[8/21/2026, 5:07:08 PM] Dammitwho Greetings, "heroes" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:07:14 PM] Crion oim here --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:08:05 PM] CBN 'heroism' indeed --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:08:18 PM] Nicolae we're putting the "here" in "heroes" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:10:19 PM] CBN also the "so?" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:23:54 PM] Dammitwho banan... --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:30:13 PM] Gul Banana hello yes hi --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:30:28 PM] Crion greetungs --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:30:38 PM] Gul Banana sorry, i was logged on but not locked in --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:30:47 PM] Crion that's how they get ya. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:30:47 PM] Nicolae you son of a biscuit eating bull dog --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:31:39 PM] Dammitwho Greetings, "hero-- I mean hello everyone. When last we left our intrepid adventurers, three of you were chillaxing in the Thirteenth Hour, while Lindal, your fourth, had just arranged for transport in the matter of investigating a mysterious shipwreck! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:32:59 PM] Dammitwho What plans does our noble party have? What discussions are to be had? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:34:03 PM] CBN Dubnoom is, of course, interested in what other people have been up to. Or at least he's willing to be polite and hear them out until he gets bored and goes back to telling them about how sick the squabbles were. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:34:03 PM] Imran Traveler Imran has just concluded the tour. It was exceedingly short, and most of it was teaching the others the trick to getting inside. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:34:34 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" For his part, Dubnoom spent half that tour trying to visualize what a really big bed would look like in each of the rooms. He's struggling to rotate that particular apple. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:36:22 PM] Imran Traveler Presumably now Tak sees the challenge in getting furniture in here, as well as day laborers. They'll have to do the work piecemeal outside, then bring it in to finish. Thankfully, both of them are good craftsmen. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:37:01 PM] Dammitwho If you're concerned about price, you could get one extra-big bed, with metal plates inscribed with your names, and you could all wear nightcaps and carry little saucers with candles on them. There's no limits on how honk shoo mimimimi mode you can go in here. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:37:54 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak, for his part, is spending a lot of time examining the ceiling and asking a lot of questions about the local bedrock. Old habits. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:38:55 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Lindal's plan... is to tell people about his plan! Or his opportunity, really. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:38:55 PM] Tak Ironflame As for the rest of his day, Tak mentions that he found employment, but does not mention his first-day jitters. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:39:12 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya If someone has a better idea than "row out to a shipwreck and get assailed by ghosts(?)", that's reasonable. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:39:57 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" A really big bed....maybe with some sort of table next to it. A 'side' table, because it's covered with side dishes, like the warm potatoes from the Highleaf inn. Or the breads from downstairs of the Gilded Goblet but all torn up in little bits with gravy. Or apples. Apples are always good. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:40:30 PM] Dammitwho The bedrock around here - which it's unclear if you're even near, really, given how topsy-turvy the geological strata were down in the sewers - must be pretty fucked. Everyone knows that Aroden pulled the isle of Kortos from the very seabed in one of his first acts as a divinity. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:41:23 PM] Dammitwho you guys can do some rigamarole to catch up with Lindal and tell him where you're staying now if you want, but i'm fine with abstracting that if you'd prefer not to and he can just know where to go. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:41:27 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" "But friend Tak's employmentjob is adventuring! With your shooting things so we can get the gold from them!" Dubnoom does not understand side hustles, conceptually. Or salaries. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:41:37 PM] Crion yeah he can just be here --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:42:22 PM] Imran Traveler Imran is not sure how excited he is about his permanent sleeping situation being "in a really big bed with the rest of the gang," but it is a perfectly reasonable solution for a safehouse. So long as the bed is big enough. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:43:00 PM] Tak Ironflame How tall are the ceilings? We could do bunk beds. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:43:26 PM] Dammitwho Quite tall! This place used to be used for calibrating astronomical/astrological equipment. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:44:04 PM] Imran Traveler To Lindal: "A shipwreck? As a man of armor-wearing disposition, I sometimes get nervous when I'm above large bodies of water in something called a 'wreck.'" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:44:30 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak, briefly, considers how best to navigate the cultural divide between Dwarves and Goblins. "Well, it's something to do in between adventures. It pays less but there are fewer explosions. It's a tradeoff." Careful listeners will note he said "fewer", and not "none". --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:45:25 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Lindal is fascinated by the Thirteenth Hour's opening mechanism. Could there be other combinations of twists and presses that do different things? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:45:32 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" "Trading for paying less...seems bad." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:45:41 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" "You trade for MORE, that is how trading works." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:45:59 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "The thing is, to a ship, being on land is always a disaster. Relatively normal for us folk." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:46:18 PM] Imran Traveler "Ah. A BEACHED shipwreck is much better." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:47:36 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "I do suspect there's some risk involved. The harbour-master's office has an open problem out, and yet nobody's solved it..." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:47:42 PM] Tak Ironflame "Ah, but if I didn't have a side job, all the times when I wasn't adventuring I wouldn't be making money at all." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:48:02 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "Perhaps most of Absalom's residents are land-lovers, despite their situation?" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:48:30 PM] Imran Traveler "Land-lubbers, too." