We started the week on the Ironclad ship with a mysterious pirate crew member in the engineering room. As they try to figure out where to go, a gruff voice comes from below asking what was going on.
Finn explains to the individual below that he is the new captain and that they had to escape. The person below did not exactly buy this and seemed to be ready to head up deck. Opal went down and jammed the door while the Doc attempted to watch the hatch from below to ensure that if anything were to go sideways, he would be able to put a bullet in it before it had a chance to eat him.
The person in the engineering room, stops the engine saying he had to poop. After a few minutes the person came back and said he wanted 'fresh air time'. So Opal went down and attempted to get the door open which caused a moment of fear thinking the individual would perhaps get violent or break down the door. Eventually, Opal banged the latch through the door letting a giant Ogre out. The Ogre came up onto the main deck and everyone was a little freaked. Opal ushered the two 'slaves' that they saved into the engineering room to try and get the boat going again.
Teddy and Finn noticed that the Knife Boat was coming their way and everyone suddenly remembered that they came to destroy the ironclad and so Doc and Opal headed out onto the armor to try and let captain Joetea that they had control of the boat. This prompted the crew of the knife boat to shoot at them. This is when Mark Member was noticed swimming up to the boat and shortly thereafter, boom.
Doc had cut the landing boat free of the ironclad sending the Ogre into the water and he persisted and made his way back into the boat but was back in the water after the explosion. Doc threw a wounded 'slave' into the water to 'save' him and then the Knife boat closed in. Everyone headed across a boarding plank and were on the knife boat when the Ogre rescued Finn and the wounded 'slave' from the vortex created by the sinking ironclad.
When Finn and the 'slave' were on deck, Finn told the Ogre to go get the provisions from the sinking boat, to which the Ogre said yes captain Finn and dove down. Mark Member had been swimming back the whole time and just as he was getting close to the boat, the Ogre emerged from the depths holding onto the large chest that stored all the food and booze that was on the ironclad. Doc desperately did not want the Ogre on the ship and so he shot the hand that the Ogre held onto the ship with.
The sudden loss of weight made the ship rock hard to one side and everyone had to hang on tight. The Ogre made a huge noise and his bloody hand drew the attention of some devil rays which began to sail over the ship while the Ogre floundered in the water. By this point, Joetea had gotten the stem engine going to get the boat moving. The Ogre caught the back of the boat and as Doc slid toward him, he fired two shots and put the wretched thing to death.
This freed the boat and gave a food source to the devil rays which stopped harassing the ship immediately. The boat hit a bunch of rough water and it took way more time than it should have to get out of the maze. Joetea made a stink about the shape of the boat and convinced Doc and Finn to fix the paint job and so they just splattered paint everywhere. Joetea was not happy about this and so Opal said when they got to the port, that she would pay for the ship to be fixed up right.
On their way back to Shan Fan, they spent the night in the maze and were attacked by Fish men who one of the crew members Fang Lan played human machine gun on. After the fish were dead, everyone got some rest before heading back to port.
When they arrived, Opal made good on the money to fix up the ship and they headed back to the Many Paths. Huang Tsu questioned where Michael was and everyone informed him that Michael was dead. Huang Tsu asked for a pledge of allegiance to the Many Paths which everyone complied with and then the discussion turned to what was found in the cave on the island.
The group explained about the strange room, the key they found and they said that they lost the key when the ironclad went down. Huang Tsu said that he would very much like to have that key and asked if they new a good diver to try and retrieve the key. They brought up Mark Member's name and then Huang Tsu asked if Mark was trustworthy. Doc produced the list of 'family member names' that Mark had dictated to him and Huang Tsu determined they were made up names that phonetically sounded like a grocery list. Huang Tsu revealed that he had the other key and this was interesting to the group. After the conversation, the group started to think about what to do next.
Teddy settled back in with the little old ladies in the kitchen and quickly learned about cooking and kind of found a good place to settle in. At this point Opal went looking to cash in some of her diamond stash and they discovered that some of them were missing. They quickly tried to figure out what could have happened and they realized that Mark Member likely was the one who stole the diamonds.
Doc and Opal went looking for Mark and found that they must have been right because he paid his bills and then headed off into the maze. Apparently Mark had owed the Wounded Paw Triad money for gambling debt which just seemed to make this whole affair worse. Opal and Doc asked the Many Paths Triad cutters to try and find Mark also, saying that he stole a large sum from the triad. This mobilized everyone and Finn found out.
Working the street, Finn and the cutters found out that Mark had been tracked to two potential hiding places from dozens and so they went out into the maze with Joetea to try and find him. They ended up finding his house boat abandoned with all signs pointing to his capture by the Kang pirates.
Not sure what they are going to do next, but I am sure it will be epic.
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