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11/13/2021

Session 40: Olav is... Not Dead?

by Cali Zendyr

Cali and Wulf look at the second chest, and Wulf makes an observation that it... looks like a treasure chest... and would probably be opened by a key... Cali asks if he's ok, then just decides that they should try to open it. As soon as they have officially made the decision, they start to feel like they're in considerable pain. They move to the back of the chest. Wulf is concerned but opens the chest, and they find a small leather bag containing 12 amber gems, a black shortsword with a magical aura and green gems on the hilt, and a once-brightly painted figurine of a horse that's big enough for a child to sit on it. Wulf will carry it back to the others, and Cali will carry the sword and gems.
 
The leather bag that was in the nonmagical chest has gold in it. The waterlogged papers, Cali determines, are logs mostly. There's a Meerfolk personal insignia that they can't make out, and another signature that they recognize. As we decide to bring this stuff to Jade and Quell, Jade and Quell begin exploring the ship too. We pass them as we head back to the front, and Wulf jumps kangaroo style back and forth to transport the stuff they found, including the papers which he gives to Bridgette. She calls someone to look at the with her, and Wulf hops back down. He and Cali talk about adventure, and how fun it can be. Cali also reminds him that they're on this ghost ship under somber circumstances, and that they hope that man isn't dead. They continue on to the other door they hadn't opened yet.
 
Wulf goes into a rage and breaks the door open. There are skeletons scattered along the floor and an empty table. He goes to investigate the room, and when he touches one of the barrels in the room, the skeletons spring to life. Cali yells to Jade and Quell that there are skeletons, and when they notice that the skeletons are glowing green, they yell that they're magical too. We roll initiative.
 
After the skeletons are dead, Jade determines that the barrels are cursed. We then notice a ladder leading about 10 feet up. Quell sends rabbit to investigate, and Wulf follows suit. There's a skeleton on a bed up here, and beside it is Captain Olav, skin grey, sleeping. Quell is concerned, and Jade goes up to investigate. Cali suggests restoration magic, but Quell is worried they won't get the chance.
 
When up there, Wulf starts investigating the chests in the room, and Jade casts remove curse on Olav. His eyes fly open, and he seems terrified to see the skeleton beside him. He's freaked out, and doesn't believe Wulf and Jade at first when they say they want to escort him back to his ship. Wulf offers him a blade, and says Olav is allowed to slit his throat if he tries anything. They stand from the bed, and make their way back down where Quell and Cali are. Quell gives them a bit of healing, and Wulf scoops them up on his back to carry him the rest of the way. Once at the merging point, he leaps up onto the Frostbite, the original ship.
 
Jade stays behind to look at the magical objects found in the chests in the room. She finds a figurine with abjuration magic on it, and wraps it in some paper so she can take the figurine with her. She also takes a leather journal covered in blackened blood, and a nonmagical bogwood figurine of a cat. She descends the ladder and gives the cat figurine to Quell, who is very excited about it. After that, they join the others.
 
Jade uses her air elemental to break the ghost ship from the Frostbite as much as it can before the spell ends, and the rest of the crew saws away what they can. Quell casts gust of wind on the sail multiple times, and we make slow but steady progress away from the ghost ship. There is still curse energy on our ship from the ghost one, and some of the crew is still passing out, but we are at least free from the ghost ship.
 
Quell casts dispel magic on the bits of the ship that are still stuck, and it works very well, except that there's now a hole in the ship. The crew and Wulf all rush to fix it, and it's a shoddy job but it should hold steady until Vlotdok unless there's a storm. After a bit, the breeze picks up, and the crew cheers as the ship begins moving at a decent pace once again.
 
The party levels up!!
 
Jade inspects the scarab figurine and the journal she found. Cali attunes to the sword they found as well.
 
