Session 31: Clownin' Around
General Summary
We spend the last days of our travel resting and healing after the ghost attack. Amelia has strange dreams of cauldrons and poisoned apples that kill her, so she takes this as a sign that it’s time to lean into her hag heritage. She comes to my room to swipe Nathan’s cauldron for the day, failing to move it anywhere and spilling the contents of his latest experiment all over herself and the floor. Being that it’s a white, sticky substance; of course she finds a way to make this weird and I scold her for even thinking Nathan would keep an entire cauldron’s worth of…you know what. A few hours later, while she’s in the middle of testing some poisons, Nathan comes back to the room and is immediately upset when he finds out his cauldron’s gone.
Turns out his alleged collection of semen that Amelia thought he had is actually a new siege weapon he’s working on. It’s highly explosive, so he goes to scold Amelia while I furiously scrub the floor before I have to pay for any more damage to the ship. In a surprise twist, Nathan and Amelia bond as she admits that she’s starting to believe what I’ve said about her being a hag’s daughter. But in her true fashion, she makes him promise not to tell anyone a damn thing or she’ll make him eat her poisoned grapes. We finally reach the first elven port city, Ianthus, and the navy ships we intended to destroy haven’t arrived. Our original plan was to sabotage the structures of the ship, make the damage seem natural enough that it didn’t arouse suspicion. But with Amelia learning how to concoct poisons, she offers to poison enough food to leave the crew of these ships out of commission.
Before we can even agree to a solid plan, Amelia runs off to start making massive batches of poison; stating that Nathan’s going to help her. Nathan, who was absolutely not aware of this plan, now has to flag her down and make sure she isn’t going to kill herself in the poison making process. I seek out Noah and this time, it’s not to harass him. I hand over the Sea Scoundrel journal I pilfered awhile back and task him with reading through it to find anything of importance. And also figure out why we were attacked by ghosts and the measures we’ll have to take to prevent it from happening again. Ships coming into the elven nation are to be thoroughly inspected, so in order to keep suspicions low about the makeup of our crew and gear; we say we’re a traveling circus that enlisted the help of mercenaries. We go as far as putting on a small show for the inspectors, Amelia being our gracious ringleader. We manage to pull this off, which isn’t surprising considering we’re a bunch of freakshows to begin with; and we’re given the okay to enter the city.
We check out the bank first, learning that the navy ships aren’t due to arrive for eleven days. With so much time to kill, we all break out into petty arguing in the streets and nearly kill each other. Needing time to cool off, we all part ways for the day. TT pokes around for black market contacts, managing to get in touch with a strange, elven shopkeeper who has a delicate mission for us. Assassination. The target is a baron by the name of Elron Gimmley. The pay is 50k, but an extra 10k if we manage to make his death look like an accident. She’s given a map that leads to his plantation and a description of Elron himself. I go off to have a blood-filled charm inspected by a jeweler. Said jeweler attempts to rip me off, stating it’s little more than a spell component, but the look of excitement in his eyes gives him away. After threats of violence, I have my jeweled egg back and find my way to the same oddities owner that TT just visited and he tells me all about my treasure.
It’s a magic item that houses the blood of a sorcerer. Depending on the bloodline contained inside, it’s worth anywhere between 10 and 15k. Luckily for me, it turns out to be incredibly valuable as it houses the blood of a sorcerer with ties to the undead. Amelia also finds work for us. An old woman needs a team to go spelunking in order to find her lost treasures. There’s 15k in it for us if we decide to do it, but once we meet back up to go over everything, we’re all more interested in the assassination. Given that we spent most of our ship funds on upgrades, our crew is a little broke and in desperate need of that gold.
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13 Feb 2021
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