Seventh Session (7 page pdf) – “Arson, She Wrote” – As usual, while our PCs have been off adventuring, their crew has gotten into various forms of trouble. Their Nidalese fisherwoman Arsonee has been arrested for being close to the scene of an arson, and… Her name is “Arsonee.” Open and shut case!
One of the fun parts of the PCs having an entire crew of pirates is that when they leave them alone, they don’t just peaceably swab decks on the ship, they go ashore and get into pirate style trouble. I put entire charts together to randomly determine it.
There’s some other minor problems but the biggest one is that Arsonee, the fisherwoman they picked up from Nidal (the shadow torture country), got arrested for arson, largely based on being near a burning warehouse and having the name “Arsony.” “I mean, we’d get busted down to private for *not* arresting her,” reasoned the Dragoon responders.
Naturally, they immediately take her to the torturer to elicit a confession, in standard fantasy (?) cop procedure. Being from Nidal where recreational torture is an art form, it’s getting them nowhere. The PCs are on good terms with the Dragoons mainly via making friends with Sergeant Darenar, so they go get them to chill out on the torture while they investigate, and as a bonus take crazed fisherman Harok McFarrow who saw his family eaten by weresharks and was then blamed for the crime to Father Zalen to see if he can cure his insanity, but he’s “only” a ninth level cleric.
Zalen explains he doesn’t have the magics personally to heal peoples’ minds. And the local asylums have been closed down by the city council.
Some discussion ensued about “Oh, just like Ronald Reagan!” which should have been a tip to them about who the bad guy is…
But anyway, Arsonee tells them a weird story about a chimera inside the warehouse and the prostitutes starting to set up the new brothel they’re establishing provide some leads as well. The PC crime wave in Port Shaw is well underway!
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