50 Fathoms
Session 9 The Fire Mage
The Party:
Urghh - Half Ugak Bloodthirsty Sailor - Aaron
Flynt - Delusional Human Merchant - Charlie
Obadiah Merle - Squanderous Human Rifleman - Garry
Kuthelaquin - Kraken Water Mage - Rob
Making their way into Baltimus, the party realised they needed a way to get into the confidence of Bruno Baltimus to examine his father's records about the trial of the Hags. As luck would have it, an opportunity to infiltrate one of his galas presented itself as they heard the tale of Mannie Morkan and his abused daughter; she was tricked into attending one of Bruno's parties and was abused by him and his debauched cronies. Morkan wanted the ruler dead, and offered the party forged invitations to the next gala in three days. All they would have to do was get themselves invited to the gathering afterwards to exact his revenge.
After some discussion amongst the party, they Kuthelaquin, Merle and Flynt were less than comfortable in the roles of assassins. Urghh, predictably was completely alright with this idea. Moran offered the legendary sword Versalis to the group if they killed Bruno. Deciding instead to offer Bruno a cursed ring instead, that would hopefully kill him, they accepted.
After decking themselves out in their finery, three days later they attended the gala with the elite of Baltimus. Merle quickly insinuated himself with Bruno, making innuendo laden comments about the ring he wore around his neck, claiming it's magic gave him the sexual stamina of a horse. Intrigued, he invited the party to attend the soiree after the gala.
After partaking of the debauchery offered, the party made their way upstairs to the sound of creaking bed springs and other less pleasing noises. As Flynt, Merle and Kuthelaquin partook of the sleazy offerings, Baltimus left to go to his own room. Merle interrupted him as he was entertaining two ladies of the night offered him the ring. To the party's dismay, the ruler of Baltimus made his vigour roll and completely ignored the rings deadly magic. Other than a placebo affect, nothing else happened.
As the festivities wore on, Urghh made his way to a small window, jimmied it open and scaled the ivy outside on to the roof.
After everyone had left, he stealthily climbed down and waited for Bruno to retire for the night. As the exhausted ruler lay passed out in his bed, Urghh slid into his roof and unceremoniously smashed his head to pieces with his warhammer, slid down the outside wall, crept across the lawn and scaled the wall and made his way back to the inn where the rest of the party were.
Blood and gore still plastering his warhammer, it was fairly obvious to everyone what the Half-Ugak had done. Merle swore the few patrons to silence and paid them off, hoping they'd keep quiet about it.
Morkan was good to his word and presented Urghh with Versalis, who then promptly said "Swords aren't really my thing." and gave it to Merle.
The next day, on the way back to the ship, they were attacked by what they though was a yellowback raptor. It turned out to be an annoying parrot, mimicking the roar of the ferocious dinosaurs. Kuthelaquin threw it some biscuits and it revealed a conversation it had overheard about a tree stump and a treasure buried next to it.
After some searching, they found the burial site and dug up the small chest. Inside was a small fortune in pieces of eight, and another mysterious golden triangle.
Making their way back to the ship, the intrepid party headed north to the Kehanna flumes to find gold as part of the ritual elements they were asked to find by the elementalists of Bluth's Crown.
With a few minor scrapes they reached the flumes and Merle took a dinghy to one of the rocky volcanic outcrops and started digging for gold. After searching for two days they thought they had enough for the ritual and were about to make their way to the Binkley when the dinghy was attacked by massive electric eels. Not realising that using a metal weapon against them might be a bad idea, Merle and Urghh attacked fearlessly, and amazingly made their vigour rolls to resist the electrical discharge of the creatures. Easily killing them, the crew on the Binkley feasted on fresh meat that night. As they were hauling the 12 foot eels on board, Flynt noticed a dozen shark like heads swimming through the surf towards them, a Kehanna raiding party. Rather than fight the Kehanna, they made sail and headed towards the Flotsam sea.
Kuthelaquin at this point remembered a legend about the golden triangles, and how the 6 pieces were the key to unlocking the vast and unclaimed treasure of the pirate Readbeard Rufus.
As they made their way south easterly towards the sea, an unearthly storm engulfed the ship and they were attacked by an unholy ghostly ship. As it drew nearer, seemingly unaffected by the raging storm, the figure of Redbeard Rufus, the feared and now undead pirate could be seen pacing the deck. Screaming that they return his keys, the ghost pirate mercilessly attacked, cannonading the Binkley. Even though they were in the heart of a storm, the crew of the Binkley were about to outsail the undead pirate and managed to sink the Incinerator.
