Funny you should ask; When Marius is finally healed enough to awaken and gather together the contents of his pouches and clothing, he does find several enchanted trinkets in the area.
All told, you as a group come away with:
1) Potion of Magic vestment {3rd/5th} : 750gp [+]
2) Climber's kit 80 gp [72.5%, Cheap Quality] : 58gp [+]
3) Half-plate Armor 600 gp [88%, Low Quality] : 528gp [+]
4) Masterwork Kama : 302gp [+]
5) Potion of Hide from animals {1st/1st} : 50gp [+]
6) Elixir of hiding : 250gp [+]
7) Noble's outfit 75 gp [117.33%, High Quality] : 88gp [+]
8) Potion of Mage armor {1st/1st} : 50gp [+]
9) Arcane Scroll, Darkvision {2nd/3rd} : 150gp [+]
10) Axe, orc double 60 gp [125%, Fine Quality] : 75gp [+]
11) Ram, portable 10 gp [60%, Inferior Quality] : 6gp [+]
12) Monk's outfit 5 gp [80%, Cheap Quality] : 4gp [+]
13) Handaxe 6 gp [66.67%, Very Cheap Quality] : 4gp [+]
14) Mace, light 5 gp [80%, Cheap Quality] : 4gp [+]
15) Kama 2 gp [Standard Quality] : 2gp [+]
16) Pick, light 4 gp [150%, Very Fine Quality] : 6gp [+]
17) Leather Armor 10 gp [Standard Quality] : 10gp [+]
18) Holy symbol (Demogorgon), wooden 1 gp [Standard Quality] : 1gp [+]
19) Nunchaku 2 gp [Standard Quality] : 2gp [+]
20) Rod, Lesser Metamagic, Enlarge [fireball damaged, (limited to 1/day)], 1000gp
21) Greatsword +1 [Standard Quality] : 2050gp [+]
+ Random Gems & Jewels(130gp total)
+ Coins(130gp total)
With the village canoes either taken or sunk, there is no pursuit.
With only a few wrong turns in the dark and twisty alluvial mouth of the great river, you eventually find your ship again.
With the drums throbbing in the distance, Spinnaker Jon does not wait. It's still 3am, but he casts off immediately when everyone is aboard.
With all lamps lit and torches out looking for navigation hazards and threats, he seems to hum a tune under his breath, and the river currents seem to move the ship to his whim.
It's still a couple of hours later, but under a swiftly rising sun you raise sail, and the Savage Kraken heaves under your feet again as you leave the river mouth and head into the open ocean.
After the first day devoted to resting and recovering from the cannibal ordeal, Spinnaker Jon invites people to dine with him in the captain's cabin.
Aside from the ships partners, Bryson, Ghirrak, and Annie, he also invited Burian, Devon, Marius, Sunny, and Phillip.
After a fine meal of fresh meat and vegetables, there is a fine dessert of spotted dice (a kind of raisin pudding) and a fine wine, chilled by dipping it fifty feet down in the water.
Jon stood up and raised his glass.
"To all you here assembled, heroes all, without which our expedition would have been doomed to an ignominious end in a cannibals stomach." He touches his glass to those nearby and downs it.
Having taken quite the 'shellacking' from the angry and aggressive natives, Sunny doesn't scamper so much about the place. Though she does still smile and tries to be as helpful as she can, the subtle winces and twinges her motions elicit show that she's still a ways from being healed up after the parties tussle.
Her main worry is the fate of her friends whom with she's been traveling and her new friends, Master Avner and Miss Rynight.
When the call comes for herself to attend the Captain's table on a following evening, She again puts on her 'best' and presents herself promptly. Though there's a slight stiffness in her motions and probably still some bandages about her person.
As she perches on her chair, she too raises her mug in reply/acknowledge-meant of the Captain's toast, though she can't hide the blush of embarrassment which colours her cheeks.
