Session 46: A Reefining: A Who Dun it on the Voyage to New Galvania.

It's around 12pm on RavenQueenSea the 8th year 1093,
 
We are outside the council hall and decide that we are going to head to New Galvania. We are concerned about Elas, but when he was taken from us, it was for a trial, so we trust that he will get himself out of it eventually and get back to us. If a few days go by and we don't hear from him or anything, we will decide what we want to do.
 
We decide to travel to the south of New Galvania, go to Sarafin Village and try to ally with the salfanites there. It'll be about a 10 day trip.
 
We plan to get supplies and goats for morpheus and Franz.
 
Joe tells us there is a Hurricane coming, so we decide to stay for another week. While here we seek out the thieves guild to find out about Ameilia and to see what happened to the fellow who attempted to kill us in Eldoria. We are taken to an old run down observatory. when we get there, we find Amelia there. She looks like the person who tortured Elias and Ash before. We learn that she has many versions of herself out there. She can feel it when one of her selves die, and we were the first to have killed one of them. Amelia got involved an Ifreeti who was a prince of the city of brass, and as clever as she is, she wished to rule all of the thieves guilds, and he made it so, by splitting her into a leader for each guilde that exists.
 
WE make peace with her about killing the other Amelia. She also tells us that the fellow we captured in Eldoria was ostracized from the thieves guild for disrupting the flow of Blue Sage trade. We are asking that he be held accountable for trying to kill Panfyr twice. We have her blessing to have the thieves guild in Eldoria take him out.
 
She stamps a letter for us and we get it sent to Eldoria.
 
Let's skip to RavenQueenSea the 14th, 8am and the skies are clear.
 
We decide to head out. The Salfanites walk up to us and Morpheus. There is somebody else with them. He's a human with long blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. Super handsome and charismatic....the noble type.
 
There is a lot of ass kissing in their conversation. apparently Morpheus is bringing them on board to help? un ceratain.
 
Franz finds out that the guy is someone from Adenizeal. His name is Light Lockmarche. He is carrying a sword with a symbol of Lathander on it. He carries himself like a leader. Maybe he's some kind of commander.
 
Franz talks to Light and finds out he's from Adenizeal- a city that used to be in a placed called Faerune. there were some deals made by the Paragon, Thandius, and somehow their city ended up here. His people worship Salfa. He chooses to continue worshinging Lathander.
 
We learn this Thandius has a daughter. Thandius wants to be a ruler. Light has the birthright to rule Adenizeal. but Thandius is ruling there? I'm uncertain. Anyway, he's kind of running away? Thandius told him that if he was able to procure.....something.....he doesn't know, but he needs to talk to a guy named Peter in Sarafin.
 
So, he's not ostracized????? But it's complicated....I don't really know.
 
Before we head out, Panfyr goes out to do a bit of "dirtying". She's able to obtain a gold pouch of a very heavy set rich fellow selling dates and textiles. She shares her spoils with us, but just tells us she just happened ot find it.
 
We head out, and realize we have like 25 other passengers and another 15 for the crew.
 
While on the trip, Hydr is able to use the blue sage that Joe has been caring for to get to work on the incense we need to combat the mind control for the Magnuses.
 
On day two, one of the guests is frantically searching for their human daughter Lytria. Ash tries to locate her, but her spell is not able to which means, she's either no longer on board, she's polymorphed, or something else I haven't thought of. Ash, understanding the girl isn't on the boat doesn't want to make things worse for the mother and says that
 
Franz confronts Morpheus, but he swears he hasn't seen this girl. Franz is able to investigate. We end up finding remanence of foot prints on the ship. We use charcoal to make a tracing of this and then compare it to other feet. WE narrow the foot print down to 3 people.
 
one guy named Alfred, tells us that they are a cobbler and repaired a shoe for a guy named Nicholas. The other guy Charlie tells us he was reading. ONe guy named Donald claims to have been collecting wheat that a guy named Gerald brought onto the ship. It was caught.
 
Meanwhile, Hydr finds clothes on the bow that belong to a large man. Panfyr recognizes that these clothes belong to an elft that was part of the crew.
 
