AOP 004

July 25, 2021

[7:18 PM] The Blue Scale: Ok, so, last time.

[7:20 PM] The Blue Scale: Having set sail and begun the journey to Scutter's Island, you split up to do jobs.  Most of you went to peel potatoes while Saiph and Jaden went to help with fishing.

[7:21 PM] The Blue Scale: As the ladies bonded, Saiph and Jaden found themselves in a combat with some kuo-toa, which they soundly won.  You guys then all met up.

[7:22 PM] The Blue Scale: After some more bonding, you were called into the captain's quarters.  The captain told you he suspects one of the crew may be involved with Captain Dandy, a man who fancies himself a would-be Pirate King.  And the man after the artifacts you seek on the island.

[7:23 PM] The Blue Scale: We pick up the next morning.  Damin has tasked you all with scrubbing the main deck clean.  Floors, poles, he wants it all clean as can be.

[7:23 PM] Olenna: scrubs with her hands but also with magic.

[7:24 PM] The Blue Scale: Coppelia is assisting more in the kitchen, at this time.

[7:24 PM] Entropy: “Come on Boredom, I peeled the potato’s you should scrub today.”

[7:24 PM] Jaden: full muscle behind with a mop and towel,  going back and forth in order

[7:25 PM] Olenna: has probably not ever done this before, but doesn't complain about it.

[7:26 PM] Jaden: ((Is it just us on the deck?))

[7:26 PM] Olenna: ((Not likely.))

[7:27 PM] The Blue Scale: There's other crew around.  In the rafters keeping watch, one at the wheel.  But it's fairly sparse.  It's an easy day in terms of wind and Damin's tasked all non-essential crew with cleaning in other areas.

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[7:28 PM] The Blue Scale: A half-orc woman is manning a post at one of the main guns, as well.

[7:28 PM] The Blue Scale: As the ship rocks, I'd like some perception checks, please.

[7:28 PM] Jaden: ((9))

[7:30 PM] The Blue Scale: Jaden, you're just taking in the really nice day.

[7:30 PM] Olenna: ((8!))

[7:30 PM] Jaden: is enjoying the nice weather and not getting nets thrown on him

[7:31 PM] Entropy: ((17))

[7:33 PM] Pip: After having slept like a rock, Pip emerges, still wrapped in a blanket.

[7:33 PM] Saiph: has no problem cleaning.

[7:34 PM] Saiph: uses Druidcraft to give everything a nice pine scent.

[7:34 PM] Entropy: is still arguing mainly in Infernal with Boredom softly while doing a light amount of scrubbing.

[7:34 PM] The Blue Scale: Entropy Looking out on the ocean...you spy something floating on the water.  It...it looks a bit like a humanoid...floating...unmoving.

[7:36 PM] The Blue Scale: @Saiph can you give me a perception check?

[7:37 PM] Saiph: (19!)

[7:37 PM] Entropy: will go over to the side of the ship pointing out . “What’s that?”(edited)

[7:37 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph Following Entropy's finger, you see what most certainly looks like a humanoid body floating on the ocean.

[7:38 PM] Pip: Pip will cautiously wander over to investigate.

[7:38 PM] Saiph: Oh, dead guy.

[7:38 PM] Olenna: What?

[7:38 PM] Saiph: points.

[7:38 PM] Pip: "O-oh. Oh dear."

[7:38 PM] Olenna: pauses, gets up and peers.

[7:38 PM] Entropy: Do dead people float?

[7:38 PM] Jaden: will look over to where entropy and saiph point out.

[7:38 PM] Jaden: ((How far out are they?))

[7:39 PM] Pip: Pip seems quite troubled, seemingly trying to look away from where Entropy is pointing but also unable to fully tear her eyes away.

[7:39 PM] The Blue Scale: Looking out you all see what looks like a corpse roughly 50 ft out.

[7:40 PM] Olenna: ... we should retrieve them. Maybe they're not dead.

[7:40 PM] Jaden: Agreed

[7:40 PM] Entropy: “ How do we do that?”

[7:40 PM] Saiph: finds a crewman to point it out.

[7:42 PM] Saiph: looks around.  Is there any wreckage or anything?

[7:42 PM] The Blue Scale: Half-Orc woman: "Body off the starboard bow!  Adjust course to intercept!"

[7:42 PM] Entropy: “Boredom can you go check if they are alive?”

[7:42 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph, you look around and see no sign of wreckage...also, as the ship approaches, the body appears to be completely nude.

[7:43 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom: "Ugh, fine."

[7:43 PM] The Blue Scale: The demon flies off ahead of the ship.  It perches on the body and you watch the body thrash about.

[7:44 PM] Saiph: Could be a trap.  There could be a whole monster under there that just has a naked guy as a lure to draw in well meaning rescuers.

[7:44 PM] Saiph: Like an anglerfish.

[7:44 PM] The Blue Scale: Half-orc woman: "...an angler fish with a naked man?"

[7:45 PM] Pip: "That, uh, doesn't look like usual dead body or nearly-drowned person behavior."

[7:45 PM] Jaden: looks at the person carefully,  Closes his eyes for a second  and then opens them  ((I'm going to use Divine Sense))

[7:45 PM] Saiph: Like an anglerfish.

[7:45 PM] Olenna: What's all the thrashing?

[7:46 PM] Pip: "Hmm, nope. Don't like that."

[7:46 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom flies back.  "Ugh, he's all gross."

[7:46 PM] Saiph: But apparently alive.

[7:46 PM] Entropy: “What was the thrashing?”

[7:47 PM] Jaden: Maybe we should get them onboard and find out?

[7:47 PM] Olenna: Are they alive?(edited)

[7:48 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom: "Seemed alive."

[7:48 PM] Entropy: Could you fly a rope out to them?

[7:48 PM] The Blue Scale: As the ship approaches, one of the crew rappels down on a rope.

