CoS Session 32: Sailing with Friends
General Summary
9/3/875
- Party hoofs it out of Kanara
- While they’re taking a rest Verona de Noves thanks them for rescuing her from Aldo
- She warns that she’s not ready to join The Handgun yet
- Party keeps eye on her, leaves her unarmed
- They make it to Lyman , port town at mouth of Kanara’s main river
- Nikolaj gets intel about the attack on the capital
- Turns out Fairouz has her own island/army to use now
- Bombing Kanara was the first step towards spreading her reign of terror across Liat.
- Now there are tons of refugees trying to flee to Ravi
- Nikolaj then searches for boat to Gameria
- Finds sad-looking guy named Oslo
- Sailor lost his entire crew in ship attack, ship saved him
- Initially asks for 3K, gets negotiated down to 500GP (long story)
- Elan has a night around town
- She parties and plays music, meets new people
- Shopkeeper promises her discount on ship supplies
- Adam takes Verona to dock tavern to start brawling
- He makes a scene and fights a tiefling in tense battle
- Not for any money though, just to fight
- Medraad tries to call Man in Black
- A fish/snake/man thing shows up instead in a suit
- Says Man in Black won’t meet with him until he gets to Gameria
- He’s tired of Avicenna
- The next day the party tries to haggle down boat and supply prices
- Elan puts on a few shows for shopkeeper, convinces him to lower ship prices
- Medraad pays for boat, sells a couple horses to Oslo to lower price
- party plays matchmaker, connects him with girl headed to Ravi too
- Her name’s Hela, they get along well
- Finally, party leaves Avicenna with one last middle finger from the ship
- Sailing’s pretty boring without a full crew
- Nikolaj sharpens knives, plays blackjack
- Adam and Medraad chat with Verona
- She explains her reasons for joining Three Fingers/Coven
- Medraad tries to get info on his relationship with Fairouz
- Elan chills out and plays music in crow’s nest
- One night they end up at northern cliff face of Castle Faouzia
- It’s the seat of Fairouz’s operation, towers and buildings set atop hill
- A lighthouse/tower lights up with a maddeningly orange symbol
- Everybody in party except for Nikolaj blanks out
- Elan has a vision of her family, telling her to stay by fire and play music
- She snaps out of it when they tell her Catriona is coming
- Adam has a vision of sitting with Sebastian after a show drinking milk
- He snaps out of it when he realizes that Sebastian’s dead
- Medraad, however, has a vision of Fairouz in her study
- She explains to him how close they are to Orange King and opening portal
- She reminds Medraad of all the time they spent together in Oakengaard cult
- She was always encouraging his research/curiosity
- She’s so persuasive and seductive, almost convinces Medraad to stay
- But he explains how he can be more help keeping eye on party
- Fairouz lets him leave, on condition of a web oath
- Upon return to Gameria, he must kill Roland Fireheart
- Medraad and Verona wake up, both w/ visions of Fairouz but little else
- Meanwhile Nikolaj has been steering ship all on his own
- Out of nowhere a spider-lobster (spobster) shows up demanding a sacrifice
- Elan turns him into baby lobster
- This gives time for Medraad and Verona to wake up
- Verona’s given light crossbow to help in fight
- Boss Battle: Spobster
- Verona keeps on shooting out bolts, one of them makes critical hit
- Spobster makes some sweeping attacks, but never KO’s team member
- Medraad fires eldritch blasts, which works wonders
- Adam’s punches are devastating, Elan’s vicious mockery doesn’t work
- Nikolaj delivers killing blow w/ith a well-placed stabs to eyes
- Party chops off pieces of spobster meat before body sinks into ocean
- Verona returns crossbow, but she’s reluctant to discuss vision
- Eventually says she saw Fairouz on night of Trecce meeting
- The same night the Red Hand split apart
- She can’t remember what Fairouz said, just like Medraad
- Party escapes from Faouzia, refuels in small fishing village of Chernenko
- Nikolaj sells spobster meat and old rapier
- Nothing worth stealing here, locals worship ocean god named Seevo
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