Beneath the Missing Sea Episode 12

  

Suspiciously Knowledgable About A Murder

Episode 12, debriefing with Dalbran after the tower and journeying back to Our Virtuous Lady.

Played January 5, 2024

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The Party for Episode 12

• mtb playing Manqoba
• CaptainSabatini playing Esgorman
• Igneous playing Fiske

Back in town, they sought out Dalbran to ask about his former master, Agon the Sea Speaker whom they'd so recently slain. They played it coy but seemed unusually familiar with when he died, what state he was in, and what he carried with him--to the canny former apprentice. He was disappointed to realize that simply killing the wizard wasn't enough to undo the wizard's magic and asked them to retrieve the wizard's corpse so that he could perhaps work out a solution. He also let them know that, given the circumstances, was unsure if simply bringing the water back would fix the problem and that it might be necessary to somehow restore the leviathan to heal the vanished sea.

Setting out from Coiner's Shelf with Hemmingway and their band of mercenaries, they made their way uneventfully to the hulk of Our Virtuous Lady far to the east. They spotted roaming ossified dead patrolling atop it and so attempted to sneak up the back, but a misstep alerted nearby anglergoblins, who had one of the dead leap out of the window and catch Manqoba on the way down. While Fiske and Thelma continued upward, Manqoba and company bashed the undead until it stopped moving before a blast of lightning slammed into Esgorman. A shaman far above them started babbling a new incantation.

The rest finished off that zombie and began climbing the ship again save Esgorman who didn't rate his chances of successfully climbing high and so booked it back to Hemmingway and Two-Toes. He sprinted past a pair of shamans and zombies on the way who quickly gave chase. Esgorman managed to signal Hemmingway to send his cart and the somewhat hesitant porter sent it careening down the hill. One of the shamans spotted it coming and dodged but the other had just taken an arrow from Manqoba back on the ship and never saw it coming. And the undead weren't dodging anything, so three of the four pursuers were smacked into and carried back to the ship. Two-Toes and Esgorman made short work of the remaining anglergoblin.

Meanwhile, the group had entered the ship through the back. Fiske and Thelma ran up top and booted the shaman over the side. Manqoba pulled out his bow and started to (mostly unsuccessfully) pepper Esgorman's pursuers with arrows. Then Fiske found that the front of the ship was littered with hermit crabs and so retreated until the shamans had been dealt with. The cart mostly took care of them and the rest of the undead were dodged so the party regrouped to explore the ship.

They found it basically empty. In a locked room at the back, they found some rum kegs which they stashed. Also where the ship had caved in on the side they found a tunnel leading down into wetter sand, and at the bottom found a shallow pool of water with some sailor's corpses and some anglergoblin eggs. Despite being constant foes, they weren't cruel enough to crush them and so left the ship heading southeast towards the as-yet unvisited Silver Blades encampment.

Statistics 

Days Passed: 83

Kegs Recovered: 11
Total Party Members: 8
Hexes Explored: 25
Caves Explored: 4
Dungeons Explored: 1
Players Participated: 8
Megafauna Captured: 2
Skirmishes Survived: 12
Foes Vanquished: 1 feral dog, 9 anglergoblins, 4 anglergoblin shaman (3 this episode), 1 albatross, 4 sea-plagued, 1 sea monk, 5 waterlogged revenants, the sea speaker

Treasure Obtained: 3746 previously + 2 kegs of rum + 1 shaman corpse

Tragic Deaths: 2 Crabcakes the Giant Hermit Crab and Albert de Manc, Hedge Knight

Map

The map after episode 12 with no new updates.

Episode 12 Notes

I wasn't a fan of what the text provided in the boat and couldn't come up with anything I was happy with, so I went for something simple. None of the sites in this book are very big (though I've revised or replaced a couple of them) so there wasn't much to explore once they finally got into the boat.