Treasure from the Deep – Saltmarsh Season 2
Session *Catch up with characters
1 * Book signing – Jeb Erne pestering them about his Vampirates
book and the treasure of Captain Kuzmenko. Seed
The * See someone getting beaten up – Grombon - Rescue
Grogle * Grombon Gully confides in Sildrin (now a partner in Gully
Grog). Business has been going bad. Needs financial help. Rival
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business Reefclaw Grog, is undercutting him and out producing
Problem him. Tasks Sildrin and co to find out what they are up to.
Grombon has a trade deal he needs to sort out in Qualt Ax – it
Sildrin will keep him afloat for now. He should beat them back to
Saltmarsh.
*Travel to Reefclaw, a strange island with strange creatures
protecting it. There is a prototype Cogster (Machine Lobster) It
doesn’t work very well – ‘Snips3.7’ Sentient plants try to throw
the adventurers off the trail.
* The Gnomes at Reefclaw Ale have created a Groglem. A golem
made from grog barrels. It feels trapped and enslaved and wants
to be free. Adventurers can help.
*Return with Groglem or info. Ichabod Pifflebott isn’t as good of
a mage-ineer as his brother. Cragington Pifflebott has been hired
for several secret projects for the Navy. Submersibles. Their
great grandfather was killed by a pirate and the Pifflebotts HATE
pirates.
They get back to Saltmarsh. Grombon still hasn’t returned…?
Session It’s been a week and Grombon hasn’t come back? Debt
2 collectors are now knocking on the door. The company owes
around 2000gc to the land lord and merchant guilds and another
Lobster 1000gc to Grombon’s loan sharkhaans.
Vs Gull
Chief brewer – Wilhelm Mulch, begs them to go and find
Grombon. Either he’s alive or the Merchants guild might lessen
Sildrin the debt by Grombon’s life insurance of 500 gold.
Scarbos Sail the Qualt Coast searching for the ship. Find the debris. The
sa ship has been destroyed.
The ship had taken huge damage, one of the sides of the ship
has two huge holes in it. Much larger than cannon ball holes.
The ship had been stripped of any valuables. Only the bloated
bodies of dead sailers float around the wreckage. There is a
small personal chest that looks like it had become dislodged
from his hiding place when the ship hit the sea bed. Inside are
some of Grombon’s personal belongings. A diary where he
explains how it all went wrong and that he was never meant for
a landlubber’s life. He talks about how he wished he’d pursued
the leads he had on Kuzmenko’s treasure. If only he’d have
found Bryany Brakken...
* There is land just over a league away. If they head there, they
won’t be able to get too close in The Powderkeg. They will have
to take the rowing boat. They discover another battered boat
floating freely on the narrow water ways that lead to Qualt. It is
dusk, atmospheric, strangely quiet. The stillness is broken by
angry shouts carried on the winds from the NW.
Grombon and several of the crew have been captured by Orc
coast scavengers. Usually they target fishing boats and hikers
but they lucked out with the weakened crew of the Gull’s Wing
and have them caged ready for feasting on when their hunger
arrives. Party, need to get in there and save the Gull’s. Grombon
still has his pet Seagull – Pecksellence. Grombon is in a bad way.
His sword wound is infected. He’s on deaths door. They tell of
how their ship was attacked by Sharkhaan, the Captain bragging
about how soon he would be Pirate Commodore. He killed
several of the crew and took every barrel of grog and every item
of value we had. Their ship had huge claws on it, they ripped
into the sides of the ship and when they broke free, the Gull was
destined to sink.
If spotted, the Orcs want to practise their ‘shallows boxing’ with
Scarbossa. The Coastal Orcs and the Sharkhaan often fight and
this has become almost a sport to them.
Save the crew, get out of there and back to The Powderkeg.
Grombon may not live the journey home. His fever has taken
hold. Before he goes to his final sleep he requests to talk to
Sildrin. He tells him to check ‘Barrell 13’ back at the brewery.
Grombon dies - Funeral at sea. Pecksellence flies onto Sildrin’s
shoulder.
‘How do you want to be buried?’
Session Find Grombon’s notes on Captain Kuzmenko’s treasure.
3 Kuzmenko lived 3 hundred years ago. He was a notorious pirate
and the first Pirate King. The Royal Navy sent 13 bounty hunters
after Kuzmenko, but only their heads returned.
Finally a hunter by the name of Olton Brakken managed to kill
the Captain. Slit his throat and watched him tumble into the
ocean.
Yet, that was not the end for Kuzmenko. His lifeless body sank
beneath the waters and was found by a coven of 3 sea hags.
They had never seen such handsomeness and used their
connection with Orcus to bring the Pirate King back to life. They
loved him like a son and hoped he would never die again. As
repayment for their gift, Kuzmenko took to the waves once
more aboard his new magical ship, the Hag’s Heart. His first stop
was to hunt down his killer and take his revenge.
For hundreds of years Kuzmenko continued his reign of
vampiracy. He amassed a huge wealth, a treasure beyond
measure and gifted it to the hags. Then he disappeared.
Kuzmenko has not been seen for nearly 3 decades.
(Kuzmenko is amassing a Navy of his own to rule the waves. He
worships Orcus and has his own island beyond the mists where
he is kept well by his undead servants. He has heard that there
will be new Pirate Royalty and this has hurt his ego. He plans on
returning to the seas to reclaim his title. Nelli Brakken, Bryony’s
mother had found Kuzmenko and managed to bless the waters
around his island so that he may not leave. When she died this
blessing was lifted and Kuzmenko was free to leave once again.
During this time, Kuzmenko has been getting his pieces in place
and plotting his return.)
((Brakken’s blade believed to have the power to kill Kuzmenko
once more.))
Bryony Brakken used to work for Gellen but left after her mother
died. She knew what this meant, that Kuzmenko was free from
his island. She went to Firewatch Island – The Hermitage her
mother lived in to try and find clues on how to stop Kuzmenko
again.
She was last seen in Uskarn and so the adventurers can follow
the thread to the village. Run Tammeraut’s Fate with some
relevant tweaks. Syrgan is one of Kuzmenko’s crew gathering
new recruits.
Change the hell pit to one of the sea hag mothers. She has a
grotto inside the caves of the island. There is an entrance just
below the water. Whilst there is air inside the cave there is also
a pool of luminous blue sludge, blood and bones surround the
pool, making a purple slime around the pool rim.
This is where the Hag’s victims are turned into drowned ones
and are given the rot.
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Cogtopi – Protect the Trade Company’s secret underwater facility. They are
drilling for a powerful magic ore called Sea Stone or Seaon for short.
Unfortunately, their drilling is close to awakening something huge, an ancient
god that has been sleeping for millennia.
