D&D - Chapter 0.1

The Scene: The Wizard Alzor's Estate, a large piece of land on the edge of a small hamlet.

Over the course of a few years, the kindly wizard expanded his research, as well as his assistents. Alurana and Lilith contributed what they could with their magical powers, but their inborn powers did not mesh well with the bookwork nessessary for spell research. Thog, the half-giant, did more heavy lifting then the rest of the people combined, with the possible exception of Annah (who lifted coin-purses and rival wizards research). Draknor and Talia did research and erronds as well, with Talia doing service at the Church of St. Cuthbert on weekends.

One Thursday, Alzor announced that they were to all travel to the sea to perform an experement on which he had placed a great deal of effort into preparing. The nature of this was hidden, but they were all perplexed by the strange iron barrel and double barred chest in the back of the wagon that they rode in.

Days passed, and they did eventually reach the sea. The barrel turned out to be some type of gnomish submersuble, which was loaded onto a small ship along with the chest. When they got outside sight from land, they seven of them were loaded into the submersible and dumped into the sea. On the way down Alzor explained his great plan.

Using the six artifact weapons in the chest, Alzor was going to attempt to raise from the sea a landmass on which to build a city that would bear his name, the first floating city, and one that would be outside the controll of the greedy baron's who divided up every inch of dry-land. The Party members then each drew a weapon...
Thog drew a Quarterstaff
Alurana Drew a Longsword
Draknor Drew a Large Shield
Talia Drew a Short Sword
Annah Drew a Dagger
Lilith Drew a Mace

They were then enchanted to breath under water and to ward off the crushing pressure, and sent off in four dirrections, Alurana and Draknor, and Talia and Annah in pairs. When the first pulse of Alzor's ritual reached them, they were to drive the weapons into the ground.

It was no more then a few minuets before a green ring of energy passed by them, and they drove down the weapons down. Magical Energy crackled through them like a bolt of lightning, and then everything went black...