Khalbar is stunned by the Captain's words. "Harm is my son, where is he now? Can you get word to the ship to return that boy to me here in Varisia? If not, how do I get to Andoran fastest?
"I do not know these Thistletop goblins, but perhaps others from this area do?". He asks Rosy and 'Dada as they lope along towards the port.
Seeing the fireworks and the ships, Khalbar is momentarily taken aback. He has not seen either of these things firsthand before.
Lt. "Hawkeye": Stopping and letting down Rosy she turns to Khalbar as the Halflings and Gnome both stop and stand at attention in a typical Andoran Military Salute."The ship isn't able to return here. Though in a few Months we are heading back to Andoran. You are more than welcome to join us. Otherwise it is around a 5 or 6 Month trek through the wilds. About the Thistletop Goblins... They are a fairly local Goblin Tribe. They are rumoured to be under the forced command of a Woman with a Demonic Arm. We suspect, if the rumours are true, that the Woman is a Tiefling, some form of Fiend, or a Possessed Human."Turning a scolding motherly look to the Halflings and Gnome she finishes."Feel free to search through everything. Ask the 3 Little Ones if you have any questions or need help."
"Well if my son is out of reach for the present time, then I will focus my search here for my wife and with these goblins of Thistletop. But first we will see what is in these ships."
Khalbar jumps aboard and they begin the process of looking through the ships from bow to stern. He is especially keen for any artifacts of his family or tribes presence on board.
Rosy has scampered off to see what the halflings and gnome are doing and getting into. Shiny things and all.
Following Khalbar onboard the first ship, 'Dada will interrupt him early in the search. "I understand that you are looking for specific things, but this is also a reward. Take the time to search properly. Carefully and systematically. There's no telling what we might find."
You find a lot of smaller Bobbles of Shoanti, Halflings, and even Varisian make.
@Khalbar: There are articles of your Wife's Clothing. You also find a Symbol of your tribe scratched, with the same flaws your son would always make when he would practice drawing it, in a Wooden Plate that makes up a rough leather belt's Buckle.
@Gudada: You find numerous Varisian Garments. Most notably a Nobles Outfit with around 1000GP worth of Varisian Jewelry collected together. The pieces are worthless separately but together are worth a small fortune.
@Rosy: You see that the Scouts have a Small Horde of Fireworks collected. After they got their orders they have stopped setting them off in favor of iving them to the Town to set off for the Festival. They also have a bunch of Dwarven Crafted Toys and Bobbles that are filled with Minor Magic. But there is a book present that seems out of place among the loot. The others have no idea why it is there or what it is.
Rosy grins, "What are you planning to do with the toys?" She wonders, as she goes to pick up the book. Time to poke through it!
Gnome Scout: Smiling at you he speaks finite and resolute."We are going to give then to orphanages and such we pass by on our travels. Why?"
Book: You notice that the book is blank but has more Pages than it should contain.
Rosy wrinkles her nose at the book as she talks, considering its odd pageyness.
"Well, because I work at the orphanage here. I was going to suggest donating some to us." She chuckles, muttering to herself over the book a bit, casting Detect Magic.
Gnome Scout: "Gladly. Less Cargo to slow down our ship."
Book: You detect a faint trace of magic and notice that on the front cover is a Draconic Phrase translating as "Book 15 of 20."
Jakob will look around trying to find anything that might help.
Rosy glances up at the gnome with a smile. "Excellent! I'm sure the kids will be very happy." But its obvious that most of Rosy's attention is focused on the book.
She squints at it, and scratches at her chin, "I'm pretty sure this book is hiding some secrets. Do you mind if I study it in a bit more depth?"
Gnome Scout: "Take it. We didn't even know it was there."
@Jakob: You see a bunch of supplies in one of the Holds, a seemingly large room but that has a smaller and lower door, as you walk by when you peek in to see what exactly your view is blocked by a Dwarf's Butt as he is searching through a Chest.
