Sunday December 18, 2022@ 1:30-4:30 P.M.
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DAY 334
PLACE: DEVIL'S CROSS, FLOTSAM SEA
WEATHER: OVERCAST
TIME OF DAY: NOON
La Arcadia
and the Kraken Greatship arrived at the center of the Flotsam Sea. The
Great Admiral Caspian told Horventerous he would need a human from
another world to activate the Kraken Sphere...
...So the ship surgeon went on over to the Kraken Greatship.
Two rituals were performed. One to crack open the Kraken Sphere on the Kraken Greatship. Another to summon the Sea Hags on La Arcadia by spilling the water from Earth and invoking the names of the Sea Hags. Horventerous said, "Mala Mallus, Maka Mallus, and Mana Mallus I summon thee!" A misty form appeared, that of the Maiden heralding the arrival of her sisters before disappearing again.
The gargantuan Sea Hags could only be seen from the waist up with their legs extending to the bottom of the Flotsam Sea. The summoned hags parleyed with Horventerous for a bit. The sight of the Sea Hags sent Prince Alain Amemnus cowering into the ship's hold and the ship's crew panicked running to the starboard side of the deck. The Sea Hags grew bored of Horventerous and all started chanting.
[Poor Alain. Some themes just don't change.]
Cyrus Black attempted to rouse the crew out of their fear but did not succeed.
Natsu Nara cast heavy bolt on Mala Mallus but she dodged out of the way of his earthen cannonball.
Draco swam out an attacked Mala Mallus with his dagger, but couldn't pierce her sagging skin.
[Andrew played Revelation to figure out the Sea Hags weakness. I told him the Sword of King Amemnus, currently in Chug's hands at the ship's helm.]
Nimue glided down from the crow's nest and grabbed the sword from Chug. She handed it to Pinecone. Pinecone swam into the Flotsam Sea trying to get it to Draco.
Tar-Tar shot at Mala Mallus but the cannonball ricocheted off her skin.
[Shaune played Epiphany to get a d6 shooting for Tar-Tar.]
Horventerous
attempted to hit Mala Mallus with a heavy water bolt. The jet of water
deflected off her gray, rotten skin ineffectually. A muffled voice came from his satchel. When he opened it up, the shrunken head of an Archmage asked if he was going to fulfill his destiny in a sarcastic way. Horventerous grabbed the Archmage's head and used it to cast maximized fly on the closest two characters, Tar-Tar and Natsu Nara.
At the end of the round, the Sea Hags completed their summoning which brought forth zombies and octopons onto the bulwark of the two ships and eight giant octopi with four ridden by octopon warlocks in the Flotsam surrounding the two ships in the four cardinal directions.
But the other ritual was also completed. A massive elemental made of air, earth, fire, and wind, the terrormental, strode towards Mala Mallus and she exploded. The terrormental turned towards the two remaining hags and managed to send out elemental rays that wounded Maka and Mana Mallus. But the combined power of Maka and Mana Mallus shot out two green eldritch blasts that melted the terrormental into flaming mud that sizzled and sunk into the Flotsam Sea.
Tar-Tar flew out and grabbed the Sword of King Amemnus from Pinecone. Then he flew over and handed it to Draco.
Draco swam towards Maka Mallus and acrobatically flipped his dagger into his offhand and the Sword of King Amemnus into his primary hand. In a frenzy, he managed to wound Maka Mallus.
[Nick played Spurred On to reach Maka Mallus and then used Seize the Day with a Benny to activate his Mighty Blow edge.]
Natsu Nara flew over to Maka Mallus and cast burst twice. The Sea Hag was unsteady after the second hit.
[Summer used Adrenaline Surge to use burst twice. I soaked the first hit but Maka Mallus was Shaken again on the second strike.]
Nimue ran over and shot her cannon at Maka Mallus. The cannonball deflected off her rotting skin. Pinecone hit a giant octopus with his maul but it bounced off the rubbery integument of the octopus.
Cyrus Black managed to get the crew's fear in control to have them retake positions on the port side of the ship and reload the cannons fired by Nimue and Pinecone.
Maka Mallus called down a lightning bolt at Draco and wounded him.
