[Fenrir, Reinward and Irritator have been given the task of destroying the port of Dulok on Hargorp Island by Princess Senel. After a couple of days they have made a bit of hap-hazard progress. They have also some new friends, Captain Sparkswallow and Boson N'Geh.]
DAY 665 (27th Nightal)(December)
In the small hours of the morning, the plan was set in motion.
Three ships had been identified as being the least well protected and seaworthy craft out of all the derelicts and pirate vessels in the harbour.
These were:
The Natural Knocker
The Itchy Limpet
The Elegant Whale
They started with the Whale, killing the guards and then set up Captain Sparkswallow to look after it. They cleverly declappered the ship's bell just in case pirates came to the ship and tried to raise the alarm.
They then did the Limpet and left Boson N'Geh in charge there.
Next Fenrir and Reinward returned to the two buildings were the slaves were kept. They saw that they sat on a cliff that ran north and south through the town. The quickest way to get them out would be to open the back doors and let them down by rope. They didn't have any rope. After searching through
their bags and coming up empty they remembered that - ship's have rope on them - and Fenrir flew back to get some.
After that he started burning some buildings to get things going then they stormed in to kill the guards and free the slaves. It was confused smokey chaos but all the guards were slain and of 60 or slaves set free in the first building only about 10 were killed in the process. Not bad considering how things usually go with these two!
The other building was cleared in a similar fashion and they helped the slaves down to the docks as best they could. Something like 120 slaves were freed. About 60 made it to the ships, 40 were slain and another 20 ran off into the jungle.
The ships got underway, sailed by the escaped slaves who luckily were mostly sailors. Fenrir and Reinward then had an argument about what to do next. Fenrir threw his hands up and flew off into the night sky to start setting fire to the other ships in the harbour.
As Fenrir was having as much fun as you would expect with that, the three tabaxi witches that lived on the south side of town flew up on their broomsticks.
When he noticed them he immediately turned invisible and went into hiding.
Reinward had seen this happening and then ran along the dockside and jumped onto the Knocker, that was well on its way out of the harbour.
Reinward saw that some pirate ships were moving to block their escape.
'Let's ram the bastards!' cried Sparkswallow waving a cutlass.
Meanwhile, Fenrir discovered he was clearly visible to the witches, who drew up along side him.
'Hello ladies,' he said to them, tipping his hat.
'What are you up to on this morning?' asked the black-furred tabaxi.
Fenrir turned on his usual levels of charm.
'That's a nice amulet you have there,' purred the ginger-furred tabaxi.
They then entered into negotiations about what would be a good bribe for them to leave him to his business.
He didn't want to give away any of his good stuff so offered old bits and magical bobs from his bag. He even mentioned some of the items in Reinward's possession!
It was five in the morning now and dawn was not far away.
Reinward wanted no part in what was about to happen in the cove so he asked the Captain for a row boat so he could leave.
'Ye don't want to fight this pirate scum laddie?' asked the Captain incredulously. 'Well then, take that jolly boat there. I'll get the a couple of the lads to row you back.'
About a half hour later Reinward was landed back on shore.
While this was going on Fenrir had settled on the bribe:
- A Statue of Owls Wisdom
- A Half Used Want of Owls Wisdom
- A Ring of Eagles
They were not fully satisfied, and asked that he kiss each of them. He gulped, nodded and puckered up.
Flying high above the burning town, the tabaxis leaned from their brooms to kiss the warlock.
Kissing the White one made him feel weak. Kissing the Ginger one seemed to drain some of his power and kissing the black one bestowed a blessing on him ("Kiss of the Cat Lady").
With them dealt with he returned to firing the town. Reinward stood on the south bank and rolled himself a fag as he watched the place go up in smoke.
By noon, there was not much of the town left. The slave ships had gone. Most of the pirates had fled on their own ships and the surviving Tren had ran off into the jungle. It seemed that they had finally done the job they had come to do.
They teleported back to Fashib and reported to Princess Senel. She thanked them and handed over the egg they needed for Irritator, as well as some other treasures.
Irritator then teleported the back to Yag Island. Fenrir kissed his wife as he got in and went straight to bed. Reinward went to Dak's pub.
DAY 666 (28th Nightal)(December)
Irritator used the egg and his special spell to turn himself back into a kobold today. He was very happy about this and treated everyone to a slap up feast at Dak's pub then "Scratchy Gusset". He also tried to chat up the new kobold barmaid. I doubt he got very far though!
DAY 667 (29th Nightal)(December)
From what I heard today the lads went into Sasserine to sell their loot and buy some big expensive magical items.
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