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[The no-longer undead cleric of Umberlee known as Salt's Wake has signed up with an expedition to Jundarwood along with his new chum Korinth, a sellsword.
They are now at the top of the Tower of Klonis where there is a stand-off.
The fate of Tyfellia, the Jundarwood, and the whole of the Shining Sea, hangs in the balance!]


DAY 732 3rd Ches (March) cont ...

The Cultist cleric backed up to a pillar, she was aware her life was at risk, and a wrong word in the wrong place could bring her death. Groups of people started talking amongst themselves, as factions began to form.

Salty talked to Nukaliss, the nutty yuan-ti cleric. She said;
'Egnol's plan is all soppy, we should keep this place undead. The world doesn't need more fancy-pants elves! What we should do is take charge and spread our evil all over the land!!'

Meanwhile Korinth talked to Egnol.
'We've a horde of undead below us. Regardless of what we decide, how do we deal with that?' he asked.
'We can lure them away,' mused Egnol. 'Then we can enact my plan.'

Salty teased the porters with getting them to lure away the undead as they were being lazy, but in the end Spider Climb was cast on Korinth and he scuttled down the side of the tower.

With Korinth gone, Salty could see that Nukaliss was gearing herself up to do something rash. He wasn't sure if he would join in if she made a power-play. He was sensible  enough to realise it was worth knowing where Wrunas stood on the current situation and he went to talk to him. The minotaur's opinion was simple, 'I trust Egnol!'
Salty bantered with the big dumb slab of beef, but Wrunas was right, Egnol was reliable while Nukaliss was a lose cannon.

Korinth reached the bottom of the tower and could not see the lich king who had been tossed off the top of the tower earlier. He then went to the tower doors and caused a ruckus. A few undead came and he cut them down. He yelled and banged his shield and soon he was being pursued by a great many skeletons and zombies. 
He ran all the way around the base of the tower and back to the door again. He entered the tower and using all his strength pushed the doors shut and jammed it with beds from the guard room. He then ascended the tower again, killing off the few remaining undead as he went.

At the top of the tower Salty was bringing things to a head. He could see Nukaliss was getting ready to attack Egnol, who was in conversation with Bozor and the other elves.

Salty went and talked to the cultist. She was a fanatic, the Final Dawn were clerics but they did not believe in resurrection and very much disapproved of what Egnol planned to do. The cult would do anything to stop him.

Seeing that the lower rooms of the tower were now safe, Salty went down and talked to the ghostly Prince. He then unwisely brought him back up with him! The Prince jumped up onto the altar and was resurrected. He then said;
'Well thank you for bringing me back! I am your monarch and ruler so now I will take charge!'
Engol looked up at the ceiling and sighed then gave Salty a withering stare.

Korinth had arrived back by this time and looked at Egnol and then looked at Prince Ferlane. He motioned with his thumb to say "shall I kick him out the window?" Egnol waved the idea away, although he did seem tempted!

Salty added more chaos to the scene as he next brought up Lady Shae Emeralla (the undead former queen) and dumped her on the altar too! She then started arguing with the Prince about who should take charge of the city.

While all that kicked off he brought up Captain Thaelir, who was also resurrected. Egnol pleaded with him to stop, but he had lost control of the situation as Salty went about restoring most of the old Tyfellian court. A limb or a skull was enough to bring someone back and by the time he'd finished the top of the tower wasn't big enough to hold the 40 or so people that were now alive.

Egnol was at a loss. Korinth joked,
'Hey, if it works with just bones, you could eat a chicken, put its bones on the altar and you get another chicken! That's a business opportunity.' Engol scowled at him, but said nothing.

The restored Tyfellian court had the Guard Captain take the cultist away to be put in a cell and eventually everyone went down a few floors and set up camp.

DAY 733 4th Ches (March)

Egnol's plans were all still in disarray. To simplify his life he told all his hirelings they were free to be paid off and to leave.
He explained to Korinth,
'I was planning to bring back the clerics first, to help summon food and water for the next tranche, but now I have to deal with the Prince and the Queen and its a total mess!'
'I can stay and help if you like,' offered Korinth.
'That would be good. I'll send everyone except you and Bozor back to the coast.'

And so Ownkabey went back with Salty, Nukaliss and the porters. Everyone was well rewarded with purses of gold, even Nukaliss who had been on the cusp of betrayal only yesterday.

We now skip on ten days in this tale...

DAY 743 14th Ches (March)

I wasn't there, but I heard that a force of Cultists attacked the Tower. However by this time there were lots of powerful elves about the place and the Final Dawn were easily repulsed.

