Outpost Santa Barbara: Episode 04

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==Recap==
===Day 33 (continued)===
Midday at Santa Barbara Fort. The party have woken from being knocked out during their battle with the Gargoyle. The survivors have found out that Daehkcarc has passed away. Captain Po Tato is full of sadness, and regret that he never tested the crack rock Daehkcarc had given him in the crack pipe. Kanon D. B'aal remembers Daehkcarc's sacrifice and is filled with sadness but tries to stay stoic.
Father Tuck comes over to the Santa Barbara Council and asks them about what funeral they desire for Daehkcarc. The Cleric of Illumis offers a burial blessed under continual light of his god. The Council decide that that Daehkcarc would prefer to be cremated and have his friends inhale him with a crack pipe.
The funeral pyre for Daehkcarc is started. Before Daehkcarc is place upon the pyre, the process is interrupted with the sight of the The Condor heading back towards Santa Barbara. Kanon insists that Captain Kel Bridget Longboard and Rachel the Wizard both be brought in for questioning since they were the ones to deliver the gargoyle. Governor Daffodil orders Captain Po Tato to take all the men he needs to seize the two of them. Captain Po Tato, Sergeant David, and some guards head to the docks, with an hour to spare before The Condor pulls into the harbor.
The gangplank of The Condor lowers and two sailors begin to carry a body off the ship. When questioned, the sailors insist the body is alive and they just found her. Po Tato looks at the unconscious person and sees an attractive half-orc woman. Po Tato orders two of his own guards to carry the half-orc up to the keep so Governor Daffodil can determine her fate, and insists the sailors stay on The Condor.
Kel Bridget Longboard then walks up to the gangplank and demands what is going on. Po Tato explains about the gargoyle coming to life. Kel Longboard denies all knowledge of any statue delivery, and keeps calling Po Tato a Sergeant. Kel Longboard walks up to Po Tato and intimates him into ordering his guards to stand down, as she is close friends with Governor Daffodil. Po Tato says that the Governor will be able to clear up this confusion. Kel Bridget Longboard marches off to the keep, leaving Po Tato and David behind, doing nothing to stop her. David and Po Tato decide however not to let anyone else leave the ship.
Kel Longboard arrives at the keep along with the unconscious orc. The Captain walks up to Governor Daffodil and demands why she was treated so poorly at the docks by "Sergeant" Po Tato. Governor Daffodil claims that Po Tato is a hothead and acted on his own and officially apologies to Kel Longboard. Kel Longboard accepts the apology and explains the two pieces of news she gathered. 
The first news is that today's attempt to go past the point to the west of Santa Barbara was again turned back by strong winds. 
The second news is when sailing past Santa Cruz Island, The Condor came across a beach with dozens of corpses and one survivor, the unconscious half orc. 
Governor Daffodil politely brings up the matter of the gargoyle, and asks if her crew delivered the statue. Kel Longboard again denies it. Kanon D. B'aal doesn't believe Kel Longboard. Kel Longboard however points out that any gift would be done in public and not a secret act during the night. Governor Daffodil smooths things over, and asks if Rachael the Wizard could come help with the investigation into the gargoyle. Kel Longboard leaves to get Rachael.
Governor Daffodil gets a guard to fetch Po Tato and gives him custody of the unconscious half-orc, who is to be tied up, then gets Po Tato to take her to the chapel where Father Tuck tends to her wounds. Soon the half walk wakes up. Po Tato tells Father Tuck to hit the tied-up Half-Orc with his staff if she causes trouble.
The half-orc is named Lili. Lili remembers being on a ship and everyone else around her dying. She claims to have no knowledge of Santa Barbara. She is from a small Orc village that treated her terribly, so she escaped on a ship bound for anywhere else, because she is quirky and not like other-orcs, not like other-girls, not like other-orc-girls. Father Tuck asks if Lili eats people and Lili replies insulted about this idea, she claims not to like violence and is an artist and is quirky. Po Tato goes to walk near Lili, but Lili ends up spitting on him for telling Father Tuck to hit her with the staff. Po Tato again asks if Lili eats people, and gets spat on again. Lili asks to be untied, but Captain Po Tato he can't. Father Tuck offers to go get permission to untie her from the Governor, but Po Tato is scared to be alone with the tied up unarmed prisoner. Father Tuck casts thaumaturgy to make his voice booming and to flicker the candles in the room and tells Lili to behave, then he walks out of the chapel, ignoring the afraid Captain of the Guard.
Rachel meets with Kanon, and Kanon asks about the statue, and Rachel also denies all knowledge of it. Rachel claims that The Condor left before dawn and no one had time to deliver a statue, and the doors to the fort are kept closed at night. Rachel reports that she tried to use her crystal ball on a location beyond the headland they are trying to pass and it malfunctions and doesn't reveal anything, something that has never happened before.
Governor Daffodil talks with Kel Longboard in private. Governor Daffodil casts Suggestion to convince Kel Longboard to wait a day in town tomorrow so they can conduct the investigation. Kel Longboard will question her people and inspect her cargo fully. 
