Sunday, January 13, 2013

Chronology - Escape from the Islands

19th of Rahat: After spending 7 days clearing the ship and discovering that most of their powers were "sealed" by the restoration of the falconship's core, our heroes want to get a bearing and news from the main land. They decide to head for Hawa, city of Chaos. Since it is ruled by the corsairs, they have more chance to not get noticed outright. On their way, they decide to attract even less attention to themselves and elect to land on Al-Hada'iq (the island of Gardens).

21st of Rahat: Our heroes arrive on the island as night falls and land a decent distance from the island's only village, Al-Azra Wabi, near the river of Palms. they decide to head for the village early the next day.

22nd of Rahat: Our heroes arrive in town and try yo hire a boat to make their way to Hawa, only to learn the local ruler as "nationalized" all the boats and none are available. Our heroes come up with a plan to get an audience with the ruler by preparing a very elaborate fish dish. While they gather what they need to pull this off, they are approached by men-at-arms of the Prince who want to "tax" them for their arrival in town. A quick fight ensues where our Heroes meet the captain of the guard, a lizard man man Dar'li. He promises our heroes to get them an audience the very next day.

23rd of Rahat: Our heroes show up at the keep of the local ruler and are greeted cordially until guards of the Prince barge in and they are accused of murdering lawful reprentatives of teh government, Dar'li defends the heroes by proclaming that the agents started the fight and the heroes were only defending themselves. While the prince fumed, his father puts our heroes on trial by deeds. They have to claim an ancient book that was written before the law of the Loregiver was introduced. Success means the heroes are innocent. Dar'li, now accused of conspiracy, is to accompany them in the abandonned ruins of a wizards tower. As sunset approches, our heroes are escorted to the entrance of the lower level of the catacombs where they must extract the  book.

Our heroes face many challenges, the undead, traps and giant spiders to assemle the dimensonial doorway to the inner lab where the ghost of the necromancer attached them. They manage to overcome the undead wizard and claim the book bound in cured flesh. It makes contact with Farooq and the group decides to deceive the prince and his father by fabricating a fake since they never saw the book.

24th of Rahat: Our heroes come out of the ruins without Dar'li, which died in the trapped room. The prince tries to double cross them as he orders his men to kill our heroes as he leaves with the fake book, the original safely stached in Farooq's backpack. After dispatching the princes men, they take the remaining boat and set sail for Hawa. After two days of navigating the waters of Corsair Domains, our heroes are approaching Chaos Bay, gateway to Hawa...

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