"Iz a' rum. Dun't usually effect m'self like this. Must still be hurtin' some..."
How is the native who was taken captive on the beach? Has he been simply left behind in the sands? Which is not a bad thing.
Or did the party drag him aboard ship? If so, is he still doing all right? Or as right as can be given the circumstance?
Also... might Sunny invite Avner and Rynight? They are her friends as well.....Well, she's still trying to make friends with the lass....
"A good showing by all. Captain, did we lose anyone? How are our injuries?" Devon asks after the toast.
Bryson and Annie are snuggled up together. They seem to have partaken of Cayden's holy water even before dinner.
Ghirrak is silent as he eats, wordlessly raising his glass at the approriate time. The entirety of the previous day was spent in solitude either in meditation or staring off into the ocean, his face an expressionless mask.
Spinnaker Jon nodded to Devon.
"Aye, we were very fortunate. It was some kind of ceremony, so the cannibals took their time preparing their... dinner. You got there just in time. Nobody dead, but both Cody McCool and Tin Nysmore were on some kind of roasting grille, and thier burns are horrible. Annie tells me they need Regeneration and time to heal. The rest are bruises and minor cuts."
He tapped his glass for attention (this means you Bryson!)
"I wanted to talk to you all about something I've been considering. With the loss of ships Partners Bindleplotz in an explosion and what with Dgrim being eaten, I think we need to add more partners.
"You have shown yourselves intelligent, capable and enterprising, and I would like to offer you, Burian, Devon, Marius, Sunny, and Phillip, the chance to buy in as partners in the ownership of the Savage Kraken. Something I do NOT intend to offer Avner Meravachi."
Sunny frowns a little at the comment of the people who've been hurt. Drinking a toast to their recovery and such. At the Captain's talk of herself being now included in the whole partner-ship thing she again blushes with slight embarrassment. Though, people's dislike of Avner still has her puzzled somewhat.
Over the next days/weeks Sunny does her very best to help lighten poor Rynight's moods/inclination.
Sunny's chores about ship.
There's also the occasional offer to spar with Ghirrak. (^_~)
Bryson likes Avner, but even he knows that having Avner become a partner would not be something he would like. "Phillip!? Why Phillip?" he blurts out. "The only thing he does is loaf around on deck and try to look good. Burian and Marius almost died saving our friends. What can you say for Phillip?"
Sunny shifts on her perch, seeming a little uncomfortable at Bryson's question. (>_>)
Spinnaker Jon nodded at Bryson.
"Now, now, Phillip has been of valuable assistance to me getting the charts and navigation right.
"Naturally, the current partners must agree by majority vote. Plus there is the small matter of the buy in. The current partners have about 2000 gp into the ship, and we would need any new partners to chip in the same."
He went to a side locker, opened it and dragged a heavy ironbound pay chest out into the open.
"Oof. Sunny here is chipping in her share from this old pirate treasure chest she found."
He went to a side locker, opened it and dragged a heavy ironbound pay chest out into the open.
Sunny hops of her chair and skips over to help
"Oof. Sunny here is chipping in her share from this old pirate treasure chest she found."
Sunny grins happily, even as she's working the wax seal off the edges of the chest so as to be able to open the thing.
(^_^)
"Oh.. I din't find it. I made it. All'a shine in side is stuffs I bin findin' jus, y'know, lyin' about tha' place." She shakes her blond mop.
"T'is right strange how people's jus',like, leave it lyin' about all over tha' place. Ye be swimmin' along. Find some jumble o' timbers jus' lyin' there in'a sand. Go pokin' around amongst all'a stuff an' there it be!" The tanned Elf burbles about things as she works away at the edges of the box.
Spinnaker Jon's eyes nearly pop as he beholds Sunny's buy in as she merrily stacks them on the table.
"Sunny? Where did you get all that? I thought the natives robbed you of everything."
Sunny blinks in surprise at Spinnaker Jon's question.