The whole Santa Barbara Council then goes to meet Lili. Lili asks to be untied again. Governor Daffodil is racist against Orcs and immediately brings up the supposed Orc tendency for violence, Lili ends up just spitting on the Governor. Governor Daffodil is about to order Lili to be knocked out when Kanon intervenes and calms things down. Lili explains her backstory again, about leaving her orcish village, taking a ship, then everyone else dying. Kanon ends up vouching for Lili, so Governor Daffodil orders her untied.
At sunset the funeral for Daehkcarc now takes place. The Council then smoke Daehkcarc's ashes in the crack pipe.
Governor Daffodil offers the Lili to sleep in the stables. Lili ends up sleeping outside instead, but Kanon gives her some blankets.
During the night Lili stands outside Governor Daffodil's quarters and breaths loudly for over 2 hours. This wakes up Governor Daffodil and he freaks out, puts a bookcase in front against his door, and stays away the rest of the night. Lili then goes into the chapel and finds it is very modest, one nice carpet before the alter to Illumis, two silver candelabras, and a basin of holy water. Lili then goes back to sleep outside.
===Day 34===
Over breakfast Kel Longboard tells Governor Daffodil quietly that she found Lili weapons near her when they found her on the island. The weapons are currently on The Condor, and Governor Daffodil asks for them to be delivered to the Santa Barbara Fort. 
Kanon heads to town and speaks with the harbormaster, Ramona, to find out if a statue was in the inventory of The Condor. In the end there are no records of any statues being removed from The Condor according to Ramona's records. Kanon reports in this news to the town council.
Governor Daffodil asks Captain Po Tato question some people in the fort about what they saw when the gargoyle appeared. Father Tuck says he saw the statue at the first light of dawn on Day 33. The Chef says he was awake in the middle of the night going to relive himself and came back, and he didn't see the statue during that time (but he did leave the fort unlocked while outside the fort). One of the servants was up a little before dawn and they saw the statue there already.
The party wonder how the gargoyle inside the keep, and think if the gargoyle climbed inside it would have made a lot of noise. Kanon speaks with Rachel about the gargoyle and she suggests the gargoyle was summoned or just came here from The Elemental Planes like the other elementals who have attacked. Kanon casts Detect Thoughts and finds that this is all news to Rachel and she had no prior knowledge.
Kel Longboard returns to the fort and tells the Council that she questioned her crew and none know about the gargoyle and none of them claims know anything. The watchman on duty says no one left the ship overnight.
The party decide to rest for the next week.
===Days 35-41===
During the week of downtime, Lili trains with Sergeant David. 
Governor Daffodil, while in the Sandshark Tavern, he overhears some muckers say that the Goleta Slough to the north-east of town is now deeper without explanations.
Kanon sees large dark storm clouds on the horizon beyond the Santa Ynez Mountains that do not approach Santa Barbara. There is no sign of lightning or thunder.
Captain Po Tato visits the Bitumen Mine south of town and sees new damage. The miners dismissed the damage is due to human error, but Po Tato sees signs it was caused by an elemental that dug itself out of the ground beneath the toppled shed.
Each day, The Condor sets out to try to get around the point to the west, each time they are pushed back by strong unnatural winds.
First Ranger Amber returns to down and announces a path has been cleared to the Avocado Jungle to the north.
===Day 42===
With their long rest concluded, the party go investigate the Bitumen Mine situation. The foreman says he thinks the damage was just caused from some improperly stored lumber. Kanon casts Detect Magic and finds nothing up on the surface.
Lili heads first into the mines with Kanon following after and the rest of the party. Inside the new area of the mine Kanon casts detect magic and finds faint magic around them. Governor Daffodil gets a pickaxe and orders Lili to mine out the nearby wall. Lili breaks though the wall into the outside, reaching the lagoon south of town. Kanon casts detect magic again and kinds more residue like something moved between the lagoon and the mine.
Governor Daffodil cast Minor Illusion, and using his acting, mimics the sound of Air and Water Elementals, which causes a response from deeper in the mine. Eventually a Earth Elemental emerges and attacks the party. The party fight off the elemental and it retreats into the wall and ambushes them from another direction. The party fight off the Elemental and eventually defeat it.
Kanon cast Detect Magic and finds a stone that radiates magic, so he takes it. Lili eats the rocks of the earth elemental to try to get it's power.
The party get back to the surface. Governor Daffodil talks with the miners who didn't come help, and demotes the Foreman and promotes Deborah to the new Foreman.
The party go back to fort to rest. That evening The Condor doesn't return. Governor Daffodil orders Ranger Amber and her people to go investigate what happened to The Condor tomorrow morning. 
==Experience==
590 exp each + exp for last week (720)
* Kanon D. B'aal levels to level 4
** Max HP from 15 to 19
** +2 Int (18)
* Captain Po Tato levels to level 4
** Max HP from 23 to 32 (36 after Con boost)
** +1 Dex (16), +1 Con (16)
* Governor Daffodil levels to level 4
** Max HP from 22 to 30
** Undecided on what upgrade to take
Category:Outpost Santa Barbara Episodes