Red beard and Linhir 24.4.2023

General Summary

The party settle down in Linhir and quickly decide having had enough of Helga the haggad they will try another shop.
They go to the shop and deal with "Bo" who owns a shop selling weapons and armour, Twitch buying some goods, but they also get some news  and find from him that Hizir Hayreddin pirate is in town, who is in with 3 body guards, his rogue type with 2 goods long daggers and a pretty lady in her 30s who looks very intelligent - possibly a healer/priest.
The party track him down to Broken Lute inn which apparently is doing great porpoise steaks currently, and is opposite the square which is busy with a dentist in place, a doctor selling potions, and some chap called willy wonker selling some stuff called choc-late
Twitch makes a fantastic perception check with natural 20, and spots everybody in the pub, identifies everything they carry and the party then make some plans.
Jammy the Juggler is also present, and Haresgar nods to him
The party try to lure Redbeard and his followers from the pub, but twitch finds he is followed, and trys to evade his followers - some young kids, and meet the party at a point for ambush. The others leave and follow him to the ambush point. Not being followed the party go back to the coinmasters house with Arcambian and his daughters
Twitch later that night sneaks out of the house, creeps up on Sligh the street orphan, and captures him. They then find enough information to confirm that the Pirates are on the Flying fish ship down on Long Quay. They visit Red beard, and return the map and get the pirates favour and the promised gold, not making him the enemy and so getting some of his trust.
They visit "Argy" the Lord, a young posh pretentious Lord with an over inflated view of his worth and skills and meet up also with Saphire, wizard and companion of Merlin
They hand over rings that they can use to disguise themselves to her to get them modified (from the Yuan Ti spice guild who used them to pretend to be humans,), so they can pretend to be dark elves and go find the Mother pearl at the house of Despana in the city of Erel Hei
They also pass over the cursed box for investigation...Saphire heads back to Ticonderoga and his city to learn more...
The party then go down to the harbour while waiting for Saphire to return, with Argy as he is told his shipment of "Apes" from koth has arrived. The local Koth guards - with there shrunken heads on chains, look a darkly disturbing site, made worse as slowly the huge apes are taken out ion their cages, till at last a huge ape is taken out. The party try to engage with this huge calm evil intelligent looking beast, which stares at them - looking at them like it will devour them
Yumi tries a read thoughts to discover this beast is a Balgura demon and discover that the demon believes he will fight the Lord for kingship of this area. They try to convince Argy that the Ape is a demon and believes he will fight the Lord Argy, but Argy does not believe them, thinking they are an excitable and slightly delusional set of lower minions who are not clever enough to be treated as equals. 
Haresgar trains with Argy, learning he is Ok, but not great...
They then try to convince the lord who they ask to send down the priests of Ra to investigate...who get a garbled message from a soldier and promptly ignore it as being unimportant.
Twitch follows up, and visits the priests who send acolyte Lazereus as Bishop Angelo is too busy
They then go the ship, and the Koth guards confirm there "Master" does not want to be disturbed, Twitch and co say wake the master as they want to see the apes, but the Koth guards say speaking to the master would wake the Apes.....the party say speaking to the master would not wake the apes, but the guards confirm that speaking to the master would raise the apes....a back and forth conversation filled with some misunderstandings - but whose

Report Date

25 Apr 2023