Ok, this is going to be long. Grab yourself anice cold drink;sit back and relax. First of all, we had a guest player, Awlgnume, from the board,(Hi Karl!), who was visiting BJR from Texas. Also, the player who plays Aerin was unable to play (college bound), so her sister came in her place and created a new character, a priest.The crew is split into two groups at the moment. At the dock, by the ship, is Mario, Geran, Pieter, and Aerin who are confronted by a high ranking priestess, several of her henchmen, and lots of gun from the people on the ships that line the dock.The Priestess calls for them to give up and lay down their weapons. She calls out to Mario by name,telling him that she knows he killed his mentor, and that he needed to be absolved of his sins. Mario is slightly suprised, as only we on the ship supposidlyknew that information. He takes the initiative, leaps to the right side, bounding off the side of a ship, to propell himself forward, and jumps down between the dock and a ship, to land in the water, under the dock.Father down the dock, a Vaticine priest, (not of the inquisition), who had come upon the quiet dock, after a couple of the ships had exploded, and about half of the townsfolk were at the other end of the docks trying to put out the fire, and thought that something was suspisious, had gotten too close and was also told to halt. She also leaped out off the side of the dock and into the waters below.The Inquisition Priestess, yells out to Mario "If you do not return to the dock and surrender, your crew and ship will be destroyed!" as she takes out a gun, and points it downward to a line of black powder, that leads up the plank, to the ship, which if looked at closely, has "lots" of barrels piled up around the center of the ship.Meanwhile, Pieter ran to the left, grabbed a rope hanging from a ship and swing aboard it, to be overtaken by the brutes on board, and heavily injured, but still fighting.Geran decided that he needed to try to get the Inquisition Priestess, and runs straight for her, and she yells for her brutes in the ships to fire upon him. He too, is heavily damaged, but still continues forward.Meanwhile, back in the town, Pyotor, Rebecca, Maike, Enrico, and Luna, are watching another High Priestess give a sermon of the wages of sin, and it's cost.There are several Inquisition guardsmen spread out over the rooftops, and the croud, keepinga watch with crossbows. Rebecca tries to get fate to help Pyoter, Enrico, and Maike, to increase thier fighting skills,but fate decides not to work (lousy dice rolls!)While the Priestess is continuing with her sermon, and Rebecca is trying to cast her spells, across the town square, on another roof, several of us notice that one of the Inquisition guards is taken out, by a lone man in dark clothing. After a few moments the two drop down, and then one gets up, putting on the others robe, over his dark clothing. He then makes a running leap to the next roof, and takes out the next guard. Pyotor decides at that time, to leap off the roof,Enrico and Luna follow him, using the awingings to make their way down to the street. Pyotor and Enrico land with no problem, but Luna falls through the last awining, landing on her bum on the ground, for some minor damage.Pyotor is shoving and pushing people out of his way, trying to make it across the town square full of people, to rescue the three people that have been tied up on the poles. Having no luck getting through, he becomes desperate and turns into a bear, and starts swiping people left and right. The Priestess notices this and continues with her sermon, and calls for her henchmen to attack the "barberic blasphemer" and his crew of sinners.Rebecca and Maike are still up on the roof. Rebecca gives Maike a blessing, to help her be a better fighter, as Maike wants to take out one of the Guard, across the street from them, using her gun. She shoots, but misses, making the guard aware of her. He shoots back with the crossbow, but also misses. She shoots again, from another gun, and hits this time, taking him out. (Reall good roll!). Rebecca had decided to head down the stairway to follow Pyotor, but taking a safer route. She wanted to get closer to the Priestess, to see if she could read her Arcanna.On the other side of the town square, opposite from both roofs that Maike and the Guard had been on, the man in the dark robes, had leaped over to yet another roof, and taken out a third Guard, then removing the robe, leaps while cracking a whip around a pole, and landson the ground, not to far from the Priestess, and her two Guards, with a dramatic flare of his cape. There is a gasp from the crowd of people, and then an outcry is heard "El Vago!!"The man in the El Vago mask, seems a bit hesitant, and looks over to the three people tied to the poles. Before he