Rumble in Skullport

Military: Skirmish

The crew head down to Skullport to confront Phaedra, but end up in the middle of a gang war.

The team decides they cannot wait for Boh to finish shopping or whatever and head down Skullport to confront Phaedra about what dirty deeds she's been pulling. They are starting to build the hypothesis that the shades are trying to raise another floating city like The City of Shade, and they're convinced that Phaedra has been supplying them with materials.

They head back to the Rudder, but she isn't to be found. As they're packing up and discussing their options a flaming skull screams down the street and at the center of town there seems to be a brawl starting. When the team investigates they they find Phaedra and her bodyguard, Skrum, stand back to back at an obelisk surrounded by about a dozen of the skulls who are all screeching "urbacide" and attacking them. When she see's the team she implores them for help, and they quickly decide to help, hoping to earn some good will in the questions they want to ask. Seconds into fighting more people start to show up, and start fighting the skulls; More undead show up and start fighting the living; the scene degrades into an all out brawl.

In the chaos, Erebus attempts to knock Phaedra unconscious on the sly, but fails and the fight becomes a 3 sided battle. The team hastily decides to kidnap Phaedra and teleport out, but her and Skrum manage to stay out of containment, swapping places and Phaedra even having what appeared to be some innate ability to jump shadows. As the battle raged Skrum made a heroic lunge at Gaeika in her dragon form and hurt her to the point she had to withdraw. KT and Erebus focus on Skrum, dropping him and leaving Phaedra on her own.

Phaedra manages to keep hidden from the team as the battle still rages, Only appearing after another 30 seconds or so had past back at the obelisk where the team found her. She grabbed a talisman that was stuck to the obelisk and shadow walks out, leaving Skrum's corpse. As soon as she's gone there is a deep resounding crack, making KT's instinctual hackles rise, every dwarf knows that sound. The crew gather quickly, grab Skrum's body and teleport out before the cavern that contains Skullport collapses.