Adventure 34

**Real World Date: 11/25/2018**

**In Game Dates: April 14th, 5001 M.E. - April 16th, 5001 M.E.**

**XP: 8200 (Total: 63151)**

## Setting Sail

The party sleeps on the **Martial Law** to avoid anyone noticing them in the city that may work for Yadira. Ren does buy a couple bows, arrows, and quivers. Aust buys some ink and paperwork to copy more spells into his tome. The night passes without incident and Rakim and the party set off with Captain Wilhelm on The Channel.

A bit of gambling occurs between some of the crew and Wrax, which doesn't go very well for him. Aust sat with Regis and bonded with him, filling him on the broad strokes of what the party has done so far, and Regis going into more detail about his mentor, **Zerith**. Dhamon meets one of the crew members who happens to be highly trained in wagon riding and he copies down his information so that he might find him later. Ren wakes up in the middle of the night, while Dhamon is merely meditating and can see everything, and for some unknown reason begins to hide all his own things, even his clothes. When awakens the next morning, he doesn't remember doing it, and thinks he was robbed.

## Stories Around the Campfire

While the investigation commences to find who stole Ren's clothes and items, some pieces of information are shared amongst the party. Wrax shares with the party why he made a deal with **Korbeth** and who Talis Hightower is to him. Aust reveals the last time he saw his mother before seeing her in the arena recently, and also how he gained his magical abilities (leaving out some details).

Dhamon tells the party about his mission to hunt down the rebels from the Daeryn Forest and to bring them to justice, and he asks that the party continue this quest if he doesn't make it. Ren told the story of how he lost his fingers and how it lead him to learn magic that he could use to have more control over what happened to him.

## Storm on the Horizon

Late on their second day of travel the man up in the Eagle's Nest (yeah, that's the correct term in my world) calls out staying a storm is off in the distance. Wilhelm and his first mate share a knowing glance, apparently having heard of this phenomenon. The storm was was localized and low in the sky, moving way too fast along the surface of the water. Wilhelm calls for battle stations.

As the storm approached their ship, it stopped and a smaller boat shot out of it, undamaged, as if the storm had been moving with it up until that very moment. The ship flew the pirates flag, specifically of **The Pirate King**, and it came up alongside the **Martial Law**. Large grappling hooks shot out and latched onto their boat and pulled the two ships together. Planks were laid down as the pirates began to swarm the ship.

## Biting Off More Than They Can Chew

The ship is filled to the brim with Githyanki warriors who charge across. Wrax summons a wall of fire along the edge of the pirate's ship to prevent their entrance, while Aust uses telekinesis to knock over some of the planks. However, they didn't count on the pirates all being able to misty step onto the ship. Some stayed behind to deal with the fire, but most appeared on the deck of the **Martial Law**.

Ren turned into a Tyrannosaurus Rex as the pirate leader pops up as well and begins to take out the crew. Regis becomes clutch as he heals the party multiple times, including the first mate and Wilhelm. The captain orders the anchor to drop which causes the ship to turn and loosen on of the grappling hooks. The crew manage to take one off the ship. Aust uses telekinesis to remove the last one and they begin to pull apart from the pirate ship.

## Turning the Tide

With the ships moving apart, the irate ship turns around to attack again. The party manage to kill the remaining Githyanki pirates on their ship and they launch an aerial assault towards the pirate ship as it charges at them. Various fire spells and some animated weapons chop up the sails and destroy the masts of the pirate ship as it slows down its charge. Wrax and Aust use their eldritch blast to bust a hole in the hull below the water, which causes the pirate ship to start to sink.

The **Martial Law** moves away from the pirate ship, leaving them to sink to the bottom of the ocean. Ren turns into a killer whale to swim over and see if any loot can be found. Aust flies a Pteranodon up to get an aerial view. He sees a large metal **device** below deck as the pirate ship takes on water. Wrax comes over and loosens the large cylinder from the deck, intimidating the crew to let him do so. As a killer whale, Ren takes the device back to the **Martial Law** for them to lift onto the deck to examine.

This device is magical and is of the transmutation school. Aust prepares the ritual to identify the device...