Operation Parameters
| Date |
1492 DR, 21 Eleint
(21/04/2022)
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| Soldiers |
Tavvok, Aceso, Virgil, Orilio, Aujirgix |
| Status |
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| Casualties |
None |
Objective
During the last mission Tavvok and Aceso teleported into the city to join the party after meeting with the Emerald Enclave. The others had made their way to the capital along with the rest of the camp the night before.
Observations
During the festival the city was attacked from the water (docks)
The Jim(s) teleported the King somewhere
Tel yells to the docks!
As we got to the docks, we noticed:
very little left of navy in the docks
see the bay infested with fins
- massive creatures
- mix of shark and humanoid
- flesh grey
- wielding tritons
Tel and Rem pushing forward
- "get to a ship"; points to one of the few functional ship
Voice in our heads - Cpt Tel
secured the king
eyes on our destination
head to the north-east; it will be hard to miss us!
following a ship that is sailing ahead of us away
the sails are black
the flag is Black - skull and cross bones
this ship is unnaturally fast
Faint glow still coming from the direction of the capital
- that pillar of light is massive
small rocks seem to push up
- faintest bits of wood in the rocks
but past these rocks, there is a ship wreck on pretty obvious rocks
- half a ship is beached on them, and the rest is sunk
- would have almost needed to steer into it.
Look down, and see blackness, and movement...
- peering up from the water... a single massive red eye
- tentacles blast out of the water
- giant squid like creature... 30 feet wide/long; long tentacles
Aceso was able to banish the young Kraken, but only after our ship was heavily damaged. We continued to limp north-east as instructed, with people bailing as best they could.
In the end, we just made it to a massive ship, as what was left of our ship sunk.
el makes her way up:
- I think we're getting close
- Once we get close, we shall go over the plan
- we did not expect the Krakens...
Tavvok:
"Why didn't we go back to Camp?"
Tel:
points to the giant white light in the distance... "all will be made clear"
Follow up
We have been told that we'll be addressed soon, and provided with the answers we seek.
Preparation Details
Operation Details
A good number of capital guards are around. Two guards are getting drunk.
Sirius and Tavvok have some banter back and forth.
Tavvok tries to tell him a story, and he suddenly had "something to do", and left.
Tavvok orders more ale; we order some food (Aceso asks for some fruit and salad)
Orilio notices:
one red headed guard , and one blonde one: points in our direction
a tail slips under one of the tables... )
These two men make their way over to us
- "do you want to join the guard?"
- Orilio offered that he might be interested.
We notice slight bump under the table to the north of us.
- hear "oh shit."
- "hunched under the table - possum like creature" - named "Atropos"
- (K3) - he's been around for awhile... but not interacting with soldiers
- title: Atropos, "Lord of death and decay"
- beast
- immune to all non-magical damage
- seems to be drinking and eating scraps in the area
- he's pretty good at what he does
- his whole thing is how Aujirgix was able to deal with the war camp to the south of us
- Asked Atropos if he had more of that "potion"
- not sure what Aujirgix was talking about
Tavvok Tongue
- consumed some sort of mild nerve agent from Aujirgix... cannot speak well
Party is picking up as time goes on
- Tel and Rem
- main seat of the table is vacant -- likely for the King
- flap would open... start of fanfare
- Jim standing near the tent
- points towards the harbor
- grabs the king and disappears
- last rays of sunlight pass, and then suddenly a GLOW.
- the glow is intense... the cloud cover is also THICK in that direction far away
- massive pillar of smoke rises from the ocean
- a war horn sound
Tel and Rem bolt out of their seats:
TO THE DOCKS!
Sirius has Steabe and Atropos under his arms... running in the other direction
Aujirgix slaps Tavvok - fixes his drunkenness
Hear a massive impact and flames in the direction towards the docks
all the other soldiers are running through
hear steel meeting steel
As we go through the docks (10-15 minutes)
no navy on the docks
see the bay infested with fins
- massive creatures
- mix of shark and humanoid
- flesh grey
- wielding tritons
Tel and Rem pushing forward
- "get to a ship"; points to one of the few functional ship
make our way into the docks
two of these shark like creatures jump from the water onto the docks
- block our way
- look at the ship, and then back at us
A third one appears
- goes after Virgil
Tavvok knocked into the water
Aujirgix jumps into the water and attacks
Tavvok gets out of the water, a shark jumps at him, and he catches it.
In the end we are able to kill these 3 deformed shark humanoid creatures; 3 normal sharks
We all make it to the boat.
Aujirgix taking half a shark
Orilio + Tavvok:
- pull up acore
Aceso:
- able to steer away from the dock
- following a ship that is sailing ahead of us away
- the sails are black
- the flag is Black - skull and cross bones
- but not a human skull... almost draconic
- sailing ahead of us
- not aggressive
Voice in our heads - Cpt Tel
secured the king
eyes on our destination
head to the north-east; it will be hard to miss us!
Aujirgix: smacks him to remove the numb tongue
this ship is unnaturally fast
- should not be possible!
Lose sight of the ship in about 30 mins
whatever is propelling it, it gets FAR ahead of us
Faint glow still coming from the direction of the capital
- that pillar of light is massive
sailing to the northeast in the direction that Tel told us to
there is little that impedes us for a period of time
gather ourselves, and don't see anything for a couple of hours.
Tavvok sings a sea shanty of sorts
- he is quite good; you should ask him to perform for you
small rocks seem to push up
- faintest bits of wood in the rocks
but past these rocks, there is a ship wreck on pretty obvious rocks
- half a ship is beached on them, and the rest is sunk
- would have almost needed to steer into it.
Look down, and see blackness, and movement...
- peering up from the water... a single massive red eye
- tentacles blast out of the water
- giant squid like creature... 30 feet wide/long; long tentacles
There are ballista on the back of the ship
it's climbing on the ship
small funnel cloud... lightning flashes down.
Aceso tries to continue driving
Tavvok is grabbed and thrown high into the air
slices off a large slice of one of the tentacles
roar of pain
2 tentacles slam down toward Aceso and Orilio
grabs Aceso
Tavvok cuts off the the tentacle holding Aceso
Aceso is freed
It smashes the boat; we are taking on water.
Aceso BANISHES HIM!
We go as fast as we can possibly go...
It does seem
Sending to Tel:
Encountered Kraken. Escaped, but sinking quickly. Still heading in the requested direction.
purposely saying nothing that would be important if
From Tel:
You should be close.
odd twing
- someone else in your head -- Sirius: "Don't you know it can be intercepted..."
We continue to push forward with Aceso at the helm; Tavvok and Orilio bail the entire time. Get exhausted.
See a massive ship.
Blonde hair; blue attire standing on the back-end:
- gesture toward us
- appears to be a ship with Sirius on the back
- watches us approach
- drinking the flask
- throws life preservers into the water at Aceso
- our ship sinks under the water... about 40 feet away from this massive ship
- see the black sail galleon ahead of us...
- Aceso asked who was on that ship, and he just put his fingers to his lips
- after talking with us briefly about the situation...
- Sirius teleports to the other ship with the black sails...
- doesn't seem that there are any other ships left other than this big one we caught up to, and the black gallion
Tel makes her way up:
- I think we're getting close
- Once we get close, we shall go over the plan
- we did not expect the Krakens...
Tavvok:
"Why didn't we go back to Camp?"
Tel:
points to the giant white light in the distance... "all will be made clear"
