The party interrogated their new captive and found that the Macaw was their home ship, just as Pella arrived to arrest him. They rushed out to the docks, to find the ship making its way out of Kilpo Bay; after hurredly negotiating for passage with Captain Brakeswan of the Hok Zagal they ran off to investigate where the surprisingly fast Macaw might be headed. Ogden offered to Errol that it was headed to New Typor, while the captive (still with Pella) confirmed the same. Pella let the group know that Birdseed was offering information in exchange for a lighter sentence, gave Tobias a couple of doses of lacewort, and informed them that the Inquisitors were transferring Perry to the main prison.
The group returned to the Hok Zagal and made their way out to see. During the trip, they heard the story of the fall of Typor citadel (both from the point of view of Saffa and of the Bowok). They also encountered a flock of flying stingrays, and were attacked by a group of insectoid/humanoid demons at a volcanic reef that had newly appeared. Beldrynn was nearly killed in the fight, but Tobias used some of the lacewort to revive her; she’d previously told the group that a man matching Ammon’s description had been on the ship decades ago, gathering the very light from the sky into his glass globes. Oolang and Bonnie (the Hok Zagal’s shipbird) started off suspicious of each other but became fast friends by the end of the voyage.
Arriving at the bay near New Typor, Kyamu attempted to sabotage the rudder of the Macaw but was spotted and had to make a hasty escape. The crew of the Macaw seemed to piece together that the attack happened only moments after the arrival of the Hok Zagal, and Captain Brakeswan decided to put out to sea rather than risk their wrath. The NOOBs remained behind, meeting with the harbormaster who let them know that someone by the name of Young Etienne worked at a soup kitchen in Trestletown, the sub-level town underneath the main city of New Typor Citadel.
They proceeded into town, eventually finding the sub-town: Kyamu befriended a bullfrog named Jeremiah, who pointed out a crocodile in the bushes to him. The group continued to a bar in Winetown with a crocodile’s head on their sign; after drinking shots of liquor out of a bottle of whiskey with a pair of young crocodilians inside it, the bartender pointed them to the Kitchen as an area where Etienne worked and (for 10 gold crowns) gave them a map of Trestletown. An inquiry at the Kitchen revealed that Etienne worked there in mornings, but wasn’t there currently. They proceeded to the Butcher’s, where they found a lively trade in illicit weapons: Leona had a fine orichalcum rapier for sale for a mere 100 gold crowns, or in trade for the body of the huge crocodile currently fighting at the Fighting Pits. The group mulled that over as they continued to the Barn, where they’d been told they might find a lead on lodging: walking in, they saw signs of everything from bar to casino to strip club, with drunken revelry all around . . . .
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