I had eyes on Salty, and during this time. He seemed to mainly be enjoying being alive again and was doing what pirates with pockets full of gold liked to do the most - namely drinking, gambling and whoring.

DAY 750 21st Ches (March)

Korinth arrived back on Yag Island today and word got back to me about how Egnol was getting on. He had built up a group of clerics and magic users and was using them to start to rebuild Tyfellia. One by one they were using the altar to bring the elves back to the land of the living. Not all wanted to come back, but most did. It will be interesting to see how things turn out.

Salty was now back in his rented house with his undead fishy retainers in the basement. I heard sailors talk that he was worried about going back out to sea. He was a Chosen of Umberlee and they were meant to be undead. He didn't fancy being dead again and had really learned to appreciate having all his bits and pieces functioning again!

I had Jiggles do an investigation into him and his former crony Vaelis Crowe. They had killed a Derro local during a scrap down at the docks and were the main suspects in the death of a spy called Donglepart. There were suspicions that they were responsible for other deaths - but well - this was business as usual in a port like Tamunzah. What bothered me the most was the disappearance of Keletch. There was no evidence that Wake and Crowe had done it - and yet - both me and Jiggles had a bad feeling about it.

If Keletch was dead, then he was better off staying that way. He had been reincarnated twice and I think if he was dead for a third time, then it was just meant to be! Poor Keletch - may the God's look over him, wherever he is.

I was to meet both Salty and Korinth in person for the first time ten days from this date...

DAY 760 1st Tarsakh (April)

Worrying news from Farshore had been coming in for the last couple of weeks. The colony was running very low on supplies and if they were not helped out soon then disaster would surely strike.

And so I've been left holding the baby while over the last ten day Lavinia took the Blue Nixie and the Sea Wyvern to Sasserine to load them up with supplies. One problem was crewing the Wyvern. Nobby and the rest of the crew had been having adventures for ages and had a big supply of gold that was burning holes in their pockets!
They wanted some time off to relax in Sasserine, probably for months. So I called in my share of the ship and would put her to use along with the Nixie, just like the old days when it was me and Raz that had set off on her.

The plan was that Lavinia would be on the Nixie as before and Amella, who we found in Sasserine and sobered up, would be Captain of the Sea Wyvern again. I would stay on Yag Island to watch over things here. And our daughter of course! Evi was about three months old now and as cute as a button. Sylvia said she would stay on for a bit longer, which was very kind, but she had a life back Waterdeep that she had to get back to at some point.

Anyway, as Nobby et al were on holiday I helped get the crews together and hired on  none other than Korinth and Salt's Wake! My reasoning being that Korinth was a reliable fellow despite his rough appearance and ol' Salty was better when put to use, rather than causing trouble on the island.

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[The six escapees from Jargo prison are no longer prisoners and have been
accepted into the crew of USS Voyager.]

[JDay: 3][Since Caretaker: 183][GDay: 204][Earth: October 26, 2371]

In the morning Janeway called Larry and Sorik into her day room and offered them their first away mission:

''
We had an incident on board and some of our technology was stolen. Stolen by the Kazon-Nistrim. We've recovered all of it, but before we leave this area I'd just  like to check some Kazon bases for reverse engineered copies, just to be on the  safe side. Federation technology in the hands of the Kazon would be a disaster  for this whole region so it's best to check.

We've detected a secret Kazon research base on a planet called Palek in the Mumbanjo System. Go there in your Sikarian ship and have a look. Take it easy at first, just scout out the area. It looks like your ship is fitted with scanners that will be  able to detect Federation technology. So initially scan from orbit. Then, if you find some, you have permission to enter the base, either by stealth or force and retrieve our tech. Standard Federation rules of engagement apply. Consider this a test to determine if you being a consort of Voyager is going to work out.
''

Larry transported back onto the Nemo (what they were now calling their courier vessel) and told the other (non-Starfleet) crew members what the plan was. They all seemed happy enough to help out, as it had been Voyager that had facilitated their escape.

Later in the day, after all shake-down and smoke tests were completed they headed off to their location - Planet Palek in the Mumbanjo system. It was almost 10 LY away, but at Nemo's might cruising speed of Warp 8, they would get their "swiftly and in style".


[JDay: 4][Since Caretaker: 184][GDay: 205][Earth: October 27, 2371]

The crew were getting more familiar with the Nemo was they cruised along at Warp 8.
They looked around all the ship's systems, gaining familiarity with them.


