Spoiler: Session 6
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The party went with Cormick and Zaffrin + crew onto the boat, having to pay Cormick a fair bit extra to get Matilda (Verge’s horse) and Bearin onto the boat (and even then Bearin was only allowed on a side boat). The boat journey is an interesting few days, the players suspicious of Cormick, but the characters thinking he was an interesting old adventurer.

Zaffrin is getting worse treatment than Zoe is while they wait in the makeshift Brig the crew quickly formed out of a storage room. Lady Mistsplitter is often used as the guard there and Westin was elected to be the chef and try and make something for everyone to eat (he rolls quite well and manages to make a great meal out of some poor supplies pretty well especially with no training in it). Zaffrin rests up trying to regain the power points that were taken from him and Zoe is brought up to the top of the ship the next day when a battle breaks out.

A dozen whitescaled draconic like lizard things spot them from the shore and start breathing ice on the water to run across it and attack the ship. While this is going on a greenscaled creature in leather armor is climbing up the other side of the ship, calling out for Zoe in Draconic. Zoe doesn’t hear it, but Zaffrin does and uses control sound to communicate with it for a bit. As the combat goes on the greenscale hops aboard and sneaks around getting Zoe and talking to Zaffrin (Zaffrin has been released by the regular crewmates fearing what will happen in the attack). They find out that a ‘big sea tentacle monster’ is what the creature was looking for before he noticed Zoe (War Leader/Princess – exact translation is unclear).

While that’s going on the rest of the people are finishing off the whitescales, the creatures being handily killed by Lady Mistsplitter, Jorvaskyr, and Westin (Aerin uses flaming sphere to help kill a few but it also starts breaking up the ice bridge the melee fighters are standing on), and the few that get past are smote down by Verge. With those creatures cleared up Cormick goes down to the Brig and has a tense conversation with them before he manages to put together what the greenscale means and orders the ship be turned around immediately.

Some argument goes on as the ship is being turned around and they see the dark shape in the water getting closer to them especially when it`s revealed that this is an Aboleth. Some of the party wants to flee and try to make it to shore to escape from there, knowing that the Aboleth is slower on land. Lady Mistsplitter tries to jump away, but the ice, already pretty weak to begin with crashes when she lands this time, which convinces the others that it’s not safe enough to go that way. Lady Mistsplitter swims onto the boat that Bearin is on and with the party helping the boat get turned around they escape the Aboleth and start heading back. The greenscale reveals that the camp with his kind is back that way too, in Leaverin and the crew/party vaguely agrees to head there and figure out what is going on. And then Cormick slammed his pommel into Zaffrin’s gut and knocked him unconscious before tossing him in the Brig again.


Spoiler: Session Thoughts
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A good session and quite a nice breather from the beatdown the party got last time (if it hadn’t been for that I’d almost qualify it as too easy a battle – the Whitespawn were just demolished by the melee fighters here, particularly Lady Mistspliter and her opportunity attacks). I liked that everyone got a chance to contribute some meaningful way in the combat or with the Greenspawn mystery. Zaffrin used Control Sound to communicate quite effectively while trapped and otherwise barely able to hear what was going on, a trend that would continue for many sessions later. The session went much how I thought it would too, which was nice in that I didn’t really have to improvise anything. We had forgotten about Zoe’s bonus languages, which had Zaffrin acting as translator for the dragonspawn, but after next session we just minorly retconned that to be that Zoe was a little rusty in speaking Draconis and spent some time speaking with the Dragonspawn (named Green) to get better at it and speak Draconic in the future.