The Blackdawn was orginally a ship owned by illithid slavers. They where doing fairly well when they decided to attack what appered to be a unarmed Whaleship. It wasn't. The ship was actully a mobile base, for a group of pirates know as The Black sash( due to the garment of the same name they all wore to identify each other during a raid.) The fighting was going the illithids way, till the whale ships helmsman( a mage by the name of Antillic) teleported into the illithids ship and killed the 2 illithids on it. The illithids tried to psioniclly follow him, but ran into a trap of his: a pocket dimeson linked to the demi-plane of Time. As the illithids teleported, his spells sent them into it. The illithids died to a squid, massecured by everything from Tether Beast to Temporal Gliders. To the men outside it seemed like it took only seconds, but to the Illithids inside it was hours.
However, the fighting had reduced the Pirates to 14( including Antillic) so they couldn't use the whaleship. So, they all went over to the Tailgunner, and set off to the nearst port to get supplies.
The crew took a vote, and a half-orc named Nemis was declared captin. After pillaging greyspaces routes for a bit, they set off toward realmspace, with a cargo full of precious metals, silks, and valuble magic items.
They got the ship refitted, placeing the bombard in the dome like area in the front of the ship. The got the dome set up like a observatory, so it can turn. The helm was moved lower into the ship. They also had the ship painted black, and Antillic cast serveral spells to make it harder to see( in actuallity he made it temporally loose, so that all an outsider sall was a blurred image). They then set out to pillage realm space.
Antillic
(human mage 16)
Str:10 Dex:11 Con:7 (too much warping in time) Int:18 Wis:15 Cha:13
Al:Neutal Hp:42
Antillic is a mage fasinated in time. He doesn't want to travel through it, but just to manipulate it, so it has effects in the present. Antillic generally uses spells that distorte time or space, and tends to avoid pure attack spells.
Nemis
(half-orc fighter 9)
Str 16 Dex:9 Con:11 Int: 14 Wis:11 Cha:11 HP:86 AL: Neutral
Nemis is a bit bewildered that he actully won the vote for captin, but he has proven to be adept so far. He colloects firearms, and can use almost any kind In battle he typically uses a sabre and some sort of firearm from his collection.
