The Chronicles of Risan: Part the Seventeenth

Once again it was just three (Alrick, Lia, myself) because the other two (the dwarf and the swordmage) got nicked! It was the middle of the night when suddenly we were attacked by a group of fishmen (worshippers of Dagon? Hmm... wrong game, methinks)! The attackers weren’t that tough to be honest, and the remainders that we were fighting dived into the ocean rather than continue the fight… but when they were gone, so were our comrades!

The sword was reminded of a nearby outpost that might have been known for creating those kinds of creatures, and thus we were on our way. The outpost itself was a rather decrepit sight, full of disrepair, but there was one old man still there, working on maintaining what might well be described as a giant submersible metal lobster (also known as an Apparatus of Kwalish). And, it turns out, that the creatures we encountered were from a nearby underwater city... wow, it was amazingly convenient that we managed to get a submarine right when the plot revealed an underwater city, but let’s not talk about that right now.

We take the lobster for a test drive, but it wasn’t easy to either control or work out where we are, and very nearly either collapse the ship due to pressure, have it fill with water via the leak or loose ourselves in the sea. Eventually we spy the city and a nearer cave of, according to the inaccurate map, the black dragon... ! Most likely, the two were taken to be sacrifices to the dragon, so we head for that.

Once out, we head in through a passage… and was attacked! Some of those particular creatures were particularly hard and pounded me something serious. There were also swarms of fish, but really one creature thumped and thumped hard and I was the lucky recipient. We still managed to kill him, but couldn’t spend too long in the water before the dragon we knew was coming and I was not looking good going into the last fight.

The dragon tried to tempt us, but we thought beating it up would be a better idea, although there were two more swarms of fish (that swam in the air!) to aid it. The fight started moderately well, pinning the dragon, but one swarm just stuck to me and hammered me (not that the dragon didn’t get some bashing in either). Yeah… I fell down… started dying... and the swarm continued to attack me... Although the warlord came to my aid, I continued to be done over and came very, very, very close to dying...

However, I found out later, the warlock had been beating on the dragon by herself and also dealing with another swarm. By the time the warlord came to her aid, she was down… and the swarm... the dragon died... the swarm died... and the warlock died...

Another price has been paid in our ongoing missions...

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