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<blockquote data-quote="ratzofftoya" data-source="post: 8525194" data-attributes="member: 98819"><p>Session 3 was a rollicking good time!</p><p></p><p>The party began by waking on the morning after the rather memorable maiden voyage of the RNS Coaltongue, aboard which they foiled a sabotage attempt by none other than Duchess Ethelyn of Shale, sister of King Aodahn, as well as her handmaiden and a few henchmen. The party now had the gratitude of King Aodahn and his chief advisor, Harkover Lee, as well as Royal Homeland Constabulary Assistant Chief Inspector Stover Delft. That said, the evening was not a complete success, as Ekthos and R'ren's intervention on behalf of Ume--and in particular R'ren trying to charm their boss to protect Ume--cost the duo their jobs at the Bureau of Modern Contraptions and Utilities. Luckily for them, in recognition of their fine (albeit unsubtle) work aboard the Coaltongue, Stover invited them to join their erstwhile shipmates for the next part of the journey as contractors. Eggberticus and Ume, meanwhile, were also asked to join on assignment from their typical positions with the Risuri Naval Service.</p><p></p><p>After Dipnip roused Brakkus from sleep five minutes before their meeting at the RHC headquarters, per their usual routine, the pair headed off, as did the others. Eggberticus, of course, had not spent the night at the inn, preferring his own spartan abode. And Ekthos, before setting off, was visited by a messenger who relayed a package that Ekthos had apparently received at his office before summarily being fired. His (former) boss curtly forwarded it on. Without even having to open it, Ekthos could discern it contents--the very gem he had been awaiting to complete his latest project!</p><p></p><p>But that would have to wait as the party arrived at Stover Delft's office within the RHC's Flint headquarters. Stover was there, now familiar to all, but so was a tiefling Danoran woman wearing regal finery and bearing a blade at her hip. She introduced herself of Lya Jierre, Minister of Outsiders for Danor, and evidently the progeny of the august Jierre family, one of Danor's most distinguished bloodlines. Without explanation, Lya greeted the party with a puzzle, placing figurines of towers, rings, and strings, on a table. True to its name, it was very puzzling, but Dipnip managed to recall this puzzle from one of his many lifetimes, and in particular that it is entirely impossible to complete under Jierre's conditions. Lya seemed mildly impressed that the party knew at least its limitations in that regard, and turned to the substance of the meeting.</p><p></p><p>As it turned out, Duchess Ethelyn fled from the Coaltongue to a Danoran holdfast known as Axis Island, situated amid the long disputed Yerasol Archipelago. With all of the island's magical protections and safeguards, it is unclear how she was able to capture it with just a handful of forces. Axis Island was largely unremarkable but for its connection to Danoran industrial production and some long-circulating superstitious rumors about unusual metaphysical events during the Yerasol Wars. Some veterans even claimed that the island itself seemed to fight back against both sides' incursions.</p><p></p><p>Jierre reminded the party that, under the strictures of the Danoran constitution, if Ethelyn--a Risuri, albeit a rebellious one--was not removed from the island within three days, Danor would have no choice but to declare war to retake the island, thereby shattering the two nations' fragile peace and ushering in more needless bloodshed and destruction. Therefore, she, Delft, and the Risuri military hatched a hasty plan to remove the Duchess. Namely, the Risuri fleet would sail to Axis Island and lie in wait just out of reach and sight of the island fortress's guns. The fleet would then rely on a crack team of RHC operatives, the Fox Team Four, to open the island's fortress's sea wall, allowing the fleet to sail into the fortress harbor and swiftly retake it with overwhelming forces. The party, in turn, would help assess the fallout and potentially question the Duchess and her accomplices, given their unique perspective as witnesses to the Coaltongue's would-be sabotage. This would be both nations' best shot at avoiding an international incident or worse. The party duly accepted their mission and Minister Jierre departed with a swoop of her cloak and a shallow bow, but not before asking an additional favor--if the party encountered her nephew, Nathan, who was holed up somewhere on the island, she would appreciate that he be brought to safety.