Orhan 4 Day 62 TE 6061

Oathar is at the villa awaiting his newbies. On the table in front of each of four seats, are small magic items with ravens on them. The four items are a ring, amulet, bracer, earring.

Nimble, first to arrive makes a quick looting roll, and sits at the ring. He's spent some time down in Lankonok robbing some folks, as they are currently loaded down there, but he's here as he owes someone a favor. He's willing to split the treasure with his compatriots (after the house cut) and knows enough to not try to fence power magic items.

Next to arrive is a young girl named Sumaiya very concerned for her horse. Before being brought in to talk to Oathar, she has a lot to complain about the stable boy who took her horse. She's a cleric of Kuor.

Third to arive is Tunaep. He sits before the bracer. Clearly a half-elf of some variety. Seems to be an archer/swordsman. Nomar Tol decided it was time for him to leave and assist the humans. The Lankani are dirty brutish and short.

The final guest is rather shy and quiet, named Whisper in fact. He sits at the amulet seat.

Oathar gives a briefing on the mission. First is record troop movements throughout Lankonok, and then meet up at the northern border. Oathar tells them we depart int eh morning and then leaves.

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Oathar takes everyone down to the ship The Foamy Wave and gets them and the ship all blessed by a priestess of Neela before embarking on their journey.

The ships plan is to make a cargo run down to Nuyam Kom and will drop us off secretly part way. We set sail.

Whisper explores the whole ship, even checking out the Admiral's cabin. He goes so far as to copy one of Oathar's maps.

Meanwhile Oathar is watching ships. He sees three Lankani galleys a dozen miles north, and in the other direction, something that sort of looks like a whale. It's very strange. He identifies it as a fairly large ship, 200 feet long, but mostly underwater. Crewsize is 40 and it can do 40 knots. That's crazy!

Oathar watches it until he sees a Dyar go up on top to look around. It's very similar to the "sub-ma-rines" that we saw in the Eastern hemisphere.

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The ship approaches the coast of Lankonok, and we prepare to disembark. As we approach store, Oathar spots the marker for where we're going to disembark.

Oathar sends Nimble and Whisper to scout the shore before disembarking the rest of the team.

The scout for a long time. They seem to enconce themselves in trees and continue scouting. Eventually, they decide the area is all clear and summon the rest of the party.

Oathar cloaks himself a for a bit to see what the party is up to. They decide to split up and search a bit, and then meet back at dark. Sumaiya stays at the beachhead. Tradewind follows whisper, Oathar secretly follow Tunaep. Nimble, the guy who Oathar decided is pretty reliable is left to his own devices.

Whisper obsesses about this bird that's following him. Nimble having seen that not a lot is going on, heads back to meet up with Sumaiya. He starts helping her with her "language skills".

Whisper and Tunaep head back. Nimble's moves get interrupted by the return of the group.

Oathar comes in and returns. They found a trail that leads from the beach to the villiage in the southwest.

After some discussion, Nimble suggests that he be an advance agent looking to sell a Pokanti boy slave (Whisper) to some army guys.

We encounter some women hanging laundry. They watch us go by. It seems to be a women only village. No men around. Some kids. Nimble gets to the middle and starts his spiel asking about where the men/army went. An old woman comes out to meet him. She's dressed in something approaching finery, but with a bone staff. The conversation takes a turn for the worse, as it becomes clear that lankani soldiers only want young boys to fool around with. The old lady won't say where they all are though.

Nimble bribes them, and she tells us how to get to old Lankani garrison.

Before they can leave, the old woman tries to trade two young girls for the one young boy we've got. What a mess.

We flee. We grab our horses to go take a look at the old garrison. Just around nightfall, we find the old garrison. There's an old guy sitting on the stool in front of the open gate. Nimble goes back into the spiel again. The old buy sends us in to talk to the captain. We pass some more drunk soldiers. They give us beer, eventually we find the captain. He a gross fat guy. Oathar notes some dispatches and maps on the table. It's gonna be after dark real soon now...

We decide that enough is enough and take the captain out. He goes down pretty quietly, and people head out to finish off what's left of the garrison. They all go down. We get 2 gold.

Nimble interrogates the remaining prisoner, but isn't really good at it. Whisper interrogates him some too and finds out that they all had a lot of recruiting to do and went off to the west. We look through the papers. There used to be 100 guys here. Between 70-140 days ago, they started transferring a lot of people away, mostly to the west. There's a larger garrison meant as a staging area there, and they striped this one a lot while staffing that one. There's a large port town to the south east, and the larger garrison to the west.

We set up watches and stay in the garrison for the night. Charon rises in the sky. Its baleful red glow looks down upon us.

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We cover our exit from the garrison and head off to the garrison to the west.