Wine Cellars: Isle of the Spider Bride or A Honeymoon in the Tropics Part I

 Isle of the Spider Bride or A Honeymoon in the Tropics!! Part 1

This adventure took place on May 25th 2023, Wine Cellar time: 3/25/123

The Players:

Joe P.: Ch-Nuk Narris, Runner / Sleek the chameleon,  Apprentice

Josh: Sliish, Scholar/Mage

Steven: Rook the Cutpurse

Deborah: Fallyswaggle Pinkledunk, Faerie (halfling)

Selina: Damora Vut, Dwarf Axe-Maiden

 Shortly after the incident known as the "Night of Z", our group left the Dukedom of Marqest and headed to Reino do mar, by way of the Viking Voyages ship for hire. Upon arrival in the port city of El Zapallar they hired a seagoing vessel to transport them and their cargo to a very particular island.

After meeting three different Ship captains, the group decided to go with Robert Laine a Lawful Captain and his ship the Georgette (a fast schooner). The party held nothing back and showed the Captain what their cargo was, an Aranea princess they were escorting back to her home island.

Highlights of the sea voyage were Rook fishing, and the party having sightings of a lone hippocampus, a pod of whales, the Cordoba captained by Marcos Almelda was spotted following them for a day. On the tenth day Rook caught 8 red snapper and saw a Sea Serpent!! That night they all ate well. On the twelfth day they arrived at the Isle of Dread! Captain Laine took the group to a local village that he often trades with and Sliish was overjoyed to see the large stone wall constructed by the villagers ancestors!

Wall of the ancestors

Some information was gleaned from the village elders and a course was set for the far side of the island. Along the way they spied a towering cliff side nest of gargoyles! Sliish wanted to check it out because he is fluent in gargoyle, but no one wanted to brave climbing the treacherous heights. Soon a small beach was spotted and a longboat prepared. After some recruiting, the party went ashore with five volunteers from the ships crew. 

Another full day of travel into the thick jungle saw the group find the remains of an ancient civilization and the last of the Aranea!! With the return of their Princess the Aranea supplied even more information about a city of the ancients lying deeper in the islands heart at the top of a great plateau. Knowing they had about two weeks before having to rendezvous with the Georgette, a vote was taken and the group decided to seek out the city.

  Part 2 to follow. . . .