Tenth Session – As we make our way back to civilization, the island hopping and town hopping yields both short and long term plot hooks!
First, Hemp talks to a sentient oak tree on an island that takes a magic sacrifice for info. He feeds it the pirate muder sword and it tells him that the Wizard King in Sewich is behind a plot to replace all the kingdom’s leaders with undead and werewolves and shit and turn the place into Monster Land. This is great as it gives us longer term plans than “murderhobo,” so I’m excited.
Hemp and Old Man Fish decide not to tell anyone about the sacrifice of the sword, on the grounds that Galfred might be upset. Instead, they will feign ignorance, and maybe blame the theft on immigrants.
Then, in the night Old Man Fish sees a mummy on a haunted barge go by. For some demented reason he decides the mummy “might be friendly” and throws more logs onto the fire to attract it. Spoiler alert, the mummy was not friendly, and wanted our souls. We kill it after a hard fight.
Old Man Fish awkwardly apologizes. “Sorry guys, I honestly thought he’d be friendly. Good job on killing it through, everyone.”
It also turns out that the fishing rules are such that we all end up getting hurt or otherwise messed up half the time we try to fish. We had some bad turns in earlier sessions but now we got the message that we don’t just have bad luck, it’s an “on average, fuck you” rule.
Back in Wymoor, Hemp turns his attention to making cool custom matching cloaks for everyone with the various cloths and furs and stuff we’ve collected. He also goes to get some blood to drink as Aphiel’s bow is urging him to. He keeps trying to hook up with Morgan but she’s not having it, so the rest of the party starts planning to marry her off to a random local.
Then we hear that local water pollution is coming from a nearby count’s manor, so he goes right onto the hit list for next time!
Hemp asks if the tax collector if the bay is always this nasty, and is told no, it’s a side effect of some agricultural project by Count Zodra. (Old Man Fish: “With a name like that, he’s totally a vampire. Especially since he’s a count. That’s just basic logic.” Mordecai: “Yeah, the only way to be more obvious is if he was named Chocula.”)
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