Day 3 — Voyage to the Elephant Isles

PachinkoJimminyRyutoOona Katoa

Chapter summary

Competing foreign interests converge as the party sails to the Elephant Isles and narrowly survives its first landing.

Connections

Session notes

Pachinko goes to the potion shop to buy a potion and is attacked by a grizzled man. Pachinko is captured and taken away at the potion shop, while Jiminy runs away. Ryuto meanwhile is in the boat being engraved and he is approached by a dragonborn. The dragonborn wears a red cape. He approaches with some news. He warns about the local government approaching Una for a mission. The dragonborns want Ryuto to go with her to the islands which were the doom of Malty. The dragonborn is negging Ryuto and warning him that the bounty of the islands will be revealed soon. The advantage of the islands is not to last for long. The islands are outside of the empire’s control and thus other factions must be curtailed. Ryuto is now an imperial agent.

Punx is getting a tattoo, two of them actually. The most respected person by Punx walks is, the accomplished brother of Punx, Phil. Punx is in a Varangian parlor and Phil is a Varangian captain with his own boat, the Stormy Sun. Phil is wondering what Punx is doing. They have not seen each other in a while. Punx’ reputation is on the low. Phil is disappointed. Punx is a very good navigator as an airbender. Phil is wondering about the poppet man as there are nefarious figures in town asking about him. Giaccomo is hunting Pachinko and has put a bounty on his head. Punx and Phil have 7 sisters. Punx is the youngest.

Ryuto got his scales engraved. Una is visited by a friend. Una is visited by Makola, the harbormaster and mayor. Una is welcoming Makola. Makola is trying to get a translator from the empire. Makola is concerned about the presence of the empire’s ship. Una is being approached because she is a good representative of the people. Makola will be able to commission a ship. Blumbark from the elephant isles is not friendly anymore to the isles, the Celaria of the Blumbark village are being unfriendly.

The Moan’tor isles can offer some of the best fruits and fishes to the Elephant isles.

Discretionary budget: 500g

Jimminy is pulling Una somewhere. Jimminy has led Una to the place of capture of Pachinko. It’s an abandoned warehouse surrounded by Varangians. The gang has gathered outside the warehouses and have met a bunch of Varangians.

We meet a group of 3 Varangians who are confrontational. The gang is trying to haggle for Pachinko’s life with a mix of negotiations and threats.

The gang is looking for a back entrance into the warehouse. They are trying to infiltrate and successfully manage a peaceful extraction.

Pachinko is very happy to be saved. We all agree to go to the Elephant isles and buy 250g in tools to take to trade. We go and meet Captain Jackdoe. He is a grizzled black skinned veteran from Albian. He commands a local ship and diverse crew. The local ship is a mismatch of craftsmanship. The crew is also an amalgamation of locals.

Captain Jackdoe is a bit unhappy that we’re going to the Elephant Isles and recognizes Pachinko as someone with a bounty on his head. He is ready to set sail.

We make the trip to the Elephant Isles, it’s a two week journey. After day 7 where the defacto borders of Moa’tor finish, there’s a ship trailing us. It looks like a Carolingian ship, it’s fast without cargo. It’s strange. There’s also a whale in the horizon, similar to the one that once ate Giuseppe.

We try to escape with the wind powers of Punx. The sailing speed increases. We raise the colors of our ship. The other ship is 5km away and fires one cannon shell and goes away. The next 7 days pass uneventfully.

He’ll wait for us a week before sailing away unless we send word. We’re going to a Solarian town. He doesn’t know more about dead Malty. We’re at the islands and anchored. It’s quickwalk and takes us to shore.

There’s a bell of alarm sounding behind us. A bunyip attacks us from the front. He roars menacingly. We almost die but managed to claw victory from the jaws of defeat. We paddle back to the ship. There are more bunyips on the shore. We row quickly towards the big ship. There’s a bigger monster coming and it’s a group of Orcas that kill the Bunyips.

We leveled up!