Upon returning to the Hag Coven cave, our adventurers found visitors from the cave path to the north inspecting the "noise".  Copperfield tried to convince them that everything was fine, in the guise of Pigtooth Polly, and that one of the sisters had been murdered by some adventurers, and the other was cooking up some revenge in their shelter.  Although the clever ruse might have gone over, the rest of the team were still itching for a fight and jumped the pond to stir up some trouble.  While Jorn was wading through the waters looking for clues to the whereabouts of his family members, the fight ensuing above him, he decided to bring Goldenscale into the fray.  The pathway out of the Coven Cavern was packed with frantic movement, and fighting, leaving 2 thugbears dead and a veteran Bullywug scallywag (who knows when the tides have turned) kneeling on the dirt asking for mercy.  Turning against his current masters, Bullywug willingly (with a little monetary persuasion) decided to aid our adventurers by getting most of his shipmates smashed on Happy Harriet's grog.

The plan was to quietly free the slaves, and use the gun powder on the ship's deck to blow up the ship.  When everyone in Happy Harriet's stumbled out to see what was going on, ignite another keg of powder stashed under the dock to blow them up too!  As you know, however, a plan is only good until first contact with the enemy, and shifts quickly with the tide of the encounter. In the end, the illusory form of a slave carrying a torch onto the ship should draw the drunken crew onto the ship to stop the impending disaster, only to have disaster wrought upon them by exploding the deckside kegs of powder with a fire bolt from the team's resident fiery sorcerer. Just as the plan was about to come to fruition, a silver scaled dragonborn, dressed in the finery of a pirate officer, stepped out onto the dock from the quartermaster's shack to survey the preparations to sail.  The plan went off without a hitch and all crew were murdered in the ship's destruction, save for Bullywug and three of his friends who were too drunk to approach the ship (which was also part of the plan).  However when the Pirate officer commanded them to their feet to attack the team, they couldn't ignore the order!  Deftly avoiding injury, our team swiftly dealt with the combatants and narry a word was spoken.  Left barely standing, and about to speak, Hank kicked the Dragonborn Pirate into the flaming wreckage of the ship, still docked beside them.