Franz starts to question Donald, the wheat grinder. He takes off his bandages off to scare him further.
 
Meanwhile, Panfyr asks for the manifesto, but Morpheus labeled everyone as a generic food item. I'm hating this guy more and more every day.
She's trying to find the high elf whoms clothes Hadyr found on the bow. Panfyr learns his name is Shrowl or something like that. As Panfyr is looking for this person, He hears someone scream and then a splash.
 
Panfyr runs over and screams "MAN OVERBOARD" as she sees someone in the water. Panfyr starts to spin the steering wheel causing the boat to suddenly spin. This causes Franz to fly out of the window of his room. Ash is able to cast water walk on him. She throws a rope to Franz to help him climb back up.
 
Meanwhile, Panfyr throws a rope to the other person overboard. Joe helps by casting control water around the person and pulls them up to the boat.
 
Joe asks who pushed them overboard. It's a frail girl that says she was attacked by a gnome. Shes a different girl that the original missing person.
 
We ask the girl what happened. She says the gnome ran up out of nowhere and pushed her. He was a rock gnome- brown hair evil look in the eye. fair skin.
 
Franz uses a water sphere to try and find an invisible person on the boat. Joe tries to talk to some rats/mice and finds that someone smells really bad.
 
Ash turns into a bloodhound and follows the smell of the high elf clothes we found and it leads her to a tiefling who smells of a strong chemical bleach smell.
 
Ash essentially gets the tiefling by the britches and drags him to the brig. Meanwhile Franz has run the boat into the reef. Everyone else is trying to right the boat. We all hear a horrible scraping coming from the bottom of the boat.
 
Hydr drinks a strength potion and starts to get the boat under control. Joe is using the decanter to try and push the boat a bit...she's tied to the boat and trying to help. I don't really know.
 
Franz finds a very tiny leak in the very bottom of the boat from scraping the bottom of the boat against the reef. Joe might be able to patch it up, but as they get down there, it busts even more and water starts to gush in. Joe and Hydr are able to handle it though.
 
While Ash guards the tiefling in the captains quarters, Panfyr comes up with a plan to try and "join" the gnome. When they go to the captain's quarters, they find 2 bloodhounds. Ash comes out of wild shape and immediately causes the other one to come out of the bloodhound. The team cannot tell who the real Ash is, and ends up sending in Fred to sniff out real Ash. They kill the other Ash and it turns out Fred was correct.
 
Why was this doppelganger killing people? Franz has heard of a doppelganger that was an assassin and would use that to kill its targets. We learn that the girl who survived knew the girl who was killed. They are both from New Galvania. She thinks it may be due to a feud between families. She thinks one of hte families from Lupine Forest may be behind this, but she doesn't really want to open up to us, not knowing if she can really trust us.
 
AFter investigating we deduce that she may be some kind of royalty. We find a handkerchief with A.G on it. We figure out that the first girl that went missing looked a lot like the girl who survived. It must have been a case of mistaken identity.
 
It is possible that she *might* be alive, because Joe has been casing Water Breathing on everybody every day. There is a tiny chance that she could still be alive.
 
Meanwhile, while trying rest, Morpheus tries to hit up Ash. Ash isn't having it and she's really paranoid after her circumstances. She rejects him a second time the next morning. This kind of puts Morpheus in a state. He plays a flute and becomes surrounded in black smoke.
 
Franz and he start to argue about how Franz "left him to die" and Morpheus becomes really hostile and irate. As much as we try to calm him down, we cannot and we find that he summons a Kraken.
 
Franz is able to think about his past with Morpheus and remembers that there were times were Morpheus could get really angry and jealous and competitive. All of that built up frustration plus touching the abyss and being part vampire is starting to come to the surface. Everything negative within him has been super amplified.
 
Ash tries to pull Morpheus out of his state, but he disappears and she just barely survives not getting pulled into the Abyss. Kraken Tentacles start to grapple the boat.
 
It's currently 18th or Ravenqueensea around 8:30am
 
This is where we end.