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Reavers on the Seas of Fate, Season Six, Tenth Session

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!

Reavers on the Seas of Fate, Season Six, Ninth Session

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.

Reavers on the Seas of Fate, Season Six, Eighth Session

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.

Reavers on the Seas of Fate, Season Six, Seventh Session

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.

Reavers on the Seas of Fate, Season Six, Sixth Session

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…

Reavers on the Seas of Fate, Season Six, Fifth Session

Fifth Session (6 page pdf) – “Bound for Elf Island” – Aboard a pleasure yacht, the Champagne Morning, they set out for Elf Island with spoiled noble girl Jacinth Deepwarder. On the way they run across a slave ship in the process of a slow-burn rebellion.  They help the rebellion, but they do price out the slaves before coming to that decision.

We continue with the second adventure from the Heart of the Razor supplement for the Razor Coast, “Sinful Whisper.” After obtaining a pleasure yacht for the purpose (Jacinth has a steady hand at blackmail, it turns out), a hand picked set of crewmen and women set off for Dolentla Island (which they militantly refer to as “Elf Island” due to the rumor of ancient elven ruins there), still maintaining their cover story as “treasure hunters from Magnimar” and not pirates. They come across the Iron Bastion, a slave ship that requests their aid because “things are weird.” Turns out things are weird because a native witch doctor slash valet is Wormtonguing the captain into giving the slaves more and more leeway. After contemplating the 2500-5000 gp list price of 50 slaves, they finally decide to help free them anyway. Which goes well, but leaves them with the problem of “what do we do with 50 slaves, a slaver ship, some slavers that are still alive, and our skeleton crew on a yacht that has a mission to do?” Ah, the decisions of a pirate’s life.

The adventure would have Jacinth be a colossal bitch. Greedy! Arrogant! Racist! Irredeemable! I have to tone that down because this is not a party of good PCs, they’ll drown someone if they dislike them too much. So I keep some of that but with a “she doesn’t know any better, she was raised all privileged like in Redneckistan by rich redneck parents, so she’s like one of those chicks on My Super Sweet 16” twist designed to make her somewhat sympathetic, at least enough to keep her alive. The art of her with giant Dallas hair helps, we all live in Texas, we know the type.

Reavers on the Seas of Fate, Season Six, Fourth Session

Fourth Session (13 page pdf) – “Eleder” – The Chainbreaker reaches Eleder, the capital of the colonial country of Sargava, on the jungle coast of the Mwangi Expanse. They find employment by some parents of local rich kids who have gone missing on a pleasure voyage, to be accompanied by the only one who returned, Jacinth Deepwarder.  A milk run, certainly.

Eleder is a classic colonial outpost, with whitey ruling it up, in their minds benevolently, over the black natives. The primary source for it is the old Pathfinder Companion: Sargava, The Lost Colony, augmented by the Mwangi Expanse information in Pathfinder Chronicles: Heart of the Jungle. Now, for Pathfinder 2e there’s a more comprehensive Mwangi Expanse book, but there’s been significant world changes (including a native revolt in Eleder); this is based off the 1e Golarion info.

The players sell what loot they can that isn’t obviously stolen (they got rid of most questionable goods at Rickety’s Squibs and Bloodcove, mostly they have weird alien doodads from The Black Spot) and then immediately go find the Aspis Consortium to join up with them. The A.C. is evil in an “East India Company” kind of way and is happy to sic the PCs on ships belonging to their competitors.

Then they go shopping. These are the kinds of things this group buys.

Purchased from Black Arm, the Besmaran priest:

  • A Sargavan letter of marque to prey on anyone, mostly Chelish and Andorans. (100% legal, 2000 gp)
  • Protection from the Eye of Abendego mount this (an angry red eye painted on a plate of copper) on your mast. The goddess will look kindly upon you and turn the wrath of the eye away. 1900gp.
  • A blindfold looking item that was created by a Besmaran pirate witch. If you get the woman to wear this not even magical divination will reveal the truth about whether you slept with her. It only works once. 1700gp. Natural 20 by the GM, so it will probably work, maybe even against voodoo loa Mama Watanna.
  • An Indulgence For Killing Disloyal Crewmen – these items are in the form of hand-crafted shanks, which are to be left next to the body. 100gp per crewmen. Sindawe buys five.

Here we start the second adventure from the Heart of the Razor supplement for the Razor Coast, “Sinful Whisper.” The PCs are approached indirectly by a local viscount whose daughter just returned from an ill-fated cruise of some local noble kids and the rest of them need rescuing from “some kind of natives.” They meet Jacinth Deepwarder, a stuck up blonde half elf noblewoman. Her story only partially tracks, but there’s money on the line, so time to hit the sea!