[And almost at exactly the same time, back on the Sword Coast, me and my friends are doing our best to figure out what is going on with the Blue Phage and the crew of the Anubus]
DAY 473 (18th Kythorn)(June) cont ...
We returned to the city and arranged the sale of the treasure we had found and split the proceeds between those involved.
While myself, Corum, Sylvia and Jiggles are much more experienced at this sort of thing it was considered only fair that Molly and Rolanda get some gold too as they had been involved.
Irritator had managed to get the 'Charm' spell into his book, which would form part of my plan for the Anubus.
Although it was late in the afternoon now, on the off-chance I sent Jiggles out to look for a crewman. We others went back to the house we had rented in town, a nice quiet place that was close to the city wall with four bedrooms and - vital if we were going to be kidnapping sailors - a basement!
Jiggles asked and snooped about and her luck was in - she asked at the Chandlers and the same crewman had just been in. Cleverly she went to the North Gate and looked for him there and saw him out on the main road beyond the town.
There were a few people on the road, but it was not hard for her to sneak up on him. She decided just to approach him and offer him a bribe for information. Her luck was in again though as he was having a crisis of conscious and had had enough of what the captain of his ship was up to. He even agreed to come back and talk to the rest of us.
Myself, Sylvia and Corum met him in town. We were disguised as paladins. His name was Faravol Forest and he was an elf or half-elf. We talked for a long while and this is a summary of the information he gave:
- He and the others usually just adventurers for hire
- They had lost some of their crew recently, who had been replaced with unsavoury types
- their current mission was sold to them as a 'way to help people'
- He knows that's not true but doesn't know what is actually going on 'we were just do what were told by the captain'
- They were told they are relocating people for their own good. He said 'I don't know. the things I'v seen of this Blue Phage, I can't believe the cities are not locked down yet'
- This is all linked, because the island is the worst I've ever seen
- If it wasn't for the sigil we'd be goners. How did the captain know they would work?
- He regrets his situation. The group he is beholden to, know where is family lives
- From the original crew there is just one other left - a half-orc called Effu the Mighty
- He doesn't know any details about the Blue Phage
- The Captain takes orders from a mystery person, via a crystal ball
- He doesn't know about why specific people are being kidnapped
- The 'mystery person' has a massive amount of money to spend
- There are six prisoners on board the Anubus
- They are sailing tomorrow, back to the island with the new 'relocate-ees'
- He didn't know why they were being put in the cave
- He knew little about the Captain's cabin, only that the crystal ball was kept in there
- The total crew was seven, plus the Captain, 'a nasty little halfling'
He also drew us a map of the interior of the ship.
We let him go on his way after that. It seemed clear that we should attack tonight. I had expected there to be more of them.
We made our preparations, and when it was dark we snuck up the coast to the Anubus. We had bought levitation potions with us, and I carried Jiggles on my back as an owl.
While Molly, Rolanda and Steven watched the two guards on the beach we others flew up and landed on the deck of the ship. There were two dwarves there, but they didn't put up much of a fight. Jiggles and three of my summoned crocodiles chased them below decks while we others went to the Captain's cabin.
It was a clumsy close quarters fight where Corum dropped his sword, but managed to pick it up again and then finish the Captain off. Sylvia kept him alive though.
Meanwhile I'd gone below decks to help Jiggles who had found the rest of the crew. I managed to persuade them all to surrender. Being surrounded by loads of angry looking crocodiles can be very persuasive!
Faravol had been one of the guards on the beach and seeing us attack and killed the other man by the fire. Faravol and Effu we did not lock up.
We locked them all up in the forward cabin and went to have a word with the Captain.
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