NBHK, Our handler Abernathy sent me and my squad to Regalport in the Lhazaar principalities to gather information for an audit. Evidently even pirates must pay taxes nowadays, and our job was to check that all their plundering has been properly reported. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t. We discovered numerous instances of contraband and improperly reported goods. For some inexeplicable reason, we were legally allowed to confiscate such items, and a result we ended up getting quite the haul of “loot,” from this endeavor.

Of far more interest than the auditing itself, however, was the impostor we discovered. One of the ships we were auditing with the help of our contact, Captain Eleanor Rusalka, contained medical records from Cyre in the year before the Mourning. Each of these records detailed horrific in-utero mutations in newborns and stillbirths within the year leading up to The Mourning. The mutations occurred amongst people of all walks of life, with seemingly no cause.

This is obviously incredibly sensitive and rare information, and in the process of trying to find the captain to question them, we realized that the ship and the captain were impersonating a different ship and captain that was not actually in town. According to Rusalka, Captain Bart and his ship “The Siren” could not be in port since she knows him personally and would have seen him, and yet a convincing facsimile of the ship lay in port, with bystanders claiming that somebody bearing a striking resemblance to Captain Bart left the ship.

The dockmaster, Ishmael, suggested that we seek out a bar called The Limey Grog, to see if we could find “Bart” there. Upon arriving at the bar, we were immediately dragged into an unrelated bar fight, and I will admit that I required little persuasion to participate with gusto. During the altercation, we saw somebody matching Bart’s description hobbling into the kitchen on his trademark peg-leg, and extricated ourselves from the fight to pursue him.

With no other exits, it was a simple task to locate the hatch which “Bart” must have gone down, and we discovered a hidden gambling den beneath the bar. It was a 1,000 gold buy in to play, but we decided it was worth it for the potential intel, so we pooled our money. Bella and I went in, her to play and me to guard, and the rest of the party returned to the ship to make sure the imposter could not escape.

Ultimately, Bella and I were not able to discover anything suspicious about the three captains playing in the den: Ironsides, Imani, and Agatha, but the team that returned to the ship found it on fire. I’m told that in an act of tremendous bravery, Traceur leapt aboard the ship and rescued a crewmember trapped on board. While returning to the ship with our gambling winnings, Bella and I encountered Captain Agatha, who confessed to being the imposter, and thanked us for the actions of our compatriots in saving her crewmate.

Agatha told us that she and her crew stole the records from a ship commissioned by House Jarasco to bring them to one “Sylar Brask.” Agatha claimed that she and her crew were just a group of wanderers looking for a home, and had no idea what sorts of sensitive information they were getting their hands on when they raided the ship. In any case, we had no further quarrel with her, as she seemed to have adopted the appearance of Bart only for convenience, rather than having harmed or replaced him. We saw Agatha off on “The Siren” and completed the rest of our audit without incident.

As for Sylar Brask, according to Agatha he lives with the shifter tribes in the Eldeen Reaches, so we will need to organize another excursion to find him.

YLA, Toryn Viphonastar