[7:48 PM] The Blue Scale: Half-orc: "Benson should bring them up i--"

[7:49 PM] The Blue Scale: There's a shout over the side.(edited)

[7:49 PM] Olenna: rushes to look.

[7:49 PM] Jaden: looks over to where the shouting is coming from

[7:49 PM] Entropy: looks over.

[7:49 PM] Pip: also rushes to look

[7:50 PM] Pip: doesn't seem to be happy about it, despite not yet seeing anything to be unhappy about

[7:50 PM] The Blue Scale: You guys see the crew man climbing back up.  "It bit me!"

[7:50 PM] Olenna: ... the dead body?

[7:51 PM] Olenna: Is it undead?

[7:51 PM] Jaden: has his Divine Sense activated, seeing if it is a Fiend or an undead

[7:51 PM] Entropy: Did you get bitten Boredom?

[7:52 PM] The Blue Scale: ((It is not a fiend or undead.))

[7:52 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom: "Nah, didn't touch me."

[7:53 PM] Olenna: They'd better bring him up, don't you think?

[7:54 PM] The Blue Scale: The person, whatever they are, then grabs hold of the side of the ship and begins slowly climbing up the side.  Looking at it now, even though it's humanoid...it seems...wrong.  You think maybe it's a triton, but no, not the right coloration.  But you do see what appear to be gills just...glued to it's side and a couple of octopus tentacles coming from his shoulders.  His whole body seem to be covered in a sort of slime and he appears...fishy in several ways.

[7:54 PM] The Blue Scale: Pip While you're not sure you recognize him specifically...this does seem the handiwork of the man who had you.

[7:55 PM] Saiph: Hopefully he can breathe out of water.

[7:55 PM] Pip: "AAA"

[7:55 PM] Olenna: Hullo!?

[7:55 PM] Jaden: looks over at Pip, then stands in front of her in a defensive stance, blocking view

[7:56 PM] Pip: Pip manages to stammer out, in a very small voice,

"They're like me."

[7:56 PM] Olenna: ... isn't that a good thing?

[7:57 PM] Pip: "Not for them, no."

[7:57 PM] Saiph: Not if they don't want to be that way and someone made them that way.

[7:57 PM] The Blue Scale: As the being hauls itself over the side, you can now see his face.  His jaw has been extended back in a strange, horrid grin, they're completely bald and their eyes seem too small and beady for their face.

[7:58 PM] The Blue Scale: They are laying down, gasping for air.

[7:58 PM] Olenna: Hello?

[7:58 PM] The Blue Scale: Fish-Man: "H...hello."

[7:58 PM] Pip: "Hello? Can you breathe?"

[7:58 PM] The Blue Scale: He pauses for a moment...then nods.

[7:59 PM] Pip: Pip holds out the blanket for him to cover himself. That was her first instinct, why wouldn't it be his?(edited)

[7:59 PM] The Blue Scale: He does so.

[8:00 PM] Pip: "Do you remember your name?"

[8:00 PM] The Blue Scale: He nods.  "Jareth."

[8:01 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...where am I?"

[8:01 PM] Entropy: On a ship.

[8:01 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...whose ship?"

[8:02 PM] Jaden: .....Do you want to speak to the Captain?

[8:02 PM] Olenna: I'm actually not sure who owns it.

[8:02 PM] Olenna: Are you hurt?

[8:02 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...In what sense?"

[8:02 PM] Entropy: The Blue Scale is the name.

[8:02 PM] The Blue Scale: He relaxes at the name.  "Ok."

[8:03 PM] Entropy: Is there a ship you don’t want to be on?

[8:05 PM] Olenna: Well, any sense. If you need counseling I'm sure someone can help with that too.

[8:05 PM] The Blue Scale: He peers over at Pip and jumps back slightly.

[8:06 PM] Saiph: That's our friend Pip.

[8:07 PM] Pip: Pip waves, a bit cautiously.

[8:07 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...you were...what?"

[8:08 PM] Pip: "Sorry if I uh, remind you of anything. We both suffered under the same hand, it seems."

[8:08 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...the doctor.  Yes."

[8:08 PM] Saiph: The doctor?

[8:08 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...he had this...stone.  Did you ever see it?"

[8:09 PM] Pip: "I did, yes. It was red. I was going to ask someone here about it but it's very busy and I keep getting sidetracked."

[8:10 PM] The Blue Scale: He attempts to stand up and you can see his legs seem very trophied...but he has what seems a thick, strong tail.

[8:10 PM] Olenna: ... wait, did someone do this to you on purpose?

[8:10 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "Yes.  Most certainly."

[8:11 PM] Jaden: .....This Might need to wait, how long were you at sea like that?

[8:11 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...I am uncertain."

[8:11 PM] Entropy: And how did you get there?

[8:11 PM] Olenna: I am so sorry.

[8:11 PM] Saiph: nods.

[8:11 PM] Jaden: ((Does he look Malnurished?))

[8:11 PM] Saiph: What kind of stone?

[8:11 PM] Saiph: offers him a goodberry.

[8:12 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Not so much malnurished as...certain parts of him don't seem to have gotten much in the ways of movement and work.  Namely, his human arms and legs.))

[8:12 PM] The Blue Scale: He points at Pip.  "He had you...in a book.  ...he is looking for you."

[8:14 PM] Olenna: You... lived in a book?

[8:14 PM] Pip: That seems to have touched a nerve. If her absolutely horrified expression were not enough of an indicator, every fin on her body is extended, and every phosphor blazes like a tiny sun. This is probably about as spooked as she can get.

[8:14 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...I got out the way his other failures have.  ...he tosses us over the side."

[8:14 PM] Pip: "I-I'm not going back. I can't."

[8:15 PM] Saiph: Don

[8:15 PM] Saiph: Don't worry.

