Waterday - 5 Sunsebb - Evening
The
Try-hard Misfits had been tasked to reconnoiter the Lizard folk lair that was overrun by Sahuagins. They entered through an underwater passageway this morning and carefully maneuvered through all three levels of the heavily modified fortress before exiting through a door that led to the causeway where they started this morning.
Leaving the hostile lair behind, Nar quickly surveys the causeway as the party follows quickly behind her. Reaching the southern shores of the
Hool Marshes, two humans rise from the muck greeting them, "We wass thinking you be lost. A few more minutes and we'd been rowing back to the
Sea Ghost. The jolly boat's over here."
The party climbs into the row boat and the two crewmembers edge the boat into the bay and around the headlands to the west. As the jollyboat sculls through the bay, Karia brings the lobster, Shern, from her hood asking, "You said there was treasure near? Where?" She receives a flash of images showing a bleak coastline and then images of rocks and a sunken ship. Continuing, she asks again, "Okay it's a shipwreck, but what direction?" Holding her hands out, the lobster raises and lowers his claws as she rotates until pointing south with both claws outstretched. Then she asks,
"How far away is it?" and receives images of the sun rising and setting multiple times indicating that it took the lobster several days traveling.
As the jolly boat enters the adjacent bay, the
Sea Ghost sits anchored, but the group notices there's a buzz of activity as a lone shout echoes out to them, "Blast! Raise that anchor! Quick! Before them beasties circle 'round!"
Looking beyond the ship, they see two dark flying shapes veering toward the ship. Looking closer, Karia fails to recognize them as she calls out, "They aren't dragons, but they are definitely dragon like." Stepping next to her, Adlia says, "By Ehlonna! They're Wyverns! They'll destroy the ship if we don't help!"
Reacting immediately, Kyra pushes Nar and Karia into the turbulent water allowing them to glide beneath the surface with the grace of manta rays. The crewmates on the jollyboat frantically row harder trying to close the distance. Nar reaches the ship first and spiderclimbs up the slick and slippery planks, reaching the deck just as a wyvern dives clawing and stinging at Capt O'Donahue who drops to the deck avoiding the attack.
Seeing the captain endangered, Kyra grabs Wee Jane as she recites an arcane litany and then steps from the jollyboat unto the
Sea Ghost's deck next to the Captain. Jane looks around wildly before jumping over the banister and frantically climbing the rigging before leaping off into the air and landing on the broad back of the wyvern!
Seeing the chaos, Nar shoots an arrow directly into the beast as it flails trying to dislodge Jane, but slams down into the deck breaking its neck in the process.
Looking toward the bow, Jimmie Jr lies prone beneath the windlass as the other wyvern dives and claws at him. Below, Karia shouts, "Hey! Throw down a rope!"
Nar quickly finds a coiled rope on the deck and tosses it over the banister, ensuring the opposite end is secured, before then firing an arrow at the remaining wyvern who, having noticed its partner's peril, is speeding toward the poop deck. Kyra activates the wings upon her boots and places herself between Capt. O'Donahue and the menacing beast while tolling her tiny bell blasting the wyvern with her necromatic energies. Jane scrambles off the now dead wyvern and quickly climbs the rigging again as Karia scales the slippery hull. The wyvern quickly gets overwhelmed as the party focuses their attacks and Jane leaps upon its back as well. The group then takes time to harvest natural components before raising the windlass and dumping the bodies overboard.
The captain sails toward the open ocean that Shern indicates before anchoring with no visible landmarks. Kyra asks the lobster the location of the treasure and receives images of a sunken ship below them, then she asks where the treasure would be and sees a large statue of Ehlonna and a jeweled dagger peeking out from under it.
While Kyra works with Shern, Nar swan dives into the ocean, then looks to the ocean floor roughly a hundred feet below her before surfacing to say, "There's definitely a ship down there wedged between some rocks.
Conversing with Shern, Kyra asks, "Would you like to come with us? If so, I'll pick you up so stay there." Upon asking this, Shern scuttles to the opposite side of the ship and jumps overboard disappearing from view. "Well, I guess he's decided to go elsewhere then. Shall we all head down below?"
The party slowly descends deep into the water and softly lands on the midships deck looking over the cargo hold that's open below them. Nar and Karia drop into the cargo hold where they see a marble statue laying askew on its side. Examining it, they recognize it as the goddess Osprem. As they scrounge around, Karia notices a glint of gold underneath the statue and calls out for Jane, "I see something wedged under here! Can we lift it a bit?"
Jane, Adlia, and Kyra all swim down next to the rocks on the north side of the cargo hold. Jane then swims under the head of Osprem and heaves the massive statue up a foot. Karia swims under and clasps the handle of the dagger turning rigid in an instant.
Nar seeing her friend paralyzed pushes her free of the statue as five ghostly figures come through a rock opening near Adlia and Kyra. One of the figures passes through the statue as it touches Karia draining a portion of her life.
Reacting almost instantly, Adlia raised her symbol for the goddess of woodlands while calling for her divine goodness to turn these fell creatures. The four remaining specters turn and flee back into the cavern where they had been hiding. Nar crouches behind Karia and foolishly pulls her bow. Though unable to move, Karia's eyes flash with anger for being used this way. Kyra recites the ancient liturgy bringing forth four zombies who move around the statue and surround the wraith. Filling the final spot of the circle, Jane attacks the creature. Her axe disrupting the shadow causing it to spend energy to reform. Quicker than expected, the wraith dissipates while the specters continue huddling within the cavern. Carefully, the party uses the Kyra's zombies to draw out the specters individually and quickly dispatch them.
As the last of the specters dissipate, Jane hauls Karia to the surface and the crew left her onto the deck of the
Sea Ghost where they carefully pull the dagger out of her hands using tongs from the galley. They then set course for
Saltmarsh. After an hour, Karia slowly starts moving and heads to her rack to sleep off the rest of the effects.
Earthday - 6 Sunsebb
In the morning, the party examines the dagger and notices ornate filligree on the handle depicting a severed hand holding an eyeball. Reciting the ancient tongue, Kyra sees the black aura of necromancy surrounding the blade as black inky clouds start to issue forth from the blade. Suddenly, the party faces the wraiths and specters a second time. Adlia turns the spirits again causing them to flee across the ocean and far from the dagger.
Freeday - 8 Sunsebb - Afternoon
The last two days have passed without incident as the
Sea Ghost rounds the horn sheltering Saltmarsh and see five or six ships patrolling the harbor. Suddenly, Karia shouts from the crows nest, "Sea Princes! All of them!" and one of the larger ships turns toward the
Sea Ghost. As Karia climbs down, Kyra yells to Capt O'Donahue, "Get us out of here! Now!'
The
Sea Ghost turns toward the south and open water as Karia shares, "I saw multiple watchtowers along the docks and it looks like a Sea Prince flag waving above the town hall. What do we do?"
