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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2820831" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON: THE CREATION SCHEMA02/04/06SEGMENT 185“Sever”The airship Cedious’ Ride leaves Fairhaven.  The next stop is the secret Cannith facility of Whitehearth.  It will take about three days to arrive there.  There are fifteen general crewmembers.  Three shift captains and a head of security.  All of them are human.  They have a cook whom is also a cleric.  Her name is Pebbles, She is a dwarf.  A warforged Fighter has joined them also.  Also hired on (by Cannith which bugs Cedious) is another rogue (human also) and a mage.  The mage keeps to himself.Unexpectedly, Sharshek has quit.  The last encounter with the Ogres has made him reconsider this life style.So, there are 26 persons and one animal companion known to be on board.Cedious has the guards working in 3 8-hour shifts. A leader is in charge of each shift. The Head of security, Turner Carl then is in charge of all 18 individuals.Grayson operates the ship by communing with the fire elemental.  He has directed it to fly straight to the Mournlands.The men bunked in several rooms below on the very bottom of the ship.  The ship has many lockable rooms ranging from 5x5 closets to 30x30 rooms.  Of these, the adventures and others take them.  No one checks the 5x5 rooms.  Why would they anyway?Bob hangs out in a small room that separates Cedious’ room from everyone else’s. Night comes as they leave Aundair and just clear Thronehold’s airspace.  The ship turns south only slightly as the elemental goes for the southern Mournland extremes.  Five guards are on the deck watching the sky and the dark landscape below.  The deck is well lit by the elemental.  The human rogue is up and walking about on the stern.  He is restless and impatient.  He is also summing up the value of this ship. The warforged stands erect at the bow watching the coming dark clouds.  He expects to see the mists anytime now.On the second level, the adventurer’s are asleep.On the bottom level the remaining guards sleep along with Cedious.  Bob hangs out there as Cedious’ personal bodyguard.One of the closet doors open.  A thin lightly armored warforged slips out silently.  Many nodes stick out of his upper arms and his thighs.  It creeps down the hallway.  He slips past Taskerdoo’s room allowing the druid / mage to sleep.  Pebbles sleeps also with a thunderous snore that only a dwarf could create.The warforged assassin then passes the Cannith hired mage’s room without notice.  It creeps down the long hallway past all of the sleeping guards and arrives at the room where Cedious sleeps.  Sever has been hiding this ship for four days now.  He is impatient to kill the halfling.  The Turbulent has paid him well and The Lord of Blades has instructed him to gather any paperwork or items that lead to the Creation Schema.The door is locked.  No problem.Bob is daydreaming about hunting small but fast dinosaurs.  These creatures are slightly larger than chickens and have a nasty bite.  He becomes aware of a noise at the door.  Someone is picking the lock! He wills up his psionic reserve and readies himself.The lock clicks off and the door opens a mere three inches and stops.  Nothing.  The door opens another six inches.  An armored finger can be seen pushing the door open.  Bob thrusts his arm into the opening and pops his psionic blade and misses the agile warforged assassin.  The door is used by both as a shield by both as they push and shove trying to strike each other.With the element of surprise having been spent, the assassin known as Sever calls up a Dimensional Door and steps through it to attack the pilot upstairs.  Perhaps without a pilot the ship kill the halfling and he can pick up the notes after.Bad luck for the assassin.  The soft glow awakens the light-sleeping pilot.  The pilot is also a mage.  Seeing it is time to leave all together the assassin looks for an exit.  Meanwhile, the portal is being held open by the mage’s spell as Bob steps through and restarts their fight.  Cedious comes through a few rounds later.  He is annoyed by the disruption.  He was dreaming of the reporter Sara of the Korranberg Chronicle.Outside, the human rogue hears noise and creeps up to the only door leading to the pilot’s room.  The guards and warforged do not hear him or the noise as the roar of the elemental drowns out the sound.Sever is overwhelmed and taken down once he is surrounded and attacked magically, psionically and through a rogue’s skill.They search his body and find no weapons.  They pull on a node and out comes a weapon!  Each nod pulled produces a weapon.  They take the body below and lock it up.“Everyone back to sleep.  We reach the graymists in the morning.” Calls out the pilot.</blockquote>

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