Rosy seems happy with that, nodding a bit and taking the book to a crate, where she plops herself to go through the pages, petting them with her fingers and poking at them with whatever magic she can think of. Read Magic?
@Rosy: You sense that it is reaching to your Magic. Do you have your Spellbook on you?
well hello good Dwarf. Are you finding anything.
Yes, Rosy has her spell book, which is a little notebook in her sleeve.
Dwarf Chef: He jumps when you speak. And after he settles down he speaks."Aye. You da 'eroes I been 'earing 'bout? You have a little one mage with you?"Behind him you see the Chest flash with light while humming. As the Chest Flashes the Dwarf jumps and yells.
@Rosy: You suddenly feel your spellbook whip out of your sleeve and touch the new book you are holding. You see a flash and see your spell book disappear. When the book falls it reveals all your Necromancy, Divination, and Illusion Spells in the Book.
Rosy squawks and drops the book, surprised. Then she looks through it again with a frown.
"Well, that'd be handy if it copied all of them..." She grumps. Now she'll have to rewrite them all. Still, she tucks the book into the crook of her arm.
Jakob chuckles.
what have you done that you need a mage to fix it?
Without waiting for a response he yells.
Rosy! A dwarf and a sparkling humming chest needs your attention.
Dwarf Chef: "Actually we already have one of these accursed things so your Mage could have it. It is a collection of Books that store Spells from every book it encounters. Destroying said book in the process. Each of the Books also acts as a Blessed Book."
Oh it also copies any Non-PRD Spell in your Book.
They basically are a spell collecting and storing device for Mages.
She trots off to go see the chest, since she's been hollered at.
"What's the matter now?" She wonders of Jakob and the dwarf.
Khal takes the items from his wife and apparently his son. He is quite frustrated to be this close to them without being able to find them directly. He finds out when the ship sails again for Andoran and vows to be on it when it leaves in a month.
In the meantime, he plans to search for the Thistletop Goblins until he finds evidence of his wife.
The rest of the things aboard the ship hold little interest for him but he goes through the motions of looking around anyway.
It is actually 2 Months and 20 Days... (The Ship is referencing my IRL Game...)
Dwarf Cook: Smiling he gets the book from you while promising you will like what happens next. He then walks over to the chest and returns the book to the chest, shuts it, then presses a rune on the top. You witness the Chest transform into a small leather bound book with what appears to be an adamantine lock and key. The Dwarf then walks over to you and hands it to you and describes that if you take the key and give it your blood you will become the books Master.
Do you accept?
Rosy peers at it, "Impressive! Why did slavers have this?" She wonders. Maybe they were also pirates. She pricks her finger with a piin from her hair, and smudges the blood onto the key.
As you touch the key it disappears and you feel a surge of power through your arm and a slight burning over your heart. And the Lock Transforms into a Serpent that coils around itself into an Ouroboros Symbol on the front of the book with an Adamantine Band around the book. As you touch it you see the Serpent unlatch its tail and the piece of the band on the unbound side disappears. As you open it the book has a page describing how to use the book. It also has a list of schools of Magic. The Dwarf explains that the book works by you choosing the School then the spell, and then you are able to memorize the spell.
He also states that the Books true power awakens if you choose to bond with it.
As Jakob watches he inadvertently leans on a suit of Armor. The Armour then seems to speak to him.
"Armour?": "Would you ever so kindly get off of me?"
'Dada gathers together the rather large collection of baubles, stares at the pile for a few moments, and goe looking for a sack to haul them in. Assuming he eventually finds one, he'll return to the stack and start loading the bag up.
"Interesting cargo, I think."
There is a Small Bag right next to it. The Bag is empty but weighs more than it should.
Rosy observes the action of the book with a curious eye. Out of the front of her dress peeks the curios green head of Petal, who flicks its tongue at the adamantine snake and the pages of the book.
"I know, its strange," Rosy murmurs to her familiar, "We'll study it some more later, shall we?"
Dwarf Cook: "Hmm... Seems the Serpent is key to you."
