Gherkin's Games: The Fantastic Voyage

Player Characters (with followers, familiar et al):

Jessica Del Rio

Earle Whitewood

Seal (Skippy)
Parrot

Kantelleki Bachin

Tsai Ying
Quaenas Lorlann
Sunaeco
Dray Turini

Tamarra Fane
Xie
Emunn

Cerys Landry

Echo Dawndreamer
Pumpkin Pepperweb
Batazoax*

(*a mysterious blue skinned snake she seems to have recently acquired as a pet)

Supporting Cast of NPCs:

Reynardia

Oberon, the Dire Bear

Fenelda Nefertari
Samson Marcher
Oscar Ghellis
Yasmina Al-Amara
Sufyan Al-Amara

Bachir Bourkia
Leila Mansouri

The Wedding of Sunaeco and Yasmina takes place on the 18th of Coldeven, and they return to Oerth after a week's stay at The Havens of Harmony on the world of Iadrathea, arranged by Yasmina's uncle.

Sunaeco invites those going on the expedition to gather at his new Gradsul residence, #2 Baron's Charter Street.

There they await the arrival of the flagship of the Crystal Griffon fleet, the Greatship Enterprise. In the belly of this specially designed vessel lies the Crystal Griffon's greatest asset, the mysterious submarine artefact of Lost Lirea, now known as the Im'po'potle's Trove.

The ship arrives on the 28th of the month a day before Growfest the Spring Festival.

Ordinarily, workers down tools over Growfest but the stevedores are paid overtime to make sure the cargo is all unloaded from the Enterprise by the end of the week and she is made ready to sail on the 1st of Planting.

The plan is to sail on the Enterprise under Captain Lord Roxbert Ainsworth down as far as Port Stolm on the Hook of Amedio, making stops at Seaton, Monmurg, and Port Toli on the way. She and the "Imp" will then part ways, the ship sailing on her usual course down to Sasserine while the submarine breaks eastwards and heads for the Densac Gulf.

The first part of the voyage aboard the Enterprise is without incident. Jess and Sunaeco pay a visit to old friends El-Ehran and Ryakala and catch up. Lashimire and the Psi-huagin and Psi-sharks are discussed; El-Ehran has awareness of the latter two though he has not heard of Lashimire. He says they have not caused trouble recently at any rate.

Including the stops, the journey down to Port Stolm takes 13 days. After parting company with the Enterprise, there are two destinations presently marked on their map. One is the mysterious sunken ruins described in a book called "Sunken Utopias" that Jess obtained from the library on Lashimire's Isle. Margin notes by Lashimire suggested that he was seeking a way past some unopenable doors that required a Githyanki Silver Sword to open. Experiences from exploring Lashimire's Isle the last time around suggested that he had obtained such a sword, and so perhaps this was where he had fled to. Jess has a personal score to settle with Lashimire.

The second destination is the Triton City of Liris Plushali, where lies the rift to the Elemental Plane of Water and the way to the City of Glass, as discussed by Cerys at Sunaeco and Yasmina's wedding

reception.

The Im'po'potle's Trove is a marvelous conveyance, its weapons and propulsion magically powered by the consumption of gems. There are some impracticalities about it but many advantages, also.

Sufyan is funding the journey and has a supply of gems but wants to conserve resources for the journey on the Elemental Plane of Water. A distance of 136 miles a day is deemed a satisfactory rate of progress expending 2gp of gems per day. This is around 3 times as fast as the Greatship at a typical sailing speed.

The vessel will be captained by Jess and the operational crew members are Samson Marcher (who seems like a good pick for First Mate), Oscar Ghellis, Earle Whitwood and Kantelleki Bachin.

Fenelda Nefertari will be Ship's Medic.

The question as to who will be Cook seems moot as there are enough Janni on board to conjure a daily feast for everyone.

People grab cabins and bunks. Dray and Tamarra grab a double cabin and Sunaeco and Yasmina grab another. Jess has the Captain's Cabin with a commanding view through a forward observation window on Deck One.

Cerys and her group of hangers-on and her friend Reynardia make a cosy nest of genie-created cushions, rugs and blankets in the observation lounge on Deck Three, and this becomes her little "court". Sometimes people who play instruments gather there for a jam, and there is dancing. Delicious scents and music and laughter and other sounds of abandon emanate from there at all hours. Cerys seems supremely uninterested in "mucking in" with ship's duties and clearly regards this journey as a getaway-from-it-all.

It is decided that a visit will be paid to Lashimire's Isle on the way. The Imp reaches this destination on the 16th day of Planting after 3 days of uneventful cruising.

The shore party announce their arrival quite loudly from the beach hut which lies at the only landing spot on the island. They then make their way up the side of the island via the hidden trail and into the interior where they are confronted by an indignant looking young lady of Olman heritage who demands to know who they are and what they want; and does not seem happy about letting them nose around what she now regards as "her" island.

Jess and Echo arouse her ire by following her invisibly into the island interior and she transforms revealing herself to be a bronze dragon (albeit not a very large one). Her attempts to intimidate them with her Frightful Presence fail. However some fast diplomacy from Echo and Jess persuade her not to attack them but to hear them out. They warn her this is the former lair of a very dangerous rogue psionicist called Lashimire and things could go badly for her if he ever decides to come back.

Other party members get involved including Dray and Xie who are very diplomatic (Cerys is on one of her mysterious daily absences at the time this happens, but Dray is persuasive enough)

They persuade the young dragon, an emigré from the Mist Kingdom who thought the vacant island would make a good starter lair, that she ought to come with them instead, and maybe return here after Lashimire is conclusively dead.

Her name is Louteah.