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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrow" data-source="post: 3198496" data-attributes="member: 301">Season One OverviewNate, Sully, and Bronson traveled to Freeport aboard the merchant ship the Albers.  Their ship encountered a ghost of Edward “Ned” Fletcher, captain of the Stingray, which had recently been sunk by sahuagin raiders.   The ghost recruited the trio to retrieve the Stingray’s cargo, a gem called the Eye of the Sea Dragon, and return it to the Temple of Harrimast in Freeport.  With Fletcher’s guidance they retrieved the Eye from the lair of the sahuagin.Carrying the Eye nearly spelled the Albers' doom, as the gem proved to be cursed, first killing the Albers’ captain and later attracting the ghost ship Sea Maiden.  Nate, Sully, and Bronson defeated the undead crew of the Sea Maiden and saved the Albers from becoming the next victim of the curse.The trio was relieved to reach Freeport and be rid of the Eye of the Sea Dragon and the ghost of Ned Fletcher.  Peg-Leg Peligro, High Priest of the temple of Harrimast took the Eye and locked it with its mate deep in the vaults beneath the temple.   (A combination of Maiden Voyage from Atlas Games and “Dead Man’s Quest” from Dungeon #107)The trio took part in the annual Freeport celebration known as Swagfest.  There they saved Captain’s Council hopeful Captain Lydon from an assassination attempt and battled a shapeshifting spider creature beneath an abandoned house.  (Holiday in the Sun, Green Ronin Publishing.)  Later they investigated reports of a haunted dock, only to discover that the haunting was caused by a form of psionic coral growing in the harbor.Shortly thereafter the trio was joined by Tavaari Naaldren and recruited by Brother Egil of the temple of Tinel (god of knowledge and magic) to locate his friend Lucius, a scribe at the temple who had been missing for several days.  The party’s investigation lead them into conflict with the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign, followers of the mad otherworldly entity known as the King in Yellow or the Unspeakable One.  The party saved Lucius and slew the cult’s master, a shapeshifting serpent person named Milos.  (Death in Freeport, Green Ronin Publishing)The quartet discovered that the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign was larger than they first suspected when the cult sought revenge for the killing of Milos and the exposure of their hidden temple.  The Brotherhood attempted to frame the party for the murder of Verlaine, a member of the Captain’s Council, and the destruction of the temple of Tinel.  The party survived and thwarted the cult, but were unable to prevent their attack on the followers of Tinel.  Many clerics, including Brother Egil, were killed before the cultists were defeated.  In the aftermath of the battle the head of the temple, Father Thuron, revealed that he was actually a serpent person named K’Stallo.  Millennia ago the Unspeakable One had been responsible for the destruction of Valossa, the empire of the serpent folk.  Their homeland sank into the sea and the serpent folk were maddened and scattered, never to recover their former glory.  K’Stallo was the last cleric of Yig, the ancient snake god who was patron of Valossa and a sworn enemy of the Unspeakable One.  Together the party and K’Stallo uncovered evidence that the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign was lead by none other than Milton Drac, Sea Lord of Freeport.  (Terror in Freeport, Green Ronin Publishing)The quartet was invited to a grand ball at the Sea Lord’s palace and awarded the Order of Drac in recognition of their efforts to defend the city.  The party made contact with members of the Captain’s Council who opposed Drac and discovered evidence that Drac planned to use the newly constructed lighthouse in Freeport’s harbor in a scheme to infect the people of Freeport with the Unspeakable One’s madness.  K’Stallo concocted a plan to stop Drac’s plan using an ancient Valossan artifact, the Jade Serpent.  The party retrieved the Serpent from an ancient forgotten temple of Yig.  They took the artifact to the lighthouse and used it to slay Drac and his minions.  While waiting for their allies on the Captain’s Council to decide on a suitable reward, the party, newly joined by the undead ranger Queg, explored the caves of the legendary pirate Black Dog.   There they encountered and destroyed the specter of Black Dog and retrieved his treasure for themselves. (Madness in Freeport, Green Ronin Publishing)Soon thereafter the party investigated reports of a haunting at the Freeport Opera House.  They encountered the restless spirit of Fiarella Donadrien, a famous elven playwright, and helped her find peace by ensuring the completion of her final opera.In recognition for saving Freeport from the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign, their allies on the Captain’s Council granted Bronson land in the temple district, Tavaari the abandoned house that once hid the subterranean temple of the Unspeakable One, and Nate and Sully the Albers, the very ship that had once brought them to Freeport.  Only days later, Sully’s brothers came to Freeport in an effort to bring her back to her betrothed.  Unwilling to face her family, she and Nate left Freeport aboard the Albers.For more about the party's early adventures, see the first <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=130547&page=1&pp=20" target="_blank">Swashbuckling in Freeport</a> story hour.</blockquote>

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