Session 42 - The Kraken Emerges

General Summary

**Summary of D&D Session:**
1. **After the Battle:** - Kel tends to Carys, who has had her hand cut off. - Falke commands the remaining pirates who have switched sides. - Gos gives Carys a healing potion, easing her pain and leaving her with a stump.
2. **Searching and Freeing Prisoners:** - Mori searches the captain's body but finds no keys. He recalls the slavemaster had keys in the caves and retrieves them. - Mori releases the prisoner turned turtle, who joins the crew. - Zarri explores the hatch where the Butcher emerged, discovering the lower deck with hammocks and another hatch to the hold. - Zarri enters the hold and finds three humans, a blond elven man, a halfling woman, and a silver dragonborn in cells. - Jasper, held in the hold, recognizes the party thanks to Mori's message via earrings.
3. **Rescue and Reunion:** - Zarri attempts to break Jasper's cage but needs keys. Jasper silently mimes "wait there." - Marble frees the halfling woman, who then wild shapes into a cat and escapes. - Mori frees Jasper with the keys. Jasper snaps off his manacles and banters with Marble, releasing a playful eldritch blast. - Jasper and Marble embrace, and Jasper asks about his surroundings and companions.
4. **Retrieving Belongings and Treasure:** - The party searches for Jasper's belongings but finds some missing. - Mori, Zarri, and Marble identify the other prisoners. - In the captain's cabin, Mori discovers: - 2 diamonds - 2 bags of diamond dust - Approximately 500 gp worth of gems - 2,400 GP - An interesting cloak (details unspecified) - Mori keeps some gems for himself.
5. **Escape and Treasure Recovery:** - The group updates Jasper on recent events. Jasper notices a significant chain in the water, belonging to him. - Kel grants the party water breathing. Jasper and B retrieve the chain, also finding: - Approximately 521 gold - 7 silver - They evade sharks and return to the deck.
6. **Kraken Attack:** - Falke alerts the crew to an urgent departure as the tide comes in unnaturally fast. - Jasper's familiar, Pen, scouts and reveals a massive shape under the water. - The crew braces for impact as a kraken emerges, its tentacles attacking the ship. - Mori adopts Form of Dread, shooting eldritch blasts at a tentacle. - B engages in punching a tentacle. - The kraken rocks the boat, throwing the crew and knocking some prone. It also strikes Gos, Kel, Turtle, Drifter, and Mori. - Falke instructs Ali to "Get the storm chaser" and keep the creature off Ali's back. - Gos uses a cannon, incapacitating one tentacle. The crew man the cannons and shoot at the tentacles. - Ali opens a hatch at the ship's wheel, revealing a machine.
The session ends with the kraken attack, setting up the next session to continue the fight.
**Items and Gold Found:**

2 diamonds

2 bags of diamond dust

500 gp worth of gems

2,400 GP

An interesting cloak

521 gold

7 silver

Report Date

02 Jun 2024