February 18, 2023

Hook

Sinful Seas: Chapter 1, Part 2

Plot Synopsis

The party attempted to steal and destroy the village's sacred artifact at the end of the previous session. However, they were overrun by the villager and their powerful, mysterious mayor. The mayor, Ferlaf Oneirek, offered the party to surrender which the party accepted. The party was then sent to town's jail and were treated by the town's doctor. Later that night, back in Helmrest, Marik went to showed up to the university late and accepted the same mission as the party. He jumped on a boat and headed to the same uncharted waters as the rest of the party and arrived at the strange village right before noon the next day. At dawn, the rest of the party was confronted by the mayor in the jail. After a short talk, the mayor left them and the only information the party gained was that is true motivation was "love". Once arriving at the village, Marik was informed of the situation with the rest of party by the party's crew still on their boat in the port. Marik then went to the mayor and used his silver tongue to convince the rest of party to be released on the condition that Marik watches over them. After the rest of party was free, the party was able to discover the villagers were likely under the control of some kind of emotional manipulation magic that was resultant of a mysterious fusion of Orus and Alamar magic. They then proceeded to further investigate the town chapel. They made their way down to the basement of the chapel where the mayor was attempted to repair the damaged artifact. The party engaged him and combat, destroying both the artifact and the mayor. Before his death, the mayor warned that "6 others" would now be coming after the party. The party then took a magic ring that was in his possession. The ring was in the shape of a skull with the trejon word for "Lust" engraved on the inside. As the party left, Marik stayed behind and ate the mayor's corpse. With the destruction of the artifact, the villagers and the researcher they would originally hired to find were free of the magic control. The party then coordinated all the villagers return to Helmrest and headed back as well. The next morning, they returned the researcher to the university and were paid for completing the mission. The next day after that, they were stopped outside the inn they were staying at by a different member of the university. He informed them that the researcher they were hired to find and the researcher who hired them to find him have been found in a comatose state. The party was asked to come in for questioning.

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