Five Tower Keep Session 18: 12/13/2018 Banana Tree Embassy and The Black Parrot Mercenary Company

After getting a general layout of Lowport our characters come to find out that the Lowport side has a large community of rat folk but opposite the sink holes, on the other side of the river- Newport, is a solidly built affair upon a wide flat on rock. Half-dragons, in the Lowport side, have evolved into mob-like competition between fierce of crime syndicates.

Holden Torn

We head straight for the junior dock master; Holden Boothe Torn who has heard of our swampy exploits in advance of our arrival. We tell him most of our tale except the parts where the Hags reincarnate victims into giant husbands and the magic of the hags. We intend to establish ourselves as a company out of Lowport to open a charter and to take on hirelings.

Holden expresses concerned about the rise in half-dragons in the swamp but wishes to distance Lowport’s Navy from any involvement. To keep up appearances. He offers our characters 8,000 gold each and an embassy building in the military area as well as badges to cover all tolls and fees. Finally, he has a means of communication with Inskip at Five Tower Keep and leads us to a case of Boots of the Mire which our characters discover, it was Holden who was originally responsible for supplying the boots. 

Holden gives us the name of a dwarf: Bushwood Applesnook who is a merchant in Old Port when it comes to trading the magic our characters are laden down with.

Black Parrot Mercenary Co. 

Next our characters travel to the embassy designated to us: Banana Tree Embasy. Here our characters meet Blake Buffet the major-domo of the manor house. Our characters settle in after meeting the ground's staff and during the night- some of who don’t seek refuge in a rope trick is visited with a nightmare. These characters experience a uniquely different hag night-messenger.

The next morning we encounter Blake receiving a message from an island off the coast that he relays to Holden.

Drake speaks with Lazlo about an adventurer’s warrior guild and is told of a woman named Marta an embittered ex-navy soldier and finds out she attracts martial types who don’t enroll in the Navy- the guildhall in question is located in New Port.

Mesha and Melderon first head to meet Garland Milkwish while the rest of our characters find a nearby pub. Here, Melderon and Mesha tell Garland everything we have encountered thus far (excluding the reincarnation magic exercised by the hags) with the intention of selling or at least appraising our goods. In a display Melderon brings forth the mythic and brings a spell to this world: Anywhere But Here.

Fen Thunderwood

Bosley is introduced to Melderon- Bosley is a causation half-elf diplomat and singer, orator and bard and Melderon's hireling. From there our characters head to Old Port to visit the rat-folk alchemist Gannom Pone then Bushwood the dwarf.

Bosley

Along the way Mesha comes across a human duo a benevolent rabbit farmer as well as a human fighter and soon feels a connection to a man named Fen Thunderwood (Mesha's hireling).

Meanwhile a trio of rat-folk succeed in picking a coin purse from Drake provoking a short chase through the streets. We defeat the rat-folk and end the session.