Sunday October 23, 2022@ 12:30-3:30 P.M.
< WARNING SPOILERS FOR 50 FATHOMS AHEAD MATEY!!>
DAY 307
PLACE: KAJA, ARFK
WEATHER: SNOW
TIME OF DAY: AFTERNOON
Captain Cyrus bought winter gear for the crew and paid everyone 150 pieces of eight to carouse. Cyrus recruited five Grael marines to the La Arcadia's crew.
The group decided to go to The Frigid Bitch. While carousing they overheard conversations of the ship crew.
"Why are we in this icy wasteland?"
"No one knows, but it still beats the Flotsam Sea!"
"A toast to Unk. His spirit is finally free of Redbeard Rufus's curse."
They also toasted to the other three sailors who died during their harrowing escape from the Flotsam Sea.
The group met a Masaquani named Caleb Candelas in the tavern. Caleb had strange blue skin and a pallid complexion. After several people in the group tried to get him to talk, of all people, Chug succeeded. Caleb told him he was wearing a seal suit as he was planning to look for treasure in the wreck of the Arkanaus. His pale skin was a result of nearly freezing to death after the Arkanaus sunk. The pirates who had sunk his ship saved him from the orca and norwhale infested waters. Caleb was willing to share half the treasure with the group in exchange for guiding them to the wreckage.
[So
you know how ridiculous that was, it was a -2 base roll with a -2 for not
having the Persuasion skill, with a -2 for Chug's ugliness. Success was a
10 or better, and Randall somehow rolled it with d4+d6 -6. Everyone else failed d4+d6 -4 rolls. Mutinying against the character with good Persuasion has some drawbacks.]
DAY 308
PLACE: KAJA, ARFK
WEATHER: OVERCAST
TIME OF DAY: AFTERNOON
Horventerous bought a couple of seal suits for himself and Draco. With Chug not needing a seal suit that meant the trio could dive down with Caleb to the wreck of the Arkanaus. All prepared, the group sailed out to the nearly wreck of the Arkanaus, three miles out.
DAY 308
PLACE: COLD SEA
WEATHER: OVERCAST
TIME OF DAY: AFTERNOON
Horventerous, Caleb Candelas, Chug, and Draco dived down to the bottom of the Cold Sea. They got to what was left of the Arkanaus, debris and little more than a door leading to the somewhat intact captain's quarters. Chug tested the door, but found that it was locked. So he shoved his shoulder into it and the rotting wood of the door shattered.
Horventerous cut a rotting rope in the debris and an attached piece of wood went flying at an orca, hitting it in the left fin and wounding it.
[Andrew played Albatross Luck.]
Chug put down the chest gently and charged an orca. He filleted an orca with King Amemnus's sword.
Draco charged the other orca and wounded it with his knife.
Horventerous cast fire bolt using his scepter of fire, which hissed and bubbled causing another wound to the orca.
The orca attacked Draco but missed.
Caleb couldn't hold his breath anymore and started to drown. His body also started to feel the effects of hypothermia.
Draco used his knife to count coup on the orca.
[Randall used Divers with a Bennie. I thought it might be on Caleb, but no. He played it on Chug to negate the encumbrance penalty of the treasure chest. Rather than save Caleb, they left him to drown and freeze to death in the Cold Sea to get the whole treasure, not just half. This is in line with the Greedy hindrance of Horventerous and Draco's mercenary attitude complete with Jingoistic as a hindrance.]
Chug grabbed the treasure chest. Chug, Horventerous, and Draco returned to the surface and left Caleb Candelas to his fate.
On the deck, Nimue unlocked the treasure chest and the group gained 5,000 pieces of eight and a bleeding heart potion. They split it with Horventerous getting most of the amount to recoup the 1,600 cost of the seal suits.
[Nick played Windfall to maximize the treasure hoard.]
The group returned to Kaja, Arfk and went to The Holey Grael.
DAY 308
PLACE: KAJA, ARFK
WEATHER: OVERCAST
TIME OF DAY: NIGHT
At The Holey Grael, Nimue encountered a Grael called Flunk. She spent 100 pieces of eight to buy a treasure map from him that she was convinced was real showing treasure somewhere in the sea far to the east of Kiera. Nimue tried to get the other people in the group to believe her and finally went to La Arcadia where Cyrus Black told her the map was a forgery. Cyrus bought the map from Nimue for 100 pieces of eight.
[Cyrus is a merchant who has sold false maps before in Brigandy Bay for a profit.]
Meanwhile, the rest of the group harassed Flunk about the false map until Bjorn Olafsson was forced to have Grael bouncers escort them from the tavern.
The group left The Holey Grael and went to the Warm Hearth Inn. Chug met an old whaler acquaintance called Frog who couldn't believe Chug could talk now.
When Nimue got back, she chatted up and left with a one-armed Masaquani called Rikas Russ. They went to Rikas's room at the inn and Rikas talked about how he lost his ship, the Fearless, and his arm to the freezing cold breath of a norwhale. Rikas told her about a magical ring that his water mage wore that could protect against the elements. Rikas told Nimue it was probably still in the gut of that norwhale somewhere. For 500 pieces of eight, he would guide her to the wreck of the Fearless. Nimue negotiated him down to 400 pieces of eight and then returned downstairs to the bar area. She told the rest of the group about the plan to hunt down a norwhale. Chug told Frog to come with them, "It would be like old times." Chug gave Frog his old Grael battleball and Cyrus gave him 50 pieces of eight.
DAY 309-313
PLACE: KAJA, ARFK
WEATHER: OVERCAST
La Arcadia sailed to where the wreck of the Fearless was located and waited for the norwhale to appear. On the way, the group netted a large amount of fish twice.
DAY 314
PLACE: COLD SEA
WEATHER: SNOW
TIME OF DAY: AFTERNOON
The group finally found the norwhale and approached it at long range. Horventerous cast a fire bolt using his scepter of fire but missed. Natsu Nara cast an earth bolt cannonball but also missed.
But then it was the norwhale's turn. It emitted a blast of cold from its blowhole to immobilize La Arcadia. Suddenly Natsu Nara let out a molten blast of fire and earth that started to melt the ice. Horventerous cast a fire bolt to further melt the ice. Frog jumped off the ship and hit the ice floe with his Grael battleball, with a tink sound.
[Summer played Get Savage to gain a new power. Insert lavabender joke here.]
The norwhale used the holes in the ice to make an attack against the underbelly of the ship. Chug barely managed to maneuver the ship to avoid it. Meanwhile Frog was flung off balance from the ice floe and landed in the water. Natsu Nara cast fire blast again to melt the rest of the ice.
Horventerous cast fire bolt at the norwhale but it just dived out of the way. The norwhale ate Frog and escaped from La Arcadia.
[End of session.]
XP: 2, Missed XP: 1
MINIMUM XP: 77/Heroic
LOOT: 5,000 pieces of eight, Bleeding Heart Potion
MAPS
Our Sunken Ship is used for the wreck of the Arkanaus. It is a modern map with sea mines around a sunken wooden ship, but if you just print out the center area of the map, it works fine in fantasy.
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/135049/Sunken-Ship?affiliate_id=12615
MINIATURES
Tri-folds
used are from 50 Fathoms Figure Flats and the metal Kraken
miniature made by Pinnacle Entertainment Group.
Miniature ships used include a ship from Letters of Marque by Fantasy Flight Games and a porcelain ship from Red Rose Tea.