"Guess so!" Rosy is cheerful now with a new mystery to peruse, tucking this book into her arm and heading back outside to see what the others are up to. "Thanks," She adds, to Jakob.
To Rosy Jakob replies. uhh your welcome, but I didn't really do anything.
Jakob leans back an hears a voice behind him turning to excuse himself for his inadvertant misstep.
Ohh I am sorry I did... not... see ...
As he realizes there is no one there but a suit af armour he takes a step back. He stare momentarily at the armour and then decides to finish his statememt.
there. So if I may be so bold as to ask how a suit of armour vomes to speak? It does seem quite amazing.
Jakob is nudging Rosy as he talks is if to say "are you seeing this!?"
And with little thought (or real effort, since each bauble is actually fairly small), 'Dada puts the stack of baubles in the bag.
"Armour(?)": "Armour? Look down you dolt!"As you look down you notice a Warhammer laying at the Armours feet and that at one time it was in the Armours grip."I don't suppose you would be willing to get me to the nearest Priest of Torag would you?"
Jakob steps forward and grabs the warhammer and picks it up.
I would be glad to. Let me introduce myself, I am Jakob Giesler cleric of Torag
He holds the weapon aloft and looks at it intently.
Hammer: "Yeah Right. You are no Dwarf. How can you be a Cleric of Torag."
Ahhh that is an interesting story. I will keep it short for you.
still amazed at talking to a weapon but also intrigued Jakob continues
I was born to a man who was very abusive so I left home at an early age and lived off the streets begging and well stealing what I could. But a good cleric of Torag found me. His name was Morgrym Rogar. Well he took me in and taught me the way of Torag and I studied, worshiped, and trained until I became a full cleric and am now setting off to find my way according to Torag. My hope is to become a great battle cleric and spread the glory of Torag. So that is my tale in short. What is yours?
not knowing if the warhammer can see his holy symbol or not Jakob holds it up to the weapon.
Hammer: Your symbol flies and connects to him and is absorbed into the Hammer."Names Arzug. I was once a Mighty Crusader of Torag who was slain in battle with a Mage ages ago. The Blaggard sealed my soul into my Hammer. Is seek revenge against him his name is... BAH! I can't remember his name! Would you be willing willing to aid me? I feel powerful but I can't remember how to use my power..."
I would be honored together we can fight for protection and seek your revenge
Hammer: "That would be satisfactory."
Warhammer Arzug: Masterwork Warhammer. Can be used by a Cleric of Torag as a Holy Symbol.
Rosy comes to peek at what Gudada is doing, "What have you found? These slavers had some odd stuff..."
The young Varisian grins at Rosy in response to her question. "Well, I think I have found the largest single collection of minor jewelry ever seen! Let's see, there was a nice waist chain I saw . . .." He digs around in the bag for a moment before producing a simple silvery chain, with green glass beads suspended from it irregularly along it's length. "You might need to wrap it around you two or three times, but I think this piece would go very well with what you're wearing. Or would you rather look through them yourself?"
Rosy laughs a bit, "Its beautiful," She exclaims, "But you might want to be sure they don't have any ... erm. Odd properties. A bunch of this stuff seems to. These were some very odd slavers."
He looks at her, confused for a moment, and then back at the bag of baubles. "Really? Well, I don't have any special ability to see them for more than they appear to be. Can you check them for your 'odd properties'?" He grabs the mouth of the bag with his right hand and the bottom with his left, but doesn't dump it, looking to Rosy instead.
"Yeah, so far we have merging books and a talking armor or hammer or something." Rosy nods approval of dumping the shinies out to look at.
"Well, you realize that baubles are usually just baubles, right?"
"Normally, I'd agree." Rosy nods, "But this stuff has been weird." She casts Detect Magic on the gems and things. Petal pokes her tiny green head out of Rosy's dress to help, tongue flicking out curiously.
"Bah, foolish enchantments! All that really matters is muscle, bone and sinew. Isn't there some real loot on this ship, if not let's be off and to finding these Thistletop goblins."