Marty and Emailion Fight A Sea Giant On The Way To C-Town
Martialis and Emailion, those brothers in circumstance, break camp. Marty suggests that they travel the rest of the distance to Chrysopolis by dolphin; the only way to travel. He whips up a few and casts Water Breathing on the both of them, and they're off.
They get a good distance from shore, when they are accosted by some sort of Water Giant that coalesces out of the sea. This dude is huge and pissed; he starts yelling at Marty in some crazy language. He punches Marty for a shit ton of damage. They try to swim off, but the dude grabs Marty off the dolphin's back and punches him again. Emailion ditches his dolphin to try to save him, but has to ditch his armor to avoid sinking to the bottom. Marty wriggles free (in the form of a crocodile) then changes into a dolphin and they bolt out of there. The giant gives chase, but they escape. They lie on the beach of Samothrace for a while, but soon they're back on their feet arrive at C-Town to a heroes welcome.
Emailion rushes the the box to Arben. Arben asks Wirshin for a quick Augery, he says it's safe to open. Inside the box, there's another box with a free mason crest on it. Inside that box is a finger wearing a ring and a note that says, "help". Arben recognizes this as a ring of the Agathersi, specifically to Manole, one of the few Agathersi that wasn't a pompous ass.
Meanwhile, Marty gives the jar he was supposed to deliver to Oeonoe. She looks kind of upset. She takes it to be alone when she opens it. Eorl follows her; it's full of ashes. She weeps.
Eorl puts the call out to Norwit cause he wants a sit down with him and Patricius. Eorl offers Marty's services as a medium so that Patricius can speak to his dead mentor, Habogad. Patricius seems only mildly interested.
Arben decides to Magic Mirror Manole, see what the deal is. They find him lying injured on a foggy heath amongst a rock formation. He says the Agathersi have been cursed. Al-Wathiq has found the Bloodstone and used it to curse the rings the Council of Nine of the Agathersi wear, turning them all into anti-paladins of some sort. Manole was only able to pull through by cutting off his finger before the curse got his claws too deep in him. Arben says he'll be right there with a crew to take care of business. He's about to fly off half-cocked, but Eorl urges caution. Cyril is definitely amped up to get in on this, but ultimately Eorl's wisdom wins out. They decide to wait. Other things need to be taken care of.
Just then B The Beholder pops up with his completed paperwork. Arben grabs the Danger Gang Turquoise and sends them to post them in that inter-dimensional hole in that nearby well.
Arben agrees to go take care of this Underwater Dungeon, but from there he's grabbing whoever he can to take care of the Taramul Kalalalt problem.
He grabs Capt. Eustwice and they hop aboard the Iris to sail out to this dungeon. Marty calls out to a handful of dolphins and makes them big. They head back down to the bottom of the sea. This time there are no Sea Hags or Merro. So that's good. They head down a windy hallway that is too small for either the enlarged dolphins or the Lobster Barrel. They find some dead Tritons and a couple of sea horses. Then they find some horse skeletons with the hooves removed. Then some Electric Eels come out for fighting. They shock pretty freaking hard, so everyone books it out of there. They rest on the boat.
