He is disappointed when Quinn denies his request, on the grounds that the hat is a symbol of her faith.Ĭaptain Barnabus Harrigan, a muscular Garundi man with a shaved head, long beard bound by golden rings and an eye-patch, welcomes the newcomers to his crew of cut-throats and ne'er-do-wells before turning them over to his sadistic first mate, Mister Plugg. Izi admires her fine tricorne hat and asks if he can have it.
Once the PC's have been led/dragged on deck, they are all lined up beside a few other new (and equally unwilling) recruits halfling bard Rosie Cusswell, career pirate Crimson Cogward, foppish gnome Conchobhar Shortstone and Sandara Quinn, an attractive cleric of Besmara (Goddess of Pirates and Sea Monsters). When Kree-Kraw enquires as to the fellow's crime, he is told simply that the huge man is Mister Plugg's 'pet'. As the party are herded through the bowels of the ship, they pass a muscular brute chained to the foremast on the middle-hold. Taking advantage of this circus, Izi sneaks passed Scourge and his goon squad, but soon finds he has nowhere to go and waits to be joined by the others. Clinging to the foremast (like a limpet to a rock), two able-bodied seamen struggle to dislodge the quivering gimp, up until the moment Master Scourge wades in and kicks him in the teeth. Once dawns on Stark that the pirates expect him to go on deck and expose himself to direct sunlight, he starts spazzing out. Kree-Kraw gets lippy (or should that be beaky?) and his insolence is rewarded with a smack in the face. They are led by a gold-toothed, whip-wielding scoundrel ( Master Scourge), who orders the PC's to get on deck, as the Captain wishes to personally welcome his new swabs to the Wormwood. Izi Yamamato hears approaching footsteps and melts into the shadows beneath the stairs, as a group of ruffians descend from the middle-hold.
It transpires that this sorry creature ( Stark) had packaged himself up to be delivered home to Ustalav, only for the vessel he had been loaded onto to be boarded by pirates mid-voyage - and his crate captured as plunder. A moment later, the wooden lid of the box bursts outwards in a cloud of splinters and one distressed and disorientated Dhampir emerges from the ragged opening. Kree-Kraw recognises the bitter after-taste of taggit oil lingering on his tongue and concludes that some scoundrel must have slipped the drug into their grog.īefore the abductees can do much more than sit up and curse their misfortune, they are interrupted by the curious sound of knocking, originating from inside one of the large crates stacked haphazardly against the bulkhead.
They are, however, most surprised to discover that at some point during their night of drunken revelry, they were all shanghaied by pirates! Specifically, pirates captained by the nefarious Barnabus Harrigan of the Wormwood. Having spent the previous (couple of) evening/s drinking to wretched excess in the rowdy taverns of Port Peril, neither Inego, Izi or Kree-Kraw are particularly surprised to wake up with a pounding headache.
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