Canny Candlesticks

The acting troupe sailed into Lalo and promptly entered merchant mode. They sold their foodstuffs and basic goods at market price and then ventured into the multi-segmented Port Lalo Inn to fetch a price on their seven golden candlesticks.

Janella and Sabrina (in a sedan chair) entered the upper-crust quadrant of the establishment. The host was enough impressed by Janella's gaudily rich costume to let her in, but drew the line at a mermaid companion. Janella was escorted to a table of politely trading gnomish nobility.

Meanwhile, Laseda entered the traders' tavern in the midst of an auction. She quickly got a base price on the candlesticks but was unimpressed by the offer.

Meanwhile, Sabrina joined the half-elves in the free-for-all Sailors' sector. The main draw - apart from the beautiful mermaid - was a long, in-progress drinking-and-betting game. The barkeep invited them in for their ship or five hundred gold. Janus immediately backed away from the high stakes.

Janella hit it off badly with the nobles, instantly betraying her sword-for-hire station in life. Gradually she managed to rectify that impression and started to get some handsome bids for the story-swathed candlesticks. She promised to deliver them and the music mephit's spirit box for three hundred fifty gold to an eccentric old man at eleven o'clock on the next day.

Laseda and Janella joined the rest of their group in the Sailor's quadrant of the inn. Most decided the chance of winning a ship was worth the risk, so they pooled their gold and entered the competition. The remaining combatants included a very tipsy halfling betting a small ship and a collected elf betting a chest of gold. Laseda had the best markmanship...but unfortunately for her, as she started to play, she realized she didn't hold her drink that well. Her aim got worse and worse and they lost to the elf.

The halfling, now very drunk, suggested another round with the pretty halfling rogue. Janus joined this time and managed to win a derelict ship before the halfling collapsed in a corner. Laseda picked his pockets.

The crew wended their way to their new ship and discovered it looking like it had been half-submerged for a few weeks. Something squelchy sounded from the hold. They trooped down and discovered a crusty old crustacean hiding in the murky bilgewater. Thinking it might taste nice, they surrounded and battered it to death it after gave them a few nasty pinches. They also discovered some sharkskin and chitin armor, too big for the halfling, stuck in the sludge.

Everyone ate roast lobster.

Experience

Port Lalo (All): 100
Hobnobbing with the Gnome Nobles (Janella): 100
Mercantile Savvy (Laseda): 50
Betting-Drinking-Dart Game: Laseda 200, Janus 100
Flirting with the halfling (Laseda): 50
Hammerclaw (All): Level 3's 360, Level 4's 320

Let's Be Friends!

The piratical theater company set sail the next day down to the city of Lalo. They spent an uneventful night, but the next day drifted into a solid mass of boats and barges. Sabrina swam ahead to see what the problem was, and discovered five sahuagin holding up each ship as it passed beneath a bridge. She watched one crew resist and the sahuagin overpowered them and started to mysteriously sink the ship. The next boat, needless to say, gave in.

Sabrina brought this news back to her crew. After some discussion, they decided to try and unite the other sailors and overwhelm the bandits through sheer force of numbers. Sabrina and Janella left to serenade the other ships and managed to convince eighteen out of twenty to join them. Laseda, meanwhile, organized a strike team under one of her shady new acquaintances. When everyone was organized into three flanks - one over the ships and one on each bank - they pushed forward and scared the sahuagin into fleeing and abandoning their loot. While everyone else set about dividing up the goods - the most interesting of which was a pet pseudodragon - Sabrina discovered the last sahuagin beneath the water. It knocked her unconscious and stole her whip. Haden noticed she was missing and jumped into the river, but his armor almost made him drown. Laseda rescued him with an animated rope she lifted off one of the bandits, and then used it to fish Sabrina out of the water.

That night everyone told stories and sang songs.

Experience

Oratory, Sabrina and Janella: 100

The Sahuagin: 720

Rescuing the Mermaid, Haden and Laseda: 75

Ranger-Animal Bond Bonus: 30