The Plunder of Lustria

[Tony/Kruger & Geoff/Rufus absent] Your Mission, Should you Accept : Another month on Skeggi when an Empire fleet of 3 galleons and 5 corsairs tied up at the docks. A handful of wizards disembarked: did they not read Ottokar’s flier blaming wizards for all the priests’ deaths?! Dargo sought work as a huffer/stevedore unloading the ships… which gave him opportunity to steal a flag to add to our own boat inventory. Lemmy joined the crew at the bar, buying a round of drinks to loosen their tongues. Turned out they were looking for him anyway, “ Balthazar Gelt wants to hire you .” Lemmy boarded the flag ship to stay away from eavesdroppers as Balthazar's representative confided in secrecy, “ The Empire is tired of the pirates and wants to destroy Port Reaver. But Balthazar needs you to slip into the pirate base first to retrieve an artifact. Years ago, they captured a ship out of Nippon that was carrying a gold-plated skull . We need you and your team to find it before we bomb...

All the World’s a Stage  (from William Shakespeare's play "As You Like It") We checked into the new job offer per the wanted posters regarding another priest of the High Temple of Sigmar found stabbed in Victory Park. “Honest Ottokar”, the rabble-rouser, distributed fliers with grand titles of accusations but little to no evidence.  At least the flier itself was good for 1 free drink at the Theatre Variete . Daily shows of: the hilarious Mootland Minstrels , the thrilling Erengrad Ensemble , and the talented Lena Stein playing her 10-stringed zither. These acts came to Skeggi about a month ago: could they be associated with the sudden death of priests?! We decided to observe each one. 2pm : It was a small theatre able to seat 50 patrons. The flier’s fine-print read “buy one to get one free”, with the beers cost 1 shilling each! At least we got close enough to the stage to see the trap floors in operation and ropes that controlled the curtains or lowered set pieces. T...

We finished the watch order aboard ship before rowing the dinghies back to the island in the morning.  We returned to the break in the southern wall to climb the rubble to access the ziggurat atop Zarmuda island. Dargo was the first up and encountered several lizardmen skeletons and a lizardman wraith. Ranulf was up next and tried to speak Saurian (but failed). Attempts to lead or seek prayerful guidance did not sway their advance. With some failing their cool check, and the wraith warning us to leave as we brought disease (which is why they killed the Port Reaver shipwreck survivors), we retreated to the north side of the wall. There Lemmy cast to create a bridge to span the wall and reach the base of the ziggurat where we earlier spied a door. As we crossed the bridge, we found the Port Reaver shipwreck survivors dead below with vines already growing out of them... unnatural! No wonder the wraith spoke of disease. Inside the ziggurat we found an ancient lizardmen barracks ...