Session 4: A Birthday to Remember

General Summary

At the end of Session 3: Someone to Answer To, you touched base with Neela and let her know of your desire to go to Isadell -- she asks for 2 days to buy some goods to sell in Isadell (parchment, inks, etc.) → give PCs a chance to prepare for the trip in whatever way they want. They can expect a 3 day trip PCs set sail, met the crew, and celebrated

Found out it was Tomas Moorsdon's 56th birthday
Tomas and Abe went fishing (Abe was unsuccessful)
Tomas concocted the foulest, sickest meal of fish -- no one wanted his feelings to get hurt, but both Tomas and Abe ended up vomiting off the side of the ship
Also met Jester Allard, who played some tunes on his fiddle
Gitink Cooper & Ella Bonk danced, Zoran bobbed cautiously (was not heavily imbibing), Abe tried to play along on his pipes but it didn't quite work
Menkomi Sachin noticed Abe's playing and mentioned that it seemed familiar but just a bit different than a folk song she knew -- Abe & Menkomi got to talking and PCs learned that Menkomi has traveled far more than the average high elf and loves to experience new places

Went to bed -- where do they sleep?

Gitink and Ella share a cabin, Jester and Tomas share a cabin, Menkomi has an extra hammock in her cabin
Zoran shared Menomi's cabin & Abe set up another hammock on deck

Mutated giant octopus battle!

Giant octopus + ability to use an action while in the water to hit the ship, causing everyone to roll a DC 15 dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone
Abe made perception check to see this thing coming, and alerted Zoran & Neela
Unarmored AC: Abe = X and Zoran = X
Crew (not including Neela Emere remain below deck at Neela's orders)
Found out that its goal was to get the orb
Determined that it wasn’t acting like a normal octopus (came to the surface instead of staying in depths), seemed to be compelled/drawn to the orb in some way