Recap:
The crew finished up the last bit of bling on the ship, finished hiring crew, named her "Guardian of the Tide" and prepared to set sail.
The officers were invited to a private dinner with Beverly a couple days before we left port. While there, she introduced us to a friend of hers; a renowned Diviner named Asinjin. He is a brilliant Desert Elf; albeit surly and racist. Asinjin proceeded to tell us that he has been working with Beverly, and several other powerful people, in order to divine the location and motives of the agents of Olhydra. He mentioned three notable alliances. The first is a group of pirates who defected and joined the army of Olhydra. The second is a race of eel folk who live deep under the ocean. The third is a mighty blue dragon that swore its allegiance to Olhydra. All of these agents of evil are growing stronger and gathering more followers. We were tasked with hunting them down and destroying them in order to swing the balance of power back to Lakius' side.
We agreed that we'd pursue the pirates first in the hope that we could salvage their ship and sell it to pay the crew for a year or two. We may tackle the eel folk next, but we're waiting to see how things go. We'll need Claude to join us to take on the dragon, but he's been afflicted with a continuous sleep spell that kicks in every night around 9. If we can dispel that for a session or two, we're in business.
Asinjin provided us with a precise location of the pirates and we set sail to pursue them. We arrived at their location about 6 days after they were scryed and are now tracking them to the best of our abilities. So far, the ship has proven to perform even better than anticipated.