[8:15 PM] Olenna: You certainly should not.

[8:15 PM] Saiph: If anyone comes for you we'll just kill 'em.

[8:15 PM] Entropy: We won’t let him take you.

[8:15 PM] Olenna: And you're not a failure. I don't really understand what happened to you but I'm positive that's not true.

[8:15 PM] Jaden: ((13 insight, does he seem to be telling the truth?))

[8:16 PM] Entropy: Does he or his ship have a name that you know?

[8:16 PM] The Blue Scale: ((He's hard to read, as his face seems neutered by the procedure and he does not seem fully sane anymore...but he does not seem to be lying intentionally.))

[8:17 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "I do not know his name.  But his ship is new.  He called it the Saw Bones."

[8:18 PM] Pip: Calming a little, Pip speaks.

"He wasn't able to make you what he wanted you to be, but now you're free."

[8:18 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth shakes his head.  "I do not know if any of us are.  ...and I am...I..."

[8:18 PM] The Blue Scale: He keels over.

[8:19 PM] Jaden: cautiously approaches him  "Are you alright?"

[8:19 PM] Entropy: goes and tries to catch him before he falls.

[8:19 PM] The Blue Scale: Entropy, roll a STR check.

[8:19 PM] Entropy: ((3))

[8:19 PM] Olenna: Saiph, can you heal him? Or should I try?

[8:20 PM] The Blue Scale: Entropy, you catch him, only to realize he's much heavier than you anticipated and it's more he lands on top of you.

[8:20 PM] Saiph: nods, and crouches beside him to try a cure wounds.

[8:20 PM] Jaden: goes to try to lift this guy to lift him up while Saiph goes to heal

[8:20 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph, can you give me a medicine check.

[8:20 PM] Entropy: Oof.

[8:21 PM] Pip: Pip mostly just seems traumatized, but will attempt to help lift his slimy body off Entropy.

[8:21 PM] Entropy: will squeeze out gently as they lift him up.

[8:22 PM] The Blue Scale: Jaden, give me a STR check with adv.

[8:22 PM] Olenna: ... what did he used to look like?

[8:22 PM] Jaden: ((Str Check or Athletics?))

[8:22 PM] Pip: "I don't know. I only saw a few others, and I don't think he was one of them."

[8:23 PM] Jaden: ((12 if Strength Check))

@Jaden

((Str Check or Athletics?))

[8:23 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Athletics is fine.))

[8:23 PM] Entropy: How did this “ doctor” get people?

[8:23 PM] Jaden: ((24 then))

[8:23 PM] Saiph: ((15 medicine.))

[8:24 PM] Pip: "I'm not entirely sure. I met him on the road. I knew something was off about him but... Everything is fuzzy, that far back."

[8:25 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph: He's not injured in a traditional sense.  You can cure wounds, but that'd be more a stall than a heal.  You sense that not all of his body parts are agreeing with each other and he may just be dying.

[8:26 PM] Olenna: Who is this doctor?

[8:26 PM] The Blue Scale: Jaden, you successfully get Jareth off of Entropy.

[8:27 PM] Jaden: then helps Entropy to her feet, if she accepts the hand

[8:27 PM] Saiph: frowns.

[8:27 PM] Saiph: You might be dying.  I'm sorry.

[8:27 PM] Saiph: This doctor put the wrong parts together.

[8:28 PM] Entropy: will take Jadens assistance “ thanks.”

[8:28 PM] Olenna: There must be something we can do.

[8:28 PM] Saiph: will try a Lesser Restoration.

[8:28 PM] Saiph: This might hurt.

[8:29 PM] The Blue Scale: As you cast that, the man begins to wail in pain.

[8:31 PM] Olenna: winces and takes his hand.

[8:31 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph...can you roll me...a WIS check.

[8:31 PM] Saiph: (19!)

[8:31 PM] Pip: "He's an elf but he's... Well there's something not right about him. You might not know this, not having changeling experience, but when a young changeling first tries on faces, sometimes they look mostly right, but there's something off and you can't quite figure out what off the bat but it sticks in your head and you just can't abide with it."

[8:32 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph You can see the body parts shifting underneath your lesser restoration.  You cannot undo the transmutation, but you think you can stabilize it so he won't die.

[8:32 PM] Saiph: keeps going.  "Just hold on.  Almost there."

[8:33 PM] Pip: "He's like that but so much worse, and so, so, much more wrong. It was like every instinct I had wanted me to immediately run away, but I didn't. At that point, I was too late."

[8:33 PM] Olenna: That sounds more like mind control magicks.

[8:34 PM] Entropy: Or a contract.

[8:34 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph, as you finish, the form snaps into place...and a strange look comes across the man's face.  One of numbness.

[8:34 PM] Jaden: looks over at Saiph,  "he going to be okay?"

[8:34 PM] Saiph: I think I've stabilized you.  Or at least your organs aren't killing each other anymore.

[8:35 PM] Entropy: ((Has any of the rest of the crew come to this commotion?))

[8:35 PM] The Blue Scale: Yes, a small crowd is forming at this point.

[8:35 PM] Pip: "Oh uh, hi"

[8:35 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...I must return to the ocean."

[8:36 PM] Saiph: ...why?

[8:36 PM] Saiph: ((21 Insight.))

[8:37 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "Because...in this state...I cannot truly use my human legs."

[8:37 PM] Pip: "Why? The ocean is terrible. It's dark and deep and full of teeth and poison."

[8:37 PM] Pip: "O-oh."

[8:37 PM] Pip: Pip looks sheepish.

[8:37 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "Thank you.  I no longer feel the pain in my organs, though."

[8:38 PM] Olenna: You might not need to use your legs properly, you know. There are people who don't.

[8:38 PM] Saiph: Sure.

[8:38 PM] Jaden: Before you go.... the ship, The Saw Bones,  what does it look like?

