Session 25

Murder I tells thee! Murder most foul!

• On the last days of August the Norse host arrived in the farm with loot and slaves from the Far East. They informed the expeditions they would be taken to see the Theng.
• Once at the thing, while the loot was distributed, slaves started dying and a slave woman accused Adam of bringing the demon he carried upon them. 
• Research revealed that Adam had agreed with the demon to offer the ship to him, that would sail with a crew of dead slaves and take the demon back to his (and the slaves') homeland.
• The Ship was visited post haste and revealed to be plagued by a funguslike moss that dealt necrotic damage. Adam entered his cabin and destroyed a sigil that, according to unverified sources, he had engraved himself. 
• Meanwhile it was discovered that the ship was kept relatively safe by the quick action of the Harloch Mutineers who enetered the ship an anchored it through their inability to die in the sea. In their presense the ghost crew of dead slaves that appears every night remains motionless.
• With the situation relatively stable the expedition returned to the Thing where they planned to burn the bodies of the slaves. Adam took it upon himself to do so, but was stopped by norsemen, who informed him that a pyre burial cannot be given to slaves.
• In the ensuing fracas, Adam attacks a norseman and is in turn attacked, stripped and tied.
• The others ask the Theng for Adam, claiming that his assault was an insult to themselves too and they wish to punish him themselves. They manage to convince him.
• They take Adam a bit further away, and while he is still tied and unarmed they execute him and burn him.
• The expedition visits the Althing where they learn of Sigurd and of Humnir. Terms of opium trade are discussed and the elf has mat Bolrag. Dimplomacy in progress.