[Myself and Dak are currently hunting down the pirate ship known as 'The Reaper'. While waiting for it to arrive in port we are rummaging around in a secret Snake Temple.]
DAY 549 (4th Eleint) (September) continued ...
After chasing off the huge nasty snake we moved on to the next and final chamber. It contained the skeleton of a giant snake coiled around a wooden chest. The skeleton was just as it appeared and was no threat to us and the chest contained a magical item we later learned was the 'Fanged Helm of Zengar' which bestowed on the wearer various snake related magical benefits.
As Dak has a pretty big snake fetish at the moment it is now in his possession.
Anyway, we poked around in some of the other rooms and corridors of this place, but aside from some gems (pried out of the eye sockets of a giant stone snake) and some other small amounts of gold we found nothing else.
On our return to Starmantle we gave 50gp each (for a total of 100gp) to the landlady of Lanta's Hearth and spent the remainder of the evening celebrating a job well done.
DAY 550 (5th Eleint) (September)
Had a large breakfast in the morning, and was still eating it when Dak headed out into town. His supplies of Jibby-Jibby was running low, apparently, and he wanted to find some more.
He did not appear again until after lunch, empty handed.
As for myself I teleported Harriet back to the Barrow on Yacg'harr Island (I think she's of more use over there right now) and then wandered around the docks in my 'pirate' outfit, watching the place and making people aware of me - just another sailor with no berth and time on his hands.
Sauntered back to the tavern in the evening. I think Lanta likes me and Dak now, a 100gp would have been much appreciated I'm sure, as there were fresh flowers in my room and the bedding had been changed.
DAY 551 (6th Eleint) (September)
Today was the day the Reaper was due and it was on schedule, drawing up at the quayside in the late
afternoon.
Myself and Dak had already spent several days talking over 'the plan' and it now formed a main plan and a contingency.
The main plan was to kill or kidnap two crewmembers and then replace them, and when the ship set, sail again we would bump off the other crewmembers and generally terrify them! If that didn't work then the backup plan was to just bomb them from the air.
I wanted to keep the Reaper though, to add it to my fleet, but quite how I was to crew it once we had it in our possession I wasn't entirely sure. We'd cross that bridge when we came to it.
We watched as the crew disembarked. There appeared to be three officers, five regular seamen and four swabbies, for a total of twelve. We followed two likely looking piratey looking scumbags, one a thickset human and the other a greasy looking halfling to a tavern and attempted to make friends with them.
When you are buying the rum, everyone is your friend.
On the way to a brothel, we jumped them in a back alley. I was a little nervous as to how tough they would be, but in the end they were easily defeated. I turned into a tiger and ripped them to shreds while Dak slashed at them with his falchion.
Still, after being stuffed into a Bag of Holding and dumped in the Barrow they both still lived, by some miracle, so I handed them over to Sylvia and we teleported back to Starmantle.
Phase one complete!
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