Conversation with my Reach. 2021/01/21

Cifs took my hand and examined it.
Then he stabbed me through my finger.
 
 
My blood dripped back into the crystal, and the glow returned to it.
 
Cifs was pleased with the crystal, and left the needle in my finger.
I could still hear the song, faintly, but I know that if I keep listening, I may be able to understand it.
 
Dragons were spotted inbound!
 
Sala was on one of them, and decapitated the first dragon dropping to the deck.
 
The crew was able to net some of the dragons as the approached.
 
Sala decapitated the other big one, after it bit the mast.
 
My aim was a bit off, and I nearly hit Finbar, but some unlucky pirate jumped in front of him.
 
I managed to severely wound one of the smaller ones, and Sala finished it off with his bare hands...
 
While we were fighting the dragons, the lochflore jumped off the ship.
 
Sala knocked out the helmsmen, and tried to bring the ship down so we could go after it.
 
Cifs noticed immediatly, but agreed to let us search for the lochflore, but warned us that he would not wait long.
 
We set down in the wilderness, and after some searching, we found an encampment full of lochflore.
 
They had several of the ancient crystals there, but were guarding them too well for me to get one.
 
We tried to talk one of the lochflore into coming with us.
They finally agree, but said they would have to sacrifice themselves to restore the reaches power.
 
We had a long discussion about how important that was, compared to the lochflore's life, before we could decide how we all felt about that, the lockflore was convinced to come with us to save the humans, even though the rest of the lochflore didn't think the magic of the reach was a good thing for the world.
 
Cifs airship is amazing, it appears to use the crystals to fly, and does so better than any airship I have ever seen. I must find out more about them.
 
We got back to Rhodes, and the reach was restored, but the lochflore died.
 
Sala offered to join Cifs crew, but was refused. Which is a shame, as I would have enjoyed to chance to learn more about those crystals...