[8:39 PM] Pip: "If you're set on it, be careful out there."

[8:39 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "It is small, black, with sails a pale red color."

[8:39 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "Unless you have means to maneuver me here."

[8:39 PM] Jaden: nods,  Thank you.  I hope you well

[8:39 PM] Olenna: We might be able to build a little wheeled thing for you here. Or a tub.

[8:40 PM] Olenna: It's safer here.

[8:40 PM] The Blue Scale: Damin: "Might we now.  Yeh offering?"(edited)

[8:41 PM] Entropy: Is the Captain just going to order that we throw someone back into the ocean?

[8:41 PM] The Blue Scale: Damin: "I shall go ask him."

[8:42 PM] Saiph: So what did you do before?

[8:42 PM] Olenna: I could pay someone to do it.

[8:42 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "I was...a carpenter.  I think."

[8:43 PM] Olenna: Oh, perhaps you would know how to do it yourself, then.

[8:43 PM] Entropy: ((Did Damin go?))

[8:43 PM] Saiph: Think you could build yourself a chair with wheels?

[8:43 PM] Saiph: You could maybe push yourself along with your tail.

[8:44 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...I could try...if given wood and some aid."

[8:44 PM] The Blue Scale: Damin did go.

[8:44 PM] Olenna: I'm certain we can make it work. Of course we'll help.

[8:44 PM] Olenna: squeezes his hand. Or tentacle, she's not terribly particular.

[8:44 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth nods.

[8:45 PM] Entropy: will have Boredom go invisible and follow him at a distance.

[8:45 PM] Pip: "So uh, why did you bite that guy? Panic?"

[8:45 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom scowls but nods and does so.

[8:45 PM] Entropy: will sit down on the deck.

[8:45 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "Yes.  I was confused at the time.  My lungs had activated underwater...it was frightening."

[8:46 PM] Pip: "Ooh. Not a good feeling."

[8:47 PM] Olenna: That's awful.

[8:47 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "...I desire food, as well.  If that is alright."

[8:47 PM] Olenna: Oh, eat the berry Saiph gave you!

[8:47 PM] Olenna: It's a goodberry, they're enough food for a whole day.

[8:47 PM] Saiph: nods.

[8:47 PM] Saiph: They're very good berries.

[8:48 PM] Jaden: goes to find some fresh water for him to drink

[8:48 PM] Pip: "I had one, so I know they're safe."

[8:48 PM] The Blue Scale: He does so.  And a look of warm comfort comes over his face.  He even manages to sit up...in a fashion.  His legs still refuse to work.

[8:48 PM] Olenna: tries to help him up a bit.

[8:49 PM] The Blue Scale: He will take the fresh water when offered.  "...I did not mean to become the center of attention."

[8:49 PM] Saiph: shrugs.

[8:50 PM] Jaden: Not much else was happening today.  we are still a few days out from out destination

[8:50 PM] Saiph: We're not actually crew, so it's not like you're detracting from the actual industry of the ship.(edited)

[8:51 PM] The Blue Scale: He sniffs the air and scowls slightly.  "I see."

[8:51 PM] Pip: "Yeah, unfortunately that happens when you're one-of-a-kind."

[8:52 PM] Olenna: I'm sure it would've  been the same for anyone injured.

[8:53 PM] Saiph: So what's this rock you wanted to ask us about, Pip?

[8:53 PM] The Blue Scale: Half-orc returns with some lumber.  "Not much."

[8:53 PM] Entropy: opens her eyes and stands up.

[8:54 PM] Entropy: Did I miss anything?

[8:54 PM] Olenna: What's not much?

[8:55 PM] The Blue Scale: Half-orc: "Lumber to work with."

[8:56 PM] Olenna: nods.

[8:56 PM] Olenna: Thank you.

[8:56 PM] Pip: "Well, I'm not entirely sure just what it was, but it was a red stone, and he used it to shape me. It wasn't pleasant."

[8:56 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial comes out now.  "Heard we had fresh meat."

[8:57 PM] Olenna: Only metaphorically.

[8:57 PM] Jaden: He was dying, Saiph Stabilized him

[8:57 PM] Saiph: ((Does this magic rock ring any bells?))

[8:57 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Roll history))

[8:58 PM] Pip: "I was going to ask our employer about it."

[8:58 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "...ah...skinny lad.  He need some soup?"

[8:58 PM] Entropy: ((Is that roll open to anyone?))

[8:58 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Sure))

[8:58 PM] Saiph: ((15))

[8:59 PM] Jaden: ((18))

[8:59 PM] Olenna: ((21.))

[8:59 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth: "No thank you.  I have been given quite a meal already."

[9:01 PM] Olenna: You're going to be all right, you'll see.

[9:01 PM] The Blue Scale: Ok, so...most of you guys aren't from this plane, but you've all heard stories of a wizard of the material plane (this one) who mastered transmutation magic, being able to transfer that magic to a red stone, hidden away in the feywild, for safe keeping.  ...this is sounding...familiar.

[9:01 PM] Pip: "Oh we're probably going to have to worry about dietary restrictions. I found out potatoes are safe, but I don't know about anything else. Fish should be safe no matter what, though. Wouldn't be practical to make you allergic to it."

[9:04 PM] Olenna: ... I don't suppose the rock is one of the objects that Ephrim was ... studying?

[9:04 PM] Jaden: Sounds Very possible

[9:04 PM] Saiph: Oh, he might know.

[9:04 PM] Saiph: He's from here.

[9:05 PM] Pip: "It certainly seems so."

[9:05 PM] Entropy: Should we find our employer and ask him?

[9:05 PM] The Blue Scale: Damin returns at this point. "Captain's got ordas.  Wi keeping him til di next port.  Afta dat be up tuh him.  Everything else a him worry."

[9:06 PM] Olenna: nods.

