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On road to hardby and beyond, 14 days.

Between Fishtown and Storm Keep, attacked, captures Arnoth and 2 others.

The Mighty get back together at the Silver Dragon Inn and update each other on the relevant things they found and for dinner. The biggest question regards what to do next. They eventually decide that the troubles in the city of Hardby is the quest they would like to take on. However, they decide that Greyhawk deserves a week of enjoyment before their next adventure.

In an attempt to become acquainted with some of the wealthy of Greyhawk, Ahmed takes Tuvok on a night of revelry, starting at the most expensive inn he knows. One night becomes two as the end of an after party leads to a pre-party for the next night, then two days become three as Ahmed and Tuvok take part in what will be known as THE gathering(s) of the season that ‘anyone who was anyone’ was at. Sleep, rumors and apologies follow as Ahmed and Tuvok return to their companions, but they return victorious, with a letter of invitation from one of the lords of Greyhawk, Lord Janus de Layne.

The Mighty decide to try to learn more about what’s going on in Hardby and find that all the information and even the requirements of the job itself are behind a non-disclosure agreement. They sign and officially take on the job.

The Mighty, the name of our six person group of adventures, have finally reached the docks of Greyhawk on the banks of the Nyr-div. They receive an “adventure’s welcome” to the city. Which mostly consists of ‘do nots’ and ‘if you want to do that you must pay.’ Luckily, the Mighty’s adventures up to this point have left them with a large amount of liquid assets and every tax and fee is readily paid. The Inn of the Silver Dragon is chosen as lodging and meeting place and the Mighty split up to explore and enjoy the Jewel of the Flaness. Den-Yazari heads to the Wizard’s Guildhall to join the largest magic guild in the known world, as well as to sell and inquire about the purchase of magic items. Diana goes to the cathedral of Pelor to visit one of the largest edifices to her god as well as to meet with the ‘earthly’ hierarchy of her order and ends up lodging there. Avery goes her own way, saying something about ‘checking in with some people.’ Ahmed leaves the walls of Greyhawk by one of the East gates to spend some time at the druid circle there. Tuvok spends his time at the adventure’s (mercenary’s?) guildhall, gathering information about where our ‘swords’ might next be used. (I don’t remember what Patrin does at this time, perhaps the player of this character will read this and edit it with the information).

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After the defeat of the sahuagin, the party has earned a well deserved rest. But also, they discuss how they plan to spend their well earned riches as well as where they can sell many of the items that they retrieved from the infiltration of the sahuagin fortress. It was suggested by many that they would need to go to larger city, possibility Niole Dra, capitol of Kepoland, or even the Free City, Greyhawk, far to the north.

They decide to take the long sea voyage to Wooly Bay, the city of Harby, and then on to the Free City herself, Gem of the Flaness.

The shipwright, being a true and devoted sailor and follower of Osprem, the Suel goddess of Sea Voyages, Ships, and Sai, informed them that they must have perform a unnaming ceremony before they rename the Sea Ghost. Both require an expensive bottle of sparkling wine, while the unnaming requires the removal of all references to the Sea Ghost to be removed or obliterated from the ship herself. Then, an invocation by a priest beseeching that the name of the ship to be removed from the Logbook of the Depths.

The naming ceremony also requires an invocation by the priest to have the new name placed into the Logbook. The renaming must take place when Luna is in the opposite phase as she was in the unnaming. The most fortuitous time for the unnaming is done at a waning Luna, so the renaming should be done when Luna waxes.

As luck would have it, the 25th of Flocktime (5/25) was the waning Luna, and the 11th of Wealsun (6/11) was the waxing of Luna.

On the 25th of Flocktime they perform the unnaming, and the priest tells them the gods of the sea have accepted the unnaming.

(6/9/591)

The Sea Ghosts refit is finished.

(5/19/591)

The town council, and representatives of the lizardfolk, locathah , merfolk, and sea elve,. the later in the form of Oceanus, meet within one of the buildings once used to build boat, since the merfolk are unable to walk the land. At the end of the tense and long winded meeting, the first meeting of the Alliance of the Hoolwatch comes to an end, resulting in an alliance between the five races.

Concerned that the sahuagin will attack if something is no done, a plan has been cobbled together. It will take nearly two weeks to gather a force to attack the sahuagin, but information will be needed. A force of lizardfolk and marines from Saltmarsh, with the party in command, is sent to the sahuagin lair to investigate and perform a little sabotage, slow the sahuagin down.

