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Q: What is your best tavern story? A: Bar on Dragon Island, rigging up a magic beer bong for a young blue dragon to get drunk.
 
BEGIN SESSION
 
Druss asks Post where the boat will be coming in, and Post gives us directions to the exact dock. Detect Magic cast by me, and the second gem (opalescent, neon teal) is of the Conjuration school. The red gem is a battery that we can pump magic into to recharge or let it recharge slowly over time, and the soulstone is Necromancy. Identify cast by Melfina, soulstone is like the item Soul Jar and there's room for one more large soul. Trapping a Prince of Hell in it might complete some ritual. Then Melfina uses Divination to ask Solvene how to save Marda from becoming Asmodeus' vessel, answer: "It's a leap of Fate." Also, she had heard an angel screaming from inside the soulstone.
 
To get rid of all the bodies, Helen ghosts on through the totally normal corpse chute in the basement, for recon. She couldn't go all that far, but could tell that it was getting warmer. Posty is a follower of old god Briveer. Melfina needs more incense, which we can get from hookah bar (and other things) The Sacred Handjob.
 
Yun, Druss, and I head out of the city to talk to the Black Legion. We see Max and Leona doing triage for minor shit, like athlete's foot and such. They're mostly just teaching the privates how to act in order to prevent dumb illnesses. We hand off the info they'll need to get Baraxus suspended and the Legion into the city. Melfina, Marda, and Spellen go to the Sacred Handjob, where people are also smoking opiates. They purchase some incense.
 
We all rendezvous at the docks for recon. STE check - 15 (+5 from flash of genius) = 20 - I have done an Oscar the Grouch since this city isn't very goblin-dense. Yun changes shape and tries to gather some info from the dockworkers. They then make their way into the office to check the schedule. There are 2 guest badges, which Yun lifts. They can also see that Baraxus' dock is more active than the other private docks, has a too-large workforce, and the quantities don't line up, indicating a tunnel system through customs. The ship we're looking for will come in around high tide, about 11am.
 
Yun goes to the marine biologists' ship, seeing a goblin captain (who is a hired person, not an employee; named Jareth), a triton (Flotsam) and merrow (Jetsam) working on the ship. Yun readily befriends the latter two, learning that they're using SONAR to figure out how far the dragons are spreading from Dragon Island.
 
Melfina uses Clairvoyance and eventually finds a secret tunnel behind some dumpsters. During their shenanigans, I make coke-bottle binoculars. I see a ship I know, the Raging Echidna, captained by Jareth, a goblin captain famous for gaining many secrets whilst visiting Dragon Island.
 
We head back to the Dog's Breakfast to end the night, where Yun makes up the map of the area we scouted. Post can make us some copies of those passes to the private dock area. Melfina casts Tongues into the empty red spell gem. Yun and I are going back to the docks, so I can meet Jareth. Eventually, Yun scoops me and walks me into the private dock area. We get onto the ship, Yun greets the merrow in strange burbling sounds, asks about Jareth for me, and yeets me toward his back cabin. I land face down, get up, and make my own way into the back. Yun talks to the merrow, Jetsam, and asks about all of the extra munitions that were loaded onto the boat earlier that day. Jetsam has the gateway tattoo on their arm, as they are a member of the Undertow, like Yun. Yun flashes their own token of membership and engages in some light flirting. That progresses into a full plea for help against the Other Toe's incoming slave shipment. Flotsam is also in the Undertow, and the two of them are going to help. In the meantime, I go back to the cabin and see Jareth relaxing and Flotsam is nowhere to be seen. I get his attention and ask for the autograph. They're also from Cogswallow, and invite me in. I ask about the secrets they learned on Dragon Island, and if they'd ever gotten a blue dragon drunk, which they had not. They did learn all kinds of secrets on the island, and have tons of dragons, who gave their blessing, tatted all over their bodies. On their back is something I recognize, a Great Wyrm mercury dragon named Mad Meriwynd. They also have an ancient green dragon named Eclectic Er'And. Ancient Red called Bloody Charring, actually very kind, but killed a lot of people in the war and got that name. Burnished Bromand, an ancient bronze. Radiant Ro'gair, adult gold, and a recluse responsible for the sundering. These are the Cabinet of Dragon Island. Amberfern, a copper Great Wyrm, the Grand Russet Sovereign and first king of Dragon Island. It turns out Jareth was just at the right party at the right time and told a great joke. They fell into fetch questing for these dragons, gained their blessings, and were then granted captainhood. All of the tattoos hurt, but they were worth it, as they granted powers over elements.
 
Yun wants me to make a flare gun, EZ. We're back up by the merrow, but Yun isn't able to communicate anymore after Tongues faded away. They used the spell stored in the red gem, which brings its effect back, but hurts their mind in the process. The merrow wants company of the physical variety, but we can't provide that tonight, with our mission on the morrow. Back at the homestead, we plan the battle tomorrow.
 
It's the battle tomorrow. We did a Heroes' Feast on party money. I reawaken Ricky, who was on the airship until now. We get into place on the docks and in the tunnel. Max brings 6 Legionnaires, 1 of whom is a Druid. A beautiful, sunny Spring day suddenly turns stormy. Dockworkers and customs agents start to get involved with our targets. As the final boxes are making their way off the ship, beaten but well-dressed people start to make their way off the ship, paired with a ruffian sailor as escort. The youth we've been looking for is one of the folks being escorted.
 
Fighty fighty. Marda rage-kicks a dumpster, containing Post, into a guy. Melfina mummifies the guy escorting the boy. Some whopping happens, then Yun yeets Spike into the air, where they rapidly transform to a sperm whale and crash to the ground. Drax suddenly flies in on a hang glider, onto the ship deck, and smacks ass. Yun blows up the gangplank and signals the aquatics to set off the bombs soon. The last of the enemies that got to the dock are killed off. Drax had thrown some civilians off of the boat, which Ricky and I set free, and they flee. As the boat sinks, the pirates on the ship are slowly whittled away. Running down the secret tunnel is something or somethings quite loud. There are about 40 enemies rushing our way. Two Fireballs from Yun make short work of that, and combat ends.
 
END SESSION
 
INSP Inventory: INSP