Session 10

General Summary

Hallos and Ace traveled to Stormhelm to assassinate a Drow Noble at the request of their fiance. Ace infiltrated the staff while Hallos acted as an awful client as a distraction. They managed to successfully assassinate their target with no one knowing they were involved and left the scene in a state to frame the bodyguard. They bonded over this field trip, and Hallos got a new macabre painting out of it courtesy of their muse: an Orc woman that works at the hotel.
Meanwhile Jasper and Ocean assembled a crew to sail into the wilds between Ankord and Wisteria. The crew has been tasked to be a self sufficient fishing and trade vessel when the party no longer requires them for travel.
On their trip they discovered their Skipper Divine does recreational drugs but this doesn't seem to impair their sailing. On the first day they had a near miss with some Sirens who were having choir practice and unknowingly nearly lured the ship to its death. On the second day they found a coffin floating in the ocean with a corpse inside, the corpse turned out to be a vampire and was promptly flung into the ocean by a giant octopus. Score free coffin! On the third day Ocean was taught how to fish by Ardis an. Elven Bard. As they approached land they spotted a group of pale blue Elves sliding quickly across the surface of the ocean in a synchronised fashion.
They traveled by Eagle to the magic treehouse, avoiding the dangers of the great outdoors. Ocean and Jasper (disguised as a giant constrictor snake) walked into the treehouse unannounced, spooking the. Elf children and teens living in it. Jasper dropped her disguise and offered the Elves a job on the ship in exchange for their tree. The kids accepted, the tree shrunk down as its command word Sprout was spoken. The treehouse shrunk with it leafing. Jasper to believe the group now has a traveling form of shelter and potentially storage.
The group traveled back to Saltmarsh, on the way they ran into a party boat called The Lusty Crustacean and informed them of Saltmarsh's whereabouts. Ocean managed to catch 2 reef shark with Jasper's eagles and gutted them in their new coffin.
The two duos reunited in Saltmarsh and after some shopping at Captain Xendros' Magic Boutique she offered them a collection job for the Skull of Hakai rumoured to be deep within the ruins of an ancient city to North West of Saltmarsh, near the northern coast of Ankord. This. Location faintly rings a bell to Ocean but she cannot figure out why. Before the party set out on their new quest Ocean paid a visit to a special friend. She feed the Hydra the sharks she caught and managed to communicate with it via the Tounges spell. She also learned that yes the Hydra considers them to be friends, and yes hydras do understand the concept of friendship.

Rewards Granted

XP
200gp A Drow Heirloom The Staff of the Woodlands (plus a tree house) A self sufficient crew/ homeless orphans The friendship of a Hydra

Missions/Quests Completed

Assassinate the fiance of a Drow Noble in Stormhelm.
Find the Staff of the Woodlands.

Character(s) interacted with

New Crew, specifically Ardis the Elf Bard, and Divine their stoner Tiefling Skipper.
The homeless elf children
The crew and guests on the Lusty Crustacean
The Staff of a fancy hotel in Stormhelm
The Drow they framed for assassination
The Hydra of Saltmarsh.

Report Date

12 Jan 2020

Primary Location

Stormhelm