Young New World season 1

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Session 1: A Ship Full of Characters (Wavery 6 to Trest 2 716)

• In Newporton, the Gamelel Cruise ship embarks with its usual complement of crew and passengers.
• On the ship, it takes several weeks, but the passengers get to know each other. Along with the normal assortment of travelers, there are some out of the ordinary ones on pilgrimage, one prisoner being banished, and a Sandoo that stays out of sight.
• A few days behind, but not far from the destination, the ship is approached by a pirate ship of the Shelleshe Shark fleet. The captain and first mate mysteriously end up over board and the outmatched midshipwoman takes command, ordering an evacuation.
• Before the pirates reach the ship, all of the lifeboats are away. One which includes a strange assortment of the characters heads towards a nearby island. When they arrive, a Janpinguhantāsame attacks and nearly drags one of the passengers away. Cyrus and Iwakasi jump in to save him. Breach drags them back and Oz heals the wounded man. The shark attacks again only to be attacked and driven off by Horatio.
• After a night on the island, the lifeboat, with no pirates or other lifeboats near, starts off the to east.

Session 2: On Again, Off Again (Trest 2 to Trest 4 716)

• The first day at sea on the lifeboat is uneventful until a flying Horarian finds them. He announces that the captain of the Shelleshe ship will allow them safely back on to the Gamelel Cruise. After some discussion, they decide to accept the offer and head to the awaiting ship.
• Once back at the ship, they take time to get aboard, but Tay sneaks on and hides. Their weapons are mostly removed. The Shelleshe are in control and organizing the returning crew and passengers. Akra gets into an argument with the pirate watching her group and he eventually gets so mad he throws Oz overboard. She returns the favor and calls ring out for help. The group, assisted by few other begins to fight the pirates. Oz climbs back aboard.
• Cyrus climbs to the crow's nest where he is able to subdue the pirate there and watch the battle. Tay hides before going to try and free the crew. He kills or disables the pirates guarding them but realizes that he cannot get the chains off of them. Horatio engages the fighting leader of the pirates and eventually defeats him. Oz, Akra and Iwasaki try to get to the weapons and end up in a fight with several other pirates. Iwasaki is knocked out and later healed by Oz, who spent a painful few moments in a bag. Breach is able to subdue several pirates, gets dazed, but after being healed tries unsuccessfully to free the crew.
• With many of the pirates dealt with, the group is deciding on its next action when the pirate wizard arrives in a flash with a lightning bolt. He approaches the group as more pirates come to the deck and begin to surround them. They are joined by Kes, who charged in to help near the end of the fight. Off to the side, Warren and others knock a lifeboat off the side. The caster talks to Oz and Akra as Yinites. After a couple minutes of talking, he knocks them all out with a spell.
• Conforming to some treaty with the Yinites, the caster gives the group a lifeboat and all of Oz's friends are allowed into it. Taye joins them, but Cyrus is nowhere to be found. Once aboard, they are sent off on a magical current to the north several miles.
• Cyrus, still on the Gamelel Cruise, hides.

Session 3: A Treacherous Voyage (Trest 4 to Trest 14 816)

• Cyrus spends the next few days away from the others. Once the Gamelel Cruise is clear of the pirates, he comes out of hiding and talks to the crew as the sail to Red Island. He volunteers to go on the rescue mission to find the remaining life boats, of which there are three. While preparing, they discover the Shalleshe have placed a bounty on the head of whoever killed one of their pirates gruesomely by exploding his brain.
• On the lifeboat, the rest of the group huddles and tries to row south. For three days, their efforts are fruitless. Their only hope comes from Taye's ability to communicate with Cyrus and later Shal the cleric of Tommimao. During those days, they are twice attacked by a large shark, which steals and oar each time. On both occasions, Taye is able to drive the creature away.
• The rescue ship finds one of the other lifeboats first and on the third day at sea they come across the boat with the rest of the group. Once there, Shal comes to the conclusion that the bounty is on Taye and warns him about going to Red Beach. A long discussion begins about options he has. It is finally decided that Shal with blessed the lifeboat with a sail and Taye offers to pay people to take him to the mainland of Kathow-tio-Horari, where the Shelleshe don't go.
• Although Cyrus refuses, the rest agree either for pay or just to help. Ohen, Kes, Warren, the two Horarian maybe former pirates and a fisherman that was on the other lifeboat agree to join them. First, the rescue ship accompanies them to the coast, where they will wait out a storm. From there, they will sail north. The storm is a fierce one and they spend a miserable night sheltered on the beach. Luckily, the boat isn't seriously damaged. After a day delay, they set sail for a four day trip.
• Once out to see, they get nervous as the crew is not well trained and makes little progress. But Tommimao's blessing apparently arrives in the form of a great sailfish which communicates with Taye and helps pull them in the correct direction. The trip goes well and the reach the mainland. Asking Ohen's advice on navigation, he directs them north and the being their way up the coast. For a day, the move slowly before seeing smoke from a chimney and go ashore.
• Taye, Akra, Horatio, and Oz head towards a town where they discover it has been taken over by a creature which has forced the men into labor. A child draws a picture of the beast for them to see and they decide to help.