Episode 8: Islands in the Stream / I Would Do Anything for Love

## Episode Summary

Battered but victorious, the party recovers from their latest battle. **Barra** feels down because his poker buddy died so **Yrsa** goes over to comfort him. The ship's surgeon, **Afena**, looks after the injured crew.

**Kaman** and **Kie** go over to **Barra** asking him to go to **Yrsa's** room. As they all squish into the tiny room, **Yrsa** tells **Barra** that "it's not your fault" before telling a story about her pet dog named **Snoflur**. **Snoflur** and **Yrsa** were attacked by a monster. **Snoflur** knew he didn't stand a chance but still attacked it. With Yrsa and Snoflur's joint attacks they slayed the monster but **Snoflur** died from injuries. As **Yrsa** relates her story, she pulls out her necklace with Snoflur's fang. "The only thing we can do is live on, fight on, remember them". **Barra** thanks **Yrsa** and says he'll go check to see if there is any teeth on the dead crew member to remember him by. "Don't pull out his teeth!" cries **Yrsa.** **Yrsa** suggests to **Barra** that he should write a song to honor the memory of the fallen sailor instead. "**Barra** you did the right thing" says **Kaman**. "No I'm suppose to be a hero! People are suppose to sing songs about me. I'm not suppose to send people to there deaths! This is bullshit! Piece of shit!" wails **Barra**. **Kaman** says that they are soldiers but **Barra** says that the crew are just sailors on a merchant ship. **Kaman** tells **Barra** that he just wants to help because they are friends and offers to share his room since **Barra** is now sleeping at the crew area on a hammock. **Barra** agrees to move in and **Kaman** helps him pack. **Kie** asks if they should help to give the dead crew member a proper send off. **Yrsa** replies that the sailors know what to do and that cheering up people is Barra's department.

**Yrsa** apologizes to **Kie** for not getting to her fast enough when she saw that she was hurt earlier. **Kie** says that **Barra** and **Afena** helped her. **Yrsa** mentions that her biggest fear is losing someone she cares about. The crew moves the dead bodies on the deck. **Kaman** asks what he can do to help, he learns Ourobos was the name of the sailor that died. **Barra** comes back on deck with newly dyed hair unhinged and seemingly drunk. He starts to sing and the party try to stop him because it's upsetting the crew. **Kie** helps clean up the deck while **Yrsa** looks over the bodies and talks to the crew. **Yrsa** says that the enemy mentioned a being called **Sagula** but the crew member says they don't know anything of it. **Bul'Dar** is a god prayed to in the north that's all they know. A crew member says they will give part of the loot they obtained to the victim's family and the split the rest. They do a burial at sea for the fallen. **Yrsa** goes to talk to Happy the minotaur while **Barra** casts sleep on himself. **Kie** cleans up the deck and goes up to the crow's net.

**Kaman** talks to **Yrsa** about the loot and casts detect magic. He finds that a few items do emit a glow. The coral staff gives of abjuration and evocation magic. **Kie** goes over to **Kaman** and **Yrsa** to help identify the staff. She says the staff would give the priest of **Sagula** more secret uses but it does have poisonous properties. They believe the staff is very valuable to the people of **Sagula** and remember that one Shark man got away. The party reflects and takes in the reality of their life but **Yrsa** just says it's part of the job that people die. After a minute, **Barra** wakes up and heads to the deck. He greets the crew with a bottle of alcohol. They drink in memory of Ourobos as the captain tells a story about Ourobos falling off the ship. When its time for **Barra** to speak, he sings a song. (parody of poker face 42:40)

The next day, **Barra** and **Kaman** find the shark bodies on deck attacked by worms. **Barra** borrows Kie's pan flute to see if the shark people could play it. **Kaman** talks to **Ellen** about Barra's theory that the Shark men can't play wind instruments and must have had help from others. **Barra** asks **Ellen** to cut open a Shark man for science reasons. **Ellen** reaches in to a Shark man and pulls out a gill pouch. **Ellen** hands **Kie** the pouch and she cuts into it. She finds a cluster of dark red pearls and 10g of **Intan**. **Kaman** casts detect magic and the pearls give off evocation magic that if they're swallowed, they can heal like health potions. The party asks the crew to toss the shark bodies into the sea. **Barra** goes over to **Afena,** holding a cloth rose. **Afena** accepts it and asks how is his feeling, Barra asks if they can talk about it over a dinner date but she declines because he is a "miner" (word play 'minor'). The party end the day feeling stronger in the afterglow of their battle.

