. Like any good cabin boy, the little gnome can?t swim; he clings to his whip with a fervor that is uncanny. This creates the impression that Dakken is fishing, using the gnome as bait. The gnome?s hook only helps to foster the illusion.

The Fhokki?s raging father puts an end to all of the festivities by lodging his scythe in the vital organs of the sea monster, which slowly slides off of the end of the blade and drops into the depths of the Reanaarian Bay, alive, but unconscious.