01 - Raid on The Clockwork Colossus

Session 01

General Summary

The The Clockwork Colossus gets raided by the Ember Corsairs . The party fights them, but they escape with some mysterious items from the secure cargo hold.

You all boarded in Serekhet three days ago, and you are expected to arrive in another three days. The sea was quite wild for the last day, but it seems you’ve passed the worst. It’s the early afternoon.
John Liu is lounging on the rear deck, Tazimus Gaiapatus reads a book and smokes his shisha on his private first class balcony. Julius Smith, empoyed as a cook for the voyage to Brasshaven takes a well deserved break after the rush of lunch hour, and Pilar Holmqvist and Daniel Schultz sharing a table on the second class level.
All passengers just finished their lunch, as through the low hanging clouds numerous small airships appear. The Ember Corsairs have decided to raid The Clockwork Colossus.
A number of guards drop, apparently not from serious wounds, but as if they instantly fall asleep. The Corsairs create quite a mess with firebombs and smokebombs, and the heroes of this tale decide to fight these bandits. All the other guest flee to safety. During the fight Gaiapatus demonstrates some skill with bolt of energy, John charges bravely (and almost fatally) the enemy leader named Klaus of the Ember Corsairs. Pilar and Daniel draw firearms and (try to) shoot the enemy archers who are taking out the guards aboard the ship. Julius encourages and inspires John during his attempt to take down the leader. You notice the bandits have not tried to kill anybody, except for Klaus who got annoyed by John's attempts to stab him. One of them, an armored female Corsair even heals John during their escape.
As the Corsairs leave Julius notices that some of them did not participate in the fighting, but were below decks in the secure cargo hold. Lieutenant Kasim approaches the party, asking them to help him with discovering what happened.

The party investigates the cargo hold and they discover that the mess made by the Corsairs is a intentional distraction and only three things have gone missing First off all, from a box labelled The Institute , a smaller box about the size of a pencil case is missing. Investigation into the arcane residue reveal a lingering presence of Divination magic. Secondly, from a heavy shipping crate belonging to Ironclad Syndicate containing all matter of explosives, the expensive and magically charged detonators are missing. Lastly, an ornate long rectangular box with the name "Dawnstrider" has been opened and a long, staff like object is missing. This box contains a strong Illusion magic residue.

Kasim offers you a luxurious suite and has your gear brought there. He tasks you with finding out what went missing, and if there are people working with the raiders aboard this vessel. The party accepts to help him. He says they will be rewarded appropriately upon arrival in Brasshaven and hands all of them a large copper insignia with the "Clockwork Colossus" name and symbol pressed in the metal. This badge should give them access to all decks, except private rooms, the bridge and the machine room.

Report Date

22 Feb 2024

Related Characters

• Daniel Schultz
• John Liu
• Pílar Hilká Holmqvist
• Ta'zimus Gaiapatus
• Veridius Claudius Julius Smit

Related Historical Events

• 1225 AEA
  Raid on The Clockwork Colossus