The next day passes uneventful with a calm sea speeding up their journey. Our heroes take this time to prepare for what comes next. **Barra** goes to the Parrot captain and gives him a less appealing cloth rose as an apology for his earlier behavior. The Captain thanks **Barra** and says he could be a great leader some day, if he 'takes his head out of his ass'. After that, the Captain gives **Barra** a tricorne hat. A greater potion of flight was identified by **Kie**. As **Barra** is reading a storm passes over a the ship and fish jump on to the deck. **Barra** needs to try to use a fish to play a pipe. None of the fish can make the pipe play. (**Barra** book)

**Barra** makes a beautiful rose for **afena** who is currently a mess. **Afena** has had a nightmare about an other attack from the shark people. **Barra** can see that she still has the first rose he made her and asked if she has reconsidered the dinner invitation. **Afena** says maybe. **Barra** mobilizes the team and gives a 10 minute concert to help boost the team and a few crew members. **Kie** identifies a potion of haste. **Barra** does a lovely song (parody of baby shark). The ship is foggy as the team prepares for any battle. Both **Kaman** and **Barra** keep an eye open and hear something on starboard side. **Barra** hears a sound from below "i must" its **afena**! The team and crew rush to see if **afena** is over board. **Kaman** sees a huge head out in the sea before jumping in. "monster starboard!". The battle starts

**Barra** and **Kaman** get hit by forceful water from the monster. Then it disappears. The team feel some blessing as they start to retaliate. **Yrsa** rushes to **Kaman** asking what the plan is as she drinks half the flight potion. **Yrsa** flies 15 feet in the air going back for a tether to not lose the boat. **Kie** keeps a look out from top of crows nest. **Barra** tries to get rid of the fog right before jumping into the water. **Barra** also casts light on top of the water and commands **Kaman** to go. **Kaman** dashes into the water. As **Kaman** sees the monster he has a strange feeling he knows what it is but doesn't know why. **Kie** gets inspired by **Barra** from an under the sea song as she jumps into the sea from high up. With her limited sight **Kie** sees a big disturbance nearby. **Yrsa** yells "light up the deck!" but they already have. **Kaman** moves to the creature and hexed it before sending out eldritch blasts but doesn't affect his enemy. The creature sends out a wave but little to no effect then it moves deeper.

**Yrsa** pulls out her spear "where'd it go" She yells as **Yrsa** hovers over to **Barra** who points to where they think the creature went, **Yrsa** plunges down deep in her search. **Kie** shines a bright light from under the water as she goes deeper following her foe. **Barra** follows and cast hypnotic pattern but it did not stop the creature. **Barra** sacrifices some of his air to sing a song to regain some of his more powerful magical ability. **Kaman** swims to where the creature was but it seems the creature has escaped. Each party member alone and confused after resurfacing look for one another and their ship. **Kaman** yells for his team and **Barra** lights up his **Barra** signal. **Kaman** and **Yrsa** see **Barra** but **Kie** is struggling. **Kaman** guides the others to **Kies** light. **Yrsa** gets out of the water and flies to **Kie**. The party united they search for the boat. **Yrsa** tells **Kaman** to get on so they can get a better view. **Yrsa** and **Kaman** rise above the fog and using their navigating skills pinpoint where the ship most likely has gone. They go back making sure they don't lose the other members again. With the smaller members carrying the larger members the team head off to get to the boat.

While searching **Barra** sings a song. After a bit of time they see an island in the distance. They head to the island because **Yrsas** flying will end soon. It appears that something is on the other side of a hill. **Kie** flies up and looks around and finds a hut. The team find a mysterious woman named Agatha. Agatha offers them strangely meaty stew and tea but **Yrsa** looks for food herself for he team. Agatha offers **Barra** to help find the ship and **Afena**. **Barra** is aged about 9 years in exchange for the magic they seek. **Agatha** Tells **Barra** that Afena is happy and about to be wed to the king of coral. They both talk more and discuss the **Fey**. **Barra** believes that they are tricksters but **Agatha** says that's fake news. They form a pact.

After a long rest the team wake up to discover that the hut is gone and the boat has arrived. **Yrsa** believes that they hallucinated everything about last night. **Barra** and **Kaman** talk about **Afena** and the **King of coral. Kaman** gets a vision about the king. Th team make their way back onto the boat. **Barra** and **Kaman** go to **Afena's** room. **Kaman** looks for magic but this upsets the ship crew. Meanwhile **Yrsa** feels happy to be back as she jumps into her bed.

Next day land appears. **Kaman/Sandy** gets on his disguise. **Yrsa** becomes **Lenny, Kie** becomes **Malissa** and **Barra** becomes **Baron**. With papers in hand they head off to meet **Yafir Thamar** at the **Garrulous Ghir**. The team moves thought T**arima** heading to the central market by the **Seven Halls**. **Baron** asks for directions, the group gets scammed, and lenny goes shopping. They find the inn and meet Thamar briefly before being told to go talk to one of their other employees. The team walk to the servants area and meet erickson. erickson tells the group where and when to meet in the morning. Afterwards they head off to bed takeing a long rest and leveling up for the next part of their journey.