The Oddestsey

[alex_holt]

note: Nimeria Valencia has a blood drain ability which heals him as much as he drains

The part head Westwards along the coast, within half an hour they have lost site of the Galleon, although the small steel boat appears to be powering on ahead of them, while its moving they realise it can only be big enough to house 2 people. But within ten or so minutes it disappears around the next headland, as they change angel from the column of smoke they realise that it was actually 2 columns, probably a fair distance apart and looking unrelated. The group follow the coast around for several miles and the red sandy beach gives way to tall black cliffs perhaps two hundred feet high and the land takes a strange transition from tropical beach to Scottish moor land, including the temperature. They move up and get the pinnacle of the headland which is much higher than the surroundings and the source of the far thinner column of smoke, they look cautiously but see no one around and so advance up upon it and discover it to be a pile of items not that different to the one they landed in.

Seeing no one around they examine the pile:
The smoke seems to be rising from a sooty jar which seems to contain a large red newt which is certainly alive but breathes forth small jets of fire.

The complete unbroken contents of the pile are:

A salamander in a blackened jam jar (weight 3)
A Tesco Trolley (weight 24)
A tiny keg of alcohol about 3 inches high appearing to contain a ludicrously strong whisky (weight 1)
A cyborg arm with a fully articulated hand and 4 weapon attachments: tethered harpoon, blue laser, freeze ray and an acid jet. It appears you would have to replace an existing arm with it and certainly somewhere more hygienic than this. (weight 15)
A copy of the Mail on Sunday (weight 1)
A teaspoon made from what appears to be uranium (weight 1)
A Spartan helmet in good condition (weight 4, defense 9)
A morning Star (weight 12, attack 15-90, requires STR 5, DEX 5)
Some sequins in a clear plastic packet (weight 1)
The skull of a griffon (weight 5)
A hanging basket filled with forget-me-nots (weight 5)

Before they can pick up anything two figures come marching up the hill, which when they get closer are revealed to be 5ft tall platypuses standing on their hind legs, dressed in a buccaneers output with a cutlass at each of their sides.

€˜We be Platipirates!, Who be you?€™ The first exclaims
€˜Aye, that we be€™ Exclaims the second

You notice that neither have a threatening stance and neither is holding any weapons.

You looks behind them and see that they have come from what appears to be a 14th Century Arab city set in the middle of the moor land on the coast, and the small steel vessel from earlier is docked there.

What do you wish to do?

Talk to the platipirates (if so what about and how do you wish to act)
Attack the platipirates
Ignore the platipirates
Grab some of the things and run down towards the town
Excuse yourselves and walk way

Something else? The choice is yours

[knightrous]

If the rest of the group doesnt mind, I suggest we talk to them and get some information. It might be useless info, but it might not be either.

Prof. Veng, can you use the Foe Finder and see if they are going to attack us? They could just be sucking us into a trap.

[darkguru]

The morning star would be useful if i could use it as a second weapon, if not, i wonder if /Prof Vengeance could make something sharp and pointy from the trolley spokes. Anyone mind if i take the Salamander? Not for spell purposes but maybe the fire might be useful, sayiung that, it could be dangerous, what do you think?

Talk to the platypirates, we need info. Id be wary over parting with money or following them anywhere though.

[alex_holt]

Thats a majority to talk to them so Ill write it now.

[alex_holt]

The Professor scans the platipirates quickly, they seem to be very strong but have no intention of harming the group before knowing bout them.

The group introduces themselves to the platypirates and explains what has happened to them so far and what€™s happened.
The first platypus starts talking: €˜Aye, ye be entries then, welcome to this world, I was a thinkin€™ ye be a piculia lot o€™wise, t€™ree mens, a man-leech and a pointy blood girl€™
It took a few moments for them to work out what the platipirate was on about, evidently a man-leech meant a vampire and a pointy blood meant a half elf.
€˜Where are we, and whats an entry?€™
€˜Aye, I be sorry, I shoulda thort ta tell ya, an entry be one who has entered this world from €˜nother, where ye be? This world be called Geschraubter Platz, tis a hub world, where all thee others join up ta, stuff from all of d€™em drops inta here and canna get out €˜gain. It happens in big bu€™sts making heap o€™ stuff like thisa one here. Ya welcome to take all ya need from if €˜fore us, ye need it more than we, €˜sides we can eesly use nae€™thin€™ you dunna want, you canna take it all.€™
The group continue to ask questions for quite a while, and while wading though the accents manage to discover the following pieces of information:

€ The town below is Called ciudad Arabe Extra±a en el Centro de un Amarrar, or Aeca for short.
€ There is no rulers anywhere in the world or any governments, but there are seven beings who are practically gods whose will goes. The platypirates don€™t know much more except €˜Aye, one dem be alike ta the white coaty man€™ and €˜Aye, he be a nasty one that Dmfrall€™ Any further interpretations proved futile. It would be prudent to not anger these beings
€ It would be best to gather some stuff and then sell it in the town below.
€ It€™s probably not best to go for the tiny keg of alcohol as it belongs to a €˜piskie€™ who is probably hiding somewhere in the junk.
€ Keep out of what the platypirates describe as €˜the cun€™funded brun abom€™naton€™ they refuse to explain what exactly it is.
€ They give you a small pearl with a band of steel around it, apparently if they show it to any other platypirates they will assist them however they can.

The platypirates head down the hill having said they€™ll come back for anything you leave later.

After looking round you see the second column of smoke was from the town, some building appears to have been on fire.

What do you want to do?

Head directly down to the town after you have your items.
Stay here overnight
Head off back East
Head off West past the town
Go inland

Something else

Additionally: if you arfe ever given an itme it will go to the person with the most free weight

[alex_holt]

someone nominated Steve as rep. so you didnt get a chance, besides, i cant write a conversation when both sides have incomprensible accents, they had pirate accents anyway

btw each of you recived 5xp for startign to find otu whats going on

[darkguru]

Again, i have to ask if i could use the Morning Star as a weapon at the same time as my Scarring Knife, if not, Prof Vengeance could kindly make something sharp and pointy from the shopping trolley. Might well be dangeous to take the Salamander, so ill probably leave that to the Platypirates.

Any idea what the confounded brun abomination might be?

My vote, no point in staying here if the town is fairly safe, and we could do with a store anyway. So, town. If we decide to stay the night, i have eight for senses so ill do the bulk of the nightwatch.

[pcbore]

First off, as regarding the items... I say someone pushes the trolley along, and we load that with items we find, and therefore increase our carrying capabilities... If thats allowed anyway.

Also, Id like to grab the sequins and sew them to the octopus tentacle, and dip them in that blinding poison Aaron got from the tentacle earlier, as whipping it straight at enemies will be a lot easier than getting in close range

Also, I vote in going down to the town.