Port Prejudice, Dockside Diablerie and Saving the Senator

## Entry (not Echsit)

* On approach to the island, the group saw lush forests line the coastline and an enormous mountain in the centre
* After taking a wide berth around this coast, they eventually navigated to the single port known as Isarne
* A small vessel approached to direct the Wildmane into port, and they were greeted by a fabulous individual who undertook a cargo inspection
* Trimaeus guided him around and the group followed his waltz ashore once he was satisfied

## Uncustomary Customs

* At the customs building, a more grizzled individual coarsely sorted them into two lines: one featuring Narko, Bayul and Galdor, the other with Ves, Elyan, Lysandre and Belgaer in the other. But they were assured it was totally arbitrary.
* The latter group had an extremely easy time with a very relaxed individual, the latter group had all of their weapons scrapped totally un-racistly by the former’s jobsworth twin - though Bayul did manage to keep his dragon helmet and Galdor his ‘toy’ whip. Bayul and narko were particularly put out, though they agreed the weapons would be processed and returned to them at a tavern.
* They noted that all of the crates on the docks featured ‘V’s’ just like the ones in the hold of the Wildmane - it was confirmed that this stood for the Venusto Family Trading Company

## A New Senator

* At the dockside, a large buzzing crowd was gathered in front of a stage guarded by impressive-looking soldiers in Emerald tabards, apparently awaiting a speech by their new young senator - they hoped he would ensure that more money would be invested in their crumbling buildings
* The senator, a relatively short, well-dressed individual, made his way up onto the stage and began to speak well, working the crowd by speaking to them about the lack of funding they’d endured
* As people began to ask more questions of him and voiced their irritation, he flagged a little, and Ves asked him more about the island suddenly becoming more outward facing since they had been so insular for so long
* The guards became noticeably more shifty and sensing this, Galdor noticed two small rowing boats approaching from the east - he informed Narko, who whispered to Bayul

## Town Terrorism

* As the three , the guards were actively agitated at the newcomers
* Suddenly, the Senator and the crowd alike were blasted by a series of fiery explosions
* The group leapt into action instinctively as buildings around them became consumed by the inferno
* Narko bellowed while charging forwards, clattering into two hooded tabaxi figures with his hooves, while Belgaer’s eldritch blast took the hood off one of them
* That same figure tried to conjure a second fireball but was denied by Lysandre’s quick counter
* The third figure, a sneaky dagger-armed goblin, struck at Narko from the smoke-filled haze before charging towards the Senator
* Ves healed up Lysandre and transformed into a dinosaur, while Elyan followed suit as an enormous T-Rex
* Lysandre promptly hasted the beast and Narko, while Bayul charged in after the Centaur and head butted the first tabaxi to death, sending its broken body flying across the dock
* A chain of counter spells cancelled another fireball and caused the final tabaxi to be encased in crystal, while the goblin flopped about uselessly in the T-rex’s savage jaws
* Ves ensured the Senator was alright using a pair of summoned Dryads as guards, and noted that he was on the cusp of performing some kind of magic before holding himself back
* Simultaneously, Galdor whipped the goblin and yanked it unconscious from Elyan’s mouth, and the T-Rex tail-whipped the tabaxi, shattering the crystal and bones alike

## Gift of the Gablin

* The unconscious goblin choked back to awareness in Narko’s grasp, spitting at the centaur’s face
* Bayul and Narko eventually wore him down with a guest appearance from Elyan’s T-Rex teeth, and he said “I’m here to attack, to reclaim our lands” and other angry maniacal phrases that including lots of burning - they also discovered that his people lived in the forests to the east
* Ves watched the Senator carefully as her summoned Dryads handed to goodberrys to the beleaguered survivors
* Lysandre and the T-Rex suppressed some of the worst building fires with a combo of shape water and lots of drool and tail wafting
* On the bodies of the wizards, they found a wooden bead bracelet upon which was carved a lion’s face, and a blood-soaked piece of paper that read ‘hit during speech’, with an unknown signature
* Bayul and Narko paid the customs office a second visit and demanded their weapons be returned immediately, given that they had since become local heroes

## Shifty Senator

* The senator was directing the response when Ves approached him
* He said he could only chat about what had happened in a more discrete location, but offered the group a place to stay since they had done so much already
* Reconvening in the senator’s manor house, they made their introductions, explaining about the Guild on Ilbidor
* They cut through the small talk by telling him that they spoke with the goblin, which caused him to turn white
* It turned out even his own house was somehow bugged, which ves revealed using Faerie fire
* The senator drew forth a black velvet bag, which hovered once he opened it to reveal a silvery liquid inside
* ‘I know we’ve only just met, but stick your head in this’, the senator put simply, then proceeded to do so - his body was immediately sucked inside the bag
* After a moment’s consideration, the group followed, emerging onto a cobbled pathway leading through an immaculate lawn to a quaint stone cottage, perched under a shimmering silvery sky
* He welcomed them openly, ‘the Kettle should be boiling'

## Shady Sincerity

* The senator intro cued himself as Christo Gatimigy, and the location as a demiplane house he’d been issued with by his government
* Once seated, the group began to demand answers
* Christo said he didn’t know that anyone else lived on the island, but was able to identify the unusual signature on the paper as Leonin, reading ‘Sunshadow’ - he said the name meant nothing to him
* They cautiously asked about the NW of the island, finding that Christo apparently thought nothing was there, and that there was one weekly patrol
* Similarly, there was only uniform forest in the NE and SE prongs of the island, which only their hunting parties frequent, with a wasteland area in the far NE
* Christo was then interrupted by a magical message, in which he learned of a second landing that had occurred just to the north of the city
* He asked the group if they would look into that, and then consider joining him on a hunting patrol to the NE
* They cautiously agreed but in return demanded that he give them access to explore the island freely
* A deal was struck, as part of which Christo also offered use of the Bag of Freeholding and his private residence