The Kuari Princess it Ain't...
23 August 2007-
Well, we have continued with the cruise theme, although we're back with the GURPS: Fantasy party, and our accomodations are decidedly inferior. Our characters awakened to find themselves recovering from being drugged, chained in the hold of an orc pirate ship at sea... and then it got worse. The orcs appear to have been trying their hand at slave trading, and we had been singled out for special attention by someone (someone we will almost certainly want to devote equally special attention to when and if we return to Freeport). Consulting with the other captives below-decks confirmed that we were bound to be sold as slaves to a nation which often uses slaves for sorcerous experiments, and we soon learned that another ship had been spotted.
While we readied ourselves for an escape attempt (it's not clear where we would have gone if we had somehow escaped a ship full of orc pirates and a slaver galley while two or three days out at sea), we heard the other ship tie up alongside. We were soon paraded up on deck, where a party from the other ship came over to examine the goods. In addition to a chest full of cash for the deal, they had a sorcerer and his pet creature with them. Evidently, the creature needed a certain kind of blood to help transport his master to Hell (I'm sure one or all of us would have volunteered to help him get there sooner, but no one was thoughtful enough to ask). The blue creature picked out the centaur and a half-elf slave who was in the hold with us as likely donors, and the purchase was underway when the lookout spotted a Drow warship approaching. As you can guess, our reactions quickly went from "Drow have warships?" to "Can our situation get worse?" The pirates and the slavers immediately decided that their best plan was to just outrun the other guys, and let the unfortunate losers of this improvised race deal with the Drow on their own, and a fight broke out as the slavers tried to get back to their ship with the money.
The creature, though, took the opportunity of the general confusion to talk to the centaur and offer us a way out, which she was very quick to accept, given our other options. After a quick bite to get the blood, the creature opened up a gate to another plane, and it grew until the pirate ship slipped through into a torrential storm. All of us grabbed hold of anything at hand, and the ship smashed itself to pieces on some rocks- we don't know what happened to the slavers... or the Drow.
Next week, we assess our next new situation.
Well, we have continued with the cruise theme, although we're back with the GURPS: Fantasy party, and our accomodations are decidedly inferior. Our characters awakened to find themselves recovering from being drugged, chained in the hold of an orc pirate ship at sea... and then it got worse. The orcs appear to have been trying their hand at slave trading, and we had been singled out for special attention by someone (someone we will almost certainly want to devote equally special attention to when and if we return to Freeport). Consulting with the other captives below-decks confirmed that we were bound to be sold as slaves to a nation which often uses slaves for sorcerous experiments, and we soon learned that another ship had been spotted.
While we readied ourselves for an escape attempt (it's not clear where we would have gone if we had somehow escaped a ship full of orc pirates and a slaver galley while two or three days out at sea), we heard the other ship tie up alongside. We were soon paraded up on deck, where a party from the other ship came over to examine the goods. In addition to a chest full of cash for the deal, they had a sorcerer and his pet creature with them. Evidently, the creature needed a certain kind of blood to help transport his master to Hell (I'm sure one or all of us would have volunteered to help him get there sooner, but no one was thoughtful enough to ask). The blue creature picked out the centaur and a half-elf slave who was in the hold with us as likely donors, and the purchase was underway when the lookout spotted a Drow warship approaching. As you can guess, our reactions quickly went from "Drow have warships?" to "Can our situation get worse?" The pirates and the slavers immediately decided that their best plan was to just outrun the other guys, and let the unfortunate losers of this improvised race deal with the Drow on their own, and a fight broke out as the slavers tried to get back to their ship with the money.
The creature, though, took the opportunity of the general confusion to talk to the centaur and offer us a way out, which she was very quick to accept, given our other options. After a quick bite to get the blood, the creature opened up a gate to another plane, and it grew until the pirate ship slipped through into a torrential storm. All of us grabbed hold of anything at hand, and the ship smashed itself to pieces on some rocks- we don't know what happened to the slavers... or the Drow.
Next week, we assess our next new situation.
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