Journal of Rollo Lavius 1

Entry #51 - Shump

(G51 - OR 08/05/09)

DAY 104

In the small hours of the morning, we went to our various tasks. Myself and Nobby healed the half-orc, called Shlump and learned a little about his story. Mathmos and Shifty looted the corpses.

(A little about Shlump : He seems like a nice fellow, but certainly not the sharpest tool in the box. His mother was a ranger, but was raped by an orc. She raised him in her ways and he is a follower of Myleeki. He was trying to go north when he was captured by the pirates.)

As I escorted Shlump across to the Wyvern to lay him down in a nice clean bed, I saw that they had stripped all the corpses naked and lain them out like a row of dead rabbits.

'Detect Magic on that lot!', Mathmos and Shifty demanded of Nobby. Shifty has been paranoid that something valuable had been lost on the body of the Lady Lotusdragon before she was tossed overboard and is anxious not to repeat the 'error'.

There was lots of jewellery on the bodies, but none of it magical. Shifty did find a ring through the tip of a half-orc's penis and with a few cuts of his dagger he took off the whole shaft!

He then, bizarrely, ran around with the whole thing on a stick, waving it above his head and shouting, much to the distress of the passengers.

'Why are you doing that?', I asked him.

'Why not?', he called back.

Why not indeed.

A globule of blood and Silvanus-knows what hit Falah in the face. Shifty gave her some gold by  way of apology. Most strange, but it isn't the first time

I eventually got to bed for some much needed rest.

Later that day, we all discussed what to do with the pirate vessel that some joker had now christened the 'Cockless Half-orc'. The captain wanted nothing to do with it, Mathmos (who seems to be fitting in nicely) said it should be towed, but I thought it should be sailed by a prize crew.

I persuaded everyone to let me attempt to sail it, so with Solomon as acting captain, me, Nobby, Falah (later replaced by Erris), Zalazar, Targy and Tolo as its crew we got under way. Shlump is to stay on the Half-orc too, so me and Nobby can watch over his recovery.

That evening, we anchored the ships side by side and lashed them together. There was some discussion between myself, Shifty and Mathmos about the Half-orc regarding how the money would be divided up if we ever managed to get to a port to sell it. Things got a little heated though and it was dropped.

During my watch, as I looked out across the dark sea, my mind drifted onto my raft of problems and to vent my frustrations I called forth lightning bolts high in the sky. I felt much better for it although I may have alarmed Nobby and Eriss who share the watch with me.

DAY 105

Another hot day, but with a fair wind. Endure Elements spells cast all round by myself, Nobby and others to help relieve the crew.

I felt marvellous that morning, rolling around on the breeze as an eagle, I felt as if I was really connected with nature, the cool clean air on my feathers and the scent of the sea in my nose

How easy it would be to simply choose a wind and let it blow me far away from the problems of my meagre human existence.

~

Perhaps this is one of the things that Tunare warned me about?

I remember he lessons well. Looking back, I realise what a gamble she took with me. When we first met, she was at the lyceum, by invitation of Master Fannier, himself a druid, to give a series of lectures on the High Forest. Being such a keen student of nature, of course I was anxious to meet her. Something clicked between us and as we became friends over the months of her visit and on her return I pleaded with her to take me with her.