I made money! Finally - this has been a most unprofitable journey before now. Shiny gold coins befitting of a crab of my status....but, I get ahead of myself.
It all started after we left the archmage's tower - she had told us of a sunken ship near her tower, though it seems only I was listening properly. The captain can be so distracted at times, no doubt staring at her chest or some other human failing. Anyway, we went down and - well - there were sharks. This is probably to be expected, but it was a rude awakening anyway. I'd given everyone protection from the drowning effects of water, but sharks....they are a tad more difficult. Regardless, we fought them and managed to beat them away.
Having recovered the sails, we proceeded to discuss where we should go. The object we needed was in Kiera, and the terrors also still needed dealing with to help the young lady. Assuming she was alive. Or her father was still alive. Still, worth helping. But to get there we would need to be cunning. And so they called for Krastus.
I designed a fine ruse - a fake third mast, broken, and a false third deck to help disguise our profile. Make us look less Kieran. But to do this I need wood - I am not a miracle worker, well not that much of one anyway. So we headed for the coast of Torath Ka. The captain led a team off into the jungle, and then they came back for our help. Me and Sira are quite indispensible.
They had found a temple, and a large beast. We fought the beast and slew it and then made our way inside. There was a door with skeletons standing guard, and it asked a series of riddles. The first threw me a little, but after that I was able to get my mind into thinking as the device has and we were able to give the answers.
What it revealed was....odd. A lich, in a perfectly organised room. He had been there for some time. He guards a dragon, he informed us, and his treasure. And the dragon was not accepting visitors. I asked him for some of the treasure and he kindly obliged - I decided this might be a ruse and dispelled whatever magic he had placed on it, some control spell.
Unfortunately Carlton does not take 'No' very well, and he found a secret entryway, used it and initiated some kind of gruesome confrontation. We fought the liche and...well, then it happened again. Our enemies clearly identify me as the superior being in our group and so they managed to overcome my mind with magics, practiced over thousands of years, and forced me to fight our enemy. The doreen went down, and I hit the captain a few times too - though I admit I rather enjoyed that given his recent treatment of me. Even if it wasn't my choice.
Still, the others fought me off long enough to re-assert my control and we promptly swung the battle back the other way. The downside? Sira went down badly hurt - and as we tried to escape Mongrel was eaten by the zombified remains of the dead dinosaur. We were in, as the humans say, quite the pickle.
Thankfully we were introduced to a fine gentleman of a dragon who recognised my brilliance and wished for us to take an old man along for a journey. As the old man owned part of the ship, that seems quite sensible.
But most importantly, I still had the gold the lich gave me - 30 gold pieces. An easy 300 pieces of eight. Profit! Sweet, blessed profit.
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