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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2399061" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON07/09/05SEGMENT 086“The Revenge of Keltis Doran”The airship traveled steadily all day and night.  By daybreak, they had already left Aundair and were within the limits of the Eldeen Reaches.  They pass Varna and continue on.  To the right they see an endless forest and to the south they see Lake Galifar that seems to reach forever.Unknown to them, while near Varna, they picked up a follower.  Keltis Doran and his new close friend and lover, Karrion Kold, are pursuing them within their own airship.  Near Niern Captain Halley spots the craft.Uncertain at what to do, the group waits and watches.  They hope against hope that this is just a passing ship in a hurry.  They hope it is not either the Emerald Claw or House Cannith South.  Once the ship reaches them they can see six black skeletons with swords watching them.  As they get closer Cedious spots Keltis and recognizes him from the Rose Quarry.  Captain Halley calls for the pilot to push the ship harder to draw away but it too slow for the faster ship.  The skeletons take ropes and run off the far side as they run next to the Cannith ship.  The skeletons hold onto the ropes as they become taunt and then the ropes whip them under the Emerald Claw ship and throw them towards the Cannith ship.  Five land on the deck and one lands on an arm of the Fire Elemental containment system.The guards rush the skeletons but then stop.  Most of them turn and flee to hide as the fear overwhelms them.  The pilot is also overwhelmed in fear.  In terror he turns the ship quickly causing many to fall.  Some even fall off the ship.  Taskerdoo’s animal companion nearly falls over the edge but the quick hands of Cedious save the dinosaur.Two spiritual weapons appear before the pilot as three of the black skeletons surround the captain.  If both are killed, there will be no one to pilot the craft.  Sharshek picks himself off the deck and finds a black skeleton has charged onto him.  It attacks with two short swords and has spikes of bone growing out of its own blackened bones.  These are not the normal undead skeletons that are attacking them.  Unknown to them, they are the newest creations of Keltis –The Brood.Black sands is almost amazed as he strikes one several times but it remains standing and attacking still.  Taskerdoo tries his best to avoid the conflict.  He wonders what he can do to attack the Claw’s ship.  The warriors on the Emerald Claw ship begin to fire arrows onto the ship now.  Most miss but not all.The captain goes down and those three undead spread out to attack surviving guards and the pilot.  The pilot is killed even as he tries to move away from the Claw ship.  The undead then destroys whatever it can of the controls which threatens to release the entrapped fire elemental that empowers the craft.Keltis decides this is taking too long and calls up a pillar of flame to strike at the center of the ship.  The deck shatters and bursts into flames.  The craft shudders under the new strain and damage.  Taskerdoo considers leaping onto their ship since he believes theirs is about to go down but the movement of the failing ship draws the two craft apart.  Angry at his ill position, he calls up a Flaming Sphere and strikes an archer.  He then commands the ball of fire to roll around on the deck spreading the fire.  “Two can play at this game!” he shouts.  He burns many archers then directs it to strike Karrion Kold.  She withdraws in anger.  Before she was here as a witness, now it is becoming personal.Black sands and Cedious team up on the undead and begins to defeat them.  Angry with the dinosaur riding halfling, Karrion fires a fireball from a magical red globe.  Taskerdoo was just entering the storage area where blankets designed for putting out flames are stored.  The roof and wall explode as the fireball strikes it causing the entire ship to once more shudder and veer away further.Both ships are now on fire.  The Cannith ship has the worst fire damage and has no pilots left.  It is going down.  The battle is taking place 3000 feet above the ground.  Taskerdoo spots the flames on the Claw ship change color then a series of small explosions rock the ship.  Something sensitive to flames is exploding.  The Claw ship veers away to deal with its own issues.Cedious- ever the thief checks out the body of the captain.  He finds money, which he puts away, and a +1 rapier, which he also keeps.  He then finds three pellets each have a feather etched on them.  He hopes they are magical containers of Feather Fall or Flight.  The captain also has a Cannith dragon mark on him.  Yet another Cannith member has died while under their care.  The last of the black skeletons are defeated but the ship is going down.Cedious pulls out a secret weapon.  His Decanter of Endless Water.  He opens it at full power and tries to put out the fire.  He does this and wash dead bodies and loses equipment off the deck.  He wonders what the upper limits of the water could be as the ship continues to spiral towards the earth.“Great.  Just great.  Can’t we keep anything we ride in intact?!?” grumbles Sharshek as he looks for somewhere to brace himself.</blockquote>

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