We begin this week’s session taking a circuitous route to
the Seven Churches, as our characters proceed each of us recognize dock workers
along the way fleeing towards the churchs, some of them giving our characters sideways
glances. Closer to the temple district, we find Garamaldi’s Half-tower highly
damaged from cannon fire. Undaunted we make our way to the Greek/Roman church
where we received some minor healing. Here, we learn no pirates have made it to
the churches ‘other than you’. We ask for Aulus and it is mentioned he was last
heard to be at Garamaldi’s assessing the damage.
We retrace our steps to Garamaldi’s and encounter Cian in
the midst of several individuals trying to clear debris; it appears the
structure took two cannon shots, one was a direct hit. We find Aulus as well as
Kassok and Nogamon taking on various leadership roles in the rescue and
recovery efforts. As we arrive Jabari scans the area for magic sources he finds
that Kassok and Nogamon radiate the strongest magical auras; Aulus’ aura is not
as strong. Some of our characters pitch in to help with the efforts; however
Marco looks for possible attackers; while Lex blends into the crowd listening
for news.
Lex overhears questions regarding what pirate owns the war
galleon, with a number of people blaming the pirate king. Some people
expressing that Malta needs to finally develop a method of defense (Navy). Plenty of blame is spread around as a lot of people assume this attack was carefully
planned. The docks took damage and many people were taken away by pirate
slavers. More than one person mentions some kind of betrayal at the docks.
Eventually the group moves on from Garamaldi’s after having
worked themselves to a standstill and move on to help elsewhere. Our characters
return to the Seven Church to meet up with Aulus and a familiar looking woman speaking.
These two eventually call over Kassok and Nogamon into their palaver. It was
becoming increasingly apparent that our characters are being made scapegoats.
It is explained to our characters that we are accused to
aiding in the pirate attack; Cian immediately moves in our defense. Jabari eventually
speaks up and expresses our willingness to cooperate. Zallas, our primary
accuser, informs us that there are some individuals who have identified us. We
explain our warrior’s warehouse alibi, but that is met with news of pirate
attacks at locations our characters have been. Kasok says to Nogamon there’s an
easy way to settle this…
We refuse a voluntary walking of the plank and debate briskly
of our innocence and the absurdity of the whole situation. Cian takes us aside
and our characters express our suspicion of the intensions and even true
identity of Aulus and that if he were to be the Judge in our trial then our
characters refuse to take it to trial.
We are not being detained so we leave and as we do Cian explains
that each person will get a chance to speak against us just as we are allowed to
speak in our defense. The judge determines any broken rules of faith. At the end
each church save for our own gets to vote at our trial, the judge may levy a
heavier penalty depending on his findings.
First stop Borg house. Along the way our characters see that
the fighting has stopped but sounds of the pained can be commonly heard at the
late hour. At the Borg house we are quickly ushered in and it is explained by Elsar
that there is an intruder on our ship and describes the beardless dwarf as well
as some other troubling intellects detected about an hour ago. Carlo explains
our intentions to leave Paola and expresses our thanks on behalf of our characters. All Borg are here save for Maas
who has not been seen since the beginning of the attack. Carlo arranges the Twatwaffle.
Second stop, our characters head to the Golden Horn and find Wally
and Paulie hunkering down ready for the fast escape Lex warned them about. They
are glad to see Lex and offer shelter to our characters allowing us some much needed rest. Around half past five in the morning Paulie and three others head out to
scout the Bonded Mind, they expect to be back in an hour.
Rain begins to fall.
We awake to smells of food and discover Paulie has returned. He explains that our ship is undamaged, he reports; furthermore he spoke with some of our crew who
indicated some of their number are missing, he did not see Ahumm among the elite sailors. Our biggest
problem, Paulie explains, is the people on the dock who are outraged that our ship is undamaged
and said it would be impossible to set sail because of the debris from damaged ships in the harbor.
Lex disguises our characters before we separate into two
groups and make our way to the docks where we see firsthand the people and the
damage in the harbor. The few characters who boarded discover the missing
sailors were men who went to the warrior warehouse and none have seen Ahumm. Carlo,
Jabari and Lex board the Bonded Mind careful for invisible foes. Jabari and Lex find hidden Egyptian
markings of Anubis carved into the ship. Gone are the Egyptian funerary items.
Before Jabari leaves he names a new first mate.
On the way our characters pass near the bards college where
we encounter Melissa and finally Ahumm. We talk and walk when Marco brings up the sword
left in Melissa’s mother’s possession. Melissa retrieves the sword and will
send word as the sword’s history to Fezziwig. Jabari sends Ahumm to the Bonded
Mind and to sail for Bugibba as soon as possible but in the meantime perform
daily searches for Egyptian carvings in the ship.
Leaving Paola our characters pass through a smaller archway, exiting Paola a different
way bound for Zebbug. Along the outskirts we find small campsites and
individuals who fled Paola and are waiting to reenter once the confusion wears down. About a half hour later
we see Nogamon on the trail ahead of us with a small group. We linger behind
and don’t hurry to catch up with the centaur. Eventually they change direction
and turn north west (inland) away from Zebbug and we lose sight of them.
We pass through the Halfling village, again here several
Paola individuals waiting out the chaos of the attack, but we continue to Zebbug and directly to
IL-Kataniz for our third day of weapon focus training. While our characters
train, Jabari will debrief IL-Kataniz of the events from the night before.
IL-Kataniz offers his hospitality and discretion. Jabari,
however can attain other accommodations he eventually inquiries about any
library. IL-Kataniz offers is small collection but mentions Rabat and a library
there.
At the end of the day our characters are tired. Marco looks
for Chomson to complete
their deal. ‘Marco approaches Chomson regarding the sale or trade of a ring
of spell knowledge and eventually makes a trade for an enhanced chain shirt and
a ring on the morrow.’ The chain shirt comes with two markings on it a 'first
owner' and a 'makers mark', the magical ring is for Evagara. The trade is made and the
night goes by uneventful.
On the second day, fourth day of training, Evagara takes
Jabari shopping for a masterwork horn to make a horn of fog on this day. That
evening – good news- Evagara tells us the caskets beneath her house are gone. Lex
takes another look of the map found on one of the fallen grey warriors, a 'need to know' map
featuring the warrior warehouse and other locations our characters have been recently.
We decide to rest easy at Evegara’s family farmstead.
A knock from Wally in the morning wakes our characters. It
was after speaking with Chomson, Wally acted on some hunches and found us here and
after some talk takes Lex aside for a long palaver. Carlo sends a message to the Borg house via
Wally keeping them updated.
Next session Lete, Evagara and Jabari go shopping for
masterwork boots and our characters hope to complete our last day of training.
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