The Danger Gang Keep Trying To Beat Up These Harpies
The Danger Gang rally the troupes for a new plan to take on the Harpy problem they said they would take care of. They've found that the harpies don't much care to follow them into the water, so they cast water breathing on themselves for an escape plan.
Once on the island, Can casts Thunderstaff to deafen them, rendering the call of the harpies ineffective. When the Harpies arrive, Ezio casts Hypnotic Pattern, stunning half of them. However, it seems that even half of the harpies are too much for our heroes, who once more need to turn tail and flee once they have their asses handed to them.
They return to the S.S. Tigress to plan out how take care of these things, or at least, how to get Martialis out of his druidic oath. They go get patched up at Maenad island. They decide to bring out the big guns. Marty is going to bring a bunch of huge bugs, like a solid twelve. Can is gonna cast Haste on everybody who would want it. Once back on the island and every one is souped up, Can casts Alter Self, to get rid of his ears.
He casts Thuderstaff to deafen everyone, but because he's already deafened, it fails. He tries again, and it fails. With everyone having already lost a year of their lives from the Haste, they're already pot committed. Marty changes into a high-speed flying lion and lets out a mighty roar. The Harpies soon emerge from the depths of the island. [{Ezio]] ensorcels a few of them in a Hypnotic Pattern while Can starts shooting out Color Sprays. Barry and Lleryn shoot off a few arrows before falling to the song of the Harpies. Karl knocked back one of the four-arm potions and is shooting so many arrows. This time, they end up really kicking the crap out of these Harpies. Done and done. Everybody feels pretty good.
After a brief rest on the beach, they decide they should go clear out the lagoon. Marty casts a few Purify Waters on it, and out pops a Nyriad. She introduces herself as Adanoi and explains that the Harpies threatened to kill her if she didn't used her healing magics to take care of them. She thanks them all for freeing her (they still have water breathing, so she gives them all watery kisses (it's like an extreme chewing gum commercial)). She says she can get some animals to bring the Harpy heads to the Maenads. She also recommends that, if they're trying to make good time back to the mainland, that they stop by Shinges Island to see if they can get the Aeolian Bags from the Sphinges there. Sounds like a good idea to the Danger Gang.
Once back aboard the Tigress, they give Kolya Adanoi's directions to Sphinges Island. Unfortunately, a storm has started. So they anchor for the night. Marty takes the opportunity to Charm the three Arabian sailors they captured. He tells them that Barnacle Bashim is bad news.
