Session 10 - Hot Shots & Sunken Sloops

After their recent windfall from the Black Bone Fort, the party decided to head to Corsair Cove to spend their gold.   Along the way a hooded tiefling and Tatiana suddenly materialised on their ship. The tiefling appeared to be attacking Tatiana and had the upper hand. The party land several hits on the tiefling, stopping him from finishing of Tatiana. The tiefling then teleported out, managing to avoid Xiao Feng's couterspell.   Soon after this encounter two ships flying Empire flags teleported in. A frigate, full of what appeared to be imperial navy and a sloop with what looked to be mind controlled Corsairs. A ship battle ensued with the party using chainshot to bring down the frigates sails and Butcher heating up the cannons so the shots would do more damage to the enemy ships. The focus was on crippling the frigate so they could get out of there.    During the battle Red hit a tiefling mage who was on the sloop with a cannon shot, killing them instantly. This lead to the sloop being freed of mind control. It turned to flee from the battle but was sunk by the frigate before it could get away. Having brought down the frigate's sails, The Driftwood was able to escape into a rock outcropping and get away from the frigate.   Tatiana revealed that the ships had attacked her island, destroying her home in the process, with the goal of capturing her. They had access to a spell that would forcibly teleport her to the last corsair she had physically talked to. Due to Tatiana's friendship with the Cove Keeper, the empire assumed that is who Tatiana would have last had physical contact with. Due to this they expected the spell to send to Corsair Cove, bypass the Marring. However the party had visited Tatiana not to long prior to ask abot Elise and so the spell actually brought them to the party's ship.   Tatiana has joined the crew for now until she is ready and able to rebuild her home on her island.    The party finally reached Corsair Cove and spend some of their haul on upgrading  The Driftwood, getting a ram, a reinforced hull and ever-blowing sails. Red upgraded his look and new crew members were hired, Meryl 'Mad Eye' Shell, Tab' Yellow Teeth' Vayne, Eve 'Vamp' Norman, and Morton 'Weasel' Rivers.    The party then headed to the Cove Keeper's Manor and informed her of the Empire's attempted assault on the Cove. In response to this she offered a bounty of 500 gold for any empire ships sunk while flying Principality colours, hoping to draw the Empire attention to them and away from the Corsairs. Additional 1000 gold was offered for any raids on Empire forts. To aid in this attempted false flag operation the party where given a gem that can be embed in the ship's helm and allows for the use of illusion magic to change the ship's flags appearance.