Location: Character Creation and Refuge Bay

I met with Ashely on Friday after school and together we helped Norah, a friend of ours, to completely build a level 7 Battle-Master Fighter in order to join Casamir. The session lasted from about 3 pm to 4:45 pm when Norah was picked up from Ashley’s house.

Norah’s character Suga is a gold Dragonborn with a Charlatan background. Such a combination had never occurred to me before, but due to Norah’s creativity and the Fighter class’s versatility, Suga became a very believable character. The Bond that Norah chose for Suga also tied in well with the story: searching for the murderer of a loved one is a classic, and could definitely push a scam artist to become a dedicated Fighter. I described a way to integrate Suga into the story that Norah agreed to: Suga had followed rumors of the murderer to the mountainous southeastern coast of Chult and was lead through the wilderness by a small party of two Emerald Enclave Scouts and their priest, named Sullesh. Norah also described Suga as very sarcastic as well with a strong attitude, and I hope that as Norah gains experience in playing that she can confidently role play that spunky personality as well. 

As a dual weapon fighter, she can wield two light weapons at a time, and therefore defaults to a ranged fighter with two hand-crossbows. I find that combination extremely cool, and now the party splits almost evenly between Casamir and Agile on melee with a two-handed weapon and an enchanted quarterstaff and Marilla and Suga as ranged combatants with water bending talent and ranged weapon. Suga is still proficient in melee weapons as well, which is evidenced by Norah picking out two maces to use as backup weapons in case Suga runs out of arrow bolts. 

Once both players were ready, the play part of the session began aboard the recently retaken Mershaulk’s Hope, where Casamir spent a few minutes interrogating the yuan ti abomination that he locked in the brig. Since the yuan ti had been beaten and manacled at this point, I let him confess information pretty easily, and only required Ashley to roll for intimidation once to press for knowledge on how the Soulmonger machine worked and where in Omu it was located. 

When Casamir was satisfied, Haley informed him that the ship had approached a safe enough harbor to drop him off at. Casamir then made his goodbyes to his friends in the crew and rowed onto the shore. A forest stood at the edge of the cold and rocky beach and  from the trees emerged two scouts of the Emerald Enclave, a priest of Mielikki and the adventurer they escorted, Suga the Golden Dragonborn. However, as the rowboat landed on the pebble-strewn beach, a coven of sea hags rose from the ruins of a town that had sunk into the bay.

Everyone rolled initiative at that point, and Norah got to experience several rounds of combat before she was picked up. As a result, the battle went unfinished and will be picked up at  another time.