When we last ventured to the Great Basin…
The members of the Task Force had just captured Vicious. After stripping him of his weapons, he was imprisoned in one if his own jail cells. While unconscious, you inventoried the Sanguine Ravager and the store rooms on the island. During this time you also talked to the fish minions, who turned out to be dull intellectually and took next to no convincing to keep them fixing their huts while Oisin had burned. Also during this time, Oisin, Meru and Gwen ventured under the lake to find the Kraken. After about an hour of searching the cramped passageways under the island, you found the kraken in a larger cavern. It introduced itself as Qwoshokk, the Consuming Tide and while it wasn’t interested in letting you build a tower on the island without swearing an oath of fealty, it seemed to be rather agnostic towards Vicious now that he had been defeated.
When Vicious awoke, he was willing to talk on one condition: his life. Unfortunately for him, that wasn’t something that you were interested in sparing. While one group was under the waves, Vicious told you about his early life. He started out as a deck hand for Ragnory Shipping Co and rose the ranks until he was the first mate of the Brilliant Jewel. But he found it boring and resigned to hunt kraken and sea serpents. Here he encountered Qwoshokk and spent years hunting the mighty beast. Eventually, while at Qwoshokk’s mercy, he accepted a pact to serve the kraken in him mission to destroy the surface world. As captain of the Sanguine Ravager, he become a feared pirate and mounted a raid on the Brillant Jewel, his old ship. There he fought somebody, whom he would not really identify, who killed his crew and offered to spare his live in exchange for joining a different organization, LAKE. He stopped here since he did not have the assurance of leaving the cell alive. Instead, with the clean message to leave from Qwoshokk, you took him back to Kerkard to present him to the Forum.
Upon reaching the Forum, late on the 6th of Whitremire, you gathered the Forum and noticed that one member, Bur Harcosa was missing. Turns out that he recently died on the day that you set sail from Taerwyn. Operating without the Herske, Marchi Elenek ran the meeting and everybody seemed happy and satisfied with your progress this time. Specious of Bur’s death, Meru asked the stars for guidance and learned that his death was hastened by outside forces, that somebody on the Forum knew this but had not ordered it and that that person was within two city blocks of the Forum building.
We know resume in the working room of the Forum as Meru reports their findings to the rest of you.