Ft Doom to Specularum
(11-Jul-06)
"Stanley" : Stanley Doff (Ian Luxton),
Human Psi, ESP
"Opera" : Opera Winifrey (Shane Barr),
Human Priest, 21
"Ooo! I wonder how these work," mused Zippo.
He pressed the two vampire fangs against his canines, and SNOP. They slid in, nicely rooted.
"Ooops," said Zippo. He smiled "raaaarh!"
Luckily, perhaps for all and sundry, Zippo suddenly sank into a restless haunted sleep as waves of The Marmalade overcame him.
And Lon. And Randy. And Bookem.
"Pack those malcontents into barrels," came the order from Captain Tremain (of the Meme).
This was done and the barrels, slowly filling with marmalade, were loaded into the hold of the ship.
It was an uneventful eight day trip from Fort Doom to Specularum.
"Thank Vingt et un for that," mused Opera Winifrey wryly. "It is amazing how little trouble we get into when so many
of the group are Marmalading."
Stanley nodded hard in agreement.
Just outside the Specularum breakwater, the Meme encountered a frigate from the Specularum navy. It sailed very close to the
Meme; magical eye-glasses examined the decks intimately and intensely.
A flurry of signal flags went up on both ships and they had some kind of stilted conversation.
- Frigate:
Please stop [ "stop carrying out your intentions and watch for my signals." ]
- Meme:
Go fuck yourself [ "keep clear of me, I am manoeuvring with difficulty." ]
- Frigate:
Stop [ "you should stop, I have something to communicate" ]
- Meme:
Piss off [ "my vessel is healthy and I request free pratique" ]
- Frigate:
STOP! [ "you should stop your vessel instantly" ]
- Meme:
"I have a priest on board"
- Frigate:
Stop NOW! [ "you should stop your vessel instantly" "you are standing into danger" ]
- Meme:
Yes SIR! [ "affirmative" "affirmative" ]
- Frigate:
"Seen Gargoyle?"
- Meme:
A monster?
- Frigate:
Ship, you idiot
- Meme:
No.
The Specularum pilot boat soon joined the Meme and the pilot steered the ship through the breakwater maze into port.
In the Specularum port itself, the Shibboleth was there all right, but it was a skeleton of its former self — literally.
The Specularum Militia had arrested the crew and gone over the boat with an extra-fine tooth-comb.
[ Recall, Stanley had sent a psi message to Lieutenant Pigeon, Captain Osterman's Adjutant, warning of the mid-sea boat swap. ]
The fine tooth-comb examination was still in progress, and half the hull of the Shibboleth had already been disassembled.
C.S.I.s (Charming Specularum Investigators) were swarming over the bits left.
Stanley managed to flag down a militia officer on the wharf, and a covered wagon was arranged to transport him, Opera and the barrels
to the safety of the Specularum barracks.
The wanted posters for Lon Gon had no reached 10,000gp. What is more, each party member (sans Min O'Taur) now had their own
reward posters, 1000 go each.
Opera went to visit the Great Cathedral of REAL. She told the High Priestess about Zippo's amulet off the vampire (from Fort Doom).
An Undead Tactical Response Team was dispatched. They confronted Zippo in the Barracks, and managed to "convince" him to give up
the evil amulet. They took it away to be destroyed. As reward, they presented the party with a Raise Dead scroll.
AE