Session 1: Let's Get Kraken!
General Summary
We begin as scallywags on a ship known as the Rose of the Tides, working under captain Hugo Runebreaker and his quartermaster, Catani Bruk. It seems like a fairly normal day on the seas as we’re all divvied up to our duties and take the piss out of Morthos as we’ve all heard he eats sand. Who eats sand, okay? Sometimes you have to shame your fellow pirates because again, who eats sand? After we get too out of hand with it, Morthos begins sandbagging our attempts to rile him up and with lunch over, we’re back to our duties.
TT, being the only human in this party, is a little uncomfortable being up in the crow’s nest with me as my nickname “Devil Heart” is said to come from the fact that I allegedly am an actual demon that hunts humans for sport, but it’s all good once the kraken arrives. That’s right, kids. The seas got unusually calm and an unnatural mist surrounded us and with the day being so wonderful before, Almina put two and two together and realized we were about to get our shit wrecked. So TT preps the crow’s nest to be a makeshift lifeboat, ensuring our survival. And as the kraken crashes down on us, the captain grabs our most important crew members and gets on the life boats.
Morthos and Owkbanok, after having canons fire near their ears, are left deaf and didn’t hear the news that we’re abandoning ship. So as Almina faces the kraken directly because she’s a badass like that, they’re stuck on a ship that’s full of bodies and going under soon. Almina sets the kraken on fire with some oil and the ship catches fire as well, trapping the other two. But Morthos, even after we all shamed him for his sand eating ways, refuses to leave Owkbanok behind and eventually the two manage to get on a lifeboat as well, catching up with the captain and Almina. We all catch up with each other and eventually manage to row our way to the island we were originally seeking.
Our original task was to uncover cargo left behind long ago that’s worth 15,000 gold. As soon as we’re on the island, we get a little hunting done, get a fire going, and try to figure out where to go from here. We can either buy a new ship with the treasure or keep the entire hoard for ourselves and commandeer a ship. We ultimately decide on the latter because that’s obviously more exciting and we’re greedy…but anyways, me, Morthos, Almina, TT, and Owkbanok are tasked with finding said treasure. And boy howdy, let me tell you, it turned into a shitshow fast. After encountering strange jellyfish creatures that threatened to wreck our shit, we decide to rest before cave plundering. Morthos and Almina take a nap, but me and Owkbanok are lured away by a siren perched in the trees. TT tries to stop us, but inevitably gets caught in our bullshit.
But the poor siren gets fucked up quickly by us. Owkbanok sets her on fire, but also sets her tree on fire, so oops. Only you can prevent forest fires and all that. TT uses her grappling hook and with my help, manages to drag the fleeing siren back down. I bite her and she dies…or so we think. As soon as I pull my arrow from her, she wakes back up, and in my panic, I punch her in the face. Luckily TT, the baby of this party, finishes her off for good and we reunite with our party to get back to the task at hand. Inside the cave eventually turns down two paths. There’s an unmarked path and one that has a sign reading danger, so of course, we all head down the one that’s advertised as dangerous. We pass by a trapped door and when Morthos can’t get it open, Owkbanok has a brilliant idea.
He throws himself into the door. It doesn’t even move. So he does it again. Nothing. One more time and the door hits him back for being a fool and he hits the ground hard. So now he’s pissed, so like the good friend I am, I offer to help. As he stands back up, I waltz over to give him a totally platonic, no-homo shoulder massage and it does the trick. He charges the door again, it breaks down, and off he immediately falls into a 15-foot pit trap. I silently breathe a sigh of relief that I decided not to help with the door as Morthos helps him out of there and we carry on, slowly accumulating injuries as we go. Except for me.
We reach a series of six doors in a room, guarded by a sleeping bear infected with carnivorous fungus. TT and Morthos sneak along to unlock the doors as Owkbanok points out that one door’s glowing magically. They find a chest inside one and this chest does not open for nothing. We take it back outside and TT tries to break it open, but it still doesn’t work. So clearly, the true enemy of this party already is locks. With everything we do ending in failure, we head back in and go down the other path. The path’s too treacherous for my tastes, so I hang back with Owkbanok and Almina while Morthos and TT slide on by like it’s nothing.
They go on and find a cave with murky water and a stalagmite that reaches out from the water and to the ceiling. There’s a severed rope remains tied to it, floating in the water. Morthos goes into the water to check how deep it is and yet again, this party is chock full of brilliant ideas. He dives into it headfirst and with the water not being deep enough for that, he smashes his skull on the ground below, chipping his horns and giving himself a concussion. TT attempts to pull him out, but ends up getting pulled in herself, but in this chaotic stupid moment; she finds the key for the chest and pockets it. She brings our boy home and we head back out so he can get healed up by Almina, who is probably already fed up with our bullshit, and TT totally unlocks the chest using pure skill and totally not the key she grabbed earlier.
Inside is a scroll of detonate and we head back into the cave to continue on the path we didn’t fully explore. We eventually see a corpse leaning against the wall, holding up a peace sign so clearly the dude had an awesome time down here, minus the fact that he fucking died. We put two and two together and figure out that we have to detonate door two down the other path, so we all head on back. TT and Morthos attempt to dispatch the bear, but fail, so Almina is pulled into the fray as she tries to distract it. I do what I do best and shoot arrows at it from a safe distance while everybody else gets fucked up, but hey, that’s not my problem.
Owkbanok fires off some more fire and poor Morthos is caught in it and goes down. But so does the bear! Almina heals up our sandy boy and we clear out so Owkbanok can detonate the scroll. He does so, but somehow fucks up. Technically still a win since the wall did come down and revealed the treasure, but he’s left seriously injured. So we end this session finding fancy, expensive fabrics and learn that the biggest threat to this party is ourselves.
Rewards Granted
Scroll of Detonate
Character(s) interacted with
- Morthos Malacast
- Almina
- Owkbanok
Notes
Written by Frankie V.
Report Date
13 Feb 2021
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