The Chronicles of Risan: Part the Third

Interesting day today. Got attacked by pirates. Yeah. That was fun. I was once again the damage magnet as most of the blaggards were on the main deck, as was I, as was not my allies. (Speaking of which, our valiant paladin was out of action for the meanwhile, but we did have our Elven archer, Feydan, at hand.) While we finally managed to put paid to the brutes, and their ship was sinking, we suddenly faced a dilemma as screams from the bowels of the pirate ship was heard.

Myself and Lia dived for the prisoners, while the rest of the team raided the Captain's quarters. (It's good to know that if push came to shove, my teammates would rather grab the treasure chest than save the hostages...) We rescued some recently captured slaves, and were presented with a number of options: return the slaves to their primitive isle, go to a nearby trading port, or try to find the floating pirate base.

Finally, sanity prevailed and several days later we returned the freed ones to their village. Their island looked very interesting, with resources for the taking, and while we considered cutting them down and taking everything, we eventually pumped for finding out about the big teeth monsters they were having trouble with. While heading into the bush, we passed a temple erected by previous travelers to this land, and there is definitely something to followup on, but not right now.

Getting into a cave, we came across Drakes (overgrown lizards). Battle was joined, and we came very, VERY close to many of us dying (myself was this close to the point of death). Eventually we overcame the odds, and found the remainders of the lizards cowering from us and something else deeper in the caves.

Pausing for a rest, we resolved to investigate further...

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