The sahuagin hisses in the darkness and steps back, then you hear rhythmic burbling in the dark.
Rolling her eyes at the darkness, Yuki puts away her bow and draws a cutlass. She then casts Divine Favor on herself and steps five feet forward.
Galean rises his hands in the air, as he can hear the clacking in the distance raise hairs on his neck.
Not content to let the crab unleash its full might, he goes back to his memories on the ship, as he beckons a horde of rats forward.
Yes, you are able to accurately locate the fighting in the complete darkness and summon the rats to K4.
The priestess gurgles at the clacking claws and the rats and releases a wave of negative energy across all of you.
The dire rats perish as soon as they're summoned while the crab merely staggers.
Yuki uses her free hand to move along the walls towards where she remembers the door used to be.
"... ah-FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!" Nymph lets out while flailing as the spell finally wears off.
Galean shudders as the wave of cold darkness passes through his body.
"Cap'n! I can't see anything!", shouts out Galean, pointing out the obvious in an exceptional manner. "Can you... I don't know, magic around it?"
The crab manages to grab hold and the sahuagin screams.
Light returns to the room just in time for you to see the crab happily slashing the air with its claws over the sahuagin's body.
"Yay! We did it!" The captain cheers with a little dance, but quickly returns to business, "Uh, yeah, we're going to have to figure out how to stop from being blinded like that again. Good thing we have the crabs on our side....now."
She laughs and walks over to the inert sahuagin and begins to search its body, "Maybe there's a clue here on why he attacked the tower. I'll definitely have to talk to my wife about it."
Nymph lets out a sigh of relief as the fight ends.
Then takes a few good steps away from the giant crab. "Uh, yeah, kinda odd for these guys to go after a tower."
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Galean scratches his head, as the giant crab disappears into an undoubtedly hellish dimension. "Uh, Cap'n, when I, uh, talk to the sea next morning, I can prepare a spell to help us against darkness in the future." He smiles chipperly, sighing a breath of relief in the crab-less room.
He holsters his cutlass, then crosses his hands. "I might need a better weapon that that for the future... This one isn't all that great.", he mentions.
The sahuagin is carrying quite a few things on it that it never got to use - a golden unholy symbol of Lamashtu, several coins of a curiously purplish platinum (totalling 317 gp), a heavy crossbow, trident, leather armor and dagger.
In another pouch you find a potion and a wand.
Finally you find a necklace of the same purplish platinum shining on its neck, the large disks engraved with scenes of underwater life.
Yuki gathers the sharkman's stuff together and casts Detect Magic over it. "Anyone seen Ayre around? He'd be much better at this than I am."
When she is unable to determine what the potion does with Spellcraft, Yuki tries to figure it out with taste instead.
The armor shines with the aura of enchantment magic, as of course do the wand and the potion.
The necklace, although unusual, isn't enchanted although it would be a prime candidate for enchantment.
Yuki also tries to identify the armor.
"No clue, but I'm sure it's extra protective. We'll have to have Ayre look over this stuff when we get back to the ship. In the meantime, let's make sure there's no sharkmen left in the tower and find Agasta."
"Right." Nymph says and with that she heads off in search of her captain's wife.
You find Agasta holed up one the second floor with most of the tower's residents and a goodly portion of the garrison with numerous sahuagin dead in front of the door.
She has a bloody cutlass in hand and looks to have done quite a bit of work herself.
Damn fish men! They're certainly getting bold - bolder than they should be.
You come from downstairs, how are my men stationed there?
"On the ground along with the fishies."
Agasta bursts past you and heads downstairs, dragging Galean behind her.
Yer a sea-priest right boy? Come with me, my boys might be dying down there.
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"Uhhh...", mutters Galean as he's being dragged, "By strict theological inter..." He stops. "Yes, I'm a sea priest.", he surrenders, reaching into his trusty bag and opening a jar of dried berries.
Taking care of the wounded, Galean rises his head. "So... Could we just like, I don't know, go and see who's in charge of the sahuagin around here, and, you know... kill them?", he proposes his idea of political assassination.
Yuki follows with the others, assisting Galean with his stabilization. "Yeah, I agree with that idea, Galean. We need to come up with a plan to find them and take them out. Well, at least so they aren't a super big threat."
