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    • Aboleths
    • Phantom Sea Guardian
  • Gazetteer World news and rumors
    • 1690-01: January, 1690
    • 1690-02: February, 1690
    • 1690-03: March, 1690
    • 1690-04: April, 1690 WAR ON FOUR FRONTS!
  • Historical Events Fictional or alternate timeline events
    • 1680: Lesser Antilles Hurricane Disaster leads to an unusual truce
    • 1683: The Raid on Veracruz Corlis and Scarlet's First Battle
    • 1685: Battle off Havana Naval battle between Spanish and privateer fleets
    • 1686: The Port-au-Prince Negotiations aka "The Red Sash Incident"
    • 1687-1689: The Williamite War An alternate timeline
    • 1687: Ambush at Isla de Pinos Decisive Spanish victory Against French privateers
    • 1690-Present: The Jacobite Uprising A proxy war by France in Ireland
  • Session Notes
    • #001 The Phantom Sea Session #001 (25.08.03)
    • #002 The Phantom Sea, pt 2 Session #002 (25.08.17)
    • #003 Circe's Island Session #003 (25.08.31)
    • #004 Circe's Island, pt 2 Session #004 (25.09.14)
    • #005 The Labyrinth Session #005 (25.09.28)
    • #006 The Labyrinth, pt 2 Session #006 (25.10.12)
  • Ships A catalogue of noteworthy vessels
    • Spanish Navy
      • Armada de Barlovento Caribbean Defense Force
        • Galga del Sol Light Frigate, 26-gun
        • Nuestra Señora de la Luz Light Vessel, 14-guns (1680)
        • San Felipe Frigate, 30-gun
        • San Ignacio Galleon, 60-gun
        • Santa Teresa Frigate, 40-guns
      • Armada del Mar Océano
    • Unaffiliated Vessels Privateers, Freelancers, etc.
      • Caribbean Corsairs
        • Night Wind Schooner, 6-gun
        • Étoile du Nord Light Frigate, 28-guns (1685)
      • Mediterranean Corsairs
        • Graveyard Rose Brigantine, 20-24 guns
  • Writing RP, short stories, and other fiction
    • 000 Aftermath of the Escape Attempt - 17 years old Alethea
    • 000 Alethea Gets Burned - 13 years old
    • 000 Alethea Meets Santiago - 11 Years Old
    • 000 Alethea's Capture
    • 000 Alethea's First Naval Battle and Training
    • 000 Ceiran and Alethea First Meet
    • 000 Gestra and Alethea Talk Religion
    • 000 Sabine and Scarlette Meet
    • 000 The Escape Attempt - 17 years old Alethea
    • 000 The Fateful Deal - Scarlette and Percy
    • 001 Phantom Sea Downtime Alethea, Gestra, Scarlette
    • 001 Scarlette and Corlis on the Phantom Sea
    • 001 Scarlette and Sabine Down Time
    • 002 A Quiet Moment Alethea, Corlissandro
    • 002 After Battle Talks Alethea, Gestra
    • 002 Gestra and Corlis After the Aboleth Battle
    • 002 The First Words Corlissandro, David
    • 003 That Which Keeps Us Going Corlissandro, Scarlette
    • 004 A Brief Respite Chester, Corlissandro
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Session Notes

The Phantom Sea Arc

#001 The Phantom Sea: Captain Scarlette Jane recruits a diverse crew in Tortuga and sets sail aboard the Night Wind through the supernatural Phantom Sea on a dangerous mission to steal the artifact “Calypso’s Heart” from the goddess Circe’s temple, facing ship damage and psychological effects that drive crew members to attempted sabotage during the treacherous voyage.

#002 The Phantom Sea, pt 2: During Days 4-5 of their Phantom Sea voyage (April 24-25, 1690), the Night Wind crew negotiated safe passage with an ancient telepathic sea serpent, survived psychological warfare from ghostly apparitions of deceased loved ones emerging from floating coffins, and fought off a coordinated assault by four aboleth creatures.

#003 Circe’s Island: The Night Wind crew survived a supernatural storm and divine encounters in the Phantom Sea to reach Circe’s Island, where they began navigating the temple’s deadly challenges and entered the Hall of Mirrors equipped with protective ruby coins.

#004 Circe’s Island, pt 2: The party navigated the psychological horrors of Circe’s Hall of Mirrors where each member faced hostile reflections of their deepest fears and failures, nearly lost Chester to necrotic damage before Alethea’s heroic rescue, discovered that their trusted first mate Percy was actually the god Poseidon in disguise, witnessed a violent magical confrontation between Scarlette and Poseidon in Circe’s throne room, accepted the goddess’s labyrinth trial to retrieve Poseidon’s stolen eye, and split into three teams to tackle separate locked doors while avoiding the deadly Minotaur guardian prowling the maze.

#005 The Labyrinth: The party split into three teams to navigate Cersei’s deadly labyrinth, securing two of four magical obelisks needed to escape while being hunted by an ancient Minotaur, ultimately sacrificing two magical companions (Hermes and Grimsby) but successfully evading the beast through tactical spellcasting and regrouping to continue their search.

#006 The Labyrinth, pt 2: The party successfully navigated Circe’s deadly labyrinth to retrieve Poseidon’s Eye and restore the god’s power, but when Scarlette forced him to break Corliss’s unwanted warlock pact by threatening the artifact, she earned Poseidon’s eternal enmity and lost her own divine patronage, transforming a completed mission into a pyrrhic victory that revealed her true identity as the Blood Pirate and left the crew sailing toward Cyprus with massive wealth, restored crewmates, and a god as their enemy.

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