"Dave"

"Dave" is a mysterious and potentially criminal client of Shipton, who hired the company to deliver 200 lbs of copper ingots to the kombucha bar The Sea Slug, located in the town of Beedle on Brinetania. He did not give a last name for the job, and gave off a vague vibe of menace.

Upon completion of the job, he was in the company of another mysterious and vaguely shady unnamed elfish man, whose head was entirely shrouded in a cloud of smoke from some substance he was smoking. It smelled a bit chemical.

Brisbane left a calling "rock" with him for potential side jobs that had her mailing address on it.

"Dave" (who was not the same "Dave" as above, but rather his tall, smokey friend) was next encountered by the party consisting of Sorine, Bo, Dave (T. Barbarian), Gwanlen, and Leopold. His ship, the 420Blazeit, is sailed by a crew of zombies that "Dave" raises every six months. While initially worried, "Dave" showed the party that the zombies were no threat so long as he was there.

Originally there to deliver carving pumpkins to elementary school children in Haverston, the party agreed to "Dave"'s proposition to instead deliver the pumpkins, full of a drug nicknamed "rocks", to a goatherd named "Jimmy", a longtime associate of "Dave"'s (though they had never met in person). In exchange for their service, "Dave" paid the party double their rate and magically altered the contract to be for "JImmy". Naturally he asked the party to keep it quiet from Shipton, and the party agreed, though Bo did insist that the party chip in for pumpkins for the kids when they arrived on the island.

After the drugs and pumpkins (referred to as goat food by the party while on mission) were successfully delivered and the party went back on the ship, they were attacked by a mysterious smooth-tentacled monster that remained underwater. The ship was surrounded by disgusting smelling seaweed that hindered the ship's speed, and a voice inside the party's heads said, "Welcome."

"Dave", who had been summoned by the party to the deck when they discovered the seaweed, ushered the party into his office and then teleported the group (save Gwanlen, who had been asleep the whole mission in the storage room) back to Shipton safely, though he said he'd need a few days to recover from the feat.

He let the party know that any future jobs would hold the same perks as this one, if they wanted to join up in the future so long as they kept it from Shipton.

## "Final" mission and "death"

The party (Bo, Dave, Brisbane, Plenet, and Sorine) met "Dave" on a much smaller ship manned by one zombie, but still as large on the inside as it was on the previous ship. Inside they found "Dave" who looked to have aged a great deal, though his face was still blurry. He explained that he was not in good shape and needed the party to help him with 2 additional assignments, one mandatory and one optional.

The first would pay as much as the official Shipton job, and would involve digging up an unbreakable urn in the yard of someone named Cinay Izha and placing an orb (supplied by "Dave"), and then to hide it somewhere on the island where no one can find it. Plenet was the only one with qualms about this, worrying that the party would have no idea what it would do to the island, but went along with it. The second was to murder Cinay Izha, which "Dave" said was optional, and would pay out 10 gold per person. He trusted them to do it without needing proof.

The party found the urn and were able to dig it up, and even located a cave to hide it in outside of town. However as soon as they inserted the orb, it vanished. Sorine mimed hiding it anyway and then used a spell to seal the cave with a cave in. From there, the party was split on killing Cinay, who seemed to be nothing more than an ordinary librarian.

Bo even went so far as to put both Brisbane and Sorine into a magical sleep to stop them, forgetting that sleep only lasts 1 minute. Brisbane and Sorine went their own way to plot Cinay's murder, and Bo, Dave and Plenet returned to the ship, only to find the zombie had collapsed and "Dave" was dead.

Bo, Dave, and Plenet found no gold or anything else of interest of value on the ship, and waited for Sorine and Brisbane to return. However, both Brisbane and Sorine were caught in their attempt to murder Cinay (though to the authorities it just looked like burglary) and were banned from Beedle for life. They also had their gold and bag of holding taken from them, which was a blow to the entire party as "Dave" had entrusted his gold (and the party's payment) to Brisbane.

The party was able to get a ride back to Shipton on another ship, wondering what "Dave" had meant when he mentioned that he would one day return. Meanwhile, Brisbane's face was now slightly blurry....

## The Return

On a recent mission to Beedle, "Dave" found Margie, Lime, Lopold, and Gasp. Seemingly alive, and only about 20 years old, his face was unblurred save for one spot on his forehead. He had a short conversation with Margie, asking for news on any people they'd encountered with blurred faces like his, and about Brisbane's whereabouts.

When Margie revealed that Brisbane had been killed by spider creatures in the Undercity, he seemed upset and annoyed, as if it was a hindrance on some grand plan of his. (It probably is.) Margie then requested if he could restore Gasp back to life (Gasp was dead at the time) he answered that as a wizard he can't heal or bring anyone back to life but himself.

Then cryptically, he said he had to go kill some spiders, and vanished.