2022/03/16: Mission Selection Report
General Summary
Knight, Sith, Sunderfury, Ruby, Voren, Buzz
Divided treasure on the ship. Found a derelict fishing junk and claimed it. Were attacked by pirates; put up our own pirate flag and pirated them back. Knight won a duel against a samurai. Voren shot an invisible rogue. Ruby smashed the captain flat. The wu jen surrendered. Sunderfury lured the megalodon off into the distance.
Ruby did some communion with the spirits, and apparently there are “cardinal dragons” that would be able to grant max-level spells. The cardinal dragon of the west is apparently fire-aligned and would probably get along with Ruby.
Buzz went to return the effects of the fisherman who owned the junk back to his family. They thanked him tearfully and he got a big karma boost. Voren delivered the bodies of the dead pirates to a facility where they’re resurrecting potential allies and burning the rest. Ruby cleaned and decursed the lower decks of the pirate ship.
General Kigachi is the new person in charge at the harbor. The sergeant from before got shipped out.
The general got in a duel with someone who insulted him. Ruby raised the loser back to life with the general’s consent.
Knight sparred with the general, as the latter wanted to test the party’s skill. Both rolled critical successes. Both would have likely killed the other if they’d been fighting seriously. Both were very impressed. The general offered to take us to the war room and give us our choice of assignments. We paused first so Voren could give a gun skill demonstration/competition. One of the crossbow snipers managed to spear three fruits with one bolt, and is now named “Lucky Mitzu”.
Map notes: Black Samurai’s army has taken over the southeast of Shisui. Less impressive than it sounds, as that chunk is largely empty and unpopulated.
Quest options:
Visit the big city of Hoard, controlled by Dragon Clan. Steal riches from the catacombs to help pay the army’s mercenaries. Likely going to have to fight spectral heroes and ancestors and the like. Mostly going to give money, not too many strong items (since they’re mostly still in use).
Visit Chasm of the Lost. On far side of continent. Hard to get to, but very important. Need to retrieve the Emerald Lamp. Helps to keep the boundaries up between realms, keeps demons and ghosts out of material plane.
Visit Web Forest. A bit north of the city, in what is clearly an ambush, representatives of two ninja clans are willing to meet with forces of the Black Samurai. Try to recruit them.
Visit Tower of Flying Cinders. Lots of adventurers have died trying this. It was made by an ancient spellcaster, sort of an equivalent to Merlin. Well-guarded, not very well looted. The Phoenix Clan would be willing to back out of the war in exchange for some of the relics from this place, and there’s great loot there besides.
Visit the Bridge of Fallen Heroes. Long ago, a lone hero held off an army of millions and ended a war. It’s a critically important point for the army. They want to summon a guardian to hold it, but that will take weeks. If one of us fights the magical escalating guardians until they’re nearly unbeatable and then back off, that will handle things there.
Go to an island to the south, defeat a pirate king, and recruit his subordinates and send them to work for the Black Samurai.
Rewards Granted
Gar Catcher, various pirate loot pieces
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Report Date
16 Mar 2022
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