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:49:10 PM] Tak Ironflame "Maybe they figure they already live in the biggest city in the world, no sense in leaving." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:49:42 PM] Dammitwho The shipwreck happened relatively recently - about a day ago - and apparently Fairwind & Sons Maritime just closed up shop and vanished the instant the news came in. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:50:18 PM] Imran Traveler "That sounds like a good way to score some quick loot in a quasi-moral manner. It's not open robbery, at least. Salvage is a recognized tradition!" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:50:32 PM] Imran Traveler And much better than making furniture at an artisan stand. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:51:04 PM] Imran Traveler Imran, who finds this extremely empty safehouse somewhat offputting, is sold on Lindal's venture. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:53:23 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "Lubbers and lovers are the same thing! It's sea-speak. The common tongue of the waves. Do fish have tongues?" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:54:22 PM] Gul Banana did the meeting between imran and the nocticulan potential box-examiners take place yet? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:55:05 PM] Nicolae also what does lindal know about the shipwreck, in terms of what kinds of things might be on it, i might be inclined to buy and then make some of the specialty ammo i mentioned threadwise --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:55:15 PM] Dammitwho @Check[nature|dc:23|adjustment:-10|options:request-rolls-roll-id:EX66VT8yg6qcjW8k]{Do fish have tongues?} --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:55:28 PM] Crion it has not --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:55:33 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya 7 1d20 = 7 = 7 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:55:44 PM] Crion i think we're waiting on contact to set that up --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:55:45 PM] Dammitwho The Esoteric Order of the Palatine Eye has not yet come to begin their examinations, no --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:55:54 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya If Lindal knew, he wouldn't need to ask. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:55:56 PM] Dammitwho Lindal has no idea whether fish have tongues. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:55:57 PM] Crion so we probably have time to sidequest --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:57:29 PM] Gul Banana what he knows about the wreck: it ran aground on Camdren's Rock and the owners have refused to take responsibility or, seemingly, exist --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:57:40 PM] Gul Banana this is an Investigation, just.. the kind of investigatoin where you should bring weapons --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:58:29 PM] Imran Traveler The very best kind. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:58:45 PM] Imran Traveler Or at least to a Nidalese, the very commonest kind. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:59:44 PM] Tak Ironflame 15 1d20 + 13 = 2 + 13 = 15 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 5:59:58 PM] Dammitwho This wasn't part of the conversation that Lindal had with the elderly Underclerk of Berths, but in the process of getting paperwork traded he learned that the wrecked ship was named the Windfall. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:00:10 PM] Dammitwho Tak knows that most fish do have tongues! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:00:47 PM] Tak Ironflame "Most fish do have tongues." You don't get a ton of fish out in the Mana Wastes, and the ones you do get can't really be considered archetypal examples of their kind, but he's seen enough fish to pick up the basics of their mouth situations. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:00:54 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "What happened to the others?" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:01:31 PM] Tak Ironflame "That's fish business." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:02:14 PM] Dammitwho Some fish are tongues! Parasitism! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:03:04 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" "What shipwrecktreasures are there, friend Lindal? That is why to go in shipwrecks, yes?" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:04:57 PM] Dammitwho You don't know what the Windfall was carrying - that information would have been held by Fairwind & Sons, who've skedaddled - but Lindal knows from being told that any cargo held by a ship that wrecks in the harbor without using a bonded and licensed pilot, as was the case here, is forfeit to the Docks primarch. Who has, munificently, delegated that privilege to you. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:05:27 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "That's the worst bit, wise one: there might not be any treasure at all. We're being paid in possibility." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:05:43 PM] Imran Traveler "Let us set up Steve and Orbfella's beds here, then make haste. If there's nothing to be found, best that we not-find it quickly." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:05:47 PM] Tak Ironflame Ah, the ancient legal doctrine of "Finders Keepers." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:05:53 PM] Dammitwho It's like opening up a storage locker with a crowbar, except at sea! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:07:24 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "I notice that you prioritise the creatures' beds over humanoid sleeping arrangements. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:07:30 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya " --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:07:44 PM] Imran Traveler "Perhaps. But we also have their beds with us, physically. Our own beds will have to be sourced." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:10:30 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "I've never been a great admirer of the things anyway. Just noting these eaters of eggs (and egg-shaped things) are well cared-for..." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:11:06 PM] Dammitwho ariana grande voice and what of it --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:14:57 PM] Tak Ironflame "If you'd be satisfied with a little cage with a pillow in it also, we can probably rustle one up for ya." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:16:30 PM] Crion are we agreed uponst shipwrecking --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:16:53 PM] Nicolae yes but tak at the very least wants to buy some bullets first --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:17:14 PM] Crion also what kind of rest should imran take, i haven't done one since the boss fight --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:17:46 PM] Dammitwho You're fully rested --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:17:55 PM] Imran Traveler Imran Traveler awakens well-rested. 14 hit points restored. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:18:13 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak Ironflame awakens well-rested. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:18:18 PM] Imran Traveler Imran Traveler awakens well-rested. 14 hit points restored. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:21:31 PM] Imran Traveler Imran: "Friend Tak! Might you repair my shield before we go?" