Session 95 "Captain Gram"

Session 95: Captain Gram

As Muffy confirmed for the undead drummer to take you to Mytros, the undead spirits started rowing and The Ultros started moving. Gram and Rhys who were in the captain’s quarters with an undead spirit coming at them for being assassins, Dorn and Rensig who were with Muffy in the rowing hall, and Bucky who was inspecting the book and coins she had found in the locked chest, all disappeared in blinding light and found themselves a part of a waking dream. Under a magenta sky sailing on a grey sea, Bucky, Dorn, Gram, and Rhys found themselves dressed in officers clothes while Rensig appeared in the robes of a wizard, and remembered that the last time he had dressed like this he had gone by the name Damon.

A man stood at the front of the boat, one that all immediately knew was the captain, one of the former Dragon Lords: Estor Arklander. He summoned Bucky, Dorn, Gram, and Rhys forward and asked them to swear an oath to The Ultros. Gram and Rhys did so, Bucky and Dorn sort of pretended to. Once the oath was sworn, The Captain said he was looking for a successor, a new person to captain the boat, and that it would be one of the gathered four who he referred to as his Thanes. Three targets, three traitors first needed to be eliminated, and to prove your worth he asked that you eliminate them, starting with a dwarf who was at the steering wheel.

While unsure of how to proceed, a fight did break out, some more reluctant than others to join in the fight. Rensig stood back trying to remember who he had been, and then eventually remembered that Estor was the cruelest of the Dragon Lords. Rensig realized that this was some sort of waking dream, controlled by the ghost of Estor, now a powerful undead spirit. Dorn ran below deck, trying to get a sense of what else was happening on the ship, and Bucky tried to talk to the dwarf, however taking her advances as a threat, he attacked. Gram joined in and Rhys used his comb to become unseen by undead. Dorn found his way to the captain’s quarters, turning invisible as he snuck down below deck. Though invisible, his rooting through the drawers alerted the spirit that had wanted to attack Gram and Rhys to his presence. The spirit summoned an animated sword and armor to aid him, and though he couldn’t see Dorn, Dorn could see him. In a horrifying gesture the ghost ripped off it’s face terrifying poor Dorn and in the process aging him 40 years!

Dorn fled and the ghost pursued, eventually possessing him. The  ghost dwarf and possessed Dorn, along with the animated sword and armor joined in battle against the remaining four, however Gram, Rhys, Bucky, and Rensig Eventually took the upper hand. Eventually only possessed Dorn remained as he engaged in high flying battle against Gram in the ship’s rigging. Gram finally banished Dorn and you went looking for the third ghost in the officer’s quarters. Finding him and other restless spirits, you made quick work of them, but not before seeing an unusual transformation in Rensig, as all manner of mundane objects began to pour out of his sleeves and pant legs, his collar: clocks, spoons, quills, belt buckles, chamber pots, socks, of course flutes, and many many other objects. He started glowing with light and floating, and then just as suddenly it stopped, only deepening the mystery surrounding Rensig’s past.

Possessed Dorn eventually returned and together you defeated him, freeing Dorn and dispatching the Ghost that had taken him over. As Dorn rested, the rest of you went to the Captain’s Quarters and there, Estor Arklander offered a deal. Power beyond anything you could imagine, the new captain of the Ultros. Rhys volunteered Gram and Gram accepted, and instantly Estor was gone and the glowing green of Estor’s eyes now appeared in Gram’s.