====== Tof-240110-eric ======

- Repairs are nearly finished on [[The Gaping Maw]].  [[Crawn]] and I are recruiting the last of the crew for our voyage to hunt [[The Kraken]].
	- We are approached by a number of bad options, but I dismiss them
	- We recruit [[Ell]] and [[Milhouse]].
		- [[Milhouse]] seems like a strange one, but claims to have saved the world ~13.5 times in the last week, so maybe he's better than he seems
- We hear our Lionen friend, [[Coal]] , shouting "Give me back my boy!" down the docks
	- He hurls his hammer, which seems to explode on impact
		- I tell [[Crawn]] to grab a few good ones and come help me
			- I don't want to see that #Lionen kid in danger again
				- His leg seems to be broken
					- He says "those bastards stole [[Slate]]!" and indicates which way they went
						- Some other crews are also coming along, wanting to know which way we're going
							- I suspect they're going to be doubling back, and am planning to go another way
- [[Ell]] shapeshifts into a dog, and starts trying to track by scent
	- [[Drex]] decides to stay and look after [[Coal]] and make sure he's okay
		- The rest of us follow [[Ell]]
- After a while, I notice some suspicious cultist looking people off to the south but the scent leads off in another direction
	- I have [[Crawn]] and [[Ell]] continue to follow the scent, while [[Milhouse]] and I go after the ones I spotted
		- We overhear them talking in a language I don't understand, but [[Milhouse]] apparently does as he sort of shouts back to them
			- These just seem to be rabble, so we circle back to catch up with the others
- When we catch up, I see [[Crawn]] holding onto the roof of a building with one hand, with [[Ell]] in dog form in her other arm, as the ladder she was on has been kicked out from under her
	- I run to grab the ladder, but notice cultists on the roof attempting to perform some murdering of my crew
		- [[Crawn]] is able to get herself and [[Ell]] up on the roof, so I set the ladder and climb it
			- We fight the cultists
				- When they die, there is some kind of portal opened that sucks their body into it and causes some damage to those nearby
					- One of the cultists falls off the roof, I have [[Milhouse]] capture him
						- We manage to save the baby #Lionen though!
- [[Drex]] and [[Coal]] manage to catch up to us
	- We hand the baby back to him
		- The cultist we captured has been saying that we're essentially playing into their plan
			- I check what he's carrying and find a note
				- The note indicates that these guys were a distraction
- We hear an explosion from down south, near the home of [[Tedrick]]
	- I send [[Milhouse]] with the prisoner to the docks to warn the crew still aboard [[The Gaping Maw]]
		- I give him explicit orders to NOT take the prisoner aboard
			- We hear four other explosions, for a total of five
				- The rest of us book it to [[Tedrick]]'s place


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