Chapter 8, Something Shifty In Ajiga City part 2

(Gaesa) "Ooookay. Payment for us getting rid of this changeling will be 2000 rods and a penthouse flat for six."

"Six? There's only four of you."

"You missed the ghoston twins. They're out exploring."

"Okay then. It's a deal."

Cut to outside. They woke up Torogae and explained the situation. Afterwards they all went around the city looking for Dek and Trek. Torogae was silently fuming and muttering swear words while they were doing this. (btw all ghoston names rhyme. I don't understand it either.)When they found the ghostons they were outside a mystic's sanctum. When the twins were brought up to speed Ironok looked at the entrance to the sanctum. 

"Hey guys I'll catch up with ya. There's something I need to do."

"Okay."

Ironok entered the sanctum. He looked around and saw an old satauwra sitting at the far end of the room. Now you may be asking, "What is a satauwra?" They're thin humanoid creatures with hooved, double jointed legs. The hooves are completely symmetrical and branch off into four points. The sataura looked up at him with a mystical look in her eyes.

"Ironok, I've been expecting you."

Ironok suddenly got on the defensive.

"How do you know my name?"

"Because it's etched in obvious letters on your tail club. The I've been expecting you thing is just something I do to spook people."

"Oh. Really? I forgot that existed. Anyway, I need you to take a look at something. I've been studying it on the voyage here and I can't discern anything from it."

He took out the specimen jar that contained the white gel.

"So what's your name?"

"Quarts. Yeah I can take a look. I'll send a spirit if I find anything out. By the way, could you put up the closed sign on the way out?"

"Okay."

Ironok handed her the jar and slithered out. He then put up the sign and went to go find the others. He found them outside the museum.

"So, did anyone find anything out?"

Dek piped up, "Trek and I didn't. Gaesa wouldn't let us into the room that got vandalized and damaged."

"For good reason too," Gaesa later told Ironok, "The graffiti actually made for some really lewd images."





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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."







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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.




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Legendary Augarian Weapon: Aqualai The Sea Blade

NAME: Aqualai

WEAPON TYPE: cutlass/trident/axe/rapier

LEGEND: Gives user full control over saltwater. Is the sword of the sea Kairathu.

HOW TO FIND: (It is in the light dimension so go there first.)
step 1: manage to procure the right treasure map from a vendor
step 2: follow the map to the correct island
step 3: take sword off of pedestal

(WARNING: taking the sword will awaken an insanely powerful dragon)

Legend File: the tide eater

Name: Karanesh, The Tide Eater

Species: Bone Drake
A bone drake is a species of dragon that are normally seen on islands and shores. In short, it's a sea dragon. Bone drakes are one of the strangest types of dragons in that their skins aren't covered in scales. Instead, they grow a strange armor made of bone.

Power's: the standard breath attack that every dragon is known for, this time lightning, 
is able to create a large fog bank, and has razor sharp wing edges


 Legend: He was the one to bring down the sea Kairathu. This granted him the title of tide eater.

chapter 7, A seafarer's tale, hunt for the sea blade! part 4

(snoring)

"Okay, what's goin' on?! Ye both just fell asleep!"

(Gaesa) "Well can you blame us? You've been going on for 3 hours now!! Can ya make this quick? I'd really like to get some sleep right about now."

"Alright I'll skip past the angry wind spirit, the quest to find a magical orb to bring that aga bat back to life, and the time flax got so paranoid that he blew up an entire pirate ship thereby gaining status as a Kairathu."

(Ironok) "Wait, you keep mentioning that word, Kairathu. What does that mean?"

"I don't know much. Only that they were strange beings who could bend certain elements to their wills. That be about it though."

Back to the story...........

(Silent) "Cove. Dead ahead."

"Aright I'll bring er' around!"

He jumped to the wheel and gave it a spin. The raft spun around at high speed until it came to rest within the cove.

(First) Captain ye almost tossed us all overboard!!!!!"

"Well fine. YE try ta parallel park this thing."

Flax turned to Silent.

"Ye know that wind spirit really should have picked a better emissary than an aga bat."

"Aye"

(Captain) "Alright, lets make landing and search the island!"

(First) "Or just go into the cave with a skull over the entrance."

There was indeed a cave onshore with a giant skull over the entrance.

"Oh.......... thanks fer pointin' that out. Makes things easier."

Everyone headed ashore and went inside the cave. They all stared with wonder at the treasure inside.

"Well First, this proof enough?"

"This could be anything. We don't know that the sea blade is in here or if it even exists."

"Then what's that weird sword over there doing on a pedestal?"

"I stand corrected."

Captain walked over and picked up the sword. It was just then that Flax noticed something.

"Captain? Ye might want to look up."

He looked up and saw writing on the wall.

"Whoever claims this ancient blade shall in turn awaken the tide eater. Well @#$%."

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chapter 7, A seafarer's tale, hunt for the sea blade! part 3

NOTE: Stone light is a very rare but extremely useless crystal that does nothing but sit there looking pretty. However it will get you quite a bit of rods if you sell a shard to a jeweler.

Cut to the crew at sea.

"Captain do ye even know which way ta go?!"

 "Of course I do. I found a map to the place in the storage area. Not too sure what it was doin' there though."

(cut back to harbor)

"Well Mez we're all set."

"Yeah Pez. Just two adventurers on the voyage of a lifetime to find treasure."

"The ship is ready, the crew will be here in 1 minute. We're ready to go."

"So Pez do you have the map?"

"Oh Yeah, I left it over on this.................................................storage..............................barrel."

Pez turns around and sees a bunch of really burly sailors walking up the pier.

"Mez, I think we're about to get lynched."

(back at sea)

Everyone heard a loud scream. It was then that Flax started freaking out.

"Oh no, a banshee. We're all going to die soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"(sighs) Flax, we are not going to die. Silent! Get down here we're reviewin' the map."

He spreads the map out on a crate.

"So if we set an-" screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeech

"So if we set-" he is again interrupted by a screeching aga bat.

"Oh fer the love a-" He pulls out his crossbow then twang, thud, splash.

(Flax) "Captain, ye've doomed us all."

"Flax, that's with albatross. Not aga bats."

(Silent) "Raft. Over that way."

First walked over to where Silent indicated and pulled out a spy glass.

"Well first?"

"Aye, tis' a raft. But it be................ made of........................ Bones???"

Captain walked over and pulled out his own spyglass.

"Huh. It is made of bones. Ye don't see that every day."

When the raft caught up to them the crew was astonished to see that it was crewed by a bunch of skelechrome. A skelechrome is what happens when the skeleton of an augarian takes a dip in molten metal, thereby giving it a life of its own.

"Hello there!", said the lead one. "Could you give us directions to the nearest port?"

The reason the crew was so astonished was because skelechrome are usually feral, predatory, and not nearly intelligent enough to talk let alone man a raft.

"Uhhhh. Try goin' that way fer a couple miles."

"Thanks!"

(Flax)  "What just happened?"

"No clue Flax. No clue."




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