Savage Tide: Fleet Invasion; ECL 10 Garrik von Keizer Wizard 10; First Entry

       

          That bloody snake witch stabbed me! You've got to be kidding me. Here I am prepared to have a proper duel and the witch pulls a dagger and tries to run me through! Fortunately I was clever enough to Shield my self just before hand and the look on her face when her strike deflected off of nothing. Must have upset her though because the second strike stuck, not too bad though. Surly to be a humiliating scar if a college were to see.

          In mine own retaliation I attempted Scorching Ray, as I had in my Evocation classes from decades ago. A poor choice on the witches part to use Illusions on me. I raised my hand and closed my eyes and shouted "Blasenstral!" I can only recount what my companions had seen, but what I am told is that both rays struck true but her damned magic resistance deflected both.

          Fortunately, I suppose (more on this in a bit), just as she had pulled out what we would discover to be a Wand of Fireball the "Graptor Raptor" in the form of a large bat struck her and began what some would consider looking like "Birds of prey in the middle of a mating flight." How ever absurd it was it was effective but a bit too late it seems as I took a highly unexpected Fireball almost full on. Honestly still surprised I managed to evade the full blast, if I hadn't... well the corpse count would have been 45 instead.

          The grapple had her pinned down after the second one was set off. I had removed my self from the area, as I predicted her target was the large bat. I offhandedly offered a chance to surrender, which she promptly declined, not verbally anyway. The Grappler took her to shore, back again as a raptor began ripping her guts out, this was after she was slammed against the rocks a few times. Funny, I wonder how she got her dagger in her own skull.

          Shortly after we heard screams from with in the town. It was our employer being assaulted by some twisted demonic version of her brother apparently. It didnt take me long to become useless as no of my remaining spells were useful or effective against the Demon. This must be rectified.

          That is all I will mark about the encounter. The demon was slain by the Grappler in his usual style.  I underestimated the pirates and was not prepared. It will not happen again.