Chris, Peco, Ernest, and Chuck. Paul is ready to run. No Sparks but with metal mini's and some tiles we were able to make do.
Everyone is level 5 and ready to go. Paul mentions that no one will level during this adventure.
We're in the bar cooking rats and doing puppet shows. The decorating of the bar is coming along.
Shifter whose sister we rescued from the monks in the desert who we shall call Martin because we don't remember his real name. He brings a scroll. I'm looking for Grenville. Thaiphong explains that Grenville is at a Convention. But he'll take the scroll and tips the guy 10 gp. Kurgash asks him how is we working for. It's my job, deliver stuff. I can fly it's easy. I'm good at it.
Kurgash suggest that we go kill the Jungle Boyz because of their stupid name. Kill them all and publicly spank their leader.
Graf suggests we could find out what the bounty is on the Jungle Boyz.
Thaiphong tries to read the scroll. Kurgash checks for traps.
The message is from Professor Harperon. Meet at 3 PM at the campus of the Morgrave University. Home of the Fighting Flumphs!
Kurgash practices with the Minotaur Axe. We comment that Kurgash needs Natural Male Enhancement to wield the huge weapon.
Prof Harperon has very cramped office. A bugbear, an orc, a warforged and dwarf walk into a professor's office. It sounds like a bad joke. He is so short and squat that he maybe a dwarf but he's actually just human. The place smells of pipe smoke and patchouli.
You must find a student who stolen a very important book. He's not in a civilized place. We need to track him down into the wilderness. I can give you the exact location. It's magic book. That contains magic spells that are unique spells from the college.
Graf: Great, we're after an over due library book
A rich kid from Sharn took the book. Aaron Gollister.
He's in Q'Barra. He's the last one to have the book. They were able to track him down with divination magic but not the book. By locate they mean an area of 400 square miles. Someone mentions this is John Edwards type magic: I sense he is near a tree in the forest.
Prof: I don't want you to kill him
Graf: that costs extra.
Please don't kill him.
The college prefers the book but wants both. Rewards
Transportation costs: University will provide transportation to the nearest city.
Solmar asks for potions, not a chance
Kurgash asks for a Tourists Guide to Q'barra. Geography is handled by Professor Hornswallow. Formerly known as Prof. Cockgobbler.
Q'barra is a frontier county. Troubled and dangerous. Old Galiphar loyalists. Capital New Throne. Controlled humans mostly lizard folk. And Kobolds. Beware the Poison Dust Folk (Pigmy lizard folk). Humans are defilers of our holy sites. They are know for using poison.
Blackscale lizard folk are 8' or 9' ft long. They consider themselves the chosen folk of their god (know as Rashak). Lungpuncture is in maintenance mode.
Grenville is off showing his pipe to his family. AKA The Rat Flute.
Thaiphong pays Solmar to make a Neutralize Poison scroll. There's a whoosh and Grenville is now in a coma to hauled along for the adventure. The second scroll works.
We take make take a week to get there. We talk to the crew. Graf rolls a 0 on his gather information. The crew nearly throws him overboard. Kurgash gets 7, Solmar gets an 8 and Thaiphong gets 8. We miss Grenville's social skills. We decide to take a different means of transportation back.
Kurgash likes to Move it! Move it!
We see a storm cloud moving in. The captain reduces altitude to fly under the storm. We fly under the clouds about 15 minutes. Another ship drops out of the clouds. Larger than any other air ship we have ever seen. The elemental ring has metallic components and two rings of elemental energy.
Solmar sees someone about 10 ft tall on the deck. Goblinoids and Ogres. See a giant with rocks. Even more goblins, Ogres. Ballistas, Catapults and a rock-throwing giant.
The giant approach. A crew man polymorphs into an old woman with green skin and twisted vines and demands that the crew hand over all their cargo and they will be allowed to continue their journey.
The captain asks that we not try to stop the pirates because we would lose. We call him a coward. Things will go well as long as they don't ask for personal stuff. Tenser's Floating Disks cross the gap between the ships. Thaiphong gets the idea that we should hide in a crate and then attack the pirates on their own ship.
Solmar nails the others in a crate. Then turns himself invisible.
We float across the gap. We set up and get ready to attack. Solmar casts Pyrotechnics on the air ships fire ring. One of the ogres saves the other doesn't. All but One goblin is blinded and he yells out I wish I was blind! We explode from the box. The giant charges. Solmar tosses a fireball from his necklace. He drops three goblins. And wounds two ogres. (And sets the ship on fire) Thaiphong misses the giant with a poison arrow. The hits Kurgash and the orcs screams like a little girl. Graf changes direction to help the orc. Lungpuncture shows up.
Graf changes at the giant. I can make it and he used his attack of opportunity on the orc. They teach us tactics orc boy.
The goblins mill about. An ogre charges Graf and crits the warforged. Graf grunts and shrugs. Kurgash smashes the giant again. Lungpuncture runs up and heals Kurgash. Ogre misses Graf. Giant smash Kurgash. A blind ogre bitch slaps Thaiphong. Solmar sends a Spectral Hand to Shocking Grasp the giant. And drops the giant. Thaiphong swings at and nearly takes down his ogre.
Kurgash attacks an ogre.
The ship is on fire. On fire. Burn Mother Fucker Burn. They are firing at the merchant ship. Thaiphong starts looking for either a steering cabin or loot. He finds a hot babe, a scrawny hag, and vine haired hag below decks. This is their flagship they are going pissed. If they think we're dead then we're OK. Don't mention the Feather Fall Tokens. Kurgash attacks the smallest hag. He breaks her concentration. Thaiphong hits the cute sex kitten dominatrix hag. Doc attacks the ancient hag and drops her. The kitten attacks Thaiphong with her claws and teeth. Thaiphong drops to the floor spewing blood from the claw marks on his back. Doc and Kurgash attack the hag that turned invisible. Kurgash is attacked and rended by the hag but keeps his feet. The invisible hag tries to drain Doc's Strength and fails. "I'm a robot bitch." Kurgash hits the sex kitten but she doesn't drop. Doc misses. His counter attack.
Kurgash gets creamed by the sex kitten. She moves it all over Kurgash. The Orc drops like a freaking rock. Graf finally shows up and yells at the Hag. Doc tries his last heal on Kurgash. He gets zapped by the little hag and loses 6 points of strength, and heals Kurgash for 16 points. Solmar zaps the sex kitten with Shocking Grasp. And drops her. The green hag remains.
Graf charges and misses. Kurgash attacks her and injures her giving her a second axe wound. Doc finally gets around to healing Thaiphong. Solmar pours a heal potion down Thaiphong's muzzle. Kurgash tries to negotiate with the last hag. Thaiphong and Graf attack her anyway.
While we've been fighting, the ship has descended and smashes into the ground. The bottom of the ship is scraped away.
We get jostled and only minor injuries from the crash. Doc flies up "convinces" the original crew and captain to come back and get us and their cargo.
The ship left a quarter mile swatch of destruction and treasure.
We break down the catapults and ballistas for the bar. We can have hard candy next to the catapults. We can launch the candy at the orphans. Kurgash suggests we load it with copper pieces and launch the money into the slum.
Doc collects the hag heads and giant heads. Kurgash rips off the "name plate" from the pirate ship, Xuraxt (In Giantish) also for the bar.
The weird magical flame from the brazier with hag room. It is a weird unique magical item. We take it with us. Possibly to run the deep fryer for the bar.
We arrive in New Throne without further incident.
Each character gains 2,000 experience points.