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:21:41 PM] Crion just realized this thing's down 20 HP --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:22:26 PM] Nicolae hm. would anybody mind terribly if i pretended tak actually did bought that crafter's eyepiece for 60gold earlier today instead of just window shopping --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:22:44 PM] Crion i would not --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:22:51 PM] Crion my vote is not the one that counts, --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:23:30 PM] Dammitwho Sure, go ahead --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:23:48 PM] Nicolae sick. one moment, i will conjure it from the timestream, and then get to fixin --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:24:48 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak Ironflame takes 60 × Gold Pieces from the party stash. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:27:00 PM] CBN time to see if there's any good divine spells to swap around for ship adventuring... --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:27:41 PM] CBN oh lol. ok yeah there's one. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:27:47 PM] Nicolae can't seem to find an easy way to click on the shield and do a repair, so i'll just freestyle it --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:28:20 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" Dubnoom "The Wise" awakens well-rested. Focus points restored.All spell slots restored. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:28:18 PM] Nicolae you've got to be fucking kidding me. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:28:23 PM] Nicolae do i have any hero points at least --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:28:59 PM] Dammitwho You do! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:29:03 PM] Tak Ironflame 1d20 + 12 1d20 1 1 13 1d20 + 12 1d20 4 4 26 1d20 + 12 + 10 = 4 + 12 + 10 = 26 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:29:09 PM] Nicolae thank you --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:29:32 PM] Crion it's so cool that one hero point a session goes to reroll not beefing it on the stairs and falling down them like john wick --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:29:55 PM] Crion it is What You Get with this sort of system i suppose --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:31:02 PM] Nicolae okay, i think the dc for repairing a mundane shield is 14, so that's a crit success so with the eyepiece that's 15 + 15 aitch pees for your shield --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:32:52 PM] Crion back up to full, ty tak --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:33:25 PM] Crion once lindal returns from contractor-waylay, imran is g2g --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:33:52 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak gets out his tools and makes quick work of Imran's shield. He gets a chance to show off a new purchase, too, a fancy little eyepiece he picked up in a little craftworking shop. Very nice. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:35:17 PM] CBN ok dubnoom has swapped out a few prepared spells --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:35:54 PM] CBN notably: he's taken a 3rd-level version of Water Breathing (duration: 8 hours after cast, affects up to 5 targets), the 1st-level Helpful Steps and the 2nd-level Revealing Light --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:36:01 PM] Crion nice --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:36:12 PM] Dammitwho noice --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:36:19 PM] Nicolae nooice --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:36:30 PM] Nicolae what do the second ones do --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:38:37 PM] CBN helpful steps lets you make stairs or a ladder, either attached to something or freestanding, and revealing light is basically "dazzle an aoe, downgrade invisible or concealed stuff" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:38:41 PM] Nicolae neateaux --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:38:43 PM] CBN which might be nice against like. magic jellyfish --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:40:56 PM] Nicolae eat shit jellyfish --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:41:34 PM] Nicolae if we had more time IC i would ask to buy some alchemy formulas and then make some bane ammunition for animals and beafts. this is me asking dwho is we have time IC and also incorporating the wheedling --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:44:29 PM] Dammitwho It's up to you when and where you go, Lindal didn't indicate any time crunch. Presumably if you wait too long the ship will actually break apart and fall off the rock, but you don't like... know when that would be --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:45:10 PM] Crion we're missing banana due to IRL downtime dicerollin so let's just check it off the list while we're waiting --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:45:24 PM] Crion go shopping, go alchemistin, etc --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:47:14 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak Ironflame takes 13 × Gold Pieces from the party stash. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:47:20 PM] Dammitwho Yeah, if you guys want to stroll to the Coins district to get some shopping and crafting done I'm amenable, there won't be any obstacles so just flavour what you're doing --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:48:41 PM] Imran Traveler Once Imran's shield is patched up thanks to Tak and the animals are squared away (he might consider leaving them upstairs in the teahouse once they've built up more rapport with their landlords and hosts), it's time to head circumspectly to the beach. "Tak, have you any stalls to hit along the way?" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:52:55 PM] Nicolae hm, the book says bane ammunition requires a separate formula for each type of bane, but foundry does not have appear to have been informed of this :I --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:54:58 PM] Gul Banana maybe they assumption is that you hate Everyone --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:55:27 PM] Dammitwho Hm. You recorded the kinds of bane ammunition you were buying in the thread? If there isn't a module that handles bane ammunition individually I can create it for you with ruleselements later --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:55:35 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak has a few alchemy stores he wants to hit up again, this time with some more cash. He gets his hands on some ammunition formulas and then swings by the Volatile Alley to do some afterhours crafting, if they still let him in the building. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:55:49 PM] P. P. Lindalsivranragdya P. P. Lindalsivranragdya awakens well-rested. 3 hit points restored.All spell slots restored. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:55:55 PM] Nicolae dwho, yep, Animal, Beast, Fungus/Plant, Ooze, Aberration, Dragon --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:56:24 PM] Nicolae i saw someone asking re bane ammunition modules on reddit but did not see a followup --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:58:03 PM] Nicolae i made some elemental ammunition and i've got one slot for bane ammunition which i would like to be Animal for now --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:58:17 PM] Nicolae i also made some life shot, which is the funniest fucking thing --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:58:19 PM] Dammitwho Fuck that one Muppet in particular --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:58:56 PM] Nicolae i shoot you with a life shot bullet and you do 3d4+3 healing --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:59:02 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Did Lindal mention the Butterfly's launch before? If not, he will now: "Our friends on the Butterfly can lend us a small boat to get out there. 