Thirty-Ninth Session (9 page pdf) – “Sky Pirates” – All of the crew doesn’t get away cleanly from Bloodcove, so the newly christened Chainbreaker heads that direction. Things start getting a little weird with the local rat population, however.
They try to break Sexy Beast Sapier out of prison and then get everyone back to Rickety’s Squibs, but the message of a dawn showtime with one day’s notice fails to make its way to everyone. And Thalios Dondel makes it just in time, escaping the clutches of the Fulvous Cabal, but they still have Crazy Jake.
I can’t remember where I got the Fulvous Cabal from – I was stitching together random bits that mentioned Bloodcove in Heart of the Jungle and other sources and still using some of the 3.5e adventures from Paizo, Green Ronin, etc. I can’t find them in a search and I have a vague idea of using some random cult name generator, probably this one.
Anyway, on their way back to Bloodcove with the newly christened Chainbreaker to recover him and any other remaining crew, during which they have two agenda items that come up – one, a rat king causing trouble on the ship. I was foreshadowing it with a bit of a rat infestation, but they fast-forwarded by using a crystal ball to find their missing seamunculus crewman JJ trapped by some rats. There was a great moment where Wogan put it all together and everyone else had the sudden “well of course” realization that is part of a good reveal.
Wogan guesses, “Oh, he’s on board and our sudden rat infestation is his jailer.” Everyone stares at him a moment and then springs into action.
Then they try out their new hover-platform! It turns out to not be as simple as “stick a hover platform inside your ship, suddenly it flies like a bird” – but they experiment and figure out what kind of rigging and ballast and such would be required to make a flying sailing ship actually navigable.
Geek Related 