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Sessions 33: Body Recovery
About a week after Corwynne, Alister, Chiranjeev, and Hatch returned from their mission, the group was approached by the Governor of Alranda, Roman Steelside. Roman told them that he had a mission for the group. A diplomat from Alranda was traveling to Xraxus by ship and he just got word that the ship is overdue. He wants a group of adventurers to travel north along the coast to look for any clue as to where the diplomat's ship could have gone.
Bannor, Ollorin, Jelana, Flerg, and Jacob volunteered to look into the disappearance. Before they left, they went to Corwynne to get her to scry on the diplomat. She found him, unfortunately she only saw a corpse in a cave. The group asked Roman if he still wanted them to go and he told them that they should recover the man's body so he could be put to rest.
The group left the following day, following the same path that the diplomat's ship would have taken. The path took them near a small island, and they almost missed the tip of a mast barely breaking the surface. As they brought the ship closer they saw that it was the diplomat's ship. The group used magical rings that allowed them to breathe water to dive down to the ship. While underwater, the group encountered a pair of sea trolls. After a quick battle, the trolls were defeated and the group continued to the ship.
Inside of the ship the group encountered a sea elf commanding some zombies to salvage the cargo from the ships hold. The group attacked, destroying the zombies and chasing the sea elf away. The group started to swim towards the shore when they skirmished with a small group of spellcasting sea elves, chasing them away as well.
They continued towards the small island, hoping to find the cave where the diplomat's corpse lie.
Sessions 34: Body Recovery part 2
When they arrived at the island, it was a simple matter of tracking the zombie prints to a cave near the shore. The group entered the cave with Bannor leading the way. After turning a corner, Bannor was attacked by a tiger. As the rest of the group turned the corner a large half-man/half-tiger creature entered the room from the opposite end and charged forward. Bannor stepped away from the tiger to intercept the tiger-man. The battle was quick and bloody with the companions defeating the tiger and tiger-man. Bannor was injured by the tiger-man, but he shrugged the injury off as a mere inconvenience. That is until the tiger-man changed shape, becoming a man. That's when the group realized that the tiger-man was a weretiger and that Bannor may have been afflicted by lycanthropy. The group searched the cave system, destroying the zombies, and finding the diplomat's body. They made their way back to the ship.
Realizing that if Bannor became a weretiger during their journey back to Alranda that he would possibly kill the entire crew, they asked Bannor to sequester himself within the ship's brig. Bannor agreed and during the full moon he transformed into a weretiger. Fortunately the brig was able to contain him.
They returned the diplomat's body to the governor and they returned to Smallstone Manor.