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[ZEITGEIST] The Continuing Adventures of Korrigan & Co.
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<blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 7637496" data-attributes="member: 79141"><p><strong>Session 233, Part One - They Didn’t Think it Too Many</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"> The unit killed almost seven hundred foes that day. The final hundred were mopped up to the last man, so ferocious were they in their devotion to their god. Hunlow’s storm rose in vengeful fury, but when his priests were all dead, it abated. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> After freeing all the slaves kept in the hold of every ship, they found a place to lower the Coaltongue where it did not touch water and began healing the injured and fixing damaged vessels. Leon went to go get Bhalu and helped him to his feet. Uru organised prefab shelter. Uriel examined Thrusy’s golden rapier and found that it was carved from a gold dragon tooth! Rumdoom strapped Taracle’s dwarven axes in a cross formation on his back.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> While this went on, Calily and others asked the slaves if there were any Kinava monks here. They said there was indeed a strange sect among the many hundreds of slaves the pirates kept on an adjacent plane: Drozani. The slaves shuddered at the thought of returning. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> The unit scoured the flotilla and found plenty of food to feed the slave for now. No food grew on Drozani. The slaves there were kept alive by shipments of fish from Hunlow, and fresh water and other supplies from the goblins of Etheax, also close by. They were totally reliant on the pirates. (All of this was organised by the fiendish Captain Thrusty who had turned out to be a dab hand at administration.) How were these other slaves guarded? “Fallen angels,” came the reply.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> While they waited for the Coaltongue to recharge, Kai announced that the plane was ‘talking to him’. He said it was a horrible place that loved baddies, and that if they linked their world to Hunlow, the seas of Lanjyr would reward blood sacrifice as this one did (only he put this in a more childish way). Then he said that Caeloon had also talked to him when they rested there, but he hadn’t known what to make of it and thought he was imagining things. Now he knew that he could understand things about each plane if he waited long enough. Korrigan asked his son what Caeloon had told him and Kai said, “That I shouldn’t be so sad when sad things happen.” Calily nodded. “On Caeloon we greet adversity with resilience.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> When the Coaltongue had powered up, they set off for Drozani, herding the slaves onto the main deck. Admiral Smith bridled slightly had said that it would be difficult to keep order if this solution were not very short-term. Quratulain put them to work swabbing the deck and filling empty crew positions. “It will keep them occupied. They should be used to it by now.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> Using spyglasses, and Korrigan’s clairvoyant eye, they saw that the space beyond Hunlow was mostly void, save for a small rocky island that formed a shore with the sea of Hunlow, where the sea terminated, abruptly and unnaturally. From there, a majestic pink marble staircase rose two hundred feet over the void, up to a pillow of clouds upon which sat a desolate city of rose wood and marble. Two fallen angels of Hunlow guarded the staircase and would no doubt allow access only to those whom their god approved.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> “I will go and talk to them,” said Korrigan. Uriel insisted that he should not go alone, and one by one the whole unit insisted they accompany him – all save Rumdoom who would stay and guard the ship. They flew down to the foot of the staircase on Matunaaga’s stone discs – except for Uru, who ranged ahead on Little Jack, and then snuck past the angels. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> These ten-foot tall creatures were naked women from the waist up, with tenacles for their lower regions, and sea-foam green wings. They wore eyepatches over both eyes. One bore an oversized cutlass over its shoulder, the other an enormous trident. Uriel studied them closely and realised with some amusement that, while these beings would have been almost impossible for ordinary mortals to defeat, they would pose no threat to the unit whatsoever.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> When Korrigan greeted the angels and demanded passage, they attacked immediately. Uru killed one of them in an instant. Quratulain had made a similar assessment to Uriel and kept her weapons stowed, allowing the others to have their fun. While Uriel and Korrigan dispatched the second angel, Quratulain took the opportunity to thank Korrigan for freeing her from the Vault of Heresies. “It has been a fun ride,” she said. “I just realised I never said thank you before.” Somewhat bemused, Korrigan gave her a sideways glance before acknowledging her thanks.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></p><p> <span style="font-family: inherit"> With the angels slain, they rode up to the dead city in the clouds.