50 Fathoms Maiden Voyage - Session 2 - Bar Room Blitz.

50 Fathoms

Session 2 Maiden Voyage

The Party:

Urghh - Half Ugak Bloodthirsty sailor - Aaron

Flynt - Delusional Human merchant - Charlie

Obadiah Merle - Squanderous Human Rifleman - Garry

Kuthelaquin - Kraken water mage - Rob

The crew of the skiff Rosebud see a sail on the horizon, peering through his telescope, Merle discerns that the ship is a heavily damaged merchant ship called the Moon Runner.  After cautiously approaching, the crew hail the ship and are invited aboard by the first officer. 

He thanked them for coming to their assistance and told them that they were set upon by pirates who damaged the sails and poured shot into the hull, the captain and many of the crew were injured in the attack, luckily the Moon Runner was able to lose the attackers in a dense fog bank.

Merle immediately climbed the rigging to the crow's nest to keep watch for the pirates, while Kuthelaquin attended to the crew and captain, using his water magic to heal them and then started to co-ordinate repairs on the ship.  Greedy Flynt went below to check on the cargo, sensing a possible profit.  Urghh stayed on deck and pestered the crew.  

After seeing to the repairs, Kuthelaquin returned to the main deck and was signalled by Merle that there was a ship emerging from the fog bank, he identified it as the Black Arrow, the same ship that attacked the Moon Runner.  Deciding to take the initiative, the party let the pirates board the ship and then attacked them in a frenzied ambush. Urghh stepped into plain view, and loudly addressed the pirates, saying he'd rip their genitals off and feed them to them. (Arron played the Shakin' In Their Boots adventure card)  Everyone froze, and he launched himself into combat.  

Once the attacking captain was stunned by the Half-Ugak's threat, Merle sniped him from the rigging with his rifle, killing him instantly.  Cutting a rope, Merle swung down onto the deck into combat, kicking one of the pirates into his comrade behind him.  

The heroic party whittled down the attackers in a brutal melee that left Flynt mortally wounded, leaking blood onto the deck.  Merle managed to dispatch 5 of the pirates, leaving the rest of the party to make light work of the remainder.  

The captain of the Moon Runner, Kyrie Kal, thanked them for their help and gave them 1000 pieces of eight each.

The party transferred their supplies to the Black Arrow along with their crew, and plotted a course to Brigandy Bay.  After some discussion, the Black Arrow was renamed the Brinkley, for reasons that are not all together apparent.

Inspecting the hold, Flynt, who was still aching after his wounds were healed by Kuthelaquin, found that the pirates were carrying 30 casks of gunpowder.  After discussing it with the rest of the crew, they decided to sell the powder at Brigandy Bay and try to make a decent profit.  At this time, Merle was appointed quartermaster, Urghh pilot, Kuthelaquin ship's doctor, and Flynt as captain.  

After sailing to Brigandy Bay, the crew moored and made their way into the pirate town.  Allowing half the crew to go carousing, and the other left to guard the ship, the party joined them in the festivities, ending up in the Black Queen Inn.  After Flynt made contact with a local black market trader, Ballard, they were able to sell the gunpowder and buy extra cannons for the ship at a reasonable price, they also arranged to restock with provisions.  

Flynt was approached by Annie Mason, an indentured prostitute who wanted to escape from Brigandy Bay, after shamelessly trying to haggle for more of a reward, they agreed to help her flee the following night.  

The next night in the Black Queen, Annie started a bar fight with pirates at the adjacent table, seeing their drawn knives, Urghh drew his great axe and started chopping.  The bar fight quickly turned into a massacre, with Urghh killing 3 of the pirates and two of the Grael bouncers before being ordered to flee with the rest of the crew.  

Quickly setting sail and almost crashing the ship into a nearby dock, the crew made their way west around the point of Brigandy Bay heading towards Lanos,

With Merle on watch, a ghostly apparition appeared on the deck, the spirit of Captain Iago Alfonso de Toledo.  The ghostly captain begged the crew to recover his lost locket from his ship, The Black Prince and offered them the treasures of his ship as a reward.  The crew agreed to help and set sail for the site of the sunken wreck.