Chapter 8, Something Shifty In Ajiga City

"Well, here ye are. Welcome ta Ajiga, Glashlaklfla's largest port city. Ye need us again just use this horn."

 Captain handed them a horn carved with wiry ancient symbols. The raft then fell through a hole in the water below it which then closed up.

(Trek) "Dek, can't say we've been here before."

"Nope. No we haven't."

Cut to four of them in a tavern. Dek and Trek were out exploring the city.

(Niaemal) "So, what now?"

(Gaesa) "I don't know. Didn't think we'd get this fa........................................... sleep........................dart................................

Gaesa fell over sideways and his head landed in a bowl of stew. The other three were soon knocked out with sleep darts. This was because of something that happened earlier.......

1/2 hour earlier...................................

As the group was leaving the pier two people were spying on them from behind a storage building. We now cut to city hall. Several messengers were standing nervously outside an ornate door.

"So who's goin' to tell him?"

 "Not me."

"Me neither."

"I'll do it.", one spoke up.

"Good luck rookie, you'll need it."

He went in through the door. After a few seconds the door was then blasted backward by a very loud WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! The poor sap who had gotten his job only yesterday was thrown into the opposite wall. Then another messenger entered. 

"Sir, the spy team saw what looked a gang of mercs."

"Bring them here then."

  
1/2 hour later

"This is it then? There's only four of them?"

"Yes sir. That's all of them."

The four who were knocked out were sitting in chairs.

"Well wake them up. Except the cybull. I hear their tempers can be quite explosive.

They were all woken up except for Torogae. When they all managed to find their bearings they saw a large blue mandra in front of them. A mandra is a large, wide, snake like species of Augarian. They look like big pythons with short, clawed arms near the head. Ironok instantly recognized this particular mandra as a school rival. A steely glint came into his eye.

"Orobis." he said in a low, dangerous, hissing, and menacing tone.

"Ironok." the mandra, now identified as Orobis, said in the same tone of voice.

(Ironok) "You've gotten on well. Mayor of a city, eh?"

"Yes. Anyway!"  his voice turned to a businesslike tone. "I have a job offer for the four of you."

(Gaesa) "Depends on what it is. By the way why did you knock us out? I've got stew in my hair. You know you could have just sent someone down to get us, right?"

"Um, yes. But last time I did that, three city blocks came crashing down. It took a couple of months to repair everything. You have no idea how much paperwork I had to fill out, not to mention....... Well, I'm getting ahead of myself. There's a changeling running around causing havoc. It's already inflicted serious damage on the natural history museum and vandalized the temple at the edge of the city. I'm hiring you to get rid of it."

(Ironok) "What, gettin' too fat and lazy to do it yourself?"

"I guess I have been eating a lot lately. Mostly dead rodents. But there have been other sources of nutrition."

"Ok, just try not to raise the rating."

"What? I was talking about ambris ore. What did you think I was............. Oh."

"Yeah."







to be continued............................................................................................

chapter 7, A seafarer's tale, hunt for the sea blade! part 5

"Boys. When I say go, we're gathering as much of the treasure as we can into bags and running for the raft like death was on our heels. GO!"

That is exactly what they did, for they felt that death was indeed at their heels when half way to the raft they heard a ghostly roar.

(Silent) "Karanesh?"

(Captain) "Most likely."

They had just reached the raft and were about to launch the raft when a shape appeared over a mountain.

(Captain)"Wait what??!!! He's a bone drake? The legend always describes him as a squid thing that breathes lasers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Karanesh landed on the shore.

"Wait, what? They're still saying I'm a squid?"

 "All the time."

"Uuuuuuhg, sweet Creator. WHY DO I EVEN BOTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Everyone was knocked off their feet when he shouted this. Karanesh then went on to explain that the Augarian legend writers guild has been adhering to a lot of stereotypes for many hundreds of years. 

"I've talked to them about this before, but they just role their eyes and go, 'Shorry dude but dragonsh are really out of plashe in she shtoriesh. They belong in medieval fantashiesh kidnapping prinsheshesh and shleeping on pilesh of treashure.' They've been impossible ever since they discovered that half the dragons from Gaia (Gaia is what Augarians call Earth btw.) use stolen treasure as beds. Plus, it gets really annoying when people mix ya up with Cthulhu."

(Captain) "Well maybe we can make a deal. We'll go attempt to make them all see reason, in return for ye letting us go, with the sword and treasure."

"Deal."

We now return to the inn.

"The end."

"That's it then?"

"Yeh. Now fer listenin' to me tale, ye and yer little group get free passage on me raft."

So eve- "Hey narrator?"

What Ironok?

"Could you just end the chapter here? We don't need some sort of monologue about how everything worked out."

Fine.




to be continued..............................................................................................................