Sea Legs

ICE had delivered a high value captive to the Temple of Turas in Allegany and spent the rest of our downtime since the last session copying spells, brewing potions, and the like. We had a few treasure maps and the quest for the holy hand grenade of evil destruction, but we decided to solve a problem for Slaid's downtime fishing crew instead.

The operation to harvest rockfish for poison and magic item components hit a snag when the rockfish hole the fishing vessel frequented came up empty, all the rockfish being eaten by something. Rotten pieces of fish floated around and the fishing captain was too scared to frequent the waters alone.

Slaid headed up the expedition to discover just what the problem was and bonk it on the noggin so he could get back to getting free gold. We chummed the water and trolled about looking for some evidence of what was causing so much trouble. Eventually we found it, a giant sea serpent rollin' out of the deep like Nessie.

I'm not really sure what we expected. Slaid kept trying to get us to jump in the water and fight like Aquaman or something but that's a solid nope from the elf in plate mail. Instead we gunned it down with harpoons and crossbow fire and kilt it until dead.

The vessel designed specifically for just such a task, we harvested everything we could from the dead serpent, including the belly full of treasure, and off we went with mission accomplished. There was a small rocky island that held a ton of bird-monstrosity things, stymphs, we passed on the way back. We lured them out with a succulent serpent meal, slumbered them with magic, and scooped up whatever shiny things they had in their nests.

Surprisingly, we had the most trouble out of a few sharks that naturally followed us due to the towed serpent corpse we were dragging to attract trouble. Go figure. They did a little damage to the fishing ship but otherwise were defeated and added to our weird haul. If only every chartered fishing trip was so successful...

We returned to Allegany with a healthy amount of treasure, much harvested meat and components, and a happy bard. I'd say next up Sextant quest for the weapon of evil killing but man, we never know what we're gonna do.