Session 35: Morally dubious choices over a grandma

The impromptu speech made by the old lady concludes she and her bodyguard bid the crowd farewell and board a ship dubbed the Intrepid Adversary.

Eppa and Garm board the Monarch and greet their hosts and travelling companions.

- Tolith: High Elven Quartermaster

- Nyladrin: A half-elven woman. She rose to fame as an up and coming star of Flyjousting. Her professed goal is travelling to First Landing for a photoshoot with the Dragon in an attempt to popularize the sport up north. Sponsored by the Bristleboar Mercantile Goods and the Madain Riverway Company.

- Ulvo Madain: half-orc man. Accompanies Nyladrin as her match during her quest for recognition, seems to have a timid countenance compared to her, as well as a rich upbringing.

- Dragonspeaker Isandra: a religious figure from the Silver Torrents and more specifically the Mercury Archipelago. She appeared unexpectantly after the ship left port, seemingly her speech in port a distraction.

- Silveran: gigantic Dragonborn man. Isandra's protector, carries a longsword and wears little to no armor.

- Illythra: Ship cook. Sky elf that has recently started to appreciate the usefulness of magic in the kitchen.

- Noravena: Captain of the ship. Female Sky-Elf and seems mostly used to missions in the borders of the In-Between, seems to have chosen another contract as a favor for a person she owes a profound favor to.

The crew has an additional 3 engineers, a glyph smith and some additional deckhands. It seems that a large number of sailors are new hires from Fissival.

The part interact with the crewmembers slowly piecing together some of the reasons the trips is happening. Chief amongst them being Isandra needing to reach First Landing to prevent a catastrophe for her kind. She seems to have taken some measures to avoid having her movement traced.

The Ship reaches Perch and the following happen:

- Noravena announces they are skipping their next stop in order to reach Cloudpost 1,5 days faster.

- They are informed of a wedding happening, but that the joyous occasion is marred by inexplicable disappearances

- Ixxy is allowed free reign and she disappears for their duration of their stay.

- They enter the Crow and find some of the only people that seem to be actively investigating this despite the danger. One of the is Cathair, in another body. He is informed of the party's plans and promises to formulate a plan upon their return to the city in order for them to track down Lark and finally save Serenna.

- They find themselves in the Bookbound Traveler. A hoiyty-toity shop owned by one Leonard, an elderly human man. They buy: 2 magical fountain pens that never run out of ink and two ornately decorated, yet empty books along with cases.

- A fight breaks out. The party realizes it has been orchestrated by some locals for some reason. Some crewmates are in trouble.

Finally they leave the city. Unsure on the nature of the things that happened.

Time passes.

Eppa goes mask off on Ixxy and the party smell a funky smell that did not belong in the ship. Investigation leads to them realizing someone laced the lower decks with Ochre Pheromones, attracting a horde of butterfly Vorthids.

Combat ensues, injuries accumulate on the crew. Interestingly enough most of them are a result of a cultist being part of the faction trying to kill Isandra. Additionally a storm starts to accrue in the horizon. It seems almost alive as it undulates at high speeds towards the party, flying figures inside it. Silveran grabs an object that raises a crackling shield over the ship

A booming voice calls for the party to surrender Isandra within 30 minutes, promising to let them escape unharmed if they agree. The party have an(other) existential crisis before deciding to face their problem head on. The problems dispel their illusion, appearing closer than expected, as Orvar Stormbreaker breaks through the bubbling clouds of the storm, thunder in his hands and his wyvern breathes out a lighting strike towards the ship.