can do anything though, the High Priestess yells to her Guards "Get El Vago!" and to El Vago yells " I will know who you came to rescue, and you will watch them be torture slowly, defiler!" Then he is attacked by her henchman Guards.Back at the ships, Pieter is heavily damaged, but still fighing, taking out a few more brutes, before he is knocked out. Geran is also heavily injured, but manages to get a good slash at the Priestess neck, but not enough to do major damage to her. She, in revenge, shoots at the black powder, and it smokes up, heading up to the ship.He is attacked by her henchmen, and taken down. Mario, meanwhile, had gotten to the end of the dock, climbed back up, and was able to stop the fire from continuing up to the ship, by breaking the trail, and getting the powder wet. He then gets into a fight with another of the henchmen.The Vaticine Priestess meanwhile had swam to our ship, and was able to get to the back side to climb up to the deck, and make her way into the hold, without being stopped, since there were no Guards on the ship. She has to get down to the bildge, before she finds the crew, and starts to set them free.Back in town, El Vago takes a couple of hard hits from the henchmen, and still seems a bit hesitant. He fights for a few moments more, and one Guard manages to take his whip away,so heturns to run towards the post, where the three people are tied, followed by oneof the henchmenGuards. "Look!" the High Priestess yells to the crowd "See, El Vago runs away!"Luna was working on a few henchmen from a distance, throwing her daggers into them as they passed by her. She shot one dagger into the Guard chasing El Vago, and stopped him for a moment, but he continued on. Pyotor, as a bear, was taking out several brutes, as was Enrico. Rebecca made it out of the building, and across the square to the fountain in the center, to get a better view of the High Priestess, to see if she could read her Arcanna, and found the Priestess had "Comanding", which she was already doing, and it wouldn't help the group anyway, so she checked the second Henchman , and saw nothing. Unable to do much more, she decided her best thing to do was to give El Vago a "boost", in fighting, so she was able to stretch his sword strand, and increase his fighting ability. He seemed a bit more confident. One of the men tied up nods at him, motioning him towards the other two captives, with a terse grim face. "Rescue them first 'El Vago'!" he saids. But several brutes that were waiting by the captives attack El Vago, and he is kept busy. All are amazed at him, as he downs six of the brutes in no time (awesome roll!).Rebecca, having nothing left to do magic wise, takes up her dagger, and heads for the poles, hoping to be able to cut the captives free, while the brutes are busy fighting Pyotor, Enrico, and El Vago. Unfortunately, there had been a brute trying to start a fire, and she had to engage him, but had no problem taking him down.It's at this point that Enrico made it almost to the High Priestess, and she sent her last Guard against him, while she made her escape.Back on the boat, the crew, freed from the bildge, grabs their weapons, and runs out of the ship, to attack the brutes on the dock, to eventually get the other Inquisiton Priestess to run with the few Guards she had left. The crew, then with Mario, Geran, Pieter (and Aerin who had also been captured, but unhurt), headed back into town to find the rest of the crew, so that we could leave.They get back in time to see the captives being freed, and El Vago being cheered by the crowd, and a speach given by Enrico. "See! It is the Inquisition that runs! They are the ones telling lies, not us!" The crowd was a bit confused, since they had seen Pyotor change into a bear, and that was magic, and magic was bad, right? But they cheered the group anyway, and we made our way back to our ship, to head out of the cove.Before we could get halfway out, we notice a familar looking ship blocking the way, with her cannons at ready.This is where we left off. It was a very long game tonight, so I hope I got the main parts of it correct. If not, I am sure that Mark will let you all know, lol!Edit: Oh, and if you didn't guess, the "real" El Vago was one of the people tied to the poles. The "El Vago" in the story was his brother, comming to rescue him, but not sure exactly what to do, not actually being "El Vago". Karl played him wonderfully! We had a fun time.
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Fate, a four letter word, with a lot of strings attached.
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"We Pay to Plunder!!"
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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Do not mettle in the affairs of Dragons...for you are crunchy and tastey with ketchup.