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]150717[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Upon her departure, Stover expressed some misgivings about the mission, but agreed that it was in the best interest of Risur. He resolved that the party would sail aboard with one of the fastest ships in the fleet, the nimble RNS Impossible, helmed by none other than Captain Rutger Smith, with R'ren acting as the ship's skyseer to speed them toward the island in just two days and hopefully meet the tight time limit. He then summoned the quartermaster, Lydia, who provided the party their customary stipends and outfitted them with potions of waterbreathing, potions of healing, and a pair of slippers of spider climbing for Dipnip, who apparently wanted them...for some reason. Eggberticus took the opportunity to make a more exotic request: a neverending milk jug. Lydia said she would do her best to procure one within the next few days, but not in time for their departure. Egberticus would have to make do with a substitute--copious mundane jugs of milk to be loaded onto the Impossible.</p><p></p><p>Before departing, the party made one last stop, somewhat disruptively (albeit inadvertently so) visiting the Chapel of our Humble Father, dedicated to Triegenes and the Pentonian Church. Eggberticus, a zealous adherent of the Church, was keen to have the milk and their enterprise receive Triegenes' blessing, and the rest of the group felt that it couldn't hurt to do the same. While the deacon was initially put off by the distinctly...shall we say eclectic mix of individuals...represented by the group, he dutifully imparted the blessing and the group set sail!</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]150718[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p><p>The journey was relatively unremarkable and speedy thanks in part to R'ren's able navigation. Ume and Ergberticus naturally kept the crew well sated and slaked, while Ekthos put the finishing touches on his latest creation, Mekthos, a homunculus servant. Captain Smith took a particular interest in Dipnip, given his many years of life, but Dipnip was, as usual, not particularly interested in discussing it, regarding near immortality more as a curse than a blessing. Before long, the Impossible spotted Axis Island from among the various neighboring Yerasol isles, and approached its rocky shoreline. There, floating less than a kilometer from shore, the party rendezvoused with the Fox Team Four. This elite RHC unit turned out to be a more colorful bunch than expected, but undeniably competent. They detailed their plan to swim through a sea cave onto the island itself, then use a scroll of passwall to penetrate the fortress at a particular point. As Minister Jierre said, they would then open the sea wall, and allow the fleet to pass. To keep the party apprised of their status, the Fox Team Four would hold one end of a rope as they progressed through the sea cave, tugging intermittently to show progress. Then steadily to confirm that the coast was clear, allowing the party to follow as a second advance team. However, after a few minutes, the party felt a strong tremor, then frantic pulling on the rope. Thinking that the situation had deteriorated, the party drank their potions of water breathing and dove in toward the island.</p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]150719[/ATTACH]</p><p>Part way through the undersea tunnel, the party discovered that the Fox Team Four had been crushed by dislodged stones. All but one were dead. The party tried but ultimately failed to remove the large stone pinning him down, and he handed a scroll to R'ren, then begged the party to quickly end his life before the sharks did the same. Brakkus obliged with little hesitation, removing his head with a single swipe of his axe. The party then proceeded cautiously through the tunnel, fearing that the stones may have been triggered by a trap, but determined to carry on the mission in the Fox Team Four's stead. They emerged in a sea cave dominated by a large central obelisk, a splinter of white plunging toward its high, domed ceiling. After just beginning to explore and contemplate the potential ramification Brakkus granting the Fox Team Four agent's wish, the party was accosted by a crazed man who took cover and began shooting at them, shouting in Danoran. He seemed to be assisted by a shadow creature and an earth elemental who followed his commands and defended him. Dipnip made excellent use of his new slippers, climbing easily up the rocky wall to their assailant, while R'ren deftly navigated the cave's ramshackle planks and ladders in the form of an imposing grizzly bear. With some difficulty, the party defeated this trio and sat to get a much-needed breather as Ume contemplated the pendants discovered on the man's lifeless body. With the sea cave's entrance beckoning ahead, breathing the islands stultifying tropical air upon them, the party made a fire and tended to their wounds.