We started off with a Chicken and Extra Cheese pizza since Daniel wasn't here but Jacob was, so we could not have veggies on our pizza. Our beer brand was Heineken.

Party Member list moved to end of report. The session after this skips a week.

++++ START OF SESSION ++++

We left our adventuring party in Port Detroit quarantine and awaiting dry dock repairs. Due to scheduling, their ship will be able to enter drydock on the fourth day.

First item on the agenda were the arrival of 3 Barbarian customs officers and their 6 armed guards. The cargo was declared a total loss due to water damage and the ship did not have to pay duty. Then the crew was lined up and all the ship's officers and crew presented their Merchant's traveling documents. I was all set for a confrontation due to lack of the Party's passports and visas when I reminded the Players they were "supposed" to be there as spies and saboteurs. It was early enough in the session that the Party was just getting cognizant of what was going on, that I was able to give them a "timeline" reset. The Party decided to (successfully) hide in the ship's secret smuggling hold during Customs inspection with a 2% chance of discovery.

Day #1

Having easily passed that, this left the party with 4 days to wait until drydock before sneaking out without getting wet with some notable exceptions:

1) Snizzlephish decided to go invisible, levitates and waits for the wind to blow him to shore on night #1.
2) Elefus simply picked a point visible from the ship's deck and teleported there..
3) Aeon used more traditional means, discarding his heavy weapons and armor, he swam under cover of dorkness on night #1 to the shoreline.
4) The party remaining on the ship make plans.

Everything is confusion at this point as the Players separated to do their own thing. What follows is an amalgamation of the timeline.

Night #1

Making his way into town the first stop Snizzlephish has was the Tax Collector's office. He burglarizes it. With a combination of Knock spells and pure thieving skill he raids the safe and gets the cash. Next door he sees an all night party where most of the participants are gaudily overdressed ladies and determines this is the Lord Mayor's residence. He spends the night on the roof.

Elefus makes it to a Tavern and spends the night there, paying with foreign coin. Coin accepted with a 10% surcharge.

Aeon went ashore and was approached by a beggar in an alley. Aeon gave a silver piece for directions to an Alchemist. Following directions, he found the shop had closed for the night, so he spent the night at a Tavern.

Day #2

From his high vantage point Snizzlephish is awakened by the alarm from below. Staying invisible, he observes what appears to be the Tax Collector agitatedly talking to Armed guards the burglary. Justice in this town is quick, as he watches residents from across the street lined up, questioned, then all the adult males beheaded and the women and children dragged off in chains.

Elefus continues to spend the day in the Tavern getting drunk.

Aeon makes his way to the Alchemist's shop and asks the proprietor what would he pay for a quart of Hydra blood? (Collected from a recent encounter) "Hydra's blood, eh?" He is told the blood needs to be tested and to leave a two drop sample. He is then given a gold piece and asked to pay that to a beggar or waif on the street for the testing. Quickly enough he finds the same beggar from the night before and brings him in. The beggar is given the gold piece and is asked to drink from a vial. The beggar looks at the Alchemist then at Aeon, hands the gold piece back and walks out.

After mucking around the open marketplace and bazaar for the rest of the morning, Aeon finds another beggar and brings him back to the Alchemist's shop. This beggar was more willing, takes the gold piece and payment, quaffs the contents of the vial and dies. "Congratulations, you have found Hydra's blood." But before he is offered a price, and as if on cue, the first beggar leading the constabulary bursts in.

Faced with a dead body on the floor, the Alchemist points the accusing finger at Aeon, saying he runs a licensed and reputable shop, and tells the guards Aeon gave the beggar Hydra's blood to drink and killed him. The first beggar confirms Aeon approached with a similar offer. Aeon is immediately arrested.

Snizzlephish, still on his perch notices Aeon being taken in the another building next to the Lord Mayor's which is apparently the prison.

The party remaining on the boat continues to plan.

Night #2

Nothing to report for Aeon, Elefus, and Snizzlephish.

The party remaining on the boat continues to plan.

Day #3

Nothing to report for Aeon, Elefus, and Snizzlephish.

The party remaining on the boat continues to plan.

Night #3

Nothing to report for Aeon, Elefus, and Snizzlephish.

The party remaining on the boat continues to plan.

Day #4

The ship is placed in drydock. Although still under quarantine. Huang determines repairs can be sped up by paying yard workers time and a half for a night shift and double-time for a mid-shift. So seventeen and a half weeks are shortened to six weeks.

Night #4

The party on the boat attempts to sneak out of quarantine while in dry dock. While successful what happens after will be determined session after next since continuing play would disrupt the timeline.

++++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR ++++




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Party member list:

- Huang_Mao_Xiadong, Human Male Master.
- Weasel, Human Male, Guild Soldier, Magician, & Myrmidon. (Multi-class. How'd a human get that way? Don't ask.)
- Snizzlephish, Gnome Male, Visionist & Footpad (Multi-class.)
- Mysery Reigns, Halfling Female Killer (not currently Playing).
- Numrendir, Human Male Demander.
- Shinzo_Hayabusa, Half-Elf Male Veteran, Prestidigitator, & Apprentice (Multi-class.)
- Aeon, Half-Elf Male Veteran
- Honda_Toyota, Human Female Bushi
- Elefus, Human Male Deacon
- D'Vine_Justice, Elf Female Initiate of the 5th Circle (not currently Playing).