Escape from the brig

Autumn 721

Tobias Whitbottom, Billy Bob Bones and Kronos Vælfroth awoke in a brig of a ship. They heard pirates talk about sacrificing them to the sea beast.

The crazy wizard became invisible and climbed his way up a deck. The Triton created a cloud of fog but could not grapple the guard. The Halfling tried to escape but the pirate had a firm grasp of him, during the commotion Tobias wriggled free, and found a trident in the boxes, he stabbed the pirate with it.

Kronos slapped one of the pirate guards to death and left the brig.

Elsewhere on the ship an invisible wizard pretended to be the ghost of a Kraken, he spelled out a terrifying messages on the upper deck in seaweed.

Tobias tried to use this giant trident again but failed horribly, the thing was twice as long as he. Kronos killed the second pirate guard with a scimitar saving Tobias, the pair found their stuff. Then they freed the slaves and told them to arm themselves, they followed the heroes up the ladder where they found more cells of slaves.

Two pirate guards tried to stop the pair but they fought them off and freed further slaves and armed them for the cause of capturing the slavers ship.

On the top deck the wizard disguised himself as the captain and ordered a crewman to attack the real captain. He then took it upon himself to spin the helm wildly, the ships hull was screaming under the strain. Billy Bob had created an area of grease around the captain and first mate, the captain fell in the grease, Tobias viciously mocked the first mate.

The wizard kicked a barrel down the stairs into the melee fight, where Kronos was trying to throw the captain overboard, Tobias continued to mock the first mate and crew. Eventually they suceeded and the remaining crew surrendered. They agreed to crew the ship if the heroes gave them favourable terms.

Mirria the first mate told the party that the ship was The Cold Tide. It was Captained by Harran Windhsod for three years. He was a member of the Sea Snakes Pirate fleet.  The ship was 100ft long, red sails and a pirate flag on the aft.

A 60ft keel boat approached flying the pirate colours, they signaled with a flashing light. Billy attempted to find the appropriate response code but could not. Billy Bones deceived the captain of the smaller ship. It passed by, and the now renamed ship "The Amaranthus" set sail to Westport but first they needed to change the ship to look less a pirate vessel.

Billy Bob searched the hold, he found 2 weeks of supplies, 5000 gold pieces in the ship's coffers, and some rapiers. He also found in a locked room below decks an enormous Half-Orc named Grug.

After sailing through the night the Amaranthus arrived at the small port town of Westport, a mostly agricultural town is in disrepair.. Where a third of the slaves left for safety. The now officers of the ship needed to find a cook and 10 crewmen.

A Tabaxi child asked for a coin, but stole the coinpurse of Kronos. Billy Bob chased them down, Tobias decided to hire them as the ship's catboys, to climb the rigging and such, their training would be left to Grug.

The three men walked to the tavern, an oddity for Kronos, it was explained to him as a centre for frivolity and recruitment, in the pub 6 men were hired. They hear a rumour that "A genie has taken over Gullrest in the far east." They also learn that the Island of Eoren was a good destination for purchasing cloth.

Finally before setting sail again they stopped with Alen the alchemist and bought his small rowboat that he no longer had need of. the Ships coffers settled at 4890 Gold Coins.