Fifth Session (12 page pdf) – “Shadow Conspiracy” – The night gets longer as they have to dispose of a body. Finally they check in at their ship and split time between planning to fund a brothel and searching down leads related to their phantom attacker, which sends them from the church to a bar to a sewer.
The party struggles on, having been awake for several days at this point. Every time they think about turning in some new demented entertainment is offered up by Port Shaw. They go to dispose of the phantom/businessman’s mortal remains at a local inn that offers that as a value add service, And, of course, drink and gamble some more. Even when they get back to the ship, they take some reports before finally turning in…
But Serpent’s family has moved out (he forgot that this was the plan, to be honest) and Sindawe’s captain’s quarters are occupied by Lefty and a local girl. A rough night on an improvised pallet for both of them then!
They then split their time between investigating phantom sightings and arranging to own a proper brothel that their four new prostitute besties can set up in. Since Lavender Lil was a proper (?) brothel prostitute back in Riddleport they put her in charge, which is a great idea except for the fact she and all the other women immediately decided they hated each other on sight.
I generally roll informal reaction checks whenever people meet each other to see how well they get along. Years ago the group was entertained by Samaritha and Ameiko Kaijutsu of Sandpoint (the latter eventually travelling to Tian Xia and being the empress apparent in the Jade Regent adventure path) both rolling nat 1’s when meeting each other, causing them to fall into that inexplicable state of implacably cold hate that only women just meeting each other can immediately muster. Well, many years later it happened again, so the rowdy whores are quite a handful and it’ll take a while to get to some equilibrium on that (more to come!).
And finally, they find a sad native girl who indicates that the “Roach King” took one of her friends into the sewers to be eaten. The sewers are suspiciously locked and guarded by Dragoons. This is their cue to find Capt’n Lester Farrows, a swamp pirate (no really) and his raft to venture therein!
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