[9:06 PM] Olenna: He can stay with us then.

[9:06 PM] Olenna: If he wants.

[9:06 PM] Jaden: nods "Fair enough,  have you seen Ephrim?"

[9:06 PM] Entropy: We have enough rooms for another person.

[9:06 PM] The Blue Scale: Damin: "Aye, so long as there be no chrent."

[9:07 PM] Entropy: ((Chrent?))

[9:07 PM] The Blue Scale: Damin: "Ephrim?  Inna find him his cabin, mi think."

[9:07 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Means trouble in patois.))

[9:08 PM] Jaden: Nods,  then walks towards the cabin

[9:09 PM] Entropy: goes with Jaden.

[9:09 PM] Jaden: You guys should make sure our new friend gets comfortable,  sounds like hes had a rough time of it

[9:09 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Do you all go to find Ephrim in his cabin?))

[9:10 PM] Jaden: ((I do))

[9:10 PM] Olenna: does too.

[9:10 PM] Saiph: thinks that Jareth and Pip should, at teh very least.

[9:10 PM] Pip: Pip will, definitely

[9:10 PM] Olenna: ((Well... Olenna will stick with Jareth.))

[9:10 PM] Saiph: will go too though.

[9:11 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth will sort of drag himself along, until the half-orc woman picks him up and carries him.  She is a big girl.

[9:11 PM] The Blue Scale: You arrive and find Ephrim writing in a journal.

[9:12 PM] The Blue Scale: He does not take notice of you.

[9:12 PM] Jaden: knocks loudly

[9:12 PM] Olenna: What do you know about the nine items?

[9:12 PM] Jaden: how many of these Artifacts are missing?

[9:13 PM] The Blue Scale: Ephrim: "Hm?  Oh, the artifacts.  Um, each was created by one of the nine under a different school of magic.  Most items are listed, but not given a specific description of its power.  So like...it lists one as a monocle, another a book, one a rock, but it is unclear how they work."

[9:13 PM] Entropy: Is the rock red?

[9:13 PM] Jaden: Pretty sure we know who has the Rock at this point

[9:14 PM] Pip: "Could one of them be described as... a red stone?"(edited)

[9:16 PM] The Blue Scale: Ephrim: "...there is a red stone, yes."

[9:16 PM] Jaden: Have you heard of a Doctor, or a ship called the Saw Bones?

[9:17 PM] The Blue Scale: Ephrim: "...I have not heard of a ship called the Saw Bones.  I know many doctors, though."(edited)

[9:20 PM] Pip: "Well, you were right about the items being dangerous to just exist out in the world. I used to be, well, not this."

She says, gesturing at herself.

[9:20 PM] The Blue Scale: Ephrim pales: "I...I'm sorry."

[9:21 PM] Olenna: We'll find them.

[9:21 PM] Jaden: ....You are POSITIVE this device that can track these items will be there?

[9:23 PM] The Blue Scale: Ephrim flips open one of his journals.  "Log of Jorona Quola, maiden of the Nine, keeper of the abjuration spells, founder of the college of bards. 'We cannot hope our tools to remain tools forever, or to remain hidden.  The means to find them and seal them shall be found at Scutter's Isle, and the guild shall know it by the glinting arrow."

[9:24 PM] Entropy: That doesn’t mean someone hasn’t found it already.

[9:24 PM] Jaden: we know He is looking for it, we have to get there first

[9:26 PM] Entropy: You have a faster way than we are going now?

[9:26 PM] Jaden: shrugs  "We just have to hope we make it there faster"

[9:26 PM] The Blue Scale: Ephrim: "If someone had this tracker, I feel we would've seen the results already...but perhaps we are."

[9:27 PM] The Blue Scale: He looks at Pip.

[9:27 PM] Entropy: ((Is Jareth also with us?))

[9:27 PM] Olenna: Would the stars say?

[9:27 PM] The Blue Scale: ((He is.  And he looks at him too.))

[9:27 PM] Pip: "I'd offer to get out and push, but emphatically no."

[9:27 PM] The Blue Scale: Ephrim: "The stars?"

[9:28 PM] Entropy: Do the star things talk?

[9:29 PM] Saiph: pulls out his astrolabe and fiddles with it.

[9:31 PM] Saiph: Stars talk a lot.  I'm still trying to figure out what they have to say here.

[9:32 PM] The Blue Scale: ((Is this a thing?))

[9:34 PM] Entropy: Interesting.

[9:35 PM] Jaden: I don't know if talking to to stars is going to get us there any faster honestly

[9:36 PM] Entropy: I don’t see how talking to somone or something would slow us down though.

[9:36 PM] The Blue Scale: Ephrim: "...there are no stars out now, though.  It is day."

[9:37 PM] Saiph: They're still there.

[9:37 PM] Olenna: They're behind the day.

[9:37 PM] Pip: "There's one and it wants to stab our eyes out."

[9:38 PM] Saiph: It just doesn't like being looked at.(edited)

[9:38 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom: "...is it bad if someone's listening in on us, now."

[9:38 PM] Entropy: I mean try being surrounded by fire all the time just one bright thing is weird.

[9:39 PM] Entropy: Who is listening Boredom?(edited)

[9:39 PM] Saiph: Who's listening?\

[9:39 PM] Jaden: turns to Boredom  "Who is it?"  Starts walking outside

[9:39 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom: "I dunno.  But someone's big feet are by the door.  I ain't psychic."

[9:39 PM] The Blue Scale: Jaden, roll DEX.

[9:39 PM] Entropy: opens the door.

[9:39 PM] Jaden: ((Check or save?))

[9:40 PM] The Blue Scale: Check

[9:40 PM] Jaden: ((8))

[9:40 PM] The Blue Scale: You guys open the door...nobody's there.

[9:41 PM] Jaden: ((Can i do a perception to see if i can notice anyone?))

