G9 - Harbor Showdown

Still at Limsa Lominsa, Aka Noone went to the Temple of All-God to check the effects of the Vampire's bite. Unfortunately, Abbot Albert was not present, he would return a 6pm to perform the night rites.

Having hit a dead end in the quest of finding the last remaining archer from the Cross Eyes, Jimmy Sprockets wanted to talk to Bug about his basilisk eggs. Bug had no interest in living things, but he knew a guy by the name of Quiver at Watertown that deals with exotic animals.

As the party left Bug's place, Jimmy noticed that they were being followed by a Gnoll, a humanoid with a hyena head. The pretended to not notice and headed towards the Drunken Squid. Aka Noone slipped away as they were passing through the rich district, and started following the Gnoll, following the party. He quickly realized there were two of them.

Aka Noone caught up with the party by the Drunken Squid. To their surprise, part of the building's corner was missing, a good chunk was gnawed off.

They got ambushed on the street outside the Drunken Squid by the two gnolls that followed them, an ugly woman with a face that reminded them of a fish and the archer they have been trying to track. As the battle erupted, the archer left, presumably to get reinforcements. The group had not had a good rest since their last battle. Battered and bruised, they fought as good as they could, luckily for them Jonom came back from being stolen and jumped into action. Multiple party members fell unconscious, but in the end prevailed.

After taking care of the wounded and checking the bodies, they quickly fled. The revisited the temple of All-God. Aboot Albert told Aka Noone that he looks fine and not a vampire, but that did not ease Aka Noone's concerns. They decided to head to the Wandering Pride to rest.

Aka Noone asked for extra garlic in his food, we felt a little queasy, but was OK. Nodley told them about Captain Moor being somewhere at the harbor. Prior to going to sleep, the party looked over the loot they found. There was a small box, well constructed, looked waterproof and potentially magical. When it was opened, it played an eerie kid melody. Mel put is away in her pack.

The next day, she found a small box in her backpack, it was well constructed and looked waterproof. When she opened it, an eerie kid melody started.

They decided that they should split the party to locate the archer and potentially Captain Moor. Aka Noone and Jimmy disguised themselves as sailors to look around unnoticed, hopefully getting access to more of the harbor. Jonom, Volgis and Mel looked for the archer through the port.

Aka Noone and Jimmy found out that the harbormaster had committed suicide. Meanwhile, the rest of the party found a boat named the "Wave Dancer", on its sail it had a goblin head similar to the stamps found on the baggies of black powder. Three sailors attacked them from the boat. Jonom mounted his war bunny and jumped into the boat, Mel summoned firebolts bombarding them from the port, Volgis jumped onto the boat and took control of the upper deck.

An alarm was sounded that alerted Aka Noone and Jimmy, along with the intended audience, Captain Moor's crew. With reinforcements on both sides, a harbor battle broke out. In the end, Captain Moor's forces were surrounded on both sides. A single goblin sailor jumped into the sea and Aka Noone asked Captain Moor to surrender, which he did.

Among the dead sailors lay the Cross Eyes archer. They escorted Captain Moor into his own boat to talk to him.

Have they finally found the murderer of the Toodles family?