[JDay: 5][Since Caretaker: 185][GDay: 206][Earth: October 28, 2371]

They arrived early in system and set up a discreet orbit around Palek.
This base was used by the Kazon-Nistrim as a secret research facility, where they reverse engineered and studied - mostly stolen - alien tech.

Palek itself was a jungle planet, and besides the base there was no civilisation of any kind. The highest native form of life was beetles, of which there were countless trillions.

They entered the atmosphere a few hundred kilometres from the base and Baby piloted them "nap of the earth" until they got close enough to walk. She only hit a couple of trees on the way there!

Once landed they snuck up on the base and observed it from the tree line. No one had binoculars, but it was clear security was lax. The base was one large squat dark structure with a dual phaser turret on the roof. The main entrance was unguarded and the hangar bay doors were wide open.

The away team were armed with Star Fleet issue phase pistols, but they had also retained their more powerful Nimiri phasers for an extra kick if they needed it.

Cautiously they entered the hangar. W'ang then cautiously walked up to the door at the north end of the hangar, but as she approached it, it automatically opened to reveal a bunch of Kazon guards and none other than the Base Commandant!

Phasers were drawn and a desperate firefight ensued. The command centre was down a ramp from the hangar so both side popped off shots that were poorly aimed, but even so, soon two of the guards were down and W'ang collapsed, badly shot up.
Larry bravely ran to the door and dragged her off to the side where Nettlenex swiftly stabilised her with her med kit.

The phaser battle continued. Sorik was using stun shots, which was a decent thing to do, but Glorto and Baby were using their Nimiri weapons already. They just wanted it all to end as quickly as possible. 

One by one the guards were taken out and the commandant ran away through another door at the back of the command centre. The gang entered and searched the place. The Kazon guards were wearing good combat armour, so they took it off the corpses and put it on themselves. They had a feeling they were going to need it, now that the element of surprise was lost.

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[Six prisoners are escaping from Jargo Prison. They are now outside on the spaceship landing pads.]

[JDay: 1][Since Caretaker: 181][GDay: 202][Earth: October 24, 2371]
Continued...

The six escapees suddenly found themselves outside and unguarded for the first time since their arrival at the prison a year ago. The air was bitter to the taste, and harsh in the lungs.

They had selected the ship they wanted to steal. There were bigger ships and more heavily armed ships here, but the Sikarian Courier they wanted to take was the fastest.

They moved slowly at first as they knew the area would be guarded. A group of guard dog bots came at them, running from their resting spots and firing flechettes at the escapees when they came in range. The gang took cover and returned fire with their Nimiri phasers.

Once the dogs were dealt with the ran towards the courier. As they crossed the airfield they saw a Nimiri patrol ship take off and then strafe another part of the base.
(This was the Cacophony's parting shots).

The Sikarian Courier was long, thin and sleek, a vessel designed not only for Spatial Trajector travel, but also very fast Warp.

Once inside, Baby the pilot sat at the pilot console and started her up. She was used to operating larger Babi-Ijo supply barges though and she managed to bonk the hull on the side of another ship on the way up.

When they were out of the atmosphere and high-tailing it to a decent enough distance to Warp they were hailed by Captain Janeway of the USS Voyager.

She introduced herself and her vessel and asked them to do the same in return. All she got in reply was a whole lot of cross talk as everyone tried to answer at once.
'I can see you are busy, call me back when you have sorted things out,' she said.

Baby hit Warp and they skidded to a halt outside the Kieper Belt area of the system. She then put them into orbit around a Pluto sized planetoid.

They all then spent the next couple of hours looking around the ship and the cockpit.
Baby remained at the pilot station, Larry took the captain's chair and Sorik manned the science station. W'ang checked over the weapons at another station, while Glorto had a look over the engines and Nettlenex had a poke around in the med bay.

After that they hailed Voyager. Janeway and Tuvok beamed on board. After introductions they were all invited to come over to Voyager for a chat.

Baby, Nettlenex and Glorto were locals so after a brief welcome from the Captain they were sent to the canteen to get some food. Janeway then interview the three former Starfleet officers one by one.

She pulled up the file for Larry. He had been Honourably Discharge from Starfleet a few years ago, so Janeway offered him a provisional reinstatement to Ensign as part of the Voyager crew. He accepted and was initially to med bay to be checked over and then to Belana for instructions.

Next she reviewed Sorik's file. He had been posted as Missing In Action some time ago.
He also wanted to join the crew of Voyager, and waffled on a bit about wanting to study all the latest technology on board. 'All in good time,' said Janeway who then sent him the same way she had sent Larry.