</p><p></p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]KKhV_PsqLeA:9383[/MEDIA]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ratzofftoya, post: 8525194, member: 98819"] Session 3 was a rollicking good time! The party began by waking on the morning after the rather memorable maiden voyage of the RNS Coaltongue, aboard which they foiled a sabotage attempt by none other than Duchess Ethelyn of Shale, sister of King Aodahn, as well as her handmaiden and a few henchmen. The party now had the gratitude of King Aodahn and his chief advisor, Harkover Lee, as well as Royal Homeland Constabulary Assistant Chief Inspector Stover Delft. That said, the evening was not a complete success, as Ekthos and R'ren's intervention on behalf of Ume--and in particular R'ren trying to charm their boss to protect Ume--cost the duo their jobs at the Bureau of Modern Contraptions and Utilities. Luckily for them, in recognition of their fine (albeit unsubtle) work aboard the Coaltongue, Stover invited them to join their erstwhile shipmates for the next part of the journey as contractors. Eggberticus and Ume, meanwhile, were also asked to join on assignment from their typical positions with the Risuri Naval Service. After Dipnip roused Brakkus from sleep five minutes before their meeting at the RHC headquarters, per their usual routine, the pair headed off, as did the others. Eggberticus, of course, had not spent the night at the inn, preferring his own spartan abode. And Ekthos, before setting off, was visited by a messenger who relayed a package that Ekthos had apparently received at his office before summarily being fired. His (former) boss curtly forwarded it on. Without even having to open it, Ekthos could discern it contents--the very gem he had been awaiting to complete his latest project! But that would have to wait as the party arrived at Stover Delft's office within the RHC's Flint headquarters. Stover was there, now familiar to all, but so was a tiefling Danoran woman wearing regal finery and bearing a blade at her hip. She introduced herself of Lya Jierre, Minister of Outsiders for Danor, and evidently the progeny of the august Jierre family, one of Danor's most distinguished bloodlines. Without explanation, Lya greeted the party with a puzzle, placing figurines of towers, rings, and strings, on a table. True to its name, it was very puzzling, but Dipnip managed to recall this puzzle from one of his many lifetimes, and in particular that it is entirely impossible to complete under Jierre's conditions. Lya seemed mildly impressed that the party knew at least its limitations in that regard, and turned to the substance of the meeting. As it turned out, Duchess Ethelyn fled from the Coaltongue to a Danoran holdfast known as Axis Island, situated amid the long disputed Yerasol Archipelago. With all of the island's magical protections and safeguards, it is unclear how she was able to capture it with just a handful of forces. Axis Island was largely unremarkable but for its connection to Danoran industrial production and some long-circulating superstitious rumors about unusual metaphysical events during the Yerasol Wars. Some veterans even claimed that the island itself seemed to fight back against both sides' incursions. Jierre reminded the party that, under the strictures of the Danoran constitution, if Ethelyn--a Risuri, albeit a rebellious one--was not removed from the island within three days, Danor would have no choice but to declare war to retake the island, thereby shattering the two nations' fragile peace and ushering in more needless bloodshed and destruction. Therefore, she, Delft, and the Risuri military hatched a hasty plan to remove the Duchess. Namely, the Risuri fleet would sail to Axis Island and lie in wait just out of reach and sight of the island fortress's guns. The fleet would then rely on a crack team of RHC operatives, the Fox Team Four, to open the island's fortress's sea wall, allowing the fleet to sail into the fortress harbor and swiftly retake it with overwhelming forces. The party, in turn, would help assess the fallout and potentially question the Duchess and her accomplices, given their unique perspective as witnesses to the Coaltongue's would-be sabotage. This would be both nations' best shot at avoiding an international incident or worse. The party duly accepted their mission and Minister Jierre departed with a swoop of her cloak and a shallow bow, but not before asking an additional favor--if the party encountered her nephew, Nathan, who was holed up somewhere on the island, she would appreciate that he be brought to safety. