025 11-10-2025

Session Summary

The Song of Freedom

AI Summary

After cleaning up the aftermath and befriending Yorga, Pip, and Bo Duvall, the party returned to their ship. The next morning, eight eerie, child-sized figures in black cloaks arrived, delivering a scroll and a sealed crate from Scalius of the Dark Daggers, bound for Knifebloom at the Knives Eye in Baldurs Gate. The crate radiated powerful undead energy and whispered to Obold in a female orcish voice, promising favors for the crew. The party secured it and set sail.

Over the ten-day voyage, they encountered multiple dangers: a playful young black dragon, a pursuing ship destroyed by Thorin’s control water, a deadly storm where Alias guided us safely, and an undead pirate vessel whose captain was annihilated by Obold divine strike. Later, they aided a Waterdeep ship under attack by the Shag Dominica, with Obold converting six foes in a dramatic display. The session ended as another encounter approached.

Log

The party cleaned up the bodies and made friends with Yorga, Pip, and Bo Duvall. They took a short rest and headed for their ship.

The crew arrived at their ship with no issues. Early the following morning a greenish glow occurs along the shore. As Loisand Alias are keeping watch a skiff appears with 8 small figures approaching. Each child sized with black cloaks too big for them. each one has a red cloth mask that shimmers with sea oil. using unnatural unison.

one stood up and waved back at Lois . Alias went to rouse everyone from sleep. the white hand turned out to be a white glove and not a skeleton hand

they dock next to our ship and begin to climb the ship. Lois helps one board, and it hands us a scroll from the dark daggers with a large S on it.

Lois opens the scroll , it is form Scalius and it says to "deliver the chest to Knifebloom at the Knives Eye in Baldurs Gate, do not open it, do not listen to it."

They help us load a large crate onto the ship. there a strange runes on the chest. with a wax seal across the opening, with velum that has the stamp of the dark daggers and Scalius writing saying "deliver".

Gunther shakes it and perceives that something is shifting in the box, but its been packaged well. Doesn't seem like liquid or anything alive is in the box. There are no holes in the box.

The little people seem to have humanoid eyes. Their elven, or half elven, or human.

Obold detects very evil undead from the box

The team decides to keep the box, chain it further

as Gunther is carrying the box to the hull, he hears a whispering voice call his name in orcish. He dropped the box but nothing super bad happened.

as we all talk about the box, the box asks Obold to open it, and says it can do things for Kormak and Lois

Obold recognizes it to be a female orcish voice. he asks her name, and the box says, "I have no name. None worth discussing."

The gang started traveling to Baldurs Gate.

on the morning of the second day.

we passed two boats, one from Baldurs Gate, another from Waterdeep. we went straight passed

on the third day we saw a large bird approaching us./ after closer inspection we realized its a black dragon. it appears to be a "large" dragon, or young adult.

it says to us in common "hahaha LOVE IT" and spits acid into the water. then flies away, it seems he was testing his new Fearing abilities on us.

on the 6th day towards the end of the day. we hear a large rhythmic beating, kind of the cadence of rowing. The evil box we got from Scalius whispers to us all in orcish "you're in trouble... better speed up"

Rain starts pouring down. We see a boat appear behind us and approaching. we hear more drums coming from the ship as it gains on us. It's not flying any flag.

Thorin cast control water and created a trench infront of the boat, causing it to launch half the crew into the water and continued to control the water, thrashing and completely annihilating the crew of the other ship.

on day 7, a large storm started to approach the boat. Alias began trying to maneuver the boat LIKE THE CAPTAIN HE IS. The crew got thrashed around and multiple members went into the water. Thanks to Thorin's water walk, most of us were fine, but one crewmember almost drowned. Ophie wild shaped into a shark and pulled him out of the water. Obold successfully laid his hands over his solar plexus and resuscitated.

on day 8, we see a large ship approaching us in our path. its larger than our ship, and we saw a lot of people on the deck. It looked like a larger galley, not a war ship. Kormak sent the owl to investigate. There were quite a few mercenaries, and its not flying a flag or appear to be affiliated. it passed us with no event.

on day 9 we se a ship approach form the side (not down the shipping lane), and behind it was a very large black cloud. it appeared to be trying to intercept us. Thorin used redirect flow to try and redirect the water and push the ship away. The Flag seems to be a skull and crossbones flag.

as it approached, we realized it was undead, and despite Thorin's water control, the ship still rammed us. Gunther and a crewmate got posesses in the fight, but Obold attacked the captain in a valiant strike that critically truck the ghost captain in a a red flash. as the ghost captain was obliterated, the ship left away and sunk into the water as Gunther flew back (Obold just thinks he can fly now)

on the 10th day, a ship approached us. it looked similar to the Waterdeep ship we saw previously. Behind the ship, there are sea creatures following it. The Waterdeep ship was firing arrows at them, and once close we realized they were the Shag Dominica riding sharks. The gang quickly took out many of them quickly. Obold was able to convert 6 of the crew with a heroic superman pose when he misty stepped up to the crows nest and broke it, collecting 6 copper pieces in his new alms box.

Just as we were ending the session another encounter was struck the misfortunate crew.