- The party continued a hard-fought battle with the pirate crew.
- Jon was knocked out and Alma, Argone, and Hestia all took some damage, but they won the day with heroics and great strategy.
- The party captured Captain Jarr and 3 of his crew.
- There was much banter and arguing with Captain Jarr, who tried to negotiate for his freedom.
- Alma threatened to have her mushrooms eat his hands and Captain Jarr panicked.
- Finally, after getting nothing useful from Captain Jarr, the party’s gnome mage, Bregor, bit the pirate’s right thumb off! (He did not get any diseases.)
- At that point the captain poured out all he knew.
- He told them that his crew did not capture kids or innocents— they only moved them from the Solmor mansion to this location. He explained that there was the ghost of Captain Owen Solmor (Andy’s missing father) at the mansion, and some hideous creature named “Ned”, who was described as a grizzly man who didn’t even look human.
- He explained that the ships would approach the manor and wait for the signal via lanterns, and gave the party the signal codes. If they got the right message, they would bring the ship close to shore and use rowboats to pick up the human cargo.
- He said that there was an agent in Saltmarsh that paid them for this work. Reluctant at first to name the agent, he named everyone in town when another finger was bitten off.
- Captain Jarr described all of the loot in the hideout, which was as follows:
- 1290 gold
- 800 silver
- 2800 copper
- 12 gems of various sizes
- 6 keys of various alcoholic beverages
- 3 tons of linens, grains, hardware supplies, etc.
- The party also released the following prisoners that were being held by the pirates:
- Eli
- Lady Cassandra Brightcloak (a noblewoman from Stone Tear)
- Rihanna Brightcloak (her daughter)
- Sirenia (their hand-servant)
- A mid-30s wild man who called himself “Wind” and claimed to be a bard. He smiled all the time and talked of finding his peace in “The Garden of Yen”.
- Some members of the party stealthed back past the octopuses to the underground lake that was infested with crocodiles.
- They spoke to Keledeck via the magic mouths and scrying eyes he had cast and had him bring Escalla, Poke, Sari and Eric to the crocodile lake.
- The party fed dead pirates to the crocodiles so that the other four could get across, and brought everyone to the pirates’ cave.
- Ayesha, Bregor, and Hestia decided to go their separate ways. They crossed the crocodile lake and continued back up to the cave entrance in the ruined tower.
- The session ended and the party went up to Level 4.