Prologue

The prologue of the campaign.

Starts aboard The Providence.

Ends in Walled Garden of Jinhou.

The Providence is attacked at night by a coordinated group of aquatic monsters. The monsters use the cover of a storm to kill most of the crew on the weather deck and then sneak into the lower decks, at which point they are engaged by the party, Asakura and Knut.

The defenders push the monsters back to the weather deck. Ruby is on the weather deck defending the blindfolded man.

A massive hydra-type monster emerges from the waves and starts attacking the entire ship with its bulk. The lesser monsters retreat into the sea. During the battle with the hydra, the party is attacked by invisible flying enemies that fire bolts of frost onto the weather deck. In the middle of the chaotic encounter, the blindfolded man touches Walter and Faylin, both of whom then can see the invisible floating monsters, which turn out to be the heads of the hydra.

The party fights off the hydra until it too retreats into the sea.

They find the late captain Ashbraid in the captain's quarters and discover that he was poisoned before the monster attack.

The noblewoman that the captain was talking with is also found dead in her cabin, along with her maid. The noblewoman had sacrificed her own maid in a blood magic ritual and then took her own life. The blood magic was used to empower some kind of communication spell. There are also drawn pictures of Ricky in the room.

The acting captain Therkildsen allows Asakura to investigate this room thoroughly after Asakura produces some documents about herself.

The next day the ship holds a funeral to honor the fallen.

Kaneko approaches the party with Asakura and tells them that he was impressed with the level of skill displayed by the party. Kaneko invites the party to meet with him in Jinhou at night. To do this, the party needs to take a room at the Emberglow Lodge inn, where they will be contacted by someone.

In the evening, the ship arrives to Jinhou. Kuroda sends a messenger hawk towards the city before the ship makes landfall.

Due to the murder on the ship, the Jinhou harbor police collects basic information from most of the passengers. However, the police let Kaneko, Kuroda and Asakura go without asking them anything. Jaana and Knut are also allowed to leave after the police realizes who she is. Same goes for Ruby and the blindfolded man, after Ruby provides some documents to the police.

The party heads off to the Emberglow Lodge inn and rent a room for the night. After the party rests for a bit, the proprietor arrives to hand them a sealed letter, which tells them to arrive to warehouse 33 in the south harbor in one hour.