The Chronicles of Risan: Part the Fourth

Venturing deeper into the volcano caves, we encountered two rock lobsters which liked the molten hot magma. After we dealt with them, we found there were other things that liked the magma. In fact, they were made of magna, using their internal heat to melt into the rock and extract ores, and chuck them into a rift into the fire plane...

We did try some negotiation, but the lack of speaking magmaese stopped us from coming to an understanding, and then the warlock got bored and attacked (an impetuous streak that another party member would suffer from). In the battle, the party's fire-based abilities proved... less than useful, and I (the damage magnet) reached a new nadir and momentarily passed out. However, we eventually proved ourselves victorious, and scored a magma blade (fire based weapon that literally drips magma)!

The locals were suitably impressed, and the priest told our tales (as he had accompanied us with the warlord out for the adventure). We set up a new colony and spent the time training up the savages to fight off the pirates and got our hands on some more shiny magical items (including a neat amulet I got).

We decided that the pirates would be good to deal with, and thought a good way to do this would be to get our own pirate ship then infiltrate the pirate ship flotilla. While searching, we investigated rumour of a large whale which we did find and proved less whaley and more woodeny. It was a large (extremely large) upturned ship with clockwork missiles and a form of a steam engine. And clockwork golems, but we managed to bash them without too many problems...

And lizard creatures. Or something like them. Rather than try to get them to help us ransack the ship, the other ranger thought that attacking was more interesting, and we got into another fight. I held an entire flank by myself, and even went into underwater fighting. The main chaps were defeated, but some little guys got away. We decided to leave the ship to them for now, and simply move on with our adventures.

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