[9:41 PM] The Blue Scale: Sure.

[9:41 PM] Jaden: ((7 GOD DANGIT))

[9:41 PM] Entropy: “boredom go invisible and scan the ship for anyone suspicious near here.”

[9:41 PM] The Blue Scale: Boredom groans but does it.

[9:42 PM] Entropy: will go back in the room and sit down.”keep an eye on me please.”

[9:42 PM] The Blue Scale: Jaden...you don't think you see anyone being weird.

[9:42 PM] Entropy: closes her eyes.

[9:43 PM] Saiph: shifts into a doggo.

[9:43 PM] Saiph: sniffs around the door.

[9:44 PM] Jaden: scratches at his rocky hair, frustrated  "I don't see anyone"

[9:44 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph, roll perception at adv.

[9:44 PM] Pip: Pip will keep close to Entropy.

[9:45 PM] Saiph: ((22!))

[9:45 PM] Saiph: is a very sleek almost jackal-like dog with dark fur and silver points.

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[9:46 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph You pick up a faint smell...like lilacs.  A perfume.

[9:46 PM] Saiph: wuffs quietly and looks at Jaden and Olenna, then starts padding and trying to follow the trail.

[9:47 PM] Olenna: You're  so cute like that.

[9:47 PM] Olenna: follows him.

[9:47 PM] Jaden: nods at him "lead on"

[9:48 PM] Entropy: opens her eyes.

[9:48 PM] The Blue Scale: You guys follow down and around.  following the track.

[9:49 PM] Entropy: ((Am I alone in the office?))

[9:49 PM] The Blue Scale: No, the others have just left.

[9:49 PM] Saiph: ((I think Pip and Jareth were still with you.))

[9:49 PM] Pip: I'm in the office, very trigger-happy and high on   P A R A N O I A.

[9:49 PM] The Blue Scale: Pip and Jareth were with you.

[9:50 PM] The Blue Scale: You all following the dog?

[9:50 PM] Jaden: ((I am))

[9:50 PM] Entropy: will if Pip and Jareth do.

[9:51 PM] The Blue Scale: Jareth asks to.

[9:51 PM] The Blue Scale: And is carried with the group.

[9:51 PM] Entropy: Damin is missing.

[9:52 PM] Jaden: As in Not on the ship?!

[9:52 PM] Entropy: I have Boredom looking for him.

[9:52 PM] The Blue Scale: You guys walk through and eventually, Saiph, you notice the smell getting stronger...but then is mixed with other smells of basil, thyme and onion.  And you're now in the kitchen.

[9:53 PM] Saiph: starts sniffing at people.

[9:53 PM] The Blue Scale: The kitchen seems empty.  A soup is heating at a large pot on the stove.

[9:53 PM] Entropy: looks at the soup.

[9:54 PM] The Blue Scale: The soup is a bubbling mess of vegetables, with floating specks of fish.

[9:54 PM] The Blue Scale: At this point, a familiar dragonborn bursts in.

[9:54 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "Ai, what are you lot doing?"

[9:54 PM] Saiph: sniffs at her.

[9:55 PM] Olenna: stirs the soup.

[9:55 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph Lilac perfume

[9:56 PM] Jaden: There was a problem and Damin seems to be missing

[9:56 PM] Saiph: turns back into Saiph.

[9:57 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "Missing?  How so?"

[9:57 PM] Olenna: will keep stirrin'.

[9:58 PM] Saiph: We think he might have been eavesdropping on a private conversation.

[9:58 PM] The Blue Scale: Olenna It smells like a tasty soup.

[9:58 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "Oh, that's very rude behavior."

[9:58 PM] Saiph: ((19 insight.))

[9:59 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph She seems...somewhat smirking as she says that.  ...she might know something.  Her demeanor is sus.

[9:59 PM] Saiph: Isn't it?

[10:00 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "Well, I hope that's not the case.  This is a good ship, I'd hate there to be distrust in the officers like that.  ...although...iffin' they are...eh, best not to worry about it."

[10:00 PM] Saiph: How much do you know about Damin?

[10:01 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "A bit.  Been sailing with him for...hm...two voyages now?  Maybe."

[10:01 PM] Entropy: will lean against a wall and close her eyes again.

[10:04 PM] Entropy: opens her eyes.

[10:04 PM] Saiph: He ever strike you as a bit suspicious?

[10:04 PM] Saiph: Untrustworthy?

[10:04 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial moves to the counter and picks up a knife.

[10:04 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph, roll persuasion.

[10:05 PM] Saiph: (HAH.)

[10:05 PM] Saiph: ((8.))

[10:05 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "....hmmm...no, I suppose not.  But it's hard to tell, isn't it?  Who is and isn't up to something...suspicious."

[10:05 PM] The Blue Scale: She begins cutting into some celery.

[10:05 PM] Saiph: Oh my gods, this is exhausting.

[10:05 PM] Saiph: Why were you eavesdropping?

[10:06 PM] The Blue Scale: She smiles.  "Just wanted to know what your boss was up to.  He also strikes me as someone to not be fully trusted."

[10:06 PM] Saiph: ((Insight checking that.  22!))

[10:06 PM] Jaden: ((Same 15)

[10:07 PM] Olenna: ((10 here.))

[10:07 PM] Olenna: is still tending to the soup.

[10:07 PM] The Blue Scale: Saiph She's been skulking around Ephrim for a while now.  Not just keeping an eye out.  You think she wants something.

[10:07 PM] Entropy: ((16))

[10:08 PM] The Blue Scale: Jaden and Entropy She's dodging.  No.  She's deflecting onto Ephrim.  She wants you to not trust him.

[10:09 PM] Saiph: It's definitely good that you do not have any ulterior motives.

[10:09 PM] Entropy: Are you sure that’s it, absolutely nothing else at all?

