001_20250525001_20250517## Session Summary

Recap

Log

• Message on the opposite door "We'll come, we're trying"
• Durake goes into arcane cascade and opens the door
• Jassar sees a body tied to the post with the word traitor carved into its forehead
• Durak goes in first, shield at the ready and arcane cascade flowing. Seek follows right afterwards
  • Body is human, dressed in leather armor. Can see a quiver at the hip, but do not see arrows or a bow.
  • We see a sword thong on the belt but no sword
  • Also see bruises in the shape of fingerprints on the person's arms. Looks like they were dragged and tied to the post. Their throat has been cut and traitor has been carved into his forehead.
• Seek begins to loot the body under Durak's careful guidance while puck and Jassar begin to search the rest of the room
• Body only holds a small leather journal.
• Another message scrawled on the ground by the wheel, "We hear you"
• Signed by bosun Riley, find a piece of paper in a grate.
  • He lost control. I suppose that’s what finally did it. The Captain always prided himself on keeping calm, keeping order. But this morning, he snapped. I found him in the wheelhouse, arms shaking. Not with fear—anger. The kind that curdles into something dangerous. He said the journey was done. He said he was going to throw the passenger overboard. Now. That we’d come too far, that whatever curse the man brought was rotting us from the inside. He wasn’t even going to wait for calmer waters. That’s when I knew. It wasn’t us that had changed. It was him. He’d stopped listening. Stopped hearing. And the voice—
the voice had already warned us this might happen. That some people, some minds, were too narrow to open. He would’ve drowned everything we’d learned. Everything we were becoming. So we dealt with him. Soon, the sea will take him like it takes anything useless. He was wrong about the passenger.
The man isn’t the danger.
He’s just the messenger.
  • The writing on the note starts out clean and clear, but by the end it has devolved into a barely legible scrawl.
• These messages do not sound like any sane religion, but Durak has heard of Vathra, the god of the arcane, is said to have gone insane with the sundering.
  • There is debate whether him going insane is what caused the world to break, or if the world breaking drove him insane
  • There is a sect of hermit like wanderers that call themselves runespeakers - they claim that they hear Vathra whispering sometimes.
    • Generally they are pretty harmless. Sometimes they're insane. Sometimes they carve odd symbols into stones and pendants.
    • Sometimes cause odd things that shouldn't happen after carving the symbol
• We see a trail of blood in the captains quarters, with papers and charts scattered across the desk. We see an arm resting on the desk.
• Seek can't get the lock open, so durak attempts to break it open while Jassar opens the small window.
• Durak kicks the door open and the captain gets up, starting combat.
• We get roughed up, but manage to take down the Captain (Draugr)
• Seek immediately loots the body

Notable NPCs

Loot Acquired

• Small coin pouch - Jassar
  • 6g 5s 9c
• Ring underneath one of the bunks, brass with a coral stone - Puck
• A pendant carved out of seaglass - Puck
  * Religion check. A circular pendant that looks like a wave encircling a crescent moon. A symbol of the Priests of Galvyr the god of the sea. The pendant is cracked and blood stained
• Small leather case that is locked. - Seek
  • Opens to reveal 3 scrolls in the case
• Hidden pocket in the body is a small leather journal - Seek
• Greataxe - Durak
• Silver Ring with gold inlays - Seek
• Another Coin Pouch - Seek
  • Total of 11g 3s 8c
• Small Journal that is extremely bloody. - Seek
• Crew Manifest - Seek
• Map - Seek
  • Has a few ports of sail noted
• 3x Minor Elixir of Life - Seek
• 2x Nice Coats - Seek
• Chessboard with Ivory and Obsidian Pieces - Seek
• Compass and Spyglass - Seek
• Small locked in my case
  • Metal Scroll Case
    • used to deliver secret messages or smuggle stolen documents. When you close the case with a Doc inside it immediately completely immolates it, but the person who owns the case knows the correct pattern to twist to open it back up and reconstitute the ashes.
    • Furnace of Endings (lesser)
      *
  • Flintlock Pistol with 6 bullets - Seek

Scrolls:

• 1x Gentle Landing
• 1x Gale Blast
• 1x Gravitational Pull

Metal case: message reads: I paid in coin but I don't think they noticed how much I looked over my shelter The hunter is still out there, I hear it before I boarded, somewhere in the market.

Outbound passenger Port Salketh

Locations Visited