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SkullCove

Ok! Finally we get to Skull Cove (trademark pending) and the tavern run by the wealthy ex-pirate Lola ‘Silver Hair’ Devdan, and discover a lively drinking establishment, the origins of the name lost in the dawn of time.

Below the tavern, a hoard of heavily armed guards, surely this is not some sort of foreboding foreshadowing?

Literally minutes after turning up the group start trying to convince the regulars (mostly unsuccessfully) to part with their hard earned gold, and then.. in no particular order and simultaneously, attempt to (1) start a bar fight (2) enter a guarded back room where they noticed oddly familiar naked arse of some guy they know (3) attempt to push over a second guard using a complex, unrehearsed plan using milk and a dragon turtles tooth and (4) enter the tavern via a sewer system unseen and unnoticed

This required splitting the party up into as many parts as possible and ensuring everyone gets the MAXIMUM amount of combat they richly deserve.

Despite being severely outgunned, the group manages to start the bar fight concealing their various machinations, but let the villain Sahreg flee the scene (I wonder if he was buying the map from Naked Arse-man who had been following the party for ages and had taken a chance at stealing it while they were away, setting a fire as a distraction at the shipwrights?)

A brief electrifying encounter with Lola occurred as she tried to keep order in her tavern, but realizing most, if not all the guards were dead, she gapped it out a secret side entrance where the bulk of her goodies were stashed... of only everyone went RIGHT instead of LEFT....

Further guards from downstairs finally got their pants on under orders from several officers started up into the tavern.

Fleeing through the bowels of the island, the sounds of dozens and dozens of guards on their heels, heavy boots slapping the cobbles, the party discover their Captain playing a bit of the old in-an-out with some local ladies and the group decide to beat him up and take the ship. Seconds BEFORE they get a chance however, the guards arrive and one of the ladies decides which side she's on and tosses rather nasty drink in Captain Slythes eyes, temporarily blinding him.

This enrages the man, who extracts a massive hand cannon from god knows where (given he was naked) and proceeds to blindly fire the damn thing around the room, evaporating at least one dancer before calling out for his men to assist him!