Liyl's Unmasking and Defeat of Pirates in Wherst

(This post has been a draft on the blog for a few years.  I'm just publishing it now because I intend on using the same blog for a new D&D campaign.  This campaign, entitled "Contour", has been suspended (for a long time) and may not return.  Hope you enjoy the final post despite me forgetting most of the details behind it.  I hope the next campaign will be just as enjoyable.

Session 7 (Started approximately a few months since the previous post in 2010):

Woo... it's been about a month since we last played so we were a bit rusty (especially me). We had to recap the story a bit and then get into a D&D mood, but we did alright I think for all the earlier distractions. Ryan didn't show so his character wasn't played (1/2 exp unless there was a good reason he wasn't there). Apologies for the terrible bad-guy monologue that wasn't very thought out or scripted. Hopefully me having time here to think about it will count for something.

(Continued in 2014...)

The party decided to bring Liyl to the captain and ambush him there.  They go through town and arrive at the ship.  The captain, sensing the ambush called Liyl out and revealed not only was he Liyl's father but that Liyl was in disguise as a man.  Liyl's true name was Lily (how original, right?) and she was the captain's daughter.  Lily was unphased however and swore that she never forgave him for the depravities her mother was forced to endure as his slave and consort.

At that, she lunged for the captain and a fight ensued.  ((Here I do not remember the details of the fight, but the players were ultimately victorious.))

Lily apologized to the players for deceiving them.  She told the party her backstory that involved her mother always constantly being beaten and used by the captain, and that one day it went too far and she was killed by the captain's first mate when Lily was 8.  The night her mother died, Lily vowed to kill the captain and his first mate and escape.  She was able to kill the first mate, but it had become too dangerous to kill the captain so she fled.  She decided to diguise herself after failing to gather a crew as a woman, who the lowly pirates seemed to look down upon.  As a man, she used many pirates to do her dirty work and gather up enough strength to track her father down which led her to today.

The end (for now).

There was definitely more of the overarching campaign to tell, but the next one will be similar enough (after Ravenloft) for me to get the story I intended to tell out.

Retired characters (some will return):

Aurelius: Level 6 Human Duskblade
Cryllise: Level 6 Human Barbarian
Gerdrex: Level 6 Human Paladin (likely returning)
Kelch: Level 6 Half-Elf Rogue/Assassin (likely returning)
Kintel: Level 6 Dwarf Fighter
Naonomi: Level 6 Elf Ranger (likely returning)
Xanandethis: Level 6 Human Monk