Session 2: No Crime, No Trouble, No Caught

Confessional Cam

On the confessional cam, Valon expresses regret about fumbling his interaction with the Captain Etran.  Kas is focused on what Paws and Valon are thinking while enjoying her time at sea, but expresses some mistrust about Searos.  Searos considers the path that led him to this particular moment, locked in a ship’s brig, hoping to leave his past behind.  Paws is not at all pleased with Valon.  She takes Searos at face value and doesn’t understand why he can’t be at least put to use rather than suffering confinement.  Harvey lightly scoffs at Valon’s attempt at deception, but admits such skill takes time and practice.  He sets his sights on the ship’s log and entertains the notion of murdering the Captain.

The Journey So Far…

Captain Etran, despite his anger at the infringement of ship policy, hears the party out.  The guard who accepted Valon’s bribe, however, received swift martial discipline.

Valon is contrite over his actions in the brig, while Paws vouches for Searos, promising to both pay the fee for his passage to Daggerford and to take responsibility for his conduct aboard ship.

While the Captain is addressing his crew, Harvey removes a page from the ship’s log, which contains details of the ship’s date of departure, including a description of the party and their cargo.  He writes in Searos to this document and sends it by horse back to Phandalin.  He also forges a letter to Lord Neverember in the Captain’s hand, informing him that all is going well aboard their voyage.

While at port in Waterdeep, the party avails themselves of a brief two-hour leave as Captain Etran secures new guards.  Paws stretches her legs and watches this exchange while Searos meditates.  Harvey mails his forged, stolen documents, and Valon and Kas stop in at the Marvelous Bees, a mead taproom outside of the docks district.

Group cohesion grows as Paws connects with both Searos and Valon.  Searos discusses his childhood.  Harvey mentions a prior excursion to Daggerford when Paws presses him for conversation, but remains evasive.

The crew collects salvage from an unseen shipwreck.  After several hours stowed below decks, however, noxious fumes spew from the recovered crates and barrels, incapacitating all aboard save for the hardiest members:  the party and captain Etran.

Kas emerged from below, having watched Krik, Krak, and half the ship’s crew succumb to the fumes (herself unaffected), emerged abovedecks to find a raiding party of sahuagin board the ship.  They attack immediately, hoping to take what they assumed to be a sparsely-crewed merchant vessel by force.