Silas and Natalie are rolling like you people did the last time! Beth, you notice a glint of shiny metal behind a work table. Upon investigation you discover a white gold and sapphire Ring of Quell jammed in the gaps of the walkway.
"Welcome then, Natalie. Apologies for the abruptness, but as you may have picked up we're feeling a little isolated and the odds seemed stacked against us. Anyway that'll be the basis for a rousing song if we get through this." He pauses as if thinking for a moment. "We have a young girl to try and help for starters, another man to save from the gallows, then an assortment of monsters to fight. You up for it?"
Smiling mischievously she replies. "Aye me be game for a spot of excitement. Monsters no be fightin themselves. Lead the way matey's."
"Drango, is there any way we can contact you if we find things out you may want to hear? "
"Then we'll be on our way. My Quell easy your journey and blow into your sails.", she says, exiting the building. "Silas, Nathalie, we've got a little girl waiting for us.", she adds as they come bach to the taverns where they left the rest of the party.
Sandman smiled as the others approached with new ally. "You have good fortune with making friends, Beth. Who have you found this time?"
Sandman smiled as the others approached with new ally. "You have good fortune with making friends, Beth. Who have you found this time?"
"That's Nathalie. She's a friend of the Capitain, and I couldn't put her off by talking about our last meeting with a wereshark. She's supposed to be a good hand on a ship as well."
Turning to Nathalie, Beth adds: "Nathalie, meet Sandman and Leialoha, two wise men of the Tulita and master Tabberhorn, self appointed justiciar."
Wexley nods.
"I see you." Sandman says to Natalie with a wide, welcoming smile.
Natalie eyes the 3 people she's being introduced to. She gives Sandman a quizical look after his statement. "Aye, I hope ye do see me. Greetings Sandman, Leialoha, Tabberhorn. I don't know what I can add to what you know. Me be a sailor and I haven't come across any wereshark cults. But, I be favorable to some excitement."
Leialoha snorts, "Good think you haven't. They'd probably have chewed your pretty face off. So what else did you learn Beth? This Captain have anything useful to share?"
"He told us about his crew going missing after his ship was reefed. We suspect the potential of wereshark involvement, especially after our recent encounter. The trail maybe cold though, but itmight be worth looking over. No bodies which could mean various things." Silas looks around checking a little paranoid after the day's events.
"We've seen that the sharks walk with our own eyes. Pele's will would be that we send them back to the deeps of the sea. If this captain lost a crew to them, it would be very bad. No bodies you say. Did his crew disappear or was it like the village?"
"From what he said there was a load of blood, but no signs of the bodies. The cargo was untouched as well."
"Doesn't mean they were turned. Could've just been eaten." Wexley says gruffly.
"Could have been. Most things that eat things tend to not ingest the bones though."
Where have ye been bumpin into these sharks mostly? Could gives ye a clue wheres te look for them."
"So far we have only encountered one physically just down the coast. He kidnapped a little girl and murdered her mother. But we have seen bite marks on a local dragoon and the girl. Two wise old men have spoken of the black shark and what it may mean. So I certainly wasn't surprised when the murderer became a shark in front of us." Silas looks about again, almost conspiratorily. "I think this reefed ship if its still there might be a place to look. But it's something to figure as we have other places to be first."
"A dragoon was bitten? What happened to him?"
"It is getting late. Are there any other places to look tonight, or should we rest until morning and pursue some of these tales then."
"The dragoon is still walking around. We will have to deal with him later. I think we can probably rest and figure our next move tomorrow."
"A wise idea."
Take the girl to Miliaukka
Whilst there ask to see what we can find on the Thief
Take Relgin to the Dragoons to work on getting Harok freed.
Prepare to go to the cove to deal with the smugglers
Decide what we want to do with Formerly Barrett's Barnacle
"It is late, let us get to Miliaukka. We can seek his counsel on the girl and get some sleep."
Ok, the party travels to the Tulita village to see Milliauka. Upon seeing the girl he uses his healing salve on his blade to remove the curse from her. She grows very ill for two days, running a high fever and taking 2 points of Constitution damage. After the fever runs its course, the lycanthropy is gone from the victim’s blood.
"Dolphin and Whale. I am glad to see the old ways are still strong here Miliauka. But Pele's fire will be also be needed to burn out the shark and send it back to the deep. Silas, who is this Thief you wanted to ask of?"
"Indeed. Today a good thing was done." Sandman said solemnly.
"We'll have to speak of these practices later. An impressive work."
In Tulita
"We know not the name of the thief. Finding the totem is a vision quest for you and will not be accomplished by following foreigner ways."
"Maybe some of the dragoons have heard or seen someone looking like him. I suggest we try to as them as a side question while we bring Relgin to the dragoons."
"Shall we go?"
Upon heading to Fort Stormshield, you come across the body of an elven merchant in an alley. He seems to be covered in dog bites.
Silas looks around, waiting for the Inquisitor to step up.
Wexley attempts to detect evil or magic in the area before examining the body.
"Wow, master Tabberhorn, you are destoying evidences here.", says Beth searching the corpse and scanning the ground to understand what happened.
Natalie walks up behind them but not too close or noisily, so as to not interrupt their musings and deductions. She speaks quietly almost mumbling "Poor bloke got jumped by dogs? You guys certainly keep it interesting."
The merchant was murdered. You find tracks of dogs and humans.
"Has he been robbed or was it something else they were after? Wouldn't put it past this place for it to be something else."
Wexley checks the man for valuables or identification.
From here on out please roll Wexley:) He has no valuables and appears to have been robbed. I only allow taking 10 or 20 in very limited circumstances.
Rather out of his element when it came to investigations, Sandman stood well back keeping watch and letting the more keen eyed among them practice their craft.
Silas steps closer and looks over the man for any identification - embroidery on the coat or something else that might identify who he was.
Leialoha stands back initially, but upon hearing that the man was murdered rather than simply a vagrant fallen to dogs, he steps forward to see if it is someone he recognizes.