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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thickets" data-source="post: 4276437" data-attributes="member: 2527">Session 1Tariq, Greymane, Mister Barbicane, Omar Al-Kouri & his henchman Baz, Coren and the mysterious Leck are all heading to Freeport on the galleon The Yellow Whore. While aboard, Leck spots a poor soul adrift on a raft one dark and stormy night, and braves the shark-infested tempestuous waves to save the life of "Lucky" who is an amnesiac. Later, Lucky overhears Partridge, the cruel first mate, plotting to murder Coren, who he believes may be a patron of the dark arts, or at the very least a source of bad luck. Lucky warns Coren, and Coren goes to confront Partridge one lonely night up on deck. Coren confirms Partridge's suspicions as the former does seem to cast some sort of a spell. A scuffle ensues and only by the grace of Omar's intervention is Partridge thrown overboard. Presently the two passengers contrive a cover story and become compatriots in their crime.Finally the Whore reaches the docks of Freeport on a late afternoon. Mister Barbicane invites the passengers to join him for dinner at The Marquis Moon, an inn in the old city, but as the group twists and turns through the maze of cargo and warehouses on the docks, Shimsin and Greymane get separated from the main party. The rest are ambushed by a toothless sailor and his cronies, who try to shanghai the group right back onto another ship.Old Toothless becomes hesitant as Coren and Barbicane parley, but the sailors around the back start to manhandle the others with saps and belaying pins, and so the flash of steel at last punctuates the balmy, misty twilight of the docks. In the melee, a dazed Old Toothless becomes entangled in some ropes, and Leck slits the throat of the helpless ringleader. A few more sword wounds and the rest of the sailors come to the harsh realization that this is no band of weaklings, and do their best to vacate the site. The last wounded sailor begs for mercy, but again Leck bloodthirstily puts him to the blade, to the admiration of Lucky. The one that got away, with a couple of stab wounds from Coren, is forced to jump into the drink. Nursing their lumps, the group continues on to the Marquis Moon.At the inn, Mister Barbicane recognizes his old friend John Smith, and all present enjoy a round of ale. Smith and Leck notice an awkward looking priest spying on them, and Leck invites him over. Recognizing Barbicane, the stranger introduces himself as Brother Egil, and puts forth a job offer to the group: find his missing friend, Lucius.</blockquote>

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