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" width="639px" alt="Axis Island Map.png"]150717[/ATTACH][/CENTER] Upon her departure, Stover expressed some misgivings about the mission, but agreed that it was in the best interest of Risur. He resolved that the party would sail aboard with one of the fastest ships in the fleet, the nimble RNS Impossible, helmed by none other than Captain Rutger Smith, with R'ren acting as the ship's skyseer to speed them toward the island in just two days and hopefully meet the tight time limit. He then summoned the quartermaster, Lydia, who provided the party their customary stipends and outfitted them with potions of waterbreathing, potions of healing, and a pair of slippers of spider climbing for Dipnip, who apparently wanted them...for some reason. Eggberticus took the opportunity to make a more exotic request: a neverending milk jug. Lydia said she would do her best to procure one within the next few days, but not in time for their departure. Egberticus would have to make do with a substitute--copious mundane jugs of milk to be loaded onto the Impossible. Before departing, the party made one last stop, somewhat disruptively (albeit inadvertently so) visiting the Chapel of our Humble Father, dedicated to Triegenes and the Pentonian Church. Eggberticus, a zealous adherent of the Church, was keen to have the milk and their enterprise receive Triegenes' blessing, and the rest of the group felt that it couldn't hurt to do the same. While the deacon was initially put off by the distinctly...shall we say eclectic mix of individuals...represented by the group, he dutifully imparted the blessing and the group set sail! [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" width="595px" alt="RNS Impossible.png"]150718[/ATTACH] [/CENTER] The journey was relatively unremarkable and speedy thanks in part to R'ren's able navigation. Ume and Ergberticus naturally kept the crew well sated and slaked, while Ekthos put the finishing touches on his latest creation, Mekthos, a homunculus servant. Captain Smith took a particular interest in Dipnip, given his many years of life, but Dipnip was, as usual, not particularly interested in discussing it, regarding near immortality more as a curse than a blessing. Before long, the Impossible spotted Axis Island from among the various neighboring Yerasol isles, and approached its rocky shoreline. There, floating less than a kilometer from shore, the party rendezvoused with the Fox Team Four. This elite RHC unit turned out to be a more colorful bunch than expected, but undeniably competent. They detailed their plan to swim through a sea cave onto the island itself, then use a scroll of passwall to penetrate the fortress at a particular point. As Minister Jierre said, they would then open the sea wall, and allow the fleet to pass. To keep the party apprised of their status, the Fox Team Four would hold one end of a rope as they progressed through the sea cave, tugging intermittently to show progress. Then steadily to confirm that the coast was clear, allowing the party to follow as a second advance team. However, after a few minutes, the party felt a strong tremor, then frantic pulling on the rope. Thinking that the situation had deteriorated, the party drank their potions of water breathing and dove in toward the island. [CENTER][ATTACH type="full" width="643px" alt="Axis Island.png"]150719[/ATTACH][/CENTER] Part way through the undersea tunnel, the party discovered that the Fox Team Four had been crushed by dislodged stones. All but one were dead. The party tried but ultimately failed to remove the large stone pinning him down, and he handed a scroll to R'ren, then begged the party to quickly end his life before the sharks did the same. Brakkus obliged with little hesitation, removing his head with a single swipe of his axe. The party then proceeded cautiously through the tunnel, fearing that the stones may have been triggered by a trap, but determined to carry on the mission in the Fox Team Four's stead. They emerged in a sea cave dominated by a large central obelisk, a splinter of white plunging toward its high, domed ceiling. After just beginning to explore and contemplate the potential ramification Brakkus granting the Fox Team Four agent's wish, the party was accosted by a crazed man who took cover and began shooting at them, shouting in Danoran. He seemed to be assisted by a shadow creature and an earth elemental who followed his commands and defended him. Dipnip made excellent use of his new slippers, climbing easily up the rocky wall to their assailant, while R'ren deftly navigated the cave's ramshackle planks and ladders in the form of an imposing grizzly bear. With some difficulty, the party defeated this trio and sat to get a much-needed breather as Ume contemplated the pendants discovered on the man's lifeless body. With the sea cave's entrance beckoning ahead, breathing the islands stultifying tropical air upon them, the party made a fire and tended to their wounds. [MEDIA=youtube]KKhV_PsqLeA:9383[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]
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