Ninth Session (6 page pdf) – “The Gnoll Cartel” – To get proof of their crewman’s innocence, the crew pursues drug dealers back to the lair of their boss and his menagerie.
This is a pretty focused session – the PCs ambush some drug smugglers who also have a captive – who turns out to be the famous pirate Falken Drango, who busts loose and helps them! Entertainingly, the session almost completely omits his sad story to them about how his crew and ship, the Nightslink, are missing and he needs help to reclaim them. But, they like him and partner up with him, which is good.
The drug smugglers were an encounter from the Razor Coast book (The Midnight Deal) but I added Drango so the PCs would have another chance to meet him.
They track back to the gnoll smuggler Bonegnaw’s cove where his ship, the Dragon’s Tail, berths. He smuggles in both drugs and exotic monsters. That makes for a lively and very dangerous fight full of chimeras and cockatrices and chuuls and girallons. And many of the monsters don’t differentiate between smugglers and PCs in terms of murder opportunities.
After an orgy of violence, they capture Bonegnaw!
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