Admiral's Bane

*Admiral's Bane* is the title of the fifth episode of the second season of The Numen Swell and the seventeenth session of the entire game.

This session was played on July 1st, 2018

## Admiral's Bane

### Writer

Jonny Christie, Matt Christie, Matt Finger, Richie Maynard, Kyle Muller

## Plot

The party attempts to negotiate for their ships.

## Synopsis

Mikey witnesses Mwana get hit by the cannonball and follows its trajectory back to the Coral. He attempts to fire a cannon at the Naval ship but they don’t have ammo so he and Sahge run to the beach to help their companion out. Kifo is a cacophony of emotions, mainly confusion. Mwana is conscious and they talk briefly. They find a father-son peace as Mwana tells his father to tell \*someone\* he loves them and passes out. Mikey and Sahge arrive and Kifo is prepared to kill the Sahuagin but they agree now is a bad time and get Mwana to the Daronna Rose. Sonney has Cockrell in a rear-naked. Cockrell calls him a monkey so he pulls out his pistol and pops three shots into his kidney, killing the Admiral. He rolls the body off of him and bolts towards the beach, scooping up the talisman in the process. Kifo assumes he was supposed to give Mwana’s trinket to Rika but the whole crew look over to Sahge. It’s hilarious but short lived as Gregory spots Sonney running towards them with a battalion of Navy soldiers hot on his tail. They start to depart and Sonney jumps to the ship. He makes it, barely and they leave the port, somewhat successful but they couldn’t save everyone.

The crew is safe for now but without a captain, Kifo is the highest ranked member. He doesn’t want to be in charge but that’s when Janoo steps up and reveals that he is actually Jarrod “Fancy” Anansi, the fifth pirate lord. He takes command and plans to meet with Sirene at Diqiu port to get his ship and men. Sonney then attempts to tell them that he killed the admiral but is interrupted for like, half an hour. When he finally can tell them they all come to the conclusion that the man that almost killed Mwana is the new Admiral, Mint. Sonney and Kifo want to save Tecnic and Black Scalp respectively but decide rather than split up again, get there ships back first. Mikey asks about Meshi but no one has any answers, He goes over to Caius, Laha, and Rao and gets aggressive. They apologize to him and abandon ship, having no captain, no friends, only the ocean. Sahge doesn’t take the news of his brother’s death lightly but Mikey takes it much worse. The group then get back on track and see if they can find any more allies but Sonney is 100% against retuning to Abasho’Kobezi. He then berates Mikey for taking his “crew” there but Rika points out that the only reason they went in the first place is because he was chasing them. Tension. They all part ways for now. Kifo and Sahge grab rocks from the ocean floor to create cannonballs while Rika goes to check on Mwana. She and Sonney have a conversation in Hadozee about how she doesn’t trust him since he was navy but Kifo returns and interrupts them. He apologizes to his unconscious son and asks Rika why she would blindly follow a fourteen-year-old boy.  She mentions that she is a scholar and if what she’s studying is true, there is a lot more to Mikalis.

Kifo and Sonney sit Mikey down and the three catch each other up on their journeys to this point. When they got to Sonney’s involvement with the Navy, Rika skeptically asks questions, still not convinced he’s on their side. Sonney says something awfully rude to her and Mikey and an argument ensues. The A Mural’s Bone crew leave. Kifo puts together that “Sonney” sounds a lot like “Meshi” and “Sahge” but Sonney shuts that shit down. Really there’s just a bunch of conversations while they’re on there way to Diqiu. They arrive and spot ships being transported inland. They decide to send a small land party consisting of Sonney, Kifo, Sahge, Mikey, and Fancy. Sirene appears and Kifo has fifty Darfellan distract the beach officers while they sneak past. The land party sneak onto one of the ships being transported and wait.

Mwana remains on the ship but is recovering. He realizes his shark tooth is gone and pieces together that he proposed to Sahge. Rika mentions that he didn’t ignore the gesture but she’s pretty sure he doesn’t get it either. They talk briefly about Mikey and what he could mean to the Swell. The land party are waiting on the ship and Mikey hears soldiers coming so they all hide in barrels, which Mikey refuses to until the last second. He’s not comfortable. Kifo decides to then attack the search party. The rest help and they all get dressed in the Naval gear to be even sneakier. The only one that does not is Sahge, who they use as a “prisoner” to bring to Mint. This works in their favor because Mint doesn’t know that not only did Sonney defect back to piracy, but he killed the Admiral also. While they are on their way they run into Lieutenant Nigel. Sonney takes him to the side and knocks the moustache out of his soul. He hides the unconscious man and they continue on towards Mint.

## Cast

### Main

* Sonney Griffin-Thorne
* Kifo Pomboo
* Mikey
* Quincy Mint
* Mwana Pomboo
* Sahge Montgomery

### Supporting

* Mshi Rika
* Nigel
* Garland
* Ross Grimm
* Gregory
* Vic Hawklight
* Ulysses Cockrell
* Jarrod "Fancy" Anansi
* Sirene

### Guest

* Caius
* Laha
* Rao

## Trivia

* Cockrell was originally intended to be the big bad of the season but due to being killed this session, the honor has shifted to Quincy Mint.
* Sonney gained so much experience from the Admiral that he would have gained 10 full levels in game. Instead, Christie decided to split the xp between the players and major NPCs, taking a little extra for his effort.
* This session reveals that "Mikey" is short for Mikalis.