[10:10 PM] Jaden: It would Be TERRIBLE if you had ill intentions

[10:10 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial slides the celery into the soup.  "I really need to finish this soup."

[10:10 PM] Jaden: ((16 Intimidation))

[10:11 PM] Olenna: I'm just glad he's not in it.

[10:12 PM] Saiph: Hmmm.  I think I'm gonna be sticking to goodberries for a bit.

[10:14 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "...smart, in a way.  But thank you for bringing all this to my attention.  Have a good day, now."

[10:15 PM] Saiph: does the watching you gesture as he leaves.

[10:15 PM] Olenna: You could just tell us, you know. We might be able to help.

[10:16 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "Nothing to tell."

[10:16 PM] Saiph: Except that you want something that Ephrim has or is trying to get.

[10:17 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "I am doing no such thing, silly puppy."

[10:17 PM] Saiph: Uh huh.

[10:19 PM] Olenna: It might be better off with her.

[10:20 PM] Entropy: You know something, if you tell us it goes no farther we will not go to the captain or Ephrim.

[10:21 PM] Entropy: ((21 deception))

[10:21 PM] The Blue Scale: Lirial: "Go to them with what?  I have done nothing.  Now will you all please leave my kitchen?"

[10:22 PM] Olenna: Maybe she's law enforcement.

[10:22 PM] Saiph: Ew.

[10:22 PM] Jaden: We still need to find Damin lets go

[10:22 PM] Olenna: They're not that bad. ... well, I suppose they are primes.

[10:22 PM] Olenna: All right.

[10:23 PM] Jaden: before he leaves the room, Jaden is going to cast Detect Magic and give the room a look over

[10:23 PM] The Blue Scale: Jaden She has a wand in her bustier and you detect some other magic items hidden around.

[10:24 PM] Jaden: walks out of the room and waits down the hall for the rest-(edited)

[10:24 PM] Entropy: heads out and joins Jaden.

[10:25 PM] The Blue Scale: ((We ok to end here?))

[10:26 PM] Entropy: will tell Jaden and the others that Damin is fine once we are away from Lirial.

[10:26 PM] Jaden: will tell the rest of the party about the fact that she had a Wand and several other magic items hidden

[10:26 PM] Jaden: ((ok))

[10:27 PM] Pip: [sure]

[10:27 PM] Saiph: I don't like her.

[10:27 PM] Olenna: I don't know what she's after.

[10:27 PM] Entropy: Join the club ,I am keeping eyes on her.

[10:28 PM] Pip: "She seemed to be trying rather hard to build rapport at first."

[assuming we're back together at this point.]

[10:28 PM] Olenna: What was in the soup, anyway?

[10:28 PM] Saiph: I don't trust people who want something and won't admit it.

[10:29 PM] Entropy: I mean you can hide something in a contract that’s fine.

[10:30 PM] Olenna: It really isn't.

[10:32 PM] Entropy: It is in every contract I have ever dealt with. And I have dealt with a lot of contracts.

[10:33 PM] Olenna: That doesn't make it right.

[10:34 PM] Saiph: That's basically just lying with extra steps.

[10:34 PM] Entropy: It’s better than just trusting people and having them lie or betray you, with a contract you know everything to expect.

[10:35 PM] Olenna: Maybe if everyone around you is awful.

[10:36 PM] Entropy: That’s what Boredom keeps telling me.

[10:37 PM] Olenna: That everyone is awful?

[10:38 PM] Entropy: Everyone where I am from… which honestly up till now I haven’t really met people from other places.

[10:39 PM] Olenna: Most people aren't that bad, I don't think.  You'll see.

[10:39 PM] Saiph: Nah.  We're all pretty good.

[10:40 PM] Jaden: glancing back at the kitchen  "I like to think most of us are pretty good"

[10:40 PM] Saiph: Olenna is the kindest person you'll ever meet.

[10:41 PM] Olenna: Thank you! Though I think that's a bit further than I'd go. I do try.

[10:43 PM] Entropy: Still also a little rusty on the interacting with people thing.  It’s been just me and Boredom since the war.

[10:43 PM] Entropy: You all seem quite nice it is honestly very strange to see.

[10:44 PM] Jaden: No point in being mean to the people you are traveling with,  just makes everything harder right?

[10:44 PM] Pip: "Everybody'd got an angle."

[10:45 PM] Pip: "You all seem pretty nice, though."

[10:45 PM] Entropy: Anyone who I ever spent time with before we had a contract, it is weird to not have the relationship laid out in writing.

[10:49 PM] Olenna: Well, I mean... you can do that. But I don't think we need to.

[10:49 PM] Saiph: makes a face at the thought of a relationship contract.

[10:50 PM] Saiph: It took me long enough to wrap my head around marriage.

[10:50 PM] Entropy: Marriage?

[10:52 PM] Saiph: Yeah, it's a whole thing.

[10:53 PM] Pip: "I tend to avoid contracts whenever possible. Too many ways to twist the wording so it sounds like one thing but means another. Lots of brothers and sisters have had bad experiences with them in the past."

[10:53 PM] Entropy: Huh , never heard of it,.

[10:54 PM] Entropy: The wordplay and many conditional sections are the best parts of a contract.

[10:55 PM] Olenna: Marriages can be contracts because sometimes it's nice to plan out who gets what and who has to do what, that's all.

[10:56 PM] Entropy: Every ‘friend ‘ or ‘acquaintance’ or contact I used to have I had a. Contract with.

[10:57 PM] Olenna: That's far too much paperwork.

[10:58 PM] Jaden: not all contracts are written

[10:58 PM] Jaden: Verbal Contracts are a thing too right?

[11:00 PM] Entropy: The hells run on paperwork.  Verbal contracts are not acknowledged as legal or binding by the infernal court.