Agasta is grateful for your help, patting Yuki on the hand and Galean on the head.
The sahuagin only answer to themselves, but I've heard rumors of a pirate who trades with them - Isabella Locke. She's always turning up to sell goods other pirates recognize as belonging to other pirates who've disappeared.
Agasta spits on the stone floor, away from the wounded.
She claims to dive wrecks but no one believes her. But damned if I know where to find her, she keeps some sort of hidden anchorage but we see the Thresher every so often.
"It looks like we'll need to find this Locke woman, an attack on the tower cannot stand." Yuki says with bravely with a slight frown.
So much for this place being impregnable though.
"Uh, Cap'n.", says Galean, ferociously raising a paddle. "We'll chase her to the depths, and show the vengeance of the crew of the Calamitous Intent!", he says, spinning the paddle with vigour, and only gently bonking himself on the head.
"Uh.", he says, scratching his head. "I think there's a magical spell that can let one track a ship from a sliver of wood from that ship.", he explains. "I'm afraid the sea is too primal to let me control of such a spell, but it could come in handy."
Fishguts overhears your dilemma and offers some advice unbidden.
I know it's a wee bit gallin' but if we headed back to a port o' call, we could get a line on where the ship might be placed. No matter how tight lipped a cap'n is, her crew always spills secrets after one too many ales.
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"That sounds like a wonderful idea, Fishguts. Once we return to the ship, Galean will set a course to the nearest friendly port."
The closest Port is Little Oppara on Taldas Isle - it's a friendly island ruled by two pirate lords, Iolandra and Petrina Maxeme, descendants of a Taldan noble and his Free Captain wife.
Little Oppara is well known amongst pirates as an opulent town where fine taverns serve delicacies from across Golarion, and richly attired men and women frequent plays, operas, and other sophisticated entertainment at the famed Blooming Rose Theater. One could easily forget this is a pirate haven and instead mistake it for a small city in the very heart of the Taldan Empire.
"Unless one of you have a good reason to avoid it, let's set course for Little Oppara! We're bound to get some answers about the fishguys there. I'll only be using their proper name when I have to because I really hate them."
Nymph chuckles. "Stupid fishies."
Galean struts onboard the Calamitous Intent with a scallywag swagger.
"Hoist the mainsail!", he barks, his voice magically carried and intensified by the wind. "Put your backs into it! We're sailing towards revenge!", he roars vigorously, then as the reaction is smaller than what he expected, he adds. "And plunder!"
Under jolly screams and roars, he takes the rudder in his hands, and starts plotting the course.
Make a perception roll for me for a night watch as you approach Little Oppara.
It's a moonless night on the ocean and you're alone on the waters. Sometime after midnight however you hear the faint sound of ship's bells in the distance from the aft of the ship. No matter how you peer into the night you don't see any other ship's sails or lights on the star speckled ocean and sky.
Little Oppara's dockside is bustling, even for a relatively small town there are several other ships in port and you can see stevedores moving goods back and forth. Fishguts smiles and rubs his hands at the chance of fresh produce - and a new pig. He's also looking for another chicken to add to his flock of friends.
Owlbear dances at the sight of the gaily dressed men and women walking on the waterfront between well appointed shops and taverns, and Nymph feels a gentle hip bump and sees a smile from her paramour at the concept of a plush inn bed.
Ayre, having determined the items you've taken from the sahuagin priestess are a potion of lesser restoration, a wand of cure moderate wounds (with 11 charges), and a +1 studded leather armor.
You pull in to a bump at the night and your crew looks to you for orders.
On the trip to Little Oppara, Yuki thanks Ayre for identifying the objects and takes the healing wand. As for the armor, she speaks to both Galean and Nymph first, "I could really use this too, but if either of you can make more use of it for now, you can have it."
"Let's go hit the bars and see if this Locke woman has been through here lately." She says to her officers once the ship is safely docked at the port. Then to the crew, "We might be here for a few days, but stay close to the ship, we might have to leave quickly."
While they voyage, Nymph will inform Yuki in the early and dark hours how she heard bells after midnight.