Captain Dash, Exaunt
11 Jan 1999. Jynx and a "jester" thwart pirates, then visit the City of hands.
(Airship) (Bambridge) (Jynx) (Savan)
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On board the Prize Catch, a Gallisian airship heading from Half Valley to Safar, Jynx rides along with several Gallee nobles, and a masked Shiga jester. Jynx meets a Gallisian collie artist, Phillipe, and his wife, Marie. Phillipe paints a portrait of Jynx while the latter broods over recent events. This moment is interrupted when the pirate ship of the vulpine swashbuckler Captain Dash arrives and attacks.

Captain Dash displays much swashbuckling action, gleefully dispatching members of the crew with a pun or two, while the jester tries to distract him by composing insulting rhymes. At last, Dash goes after Marie, and as Phillipe intervenes, it appears that the artist is surely doomed. However, Jynx jumps in, saving the artist. The jester, taking advantage of the pirate's location, signals Jynx to jump away … as he pulls a lever that releases the landing platform set into the deck, minus its lifting cables. The captain falls, and doesn't get back up.

Some time later, as the ship survives the failed piracy attempt, Jynx arrives at the City of Hands, to a warm reception. The "jester" is also present, and receives some disturbing news about events in Rephidim from a lackey. The Shiga and the Khatta are taken to the palace, where they are guests of Third-Vision. The Wooden Shekel (as the jester reveals himself to be) relates that he had a plan to get some Savanites out of Rephidim, but that things may have changed. Jynx relates to Third-Vision his quest for the Artifact of Calderas, and he consults the Twelve for advice – and a way to locate the cursed device. Third-Vision reveals that her sister, Long-Lope (aka "Zorah") has been taken as a supposed "ringleader" of a group of terrorists, and is scheduled to be executed by the Nagai Empire. The Wooden Shekel opts to see what he can do to prevent this event, while Jynx prepares to set out on a quest to destroy the Artifact of Calderas.

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