Carrying on into the Flotsam sea, they had a completely uneventful trip, straight through the morass of ruins and debris, not finding an earth ship with water on it.
Making their way into Baltimus, the party realised they needed a way to get into the confidence of Bruno Baltimus to examine his father's records about the trial of the Hags. As luck would have it, an opportunity to infiltrate one of his galas presented itself as they heard the tale of Mannie Morkan and his abused daughter; she was tricked into attending one of Bruno's parties and was abused by him and his debauched cronies. Morkan wanted the ruler dead, and offered the party forged invitations to the next gala in three days. All they would have to do was get themselves invited to the gathering afterwards to exact his revenge.
After some discussion amongst the party, they Kuthelaquin, Merle and Flynt were less than comfortable in the roles of assassins. Urghh, predictably was completely alright with this idea. Moran offered the legendary sword Versalis to the group if they killed Bruno. Deciding instead to offer Bruno a cursed ring instead, that would hopefully kill him, they accepted.
After decking themselves out in their finery, three days later they attended the gala with the elite of Baltimus. Merle quickly insinuated himself with Bruno, making innuendo laden comments about the ring he wore around his neck, claiming it's magic gave him the sexual stamina of a horse. Intrigued, he invited the party to attend the soiree after the gala.
After partaking of the debauchery offered, the party made their way upstairs to the sound of creaking bed springs and other less pleasing noises. As Flynt, Merle and Kuthelaquin partook of the sleazy offerings, Baltimus left to go to his own room. Merle interrupted him as he was entertaining two ladies of the night offered him the ring. To the party's dismay, the ruler of Baltimus made his vigour roll and completely ignored the rings deadly magic. Other than a placebo affect, nothing else happened.
As the festivities wore on, Urghh made his way to a small window, jimmied it open and scaled the ivy outside on to the roof.
After everyone had left, he stealthily climbed down and waited for Bruno to retire for the night. As the exhausted ruler lay passed out in his bed, Urghh slid into his roof and unceremoniously smashed his head to pieces with his warhammer, slid down the outside wall, crept across the lawn and scaled the wall and made his way back to the inn where the rest of the party were.
Blood and gore still plastering his warhammer, it was fairly obvious to everyone what the Half-Ugak had done. Merle swore the few patrons to silence and paid them off, hoping they'd keep quiet about it.
Morkan was good to his word and presented Urghh with Versalis, who then promptly said "Swords aren't really my thing." and gave it to Merle.
The next day, on the way back to the ship, they were attacked by what they though was a yellowback raptor. It turned out to be an annoying parrot, mimicking the roar of the ferocious dinosaurs. Kuthelaquin threw it some biscuits and it revealed a conversation it had overheard about a tree stump and a treasure buried next to it.
After some searching, they found the burial site and dug up the small chest. Inside was a small fortune in pieces of eight, and another mysterious golden triangle.
Making their way back to the ship, the intrepid party headed north to the Kehanna flumes to find gold as part of the ritual elements they were asked to find by the elementalists of Bluth's Crown.
With a few minor scrapes they reached the flumes and Merle took a dinghy to one of the rocky volcanic outcrops and started digging for gold. After searching for two days they thought they had enough for the ritual and were about to make their way to the Binkley when the dinghy was attacked by massive electric eels. Not realising that using a metal weapon against them might be a bad idea, Merle and Urghh attacked fearlessly, and amazingly made their vigour rolls to resist the electrical discharge of the creatures. Easily killing them, the crew on the Binkley feasted on fresh meat that night. As they were hauling the 12 foot eels on board, Flynt noticed a dozen shark like heads swimming through the surf towards them, a Kehanna raiding party. Rather than fight the Kehanna, they made sail and headed towards the Flotsam sea.
Kuthelaquin at this point remembered a legend about the golden triangles, and how the 6 pieces were the key to unlocking the vast and unclaimed treasure of the pirate Readbeard Rufus.
As they made their way south easterly towards the sea, an unearthly storm engulfed the ship and they were attacked by an unholy ghostly ship. As it drew nearer, seemingly unaffected by the raging storm, the figure of Redbeard Rufus, the feared and now undead pirate could be seen pacing the deck. Screaming that they return his keys, the ghost pirate mercilessly attacked, cannonading the Binkley. Even though they were in the heart of a storm, the crew of the Binkley were about to outsail the undead pirate and managed to sink the Incinerator.
Carrying on into the Flotsam sea, they had a completely uneventful trip, straight through the morass of ruins and debris, not finding an earth ship with water on it.
