Session 35

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Title: **

Date: 3-2-2025

Locations: Pillartown

Characters: Ratpack

Groups:

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Session Summary

• Session begins aboard The Second Sunset

  • We decide not to open The Amphoras, but decide we want to figure out how much people are buying/selling them for

• Returning to RatPack’s Wharf, we return the shipment we’d retreived

• Walking to The Washout, a woman is shouting atop a set of boxes. She’s screaming some sort of prophecy (she sounds nuts)

• At The Washout:

  • Gino sits down and chats with some people
    • It’s generally believed that the pillars were not always here
      • The pillars look a lot like the ones in Arku’s Bones
    • One of the pillars, at the edge of town, has an entire ancient ship embedded up the side
      • Nobody is sure how it got there - it appeared sometime around when The Rust Queen showed up
    • The Rust Queen has been around Pillartownfor 40-50 years
    • Asks about the
      • There’s probably one of Breeze’s Towers in some islands off Shai
        • The sirens out there prevent anyone from exploring, but a group of mercenaries (The Kirrasa?) got a method from the local wizard that would let them get past the sirens. They never returned, so it’s assumed the method didn’t work.
    • Asks about L’ombra Profonda (The Tartuffo Family)
      • Received with an uncomfortable silence - it seems they are present in Pillartown
  • Hen eavesdrops
    • Rumors of sirens out near Shai
    • There are two sorts of fights in The Sway; more common fights are organized by Ludos, and more “prize fights” are organized by The Rust Queen’s Castle
    • There are some mercenaries from Zuk in town (likely The Kirrasa)
      • They seem to be accosting the Wizard’s tower at the edge of town Aphun
    • Some people are talking about how easy it would be to raid the oceans outside of Ny’al
      • Hen approaches them, asking to let him join (he plans to use The Doorknob to sink their ship)
      • They tell him he need to steal whatever is in Adder’s bag
      • He steals 50 gold (with Adder’s consent)
    • The Sunken Choir will have a ceremony soon
  • Jeraime looks for informants
  • Adder leaves early to tell Nos about the pirates’ plan to operate off the coast of Ny’al
  • Etron returns to the preacher on the corner
    • Overhears someone mention that she was a stowaway on a ship about a decade ago
    • Her name is Madrigal the Mad Prophet

• Head to the Pillartown Market

  • Hen investigates the sale of the silver door, and looks for Athelia’s list of ingredients

• Gino and Hen get water walking cast on them, and head to the pirate ship to sink

  • They easily sink the ship

• Etron talks with Madrigal the Mad Prophet after she collapses

  • She keeps talking about losing an orb (a Reverie?)
  • Etron detects magic on her, and finds nothing
    • Her madness is not magical, but fro something genuinely maddening to see

• The next day, The Blackstars head to The Sway, but are sidetracked by flashing lights at Aphun’s Tower

  • The Kirrasa are laying siege to the tower!
  • Etron sent his bird in, and it was dispel magic-ed (presumably by the resident wizard)

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