18 Misuthar 835

Arrival in Brokenbank, a small but busy port-town with multiple piers where ships are get loaded, unloaded and inspected.

Theraerys books rooms at an inn (The Shaking Hag), Amadi follows Sahla and her mother towards the biggest fanciest house in town, and Seivarden buys new pipes and tobacco in Cici N’est Pas Une Pipe, run by a gentleman called Jérémy Pascal. He even had some magical pipes for sale.

The group meets up in the inn. Next up Theraerys buys fire resistance potions at a magic shop, while Amadi and Seivarden go looking for a ship to take them to one of the seals (Darktow, Bwualli, or the middle of the ocean). The captain of The Merry Merchant points them towards Orly Skiffback, captain of the Ball-Eater, who Amadi used to sail with a while back, as the only one possibly crazy enough for such a journey.

Orly, a tortle with an eyepatch and three ivory bagpipes emerging out of his shell, agrees to join them for dinner, where Amadi promises to explain what they are doing. On their way back towards the inn, Amadi and Seivarden spot Sahla getting smacked in the head by her father, the Portcaller of Brokenbank, Mazin Fahreed (a guy with a reputation of being angry and mean and hitting his wife). Seivarden immediately breaks the guy’s nose while Amadi throws a phial of Jungle Fever in his face, and both run away while Mazin yells for the guards. The duo has no problem outrunning the guards, but it becomes clear that Seivarden’s description is known (and pretty much spot on) and so Seivarden decides to leave town and wait somewhere on the island for Amadi to bring supplies and Seivarden’s backpack. Amadi disguises himself and goes back to the inn and to his room, and then makes a big show of coming downstairs (not disguised), yawning, saying he slept for hours. Alibi successfully created?

At dinner time Orly comes to the Shaking Hag and listen to the story of magical swords, dreams of Uk’otoa and seals that shouldn’t be broken. He tells you the story of an adventurer named Fjord who apparently did open one such seal, at the Gravid Archipelago. He agrees to take you to either Dwualli or to the southern-most seal in the middle of the ocean, and at that moment a few Zhelezo guards enter the inn.

The Zhelezo ask around for a “white haired and bearded muscular guy” and the owner of the inn points them towards the table where Amadi and Theraerys are sitting with Orly and Aerith. They manage to convince the guards that there were merely temporary travel companions of this Seivarden guy, but haven’t seem him for hours and don’t know where he is. They are informed to not leave the island, all travel companions of Seivarden are ordered to remain in Brokenbank. The guards also search Seivarden’s room and take his pack and belongings.

Orly has a plan: in the morning he will sail to the south of Brokenbank, 500 meters outside of shore, and wait for them for a few hours. Amadi, Theraerys and Aerith decide to sneakily leave the inn in the middle of the night which almost worked out perfectly, where it not for Theraerys dropping 15 feet onto his face and making a whole lot of noise in the process. The guards keeping an eye on the inn chase the group, but eventually loose the trail. Our heroes (?) manage to find Seivarden and sleep under the stars.