Session 97: Preparing for a voyage. Report

General Summary

Session 97 – Wednesday February 2nd, 2022 – Preparing for a voyage.

4 Hour role Playing session 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Party of 4 (The order of Heroes, Inc.):

It is the 23rd day of the month of Uktar (The Rotting) in the 3rd year of the Age of Enialis

Annalisa (Anna) – Human L8 Monk – L7 Wizard /L3Fighter – Ryan Armstrong (Remote)
Jaquette Mara – L18 Human Druid – Jackie Armstrong
Lucky Lightfoot – Leprechaun – L18 Bard/L1 Sorcerer – Jacob Munson
Luigi Risotto – Wood Elf L17 Monk/L2 Wizard – Dan King (Absent – Church)
Rolen – Human L19 Warlock – Josh Pozsonyi
Tyrena Rechs – Human L16 Ranger/L3 Fighter – Nathan Gioconda (Absent – play)
Fergewon – L19 Firbolg Cleric – Spencer Armstrong (School)

Goals:

Have a ship built
Gather the other parts of the god Destroyer sword (Blade, Hilt and guard)
Destroy the Amber Sarcophagi with the god Destroyer sword
Take the sword to the Summer Queen and have her destroy it.
White Dragon at Purple Rocks

Splitting the Party

Lucky expressed his concerns with Black Razor and asked if Rolen wanted to make a pact with “It.” Rolen said he simply desires to be a free man. Fergewon gave Lucky back his Luck blade on Lucky’s word that the next good weapon he finds he’ll give to Fergewon.

Rolen then explained to the party the details of the ship that he wants to commission for 184,000 gp. They agreed the name should be Charon after the ferryman who’s responsible to carry souls to their final resting place. Anna wanted to go selling items and Lucky and Jaquette were interested in looking for a few things. Rolen gave to Anna the books they had collected. They all agreed to meet back in 5 days.

The Boat

Rolen explained the specs to the party and offered to be the captain the ship. Jaquette offered to be ships Surgeon. Lucky wanted to be the Ships mage. Anna offered to be the quartermaster and Tyrena became the Weapons Master. Rolen went to commission the ship and told and told them that they should have the ship in a tenday. Anna gave Rolen the necessary funds. Rolen also explained to the group that there was a tall dark and menacing Elf who may be spying on the group.

Rolen and Anna went back to Smith and Jones Shipwright. They met the dwarf, Vofer Jones, and gave him the specs of the boat and filled out all the paperwork. They identified who the officers would be. They explained that they need to hire a first mate and a Boson. Vofer provided them with a list of crew resumes. After reviewing the resumes, they agreed to hire Gantu as First Mate and Henry J Waternoose as the Bosun. In addition they hired Burke, Cypher, Lando, Gaston, Sheev Palpatine, Shego, Inigo, Montyoa, Nikabrik, Hans, Stinky Pete and Wesley. Rolen put down 110,000 as a 60% down payment on the ship.

The tale of Lucky

Lucky went to the harpers to look for a “Hook of Fisher’s Delight.” He found the Wise Owl Edum who had never heard of such a thing. Lucky explained all about it and Edum asked “If that was cheating?” Edum assigned Logan to help locate 2 of these items and the Harpers would pay for the items and give one to Lucky. Logan said it would take 2 weeks to have it commissioned but said he knows of some places to look.

Throughout the week Lucky used his wish spell several times. He created a fortress just outside of Neverwinter and invited people to come, eat and be merry. He also resurrected Cornelius and gave him golden eyes. Cornelius joined the crew although he couldn’t swim. Lucky promised to find him an elf maiden. Lucky also created a clone and put it into a private Demiplane. He spent another day hallowing the biggest hall in Neverwinter to help protect people. Lucky found a large rock and cast true polymorph on it creating a Young Silver Dragon. The Dragon adopted the name ROC and Lucky cast Geas upon him to have him protect the town. Lucky spent 2 more days in the forest creating Treants to also protect the town. After 7 days Lucky found the fishing hook that he was looking for.

