The Gangsters Campaign/Session 15

As we sail away from the carnage, we consider our two Pontooner captives:
*More experienced guy is a transplant: highly ranked, but no tattoos, just the clothes & fancy gun. He didn’t come up thru Pontooners
*The other one is out
*Griphook starts questioning the conscious one
**With alcohol, charm & wiles!
*Dude has a medallion in his throat – a “gift” 
**His major arteries seem to be threaded through it, and he can probably manipulate it to draw some blood with certain arrangements of voice
*“Give me the beginner’s guide to your cult”
**Wants his hands free… no thanks
***Has some occult power; unclear whether his own or ability to activate effects in other people
***Probably more manipulative than magical – Griphook reads him as a charlatan
**“Hieranthotat is a promise” .. basically, follow him now and when he’s a god he’ll reward you
**Griphook still knows wtf is going on and realizes this guy is middle management. Doesn’t understand the rituals, etc.
***“We are collecting the pieces of Hieranthotat”
**Griphook continues to be fucking brilliant and convinces the guy he’s also a secret agent of the cult and wants to help
***The cadavers were being used to contemplate – oracles / communicators with Hieranthotat; help by communing with the spirits of the dead (mass ritual suicides of the cultists thousands of years ago before Adalnarites overtook them), who can share all kinds of info about where the medallions are
**Criss interrogates the guy about medallions
***What’s your name? 
***You don’t need to know that right now. 
***OK, I’m going to call you Criss. You look like a Criss. 
*Unconscious guy has cancerous growths on his neck and a medallion in his head
**They use these to communicate more quickly (doesn’t require human language)
**Icheb doesn’t remember what Hieranthotat asked him to do, just that it was so terrible he cut it out of his head
**Icheb thinks that the pain is a necessary part of psychologically recovering from the culty influence, so he tells Vec to wake the guy up
**Vec will do the physical surgery and Icheb is the spiritual guide (how reassuring)
***Don’t worry, your soul is safe on the SS Innocence
*Go directly to the altar or talk to some corpses first? 
**Griphook suggested it to Guy (who thinks he’s a cultist), or maybe Guy suggested it.. Anyway, supposedly the corpses can guide us to another cache. 
**Jerry and Vec vote altar, everyone else leans corpses.. To the corpses we go!
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