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Sun 17th Jul 2022 08:57

Another Ghostly Encounter

by Thomas Tallfellow

With the open fight night, still another day away, the party decided to spend their free evening prior to the fights investigating the disappearances that have been occurring in the canal district. They learned that the people disappearing were considered "undesirables", orphans, drunkards without families, etc and that the disappearances began when the party arrived in Little Pebbles. Spending the day planning for an attempt to capture whomever is responsible for this, the party decided to use Thomas as bait with Bob set up on a bridge over the canal with Eebrock and Jade hiding nearby. After dark, after all the activity in the canal district shut down, the party laid their trap. The bait worked, as the mist appeared just as the shadowy figure in the small canal boat made his appearance in an attempt to abduct Thomas. Thomas immediately identified the boatman as the same boatman they previously saw in the canals and also as the boatman helming the ship that attacked them on the Congenial Bastard en route to the Dwarven Isles. Thomas quickly marked his target and loosed a magical arrow, striking the boatman solidly. Unbeknownst to the party, the same vampiric mist that attacked them at sea was with the boatman again. This distracted Thomas, Jade and Eebrock, forcing them to deal with this threat while the boatman sped away, successfully eluding Bob on the bridge. The three party members fighting the vampiric mist dealt serious damage very quickly causing the mist to retreat into the water, becoming indistinguishable from the rest of the mist. Meanwhile, Bob had managed to leap from the bridge into the boat with the mysterious boatman but he was quickly ejected from the boat and into the canal. The boatman was far to fast for the party to put up any serious chase at this point so once again they came up empty handed. Eebrock managed to get a good look at the boatman and recalled some old arcane information about Merrenoloth, creatures not of this plane that pilot boats on the River Styx. They will occasionally enter into contracts and travel to this plane to fulfill them. Apparently, somebody wants to stop the Adventuring Gofers from completing their mission badly enough to make a deal with an underworldly creature to stop them.

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  1. The Beginning
  2. King Baptiste's Feast
  3. Pursuing the Goblins
  4. Nightstone Under Assault
  5. Nightstone's Last Stand
  6. Nightstone's New Troubles
  7. The Whispering Caves
  8. The Goblin Boss
  9. The Goblin's Prisoners
  10. Nightstone's Residents Come Home
  11. Returning the Crown
  12. The Council's Decision
  13. The Departure of the Congenial Bastard
  14. Turtle Bay
  15. The Party's New Look
  16. Arrival in the Dwarven Isles
  17. Cleansing the Mine
  18. Explaining the Mine Mission
  19. Exterminating the Fire Newts
  20. The Diner at the Edge of the Universe
  21. The Underground Fights
  22. Another Ghostly Encounter
  23. Jade and Eebrock's Fight
  24. Maxwell Boulder's Story
  25. Dino Island
  26. Cornelius Doolan's Mission
  27. The Dinosaur Research Cave
  28. The Crystal's Ultimate Purpose
  29. Return to Arcadia
  30. Something's Up in Arcadia
  31. The Rush to Nightstone
  32. The Comfy Room
  33. The Final Puzzle
  34. Chaos Erupts in Arcadia
  35. A Bold New Voyage
  36. The Derelict Ship
  37. The Rock of Bral
  38. Commodore Krux
  39. Trouble on Braal
  40. Off to See the Wizard
  41. The Wizard Topolah
  42. The Vampirates
  43. Retaking the Last Breath
  44. Off to Doomspace
  45. Vocath's Arena

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by 3 Armored Kittens · Prodromos v.1.1 - World Anvil 0.9.15.042 © 2017-2024 [en] | Anvil Time: 06:27, Nov 2 2024