Lucky cast speak with dead on Jeter and asked if Jeter wanted to be brought back. Jeter said, “Yes if Asmodeus doesn’t have my soul.” He asked Jeter if there was anything he needed and Jeter told them, “Tell my wife I’m sorry and be sure my daughter gets a good education.”

Lucky cast Contact Other Plane in an attempt to contact Asmodeus. Asmodeus responded to the spell. Lucky asked Asmodeus if he had Jeter’s soul and Asmodeus said “Maybe.” Lucky asked who his favorite General was and Asmodeus told him Zod. They conversation went back and forth and Asmodeus started to get a picture of who Lucky was. Lucky asked a few questions about Asmodeus himself but got vague answers and then ended the spell.

Lucky spent 4 hours fishing with his new magical Hook of fisher’s delight but caught nothing and got a bit frustrated.

The tale of Anna

Anna went to the Harpers to ask for permission to use the Teleportation circle. Anna found Moody Maddie and gave her a teleportation Sigel for her place in Amn. Anna was transported to her family’s teleportation circle in Amn. She went to Borgin and Bott’s Auction House. She met with Bernard Borgin and asked them to sell the Cockroach shaped jewelry box (worth 1,500 gp.) She also offered the Historical texts, the Talisman of the Sphere, the Naval of the moon (2,500gp) and the eye of Zaltec (5,000gp.) Bernard agreed to a 4% commission.

The items sold:

Jewelry box: 1,500 gp
Textbooks for 20,000gp.
The 60 older books sold for 6,600gp.
The Navel of the moon sold for 8,000 gp.
The Eye of Zaltec sold for 10,500
The Talisman of the sphere sold for 120,000gp.
The 4% commission was 6,664 giving Anna a sum of 159,936gp

Anna went to Turmish to her sister’s store. The store was run by a gnome named Frozer. Anna mentioned that she was looking for Sophos. A slender middle-aged woman with silver hair walked in from the back. She introduced herself as Sophos and greeted Anna pleasantly. Anna offered Sophos the Silver crown in exchange for an amulet of health. Sophos had an amulet of health and offered it as an exchange. Anna explained that they plan on going after a Kraken. Sophos offered Anna a few more items. She offered a staff of healing, 3 potions of Supreme healing and 4 potions of superior healing. Sophos told Anna she didn’t want her to wind up like her sister. Sophos also offered some advice that the Kraken should be fought underwater but perhaps not in its lair.

Returning home, Anna first went and picked up her spells from Ethel and then seeing the new castle Lucky created, she went in and started transcribing them.

The tale of Rolen

Rolen spent some time interviewing several crew members. A young man wearing what once may have been fine clothing approached for the job of Cabin Boy. He explained his name was Eustace Thornhall from a small village. His friends Sid, Thomas and Cornelius left their village for Waterdeep several years ago and while his friends all found employment, he was never able to fulfil his dream of joining the Order of the Gauntlet. Rolen hired him.

He met with a sailor named Felix who spent several years shipwrecked but has recently come back to the Sword coast and wanted to get back at sea. Rolen explained that they were heading to the Purple Rocks to fight a Kraken. Felix thanked Rolen but quickly ran away. Rolen was not shy about telling the applicants of the dangers they would face. However, the rumors of the Order of Heroes have been growing and that gave Rolen an advantage. Several brave sailors signed up for the crew.

A seasoned sailor walked up to talk to Rolen. Seabert Finch talked straight with Rolen as a no-nonsense grandfather. Rolen asked Seabert if he would recommend Gantu as first mate. Seabert told Rolen that Gantu runs a tight crew and will keep people in line, often a bit harshly but he’s fiercely loyal. Seabert also warned Rolen that new ships are often challenged at sea. Pirates often try to break new captains and prevent them from taking over known trade routes.

