Trouble on the Gale's Teeth (Session 9) - Emmanir 19, 888 F.S.

North of Degarn's Fort
The leader of the captive bad guys says that they meet Garrin on a ship south of Fopasado off of a point on the beach. We travel toward Fopasado, head south of town, and lo and behold, there are three ships seen flying the standard of the sword with the crescent moon. We dress up in the garb of the slave traders that we waylaid and plan to meet up with members of the ships and spin them a story that we were waylaid and lost our shipment of captives.

West Coast of Hronn, South of Fopasado
After a little while, a boat is lowered from one of the ships and sets to shore. There is a woman and six men. We talk with the lady, whose name is Red Frances. She’s horked that her “booty” (i.e., slaves) aren’t here. We tell her that we are in the process of recovering the lost wagon and slaves, and will deliver the goods as promised. Frances sends two of her men with us; they aren’t very friendly. After some suspicious questioning by her thugs as to who our captain is, Estenel replies with “Priamo”. The thugs go back to Frances’ boat and talk with her. Estenel heads back to speak with Frances to see if he can gain more information from them. She has her men draw steel on Estenel, says that she does not believe we work on Priamo’s ship, and takes custody of Estenel. Meanwhile, the rest of the party is back at the wagon, which is 120 yards off of the coast.

A short fight ensues. The fight ends. More discussion with Frances, who says, “If you’re with Pri­amo’s crew, let’s go talk with him now.” We decide to call her bluff: Estenel, Sophia, Teverius, and Keeramet travel out to the ship with Red Frances. Frances sends a carrier pigeon to a nearby ship. A little later, a small boat makes its way from the other ship to Red Frances’ ship. Two people come aboard, one of them (wearing a white cloak) actually flies aboard. They come with Frances to the stern of the ship where Frances says, “Something’s messed up with this transaction; these guys don’t even know who their captain is, and in the end they say it’s you. Do you know these guys?” Priamo says, “Well, they don’t look like anyone I know, but they’re wearing the uniforms.” Upon hearing this, Sophia passes out and Tevarius pukes due to the extreme dread of the situation. The woman pulls back her cloak and demands from Estenel, “Who do you work for and why are you here?” After hemming and hawing for a while, the woman casts a spell on Estenel which drops him to the deck in pain. Estenel then yells out, “Ybilaron! He sent us here to stop the attacks on his bor­derlands!”

Meanwhile, Yukon has set the sails of the ship on fire. Estenel casts Garble on the woman. Seeing their mage no longer able to talk/cast straight, the thugs in the room on the ship draw steel. Estenel grabs hold of the woman, telling the sailors to back off. Priamo runs like a little girl out of the cabin. Red Frances and her two thugs draw steel. Combat ensues.

In the end, Red Frances and the mage with the cloak are unconscious. The party uses them as barter to get off the ship. The sailors allow us to leave given that we leave Frances there. We get on a boat and head to shore with the mage. We gag and bind her. When she wakes up, we interrogate her. What we find out is: she works for someone with a “higher purpose”, they sell slaves in return for “favors” that are desired by her master. She said that she sometimes works with Ididerac. The party then deliberated for some time as to what should be done with her. After batting around ideas of “kill her”, “entomb her”, “bring her back to Degarn’s Fort”, Estenel got tired of the debate and killed her. A magical gem, a magical staff, and a cloak were taken from her person.