W'ang too had been Honourably Discharge, but she had no desire to be recommisioned and told Janeway she wished to remain a civilian. She was sent for a check-up and then to the canteen.

In medbay, Larry and Sorik made indifferent impressions on the Doctor and Kes. When they got to Engineering Belana was dismissive of them, but Sorik at least made a good impression on her.

Eventually they made their way to the canteen and joined the others. Here Neelix was  very happy to see some new faces. Sorik did rather rub him up the wrong way, but he soon became good friends with Larry and even promised to try and do him a special breakfast (of Square Sausage) the next morning. He also liked W'Ang, but in a quieter way.

Later they were all issued some equipment. Everyone got some spare civilian clothes, a Comms badge and a Datapad.

The two Starfleet officer also got a uniform, a phase pistol and a tricorder.
They were also issued some Replicator Rations.

At the end of the day they were assigned some cabins on board and they all gratefully retired for the night.

[JDay: 2][Since Caretaker: 182][GDay: 203][Earth: October 25, 2371]

In the morning they were all given breakfast. Larry even got the nearest equivalent that Neelix could give him to a Lorne Sausage! He found it tasty even though there was no meat in it.

Later in the day Captain Janeway met with them all and discussed what their next steps would be. She wanted to keep on the good side of the Sikarians by offering to return their lost ship, but anticipating they may have written it off she told them they could keep the courier vessel for now and operate it as a consort vessel in the same way the Cacophony and the Aeroshuttle were.
She organised the transfer of some supplies:

60 days of rations
6 changes of clothes
50 assorted underwear and socks
1000 litres of drinking water
Sikarian dictionary
3 tool kits
5 med kits

The last thing she told them was, 'and chose a name for her! Something suitable, reflecting
how she was your salvation perhaps.'

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[Some prisoners are escaping from Cell Block K in Jargo Prison.]

[JDay: 1][Since Caretaker: 181][GDay: 202][Earth: October 24, 2371]
Continued...

Larry used his computer skills to open the door with the control panel.
The gang cautiously entered a corridor that was strewn with broken furniture and other junk. They had a plan, a plan that they had been working on since the start - if the opportunity ever came, they would make their way to the landing pads and steal a ship!

The quickest way was through the canteen, so after picking up some batons and knifes to defend themselves with they made their way there.

Sorik went to open the door, but it was locked and his attempt to work the control panel only made it go into shutdown. Larry used his skills again to render the panel inoperative and open the door.

There were some Nimiri guards here, armed with batons, who charged to attack the escaping prisoners. The savage melee resulted in many injuries but in the end, three guards lay dead from multiple stabbings and another lay half-unconscious. Sorik did a nerve pinch on him and made him fully unconscious.

Larry went to the serving area and ate some food. He saw a balaxion covering underneath the counter, who kicked a medkit over to him.

Sorik raised an eyebrow at W'ang and brushed some dirt off her shoulder. He then went to investigate the canteen guard station that had its emergency shutters down. He went inside and was shot at by a wounded guard who was slumped on the floor. The phaser missed and Sorik leapt over to pinch the guard in the neck.

Sorik then argued with Larry about using the console in the guard station to do clever things with the doors, to open their way to the landing pads, while locking all the others. Larry said it didn't matter, as he could open any door they came to and closing doors would be mean to the other prisoners who may also be escaping. In the end they just left it, although Sorik said this was "illogical".

They made their way to the space port departure lounge, raiding a weapons locker on the way for a Nimiri phaser each.

They were really cautious at the door, and it was good that they were as a number of guards lay in wait with phasers, waiting to shoot and kill any escaping prisoners that came their way. The gang had gone over this scenario many times in their plans so returned fire from cover. In the fire fight all of them were injured but eventually they killed off all the guards. Nimiri phasers have no stun setting and even worse than that they fired explosive pulses that left large bloody wounds.

Nettlenex used the medic kit to patch up everyone and after getting their breath back and collecting ammo they made their way outside to the landing pads.

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[JDay: 1][Since Caretaker: 181][GDay: 202][Earth: October 24, 2371]

Supplemental Report on the Assault on Jargo Prison. Note that these events took place after the Cacophony raided the nearby supply depot. (See main report).

Here is the file on Jargo Prison:

''
Jargo Prison is situated on a rock planet in the Sarlac System. It has 200  guards, 100 admin and 5000 prisoners.

It also has a large stockpile of confiscated spaceships parked on landing pads or just in the dusty rocky ground outside.

It is used by the Nimiri to hold alien race prisoners that have wandered into their systems without permission. They are often held to ransom.

Apart from the prison the planet is uninhabited.

