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Tenth Session (9 page pdf) – “Leaving Elf Island” (Warning, adult content) – Having braved the dark island fairly successfully, the pirates return to Eleder and cash in.

Serpent is bad off after drinking the qlippoth’s blood and decides of the three ways to go with it- drugs, sex, and violence – the safest bet is drugs so he hits the maht (aka “Granpappy Blackskull”) hard to at least keep himself super stoned and out of everyone else’s hair.

The others loot the temple/lab (there’s a weird part with a fairly calm crypt thing; I am prepared for the PCs to talk more with it to get some backstory but they don’t, they just rush to attack, get teleported away, rush to the attack again…) and spend several days repairing the ship and trying to heal the various folks caught in the dark dreams and early stages of hawani transformation.

The layover and trip back to Eleder isn’t eventful combat wise but is spent exploring the after-effects of the island’s unfortunate events. Some of the nobles are still sex-crazed, Melella is depressed and they put her on suicide watch, and even the PCs are having PTSD and addiction drug withdrawl problems…

Genevieve Tolcrist approaches Serpent below decks and thanks him for the rescue. He warns her off, but not well as she pushes herself firmly against him. He pushes her violently away, moreso than he intended. She hits the wall heavily, then sinks.

But finally they get everyone back home, cleaned up, back to their parents, and collect their reward.

And that’s the end of “Sinful Whispers” from Heart of the Razor. Very adult, I laid it on thick early on in the season TV series style to make the point “this is what’s gonna happen”. Razor Coast itself does some more drugs but not that much more sex, but the Hot Springs Island OSR type supplements are all about the ancient sex-drug elves and I’m mashing together Razor Coast, Hot Springs Island, and our own custom shadow phantom/Cyphergate/serpentfolk plot into one big campaign ender! So this exposed them to that and to the consequences and the perils of not being able to control yourself.

The rest of Season Six segues into stage-setting for the other big theme underlying the rest of the campaign… More on that soon!

Ninth Session (5 page pdf) – “Elf Tentacle Temple” (Warning, very adult content) – The pirates penetrate the temple in the deviant Elvish installation at Dolenta Isle.

Now the psychic tampering goes hard. Wogan and Serpent use protection from evil but Sindawe is left to his monkly super-Will to try to resist the dark dreams. This is my opportunity to show some of what’s to come on Hot Springs Island so they find sculpture of things like “an elf dressed in the style of the Persian King from the movie 300.”

The “Sinful Whisper” adventure doesn’t really have a good reason beyond “liking to kill monsters” to proceed into the temple, so their captured crewmember provides some motivation. Sindawe gets bitten by another hawani and keeps losing bits of Wisdom but is lucky on his saves.

The last feral bites Sindawe on the thigh, then it is cut down. Sindawe steels himself to fight off the violent sexual urges that continually flood his mind.

Then they burst into the sanctum of the temple, which has an imprisoned Shoggti Qlippoth, the source of the disturbance, in a very tentacle-hentai scene. It was imprisoned here by the elves long ago as part of their increasing deviance and extraplanar escapades, and was under control then – now it’s trapped but not under control and loves luring people to join its feral cult. It also has the benefit of looking a lot like a little kraken, and a demon kraken is one of the big bads of the Razor Coast campaign.

It’s a hard fight and Serpent finally kills it with his raging bite attack, which ends up being super bad for his stats and sanity. But in the end the creature is dead and they have rescued Melella and a bunch of Eleder noble spawn.

Eighth Session (5 page pdf) – “Elf Island Village Murders” (Warning, adult content) – The pirates slay their way through violent aroused feral natives to try to recover their crewmembers and quarry.

Ko’oku’wa is asked to make a cure for Fazzio, Vel, and Lavender Lil, who slumber without awakening caught in dark dreams. He does so, then a small team goes to the tied up trio and administers the cure. Lavender Lil is first ; she awakens and asked, “What happened?” She is told what happened and she explains, “Something is inviting me to join its sex cult. But I…” Serpent finishes her sentence, “Already serve a dark master.”

