Seebo: Out of the Fire

The first day was tough. I don't think any of us spoke to each other. I'm not ashamed to say I felt a strong sense of loss over what happened in Saragost. We later learned that Lady Arigane still survived in her sanctuary. The Drow couldn't break through the powerful magic the wizards of the Seven Archways were protecting themselves with. Crastic came out of hiding and took up rule over the city. He executed the rebels, most notably the Commander of the city guard; I forget his name. All in all, it could have been far worse I think.

We were safely away from Saragost and on our way to Caldraza in search of the Ragged Man, someone who could shed a little light on our predecessors. About halfway through the voyage, the lookout spotted land. "Now wait just a second, halfway you say? You're in the middle of the ocean!" True enough. You see, Astercote floated by. Yes that's right, floated. At least we knew the city was relatively safe though we still had no idea how it was possible. I mean I've seen Rygorh fly, Neil used some powerful mojo to do that, but I can't imagine what it would take to float a city.

That's about the time the trouble started. From out of nowhere this flying demon woman grabbed Neil and the lookout from the crow's nest, pulling them towards her as she hovered above the ship. Neil used his magic to break free but the sailor was dropped to the deck below. He didn't make it, poor guy.

So, yeah, the two demon women started to engage us. Yeah, that's right, two of them. The other one was hiding somewhere off to the side out of sight. It was a brutal fight, we were mostly ineffective. The demon women shot flaming arrows at the sails and burned them up pretty damn thoroughly.

Then they left. It was the oddest thing. Why attack and then just leave when you know you're obviously winning. When I say we were completely ineffective, I mean completely and utterly ineffective. Well, it wasn't really that much of a mystery as we found out later. So the sailors pulled out the oars and started rowing.

So what's the big mystery you ask? I'll tell you. With the sails burned and the ship moving under rowing power, you can imagine we were going a lot slower than before. This gave the other ship ample time to catch up; yup, the other ship. They paced us throughout the day but as dusk fell they approached. We all had a bad feeling about it so we prepared ourselves for the worst.

And the worst wasn't so bad. Yeah, it was full of Drow, and sure they tried to kill us but that's nothing new. We were old veterans by now, having just come out of Saragost. There was one guy who thought he was something special. Rygorh and Dinah put him in his place. You know, Dinah, the paladin. Oh I didn't tell you about her?

Just before Astercote flew by, we came upon wreckage in the water. There were two women among the floating debris; one was treading water while the other was struggling just to keep her head up. It turned out that these two women that we rescued just happened to be Starborn. What a handy coincidence! Actually I wasn't surprised. It wasn't the first time the crazy lady dropped a couple of Starborn in on us randomly. I'm guessing that as she finds more of them, we'll all kind of band together. There were ten of us, now there were twelve, although we lost track of three of them during the whole Chillhame Saragost incident.

So anyway, Dinah was a paladin and the other woman was a bard, Lorelei. Let me tell you something about bards and paladins: the female ones are amazingly hot. The paladin had this strong, "I'm the boss" kind of hotness to her while the bard was more of a sweet and mischievous sort of hotness. Suffice it to say, it was a good day pulling two hot women out of the water.

But of course that didn't last. So the Drow pulled up on us and shrouded our ship in darkness, thinking that would throw us off, the fools. While Rygorh and Dinah played with their "special" friend, I plunged into the darkness cutting down anyone in my way. That's right; I boarded the ship as the rest of us cleaned up.

With the Drow defeated, we decided to claim their ship for ourselves. Neil suggested renaming it the Evening Star, a fitting name. I claimed the captain's chair and we promoted the captain of the Elensil to commodore over the fleet. A few days later, we arrived in Crescent City. That's when the real fun began.

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