Chapter 2, Part III: Tale of Two Captains

Theodore

    Written by Justin

We head out with our captive, stealth checks are okay, we've been clocked maybe but not stopped

I start copying Invisibility into my spellbook as Morgan starts trying to Intimidate this individual

Morgan accusing the captain Preston of selling children

The prisoner says they just came back from Haupstadt with supplies

Captain Preston is "the Linebreaker" for getting supplies through the blockade and supplying the Evervale troops

Louie steps in and threatens violence, it seems to be effective

Morgan asks how many people are crewed up on the ship, 28ish total, most of them are not on the ship when it's at port

The ORC assigned the prisoner to the Captain's ship, the Captain is high up in the ORC

Prisoner says he joined the ORC to make the world a better place and make money. The ORC is probably telling their people that they are the good guys

TB asks if Bucky (the Quartermaster) is still on the ship, prisoner says probably

We knock him out again and take his cloak and gold and pocket knife and tie him to a tree

I put an alarm around him before we go to rest at the inn

On the third watch the alarm goes off, Morgan and Louie go to investigate, there are 3 dead bears with their heads exploded? Rope is cut

Two sets of footprints heading towards the beach

We wake up from the long rest, I bring Pecan back as an Owl

They describe the scene with the bear, on an Arcana it's probably high level Illusion magic dealing psychic damage

We go to investigate the bears first

The bears are gone? No sign of the corpses or anything, just some footprints

The tracks to the beach do turn and head towards town

Detect magic blinds me at the site of the bears

Run down

Alarm went off, three headless brown bears, prisoner gone

Rope on the ground with the lock

Two sets of footsteps leading to the beach

Figure out it's Illusion magic

DO my detect magic, there is no active illusion right now

The blinding area is remnants from where the heads exploded

Boatswain feels a gentle tap on his shoulder

A tiefling in a very cool coat comes out of Invisibility. Dark, orangey gold complexion, Captain's hat and coat, stylish boots. CTRL Orb glows with Grayce's face in it

Raveth Orsa is her name, she rescued our dude from the bear

They wanted to get through the blockade, turned around, blockade was getting bigger.

They got boarded by Preston and tries to take their ship for the war efforts, whole Crystalia navy on his side.

Cpt. Preston clearly working both sides

Rix insights and she seems to be telling the truth

Morgan asks if she knows Grayce. Raveth says she knows her

Raveth is gonna illusion that the boat is on fire so we can get on it and hopefully steal it

Cpt. Preston answers to someone called The Admiral

We're gonna try to find evidence on the boat to see if we can get Cpt. Preston arrested

Raveth sets off her Illusion

The crew runs off the ship

TB sees Bucky, whistles for him, and Bucky hears it

We head on to the ship invisibly, head to the captain's quarters, TB picks the first lock

Morgan rolls a nat 20! To unlock the second lock

Louie is watching from the gangplank

In the desk I find a drawer with a false bottom. Under that is a note from somebody in Crystalia talking about how there is going to be a ritual in the Northreach Glades that is going to take over those Glades for Crystalia, SIgned A.S.

Under the bed, Rix finds 20 gp

In the clothes cabinet TB finds a lot of pants, some sashes and some hats. In one of the pants pockets, a letter in an envelope that is sealed and has never been sent

I cast Detect magic dropping invisibility

Rix rolls a nat 20 investigation to check the floorboards. She does find a loose board by the door, inside she finds a hat that has the Brawlmart logo on it. Underneath is a pair of sending stones

Morgan opens up the chest at the base of the bed. I take a compass. There are also invoices that shows that supplies are being redirected to Evervale from Crystalia

TB opens up the letter, it's from Cpt. Preston to the Admiral, relaying the story of the betrayal of TB

We head down to the cargo hold

Morgan unlocks another door killing it

Boxes that have the Crystalian emblem on it

There is also a satchel on top of one of the crates, super incriminating journal in it

Louie pranks us on our way out by pretending to have disappeared

We tell Margalees to get the crew on the ship

We walk back up to the city to find Adriana at the AGI/her tower

I make a copy of the most pertinent parts of the evidence and give it to Rix

Holly tells us she's at the meeting at the Battle Tower

We head that way to try to find her, some sort of event is popping off

We head in and TB notices Kelton walking up a set of stairs

We head towards Kelton

He tells us Adriana is the person we need to show this evidence to for sure

Louie tells Zuri that her sister is fine btw

We give Adriana the copies of the evidence to give to the authorities

We head down to the arena so TB can confront Cpt. Preston

The arena is very much like a chess board

Crowd is going wild

Winners of the battles from all over the world will be given access to a final battle that will offer riches

TB finally confronts the CPT

All the rules for the battle royale are in place?? Says the other announcer

Portent die after Long rest from Morgan's Ult 16, 8

We beat that tortle ass

We get a badge for clearing the arena