"Nuh-uh. Is bin here in'a cabin that' whole time..." She looks back to where they dragged the chest out from under what ever it had been placed away at.
"An', like I bin sayin', I has bin findin' shine all over tha' place fer a while now. M' Kin go swimmin' all about tha' place fer ages. Jus' t'see whut we can be seein'. Ye never know how tha' sand's gon'a be shifted about after a storm, like. All sorts things can get buried an' then cleared away agin." She tilts her head a little, showing that she's still a little puzzled.
"Or.. does ye be meanin' as ta how I had it just, y'know, lyin' around when mates an' I were runnin' away that time when we's met all'a folks?" She blinks innocently.
"Being able to spend all the time you want at the bottom definitely has it's advantages." Ghirrak says with a slight chuckle.
"I'll drink to that." Annie says. It takes a moment, but Bryson blushes a deep red once he, too, gets the innuendo.
Sunny smiles back at people being happy, adding a swing of her own tankard in acknowledging people's toasting.... (^_^)
"Aye! Though t'is lots ta be seein' an' not jus' on'a sand, neither. There's all sorts a coral an' crev-asses an' caves an' all'a different fishes an' them fishes which in't fishes an'..." Sunny happily rambles on about all the wonders of the sea that she's seen. (^_^)
Burian unceremoniously unclasps his belted scabbard, and offers his cutlass for his share.
"You'll find this fine magicked blade is rightly worth two thousand, and I'll gladly hand it over for a few planks of the ship."
He feels at ease now... having literally paid his share.
"Well I would definitely be interested, but currently I have not got those funds. Also, unlike Burian here, I have not got the luxury to give up my blade. All of that being said however, my needs are small and I will give up the majority of my shares to make up this buy in. Whatever works for you Captain."
"I find myself a little short of the two thousand in ready gold," Marius said, "but I'm confident I can make it up with a couple of items. I've also been doing some appraisal of the gear we seized from the village, and it would come to a reasonably tidy sum if sold. If everybody's amenable, the enchanted greatsword ought to cover Devon's buy-in."
Getting a stake in the expedition was definitely a step up from where he had been a few short weeks ago. Perilous though the expedition might be, Marius was confident that they would each recoup this initial investment a few times over.
Sunny's demeanor turns more thoughtful as her friends make their finances known.
The tanned Elf chews absently at her lip even as she seems to be trying to think of or remember something.
" T'were somat.... maybe somat important..." She murmurs
"AH!" Sunny suddenly exclaims and bounces upright before seeming to leap off her chair and dashing off, out of the cabin.....
Before a damp and only tanned Elf returns all happy, skipping and smiling... carrying a new chest she's obviously some how had stashed away some wheres also damp.
Placing the said item on the diner table with a slight 'Oomph' of effort just in time for one for the sailors to catch up with the Elven lass and throw her shirt over tanned shoulders.
"Aye, thank'e!" She replies partly distracted as she is in sticking arms through sleeves while inspecting this new development.
"I founded it!" She declares brightly. "In'a ship whut were under tha' water falls. When we's gettin' way from them native folks that other time." She burbles by way of explanation.
"Whut, with every thin' I bin learnin' an' seein' an' doin' an' travelin' an'fightin' an' stuffs... I plumb fergots about this one." She explains, now coloring slightly with obvious embarrassment and people's looks given in her direction. Looking over this new chest Sunny begins to check for things about its lock and hinges.
"Sooo... whut's s'pose be in it, hey?"
(^_^)
You don't see any traps.
When you open it, it is full of loose silver coins, silver knives, forks and spoons, a couple of silver engraved goblets , a dozen silver chains, bracelets and necklaces, and one really nice silver jewelry necklace set with some blue spinels.
You judge the whole kit and kaboodle to be roughly worth 4000 gp
Sunny tilts the whole thing over to show the contents, "Oooo! Looky! Is all pretty!" (^_^)
Before she begins to poke at the pile. Holding up the really nice silver jewelry necklace set with some blue spinels she peers at the jewels.
