The Twenty-Third Session

After successfully re-boarding The Dragon's Wing, the Sentinels were checked out by Mira before relaxing on the ship. Shag folded out a deck chair that he claimed to have always carried with him, Yief did curls with diaries that he took from the loot cache that Karen Fillipelli and Dr. Hidé were organizing, Aoth trained with Rainn, and Halrek played pranks on Toby. Aoth then found Yief, who was crying over the sad broken heart story of the diary he was reading, which prompted Aoth to take him to the bar and begin drinking. Shag began a drink off with a dwarf sailor named Todd Packard, which went on for a while and encapsulated most of the crew. Aoth went on deck, followed by Halrek being sneaky, and was met by Vissella who got into a heart-to-heart with him about both of them finding a home in a place that seems farfetched from their true homes. They then went to Vissella's cabin, where Halrek left a note that just read, "nice." Shag won the drink-off with Todd, and Todd passed out drunk. Shag went to his room to sleep, as well as Halrek. Yief stayed and read the story of the diaries to the passed out Todd, before passing out himself.

In the morning, they were all awakened by Hap, who had found that a crewman named Fredward had been strangled in his sleep. A crewman named Edwick suggested that perhaps there was an impostor among Vissella or the Sentinels, as there had been no issues for the whole voyage down the Vilhon Reach and back, but a murder within one night of everyone returning. Toby responded that no one could fake Vissella's beauty, prompting her and Prison Mike to say "Ughhhhhh, shut the fuck up you SIMPPPPPPPP" Rainn said the impostor could be anyone, and discourse began.

The group checked out the body, and Aoth cast Speak With The Dead. They discovered from questioning him that he owed money to a number of people, wanted them to lick his taint, and didn't think anyone on the ship would have killed him. It was dark when he was murdered, but he knew it was someone bald with spikes on their head, like an albino Darth Maul. He said the least likely person on board to kill him would be Kevin, who typically just did his tasks and ate chili, though he had a good relationship with everyone on board.

Immediately, they all took turns interrogating and intimidating Toby, to the point of him peeing himself, prompting a punch to the nose from Vissella, who yelled "CLEAN THAT UP" and to the point of him questioning his sanity as he wasn't sure if he killed Fredward or not, and had been asked by multiple people to confess to it.

They then gathered everyone in the kitchen, pushing tables together so Aoth and Vissella could jump up on them, much to the dismay of Mose the sous chef, who would have to clean the tables afterward. He and Vissella were cleared since Halrek knew they had gone to be otherwise occupied, which was pirate for having sex. Aoth cast realm of truth, and determined Shag was innocent. Shag then cast a second realm of truth spell to make it twice as hard for people to successfully resist it. They questioned everyone in the crew, gaining clues to piece together the order of operations for the night.

Vissella - slept in her quarters with Aoth

Eremir Ashfall - on the deck with David Wallace, taking shifts to steer

Hap Jimpert - helped Holly organize the war room, then had the morning rounds

Toby - swabbed the middle level of the ship, then went to bed

Pa’koha - cooking, then left Mose to clean up for the night and went to smoke some widestem leaf on the deck before going to bed

Rainn Wilson - “I was training with Prison Mike, then helped Dave smith some new weapons, and then I went to my room to...read” - was actually fucking Angela

Dave - running the shop and then smithed some new weapons with Rainn before going to bed next to his smithy “I thought I saw Angela down here”

Mira Jimpert - tended to the Sentinels, then cleaned her station, then put away all the linens that Erin brought her

Edwick - watched the drink-off, then went to sleep in his chambers

Stanley - watched the drink-off, then took an orange juice nap

Oscar - was checking the ties for the sails, then made rounds of the deck before bed

Meredith - was drunk at the bar pre-gaming with Todd Packard, watched the drink-off, blacked out and had to be carried back to her room by Mose

Kevin - was eating at the bar and watched the drink-off, then took a chili nap

Phyllis - was swabbing the deck, then wrote a letter to her husband Bob Vance, who owns a business selling ice to people, which she sent via messenger hawk

Andy - was trying to flirt with Angela in the kitchen during the drink-off, then tried to flirt with Erin who was folding linens, then tried to tell Gabe facts about the sun, then went to his room to practice the banjo

Ryan - watched the drink-off with Kelly, said they'd meet up after, hid in his room to avoid Prison Mike and waited for Kelly, who never showed up

David Wallace - was steering the ship on shifts with Eremir

Karen Fillipelli - was taking inventory of the loot and weapons while Dr. Hidé sorted

Angela - “I was alone in my room” - was actually fucking Rainn

Erin - folded linens to bring to Mira, then made rounds of the middle and lower ship levels, avoided Toby, then went to bed

Kelly - watched the drink-off with Ryan, went back to her room to prepare to go to Ryan's room, but got too drunk and fell asleep

Gabe - made sure all the cannons are ready to go in case of random battle, told Andy to shut up about the sun, then went to bed but could hear Andy practicing the banjo badly, so he went and made rounds of the deck and lower deck, saw Ryan walking back to his room

Mose - sous chef for Pa’koha, carried Meredith back to her room then cleaned up the kitchen for the night and went to bed

Todd Packer - pre-gamed with Meredith, lost a drink-off to Shag, passed out on the dining area floor

Prison Mike - trained with Rainn, then went to find Ryan so they could have bro time, couldn’t find him and went to bed

Holly - straightened up the war room with Hap

Dr. Hidé - helped Karen sort loot, reminisced about his medical career

Five crew members resisted the spells, but told their stories in ways that made sense. They held those five in the room, plus Toby cuz fuck Toby, and let everyone else go aside from Pa'koha, who began food prep for the day. After a few more attempts to figure out which one it was, they revisited the clues and found out that Gabe, Prison Mike, and Andy's stories all involved each other at some point during the night that didn't all line up with Ryan's timeline. Shag used an eldritch spell to hentai grope Ryan, throwing him off guard, and dropped the spell just as Halrek blinked behind him. Just as they thought they subdued the murderer, he blinked away, followed by a large series of small explosions that rocked the ship.