Undead and Pirates by Aldrich | World Anvil
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Undead and Pirates

by Aldrich Runecarver

The creature Malthraxis was extremely powerful, and his minions no less deadly. He managed to severely wound all of us and knock Zarruk unconscious. But through Shiara’s use of a Laughter spell to incapacitate Malthraxis and our coordination of attacks and weakening spells, we somehow managed to slay our foes. It was the first time one our party had fallen in battle though, and even though I was able to heal Zarruk and get him back on my feet, the experience left its mark on all of us. The power of our enemies has grown, and we can no longer take any fight for granted.
 
After the battle, Dre told us that the thing we had fought was something called a Nightwalker. She offered to transform all of us into bats to travel the rest of the journey to Calem Port undetected, which we gladly accepted. We spent the rest of our journey flying, eventually arriving at the port and transforming back into our normal selves. The city was a rough place, but we managed to find an airship called the Jagged Grace that was headed to Imre and had room for us. The captain had a very pirate-ish air to him, and at first asked for 8,000 gold in return for passage. Po was able to talk him down to 7,000 instead if we helped to load the cargo onboard. We agreed and after a time found ourselves in the air on our way to Imre.
 
We arrived outside the city two days later and began making our way to the University. We eventually reached a place where the road crested a hill and below us a bridge stretched over a river, and beyond we could see a shining city with a huge tower in the center. On the road a short ways off was a man with red hair laying a lute as he walked.