The Battle at Farshore

Once the Yuan-Ti sorcerer realized that the person who paid them was somehow taken over, rather than try to salvage the situation, he, and his bodyguards retreated.

Once the vrock dance was disrupted, the vrocks stopped fighting in a coordinated fashion, and they fought to their deaths.

As soon as the pirates realized that Vanthus had "turned" against them, most of the ones on shore gave up, although three of the five ships attempted to flee. Between the Jade Ravens, Livinia Vanderboren, the Olman tribesmen, the Phanatons, and the guards of Manthalay Meravanchi, all ships but the Yuan-Ti ship were taken with little damage.

Lord Sgiggy brought Vanthus back. When Livinia confronted him and was told that Vanthus had planned to make off with Livinia, and if he couldn't, then he planned to release a bloodstained shadow pearl to create another savage tide, she cursed him, saying her brother died the same night her parents did. This "Vanthus" is nothing but filth wearing his skin. He further said he stole the shadow pearl from his superiors before he left scuttlecove. He was transformed into a half-fiend by a process known to the Crimson Fleet. After Lord Sgiggy answers the party's questions, he beheads himself. He is buried ni a lonely plot to the south marked only with a simple wooden stake carved with the Vanderboren family crest.

The four ships are claimed as the property of Farshore.

The next few days in Farshore are celebratory, although interspersed wth funerals for those who fell in the assault.

Each member of the group gets 5,000 gp worth of loot.

Papers on one of the ships (the Brine Harlot, Vanthus' ship) indicates that the Crimson Fleet has been going to the northern shore of the Isle of Dread to meet with a group known only as the "Lords of Dread." In the log it says:

We reached Gallivant Cove with no incident, althugh the Sevent Coil yuaniti renewed their demands for shore leave. I denied them again, promising them all the leave they could want once my sister's little project is mine. Payment to the Glutton went smoothly (that beast's teeth would make fine trophies!), and I personally led a group of five to the caves. The trogs looked worse than they stank -- some kind of malady afflicts them for certain. Lords of Dread??? Hardly. Yet they took our payments and slaves readily enough.

There was only one shadow pearl ready for us. I made clear my displeasure, but the simpering lepers convinced me that they were being truthful, and promised several more in a few months' time. I've tried to avoid staring at the pearl overmuch. Its depth are hypnotic. After seeing what one of these little beauties did on Kraken's Cove, I made sure to keep it in a padded container at all times.

It's too bad we can't just toss the thing into Farshore with a catapult and let them kill each other off, but I'll not be the one to tell command we broke another of their toys.

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Experience

		Ninth level characters	Tenth level characters
Amphibious Assault	EL 11	5,400	4,500
Yuan-Ti mercenaries	EL 11	5,400	4,500
Vrocks	EL 12	8,100	6,000
Vanthus	EL 14	16,200	12,000
Triumph	EL 13	10,800	9,000
Total		45,900	36,000
XP per PC		11,475	9,000

Equipment on Vanthus

• +3 Mithral shirt
• +3 Longsword
• +1 Keen Sickle
• Masterwork Dagger
• Ring of Protection + 2
• Amulet of Health +2
• Boots of Speed
• Shadow Pearl
• 4 Gold earrings worth 300 gp each

In the coming month, the wealth of Farshore increases due to increased trade. Farshore begins with an 800 gp limit on purchased items and assets of 9,600 gp.

• The triumph over the Crimson Fleet increases the assets by 20,000 gp
• Increasing the mine output increases the assets by 10,000 gp
• Casting Hallow on the Cemetary make people feel better, and increases the gp limit by 1,000
• By eliminating the troglodyte tribe, assets are increased by 5,000, and by the end of the month, the gp limit increases by 1,000
• Improving the clayworks increases the assets by 3,000 gp
• Improving the smithy increases the assets by 2,000 gp
• By bringing back the Olman artifacts, the gp limit is increased by 1,500
• By improving the greenhouse, the gp limit is increased by 1,000
• By improving the farms, the assets are increased by 5,000 gp

Thus, at the end of the month, the assets are 54,600 gp and Farshore has a 5,300 gp limit on purchasable items.





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The Vanderboren Estate and the Bullywug Invasion, Part 3

The party moved onto the first floor of the Estate
after clearing the ground floor and the basement,
rescuing Karkas Kiel and Tiamae Teslikaria (both
members of the Jade Ravens) and charming Chief Lorpth.

On the balcony on the first floor, the party
encountered two bullywug hunters, who were looking out
the balcony, waiting for the attack. Other than that,
there was nothing of note on the first floor.

In the master bedroom of the second floor, the party
encountered Drevoraz, Bua Gorg (a bullywug cleric).
Lavinia Vanderboren, Tolin Kientai and Zan Oldavin
were tied up in the middle of the room. Drevoraz told
the party to stop, unless they wanted Lavinia's throat
cut. The paladin in the party showed Drevoraz the note
from Captain Harliss Javell, and her earring. Drevoraz
took the earring and then said that since Captain
Javell changed her mind, all he wanted to do was to
slip out of Sasserine unmolested.

Bua Gorg was having none of this. He only wanted to
sacrifice humans to his diety, Dagon. He began
summoning a Huge Monstrous Centipede, and accidentally
summoned two of them. The party killed him and the
centipedes, and Drevoraz got away.

Lavinia thanked the party and increased their "pay" to
200 gp per month. She told the party to rest up, do
some shopping and they would be needed in a week or
two.

[Out of game... in selling most of the loot gained
over the past few adventures, each party member gets
1,558.75 gold pieces.]

The Vanderboren Estate and the Bullywug Invasion, Part 2

While clearing out the first floor of the Vanderboren estate, the party notices a secret door. Inside is a hidden armory. On the floor is a dwarf druid, Kaskus Kiel, whom the party recognizes as a member of the Jade Ravens. He is alive, but unconscious. The cleric heals him, and he tells a tale of the invasion of the bullywugs, and the final stand the Jade Ravens made in the courtyard, before everything went bad. He tells the party, that, last he saw, Mistress Vanderboren was still alive. They take three vials of Cure Moderate from the armory.

As the party approaches the private dining hall, they smell cigar smoke. On entering the room, the bullywug smoking orders her three lieutenants to attack. Upon seeing them be easily defeated, she rages, but is ultimately killed.

• Items
• Potion of Barkskin +3 (unidentified)
• 2 +1 hand axes (unidentified)

In the courtyard, the party discovers the remains of the estate's guard force, brutally slain. In addition three bullywugs' corpses are hear, and the remains of Kaskus' badger animal companion.

After clearing the top floor, the party decides to go downstairs. There, they interrupt the chief of the bullywugs in the midst of torturing Liamae Teslikaria. The party attempts to attack, but it is hard moving through the mud on the floor. Liamae makes an attempt during combat to cast Charm Person on the bullywug chief. Amazingly, it worked. The chief's pet rust monster makes short work of the +1 Glamered chain shirt the paladin was wearing, but it was killed rapidly. The party makes short work of the rest of the bullywugs in the basement, and now has an "ally" in the person of Chief Lorpth.

• Items from Chief Lorpth
• Potion of Shield of Faith +2 (unidentified)
• Potion of Cure Moderate
• Salve of Slipperiness (unidentified)
• +1 hide armor(unidentified)
• +1 greatclub (unidentified)
• Wooden crown with seven moonstones (100 gp each)

The chief tells the party of Dravoraz' intent to take the estate, kill everyone, steal as much as possible, and burn it to the ground. Meanwhile, the chief has been amusing himself getting the rust monster to eat tableware stuck into Liamae's clothing. Other than that, he knows very little of who is where in the building.


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