Seebo: City of Sin

A few days later we pulled both ships into the Crescent City port. Commodore Loman said he'd watch both the ships and even train the slaves we freed from the Drow ship. They were welcome to stay on as crew for the Evening Star or move on and try and find something else in Crescent City.

Crescent City was something foreign to me. The air was muggy and warm. The town was dirty and not just in a filthy sort of way. Whores waited on every street looking, both men and women of all ages. Hawkers tried to push their goods on us, some of it legal, most of it not.

We made our way to an inn, found a room and settled in. This town didn't seem like the kind of place we really wanted to stay in for too long. I know what kind of people run a town like this. I didn't always used to be the hero I am today you know.

We decided to stick around for two weeks before moving on. We'd poke around, try and find some information on The Ragged Man, see about rumors of the war and whatever else piqued our interest.

The first couple of days were pretty bland. I went with Alev and Dinah to check out the local church, talk about oppressive. I didn't much care for it but with my newfound respect for Old Heakun, I decided to keep an open mind.

We sold off our spare gear and started making plans for upgrades, preparing for the next leg of our quest. I got me a new mithril shirt and some more knives, while Neil spent time working on creating magical gear for a few others.

Lorelei was able to find out a lot of information for us. She does have a way with the men. It turned out that she was from Beacon City, right here in Caldraza so she knew her way around pretty well. She befriended a swamp elf, yeah, that's right, an elf from the neighboring swamps, and was able to find out a lot of good information.

Meanwhile, the rest of us found out some interesting things of our own. Apparently there was a very prominent husband and wife guildmaster team that basically ran the city about ten years ago. They were run off or hanged or something but left a treasure in a maze for anybody strong enough to find it. It's been there for ten years and no one has made it yet. I felt bad for Crescent City having a long established icon such as that, snatched away by some nobody Halfling, but anyway, more on that later.

Lorelei found out that there was a temple to this Kharad guy in the swamp. But they called it the temple of the dead god and all the swamp elves had a real strong disliking for it. It sounded like fun and nothing in this whole deal was ever easy so it seemed like the perfect place to start.

After Neil was done with his magic stuff and Rygorh had finished his research, we ventured into the swamp, chasing the Ragged Man to a dead god's temple. Oh, the fun we were about to have.

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