Session 95: In which we find The Emperor of the Waves

We all had a good rest after a very tiring day.
 
(Day xx, morning)
While Mordy was undisguising, he told us he had been beaten up by Ned Shakeshaft! And we rescued him! Won't be doing that again.
 
Roscoe avoided Mordecai. I lent him 10gp so he could buy an axe. Roscoe wanted to talk to Keledek but he was not in town.
 
I kept an eye out for Devdan and he came into The Goat late in the afternoon. I don't know how but he seemed to know that some of us were involved in last night's catastrophe. Anyway, he told us some things:
. The town is politically divided
. We need to prove ourselves to Devdan's employer
. A valuable item has been 'lost at sea' but the ship it was on has been sighted
. We need to find the ship, Emperor of the Waves , board it and recover the item
. The ship was spotted a tenday ago, drifting off the coast, to the SW
. We will have use of a small ship and crew
. We are looking for a box, 2' x 1' x 2', engraved with symbols
. We are to leave tonight, 2 hours after sundown, and have a prepayment of 500 gp
 
We get bought some healing potions, had dinner and set off after paying for our room for tonight and 5 more nights.
 
(Day xx, evening)
A sailor met us N of town and takes us to a beach where a skiff takes us out to a small boat, The Silent Wave. The crew was not very friendly.
 
We made good progress but had some bad weather on the second night. Sundown on the second day, we found a large ship with tatty sails down and two of its 4 masts broken.
 
We arranged a return signal with the crew and they brought us across to The Emperor. I climbed up using a grappling hook and rope. The others found this very difficult. We had to tie a rope around Mordy and pull him up. The 2 centre masts were broken.
 
I opened the fore door. There were lots of spiderwebs of different thicknesses and the remains of furniture. Mordy went in and a spider swarm attacked him. Then a giant spider attacked Mir'ek. There were spiders everywhere! We fought them off but most of us were injured in the fray. We were in a hurry to leave so we didn't search properly.
 
We went to the aft door and I opened it. More mess. Stuff had been pushed to the sides and there was a mud platform at the back with some pale stones piled on it. I started looking through the rubbish and Mir'ek went to look at the stones. Roscoe wanted to take a stone home because he thought they may be eggs of some kind. Mir'ek started crying - and she hadn't even hit anything. The she said that the stones were skulls - perhaps the crew?
 
A wolf spider dropped down next to Mordecai and then more spiders appeared. Mordy Thunderwaved the spider and then ran. I killed a spider swarm! Mir'ek thwopped the wolf spider and killed it.