A Crimson Letter

In the dead of night, a jankily written letter has been nailed to our tavern door. The message reads: "Leave, or the Black Swan will come for you." The paper is signed with red symbols.

We post a handful of guards at our storage. They'll stay the night and lie in wait for our little thief to come knocking. Let's see if we can't clip those long fingers.

Chen has set fire to the storage. Our trap has failed. Luckily, we can quell the flames before they consume the building. Then we free our hapless guards, who we find knocked out and bound to a tree by our clever thief.

We venture deeper into the island, until we find a fitting spot to bury our chest of coin. As we do so, Kanja makes sure that if someone wanted to spy on us, they could. Then we return to camp.

After another intense round of dice, Kanja emerges victorious by a hair's breadth. He holds out his hand to Chen, who grabs it with a wry smile. "You'll have to teach me how to cheat like that, Bengali."

Chen shows us an old piece of parchment, on which we can clearly make out Devil's Basin and the surrounding seas. Intricate annotations in red ink mark sea routes and hidden outposts of the Red Sails.