"Is a pretty blue colour..." She indicates for her companions to have a look through themselves.
"Here! Folks'll be havin' shine ta' be puttin' in't sharin' tha' boat!" She exclaims happily. (^_^)
Spinnaker Jon gapes at Sunny's trove. Sifting through it he exclaimed; "There must be... four thousand crowns worth in here!"
Shaking his head, he turned back to Burian and Marius.
"No, no; take your weapons back. I'll not deprive you of them so far into our dangerous voyage. There is no real hurry after all.
"The main point of the buy in is to refit and upgrade the ship, and there is no place to buy such things now. There will be plenty of time for everyone to gain the money to buy in by the time we reach the end of our voyage at farshore."
With Sunny putting forth her buy-in, Spinnaker Jon polls the current partners for their assent.
After the paperwork is dealt with, Spinnaker Jon pulls out the charts, or what passes for a chart out here in the great southern ocean.
Now that we're here at the mouth of the great river, this is where the journals of Lady Vanderboren tell us we turn south into the open ocean.
"We're making for the Isles of Axuxal, and the Olman village of Renkrue. The isles are barely a hundred miles out, maybe a weeks sailing with fair weather, but trying to hit an island in the middle of the ocean is a mighty tricky thing, especially with these crude charts and directions.
"I'll be needin' yer help with navigation here."
Except for Phillip, Bryson has no objections.
Sunny is happy to leave the shine she's found for her friends to sort through. She's happy enough to keep the pretty blue necklace for now. (^_^)
As for the helping of things with the ship in relation to getting to where ever it is they're going. The best Sunny can do is help with the steering of the ship's course.
Sunny happily sits through the rest of the meal. Chirping up/chiming in where ever she can add something to what ever topic the conversation turns around to. (^_^)
With Spinnaker Jon judging that no further purpose can be held by hugging the coast, he turns directly south into the open ocean of the vast Densic Gulf. It is your first taste of the vast Vohoun Ocean, and for the sailors used to following the certainty of the coastline, this is worrisome. Every sailor knows the biggest and most dangerous monsters are out here, just waiting for unwary sailors (maybe even sailing over the edge of the world!).
With the passengers still rattled from their close call with the cannibal village, Annie works overtime (with liberal doses of beer) to keep morale up.
Spinnaker Jon puts everyone with any kind of Craft skill (esp. Carpentry, Cordage, Sailmaking, or Profession:Shipwright) to work on the damaged portions of the deck, spars and rigging.
Despite that, the sailing is beautiful! The deep swells are like the breathing of a giant, and many birds circle around, with you the only place to perch in many miles about. The winds are light and the temperatures are only mild to hot.
Professor Forol is in heaven; investigating the birds and fish out in the deep ocean.
Going to Rynight Trendit's little curtained off area, she falls weeping into your arms. She says she is certain that Avner has been cheating on her with some of the other women of the passengers.
After about ten days sailing, you notice Spinnaker Jon becoming tense, looking around at the horizon with his spyglass and muttering.
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You notice an odd cloud formation due West; the kind indicating an mid ocean island.
Wlking up to Jon Ghirrak notices the odd behavior. "What is it?"
Pitching his voice low, Jon muttered to Ghirrak.
"We... really should have hit the island by now. But, I don't see any sign of it. An island 30x15 miles!"
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"There, there now. Ye has m'self lookin' out fer ye. We's right friends after all, ye ken." Which would seem to be when Sunny offers her present.
"See? When I found this, I done straight away thing of ye. Mis-, Lord Avner can be doin' whut ever t'is he be doin'. Ye need never fear, I is all-a-ways bein' yer friend, okeys?" Sunny gently hugs Rynight.