The prison is a low, squat concrete structure with 20 cell blocks, canteens,  workshops and internal exercise yards.

There is also a small space port that services the prison.

The air is barely breathable outside, and combined with the solar wind, any escaping prisons would expect to be dead within a few of days from oxygen  starvation or radiation sickness.

However, there are watch towers and a battery of surface defence weapons to shoot at anyone attacking the prison from space. There are also patrols of robotic sniffer dogs that have flechette weapons to cripple escaping prisoners.

The Nimiri guards are the dregs of Nimiri military society. They are generally either weak or stupid, but not generally evil.
The current Prison governor is progressive by Nimiri standards and has set up systems of rewards for the prisoners to keep them as content as they can be. So they are paid for having jobs in the kitchens, the workshops, the gardens and the like.
''

Cell Block K of Jargo Prison has cells for twelve.
Cell 1: Larry Cautious, Human Male, former Starfleet Ensign (Operations).
Cell 2: Sorik, Vulcan Male, former Starfleet Ensign (Science).
Cell 3: W'Ang, Klingon Female, former Starfleet Ensign (Tactical). 
Cell 4: Baby Chowder, a female babi-ijo pilot
Cell 5: Nettlenex, a female talaxian medic
Cell 6: Glorto Bangbucker, a male balaxion engineer
Cell 7 to 12: six kazon-ogla prisoners.

The non-kazons had been in the prison for about a year and had become friends.
How the Starfleet people came to be here as not yet been determined.

Chaos had broken out in the prison. The assault on the supply depot had drawn out many of the guards and a wall was breach in two of the blocks. Somehow all the cell doors opened and everyone stepped out into the corridor. The kazon-ogla, ever the violent and stupid race, set upon the others with their
fists. There then ensued a brutal close-combat fight, with fists, feet and improvised weapons. Nettlenex grabbed a steel toilet brush and wielded it like a mace.

Chowder found a glass globe in Sorik's room and put it in a sock and used it as a club. While the others fought, Sorik managed to get his hands on the neck of one of the Kazons and administered a Vulcan nerve pinch.

After a few minutes all the Kazons were battered into unconsciousness and the others went up to the guard post to see if they could escape from the cell block.

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[This continues the story of Rogier the bard, a warforged called Gravedigger and a goliath paladin known as Uthmar Shatterstone. They are currently beyond the portal they entered in the manor house of the Viers family and exploring the tombs and chambers they have discovered here. Recently they have left the dimension they were in via a portal and had a fight with some baddies and zombies.]

DAY 21 cont ...

Our brave heroes continued on their way towards the horrible looking city. As they got closer they could see it looked like it had been built on a volcano. There were broken up areas of rock, rivers of lava and clouds of steam where a river of water met the sea of lava the city lay next to.
Despite all this people seemed to live here! When a building burnt down they would build another one from the remains.

There was no wall or gate, so they entered through a slum-like area where the dregs of the city resided. The low buildings were made from raw cut local stone, but sometimes they could see some older, dressed blocks that had been engraved with demonic looking depictions and sigils.

Following a main road into the centre of town they discovered a market. The people here were a mix of all the races, but mainly tieflings, then the next most common being humans.

Our three heroes, being dressed in less shabby attire and with an air of innocence and wonder about them attracted glances, but no one they had met so far wanted trouble. Gravedigger pulled up the hood of his cloak anyway.

The market had stalls in its middle and shops around the sides. There was an inn on its eastern edge called the "Crimson Flame".

They entered and talked to the tiefling barman and rented some rooms for a few silver coins, which was apparently just as legal tender as back in Faerune.

Uthmar and Rogier then took all the loot from Gravedigger, a big bag of arms and treasure and went to sell it in the market. Despite being the one that had carried it Gravedigger was not interested in its value and told the men they could keep all the gold they got from the sale.
It took a while for the greedy fellows to understand that the warforged really meant it.

They were gone all day, haggling away in the market for hours and hours over every sword, every bit of armour and every trinket. This gave Gravedigger time to ask around and find out the following:

- As he has suspected they were in Avernus
- The city they were in was called Diaballon
- There had been a group of folk come through recently, they had set up camp
    beside the coliseum
- There was a lot of traffic between the camp and the coliseum
- Nasty characters were keeping the camp closed off

It was late in the evening when the others returned, with jingling coins purses and smiles on their faces.

'I think I may have discovered what happened to the people of Everaska,' said
Gravedigger.
'What? Who?' asked Uthmar as he approached the bar. 'Innkeep! What do you have that a goliath can drink around here? Uthmar got a thirst on!'