WIL Episode 3: The Lies We Tell

## The Lies We Tell

Viscount Hamich Hartford

Jeth

Preston Grunden

Triss Darkenwell

Treacle

## Scenes

* The crew starts their day
	+ Treacle prepares breakfast
	+ Pit continues navigation
	+ While rigging, Tealo approaches the crows nest to thank Jeth for helping him the other evening. They share a laugh.
	+ Anya helps out around the ship, enjoying the day. Triss Darkenwell and she share thoughts on the Captain.
* Midday, Hamlet approaches Evelyn in her quarters to talk about what has been on their mind
	+ They admit that they were not completely honest about who they are and admit that they are what their father called “halb geformt”, meaning “half-formed”. They show Evelyn their inherent ability to change their visage and admit to being a “monster.”
	+ They explain that it would be immoral to go on acting like they are “a normal person.” It takes focus and energy to not change for them.
	+ Evelyn explains its ok to lie to protect people sometimes
	+ Hamlet finally tells Evelyn  of what they saw with Hamich and the burlap cargo
	+ Evelyn tells Hamlet not to tell anyone while she sorts the issue out
	+ As she leaves, Hamlet asks Thane what is happening. Their hand becomes covered in finery and bangles and then withers to that of a skeleton.
* Evelyn starts inspecting the issue
	+ She tells Preston Grunden and enlists him to have Pit, under the guise of a simple inspection, investigate the cargo to confirm what Hamlet told her
	+ Pit and Triss Darkenwell investigate the crates using the spells See Invisibility and Detect Magic
	+ While they inspect, the captain calls a fake inspection of the rest of the crew
	+ Pit and Triss Darkenwell find the same thing as Hamlet, nothing but burlap
	+ They also find that each crate is marked with the Fortune Ships Trading Company insignia
	+ They also inspect Hamich’s quarters
		- Under Hamich’s pillow there is a Sending Stone
* Evelyn calls Pit into her quarters, gesticulating like he’s in trouble but is really discussing the issue; she enlists him to continue searching
* Hamlet, feeling the pressure to keep the secret, begins to faint; Anya catches him. Tealo and she hold them up while Hamlet just moans in response to questions.
* Pit continues searching crew quarters and crewman
	+ In Treacle’s kitchen, there is a tiny magical (conjuration) accordion in a spice jar
	+ Hamich’s drow servant, Atten, has two invisible blades strapped to their back
* Evelyn ends the inspection and has a drunk Hamich join her for a meeting in her quarters
	+ Lora follows the Captain into the quarters
	+ Tealo and Anya aid Hamlet best they can as he throws up over the side of the ship
	+ Eveyln confronts the Viscount about the cargo and drags him out and calls out Atten as well as the crew readies to harm them on the Captain’s call
* Atten admits they were trying to have the crew arrested in Omna in order to secure *The Moon Wisp* for Corporal Miss Florence Fortune of Fortune Ships Trading Company, who’ve declared a war on piracy.
* Everyone in the party does what they can to settle the situation
	+ Hamlet pleads the Captain to have mercy, knowing their own role causing this chaos
	+ Pit interrogates them on using Faulton stardust
	+ Tealo asks why they would “sells their souls and dignity” to the Fortune Ships Trading Company bidding
	+ Anya mutters about why it makes sense that stardust would be the main ploy of Fortune Ships Trading Company
* Hamlet: “Sometimes we lie to help people, Captain!”
* Atten opens up about how Hamich’s affluent parents abandoned him and Atten decided to be his caretaker. He offers his life, or perhaps his service in going against Miss Fortune.
* Eveyln sends them to the brig
* The rest of the day:
	+ Treacle and Anya bake cookies
	+ Hamlet prays for penance on his role in the ship’s chaos; they are met neither with gratitude not shame from Thane
	+ Pit speaks with Hamich and Atten about their motives
	+ Tealo approaches the Captain in her quarters to discuss the prisoners; he suggests allowing them to change and become better people
	+ Pit returns to the Captain while she’s speaking with Tealo; Pit suggests using the prisoners to their advantage to avoid issues with Corporal Miss Florence Fortune
	+ Upon exiting, Tealo tries his best to ask about friendship and decides to just exit without discussing it further
	+ Tealo speaks with the prisoners, encouraging them to grow beyond their circumstances
	+ Anya goes to give cookies to the crew
		- She gives one to Hamlet and they discuss how they’re doing, opening up about how they are a librarian; Anya opens up about her confusion of why she is returning home
		- She levitates a couple to Jeth
		- She gives one to Pit while he works on the map; he admits the map seems a bit above his current abilities and how much magic seems to take a toll on him. She opens up about how life in Kurcoza was also very harsh
		- She gives one to Tealo while he walks out of the brig.
* The next 2 days before arriving in Abnos, Omna
	+ Pit takes a break on the map and trains to learn light armor
	+ Hamlet keeps their head down after the events of the past few days
	+ Tealo, sensing the end of this journey with all of the people aboard, does his best to get to know them better, including the prisoners
	+ Anya trains with her swords and helping Triss Darkenwell
	+ Evelyn
		- makes a deal with Atten and Hamich to have them work for her
		- makes a plan with everyone as to handling porting in Abnos
	+ Pit finds out from Atten that Hamich planted a teleportation coin in the Captain’s quarters
	+ They come forward about it and all find a way to dispense of it
* They strap a bomb to it and open a rift in space time; it creates a window to the astral sea as a giant star strewn whale almost enters the portal
* Pit reverses time so that it can succeed and the crew is all a bit shaken from the display
* Hamlet thanks the Captain; Tealo admires Atten for being willing to grow
* Corporal Miss Florence Fortune readies to meet the “Black Rose” in her subsurface metal ship