[11:00 PM] Olenna: Well, that's why they're  the hells, and generally considered bad places to be.

[11:02 PM] Entropy: Which is why I wanted out.

[11:03 PM] Olenna: Smart.

[11:05 PM] Entropy: kind of scratches at the metal circle around her neck”Maybe, it’s not easy though.”

[11:06 PM] Saiph: What, you couldn't just leave?

[11:07 PM] Entropy: Some planes are much more secure than others.

[11:07 PM] Saiph: I suppose.

[11:08 PM] Jaden: stares at eeryone here from different planes  "Seems like the Material Plane isn't super secure"

[11:08 PM] Saiph: I mean, didn't you just have a whole war because that was true?

[11:08 PM] Jaden: YUP

[11:09 PM] Entropy: Yeah and I used that as a step to getting out.

[11:10 PM] Olenna: Well... I mean, it needn't be secured against us. We're all right.

[11:10 PM] Saiph: We should probably be careful, though.  Some Primes might just be jumpy at all Planars.

[11:11 PM] Entropy: Oh but the hells aren’t?

[11:11 PM] Entropy: Are they jumpy? I hadn’t noticed.

[11:12 PM] Olenna: Well... you hear things about Primes.

[11:13 PM] Saiph: looks at Jaden.  "No offense, cutter.  You're all right."

[11:13 PM] Entropy: Do you? I never have not much gossip.

[11:14 PM] Jaden: stares at Saiph   "Sure"  then thinks to himself "cutter?"

[11:14 PM] Olenna: Oh, you know. ... lighting people on fire, that kind of thing.

[11:15 PM] Entropy: I mean I can look like a prime if that would help.

[11:16 PM] Entropy: uses mask of many faces to look like Jaden but a very colorful version.

[11:16 PM] Jaden: looks VERY unsettled

[11:16 PM] Olenna: You don't really light people on fire, do you?

[11:17 PM] Jaden: Me?

[11:19 PM] Olenna: You or... you know, other Primes.

[11:19 PM] Entropy: I mean we do where I am from we have a Pit of Flame that is even hotter than other places.

[11:20 PM] Saiph: IS that where the fire gets set on fire?

[11:21 PM] Jaden: .......I'm pretty sure i haven't lit someone on fire

[11:22 PM] Entropy: No thats where those who piss of Asmodeus or other Arch devils or Pit Fiends get sent if the courts and their cages and maze isnt enough.

[11:22 PM] Entropy: will drop Mask of may faces, " See I can blend in just fine."

[11:23 PM] Saiph: It looked okay except for all the colors.

[11:24 PM] Olenna: No, you seem very nice and not the kind of person who'd set people on fire if they didn't breathe or whatever.

[11:24 PM] Jaden: .......What?

[11:25 PM] Pip: Pip seems a bit dejected.

"I really miss being able to change shape. Everybody can see my face, but it's not my face, it's the one this 'doctor' chose for me and I can't swap it out."

[11:25 PM] Entropy: Whats wrong with a little color?

[11:25 PM] Saiph: frowns.

[11:25 PM] Saiph: Yeah.

[11:25 PM] Entropy: It sounds awful not having your own face.

[11:25 PM] Saiph: I've noticed that this plane doesn't really favor fluidity.

[11:25 PM] Saiph: I can't change as well as I used to.

[11:26 PM] Entropy: You could do more than the dog before?(edited)

[11:26 PM] Olenna: He could do practically anything.

[11:27 PM] Saiph: I'm used to just.... thinking  and then I could be whatever animal I wanted.  Bear, bird, fish, whatever.  Here it's a lot harder.

[11:27 PM] Entropy: Interesting.

[11:28 PM] Entropy: I only started being able to do my tricks after me and Boredom became acquainted.

[11:33 PM] Pip: "That sounds amazing. There are rumors that some changelings, old ones who have been cautiously messing with their anatomy for decades, are able to do some pretty weird things."

[11:34 PM] Pip: "Probably just stories to spook young people with, though."

[11:34 PM] Entropy: Always some truth in stories.

[11:34 PM] Pip: "Like how parents tell their kids not to make faces or it'll stick like that."

[11:36 PM] Entropy: Oh yeah, primes re raised ny parents arent they?

[11:36 PM] Pip: "'ohhh, don't you wiggle your liver at me, mister. You'll twist your tubes and bile will pour from your nostrils.'"(edited)

[11:36 PM] Pip: "Usually, yeah. Not always their birth parents."

[11:37 PM] Pip: "I hear goblins are just raised by their whole village. That sounds pretty cozy."

[11:38 PM] Entropy: Back home you get a contract as soon as you can comprehend it and start working your way up.

[11:39 PM] Pip: "Do they ensure you understand it fully?"

[11:39 PM] Pip: "If not, that sounds like exploitation of the young."

[11:41 PM] Olenna: She's from one of the hells.

[11:42 PM] Entropy: It also serves as your first lesson that contracts arent fair.

[11:50 PM] Pip: "I honestly can't remember much about my childhood. I know there was a party where they put me in a cloak, and then I was sent off to another group of changelings. Oh also there was cake."

[11:50 PM] Entropy: Cake?

[11:51 PM] Pip: "Oh you've never had cake before?"

[11:51 PM] Pip: "We need to acquire cake supplies next time we're in port."

[11:53 PM] Pip: "Also fabric. These are the clothes the 'doctor' gave me and they show too much me. I really don't wanna be seen, especially now that I know he's looking for me, specifically."

[11:54 PM] Olenna: Cake is good.

[11:54 PM] Entropy: We can work on that. if I could help disguise you I would but my thing only seems to work on me.

[12:01 AM] Pip: "I should probably see if I can investigate... whatever these powers are. I wasn't able to do magic before I got tossed in the ocean. That much I know."

[12:02 AM] Pip: "Later, though. There's skullduggery afoot."