Pieces of Eight, Session 9: The Trial of James Wavebreaker

General Summary

The Pieces of Eight return back from Dunwater, but James and Zulynn are arrested. What's going on here? Will the Ghosts of Saltmarsh tell Vencyne what happened to them? Will the town ever be the same?

Landing in Saltmarsh

Full breakdown of this session coming soon. (10.9.610) The Pieces of Eight arrived back in town early in the morning on the ninth day of Patchwall. Immediately, James Wavebreaker and Zulynn Heartwind were taken by Eliander and escorted into protective custody. Later in the day, the rest of the party went before the town council and discussed their previous adventure to the Lizardfolk lair. The town council voted to allow the Queen Othokent to stay in Saltmarsh - and have even begun the process of allowing her on to the town council. Zangrim also left the council during this time, and Vencyne stepped up into the position taking the interim seat once occupied by her former employer Gellan Primewater. For the next week, the Pieces of Eight spent time doing various things. During this time they could not locate James Wavebreaker or Zulynn Heartwind. (10.16.610) However, Vencyne was led by ghosts to a house at the front of town. She found a box of trinkets and items belonging to the missing people of Saltmarsh. She quickly learned that this box belonged to Eliander Fireborn - the captain of the guard. She was unsure what to do with this information but meditated on it. (10.17.610) Klearic likewise was meditating and fell into a trance having a vision. The vision proved to be prophetic when Klearic awoken to Saltmarsh under martial law by Eliander Fireborn. The Pieces of Eight suspected he was a corrupt leader trying to pin his own crimes on James Wavebreaker, until the truth was revealed and Wavebreaker unleashed scores of fearsome ghosts upon Saltmarsh. In the chaos he escaped invisibly and stole the Sea Ghost vowing to use a former pirate ship as a vessel to destroy them once and for all. In the chaos, Zangrim Tarkelby - who had just spent a week creating an amulet for James to thank him for saving his life during an adventure - drank himself into a stupor and then asked Vencyne to help find his brother’s remains. She complied, and Zangrim prepared to take his brother back to Seaton for a funeral. (10.18.610) Before Zangrim left to hold a funeral for his own family, he came to offer his condolences for Eliander Fireborn, who had been killed by terrestrial means during the chaos in the town square. Zulynn re-emerged one final time giving condolences to Eliander who she had gotten to know while in his protective custody - she then retreated to her hermitage saddened at the betrayal of her remaining family. At the conclusion of the funeral, Zangrim departed on his lonesome quest to bury his little brother. However, there was at least one silver lining in this deep dark cloud as the rest of the party joined him - also begrudgingly heading to Seaton on a quest for the council. Joining them was a new addition, a masked female who was present at Eliander’s funeral.