'Twas unclear whether any of the sailors would volunteer as a navigator in exchange for a share of salvage... but if they don't, how hard can it be? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:59:08 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "You just sort of row in any direction, it's all water." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:59:39 PM] Dammitwho Okay, Tak has that stuff. Anything else you guys want to shop for/do before heading down to where sailors hang out? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:59:41 PM] Gul Banana have a bullet for free... as long as it's covered by your health insurance --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 6:59:56 PM] Imran Traveler Imran frowns. "Sailing can be incredibly hard." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:00:09 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "Ah, but the launch has no actual sails." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:00:31 PM] Imran Traveler We did just do a little bit to get to town, and not even the important stuff, and it wasn't the simplest thing! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:02:58 PM] Dammitwho Indeed, a launch is rowed. By you! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:03:37 PM] Nicolae *bane voice* --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:03:52 PM] Nicolae i keep forgetting that angle brackets are interpreted as html tags and nothing in between them gets said --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:04:04 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:04:48 PM] Imran Traveler Rowing, sailing, Imran's ready either way. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:05:06 PM] Tak Ironflame Let's do this. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:05:29 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" Dubnoom will let other people do the Work, he's more an 'idea' man and an 'idea that other people will do the hard stuff' man in particular. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:05:34 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya The one thing we're going to have to make sure of at the harbour: which rock is Camdren's. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:05:49 PM] Gul Banana ...does dubnoom's disc work over water? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:07:05 PM] CBN it does not. but that's what water breathing is for, after. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:07:54 PM] Gul Banana Oh yeah, we've even got potions! So if the ship's mysterious dangers plunge us into the bay, np (for one hour) --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:10:08 PM] Dammitwho In this particular case, Dubnoom swapped out some of his spells, so you might have *eight* hours of water breathing! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:11:41 PM] Dammitwho In any case. You leave the Thirteenth Hour and its complex clockwork lock, walking through the streets of Absalom, south to the Docks and the great Harbor of Absalom, which serves the mighty city as its lungs (if you like that particular kind of metaphor). --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:12:10 PM] Imran Traveler If the city is itself a character in the story, one supposes it must have lungs. And toes. And so on. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:13:10 PM] CBN best not to think about where our base is, in the body of the city. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:13:32 PM] Dammitwho The brain, surely! It's even like living inside a big skull, what with the dome! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:13:45 PM] Dammitwho It's an ordinary day as far as those things go, and so you only see a few wonders unheard of elsewhere - Lindal's sure he saw a mechanical spider running a stall when you passed through the Coins district. A gang of teenaged roofrunners leap over your heads at one point, but they're racing, it seems, and don't dump anything on you as a prank. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:15:25 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya A meta-prank of its own. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:15:25 PM] Dammitwho LIndal is able to lead the party to the repair dock where the Butterfly is under repair and refit - and nearby it, a small boat able to carry a score or so men at most (if they're quite friendly). The Butterfly's first mate, Ionnia, sits in the stern with one hand on the rudder, and raises a hand when she sees you, waving. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:15:44 PM] Imran Traveler Imran will blink, then wave back. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:16:38 PM] Dammitwho "Headed to Candren's Rock, aye? Captain said you needed a navigator, for an equal share of salvage." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:16:50 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Oh good, someone bit. "Hello! We're back. For another nautical collaboration." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:17:03 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "Given I'd remembered the name as Camdren, you've already proven your worth to the expedition." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:17:12 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" Dubnoom raises a hand to signal recognition, once Imran does it. He's the target first, worst case scenario. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:18:13 PM] Dammitwho She nods. "You're good luck as far as the crew's concerned, landlubbers or no. I'll get you there and back safe as houses - it's easier with a smaller boat anyhow." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:20:43 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Well, that makes intuitive sense. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:20:57 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" "How far is it?" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:24:19 PM] Dammitwho "About three and a half nautical malms. The Flotsam Graveyard's about the same distance from here to the Lighthouse and the Grange - the Harbor's all a big circle, you see?" Lindal went out to the Lighthouse earlier, so he knows it might take a couple hours at most. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:25:05 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" "Yes" Dubnoom lies. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:27:51 PM] Dammitwho "Ready to weigh anchor?" Ionnia asks, expectantly. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:28:15 PM] Imran Traveler Imran takes his position. "Anchors a-weigh." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:30:14 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Lindal perches on the bow. "Figurehead present." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:31:35 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" Dubnoom tightens his grip on whatever the nearest solid part of the boat to him is. Better to be prepared and centered if, and when, it tips. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:32:24 PM] Dammitwho @Check[athletics|dc:23|adjustment:-2|options:request-rolls-roll-id:Yyww9qz7SNmSFY3O]{Rowing} --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:32:32 PM] Dammitwho All row! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:32:40 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak puts his bullets in his waterproof case, and gets prepared to not hurl again. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:32:45 PM] Tak Ironflame 27 1d20 + 9 = 18 + 9 = 27 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:33:32 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" 4 1d20 = 4 = 4 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:33:36 PM] Dammitwho Ionnia loosens the mooring line and pushes the launch away from the dock - she expertly steers the vessel, but that leaves it to you to row. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:33:41 PM] CBN nyeah.... --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:33:48 PM] Imran Traveler 1d20 + 13 1d20 5 5 18 1d20 + 13 1d20 13 13 26 1d20 + 13 = 13 + 13 = 26 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:35:54 PM] Dammitwho Lindal! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:41:53 PM] Tak Ironflame ;_; --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:43:35 PM] Gul Banana sorry, contractored again... did i miss a popup.. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:43:43 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya 17 1d20 + 10 = 7 + 10 = 17 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:43:44 PM] Dammitwho no it was posted in chat --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:44:19 PM] Dammitwho Dubnoom! Roll 1d6 and take that much bludgeoning damage! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:44:42 PM] Nicolae :O! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:45:10 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" 5 1d6 = 5 = 5 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:45:17 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" "Nyeah!" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:45:28 PM] Gul Banana the second-worst possible outcome. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:46:07 PM] Dammitwho Writers of ancient sagas put much stock in "the sinews of Men", "Men" here referring to humans. It bears out this time, as Tak and Imran put their backs into it and pull, sending the launch across the bay! Lindal does his level best, but also he doesn't know much about rowing? It doesn't go very well, and he kind of gets distracted a couple times. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:46:44 PM] Tak Ironflame If Tak could hear the narrator, he would no doubt point out that neither his adopted nor biological heritage count as "human". --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:46:59 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Lindal is not a strong man. Adult vanara would tell you he's technically not a full-grown man at all, but fortunately there aren't any here to expose him. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:47:02 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" Dubnoom "The Wise" takes 5 damage. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:47:09 PM] Dammitwho Dubnoom knows that it is unwise to do hard manual labor. Unbearded goblins and goblins you can bully are the ones you can do that, and - self-knowledge being a form of wisdom - Dubnoom knows that bullying one's self is unhealthy. He hates this shit! Just hates it! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:47:36 PM] Dammitwho It's even worse when he loses his grip once and his oar, caught by the mass of the sea, cracks him right in the dome. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:48:07 PM] Imran Traveler Imran shakes his head but puts his back into it. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:50:04 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" He is simply vindicated, eternally, in his reluctance to ever do any of this awful business himself again. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:50:19 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "I suppose we don't need to - haha - don't need to worry about the reef-rocks scraping a small boat like this." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:50:39 PM] Dammitwho Nonetheless, you make it across the bay. You can see why it's called the Flotsam Graveyard - it's a veritable maze of sunken vessels, with masts poking up from beneath the waves here and there, and ships in various stages of decomposition visible when the water is clear. You'd have to be a skilled navigator or very careful indeed to get through here in a full ship without scraping off your bottom on a rock or somebody less fortunate than you. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:52:09 PM] Imran Traveler Perhaps the city should pay someone to clean all this up instead. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:52:24 PM] Imran Traveler Well! A fine scene for adventuring. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:52:25 PM] Dammitwho After a time, Ionnia calls out and points ahead and to your right. "Near to starboard, Candren's Rock!" So it is, and that must be the Windfall! A small vessel as trading ships go, though of course much larger than the one you're in now. It lies mostly out of the water, broken-backed across Candren's Rock, bow wedged high and stern working back and forth in the swell. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:53:42 PM] Tak Ironflame It turns out that doing manual labor while on a ship distracts the mind enough to keep it from noticing the seasickness. Tak didn't need to throw up once! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:54:35 PM] Dammitwho You're arriving at the place the Harbormistress herself wanted investigated: simple questions with important answers. Why dodge pilot fees? Why flee town when the inevitable happens? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:55:19 PM] Dammitwho Even if everything the Windfall carries is wholly aboveboard, no insurance company would pay out after such trivially-proved negligence. Perhaps they were simply bankrupt and fleeing ahead of creditors? Still... --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:55:29 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Sounds like the sort of thing you'd do if you were moving unlicensed cargo. Perhaps the kind of cargo for which no license is issuable... --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:56:43 PM] Dammitwho Ionnia navigates you towards the sharp, slippery rock, then calls for down oars. "It's not safe to row right up against her," she says. "I can hold station as long as you please, but you'll have ot make the last ten fulms or so yourself." --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:57:24 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya "Nobody's carrying unsealed perishables, I hope?" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:57:30 PM] Dammitwho So you find your first obstacle! Surging swell, seaweed-slick rock, and a ship's hull that groans even as you look at it! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:58:45 PM] Imran Traveler Imran straps his sword on his back under his shield, secures them tight, and prepares for water. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:58:53 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Ah, but is it really an obstacle when you found two @UUID[Actor.na4BvYZuIm8Bnbpr.Item.nI6qiRCvuzM62rVw]{Effervescent Ampoule}s back in Moonglow Bay? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 7:59:24 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya If feasible, Lindal would like to break one and dash across the water to the side of the broken hull. He can give a hand up to others attempting a swim or a leap! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:00:26 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak double-checks his pack and belongings. He's got his clan pistol and some rounds in his firearm case, but if he splashes into the drink he's going to be up shit's creek without a paddle, which in this metaphor is most of his ammunition. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:00:29 PM] Imran Traveler Now that's thinking. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:00:46 PM] Dammitwho Each character must get from the Butterfly's launch to the Windfall. There are two basic ways to attempt this - a DC23 Athletics roll to climb the Windfall's anchor chain. Tricky, but with some leeway for failure. Or you can try a DC20 Acrobatics roll to time the swell and leap from the launch's gunwale to the Windfall's rail. Easier, but mess up and you're in the drink. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:00:50 PM] Dammitwho Drinking an Effervescent Ampoule mitigates this obstacle, allowing the drinker to cross without rolling! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:01:20 PM] Dammitwho Note that only those trained in Acrobatics can use an Ampoule effectively... --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:01:35 PM] Crion do i have a second hero point or am i tapped on those --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:01:54 PM] Crion i guess with the delta between my athletics and acro it's a wash --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:03:10 PM] CBN can dubnoom cast Water Breathing on the party BEFORE attempting to cross the obstacle --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:03:27 PM] Gul Banana forethought! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:03:27 PM] Nicolae does dubnoom have the version of Floaty Disk that he can ride yet --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:03:52 PM] Dammitwho CBN: Yes! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:04:20 PM] Nicolae the irony, of course, is that in this case, the people who are trained in acrobatics might need the effervescent ampoule the least... --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:04:39 PM] Crion oh right i have a lifting belt. have i been adding a +1 item check --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:04:49 PM] Crion okay i should just have to roll a 9 or better to hit a DC 23. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:04:52 PM] Crion ha ha ha --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:04:58 PM] Gul Banana physician, lift thyself --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:05:10 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" Water Breathing Spell 3 Concentrate Divine Exploration Manipulate Water Cast 1 minute Range 30 feet; Targets up to 5 creatures Duration 1 hour The targets can breathe underwater. Heightened (3rd) The duration increases to 8 hours. Heightened (4th) The duration increases to until your next daily preparations. Base: 2nd Heightened: +1 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:05:13 PM] Imran Traveler 31 1d20 + 14 = 17 + 14 = 31 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:05:23 PM] Tak Ironflame 32 1d20 + 15 = 17 + 15 = 32 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:05:26 PM] Crion that will do. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:06:00 PM] Dammitwho oh sorry, i should have said that Lindal can provide Aid actions for others crossing --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:06:24 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak takes the nimbler option, and leaps from the gunwale to the rail. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:06:38 PM] Nicolae i decided not to use the ampoule, lindal can use it to get back on the boat --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:06:53 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" Dubnoom gestures vaguely but also VERY precisely, certainly not trying to stall or anything. "Dubnoom's Mitigated Marine Misadventure!" Tiny little bubbles form and pop near everyone's faces. The water seems a little less crushingly scary. Then he tries to hop over there. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:07:10 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" 1d20 + 11 1d20 2 2 13 1d20 + 11 1d20 4 4 25 1d20 + 11 + 10 = 4 + 11 + 10 = 25 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:07:39 PM] Imran Traveler Imran pauses a second to judge the distance, then smoothly leaps and grabs the anchor chain with an arm, a second arm, and then a wrapped leg. Simple. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:08:05 PM] Imran Traveler Now it's a simple matter of scaling it. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:09:22 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Here's a nominal Aid to help haul someone up. Lindal could also try Performance to inspire people, if the fates allow it, --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:09:26 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya 27 1d20 + 10 = 17 + 10 = 27 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:09:38 PM] Tak Ironflame Once he's landed on the Windfall and is sure of his footage, Tak gets ready to dig out a rope if anyone needs some help... but it looks like the rest of the gang is managing just fine. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:10:33 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" Dubnoom makes it, eventually. He's not scared of the water! You are! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:11:02 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" He's also not desperately clinging to the first surface on the Windfall he contacted. No. You are. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:11:06 PM] Dammitwho In fairness, the water is quite scary. Look what it did to this ship, in consort with this big rock. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:11:39 PM] Imran Traveler Imran slips up the anchor chain and on to the deck, nodding to Lindal. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:11:51 PM] Dammitwho As the last of you makes it aboard, you all hear a long, low, crrrrrrrreeeeeeeeaaaaakkkkkk... But nothing happens. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:12:55 PM] Dammitwho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HV3oyxr0Eg --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:14:19 PM] Crion all time song --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:14:36 PM] Dammitwho You have entered a CHALLENGE! Two things will be tracked: Salvage Points (SP), which measure what you have found out and/or collected from the shipwreck Wrack, which measures how close the sea is to finishing what the rock started! Wrack never goes down. Wrack never goes down. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:15:11 PM] Nicolae question: how do we make wrack go down? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:15:15 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Do Salvage Points go down? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:17:02 PM] Dammitwho Currently, both values are at zero. Rounds will last roughly twenty minutes each, and each of you will get the chance to take an action per round! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:17:48 PM] Crion hmm. this makes aid even less useful. perhaps i should not have built part of this character's feat support around that, --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:18:03 PM] Crion alright. let use begin --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:18:56 PM] Gul Banana i wonder whether dispatching ram banaram to search in small places would be helpful action. he'd probably find a lot of bugs --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:19:54 PM] Crion a good action but probably not a great use of Twenty Minutes, Gamified --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:20:32 PM] Nicolae yeah, how abstract are we gettin' here --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:20:53 PM] Dammitwho You're aboard ship now, and looking around you can see or guess various areas that might be of interest to you. There's the weather deck (that is to say, main deck) and rigging, still tangled and broken from being run ashore; The captain's cabin beneath the quarterdeck; The crew deck below the main deck; The main hold; The orlop/carpenter's walk --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:21:20 PM] Imran Traveler Captain's cabin probably has at least a manifest. