====== Tof-240117-eric ======

- We make it back to the ship (minor ret-con)
	- We drop the prisoner off with some of the crew, and I make sure the guards on our ship are doubled
		- There are a few stragglers who wanted to apply, one of them is a #Gnoll who seems actually pretty competent
			- His name is [[Fish-Kicker]] and he was healing people when we got there
				- He says he's had some sailing experience, and animal wrangling (but not monster hunting)
					- I welcome him to the crew, and we head to [[Tedrick]]'s place
- We get there, and the place is burning and full of smoke
	- [[Ell]] points out that he hears voices that do not sound panicked
		- We suspect cultists, and start getting ready
			- I tell everyone to fan out a bit to try to look for possible survivors in case it's not just cultists
				- We find cultists!
- We fight them, they continue to get sucked into some weird portal when they die
	- We fight them downstairs, several of them gang up on me
		- Some of them seem to be mutating or displaying some kind of squid-like attributes
			- There are other cultists upstairs, some of the party go after them while I'm busy with the ones downstairs
				- After we clean up the ones downstairs, we head upstairs
					- I carve my way through another on the stairs
- The cultists seem satisfied, it seems they got what they came for
	- The remaining ones leave
		- We follow a trail of blood to a locked door
			- [[Ell]] has shapeshifted into a giant boar, and rams down the door
				- I step in, and narrowly avoid getting hit in the head by a crossbow bolt
					- [[Tedrick]] is here, but he looks really bad
						- His face is smashed up, and he's missing a hand
							- The cultists got his ring
- We heal [[Tedrick]] a bit
	- The fire is still going on
		- We see signs that the fight here went on for a while, this was a protracted battle
			- We get the fires put out, and lead [[Tedrick]] out to take him to our ship. He needs rest
				- We bump into [[Avercrumbie]] on our way towards the ship
					- He is very upset about [[Tedrick]], he implies he wants to join our voyage, and asks how [[Johan]] is doing
						- We send [[Ell]] to drop [[Tedrick]] off with our ship
- [[Johan]]'s place is very smashed, but he isn't there
	- His sister, [[Sasha]] is trying to take care of things in his absence
		- She says he has been gone for a few days, he's out on a raid
			- We offer our condolences and ask if she knows who had the third ring
				- She says it was someone pretty posh, who had some snooty shop in Greengarden
- We head into Greengarden looking for the person in question
	- We track down his shop
		- It's not closed, but nobody else is there
			- I smell blood, and we find the shop keeper dead in the back
				- His hand is also cut off
					- [[Ell]] follows some tracks and finds a lingering magical trace where the perpetrator teleported away
						- [[Milhouse]] found some coins, they match the ones he found at [[Tedrick]]'s place. They came from [[Kamangara]]
- I surmise that the cultists might still be around, since there is no teleportation device and they didn't seem like powerful mages
	- We set off for the Captain's Castle to try to get a halt on any ships leaving port
		- We find the castle has a hole in the wall, and an old friend of ours is stuck
			- It seems he was trying to escape from jail in the chaos
				- [[Viticus]] asks for help getting out, we're able to get him unstuck
					- He says he saw some cultists heading to the graveyard, so we can probably ignore them (because [[Sampson]] would kill them)
						- He says [[Ash-Heart]] is at the docks, so we head that way
- We find [[Ash-Heart]] and [[Guanyin]] at the docks, talking to [[Avercrumbie]] and telling him he's not allowed to "go down the trench lane"
	- [[Avercrumbie]] asks to join us on our hunt for the Kraken
		- He says he's dying, he's 87 years old and "needs to do somethings" before he goes
			- I agree, but ask him what the "trench lane" is
				- He says "it's where the dead go" 


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