Spellbreakers at Realm's Edge - part 3

A Storm of Magic

Buzzing things annoyed the orruks as they stumbled around in the steaming jungle. The air was full of crackling green lightning that arced uncomfortably across their skin every time they touched anything.

The sky above was a worrying shade of turquoise and weird shaped clouds roiled and billowed all around the horizon. The Cleavermaws muttered to each other and pointed, describing the evolving phenomenon using deeply technical, but completely wrong, magical terminology.

"Looks ta me like we're gonna be awash wiv maleficium pentaclisation any minute now." said one, eyeing a particularly ominous cloud.

"Aye." said another "and probably a deal of thaumaturgistical undertow an'all."

Their shipmates nodded sagely.

Kaptain Mogrum sighed and tried not to listen to them.

After the disaster trying to bind Terpsichore's Terror the Cleavermaws and the Shadowflames were scattered across the Wilds of Keromuru, at Realm's Edge of Ghyran.

Kaptain Mogrum tried to gather his crew and summoned some serious firepower from the ship Snaplock Harald arrived hefting a cannon from the ship's battery!

A good number of the Cleavermaws managed to locate each other and bunched up around the Captain. But the destabilisation and subsequent explosion on the Malevolent Maelstrom had unleashed a Storm of Magic on the Keromuru region!

The Shadowflames had fared less well; they were scattered far and wide.

The Cleavermaws spotted Laelanyel the Mistweaver Saih, trying to hide among some rocks that glimmered with eldritch energies.

Kaptain Mogrum and Snaplock Harald crossed the little river with Mr Sludga and Double Barrel.

Mr Deadwood, Oiler Tunn and Weatherly Deg were not far ahead of them.

Laelanyel, the Mistweaver Saih, found herself beset by Deadwood and Tunn. But she opened a glimmering Mirror Pool...

And disappeared into it!

Then reappeared amongst a clump of trees a hundred yards away!

Bosun Higgs joined the kaptain and his group.

Ledger Nud was jumped by a fyreslayer, but the Kaptain's Clerk had a few tricks under his wig!

Snaplock Harald levelled his cannon and tried to blast a Slayer who was creeping up behind the crew, but his powder was damp from the humid jungle air and the gun went of with a dull thump, rather than the usual deafening boom. The Slayer counted his lucky stars and hid behind a ruin!

Liberty Snik fell but...

Ledger Nud just tutted and finished the entry in the ship's log as the Slayer lay at his feet.

While it took the combined assault of Double Barrel, Oiler Tunn and Mr Deadwood to bring down another Slayer!

The orruk pirates chased after the Mistweaver Saih, once they realised where she was.

Snaplock Harald moved to get a better shot at the cowering Slayer but the duardin took a risk and charged the ogor from a very long way off.

And made it!

The approaching pirates made Laelanyel nervous and she tried to open another Mirror Pool, but the raging Storm of Magic unstabilised her spell and it wracked her with arcane energies!

Aef-Grimnir The Runefather stood between Laelanyel and the orruks. His Latchkey Grandaxe laid waste to them.

Harald's cannon rang like a bell when he smacked the speedy Slayer round the head with it!

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This was "Clash at Dawn" Skirmish Battleplan with the "Storm of Magic" Open War twist card. The Cleavermaws managed to edge into a minor victory by just breaking the Shadowflames. Viktor's telling of this story is here.