The Cleavermaw touched down in Oxidisa, on the coast of the Kaleidoscopic Sea.
The blueish light of Silverside reflected off the blue-green crystalline
shards and teal rock scattered on the shore. The Kaptain looked at Lost Uzzog,
who shrugged. Mogrum sighed and shook his head.
"Roight." he said with more certainty than he felt "Let's have a look around
and see if we can find anything interesting. Krashhart, you and Kurbak take
your ladz and go that way," he pointed with his magic harpoon "we'll go this
way, and we will meet back here tomorrow."
Krashhart shook the Kaptain's hand and slapped him on the upper arm.
"Good luck mate, I'll see you in a bit then!" he said with a genuine and
good-natured laugh.
"You too lad." said Mogrum and returned the handshake warmly.
The crew were surprised. They looked at each other, unsure how to process the
new warmer relationship. A few shrugged and others frowned. This was was going
to take some getting used to after all the arguments of the last few weeks.
Kurbak said goodbye to Uzzog and whispered "Keep an eye on the Kap'n, eh?"
Uzzog whispered back "Aye, and you that new lad. I don't trust him further
than I can spit."
~ ⦽ ~
Mogrum and the pirates walked for a few hours and came to a watch tower on a
small rocky hill. Mogrum sent a few of them off to check the neighbourhood
while he and Uzzog looked around inside. Wrekka Groz was left by the door as
lookout, which was not a job he was suited to as it turned out.
After about ten minutes poking around in the darkness of the tower's rooms
Mogrum and Uzzog heard Wrekka Groz shouting. There was a band of blue
creatures approaching. They hurried outside to see.
"Honest Kap'n, they just popped out of the air! They weren't here a moment
ago." cried Wrekka plaintively.
A massive Ogroid Thaumaturge and his band of weird looking followers stood
on the rocks below them, shouting a challenge.
"How dare you set foot in my tower, you filthy heathens!" the Ogroid roared.
The Kairic Acolyte stepped forward and flames leapt from his open hands,
scorching Wrekka's flesh horribly.
The Tzaangor charged and drove his blade into the poor orruk's belly. His
screams alerted the exploring crew members who rushed back to find out what
the noise was about.
As they arrived, so too did more Tzaangor and Acolytes.
Kaptain Mogrum and Lost Uzzog sprinted at the edge of the rocky hill and
jumped down, landing next to the Ogroid and joining the rest of the
Cleavermaws who all charged at the huge blue beast.
But the Ogroid was ready for them and slammed Mogrum against the rocks,
knocking the wind out of him and stunning him!
Lost Uzzog raised his staff and slammed it into the ground. A wave of energy
pulsed through the pirates. Their assorted tattoos of fish, anchors, octopuses
and maelstroms, writhed and animated on their skin for a moment, as Uzzog's
spell toughened their flesh. The Wardokk smashed his staff into the Ogroid and
the monster reeled back in shock at the force of the blow.
The other pirates were shocked - they had never seen such a blow from the
Wardokk! But The Baron wasn't phased at all, he smashed his gauntleted fist
into the Ogroid's chin and the giant dropped to the teal rocks like a sack of
sand.
The orruks gave him no quarter and the rest of his warband fled.
When Mogrum came round night had fallen and the crew had set up camp inside
the tower. A fire was already lit and food was being served. The Kaptain
noticed a bundle of papers in the corner, he made a mental note to take a look
at them as soon as his head stopped swimming.
The rest of the pirates were in good spirits and soon horrible shanties were
being sung. They were going to have fun here.
~ ⦽ ~
Dramatis Personae
Kaptain Mogrum (a Wurrgog Prophet)
Lost Uzzog (a Wardokk in the story but an Orruk Morboy with Bone Totem on the
tabletop)
Mr Sludga (an Orruk Morboy Boss in the story but an Orruk Morboy on the
tabletop)
The Baron (an Orruk Morboy Boss in the story but an Orruk Morboy on the
tabletop)
Wrekka Groz (an Orruk Morboy)
Ropesend Drak (an Orruk Morboy)
Crowsnest Dag (an Orruk Morboy)
Dogvane Murt (an Orruk Morboy)
This was the first of a few warm-up games Viktor and I plan to play ahead of
the Animosity IV campaign.
The plan is to keep them nice and simple:
- 1000 point warbands
- Set up different terrain each game (mainly to see what from our collections work with colour gel light filters - as Chamon with blue light, and Ghur with amber light)
- Draw Deployment, Victory and Twist cards as usual
- No after-game stuff at all: no casualties, artefacts, glory points, etc.
- Full warband reset for the next game
It was fun, fast and very brutal - I managed to get a victory mid-way through
the second battle round!
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