4 Eyed Pirate

"4 Eyed Pirate" (C1.S03.2) is a one-shot in the first campaign of The Vanguard.

## Guild Dispatches

The following are messages from the guild members who participated in the mission. They contain valuable information the guild can use to piece together clues.

> *While traveling back to the Vanguard from the lake we encountered a messenger in his travels spreading news of another adventurer who had gone missing after a risky mission. There was fear he had found something and was being hunted for it’s return. Hearing where he was last seen we headed that way to investigate and see if he had hid anything before heading out. Checking some hidden dead drop locations we were able to find a magical map that we hastily tried to investigate its many languages to see if it could lead us to our member but couldn’t get any worthwhile answers so we decided to hunker down for the night and see what happens. I turned into my wolf form and blocked up the door with nova snuggling into my fur leaving only the window to be defended if anything went wrong.*
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> *Most of the way through the night a cataclysmic earthquake woke us with violent shaking. The ladies cautiously ran to the window and the paladin ran down to secure the ground floor while I held back in the doorway to help where needed. A few minutes passed and the paladin returned with news of a huge chain skewering the entire building while the ladies alerted us to the large flying ship above that the chain was attached to. At this point what felt safe downstairs no longer sounded safe I howled went invisible and ran downstairs followed close behind by the paladin who immediately charged in to attack 1 of the 4 people who had somehow broke into a flying building. They all piled on the paladin leaving me open to pounce on the hood less one and split them 2 each. I took a few too many hits and they dropped me out of wolf form completely enraging me and I lashed out with a huge thunderous boom that sent 3 to the corner and nearly killed my paladin but leaving 1 unlucky attacker to my fury. Grabbing him by his beard I hung him out the door and threatened his life demanding info. He said his boss was after a map we assume was what we were sent here for. I remanded him and his fallen friends to the bar keep. I am coming back for my loot and info when I go to find and kill this boss of his. Time to go and find our way up and find the other members of our party.*
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> *Going upstairs we find our room empty and the ladies seemed to have gone up the ropes already. After a long climb we reach the top deck and find our friends stomping a mug hole in a big eyeball. We commandeered the ship and returned the inn to a safe place close to where it was last night before getting back on the way to the vanguard on our new ship with our prisoner for interrogation.*
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> *- DethPain*
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> *All I was trying to do is snuggle in for the night, dethpain was actually kind for once and allowed me to use him for a pillow as he guarded the door, Fang took first watch at the window, while Vega meditated for a few hours and when I say a few it was just about 4 hrs when all broke loose!*
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> *The Floors started to quake and crackling came from floors, let’s face it this place really didn’t seem like five star establishment from the beginning, all was dark we couldn’t see anything we peer down we are no longer grounded we are what seems to be floating...*
> *I toss my dancing lights into the air and now we know we are no longer safe, Fang and Dethpain run to the lower level you hear commotion, Vega and Novablue (Myself) see what seemed to be a chain and ropes, and something glimmering (I myself with the oooooooooh shiney complex) start climbing upwards with my trusty guild mate Vega, so realizing I’m actually pretty lazy desire to cast fly and zoom us to the top. Down below the men fight off and find they are looking for a map ( that we may have found under the bed stashed) from the invaders.*
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> *Meanwhile Vega has stashed the map between her assets and we now are peering over what seems to be a flying ship! It was a kind of illusion on the outside to make it look more menacing. As we peer over, Vega has caught the attention of some creature from the darkness. As it grew closer we see the floating orb with four eyes one is covered with a Patch, placed upon its head was a three corner hat with a feather, as she has convinced after a few sketchy moments and distractions there was no one else there…. As this Spectator as it was later known to us was getting more frustrated and mistrusting of Vega. I jump over blast it with fire it’s hurting badly I took the chance while it was distracted and cut the patch which we found it had a normal eye under, daunted wondering why? The quick thinking Vega starts casting a spell to make the Patch a powerful weapon.*
> *Now this creature is very angry at me for to say the least, so my brain went to this is a creature smack it on its nose and yell at it “now knock it off be have yourself” it was stunned that I yelled at it like I was it’s mother, Vega’s spell was now complete she transformed his patch to a killing blow weapon “THE PATCH OF DOOOOOM!”*
> *The Men folk finally make it to the top of the ship as Vega and Novablue are stomping on this creature with our stilettos with grins on our faces...*
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> *Now back with the safety of our General Grom, we hand over this magical map and have brought back with us a flying ship and relocated our safe house to another location hmmm doesn’t look any worse than we walked in but then again who would want to stay there anyway but us adventurers.*
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> *- Nova Blue*
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1. ↑ Be aware that this is told from the player’s perspective of the adventure. Details and happenings may have been presented with some liberties taken to fill in the blanks from poor memory and scribbled notes. Other players should be asked about their views of what happened, and are also welcome to type their stories to share.