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The griffon lazily catches the gentle breeze and Alzar orders it to sail around (Alzar has flying, air, as reminder). A griffon flies faster than a Flying Carpet. The Carpet is 100’ and the Griffon 120’ Only rocs and pegasus are common creatures that fly faster. It’s the same speed as a Fly spell, an Air Elemental or a dragon. But griffons are not a stable platform, so no spell casting, and -4 to missile attacks, but yes to the swoop attack for hitting with his axe.
Alzar flies down towards the ship, checking his spells. He doesn’t have his water spells handy, like Conjure Water Elemental. He pauses and heads into OtherSpace and pulls out a Censer and the Face and uses both to conjure two Air Elementals, one 8 HD one and the other a 16 HD one. He unfurls the Flying Carpet and steps off the Griffon. He’ll be using the Griffon and the two elementals to strike at the ship aerially, with himself behind on the flying carpet, casting spells as needed.
Before he launches his attack, he spends some more time with a crystal ball scrying. The boat is a 3-masted vessel, and there are around 50 people on board. Alzar is going to head down with his creatures, and demand their temporary surrender, so that he can get on board and search for the Gem of Delusion.
The quartet flies down, with line of sight for arrows and bolts and the ballista on the front blocked by his summoned trio. Not sure what to expect, a bunch of soldiers have come to the top deck and are grabbing weapons and Alzar announces himself and his rank, the suspicion of theft and piracy he is chasing, and shouts out his proclamation. They start firing instead. Okay.
Alzar casts Mass Domination, and 13 of the soldiers stop and Alzar orders them to attack their companions. Confusion breaks their ranks, and then he follows with Mass Charm, and has his friends drop their weapons and move to the bow, removed from the battle. The Captain of the vessel, unharmed by the spells, signals his surrender, and his men stop attacking, and Alzar pulls back his dominated crew. Alzar’s Elementals begin to scouring the area, and he flies down and takes all of the various weapons and such from these folks, and ties up those that are not charmed/dominated. In the ship are a trio of merchants, and after Alzar uses the Bright Barrier’s Detect Lie ability, he finds out that one of them purchased the Gem, and some other stolen items, from a thief. Alzar grabs the merchant’s Bag of Holding and empties it. He takes the Gem of Delusion, and one of her items that intrigues him, and then has her tied up as well. The charmed and dominated crew agree to sail the ship to Evenarrow, two days away, and then turn the ship over to the March. Alzar has been looking to have a real navy, and he just procured his first vessel. He finishes inspecting the ship, and then Mass Teleports the prisoners, his Griffon, the elementals and himself over to the Evenarrow jail, and then tells the locals what happened and they are arrested and will be tried for various crimes (piracy, theft, smuggling, resisting Alzar, etc).
The item Alzar took was a +3 Shield of Haste (Once/day can cast a self-haste which does not age the user).
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