River Pirates.

A Black-Sailed ship.


Dear Journal,

We (Priestess of Chauntea named Anna Blake, Warrior named Fodel & i, Chea Allin) were heading south to find adventure & adventure found us instead.

During a Riverboat travel we saw Black Sailed pirate ship approaching us ...

... but perhaps i'll attach a page with transcript of Peltarch Defender scribe's, with Anna's Report & comments.

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While working on the fields, she would even invite one of her commanding officers as well, wanting to give them an oral report of what transpired, when it came time for the great feast at the end of the tenday evening, Anna would recollect the story of how the brave and mighty hero of the fields Fodel, the amazing witch Chea, and herself managed to save a young girl that had been kidnapped from Peltarch!

'We were heading down to Norwick with the Riverboat to offer a blessing to the land on my day off, and help them deal with some of the nasty undead riffraff. As we were getting nearer and nearer, there was a large pirate ship that had ambushed us at the crevas where I had once traveled to fight the undead Eastlanders!'

'Well, they managed to catch up to the Riverboat quickly, and had offered us the ultimatum to surrender!'

Anna would grin!

'Us, surrender? You think we'd surrender to pirates? No way! With Chauntea's gift, I summoned a very big fire elemental on their ship, and told them to sail away and back off or there will be trouble, threatening to burn it down! Well... suffice to say, they didn't like that! So, before I could get a chance to burn the villain down, many nasty pirates emerged, all servants of the evil sea queen! They might notice that she refrains from cussing at this point with possible children present! The amazing ally and witch Chea offered us some protections in turn, and then turned invisible, to watch us fromt he shadows with her mystic magic powers!'

'One by one, they were cut down! I held them off, while Fodel with his mighty scythe fell them, one by one, meanwhile Chea did a valiant job healing us in turn, as these brutes were very nasty!. Their archers in turn then came out and began shooting us! But, from a previous adventure, I got this neat magic wand and ZAP, they started shooting each other instead! Then, with a mighty leap, Fodel jumped over and kicked their butts! Hearing voices from their door leading down below, including a girl crying, Fodel heard a little girl crying.'

Anna would drum her fingers over the table, as if creeping down the stairs then.

'From there, we went down and we knew then and there we had someone to save. We saw some trip wires, but Chea managed to disable them with her magic! The pirates weren't too happy though, and again, we offered them a chance for mercy, but they refused to comply! Fodel had enough of their rubbish and charged in bravely, like shepherd protecting his flock from wolves, knowing that if he failed the little girl could not be saved, he brought them down one by one! We had checked the chest to see if the girl might have had been trapped inside, but instead we pirated the pirates, taking their coin! The next room following, Chea managed to stop the traps again!'

A look of concern visible on her face though.

'These men were different though, powerful priests of Umberlee, they summoned powerful elementals that almost took us down, and lightning from the sky (through a ship-window)! We barely managed to beat 'em, but defeat them we did! Healing up with potions, very few blessings left on my part as we were going to Norwick to pray, we drank many-a-potion to gather our bearings. This door though was quite durable so I turned into a celestial beast of burden Chauntea herself had granted me the form to, and MOOOOO! Headbutted the heck out of that door, smashing it down!'

She puts fingers to her head, making horns and does a charging gesture!

'Bonk! Door smashed open, we went down, and we finally caught up to their boss... and the girl in a cage behind her. With a flaming crossbow in one hand and sword in the other, he was terrified! I could tell he didn't want to die with how scared he was, but he also had it set up so the ship would blow if he had no choice. Well... no blessings from Chauntea left, we had to rely on our wits! He aimed the crossbow at the girl, but with a greatsword in his other hand, even if point blank, we knew that we had to do something to disrupt his concentration! I told him I would let him go, and write him a document saying he would be free to leave as I pulled out parchment... well...'

She would grin and take the nearest person under her arm, then cover his eyes.

'It was a scroll of darkness, lights went out!' She'd grin and give the person she grabbed a small hug, then let them go. Fodel shouted for the girl to duck, but at that point he dropped his crossbow, so startled that we charged in. Once the lights came back on though, he reached for it again as it fell on the floor, but I stomped the flame out! This fellow was really, REALLY tough, and it took us both a potion of Heal and what little of Chauntea's might left I could muster to bring him down. But down he fell! We took his key then, let little Anna out!'

Anna giggles, and grins! A look of pride and accomplishment glowing about her!

'Yup, she had the same name as me! Well, anyway, covering her eyes so she wouldn't see the mess of dead pirate baddies, Chea carried her out, Fodel and I exhausted and worn, we made our way back on deck. Then, at this point, we decided to out-pirate the pirates, and took their whole ship! Its now docked up north, crown property! We're having the pirates cremated so they don't come back as undead water zombies! And best of all, we brought little Anna back to her father! Though its bittersweet that the guard had fallen, he will be remembered as a hero who did his best to protect little Anna! All said and done, overall, it was a pretty fun journey!'

Anna would inform her superior she would document this in writing, perhaps with a little less enthusiasm if he wished, but does reaffirm that all that had transpired was truth, and that order had been restored once more to the river valley.

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Author's note: Transcript's credits to Mooncandies, a Narfell player of Anna Blake's character among others & author of the above text-part. Blog's author did a few of small edits so it's better language even for small kids.
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Dear Journal,

... this trip was very potion-expensive, i've used up my 'Medal of Valour' till it crumbled & vanished as well .... but seeing girl free and happy made it well worth.

we captured Pirate Ship too, makes for a good tale ... perhaps will add to Rank advance arguments for future in Peltarch too.

Peltarch Sea-Forces will make a good use of it as well.

there were rewards:
- a 'Ring of Scholars' (recovered from pirates' hands),
- a 'Potion of Heal' (reward from Evandar Valvick, girl's dad),
- a lot of boat-tickets from Cpt. Sticks - a reward of gratitude for protecting his Riverboat,
- a little over 600 gp (recovered from pirates' chests).

... other items are either in other adventurers' hands, or kept by Anna Blake for sale; perhaps there will be more of gold-coins for selling these as well.

-- Yours, Chea Allin, an Adventuress & a Cerulean Star 2nd.




Ultimatum.




After Deck-Fight,

Ship-holes were mended with Anna's Magic.



Interiors.




A Polymorph Self in use,

An ox-beast to ram the doors.




Girl.




Darkness.




Rescued.




Dad.




A 'Ring of Scholars'.