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gideonpepys, post: 7637496, member: 79141"] [b]Session 233, Part One - They Didn’t Think it Too Many[/b] [FONT='inherit'] The unit killed almost seven hundred foes that day. The final hundred were mopped up to the last man, so ferocious were they in their devotion to their god. Hunlow’s storm rose in vengeful fury, but when his priests were all dead, it abated. [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] After freeing all the slaves kept in the hold of every ship, they found a place to lower the Coaltongue where it did not touch water and began healing the injured and fixing damaged vessels. Leon went to go get Bhalu and helped him to his feet. Uru organised prefab shelter. Uriel examined Thrusy’s golden rapier and found that it was carved from a gold dragon tooth! Rumdoom strapped Taracle’s dwarven axes in a cross formation on his back. [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] While this went on, Calily and others asked the slaves if there were any Kinava monks here. They said there was indeed a strange sect among the many hundreds of slaves the pirates kept on an adjacent plane: Drozani. The slaves shuddered at the thought of returning. [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] The unit scoured the flotilla and found plenty of food to feed the slave for now. No food grew on Drozani. The slaves there were kept alive by shipments of fish from Hunlow, and fresh water and other supplies from the goblins of Etheax, also close by. They were totally reliant on the pirates. (All of this was organised by the fiendish Captain Thrusty who had turned out to be a dab hand at administration.) How were these other slaves guarded? “Fallen angels,” came the reply. [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] While they waited for the Coaltongue to recharge, Kai announced that the plane was ‘talking to him’. He said it was a horrible place that loved baddies, and that if they linked their world to Hunlow, the seas of Lanjyr would reward blood sacrifice as this one did (only he put this in a more childish way). Then he said that Caeloon had also talked to him when they rested there, but he hadn’t known what to make of it and thought he was imagining things. Now he knew that he could understand things about each plane if he waited long enough. Korrigan asked his son what Caeloon had told him and Kai said, “That I shouldn’t be so sad when sad things happen.” Calily nodded. “On Caeloon we greet adversity with resilience.” [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] When the Coaltongue had powered up, they set off for Drozani, herding the slaves onto the main deck. Admiral Smith bridled slightly had said that it would be difficult to keep order if this solution were not very short-term. Quratulain put them to work swabbing the deck and filling empty crew positions. “It will keep them occupied. They should be used to it by now.” [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] Using spyglasses, and Korrigan’s clairvoyant eye, they saw that the space beyond Hunlow was mostly void, save for a small rocky island that formed a shore with the sea of Hunlow, where the sea terminated, abruptly and unnaturally. From there, a majestic pink marble staircase rose two hundred feet over the void, up to a pillow of clouds upon which sat a desolate city of rose wood and marble. Two fallen angels of Hunlow guarded the staircase and would no doubt allow access only to those whom their god approved. [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] “I will go and talk to them,” said Korrigan. Uriel insisted that he should not go alone, and one by one the whole unit insisted they accompany him – all save Rumdoom who would stay and guard the ship. They flew down to the foot of the staircase on Matunaaga’s stone discs – except for Uru, who ranged ahead on Little Jack, and then snuck past the angels. [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] These ten-foot tall creatures were naked women from the waist up, with tenacles for their lower regions, and sea-foam green wings. They wore eyepatches over both eyes. One bore an oversized cutlass over its shoulder, the other an enormous trident. Uriel studied them closely and realised with some amusement that, while these beings would have been almost impossible for ordinary mortals to defeat, they would pose no threat to the unit whatsoever. [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] When Korrigan greeted the angels and demanded passage, they attacked immediately. Uru killed one of them in an instant. Quratulain had made a similar assessment to Uriel and kept her weapons stowed, allowing the others to have their fun. While Uriel and Korrigan dispatched the second angel, Quratulain took the opportunity to thank Korrigan for freeing her from the Vault of Heresies. “It has been a fun ride,” she said. “I just realised I never said thank you before.” Somewhat bemused, Korrigan gave her a sideways glance before acknowledging her thanks. [/FONT] [FONT='inherit'] With the angels slain, they rode up to the dead city in the clouds.[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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