"Heck, if'n ye be thinkin' Mist-," (>_<) And Sunny shakes her blond mop again, "Dang but t'is rilly hard ta be thinkin' about people's all like that in'a way of tha' speakin'. If'n Lord Avner be treatin' ye wrong? There be nothin' aginst ye stayin' with me mates an' I in our cabin space. I be sure they's all understandin' an' such. Heck! There be more room fer ye there than here! An' that's fer sure." (^_^) Sunny does her best to cheer up her friend. Though, perhaps, some of the more complicated -social- causes for the developing situation have completely escaped her notice.
With the coming days Sunny scampers about the ship, learning what she can and helping as much as she can.
Sunny would make her thoughts known about their heading quietly to the Captain.
Sunny scratches her blond mop, even as she too looks out over the horizon's vista.
"If'n tha' Cap'n be wantin? I could, y'know, swim out fer a space an' check tha' depths an' such fer perhaps tha' lay of tha' land?" She suggests/offers diplomatically. (^_^)
Burian helps as much as he can - particularly with the decking repairs.
When Spinnaker Jon grows concerned, he offers input... "The birds say there is land not far from here." He points due west. "The clouds... they hold firmly as if over land...."
Devon helps where needed, but mostly performs standard shipboard tasks.
Bryson makes ample use of the Mending spell as well as two castings of Wood Shape each day.
He'll take time each day to inspect the hull of the ship.
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"Burian is right. There's land over that way."
As Bryson and Burian point out the direction that the ship seems to need to go, Sunny bounces to attention ready to 'Go have a look' at the Captain's orders. (^_^)
Spinnaker Jon nodded at Burian and Bryson.
"Well, it's certainly not here. Let's check it out. Make course straight West!" He bellowed.
"Miss Sunny," Said Spinnaker Jon diplomatically. "Let's take you off of woodworking. What I would like for you to do is go down and see how deep the bottom actually is. It's deeper than our plumb line can reach. If we're over the Abyssal Deep, we've come too far." He said.
"She ought not go alone. Ah'll go with her."
"I'll go as well, I''ll be more useful out there than on the deck." Ghirrak rumbles.
OK, the deepest the lead line goes down is 30 fathoms (180 feet). Anyone going down is going to be deeper.
There are also the usual number of sharks tagging along behind the ship. They usually get nosy when a human dives in.
Sunny gives the Captain another jaunty salute before turning and scampering off to her cabin. Upon her return she is wearing nothing but netting wrapped and secured about her lithe frame. The item held in place with knots and cheap jewelry. Affixed to said item are dozens of the small wooden spikes she's been absently fashioning in her spare time. Across her back is a very well made quiver while a small bag sits just below at the small of her back, almost like a 'bustle'. A simple rope belt being used for this purpose.
She'd also give Rynight another reassuring hugging. (^_^)
So some netting wrapped about herself to which she's affixed,
Her 'Efficient quiver' containing all 10 of her harpoons.
Her 'Bag of holding' type 1 into which she's put as many of her master work buoys as she can (Hopefully all eight of them)
Rilly, rilly LOTS of Wushu darts. They have no weight and are really small and such. So, she shouldn't run out of them as ammunition for quite a while.
Two 'Adventurer's sash' across her chest in a 'bandoleer' fashion.
Again on deck she gives the Captain and First mate another jaunty salute in passing before turning and climbing the rigging, possibly to the bemusement of the crew who by now would know she's supposed to be going over the side.
Upon reaching the Main top yard (The big beam to which the main sail is hung from) Sunny deftly walks out along the top of such (The down wind side, of course) before giving herself a final pat down, leaning back and.
Thence diving off and gracefully arcing down into the ocean waves.
The momentum from such a long drop/dive should see her with more than enough momentum to quickly shoot down past any lazily circling sharks and such.
Can Ghirrak breathe water? Probably not, so cast Water Breathing on him if he really wants to go.
Bryson Wildshapes into a shark as he jumps overboard.