Mana Mallus hit La Arcadia with a lightning strike but Chug just barely managed to move the ship out of the way at the last instant.
[Chug burned both his Bennies on Ace. If it had hit, it would have wounded the ship and hit him with the lightning too!]
The octopon warlocks cast deflection on themselves. Two giant octopi attacked La Arcadia but to no effect. But those that attacked the Kraken Greatship ripped it to pieces. The giant octopus that Pinecone had struck, countered and hit Pinecone for two wounds and grappled him. Another giant octopus attacked Tar-Tar but he managed to avoid it by flying straight up while tossing a hatchet at it that missed.
The zombies and octopons on La Arcadia's bulwark failed to advance.
[I failed both of their group climbing rolls. I also critically failed one of the giant octopus rolls against La Arcadia, forfeiting three more attacks.]
The octopons fought the Kraken that fell into the Flotsam Sea after the destruction of the Kraken Greatship. Zombies mostly fell into the Flotsam Sea as the Kraken Greatship fell apart while some managed to hold on to flotsam or Kraken warriors.
Horventerous saw Great Admiral Caspian
wave a tentacle goodbye at him, as if to say this was it for the Kraken
race, as the Kraken Greatship split in four pieces. Horventerous cast heavy bolt at
Maka Mallus to little effect. The shrunken head cast beast friend on the giant octopus holding Pinecone, saving his life from a crushing attack. Pinecone's life was indirectly saved by the orders of the Kraken he worshiped.
[Horventerous and Draco got Jokers and I knew it was about to be over.]
Draco killed Maka Mallus with the Sword of King Amemnus. With a determination in his eyes, he began swimming towards Mana Mallus.
Horventerous cast heavy bolt at Mana Mallus. She was wounded. The shrunken head cast beast friend on the giant octopus attacking Tar-Tar.
[Andrew used Bennies to play Extra Effort and Payback to up his accuracy and damage with better results than the previous turns.]
After the magical assault, Draco reached Mana Mallus and cut her in half at the waist.
[Nick played Deadly Blow. Which plus Mighty Blow from the Joker is x4 damage, so 64 total from a base of 16.]
With that the Sea Hags fell into the Flotsam Sea. Their octopon servants had their flesh melted off to reveal the corpses of Masaquani beneath the skin. Animated zombies became lifeless corpses again. The desiccated head of an Archmage crumbed to dust in the hands of Horventerous. The lightning storm faded to a light rain. The Maiden, Mara Mallus, appeared and offered a way out of Caribdus for humans to return to Earth. The former slave, Cyrus Black, refused to return to the Earth where he had been mistreated and enslaved. Mara Mallus then dove off La Arcadia into the Flotsam Sea falling like a heavy stone to the bottom. The rain stopped, the clouds parted, and the sun shone on the Flotsam Sea for the first time in 13 years. The curse was lifted and the flooding of Caribdus was finally ended.
With that the group dove into the Flotsam Sea and pulled out five King's Ransoms worth of treasure from the ruined city of Ograpog. Then Chug set a course for Brigandy Bay to carouse and tell the tale of how they saved the world.
Cyrus Black tried to read the Tome that had been found at the bottom of the Flotsam Sea. It did not impart magic to him. It seemed that the ability to learn elemental magic had been lost but why? The death of the Sea Hags? Or was it something else?
With the Sea Hags defeated, it was not long before the Kieran Empire declared war on the Spanish. As part of the Coalition, the group once again allied with the Spanish. This time to fight the Kieran Empire...
[End of campaign.]
XP: 3
LOOT: 17,500 pieces of eight, magic cannon, red eyepatch, magic compass, magic crossbow, tome.
MAPS
DramaScape's Above Decks Volume Two: Smuggler's Sloop and The Wave Cutter Smuggler's Sloop side print on demand used for La Arcadia.
MINIATURES
Tri-folds
used are from 50 Fathoms Figure Flats and the metal Kraken
miniature made by Pinnacle Entertainment Group.
Miniature ships used include a ship from Letters of Marque by Fantasy Flight Games and a porcelain ship from Red Rose Tea.
