Episode 4

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## Plot Summary

The sky fell.  Chaos reigns in Raufel.  Fires rage through the richer parts of the city.  The green gems (made of starheart) glowed everywhere they were in the city.  The meteor has crashed hundreds of miles offshore in Luidwyn Bay and the waters are about to surge into the town within the hour.  A black ship sails straight toward the crash site as if on glass.

Having gathered the second-to-last gem, Tenoch Coatl, Daemys Raethran, Starheart, and Bubo follow Kord Elkas and Big Tom back to the Tattered Sail.  The Whitesails are attempting to help people in the market square, led by Captain Leia Tana.  Having delivered his gem, Kord telepathically receives the location of the final gem from the Black Cloaks.  A Quai named Reyak (character drop) approaches them from his ship, which has been grounded on the shore.  He is able to use his fire powers to help put out some of the fires.

Coming out of his trance, Kord points them to the governor’s mansion, home of Urit Syle, which is still intact.  The group heads to the mansion, alerting people to the incoming wave as they go.  After Tenoch tries to break the doors down with Kord’s body, they open to reveal the governor’s assistant, Arden Barlow.  Learning of the impending tidal wave, the Barlow goes to fetch the governor.  The emergency bell starts to ring as the Whitesails open the culverts.

Tenoch and Daemys try to convince Barlow to let them in the front to find the glowing gem.  Reyak arrives and helps them by burning the chain holding the door closed.  Tenoch barges in and punches Barlow.  Daemys hears a noise and chases a small figure who flees from them.  Leonaldo pounces on him.  He appears to be a baby-sized naked old man with vestigial wings.  It is a homunculus.   Reyak casually loots the house.  Tenoch and Kord explore the first floor for the gem.

Earlier, Tenoch had thrown Starheart up to a window and she used her thieves tools to enter the mansion.  She uses the bed sheets to help Bubo crawl up to the second floor window.  Dumeril scouts the upper floor and  returns with many green gems.  They open a plain door that opens into a passage with many portraits and silver-flamed sconces that gives off light but no warmth.  They loot all the rooms, then enter the bedroom of Urit Syle, who is bedridden with an illness. Starheart finds the gem in the governor’s nightstand.

The water begins hitting the shore and entering the mansion.  Tenoch picks up Urit Syle and Arden Barlow as the group makes its way to higher ground.  Daemys slips and is swept back to sea.  Tenoch tosses Syle and Barlow to Big Tom, and saves Daemys with a rope and javelin.  The group makes it to high ground and watches as the water recedes.  The Whitesails were able to open most of the culverts and prevent much of the destruction.  They can still see the black ship in the distance.

Starheart gives Kord the final gem and he leads the group to the temple of Sahlen they investigated earlier.  The temple appears to be empty, but as they enter there are confronted by eight Black Cloaks.  Kord places the final gems before them, despite Starheart trying to stop him.  The cloaked figures silently throw the other gems on the floor and they begin to pulsate, pop, and turn to ash.  Kord takes out his coin, which has turned from black to electrum.  Believing himself free from his contract, he’s relieved and leaves the building.

The group follows Kord as they discuss their next plans.  Bubo wants to apprehend Kord and take him back to Elb Gabber.  Daemys helps try to control some of the looting and pillaging by the gangs, provoking a fight with the Gulls, their leader Skinny Jack, and his army of seagulls. An elderly man named Yoda (character drop) comes out to battle the seagulls.  Members of the Runoff appear from the shadows and join the fight.  Reyak also joins the fight.  The fight ends with the death of Skinny Jack at the hands of Tenoch.

The city is in disarray.   Daemys flirts with Rayek and offers him a partnership in crime and they leave together.

## Fun Moments

An old man who Bubo informs about the incoming tidal waves stays in the market square to face his inevitable death. He is later used by Danny as a measuring stick for how high the water is getting. The group dubs him Old Man Watermeasure and Art says there should be a statue of him later in the market with height indicators on it.

Deva inadvertently calls the Black Cloaks "evil black people," interrupting the game for several minutes of lighthearted admonishment and embarrassment.