The Man of Troubles

This day can only be summarised as being detrimental. At first, we rescued eight crewmates from a ship that was under attack from a kraken. Upon docking in Nova Aera, we headed for the Salty Bucket, the captain's tavern of choice. The rest of the day was spent there, and for one reason or another, myself, the captain, and prince Nakor decided to speak with a well-dressed man who was seated in a corner. His clothes bore Frankonian and Zimean embroideries and decorations, and he seemed a bit out of place in a sailor's tavern. Something was off about him. I initially suspected that he was a lawbreaker or a fixer, due to his extremely suspicious description of his work. After some time, we left him and went to the bar. The prince, unable to not interfere, wanted to use his "tricks" on him to make him tell us the truth. I advised against it.
 
Later, there was time for a few games of Seule with the crew of the Swift Mermaid. It has to be said that Joric has some energy. During this, Nakor excused himself and went to relieve himself. This was the start of the bad events. Apparently he turned himself invisible and eavesdropped on the meetings that this man, Gorick, had in his corner. By the prince's account of what happened after, I had to conclude that he was either a Frankonian or a devil. Normally, however, Frankonians do not take souls - only everything else - which made devil more likely. This was his mess to deal with, but we recommended that he go an inquisition or a Hellknight order to report this. Evidently, he managed to convince some Order of the Nail hellknights to aid him. However, as this happened the devil returned to the tavern, and a vanaran eventually came. The devil left and the little monkey-man remained. Soon after, prince Nakor and the Hellknights arrived at the Salty Bucket, and the aasimar, in his unfailing judgment, went up to the vanaran. Who immediately exploded in a large spell of fire. The hellknights were knocked out and two sailors died, yet this trickster of a prince somehow remained standing.
 
We debriefed the hellknights and the local lictor of the situation. He promised to eradicate this vermin, and he will also provide a written recommendation for the usage of enchanted weaponry against non-conventional threats, which we are in dire need of. I will have to arrange a meeting with maralictor Hostilian in Ponvarus to this end.
 
May Iomedae, Shelyn and order itself shield us against the prince of chaos for the coming journeys.