The lair is 50 miles from Saltmarsh, but by land, it would take nearly a week, and so a cutter is supplied with a crew to convey the party to a location near by, let them off at a nearby river mouth.

(5/21/591)
At the end of a 20 hour voyage, the party has but a couple miles across the swamp to get to the causeway toward the lizard folks lair. But when the island comes in view, the lizardfolk are shocked. The island is smaller and much lower than it was before, as if the very sea bed had been lowered, and indeed, it had been, by a full 80 feet, leaving only 30 or 40 feet above the sea. It also meant that the bottom two levels of the lair would likely be flooded.

Striking up a quick plan, the party enters with the lizardfolk shaman and two of the lizardfolk warriors, whole the remainder of lizardfolk and marines remain near but under cover, in case they are needed to cover an escape.

The causeway leads to a newly carved entrance to the lair, one blocked by thick stone doors with a brass slider. This time however, they had a better plan than just knocking the door down. Knocking on the door, when the slider is moved so those on the other side can see who is knocking, Den-Yazri uses his misty step to teleport to the other side of the door, and lifts up the bar, and moves away from the door with the bar. In the resulting melee, the party are able to kill all but two of the sahuagin, who were on the other side of a portcullis.

Another surprise they discover is that in the year the sahuagin have been here, they have greatly altered and modified the lizardfolk lair to suit their grandiose ideals.

Destroying the portcullis with Sunderer they give chase. They find them, along with a half a dozen more sahuagin on the other side of another portcullis. But like before, the sahuagin are quickly taken care of. Continuing on, exploring the level, they realize that the sahuagin have not alerted the lower levels. They realize that that might be seen as a sign of weakness, and could lead to the death of those who fled a fight.

The party discover a catch secret door, and beyond a chamber with a cache of items, some magical. They find a number of slaves, lizardfolk, hobgoblins and orcs, working the walls of one of the last rooms to be finished, part of the chamber still rough. The slaves were able to confirm that the sahuagin had not sent anyone down below to alert the rest of the lair.

The shaman cast water breathing on those unable to breath underwater, and they began exploring the lower levels. Utilizing stealth, they manage to only take on a few of the groups of of the hundreds of sahuagin in the lair, loot many rooms, and sabotage a number of locations in the lair.

Getting a fair tally of the force of sahuagin, they make their exit, leave the lair, and return to Saltmarsh, reporting back to the Alliance representatives.

(6/6/591)
The Alliance forces assembled at Saltmarsh. The Saltmarsh forces travel by ship to a near by land location, and travel to the causeway, to block off a land retreat, while the lizardfolk, locathah, merfolk, and sea elves make the main thrust via the underwater sea cave. Though several of the sahuagin did manage to escape, but the mission was seen by all as a complete success, as even the power of the sahuagin god, Sekolah was defeated with the death of the Baron and his High Priestess, and the sea bed rose back up to its normal level, sat which point it was all over.

The lizardfolk get to reclaim their lair, but decide to maintain a presence at the promontory, and establish an embassy in Saltmarsh’s Frog Park., as do the locathah, though on the shoreline. The merfolk do not establish a pennant presence, but the locathah plan to establish an area in their embassy for them.

(5/18/591)

After much discussion, the party decided to claim the Sea Ghost as their own. But to have a major rebuild, turning it from a cargo ship into a passenger yacht. The shipwright informed them it would take a month to perform all the necessary changes.

(5/19/591)

The party is once again called together by the Town Council, who are concerned about the nearness of a possible tribe of lizardfolk on the warpath. The council requested that they investigate, and if they can, take care of the problem.

Heading out along a coastal trail that leads to the area, as they cross the marshy ford of the Dunwater, they were ambushed by a roving band of bulliwugs. After defeating them, they discovered a map of the area, with several locations marked on it, and written in a strange language (bullywug).

Continuing along the path to a raised section of the promontory where the lizardfolk are laired, they come to a short cave entrance closed off by a set of stone doors. After a short discussion, they start trying to bust down the doors, as it is bared. While they managed to bust it down, they alerted the guards and a fight ensued. Taking care not to kill any of the lizardfoilk, they are quickly outnumbered by the surprisingly well organized and trained lizard folk, who seem to be using weapons of the similar make as those in the hidden on the Sea Ghost.