They finally go in force to the hawani village and attack the opium-smoke enshrouded orgy; the continued mental battering of the resident god-monster makes it harder than it should be. They steel themselves to fight the pregnant hawani as well, who are just as fierce as the others. They kill many but try to K.O. the ones that are recently marooned nobles… They end the session with Melella, some violent sex neanderthals, and – something else – inside the ancient temple, for next time.

Seventh Session (5 page pdf) – “Elf Island Orgy” (Warning, adult content, not kidding) – Apparently something about this island turns people into bestial, violent, sex-crazed versions of themselves. And they start to lose crew members…

Well, the pursuing Sindawe and Serpent manage to make their way through a bunch of jungle traps to the hawani camp and are disturbed by both the nonstop fight club slash orgy they find, augmented by big clouds of maht smoke (think opium). They want to get Melella back, but she’s already been to the temple and they are shocked when she comes out and joins in with the cavemen. They don’t think the two of them are up to the challenge and start heading back to the beach to get more forces when they hear shots…

Wogan and Mandohu were left alone on the beach with three crew members, Lavender Lil, Fazzio, and Vel asleep and caught in the local violence-sex dreams the monster floods the island with. And then draugr emerge from the surf. Luckily Wogan is both a cleric and a little upleveled for the adventure; when Serpent and Sindawe manage to sprint back they’ve already dispatched the undead!

They link up with Jacinth and a launch from the Iron Bastion and look to make their way across the island again – this time they investigate a shipwreck they’d passed, which both reveals the ghost of Jacinth’s ex-boyfriend who died in a trap here (he’s angry at her) and some more hawani which they fight off… But Serpent gets bit and his rage vibes quite well with the dark dreams of the monster. So he’s not entirely fine, which I hint at and he happily picks up and roleplays.

Sixth Session (7 page pdf) – “Arrival at Elf Island” (Warning, adult content) – A wereshark attack enlivens the voyage as the Champagne Morning and captured slave ship approach Dolenta Island. And then a hag coven attack.  As they approach the island an irate whale sinks their yacht! And then bestial natives attack!

This is an action packed and chaotic session, where the PCs are trying to juggle two ships, a druggie wereshark stowaway, freed slaves, captive slavers, hostile castaways, angry fauna… It’s quite an effort just to get to Dolentla Island. They finally drag their broken yacht ashore after three combats already in the session.

And then it gets worse. They get attacked by the hawani, which are what people get turned into once they’ve fallen under the thrall of the resident, let’s be honest, tentacle-sex monster the elves imprisoned here. “This gaunt, feral humanoid has blood red eyes, leathery skin and wicked claws. It moves with a simian gait and has a mouth full of oversized, pointed teeth. Despite its monstrous appearance, it is not unimaginable that the creature may have been human at one time.” They are “monstrous creatures devoid of inhibition and possessing only the weakest self-determination. In simplest terms, a hawani is an impulsive being of pure violence and id” and only care about sex and violence, basically. And their bite can put you to sleep and expose you to the monster’s “Dark Dreams.” They try to carry off crew members, and are mostly thwarted except they get away with Melella! (Who also nearly died to the wereshark stowaway, it’s just not her week.)

Part of the group pursues. Part is left on the beach with three dreaming party members. Part is on board the Iron Bastion still. This division of their forces leads to even more severe problems next session.

Here we have a couple of our major end-campaign themes being brought up. The elves that dwelt on Hot Springs Island (where a lot of the end campaign will happen) were decadent druggies. This is one of their outposts. Oh, sure a Studio 54 lifestyle seems all glam but once it’s no longer tended, not so much. While this campaign is no stranger to adult themes, this marks a turning point where “sex and drugs” (and not so much the elves, who are all gone) is actually a significant villain. Though a villain they will work with from time to time…