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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2820510" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON: THE CREATION SCHEMA01/07/06SEGMENT 179“ORCUS”“I hate it when I am right.” Mutters Vale wondering what he has for combative spells left.“Uh  -Orcus …is that bad?” asks Taskerdoo trying to remember what an Orcus is.“He intends to scoop us off the ship….”  Adds Sharshek wishing Black sands was still alive.“^&%# Orcus.  This is MY ship!” answers in anger the halfling rogue whom then steps up and strikes the skeleton’s leg.  The adamantine slips through one bone cleanly.Vale heals him and tries to duck into the cabin.  He knows he can not survive a direct hit from that halberd and also knows that name.  He can’t place it other than it was pure evil and being very ancient!Spells are used to attack the possessed undead cloud giant and more spells are used to boost Sharshek and Cedious.  The battle is short since the skeleton was already on the receiving end of a fireball.  It staggers and falls over the edge and into the deep snow below.DM NOTES:   Clinton demanded epic level to be available- I think battling Orcus would allow for that.The remaining skeletons are easily destroyed and the spell casters look around to investigate.  “Now what?” asks Cedious.  They search the Captain’s quarters.  They find maps and books.  One book is a journal written in code.  Cedious takes time to decipher it and discovers it belongs to a necromancer named Karrion Kold.  She seems to hate a certain halfling druid / mage for burning her badly.  While he continues to read this others take the frozen and half-starved airship operator outside.  It appears he died of being frozen since the skeletons would not allow him out of the ship’s room.“How cold was it to overcome the heat from the elemental?” asks Taskerdoo.“Worse- he was nearly starved to death also.  The strangest thing- there is evidence he had enough food to last a month.” Adds Vale.“Do you think there is something to what Black sands said?  He suggested it was spring –not winter based on the placement of the sun.”“Anything is possible.  That magical artifact we were in called Drogan’s Trap dealt with time as well as space.  Perhaps we were within it longer than we thought.”They get the dead ship operator outside for the sun and the heat of the elemental to thaw him.  Once thawed, they hope to resurrect him.  Based on the maps found, they are five days away from Fairhaven.  They plan on being there in the five days.They explore the storage hold area and find skeletons everywhere.  Some are wrapped with oily and scented straps of cloth and others have (had) gems over their eyes.  Cedious can’t remember if they had gems or not.By the end of the day the operator is thawed, cured and resurrected.  After being given stale trail rations (the last the PCs had) he readily agrees to return to Fairhaven.  He has had it with the Emerald Claw. Keltis Doran was bad enough but the new necromancer was too much.  He was ready to retire at the age of 23 from being a captain and work a desk job.They set a course that takes them to the edge of the great Eldeen forest then they follow the lake to Varna.  They decide not to stop there and continue on.  They reach Aundair airspace in three days and finally follow an electric rail track to Fairhaven.  The entire trip takes 4 ½ days.</blockquote>

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