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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2835987" data-attributes="member: 9255">THE CREATION SCHEMASEGMENT 2184/29/06“Dragon Flies and Lizard Folk Barbarians”The fire elemental air ship hovers over the many running pools of water and crashing waterfalls.  The elemental begins to power up again after being submerged within water for a few seconds.  Everyone on board is wet and wondering where he or she is.  Cedious spots darting movements to his right and tries to follow it.  One of the crewmembers calls out in alarm as a giant (large 4 sq) dragon fly lands on the rail of the deck.Dozens of these creatures buzz about and seem attracted to the heat of the fire elemental.  The elven archer drives the visitor away with a well-placed arrow.  It buzzes away skipping on the water’s surface as it slowly dies from the arrow imbedded into its body.“Where are we?” asks Pebbles of anyone listening.“I hope its not Xen’drik.” Says Cedious as he notes more dragonflies coming from the forest to the backside of the ship.“I have never seen or heard of waterfalls like these.  They are impressive.” Adds an amazed Grendel named Talon.“Where ever we are, we are about to be boarded….” Calls out the pilot.  The dragonflies from the forest are headed directly to them.  These are much bigger and each has a rider and a humanoid within its claws.10 lizardfolk are dropped off by the dragonflies as they fly over the back deck.  Pebbles listens to them carefully as they speak in draconic.  She picks out the words of intruders … falls…contain….. destroy…..who are they.   Pebbles begins to call out what they are saying when Ippikak lets lose several arrows.  The three arrows strike but don’t drop the lizardfolk.  They are beginning to snarl and become enraged by the attack.“oh boy.” Says the pilot.  The elemental ship is slow to go but begins to move forward as it gains strength.One crewmember is taken down quickly and the other lizardfolk rush to attack Pebbles on one side and Fighter and Talon on the other side of the storage shed.  Cedious and the others spread out to help as they can.The creatures are very cunning and avoid being flanked by whipping their tails about and in general ducking and weaving (Impr Un Dodge).   Cedious still attacks though.  The creatures attack Pebbles but never quite get past her armor.  Her armor gains many scratches and dents however.  They are not easy to take down as they are very tough and resistant to harm.  However, they do defeat the creatures.  By this time the elemental is flying along following the river and series of connected pools and lakes.   Just as the pilot is about to take the elemental to the air he calls out in alarm.  “We are under magical attack!”The elemental above sputters and the roar of it circling around the ship lessons.  “What is happening?!? Calls out the alarmed halfling rogue.“Someone is trying to get the elemental to return to the dragonshard.  If that happens we can no longer remain airborne!”“Land!” calls out Cedious.  To crash his ship sucks but to crash it in what seems to be Xen’drik is much much much worse.The ship hovers and slowly lowers itself to the water’s surface. At about 15 feet above the surface the elemental is recalled and the ship calls hard into the lake near the shore.  They are lucky that the lake is deep as the arm that holds the elemental below the ship doesn’t strike the ground or break.“Great.” Grumbles Cedious.Fighter looks out to see where they are.  This section of lake has high cliff-like banks except for one area.  It looks carved away and has a tunnel or cavern within it.  They seem to be floating near enough to it to land there.Capio goes below to study his magic.  He is out of spells and though he wishes to explore fears how useful he will be without his spells.  Cider agrees to watch over the ship and the mage.  Cedious, Fighter, Talon, Ippikak, Bob and Pebbles go to shore to explore the tunnel.  Cedious also hopes to locate the mage that downed them to pay his “respects” to.</blockquote>

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