Freeport Campaign

In the days after Will’s return, the group continued their investigations and followed up on some loose ends.

Richard used a combination of restorative and curative prayers to rectify the strange sickness Will had contracted on his brief visit to the moon.

Chow reminded the group of his sister’s upcoming wedding on Midsummer’s Day, and they agreed to wrap up their affairs in Freeport in enough time to allow them to get a feel for Chow’s hometown and set up some trading contacts before the ceremony.

Governor Johar of Mavinar contacted the group, requesting a quick meeting at his palace. Will transported them there as requested, and they shared tea with the governor as they had several times before. The governor gave them a status report on their demonwood logging operation, which continued producing good results. He then cut to the chase and informed the group that he suspected the Naranjani Emperor of outright insanity. Discreet auguries and divinations seemed to indicate that the Emperor was actually an avatar of Yig, rather than an avatar of Anjeeti, the Naranjani god of justice, as had been the case for most previous Emperors. The governor worried about the potential political consequences if the Emperor’s true state became public knowledge rather than whispered intimation, and requested the group’s assistance if it should become necessary. He could not outline the specific nature of this future assistance, but the group said that they would certainly help if they could. With that, he thanked the party for their time, they thanked him for the tea, and Will transported them back to Freeport. He wandered off toward the Scriptorium, muttering to himself about Yig, Tinel, and madness.

While Edo continued looking for clues to help him grow beyond his current shapeshifting abilities, Spike, Chow, Balama, and Richard turned their attention to Spike’s list of legendary weapons, in order to bolster their own martial abilities, or at least the Four Gulls coffers, in anticipation of the increasingly likely showdown with the Crimson Fleet. The only item on the list that had garnered any immediate leads was Kurgan’s Bane, also known as the Black Blade of Aknar Ratalla. Various references and hints tied the Blade to the warlord’s tomb, which was alleged to have been built close to the village of Barilon, near where the party had recovered the Cloud Ant three months previous.

Will teleported Spike, Chow, Richard, and Balama to Barilon and told them that he’d try to stay on the same plane in case they needed a quick evacuation from Ratalla’s tomb. When they got to Barilon, the group inquired about the current situation there. The innkeeper at the Goyle’s Rest reported that there had been a decrease in the number of ogre attacks lately, but several people had seen gnolls in the area. When asked about the presence of a nearby tomb, the innkeeper mentioned rumors of an ancient tomb hidden in a local ogre den, which itself was hidden behind the waterfall the party had seen in their previous trip to the area. The waterfall could be reached by following a faint game trail that intersected the main road through the jungle a couple of miles outside of town. The party thanked the innkeeper for the information, finished their dinner and drinks, and headed off to rest.

Playing a hunch at the innkeeper’s mention of gnolls, Richard prayed for Harrimast to reveal the current location of the horned devil the party had encountered back in Harrax, the buried desert city in the Crescent Empire. The results of the divination revealed that the devil indeed seemed to be within a few day’s march of Barilon. Armed with that knowledge, the party consulted with Will over their telepathic link and formulated various plans for dealing with the cornugon.

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