Book II: Chapter 3: Pirates! The Leviathan Facility

They spent many weeks traveling at sea. Captain Hurloon was cured of his malady, and resumed command. A fellow by the name of Guy joined their crew, proving himself a handy Bo'sun with master's eyes.

After finding themselves stranded in slow seas and surrounded by shallow crystal reefs, the pirates discovered an underwater facility. A dry docks was housing mechanical submersibles, being worked on by pirates and Sauhaugin sharkmen.
They captured a pirate by the name of John Smitty, and with his aid launched an attack on the dry docks, stealing a submersible. They were informed that indeed, another had been launched to attack their ship.

They arrived in the midst of the attack, the pirates had just reached the cargo bay, and were heading for the powder room, aided by a tribe of sauhaugin. Cunning fighters, they held the minotaur crew at bay, but were finished once Huang Ti, Trogdor, Kilan and Arver arrived to flank them.

The pirate crew, now armed with submersibles, but stuck with a badly wounded crew and ship, decided to leave the Leviathan Facility, and report back.
But before reporting back, they wanted to take a 'detour' in order to test the capabilites of these submersibles.

Xian Hoy. An exotic frontier port, full of expensive goods and little room for the law. A perfect target. After baiting a merchant at the bar, and hitting up Minister Jong for some information, the pirates set their sights on the Meiyo Wenti- "No Problem". She was loaded with exotic glasses from the City of Glass in the Meshketi lands.
A plan was enacted. Captain Hurloon would assault a decoy target, while the submersible team would drill through the Meiyo Wenti, and then load up as many goods as they could and vanish. The Wenti plan went without a hitch- but the Seacow hit an unfortunate bit of luck, and was caught by the Imperial Navy and sunk.

Captain Hurloon and crew were due to be executed by morning. Depositing the goods in a nearby safeharbor, the remaining crew and Smitty returned in their submersible to Xian Hoy and snuck back to the harbor prison. Guy attempted to bluff his way into the jail, but when Trogdor tried to climb the prison roof,the jig was up. Stabbing his questioner through the throat, Guy started a whirling melee that ended up with all the guards dead and unconscious.

Time was not on their side. Quickly, Kilan smashed through the roof and freed the rest of their crew while the city guard began circling the area and cutting off the perimeter.

They armed the minotaurs with tables, chairs and the dead guard's weapons. Huang Ti and Guy targeted the weakest point in the Guard's perimeter.
There was only one plan, so Captain Hurloon gave only one order.
"CHARGE!"