They were given the chance to surrender, and did so. Divested of their weapons, and even bound so that caster could not cast spells, they were lead though the lair to the chieftain of the lizardfolk. After a brief discussion, they came to an understanding, and then lizardfolk informed them that they were arming themselves, training, and preparing not to attack Saltmarsh, but the lair that they were kicked out of by a tribe of sahuagin.

The lizardfolk agreed to send a small embassy back with the party, to speak to the council, and to bring others that they have struck an alliance with; a local tribe of locathah and merfolk. The sea elves were to far away for them to imagine that they might be able to help, but with the party suggesting that they bring Oceanus in on the talks, they quickly agreed.

(5/3/591)

The next day, the adventurers take a break, settling in, getting to know the town a bit better. Tuvok pays a visit to the Lillybrook Orphanage and droops a hefty amount of money on them.

Ahmed visits Oak Island, and visits with Lira Toliver, leader of the Oak Island Conclave. She offers to take him out of town that evening to stretch his new form shifting ability.

(5/4/591)

The next day, the receive a summons form the council again. They are informed that that they discovered that Redric has fled, and they have discovered a tunnel under the General Store that leads north to a well hidden cave on the swamp. The council has seized the store as well as any other assets that Redric left behind.

Additionally, the council believes that the smugglers who are bringing the contraband are probably still making the normal runs, and it is likely that they will return the next new moon to deliver their next load of contraband,. They are asked to take that side of the operation out.

Having determined that the code on the piece of paper they discovered was a mariner code, they wait the two week until the new moon, and a set a trap for the smugglers.

(5/17/591) Two days after vernal equinox.

After the appropriate signals are send, the group waits for the first delivery, and swiftly take care of the smugglers on it. Taking it and the other jolly bot, splitting the group, they take the Sea Ghost from both sides, swiftly taking care of the smugglers. The captain and wizard take the better part, and leap into the sea to escape into the dark sea.

The mate was carrying a magic sword (Sunderer).

After investigating the captains cabin, where they find a rough drawn chart of the area, and a location is marked not far away, as they leave, they encounter three lizard folk leaving form under the fo’c’sle. With a quick judging of strength, the lizard folk jump ship. Staying behind is a psuedodragon, that makes a link with Ahmed.

As they search the ship, they find the hull filled with thousands of gold worth of contraband, and a hidden catch of weapons. They also discovered a map that seems to lead to a lizard folk lair within striking distance of Saltmarsh.

Beyond the secret door that Avery found, they found a short tunnel with stairs that exited into a a natural tunnel system, all of which slopped downward. The first chamber that they entered had two tunnels leading off from it, one near them, but that one was collapsed. Remembering some notes found in the leaders room about illusions, they had Avery check the collapse to see if it was really a collapse, or an illusion, and it was indeed the later.

With the illusion broken, the trap the smugglers set was sprung as the smugglers attack form the tunnels, some moving into melee others staying at range. The illusionist tried to stay at range, but as the party made their way through the smugglers and gnoll allies, he retreated though the tunnels. At one point along the tunnel, an assassin dropped his concealment an tried to kill the (Tuvok or Patrin don’t remember). Tuvok continued to follow while Patrin dealt with the assassin, who quickly surrendered. Tuvok entered the last chamber of the complex just in time to hear a splash, as the illusionist exited the chamber into the sea beyond.

With the smugglers defeated, they turned to interrogating the assassin, a man named Ned. Ned explained that he was only hired by someone in the town, and that if they let him go, he would give them his contact. He also explained he had real knowledge of the smuggling ring, only having been hired literally two days before for this job, though he had worked for the contact before. After a short conversation, they accepted the offer, as long as he wrote everything down. He also knew the name of the leader, an illusionist named Sanbalet.

Ned wrote his affidavit, implicating Redric as his contact in town.

While interrogating Ned, others were cataloging the goods the smugglers had. There were thousands of gold worth of brandy and silk.

Returning to town, they reported to Dimitri that the place was cleared out, and then went to the Garrison to report about the smugglers. After a little bit of red tape, they got a meeting with Walthus Kang, who listened to their story. Apparently Redric has an already dubious reputation, and he put some undercover guards to watch him. He also arranged for a meeting with the town council in the morning.

At the town meeting, held at the lord mayor’s manor, they once again explained what hat occurred at the house. Afterword, the council took a moment to talk between themselves and then decide to follow Kang’s suggestion to observe Redric for the time being. They also agreed to allow them to sell the contraband, but with a hefty 25% excise.