11/17/7: What Tombor Thinks Happened

At this point we’ve found the Cloud Ant — the ship from House Lyrandar. The elven captain is up on a ledge, cowering (typical).

After some chit-chat, Rafad, Daenerys and Coriell take out the orc guard who’s watching the dolgrims on a ledge at the other side of the chasm. The dolgrims are watching the elf. Dymphna and Chelba go after the elf. I stay behind to guard Vergus and make sure dolgrims don’t come this way.

Dymphna and Chelba get the elf (Aerdane), and they make their way back to the ship. There are still some dolgrims on a ledge.

Some lily-livered, misbegotten whelp of a whore smacks me upside the head with a mace out of nowhere — and around Vergus! I give him a pretty good slap with my great axe, Lucille. Apparantly Vergus knows this guy, and goes off to talk some sense to him. I hear some dolgrims, so I go to the ledge to see what’s going on.

Vergus comes back with mace boy, and he calls himself Nux “two thuds”. Whatever. By this point, it looks like Dymphna and the elf have fixed the ship enough to try to get it off the ground. It flies, but it’s pretty damaged in a couple of places. Give me a cave or tunnel any day.

Most of us jump onto the ship, and the captain gets us to lift off — just as some more dolgrims come by to try their luck. We kill a bunch. Dymphna works the ballista for a while, then Vergus takes over (he’s the expert, after all). Rafad and Daenerys go off into the captain’s quarters in search of Geoffrey the Pale’s box-o-biohazard (and whatever treasure they can find, no doubt).

Unexpectedly, a giant, tentacly-headed punk jumps onto the ship with some wolf-headed, lobster-clawed cronies who look like they’ve been beaten with the wrong end of a hobgoblin. Someone (maybe the DM?) yells that it’s a dulgaunt. Dymphna, Chelba, Coriell, Vergus and I attack it, but it heals up after every hit, unless we use a magical weapon. Dymphna has a magical sling-shot, and I think that Coriell has some sort of magical weapon, but other than that, we’re pretty screwed. The dolgaunt grabs Coriell and starts sucking her into himself — quite unpleasant. Coriell’s able to break free (with Dymphna’s help?), and the dolgaunt is lying prone.

As far as I know, Rafad and Daenerys are still in the captain’s quarters trying to get the damn box. A couple of the men from U.G.L.Y. have gone over there to see what they’re doing. I can hear a lot of banging, like the smashing of doors, and the dolgaunt’s henchmen are starting to damage the already weakened parts of the ship with their heavy-handed stomping around. We’re about sixty feet off of the ground at this point. I wouldn’t mind finding a previously overlooked treasure chest chock full of magical weapons…

– Tombor Auchentoshan

** No XP after this session — we’ll get some after we finish the battle.