Previously on Reclaiming Orathos

Departure day in Port Quaybay, and the heroes are squeezing Varia's free-gear generosity for everything it's worth! Lash lets her smitten admirer Brebo bankroll a luxury shopping spree — a fire-resistant +1 apron, a silver ingot, a full smithing kit, and a gloriously oversized wizard hat. Silithane cons a free component pouch out of the Mages Society, then fakes the Flame Queen's voice in Kain's head — and Kain, unimpressed, blasts an elder mage and gets bounced into a punishment demiplane full of bouncy castles. Ashlyn's blood crisis goes from bad to worse: stale animal blood, then a painful bite that leaves Fenric at half health.

Then it's anchors up! Aboard the Queen's massive expedition ship, dark hooks surface — a 20-foot burning statue is being lowered into the lowest deck to forge "super soldiers," a spy named Figueroa pays Silithane ten gold to learn what's really down there, and the Varian queen aboard is a decoy.

Twenty-one days to Rivalon. What's hiding in that statue's hold?

SUMMARY: The party stocks up and sails for Orathos as a sinister super-soldier statue and a spy's secret job set the stage for the crossing.