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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew Moreton" data-source="post: 8073660" data-attributes="member: 6920268">This week and next week William's player is on holiday.Discussion with Catahoula, the wondering drum major and mage of Iretha Ket, he explained in a musical number (No Actual Music was hurt in the performance of this game session, I stayed well away from making any strange noises in case the neighbours called an Ambulance for me) about the woes of his people , the players listened and approved of his tasteful musical style. The nature of the problem puzzled them and they concluded that Catahoula, did not knoe enough and they would have to visit Iretha Ket to see if they could help, particularly as it seemed powerful magic had already been tried. They decided that the pirate's needed dealing with first but that they would visit Iretha Ket soon. They did speculate that given the nature of the world a supreme musical number may be needed to fix things and the they could arrive to find Rock (and his Harem backing group) had already saved the day.The plan for dealing with pirates started off simply they had added some extra rapid fire guns and soldiers from Gloriana to the Coaltongue and would sweep in guns blazing blow up or burn all the wooden pirate ships with the Coaltongue and they would stand by to engage and kill the leaders if they counterattacked. Then they complicated things the first worry was Hunlow, they worried about facing the dieties attacks directly they concluded that they should not touch the water and had to do things fast before storms or other effects could manifest, to help defend the Coaltonge a Lantern using Amrou oil was used to illuminate the ship and traditional wards against hexes and demons set up in the hope this would buy time. Then they discovered the next serious problem, the Slaves.  There were slaved on all the ships and docks and many of these would be killed when the Coaltongue bombarded them, to the Queen of Risur and her team this was not acceptable something must be done.  They had to rule out a slower assault with lots of troops as it could lead to a hostage situation and give Hunlow time to intervene. Next was summoning angels or elementals to grab slaves and fly them to safety but they ran the numbers and this would save at best dozens of slaves not the hundreds or thousands they expected. Even using the Asurdist web and Ulvaar's TK he would not be able to do much better and they needed him to fight. Finally Queen Nevla came up with an idea use a Miracle to rescue the slaves after some disussion a Miracle from Ssramman would be able to rescue all the women and child slaves given her position as a Goddess of Women unfortunatly that would leave the male slaves beind but they could not think of a better solution, trying to stretch her powers may weaken the miracle and allow Hunlow to block it or just cause it to fail.The attack commenced and the modern heavy guns of the Coaltongue rapidly smashed the Wooden ships to burning wrecks, however they knew they had missed the leaders and would face a counterattack. While the Coaltongue hunted down the last pirate ships and fired on any groups of pirates they could see the heroes looked around for their real enemies and saw rising out of the water the Captain and the Admiral with a sharkfin behind them at which point Manuel's player realised what they faced as it is one of his favorite monsters as well and warned them a Nightwave was going to attack and it was emerging behind and beneath the Coaltongue were no heavy cannon could be brough to bear. Manuel engaged with his cannon and Nevla used a miracle to unleash a Sunburst spell which hurt and angered the nightwave and it swept into attack , fortunatly Manuel's steamsuit and shield thwarted it's attack, but the Admiral wielding the ancient dwarven axes attacked as well leaving Manuel feeling very badly hurt. Captain Thrusty leapt to engage Nevla but she desperatly managed to parry his attack. Ulvaar , William and Padme closed in on Thrusty who parried all of Ulvaar's attacks and stabbed him painfully in return while nimbly dodging most of William and Padme's attacks although he was still hurt noticably.Manuel disengaged from the Admiral and the Flying Shark of Doom with acrobatics but they did not care and dropped him into single figure hit points and only his freedom of movement stopped him being eaten. He let the Shark have a Nock Gun to the face , but it kept coming. Nevla cast Stormbolts wreathing all three attacks in lightning and Thrusty slipped on something on the deck. He rolled a 1 and took full damage which killed him, anything else and he would have been fine. The Nightwave was also killed as the damage rolled was high. The Admiral turned on Nevla and left her is deep trouble , unfortunatly for him despite his huge total of hit points and DR he could not survive the full attentions of Ulvaar, William and Padme  and went down. Proving to me I need to stop being nice, I had originally considered adding a couple more opponents for the fight but dropped them, for the Legion, Mavisha and the Voice of Rot no more pulling punches I am throwing in the Kitchen sink.They immediatly moved to Drozhini and rescued the rest of the slaves turning over the mess of organising , feeding and governing them to Gloriana as they had manpower and organisation and did not need to rush off to the next crisis.  Among the rescued slaves were survivers from Caeloon, the Young emperor from Celestia (a Celestial Dragon) and many others. With the gratitude from this and recovering the axes they were able to forge Icons for Caeloon, Celestia and Dunkelveiss. They did not want icons for Hunlow and after discovering the Planar trait for Drozhini declined to try for one there.We were getting late so they decided to leave Mavisha for next time and procede  to gather information on Iretha Ket so they could think about it over the week. The arrival with Musical number and red carpets impressed them and the world is growing on then Manuel was already sold on this world but Ulvaar and Nevla are appreciating it more. They met with the loving couple , the Queen and the Court Physician and went over what was known , they still had no idea so they decided to recover the records from the Kings chamber where he was lost in depression , he of course failed to notice Manuel creeping in and out.  Consulting the records they made the connection that a low level hive mind effect was in play and used the detect energy cantrip and found Ghidim planar energies on the lovers and nowhere else. Concluding it was thought froms they had William who is a skilled musical arranger and singer quickly come up with a duet he and Nevla could use to propose the solution of thinking the right way to cure the disease and performed it for the Queen who took up the musical number and it spread across the city in a cheerful musical performance until Obliteras the undead hating sun pressed it's assaulton the massed skeletions and they feared this may end as a tragedy were the Skeletons gave their existance to save the future until at last the King roused from his depression by the song and the waking of more young lovers joined in and drove Obliteras away with the power of his song. I really thought it would take them longer to work this out but they made the right connections very rapidly.We finished with them and the young lovers feastign alongside the skeletons who had begone a Spring cleaning and mending montage as they preapred the city for the awakening of the remaining couples.Iretha Ket is almost certain to make the finished list of planes</blockquote>

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