The Maelstrom Campaign - Chapter Five

City Under Siege

Skaemon, Skye, Jessica, Teleran, & Coil

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The airships are laying siege to the city. The large modified Imperial Dreadnought - Airship assaults the palace and wealthy district while the two smaller airships attack the lower city. They are showering are showering the city with flaming shrapnel from canons causing massive fires and buildings to collapse. People are running about frantically and the city is in chaos.
The city is in full panic mode and people are storming the ships in the harbor in a desperate attempt to escape. One of the small airships flies out over the bay of the dockyard and starts burning the ships that are trying to escape from the city. The airship drops a cable allowing troops to slide down onto the docks and immediately engage with the imperial troops defending the docks nearby.
The party heads straight for the docks forcing their way through the chaos going on in the city. They pass the teleportation field on their way to the docks and see that the imperial airship stationed there was shot down. The burning wreckage covered the teleportation field, crushing the soldiers that were guarding it.
The party reaches the docks and sees the imperials fighting the black cloaks from the airship. The party quickly join the fight take out the black cloaks. This gives the wounded imperials a chance to back out, but the airship starts to pull away. The party acts fast and grab onto the cable so they can climb aboard the airship.
They start fighting the crew of the ship the moment they pull themselves onto the deck. The captain storms out of his cabin to stop the party from seizing control of the ship. The captain strangely wasn’t dressed like the normal black cloaks and seemed to have a more refined fighting style.
The captain puts up a fight, but the small crew still aboard the ship is quickly overrun. The Coil and Jessica pin the captain against the rail of the ship winning the fight. The captain breaks free of their grasp and flings himself over the side of the ship using his cloak to magically glide safely toward the ground outside of the city.
While the party is fighting for control of the smaller airship the dreadnought pulls away from the city and heads west towards the continent of Astryia. The other small one stays and continues to assault the city from afar. The party moves in on the other airship with the one they’ve commandeered and get into a firing position in front of the black cloaks’ airship. Jessica is at the helm and the rest of the party use the cannons below deck.
As the opposing airship starts to take some damage, they turn to return fire on the parties’ airship. Jessica reveals, with magic, that the captain of the other airship is actually one of the shadowy figures, like they faced during the assault on Khon Rhahild. Seeing this from below deck Coil, with Skaemon on his back, jumps to the other ship. Coil and Skaemon attack the shadow creature, while the rest of the party continues to assail the airship from afar.
Coil and Skaemon, with the help of Jessica, take down the shadow creature. However, the enemy ship sustained too much damage and began to fall toward the city. Coil and Skaemon tried to stop the ships decent, but it was fruitless. In the end they abandoned the ship at the very last moment as it crashed into the city guard’s citadel dealing significant damage to the building and causing part of it to collapse into the bay.
The party’s newly commandeered airship was in much better condition, but still sustained some damage in the battle. The party lands the airship safely in the harbor and step off the ship onto the docks…