13th day of Fellnight: Swordsday
Garet stood on the prow of the barge when he noticed a shimmering in the air in front of him. Bandur appeared beside him, feet precariously balanced on the side of the boat, falling backwards towards the water. An instant reaction, Garet reached out and grabbed Bandurs beard saving him from the cold water below. Before Garet could pull him inboard he noticed another shimmering beside him. An instant later and Fabien appeared in mid-air, Garet tried to catch Fabien but he fell the 10ft into the well of the deck, causing a slight injury.
Sorting them out, Garet bade them join the others on the dock. Fabien and Bandur were brought up to speed and the group moved to the barrack block. Looking for somewhere secure for the 5 prisoners.
The barrack block was suitable. The prisoners were put into the most secure of the 3 rooms.
Whilst the others sorted out injuries and the next part of the plan Garet gave his excuses. Garet took the Halfling called Pike first. He brought him back after 2 hours. Pike was shaking visibly. Garet slammed the door and waited and listened outside. He waited for an hour but Pike didn't divulge anything else. Garet re-entered the room and took out 1 of the Reavers. He questioned the Reaver for 2 hours then returned him to the room.
Garet had found out some interesting information. Suddenly the air shimmered and Zindra appeared in the room. She had information herself. A barge had arrived from downriver and the group of survivors from Bargewright that were coming were loading the horses and other stuff. They estimated a 2 to 3 day journey up river to Riverguard.Garet passed on what he learned from the prisoners. There were 5 Reavers in the Temple Complex below Riverguard and 1 Water Cult Priestess. They were loading the captured goods onto the boat from the complex and 2 would transport it along the river tunnel to the harbour. The group they had defeated would then load the goods onto the barge.
The group chatted about what to do with the prisoners. Grog stood his ground that he didn't want the prisoners killed. The prisoners were secured and a message left for the barge when it arrived from Womford.
The plan was simple, they would use the boat to travel to the underground temple complex. Aramil and Fabien would use Reaver cloaks as a disguise. Bandur would be a prisoner. Grog would hide in the bottom of the boat. Karion and Anor would keep to the back and try and bluff it. Garet would go invisible, Zindra would use her Elf Cloak and Aerie would again try to impersonate the Air Cult Prophet, Aerisi.
Leaving the river tunnel they entered the first large cavern. There were no Reavers at the initial dock (1). The plan was amended. They would drop off Garet, Aerie and Zindra at the western bridge (15). They would approach the large room (22) form the south whilst the rest continued on by boat.
Garet, Aerie and Zindra made their way with stealth and approached the target room from the south. The boat entered the 2nd lake cavern. Bandur and Fabien quickly looked to their right, something had caught their eye in the water but just as suddenly it was gone.
As the boat closed in to the dock a voice shouted out Kraglenet. It shouted out again, Kraglenet? Aerie strode out of where she was hiding in the shadows and declared herself Aerisi the Air Cult Prophet and where was Ghar Shatterkeel. The Reavers were confused. The boat hadn't answered the challenge and here was someone claiming to be the Air Prophet.
Reaver: "If your the Air Prophet I'm bloody Neptune".
The boat bumped onto the key side. Aramil first off stepped left and fired a full magazine of bolts into a Reaver. HIs body exploded into a bloody pulp as the 5 bolts burst through his vitals. He fell dead to the floor. Garet burst out of hiding and engaged a Reaver with his two blades and a deadly whirling kick. A 2nd Reaver fell dead to the floor. Fabien leapt off the boat and struck out at a 3rd Reaver with a lightning thrust of his rapier. The Reaver struck back but intentionally missed Fabien and struck the gong behind him. Fabien incensed turned round and struck the gong himself.
Fabien: "My gong, I'll strike it, not you".
Grog followed and his warpick smashed into the same Reaver. Karion followed suit, a druidic prayer cast on his club as it grew to a larger club. He struck at the same Reaver but his blow failed to connect. Bandur had put his two hand axes away and with shield and battleaxe had launched himself at a Reaver. The Reaver didn't last long as two arrows from Zindra added to the damage from Bandur and another Reaver fell dead on the key side.
Fabien struck again with his rapier and a 3rd Reaver fell dead. A female Reaver charged at Aerie who took to wing and the Reaver passed underneath. Aerie lashed out with her sword and hit the Reaver. As she did so she noticed that the gems on the hilt were glowing bright. Garet moved in and finished off the female Reaver, the 4th Reaver fell dead.
Anor, still on the boat felt the boat rock, then a gigantic clawed fist smashed into the middle as the rear of the boat tilted u he jumped onto the dockside falling prone. He saw the monstrosity climb out of the water and a steamy blast of boiling water flow out of its open mouth. The steam engulfed Fabien, Grog and Karion.
Karion was badly injured, Grog shouted at him to move out of the way as he stepped in to protect Karion. Grog managed to cast a healing prayer on Karion taking away his injuries.
Aramil watched the northern corridor. The Dragon Turtle crashed down with its claws but failed to hit anyone. Anor managed to stand up and strike the Dragon Turtle. Bandur fired two bolts at the behemoth and was horrified to see both careen off the armoured shell of the turtle. Garet launched homself at the Dragon Turtle and harnessing his martial skills landed telling blow after telling blow on the Turtles head. The turtle slipped below the surface of the water. Garet turned to Karion and thanked him for casting his spell which made all the difference when Garet attacked, for it gave him guidance as to where to effectively strike the creature and cause the most damage to it.
The priestess was not here. Aramil put it to the group she would probably be in the area where Ghar was killed. The group headed up the north corridor and over the bridge. Aerie looked behind her, she thought 'funny, seems like young Aramils taken over Fargrims position at the rear!'
As Aramil followed, attention and eyes turned towards the south, making sure they weren't being followed, he failed to notice the Troll climbing out of the canal behind him.
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