The Flood

“The Flood”
Rise of the Runelords episode
Episode no.	Episode 54
Date	2009
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Gloriana Honeypot Nell Velicia
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In this chapter a big wave strike Turtleback Ferry and monsters follow in its wake.

The Flood

The following day the mayor called a meeting in his house???/the church???. We were invited too. He started talking about the loss of the fort when I heard a strange rumbling sound. I got up and looked out a window. I asked "Can anyone hear that?" Velicia answered "Yes! It's a lot of water rushing down the river." and teleported out of the room. I ran up to the door and opened it to get a better look. I noted that the rain had stopped. Then I saw it. It was an enormous wall of water coming down the river. I screamed for people to take cover. Myself, I ran out and grabbed a kid and ran back inside just before the wave hit. The church was built out of stone and wasn't affected at all. Looking out we saw that the wave had lost some force as it hit the little town as the river had widened out into Claybottom lake.

We all ran out and started helping people. There was water all over the place. In the lower part of the town it was up to my armpits and it was very hard to not be swept away by the current. Velicia took out her new magical thing that was a small statuette of a fly and turned it into a giant fly she could ride. I returned up to higher ground when Velicia cried out. "Over there! By the store! There's a turtle shell filled with children and the schoolteacher." We all headed down there and saw that they were using the original turtleback ferry that had given the town it's name. There was also a giant turtle that wasn't as pleased with how the old shell was used. It was heading for the small ferry that was stuck by the current against the store. I ran down to the water and threw my dagger at the giant turtle and even though I hit it, which wasn't that easy as it was swimming and was hardly seen above water at all, it barely noticed and still headed for the children. Velicia flew out to it on her fly and attacked it with better success. It changed course and attacked Velicia who was hovering low over the water to attack it. Honeypot and Gloriana joined me at the edge of the water and Gloriana attacked the turtle with her lighting magic. I backed up some and jumped over the water to the store. I clung to the wall and started climbing along the windows up to the old ferry. There I broke into a window so the children and the teacher could climb in to safety. Honeypot followed and convinced some of the children into daring to jump to safety within the stone building. Velicia split in two with her magic and the two of her and Gloriana fought the turtle and a snake that joined in, trying to get a bite. I tried to get close to the snake but the current dragged me away along the side of the house. I grabbed hold and pulled myself back and climbed into the ferry to protect children. Honeypot succeeded in getting the last of the children inside as I ran and jumped off the ferry, out to snake and stabbed it as I splashed down. It was hurt hard and dark blood colored the water. Gloriana cast lighting at it and it swam away, but another replaced it.

Honeypot turtleback riding.

Honeypot jumped off the ferry too but out to turtle who had grabbed one of the two Velicias. As the turtle dragged her away the magic was broken and she disappeared. Honeypot sat down on the turtle and they stopped fighting. Velicia fought the new snake and I managed to swim out to it and with an attack I tricked it to slip out into the current and it was dragged away. It gave up and swam away. Honeypot rode the turtle among the floating debris as the current slowly died down.

We were helping the villagers to get to the church, as it was made out of stone and on higher ground and almost out of the water, when Velicia and Honeypot noticed that something drifting down the river among some trees wasn't a tree.

The mother of oblivion called Black Magga.

It was a huge monster with strange tentacles. It headed straight for us and quickly it attacked us and caught Honeypot and Velicia in it's long strange tentacles. Only by pure luck I avoided being hit and grabbed by the awful monster and retaliated by stabbing it. It was near impossible to hit. I tried to get away from the church but once again the water slowed me down. It's hard being so small. Velicia teleported out of it's grab and Honeypot slid out of it's grip, but they were still close to the monster. I threw my dagger at it actually wounding it! As it seemed to be a sea monster we continued on, trying to draw it away from the church up to dry land. It followed us but Velicia got dominated by it and took a lot of damage. We all tried to attack it but missed it all the time. It still chased us instead of attacking the people in the church. The huge black monster caught Velicia in it's tentacle and squeezed her unconscious. Honeypot who was also caught managed to slip away again and stabilize Velicia and hold her head above the water as it slowly turned red around her. We were in a terrible situation and would probably all die, when suddenly the monster dropped us and moved on through the village and out to sea. Somehow we survived.

Velicia told us that it was a mother of oblivion and that this creature was called the Black Magga. She told us it was older than the giants who built all ancient buildings from thousands of years ago. She also said that if you talk about it you bleed black blood from your mouth, but wasn't true. She tried to trick us with magic, but I didn't buy it.