Sandra can easily perform the funerary rites. Jalhazar leaves you with a sulk.
"Are you suuuure I can't stay? I'm pretty sure I'm going to Hell."
Ixrul say that they should allow him to stay if he can meaningfully help pilot and agrees not to cause trouble.
"How am I supposed to help pilot? I'm intangible!"
"I can navigate I guess."
"Well, you could make it harder to pilot. Can't you do the opposite?"
"Ehhh...maybe. You know how curses are, inconsistent in power and all."
"Jrahk's definitely going to the Abyss, you don't see him complaining."
"If you've gotta curse someone, why not curse Harrigan? He almost stopped us from fixing you."
"Nope, that's not how it works."
"So you are saying you cant go spook opposing pirates?"
"Yep."
Jrahk sighs. "Fine, you can stick around. But if you mess with Jrahk too much, Sandra here'll banish you to Hell faster than you can say 'sorry'."
"You can do that, right?" he asks Sandra quietly.
"Probably? Ghosts are a bit different from demons and such."
Jrahk rolls his eyes.
"Whatever. She can blast you with positive energy, at least. That'll hurt a lot, and make you go away eventually. So don't piss Jrahk off."
He turns to the crew, smiling. "Now...who wants to see our new private island? Jrahk hears there's something living there, just waiting for us to kill it!"
The journey to the island takes several weeks, and roughly halfway through the journey a giant squid surges up from the deep. Water slaps your decks...and then it dives again and leaves.
A scroll case lay where the water washed up on the boat. Inside is a letter bearing the Master of Gales' seal.
You left Port Peril before I could tell you this. I had planned to do so at your inaugural party. I mentioned that claiming the island was your final test. In truth, this test has a time limit. Three months. In three months the other members of the Pirate Council will come calling at your residence on the island. if you have tamed it, and can throw a fete worthy of your new stature as a Pirate Lord, they'll take your oath of loyalty, and the seat will be officially yours. If not. .. well, you wouldn't be the first winner of the Regatta who failed to live up to expectations."
The rest of your trip passes uneventfully, and you arrived at the island.
A high plateau forms the north and central portions of the island, surrounded by 500-foot-high cliffs. Two long peninsulas jut from the plateau to the southeast and southwest. Two sheltered bays offer the best anchorages, a large one to the south (area A) and a smaller bay to the east (see area K). In addition, a number of beaches where boats can land line the island's shores. Scattered across the island, but especially along the beaches and cliffs of the central plateau, are large, weathered statues of giant cyclopes. The statues are all clearly of great age, but their single eyes, which once contained large and valuable gemstones, are now just empty holes-the reason for the island's mysterious epithet.
To reach the island, you will need to navigate the shoals and reefs surrounding it. This would be easier in the shore boats, but you would need to weigh anchor over a half-mile from the island for the Devil's Pallor to be safe from the reefs.
Jrahk is able to navigate without much trouble.
Jalhazar playfully slaps Jrahk's hands around as he steers, but always rights the course before anything bad happens.
You approach the bay, startlingly white sandy beaches encircling the crystal clear water.
The boat shifts slightly as you move in.
"Wasn't me!" Jalhazar cries, just before 8 tentaces erupt from the water and lash out at 8 of your sailors.
Eight of your crew, including Rosie are snatched off the deck and dragged underwater!
Ixrul hastes the party.
Before reaching the island, Jrahk gets False Life from Besmara's Bones.
When the tentacles appear, Jrahk casts Mirror Image and dives into the water.
Swim check.
Jrahk completes the dive gracefully, taking no damage. He may just live to regret entering the element of a 30 foot tall aquatic, grappling creature.
Ace casts fly on himself, readying for action.
The octopus squeezes each of the sailors.
All but Rosie are crushed to death instantly.
And then Captain Jrahk crushed the beast with his bare hands. It died instantly because it was not an orc.
Then Jrahk returned to the ship, and the entire crew applauded wildly because of how awesome he was.
Then Jrahk flexed his muscles. You were all amazed at the strength of your captain.
Uh. How do you make the words go blue for not-character speak?
Whatever. Make Will saving to keep compusure while being amazed at Jrahk's muscles. -999 penalty.
/r/thathappened
Roll your save, Ixrul.
Jrahk knows the way to roll dice here is confusing, but you should be able to figure it out.
Ixrul begins casting SM V.
Ace sighs, and flies into the water, transforming into a manta ray/fox man mutant with arms.
Jrahk slashes at the squid from 10 feet away.
/2 = 14
Jrahk provokes at 25 feet out.
The squid whips a tentacle out of the dim-ness and draws Jrahk in close, squeezing his arm close to his chest, trapping his Falchion against his body.
Jrahk attempts to bite the creature, but misses.
The squid returns the favor, biting, squeezing, and whipping the orc.
Jrahk scratches and bites at the squid while burbling obscenities.
/2 = 10
/2 = 10
Jrahk rips into the squid with bite and claw!
Ace lets loose a lighting bolt in the squids direction.
*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*
The lightning zaps through the squid. It flails its tentacles in intense pain!
Jrahk is racked by Ace's lightning.
He burbles much louder and more intricate obscenities towards the magus.
After he fires off the lighting, he mumbles a "sorry" at his captain before activating his damage shield.