II-II. Berthed at Harbour Island, Eleuthera. Tuesday, February 13, 1725 Anno Domini

• Aboard the Graceful Dame, Mister Lucroy explains to Sir Randel and the other members of the crew concerning the golden skull.
• Captain Hayden retrieves letters from Mr. Friendly and turns them over to Mister Skaarup who asks if his bag of stones was taken. The crew – sans Mister Lucroy who actually took them – suspect the monkey is responsible.
• Sir Randel and Captain Hayden decide to try to take a shortcut through a more dangerous route that has shoals. As the crew starts to split up to do their own things, a British sloop arrives, begins disgorging marines.
• Leftenant Edmund Brace of His Majesty’s Royal Navy announces that he is there to take the crew of the Graceful Dame into custody to answer for the murder of Edward Long. Several very British interrogations ensue but the crew are released due to insufficient evidence.
• As the sun goes down, the Graceful Dame departs, destination: Havana.

Player Notes:

• Usually, I’m way too verbose in these, so I’m actively trying to dial back my outline.
• Looking at the outline, it seems like not a lot actually happened. I blame all of the interrogations.
• We determined afterward that, in-game, no one actually asked who was behind the whole investigation thing, though I think we’ve since determined that Spenser’s critical success in Law will result in him having asked during his debrief; as this would apparently have possibly changed some of Sir Randel’s reaction, we’re totally abusing Spenser’s Absent-Mindedness as an excuse. This should come up next week.
• We’re totally going to end up wrecking in the more dangerous route we’re taking. Having both CAPT Hayden and Sir Randel be Overconfident is going to bite us in the butt…
• The next episode will be delayed a week due to some absences next week.

See the Daniverse Blog for the GM’s post-game debrief.