Rolen had explained what he learned to Lucky and Lucky cast dream on Rolen so he could speak with Capt. Pryor. Rolen explained the OoH’s plan to build a ship and go to the Purple Rocks. He explained that he wanted other pirates to know that the OoH has no plans on taking over other Pirate’s trade routes. Capt. Pryor said they should talk, and he’ll be in Neverwinter in 5 days. Capt. Pryor told Rolen, “Don’t talk to anyone else, I’ll help you find a crew.”

Rolen in the Shadowfell

On the 2nd day, Lucky cast mindblank on Rolen and Rolen used his spell scroll of planar travel to go to the Shadowfell. Rolen arrived outside the Raven Queens Fortress of Memories. He went into the fortress and presented the Raven Queen the sword Blackrazor. The raven queen accepted the blade back and gave Rolen a “Cloak of the Raven Queen.” She also gave Rolen 5 more cloaks for the rest of the OoH in a bag of holding. Rolen spent the rest of the day in the Shadowfell talking with others.

Kraken Research

Rolen ran into Anna and the two of them went to a nautical library to do some research on Kraken. They learned that Krakens are legendary ancient creatures from the beginning of time. They are often worshiped by gods and have a large cult following. They learned that Krakens are rumored to sleep for hundreds of years at a time. They found no documentation of anyone ever killing a Kraken. They discovered that Krakens have minions within the sea usually consisting of Water elementals and sea creatures. They also learned the Kraken are immune to being frightened. They also learned that, in addition to destroying ships, there are some legends of Krakens destroying entire cities. Kraken are rumored to be able to control the weather. They also learned of legendary magical devices that have been used to summon and control a Kraken although never for a long period of time.

The tale of Jaquette

Jaquette reviewed her spells and purchased the components she needed. She also purchased 10 healing kits.

The Scurvy Dog

5 days into the week, the entire party met up at the Scurvy Dog to meet Captain Pryor. Bree met them at the entrance and took them to a private room where Capt. Pryor had a large meal laid out for everyone. Capt. Pryor informed the party that Capt. Hitch has a 10,000gp bounty on the OoH (alive). He warned them that that’s more gold that many crews earn in a year. Capt. Pryor warned the party to be wary of who they hire. Capt. Pryor reminded the crew that he knows Hitch but doesn’t like dealing with him and His first mate and crew of undead ogres and other unnatural creatures freak him out.

Hitch explained the Dark Jewel has unnatural speed with some sort of “spirit sail” necromancy thing. Rolen told Hitch the party was heading to the purple Rocks and Hitch said he’d be willing to “escort” them to help dissuade any pirate ships from attacking, in exchange for a share of whatever treasure they’re getting at the purple rocks. The OoH negotiated and they resolved to give Hitch 15% of all the coin in the Kraken’s treasure. Hitch explained that not many ships go to the purple rocks due to the storms that always surround the place.

Lucky remembered that there were 2 white dragons that went to the purple rocks and Capt. Hitch said that he’s heard that those dragons usually circle Capt. Hitch’s ship, the Dark Jewel. Hitch said that those dragons have frozen entire villages and frozen ships, stripped them and then sank them.

Hitch asked if they’re going after the Kraken Slarkrethel’s hoard. He said Slarkerthel is the Kraken who apparently lives near the purple rocks and is rumored to be worshiped by some tribes there. Rolen said they plan on going after the Kraken and Hitch laughed. Hitch told Rolen, that he won’t be going after the Kraken directly but will protect them from other Pirates. The Kraken is a bit out of his league. He did tell them that the the Northlanders of Utheraal and Trisk are the ones who worship the Kraken, but they don’t speak of it with strangers.

Hitch told them that they’d plot a course to Gundarlun so he could do a decent trade on the way and then they’d head off to The Purple Rocks from there.

Campaign

Rebuilding in the Age of Enialis

Protagonists