On with the story. . .
Our story begins with Senerock Theronn stepping off a boat onto the docks of Freeport. He knows his grandparents are in the city somewhere and he is determined to find them. Before he can even get started, however, he is attacked by a press gang. He pummels them and sends them fleeing with a little help from a sleep spell and his familiar, a panther named Bagira. He wanders around the city until he finds a suitable inn and he pays up front for the entire hurricane season, a time when he knows he’ll be unable to leave the city. End Day One
The following day is Swagfest, the celebration of the end of the sailing season when all the pirates bring home their booty. Senerock and Bagira save the MC from certain death and Senerock volunteers to be pummeled by men with stick while being tied to a pole (don’t you just love carnival games). Then Senerock decides to rest for a while in a tavern and, in the midst of flirting with the barmaid, a pretty elven girl runs into the tavern and jumps under his table. She begs him to hide her, when two ogrish men enter the tavern looking for her. Senerock starts to give her up but then decides to put the men to sleep. The men are dragged outside along with the table of dwarves that were also caught in his spell. And the pretty elf girl sits down for a drink and introduces herself as Arianis. Before too long, Arianis excuses herself, wanting to get down the road before the men chasing her wake up. But apparently she doesn’t make it, and Senerock ends up answering her scream with a little help beating up the men. Arianis thanks him for saving her again and disappears into the crowded city.
After a suitable resting period, Senerock shows up back at the docks for the next scheduled game, a rat chase. Since he is the only contestant with a panther, he ends up being the only contestant who follows the rat all the way to Scurvytown where it crawls in the window of a small building. Senerock goes in after it and ends up fighting a giant spider-thing in order to retrieve the rat. There are also large bundles in the spider web in the basement so Senerock opens them, finding some decent goods and Arianis. Arianis is passed out and seems near death so Senerock takes her to a temple across town before returning to the docks with the rat. End Day Two
The next day, Senerock goes about finding employment since he knows that he won’t be able to leave town until hurricane season is over. He manages to secure himself a job as a professor in elementary magic at the Freeport Institute. When he arrives back in his room, he finds Arianis waiting for him. Apparently, she spent hours trying to figure out the identity of the man who saved her life (again) and bribed the innkeeper into letting her into his room. She thanks him for saving her life and invites him to go on a trip with her. She is going to be working as a deckhand on a short trip to the mainland before the big storms hit. Senerock tells her he’ll think about it and Arianis climbs out the window in hopes of avoiding the innkeeper who she promised to flash. End Day Three
The next day, Senerock sets off in search of his parents but isn’t quite sure where to start. Lucky for him (or not), Arianis bumps into him and tells him he should start with the Office of Public Records. He thanks her and tells her that now they’re even so she doesn’t have to keep following him. She reluctantly agrees and heads off on her way. Senerock finds a record of his grandparents at the Office of Public Records and heads off to meet them. They live in a small house in the merchant district. They pamper him and offer him a place to stay before telling him that his great-grandfather is living with his wife near the volcano on the north side of the island. Senerock refuses their room but thanks them for the information and heads back to his hotel. . .
where he finds Arianis waiting for him. She pesters him about the deckhand job some more and he finally agrees, getting the information on when and where to meet the boat. End Day Four.
Senerock, against his better judgment, hops on a boat with Arianis and heads across the smallest part of the bay to deliver some goods to the mainland. Before they make it, they are attacked by half-starved pirates and recruited by an all-dead pirate ghost to retrieve a stone that was stolen from him when his ship was sunk. What started as a two day sail, turns into a nearly week long voyage as they sidetrack to retrieve the stone from a sahuagin tribe hiding out on a deserted island. Senerock and Arianis kick some butt and round up some treasure while also finding the stone. Senerock is pissed off when he nearly dies and Arianis saves his life but they hop back on the boat and finish their trip to the mainland. After unloading the cargo, Senerock heads to town with the other sailors and stays overnight with a barmaid. The next morning, they ship back out and return to Freeport.
Senerock and Arianis take the stone that they retrieved to the temple of the Pirate God and before they can even make it outside, the stone is stolen. Arianis and Senerock track down the thieves and thwart the summoning of an evil demon, kill a lot of cultists, and return the stone to the temple once more. End Day Whatever
