WIL Episode 4: A Queen Sacrifice

## A Queen Sacrifice

* Hamlet needs another after discovering that the ship is Necromancy magic (2:08:57)
* Anya pushes more after discovery of the ship (2:19:05)

### Walks From the Table

* Myles hearing info on the Order (3:59:36)
* Liv hearing about Anya’s ability (4:01:35)
* Liv after Evelyn shoots Miss Fortune 4x (4:05:55)

### Dramatic Zoom In’s

* Myles hearing what happened to Tealo (3:53:53)
* Myles hearing what happened to the pier (4:18:10)

## Scenes

* The evening of Jan 18th, the crew assemble in the Captain’s quarters in order to plan for the coming day
	+ The crew deliberate on ploys of legal trickery, subterfuge, and battle
	+ Hamlet suggests another port, though the only other port they could go to, Wellspring, is a deeply religious commune that could prove more dangerous than Abnos
	+ The Captain decides it might be advantageous to have some of the crew secretly in dinghies and have them surround the port before negotiations
	+ Hamlet and Evelyn argue the ethics of “Kill or be killed”
	+ Tealo requests to leave on one of the dinghies. He doesn’t want more enemies than he already has made.
	+ Atten talks of how Miss Fortune can make it between Faulton and Omna in a flat two weeks consistently in a subsurface armored ship accompanied by 3 others
	+ Tealo informs the Captain that the ship is covered in Necromantic magic. Hamlet becomes very uncomfortable touching anything in the ship, including the chair they are sitting in.
	+ Pit finishes ritually casting the “Identify” spell on the ship and finds out it can speak with someone who has a particular item.
	+ Eveyln, realizing it is her necklace, holds it and speaks with the soul in the ship; it asks Evelyn to help it find who she was in her life
	+ Hamlet excuses themself to go and pray in privacy. Thane shows them a vision of Evelyn signing a contract with Miss Fortune to become employed by Fortune Ships Trading Company
	+ Hamlet returns and posits that Evelyn join Fortune Ships Trading Company, sign the contract, and then work from the inside
	+ They deliberate the possibility of magical contracts and what tricks could occur
	+ They draw up a preliminary contract
	+ Tealo gives a goodbye to the crew to end the meeting
	+ Pit uses his compass for himself, he sees 5 dots come close together and then part, a skull and crossbones takes over the image
* The next morning, Evelyn goes to the bow in the fog; she speaks with the soul of The Moon Wisp
* Tealo departs and gives his final goodbye to Evelyn; he disguises himself
* The ship arrive to port
	+ Hamlet, Ophelia, Evelyn, and Pit confront Miss Fortune
	+ Anya joins Triss Darkenwell and the dinghy members
	+ Miss Fortune offers to employ Evelyn as a security force for Fortune Ships Trading Company in order to rid the world of other pirates
	+ Pit casts “Detect Magic” on the contract while Hamlet misdirects Miss Fortune’s attention by insisting she is trustworthy and that they trust her.
	+ Pit sees no magic in the contract, but he sees three points on Miss Fortune that radiate Chronurgy: on her two pistols and one bullet
	+ Miss Fortune snaps and 6 metallic spider legs from the Subterfuge latch onto *The Moon Wisp*
	+ Evelyn asks for more time to contemplate the contract, Miss Fortune sends her back to her ship to come back at sundown
* Tealo goes searching for answers about the Order of Lumis
	+ He sneaks around the arches and watches the crew return to the ship
	+ He asks a man at a local market about the Order of Lumis and is surprised to find it isn’t at all secretive and they do everything in their power to find information
	+ He is led to a local chapter of the Order, adorned with a symbol of two hands and a book (the book is the same symbol on his sword’s hilt)
	+ He steps into an alley and drops “Disguise Self”
* The crew argues what the next play in negotiations ought to be
	+ Hamlet bemoans the hesitation in signing
	+ Pit informs the others on the chronurgetic weapons
	+ Atten insists they strike first
	+ Hamlet insists that “sometimes to win the game you must sacrifice the queen”
	+ Atten suggests that Miss Fortune is mostly afraid of and ought to destroy the Bloodweaver
	+ Hamlet finally persuades the captain to “sacrifice a queen today for more tomorrow”
* Tealo reveals everything to the people in the outpost. He presents the sword.
	+ They reveal that the sword was not forged by his master, but by the order’s name sake: the Light Bringer.
	+ Tealo is incapacitated by the order members
	+ Anya followed Tealo when he departed and watches him taken away in a burst of light
	+ Anya investigates and finds that the Order’s main temple is in the capital: Nagura, Omna
	+ She finds notes about a “tabaxi has betrayed the order and the object must be retrieved at all costs”; it was sent three weeks ago
	+ She uses “Detect Portal” and discovers the portal they went through that is made of divine energies (by a god)
	+ She goes through in order to find Tealo
* The crew confronts Miss Fortune again as the sun sets
	+ Evelyn, before signing, shoots at Miss Fortune
	+ Miss Fortune tries to shoot both Pit and Evelyn, the latter with a time-bullet that instead creates a black hole near the pier and causes it to be erased from time itself
	+ A catatonic Hamlet is overtaken by Thane’s thrall, causing them to look like their father, and strikes a nearby guard
	+ Miss Fortune is forced to retreat
	+ Triss Darkenwell follows her and is injured in the town square
	+ Evelyn goes to help Triss Darkenwell, gets her stable and begs Hamlet to help heal her before it is to late
	+ Hamlet heals Triss Darkenwell and says “Some queens we cannot sacrifice, captain.”