EOS

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  1. Session 1: Scaling a Lighthouse
    08/?/19
  2. Session 2: Sleeping in the Lighthouse
    8/14/19
  3. Session 3: Finding Anaka's Apprentice
    8/21/19
  4. Session 4: Anaka and the Town Feast
    9/04/19
  5. Session 5: Fighting a Ghost in a Clearing
    9/18/19
  6. Session 6: Meeting the Revenant
    10/9/19
  7. Session 7: Tasha Bloodsail and Her Magic Mirror
    10/23/19
  8. Session 8: Killing a Gang
    12/04/19
  9. Session 9: Making Things Right
    1/22/2020
  10. Session 10: Getting Sappy on a Ship
    2/12/2020
  11. Session 11: A Raccoon Named Kama
    3/4/2020
  12. Session 12: Killing Lady Loaka
    4/11/2020
  13. Session 13: Lizards in the Desert
    4/29/2020
  14. Session 14: Jade
    5/20/2020
  15. Session 15: Diving Down a Magical Well
    6/12/2020
  16. Session 16: Himbo Rights
    7/17/2020
  17. Session 17: Liya Takes Our Blood, and Quell Explores Her Backstory
    8/17/2020
  18. Session 18: Nyala, 5-Star Travel Guide
    8/28/2020
  19. Session 19: Haunted Cairns and Rock Spiders
    9/19/2020
  20. Session 20: Stumbling Into Politics
    10/31/2020
  21. Session 21: Wulf Meets His Pup
    11/21/2020
  22. Session 22: Fighting Zombies in the Woods
    12/05/2020
  23. Session 23: Burying A Suicidal Dead Guy
    12/24/2020
  24. Session 24: Hey, Your Husband's Dead... Here's a Steak!! ...It's Not Your Husband... to be Clear...
    1/02/21
  25. Session 25: Ghostie Tirga da Narei Got That Drip
    1/23/21
  26. Session 26: This LEAF is a BOAT?! (oh and also we're being hunted)
    2/6/21
  27. Session 27: Jade Communes With the Fog
    2/27/21
  28. Session 28: Fighting Oozes In An Abandoned House
    3/20/21
  29. Session 29: Wulf Learns The Dangers Of Mishandling A Corpse
    4/17/21
  30. Session 30: Jailbreak
    5/01/21
  31. Session 31: Wanted, Inaccurately
    6/05/21
  32. Session 32: Ghosts and Mammoth Meat
    6/19/21
  33. Session 33: Jade Is A Monster Fucker
    7/10/21
  34. Session 34: Do Seagulls Have Fangs?
    8/07/21
  35. Session 35: Facetime With Tasha (oh, and Jade is a double agent)
    8/21/21
  36. Session 36: Wulf Dreams of Puppy Piles
    9/11/21
  37. Session 37: Wulf & Jade (separately) Bond With Tulan
    9/25/21
  38. Session 38: The Gang Sees A Psychic
    10/09/21
  39. Session 39: Exploring a Ghost Ship
  40. Session 40: Olav is... Not Dead?
    11/13/2021
  41. Session 41: CALI IS NOT POOR OKAY
    12/11/2021
  42. Session 42: Wise Old Egil
    01/15/2022
  43. Session 43: Christmas Morning, Via Egil
    02/05/2022
  44. Session 45: 44 didn't save
    3/12/22
  45. Session 46: fighting a waiver (that means dragon)
    04/03/22
  46. Session 47: Hole-ception, Donut Hole if you will
    4/30/22
  47. Session 48: Scry City, Bitch
    5/14/22
  48. Session 49:
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  49. Session 50: Sink or Wind
  50. Session 51: Scouting Our Meeting Place
    8/27/2022
  51. Session 52: Battle on the Beach
    10/01/22
  52. Session 53: Wulf Sneaks onto a Ship
    10/15/2022
  53. Session 54: Wulf Is Not Allowed Near Windows
    10/29/2022
  54. Session 55: THERES A TROLL (Beast) IN THE DUNGEON (outer fields)
    11/12/22
  55. Session 56:
    12/10/22
  56. Session 57:
    01/15/2023
  57. Session 58: Quell is Cali's Imaginary Friend
    01/28/2023
  58. Session 59: SECRET TUNNELLLLLL
    02/11/2023
  59. Session 60: I'm gonna dip you in butter
  60. Session 61: We're Looney, We're Tuney
    04/1/23
  61. Session 62: The Mother Herself Said She's Alive!
    4/8/23
  62. Session 63: Wulf DoorDashes Rats
    6/10/23
  63. Session 64: Are We Dead? Are We On A Boat? Will There Be Meat?
    7/1/23
  64. Session 65: Cali wants the Tea
  65. Session 66:

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