76. Kraken Bay Report
General Summary
5th Barrakas, 999 YK
- They go to see Senen Dhakaan and retrieve Ode. It doesn't seem like Kalshana dreamed last night.
- They go to the docks and meet with Riish, who takes their money and then lets them board his ship.
- Chozan uses Gust of Wind on the sails and they go!
- They arrive at the mouth of Kraken Bay, Riish plans to follow the coast for a while and then go straight to Seaside. It adds a bit of time to the journey, but should be safer.
- It wasn't safer (or maybe it was?). They get attacked by a Steel Kraken! A shadow passed beneath the ship and the water for several hundred feet was blackened.
- The Steel Kraken chews a hole in the hull, but they manage to fight it off. It retreated into the inky depths.
- Lozaal Daashor helps the goblin crew to triage the damage to the ship, enough to get them to Seaside.
- In the evening, they arrive at Seaside. The Nimble Escape is stuck there for at least a day while they repair the damage in a more permanent way.
- In the early hours of the morning, during their long rest, a strange Troll emerges from the mist wall that marks the edge of the Mournland, singing a folk song about The Keeper.
- The troll introduces themselves as Tete Shaat'aar, a talon of The Keeper. Tete explains that Seaside is populated by the living dead, who go about their lives as if nothing had happened to them. They don't even seem to realise the city is in ruins.
- The dead get aggressive if the delusion is threatened, and there is an Oni guarding the lighthouse. The lighthouse seems important.
- Lozaal gets sketchy vibes from Tete, something about the troll unsettles him.
- Tete offers the party an agreement; if they help Tete to free the souls of those trapped in Seaside, he will owe them a favour.
- They debate it for a bit, but they want more information before agreeing to anything.
- They ask Tete some more questions. It seems that Tete and the Oni have fought already, but neither was able to best the other. "We're too durable."
- Tete leaves them to their decision making, stating he will await them on the other side of the mists. On his way out, he warns them not to be in Seaside at midnight, the dead become aggressive.
