A Dead Sea

Season 5; Campaign 3

### Summary

A group of pirate privateers are sailing the sea looking for a job to get themselves some more money when they get a job to collect The Wither Rose from a GPO facility.

### Players

Ellari Pryv (Geekypack)

Varse Flits (Chrof)

Bee~atrix Venose (Jiklee)

Whirly Greycap (H0tpixel)

### Story

The crew of the BustedWhale are sailing seas enjoying the open air and celebrating life the pirate way, when they hear screaming from the starboard side of the ship, a Jelly Armour fisher is being attacked by his bounty and after some negotiations and the promise of a reward the crew decides to help the poor man. The crew lays an onslaught on the wild jellyfish destroying them. The battle seems easily won when all of a sudden an explosion hits the ship knocking back a large amount of the crew disorienting them. A group of Pelicannon have heard the battle and decided to join in as a third party. Most of the group turn focus towards the larger threat of the birds while Bee~atrix finishes off the remaining jellyfish with her swarm of bees. The party continues their fight with the creatures of the sea when Whirly remembering wrongly the weakness of Pelicannons releases some fire lighting the fuse on its head and having it unload a powerful shot directly in here throwing her overboard. After clearing the remaining creatures the party helps the fisherman aboard and demand their payment. The fisherman explains he has nothing on him but he knows the location of the Sea Spirit a famous bar boat. The crew accepts this as a temp payment and they sail to the sea spirit. Once on the Sea Spirit the crew is sat down and enjoys the joy of the famous boat drinking, gambling, and finding some new adventures and scallywags to bring on their travel. Once the group has reconvened at their table, Captain Alston comes up with a new employer, What is clearly a goblin in ratty cloaks walks up telling them the job for stealing the Wither Rose, a item the Grand Paladin Order is researching in their underwater faculty. The party must travels through the Dead Sea, traverse the Wither Cult swamp, then sneak into the GPO research center and steal the Wither Rose. After some discussion the crew accepts and ready their things along with their new mates and set sail. The party sails peacefully for awhile until they reach the Dead Sea, a dark aura looms over the ship as something crashing into it. The crew startled get ready for battle as another crash breaks some holes into the ship and releases Fish Bones into the under of the boat. As the crew on the bottom fend off the Fish Bones and repair holes a large sharklike monster leaps onto the boat crashing around. The beast on the top is quickly covered in Bee~atrix's honey preventing it from moving as the crew begins laying an onslaught upon it. While under deck the party continues to fight off the Fish Bones, luckily they are able to overpower them with their numbers and strength. The shark beast in a fit on rage tips the boat causing Varse to fall into his mouth as the shark dives overboard. Now within the mouth of the beast Varse unleashes a blast of his smokescreen pistol filling his mouth with a fiery smoke as he is spit out, the shark swims off and gives up his chase on the BustedWhale. After getting themselves settled they get near the WitherCult swamp and pull out smaller travel boats leaving some crew behind to watch the ship as they depart. The swamp seems creepily quiet as they drift through, when a liquid sword seems to catch the eye of Ellari, he gets onto the rock where it is stabbed into and grabs the blade once free Ellari looks around to see the swamp filled with Toadstools. The Toadstools begin to bombard the party with magical clouds and end up pulling Roland off of the smaller boat dragging him away. Most of the crew begin to help retrieve Roland except for Bee~atrix who is spooked by the frogs and plans to sail away from this retched swamp. As the party heads to Roland they begin to hear chanting when two Wither Cultist walk out from the swamp with a intent to kill the party for trespassing. Roland and Varse take the blunt of attacks as Roland is constantly hit with random magics that continuously bring him to the brink of death and alter his body. After a long battle the party is looking tired when Roland is once again pulled away from Varse, as Varse begins to scream out for his friend Roland is hit with a large explosion and the area is covered in smoke, as the smokes clears it seems the combination of magic has transformed Roland into a Turking, a powerful bird with a royal presence, Roland in his new powerful form disperses the remaining frogs and wither cultist before anymore harm can come. The party tired and beaten head out towards the swamp. After their battle the party takes a quick rest at a small building that is shored. The crew meet a strange man who successfully sells and poisons Bee~atrix three times to which she gets upset and leaves, after this Varse seemly annoyed from the trials of this swamp lets out some anger by threatening the shop keep who when unimpressed sets Varse off as he begins to smash things in the shop. The party leave more confused and annoyed then they were before then finally make their way to the GPO research island. Landing on the side of the island the crew spots some guard towers and Varse along with Whirley decide to sneak up on the guard and assassinate them, this end very poorly as Varse ruins his chance and gets himself chained and Whirly falls off the tower before her attack. Ellari seeing the plan is failing launches himself onto the tower and convinces the guard he is a goblin hunter who has been hunting this specific goblin for quite some time. The guard is clearly confused and while he questions the situation Ellari quickly pushes him off the guard tower. The cause slight commotion but the party is quick to act and disable the guard in their own unique ways then head down into the facility. Once down before the party spilt up with everyone but Bee~atrix going to the south first killing a janitor and stealing his outfit then claiming a scientist outfit. Captain Alston relies on his trusty crewmate Whirly and has her crawl into the scientist outfit allowing her to steal while he looks for the card holder. The party make their way to the cafeteria where they see the card holder speaking with an important member of the Grand Paladin Order, Roamin the Crime Solving Rank 11 Paladin, Ranked 11th in the Knights of the Order. The party seeing this man is important plays it safe sneaking by the card holder and swiping the card from him. While the party is stealing in the cafeteria Bee~atrix has her own plan she heads east covering herself in honey to climb the walls above, Bee~atrix snickering to herself from her genius begins to crawl on the ceiling sneaking around looking for the card holder. She finds a man who seems more important than the rest so she casts Pick-a-Pocket removing all of his pockets and causing the card to fall out onto the ground. While the man is confused grabbing all his dropped items Bee~atrix leans down towards the ground having her Cubee reach for the card, the Cubee gets the card stuck to its naturally sticky hands and the crew meet back at the center. Now with both card in their possession the party opens the doors to retrieve the Wither Rose, going unnoticed the crew can easily sneak away from the island before anyone notices the rose is even gone.