Rock the Boat

Part 1
The party meet in the Stubborn Whale Lodge a dockside tavern in the small fishing harbour of Flower Marsh. The tavern was busy with dockworkers and fisherman who had finished work for the night. At around 8:30pm a bell rang outside signalling an incoming ship and all the dockworkers headed out to see why a ship was coming in so late. A few minutes later the bell rang again and the adventurers went to investigate the commotion. The ship that entered the harbour was deserted, the town constable was gathering a group to investigate and secure the ship.

Durzo, Amarylis and 'Old Man' volunteered to investigate the ghost ship, and joined a couple of dockworkers who were rowing over to anchor and dock the ship. When onboard the ship, the dockworkers dropped the sails and the anchor to secure the ship, the adventurers started to look around the ship and noticed no signs of struggle and no signs of life anywhere onboard. Amarylis used a detect magic spell to find traces of magic and only receives a reading from deep down in the cargo hold.

In the hold the adventurers find many boxes, most contain mining equipment and a few artefacts but many contain various sizes and shaped of wet looking black rocks. They also find a magic urn precariously placed on top of one of the crates.

The adventurers decide to investigate the Captains cabin, Durzo investigates the ships Log book and see that the cargo was loaded 2 days before in Agos and it was due to be shipped to Calende. Amarylis finds a letter addressed to Shaflyn Unorim, Court Wizard in Calende, it reads:

These are the items from the mine.

Be careful with the Obelisk Stone

If you find anything interesting, let us know immediately!

Leilatha Leomys

(Head of the Dephis Mage Guild)

'Old man' reaches for the urn and it falls off the crate and it smashes on the fall releasing a wraith. The adventurers defeat the wraith and the urn reforms on top of the crate. 'Old man' tries to pick up a rock and is sucked into it. Durzo and Amarylis send a letter (via seagull) to the Dephis mage guild where the letter and cargo came from.

Part 2
A couple of days later they recieve a letter back (via seagull), the Letter simply reads 'We will come and escort the ship, please secure it '.

A couple of uneventful days pass, 2 days later 3 ships appear outside of the harbour (2 medium Abefian ships, 1 larger Dephisian ship). row boats approach the ship, sailors start preparing the ship for sailing.

A handsome female elf and 4 hooded figures climb onboard and introduces herself as Leilatha Leomys, she invites the remaining adventurers to accompany her on the rest of the journey in an attempt to discern what happened to 'Old Man'. Leilatha Leomys returns to her ship and 2 of the hooded figures remain onboard the ship with the adventurers, these hooded figures are Stanley, a human Warlock and Ketdielle, an Half Elf Warlock.

Over the next couple of days of sailing Durzo and Amarylis gather information from Stanley and Ketdielle, on the nature of the stones (no one in the Mage Guild knows anything about them even Leilatha), information on Leilatha (leader of the mage guild, took over after a serious of unfortunate events led to the deaths of other members) and themselves. Ketdielle opens up and tells her history to Amarylis.

Upon arrival in Calende they are greeted on the docks my an elderly man in ill-fitting robes, Leilatha introduces him as Shaflyn Unorim, the Court Wizard, and she explains what has happened. Shaflyn doesn't seem phased and the adventurers follow him with some of the crates into his 'Lab', where he explains that he has dealt with similar artefacts before. Shaflyn asks which rock 'Old Man' was sucked into, the adventurers point out which it is and he places it inside a large chamber in the centre of lab and asks the adventurers to flip a switch when he returns, after which he is locked inside the chamber with the rock, Darkness fills the chamber and 30 seconds later light is returned to the chamber along with Shaflyn and 'Old Man'.

Shaflyn explains that he plane shifted to the demi-plane contained within the rock, which would usually be very hard but he was able to isolate it using chamber. he does remark that 'had the obelisk all been together that would have been another story...'.

Player Characters

 * Durzo Blint
 * Amarylis Hopwood
 * 'Old Man'
 * Stanley

Non Player Characters

 * Leilatha Leomys (part 2 only)
 * Shaflyn Unorim (part 2 only)
 * Ketdielle

Locations

 * Flower Marsh
 * Stubborn Whale Lodge
 * Ghost ship
 * Calende
 * Shaflyn Unorim's Lab