Six Shards – 1 : PIRATES!!!
On a boat far from the Sword Coast, our heroes:
NoWhere, the Teifling Rouge,
Calin, the Human Paladin,
& Muse, the Tiefling Cleric.
After the Frozen Elf King had given them the Third Magical Shard, the group headed back to their ship and told their crewman, Carver, to set sail to the next spot on the map.
NoWhere, having attunded a second Shard to himself, started to feel faint and ill, and headed to his quarters below deck.
Not long were they out at sea, when they spotted a rowboat with a white rag waving from an oar. The crew pulled the small boat alongside and helped the occupants aboard, a Gnome and a boar.
The Gnome introduced himself as:
Dimble “Stumbleduck” Timbers, the Gnome Ranger
and his stead Boris
Almost immediately after Dimble introduced himself, a cannonball sailed past the ship. Calin spotted a pirate ship gaining on them fast. In an attempt to evade the pirates Dimble summoned a cloud of fog to hide their trail, but the seasoned pirates saw straight through the fog and caught up to them in no time. Grappling hooks latch on to the side locking the two vessels together and the pirates get ready to board. Luckily the first two pirates attempting to board fall comically short and are left clinging on to the side of the boat.
The pirate captain shouted to the party “Lord Dagobert sends his regards!” and hurls a bomb into the fog. When the bomb explodes a green poison mist expanded out of the fog. Carver almost succumbed to the poison but managed to move out of the area of its effect. Calin feeling the crew could use some extra fire power quickly headed below deck and took the two shards off of the sleeping NoWhere, ignoring the possible danger this act may have put him in, ran back up to the deck and threw the Blue Shard to Dimble, keeping the Yellow Shard for himself, leapt clear of the fog onto the deck of the enemy ship, took up a stance and challenged the crossbowmen and the captain. Muse stayed on the ship to defend using her mace of force to knock the boarded pirates off the ship and into the ocean. Dimble mounts Boris, who charges right across both ships to help Calin, but Dimble slips from his back and is left standing awkwardly on the deck. Calin narrowly manages to survive a flurry of blows from the captain and hits back with a wrathful smite causing him to flee. One critically wounded pirate sneaks off below deck, and the party attempt to finish off the stragglers…
NoWhere wakes as he feels something missing…
Six Shards is a custom campaign, written by one of our groups players, we play this campaign when important members are unavailable for the main campaign