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:21:56 PM] CBN how tall is the ship, internals-wise? i ask bc helpful steps lets you create a 40-foot spiral staircase, and would it be useful to create one of those alongside the ship, to aid in just walking up and down it and looking for ingress, instead of 'swimming' or 'going inside' --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:22:30 PM] Dammitwho The expansion of rounds to twenty minutes is to give you assurance that you can do something complicated or time-consuming in one round rather than worrying about individual six-second intervals or something --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:23:37 PM] Crion that spell sounds like a good way to create an easy path to transfer loot from the wreck to our rowboat --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:24:02 PM] Nicolae does it have to be straight up and down? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:24:06 PM] Crion so perhaps the npcs can spend the time doing that while we continue to Loot --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:24:56 PM] CBN it does not specify that it has to be straight up and down, but it DOES specify that it is freestanding if you wish --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:24:55 PM] Dammitwho You've only got the one NPC atm, unless you're expecting Ram Banaram to carry things... --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:25:08 PM] CBN so it could absolutely be a Looting Tunnel of sorts --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:25:23 PM] CBN it can also be a ladder but i feel like stairs are better for not needing hands here --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:25:24 PM] Nicolae it's time for that fucking frog to start carrying his damn weight around here!!!!!!!! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:25:28 PM] Dammitwho 40 feet is enough to get you back down to the launch, regardless --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:25:51 PM] Crion imran is going to head to the captain's cabin and batter down the door as his first action --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:26:09 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak will brave the depths and check out the hold. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:26:37 PM] Dammitwho Anyway: what you do each round is decide where you're looking for things, how you're looking for information/things, and then either pitch me a skill roll or receive one from me --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:27:05 PM] Dammitwho successes get you salvage points, failures, as in life, incur despair and injury --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:27:46 PM] Gul Banana Can Lindal get into the hold and toss it with Thievery? Just going through whatever's down there with rapidity and an eye for portable wealth. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:27:54 PM] Crion is searching the captain's cabin something that requires a breach or something that requires discernment --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:28:20 PM] Crion i've got athletics and society in turn --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:28:58 PM] Dammitwho Fortunately, you needn't break down any doors to get into the captain's cabin --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:29:43 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak is going to hit the hold. As it's the part on the rocks most directly, I assume there will be some kind of Physicality roll. After that, Tak will use Perception to look for things. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:30:56 PM] Gul Banana roll raw physicality to commence your modelling career --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:31:05 PM] Imran Traveler Imran makes for the quarterdeck. They can haul a safe out and break it later. Small items can go in pockets. And a diary or manifest will inform their next movements. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:31:34 PM] CBN hmm...i'm interested in the carpenter's walk to try to find where is leaky and where isn't, or POSSIBLY places where it's already started to lose structural integrity to the hold (and reveal glittering treasures within, through an alternate pathway). either with a nature check (following where the water is going/has gone) or lore: goblin (soul of looting) --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:33:18 PM] Dammitwho Lindal and Tak can get into the hold. Unfortunately amidships is almost open water, rising and falling with the swell. Fortunately, thanks to Dubnoom's spell, neither Tak nor Lindal have to deal with the difficulty of breathing underwater. Dubnoom can clamber down into the carpenter's walk and Imran can get into the captain's cabin. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:33:32 PM] Dammitwho Is that everyone's intent? I'll start handing out skill checks --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:33:54 PM] Nicolae did banana get contractored... --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:34:11 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Wow, undersea looting... Lindal's going to be very damp. But it's a novelty. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:34:43 PM] CBN party spectrum ranging from 'how bad does wet monkey smell' to 'how much better does dubnoom smell after a bath' --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:36:14 PM] Crion such is mine intent --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:37:16 PM] Dammitwho @Check[society|dc:23|options:request-rolls-roll-id:mRLYOcvUaoXZVKBh]{Society - Imran searching through the Captain's effects} --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:37:18 PM] Dammitwho Much of the captain's cabin is ruined by exposure to wind and rain, but some remains intact. The captain's desk is covered with papers, and there's a strongbox that has slid across the floor into the lee corner as the deck moves slightly underfoot. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:37:50 PM] Imran Traveler Papers first, then strongbox. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:38:00 PM] Dammitwho Lindal intended to roll Thievery, what did Tak intend to do/roll? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:38:28 PM] Dammitwho (either just say what you're attempting and let me assign a skill or include a skill proposal and i'll yea/nay) --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:39:12 PM] Crion i hate it here --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:39:18 PM] Crion do i have a hero point --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:39:20 PM] Tak Ironflame Tak was going to roll Acrobatics if necessary to maintain his footing down there, and then Perception to find things. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:40:03 PM] Dammitwho Everybody has one hero point, except for Lindal who has two --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:40:17 PM] Imran Traveler 1d20 + 13 1d20 4 4 17 1d20 + 13 1d20 10 10 33 1d20 + 13 + 10 = 10 + 13 + 10 = 33 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:40:29 PM] Dammitwho yahoooooo! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:41:04 PM] Dammitwho Okay, Tak's going for Perception! (You don't need to roll Acrobatics, since you're underwater with waterbreathing - if you fall off something you can just like float and then get back on it) --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:41:48 PM] Tak Ironflame 34 1d20 + 17 = 17 + 17 = 34 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:43:13 PM] Dammitwho @Check[thievery|dc:23|options:request-rolls-roll-id:xsOyfM1fRVNfwY6s]{Lindal - Roll Thievery} --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:43:19 PM] Dammitwho The main hold is cold, dark, and full of shifted cargo containers. Splintered crates, rotten or torn bags, and empty(?) chests that slide with the movement of the waves obstruct your search! Tak has rolled Perception, Lindal! Roll Thievery --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:43:42 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya 33 1d20 + 13 = 20 + 13 = 33 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:44:31 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Lindal is Focused. Any one of these vessels could be the one with a fortune. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:45:05 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya He sorts sackcloth, half-planks and trunks with frankly unwarranted dexterity. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:47:08 PM] Dammitwho And finally, Dubnoom. Dubnoom is a wise and lucky goblin, going to the low place which would be a stoop for a human or vanara but is perfectly goblin-sized. Roll Lore: Goblin with a +1 circumstance bonus! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:47:11 PM] Dammitwho @Check[lore-goblin|dc:26|options:request-rolls-roll-id:dhG0ukyKRgHacVM8]{Lore: Goblin with +1 circumstance bonus} --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:51:17 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" 32 1d20 + 12 = 20 + 12 = 32 --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:51:25 PM] CBN He Nooms. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:51:35 PM] Nicolae lmao we all rolled into the 30s, nice --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:51:45 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" You always go low. When they go low you go lower. Goblin wisdom. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:53:07 PM] Dammitwho Wow, all good rolls by the players. I'm not mad about this. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:53:09 PM] Gul Banana "I'll take the low road and you'll take the low road, and we'll be in scotland before anyone else" --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:53:44 PM] Crion one of them had to spend Resource. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:54:21 PM] Crion now for you to capitalize on this, GM, we have to run another round before the session turns over, --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:57:08 PM] Dammitwho Imran sorts through the papers both swiftly and thoroughly. Much of them are useless, or would require more time or nautical knowledge to puzzle out, but he is able to find two things of great interest: the ship's ledger, and its manifest. They don't match. This vessel was running two sets of books. Imran also finds a silver bo'sun's call on a braided lanyard, worth he would guess about 10gp. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:57:56 PM] Imran Traveler Pocket that, analyze the books. Two sets of books means one real set of cargo and it'll be somewhere...below the waterline, probably. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:58:18 PM] Dammitwho To clarify: Imran hasn't yet checked the strongbox --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:59:01 PM] Imran Traveler Yeah, if going over there means the room starts falling apart, he wants to have the information in the books on file. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 8:59:08 PM] Imran Traveler Then he'll tackle the box. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:01:58 PM] Dammitwho Deep within the flooded main hold, Tak and Lindal rifle through the cargo. They make excellent time, but unfortunately everything they find is ruined or worthless in one way or another. All, that is, except for the corpse of the first mate, floating drowned in one of the deeper parts of the hold. He never had a chance to get out. On his person, he carried a healing potion (moderate), thankfully still stoppered... and a bronze key with a protective sigil scratched into it. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:03:08 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Was there anything odd about the ruined cargo that might give us a clue as to Fairwind & Sons? --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:04:23 PM] Dammitwho When Tak and Lindal compare notes, they realize something interesting. They can work out, pretty well, how much the Windfall *should* have been carrying based on what's shattered around, and what Imran is able to holler at them from the ship's manifest. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:05:10 PM] Dammitwho The Windfall was running about a strake and a half deeper, based on its draft lines, than would be warranted by what you've found. It was running heavy. There's something more here. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:05:29 PM] Gul Banana strake. malm. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:06:05 PM] Dammitwho Strake is a real term! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:06:32 PM] Dammitwho Anyway: Dubnoom! Dubnoom scuttles and scurries and lurks, summoning up the ancestral knowledge of his people. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:06:34 PM] Gul Banana sure, i've malmed strake from time to time --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:08:33 PM] Dammitwho He notices scuff tracks, regular, and thicker than you'd expect even for a part of the ship that was used for repair and such. Someone was coming up and down the orlops daily, perhaps even twice-daily, carrying somethng heavy. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:08:42 PM] CBN how many malms down is the orlop. is the grink there --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:08:51 PM] Dubnoom "The Wise" !!! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:09:08 PM] Nicolae the orlop is a real word. malm and fulm appear to be dwho originals. like not even pathfinder jargon --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:09:12 PM] Dammitwho He also finds a still-full flask of Andoran applejack. Worth about 3gp. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:09:30 PM] CBN 3gp closer to a big bed juuuust for him --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:09:35 PM] Dammitwho malm and fulm are ffxiv length terms, orlops and strakes are real parts of ships! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:10:13 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Lindal will offer the potion to Tak, since his alchemical practice doesn't seem to be health-focused. Not the improvement of health, anyway. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:10:19 PM] Dammitwho As our heroes continue to search, there's another long crrrrrreeeaaaaaaakkkk... and unbeknownst to them, something awakens. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:10:40 PM] Dammitwho Will they find out what? Will it find THEM? Will you find out what's going on? Find things... NEXT WEEK! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:10:41 PM] Crion i was going to make an ff9 joke but those are oglops --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:10:51 PM] Dammitwho doglops --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:10:54 PM] Crion gg! --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:11:00 PM] Prabesh Pranavikram Lindalsivranragdya Well, as long as it's unbeknownst. --------------------------- [8/21/2026, 9:11:23 PM] Dammitwho chears everyone, i'm looking forward to your discovery of the terrible secret of the Windfall and also some trezh perhaps