Game summary for October 18, 2022, Chronoshift: Spelljammer campaign, Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Hekera Nephera Mawhesk Vyk’sebekenka (Sebek-ka Fighter played by Preston Harmon), Helg Ingvar (Aasimar Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Intevar Dagella (Centurian Drow Silent Hunter played by Casey Scruggs), Khesen Pavel (Human Brawler played by Parker Harmon), and Neko (Half-Orc Magus played by Peyton Harmon). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.
The group spoke with Admiral Antarra and agreed to hire on for a mission. He asked them to deliver a sealed missive to the commander of the Elven Navy at the Rock of Bral in Realmspace with information about the Black Widow Nation. In exchange, he offered to pay their crew costs for the journey as well as send them with a letter for Cap’n Gyudd, a merchant on Bral, to get the Perry “topped out” in the shipyards. The team agreed and then went to the Skyport shipyards and negotiated a deal to sell the Elamshin damselfly for 17,700 gp. They then reinvested half the money in cargo to take with them to Realmspace to sell. Before heading out, they took the entire crew of the Perry to a tinker gnomish pastry shop for donuts. The place was amazing. Amazing in that it had not exploded. But, the food was good, and the effect on crew morale was palpable.
The party headed out to space, and two days’ out came across the smoking wreckage of a ship! There were several pieces of smoldering hull and four large brown scavvers circling a trapped tortle! The party immediately moved to rescue. Neko burned one with scorching ray but was immediately snatched up in the creature’s maw! Hekera cut one right in half when it approached him. Khesen moved in and killed the one trying to eat Neko, and he flew from its mouth bobbing up and down through the gravity plane. He made an astounding maneuver and caught the side of the cargo barge and scrambled back aboard. Intevar came rushing up out of the hold firing her bow and hitting one of the beasts. Helg stepped out and cast searing light coupled with targeting foreknowledge, which blasted a scavver to smoking pieces. Gunny Havoka fired the ballista at a scavver but missed terribly. Hekera and Intevar got hit by the acidic breath of the scavver right before Hekera cut the last one down, but he also fell off the ship in the process. He was able to scramble back aboard. Meanwhile, Khesen tied off a rope and jumped 30 feet into space toward the tortle! He got to the wreckage, and they were able to drag it over to the ship.
The tortle introduced himself as Botticelli, former cook of the ill-fated Star Skimmer tradesman vessel. The ship had been attacked by a vessel shaped like some kind of squid-snail-like creature with a ram. Most of the crew had been taken captive by squid-headed men… mind flayers! There were a few survivors among the wreckage after the Star Skimmer was destroyed, but all except Botticelli had been eaten by scavvers. In thanks for his rescue, Botticelli offered to make them an excellent meal.
