Session 0: A Party is Formed

Making their way to the Tickle and Feather, an exotic brothel in the town of Fairweg, the adventurers find the dwarf, Borkul Markorlak, who placed an add looking for explorers to go North. After exploring the town and procuring any materials they needed for their journey, they arrive the next morning at the docks.

Bording Borkul's beloved ship Autumn Song, the travelers start their journey across the sea to the land up North. A skirmish happens on board between Elnaril and Aodreia Zatchet, a seer who remembers the war vividly after her village was attacked and family killed. As a result, she particularily hates half-elfs who she views and traitors both to her country and to humans for daring to breed outside their race.

A few days later, a song begins to float across the ocean, Elnaril and Greg being elves, are immune to the charming song. Suddenly, crewmates start to fling themselves (or attempt to) from the ship after hearing the song. Elnaril looks around and sees a large rock peeking up from the ocean surface and believes this to be the origin of the song. Upon seeing merfolk, he raisis alarm, and notices the crew trying to jump overboard. Quickly, those not yet charmed tie down their mates. In the panic, no one was manning the ship, and it start to come even closer to the rock, causing even more of the crew to be charmed. A storm starts to brew, lightening cracking and striking the water, sending an electrical pulse like a spiderweb across the surface. The merfolk start to throw spears at the ship, sharks start to thrash in the water, attempting to catch any unsuspecting crew along the bannisters.

The storm ramps up, creating a wall of water around the ship and rock, swirling around. As the crew fight the merfolk, out of the ocean appears a figure. Difficult to see exactly what it is, it appears to have some sort of human shape, but with no distinguishing features. The boat starts to spin in what is now a whirlpool created by the watery figure. Right as the adventurers kill the remaining merfolk, the figure lifts a huge wave of water, causing the ship to tip to the side but not fuly capsizing. As the water slams down, the boat breaks, and the crew finds themselves underwater.