The Fireball Gazette

Island One: A Beacon of Blades and Blasts
Approaching Tripoint, the crew was hailed violently by Royal Second Commander Hina, perched atop a fortified lighthouse bristling with Dragonlance Cannons. Declaring the party genocidal warmongers, Hina opened fire.
In response, Selah dashed across the ocean’s surface, Merlin swam, Ainz took flight, and Mad Matt and Marina manned the ship’s own cannons. Despite Tiyana disabling one cannon with an explosive fireball, the remaining gun tore a brutal hole through the ship's hull.
In the chaos, mysterious stone projectiles splashed down – later discovered to be falling boulders launched from the yet-unseen third island’s trebuchets.
Selah and Merlin stormed the lighthouse. Selah, ever the acrobat, literally walked up the wall and disarmed Hina with a bullet-catch-and-return manoeuvre, mockingly dubbing him “Captain Who???” Merlin, using simpler strategies, simply punched Hina into the sky, followed by a finishing dive from above with his Trident of the Deep. Hina perished, impaled, and irrelevant.

Island Two: The Stone That Watched
The second island revealed a fog-shrouded stone structure teeming with purple oozes. When Tiyana blasted one of the runed tablets, the fog dissipated, revealing Royal Mage Lothon – a smug sorcerer and communications officer for King Valili.
With flair, Lothon proclaimed his name would be remembered – before hurling a Fireball that set the ship aflame. The front mast burned; Mad Matt bled. More boulders rained down from the third island.
As Mad Matt summoned a demonic kraken to storm the trebuchets and conjured a storm to douse the flames, Marina grew tired of her cannon misfires and swam straight for Lothon. Despite being struck by lightning, she reached the shore and, with a flash of her Greataxe of the Deep, cleaved the mage in two. So much for memory.

Island Three: Trebuchets and Treachery
At the third island, two mighty trebuchets rained death on the party. Selah arrived stealthily, navigating the wall while the kraken terrified the defenders. One soldier attempted escape – only to be executed by a grim, black-armoured knight.
Soon, Merlin launched himself via cannon from Island One to Three, crash-landing atop the kraken’s squishy head. Together with Selah, they battled the knight. Ainz, late to the party, finally summoned a minor dragon, igniting the battlefield.

Selah was gravely wounded but survived long enough for Merlin to finish the knight with his trident. The black-clad knight’s dying words were a lament for King Valili – her failure, his burden.

The Spoils of Victory: A Broken Eye of the King
Among the ruins, the party discovered the damaged structure on Island Two to be an advanced kind of seeing stone – a magical surveillance hub once used to spy on their movements and supply intelligence to the King. Now broken, and with Lothion dead, this line of communication is severed. Undoubtedly, the king must know that the Tripoint outpost had fallen and that the adventurers were now coming for him.
There is no hiding anymore. No subterfuge, no delay.

Next Stop: Lematoa With their ship patched, supplies looted, and enemies slain, the party now turns their prow northward – to Lematoa itself. King Valili awaits, and with him, perhaps, the truth behind the shadow war he commands, and the fate of the Triangle itself.

The Fireball Gazette will be watching.

Editor’s Note:

We continue to receive furious letters from readers both defending and denouncing the party’s actions. To those wondering if this group is saving the Triangle – or setting it ablaze – we say: stay tuned. We don’t quite know ourselves yet.