The cargo bay of the Dark Star had already loaded with some bin of alcohol and five caged magical beasts so everything was ready to the departure. Before the start Rob the Monger permitted some hour free time to his crew, so only a skeleton crew left on the board. The party enjoyed the last hours on one of the floating city of Trinona in brothels and in taverns and of course with shopping. Devestätor the big thoric hired gun and Boris the spell-sword went to a tavern close to that dock where the Dark Star landed. There they heard a rat-face fellow asked about the Dark Star. When they questioned him why asking about their ship the guy tried to avoid the straight answer and left the tavern. They tried to follow him but some bad guys blocked their path on the street and while they were fighting through them the rat-face fellow has gone. After they arrived back to the board they reported to Monger what happened. When all crew members arrived back to the spelljammer Monger decided about the immediate departure. He did not know who and why investigated after the Dark Star and its crew but he did not want to meet with them. He wanted to leave this potential source of problem behind as soon as it possible. So the Dark Star took-off and they left the blue gas giant and started their travel to the neogi ruled space station, Ironport.
The travelling in the wildspace between Trinona and Ironport (which is located close to one of the asteroid belts of the sphere called The Great Belt) was without any encounter. There was only one event when Voss (who is a shapeshifter in a dwarf male form) the arcane mechanist of the spelljammer joshed Devestätor and took on the shape of the antilan girl who was in "cryogen dream" in the arcane-mechanical tank.
Finally after one week travelthey arrived to Ironport the neogi ruled space station . Despite the fact that the golden pyramid form station was the outer space of the sphere, that area of the wildspace was crowded with ships from the different parts of Astromundi. They met with antilan crystal ships from the core worlds, illithid nautiloids and calidian transports from the area between the Inner Ring and The Great Belt and thoric traders from the rim worlds of the sphere. They were lucky to see an elven armada ship which was on way to leave the sphere.
After they docked and unloaded the cargo they remained only one important task: to find the mysterious Sina Mora and deliver to him the arcane mechanical tube with the antilan girl. They had only limited information about Sina Mora. He is somewhere on Ironport and but he is a crime lord sometimes help to the fugitives and the runaway slaves to hide from the antilans or illtihids and help them to leave the sphere. Kenrik the captain stayed on the board while Boris and Devestätor went to the huge open aired plazas of the pyramid to gather information (they collect lots of rumours about a gathering illithid fleet, increasing pirate activity along the main trade routes and a living asteroid called the Raw which is hunting for spelljammers), and Rob went to visit his local contact who was an antilan tavern owner called Julius. He talked about a gladiator arena which is the headquarters of Sina Mora and they can find him there.
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rrived back to the Dark Star he called the crew together and they planned the next steps. Finally he decided about Devestätor, Boris and Voss will escort him to the meeting with Sina Mora. When they arrived to the gladiator arena there was a fight between two githyanki and a thri-kreen. The fight was offered to the illithid guests of the arena by the ringmaster.
They found Sina Mora in a guarded box which was separated with curtains three parts. Sina Mora was about 50 years old, silver haired man with scared face. They talked with Rob lot of things, mainly about the business and the maximizing the profit. Sina Mora talked about a new fruitful deal with the illithids. Boris has a suspicion, a strange impression about Sina Mora maybe not the real Sina Mora but an impostor. When he whispered it to Rob, the Monger with some questions drove the man into a corner, and unveiled him. That moment the real Sina Mora revealed itself. Behind the curtain there was a small box where a woman sat between pillows. Sina Mora the crime lord was not he but she. Finally Rob agreed with the real Sina Mora they will pass the antilan girl on next day. Sina Mora was only an intermediate in this business and the principal has already paid to the original supplier so she and Rob agreed some none financial payment for the shipment. They talked about the antilan girl and the arcane mechanical tube too. Sina Mora said there are some runeplate in the arcane mechanical mechanism which keep the girl in magical sleep, keep the wild magical effects inside the tube and hide the girl from the spy magic.
When they left the arena Voss told that to Rob when he took the arcane mechanical tube to pieces about dozens days ago (when they found the girl) he did not install back that rune plate which hide the tube from the spy magic. So if someone (for example the antilan Sun Mages) sought the girl with magical way in the last weeks he/she can detect her. Rob sent Voss back to the ship to fix the rune plate to the tube immediately and went to visit his contact with Boris and Devestätor. He wanted more information about the antilan crystal ships which were floating around Ironport. Were the antilans here because of business cases or from other reasons? They were suprised because despite of the rush hour the tavern was closed. Boris sent into his familiar (which is a weasel) to the tavern and it found three dead inside. The two waitress were shot and Rob's antilan friend was dead too, but before killed someone tormented him. Rob was shocked.
They hurried back to the hangar bay but everything was alright with the spelljammer. Most of the crew members were somewhere in the space station only the young helmsman, Garret and the elf navigator girl, Quara were in the ship. Garret reported about an antilan man who looked for Rob about one hour ago. Based on the report Rob realized the antilan wore Julius' mask, but the real Julius had already dead at that time.
Rob sent Garret to collect the ship crew, and he went back his cabin. He wanted a revenge and he hoped the impostor would come back later again. Boris and Devestätor stayed in the cargo bay in watch.
The impostor came back about half hour later. He wanted to speak with the Monger so Boris escorted him into the cargo bay and called Rob. Devestätor checked the place around the Dark Star maybe the impostor has some companion but the hangar bay was crowded with spelljammers and sailors so he did not catch sight of anyone. When Rob and the impostor who wore Julius' mask met there was no any sign on Rob's face that he knows the real situation. While they were talking Devestätor heard a suspicious voice in the cargo bay (like a sword or pistol hit against something) next to some bins. He misgave there is someone but invisible so he threw a bottle to that direction. It hit someone so the thoric drew his quad-iron pistols and shot. Blood showed the hit and the next moment a human bad guy became visible. When Boris and Rob realized what happened they drew their weapons also and about half dozen enemies became visible. So the masked man did not arrived alone he was escorted by invisible companions. Rob attacked the impostor while Devestätor and Boris the rest of enemies. It was a fast and bloody fight with pistols and swords and only one spell. One of the enemies used a Silence spell so the communication became almost impossible. Two crew members the calidian gun mage Macon (who used two magelock pistols) and the thoric warrior Flynn who has a mechanical arm arrived back to the spelljammer during the fight. At the end the party overcame the attackers and that moment they realized Rob disappeared. He was abducted by the attackers on some magical way. They were lucky
because one of the attackers was alive so they could interrogate him. They had some problem because there was a kind of magical block on the mind of the attacker but Voss successfully broke it. The bad guy told them they were hired by a masked antilan (not the impostor) for two jobs. First they had to secure the area around a tavern while the masked antilan spoke with its owner and second they had to help kidnapp the owner of this spelljammer. He did not know why, but he know where the antilan's ship was docking. Maybe Rob has been there.
Boris, Devestätor, Voss, Flynn and Macon went to rescue the owner of the Dark Star. They did not know how much time they had so they hurried.
The dock was another part of the space station and it was in a huge hangar bay where dozens of ships docked. The ship of the antilan was a small, calidian built spelljammer. At first it looked abandoned but they detected some movement inside. They had to enter so because of the entry ramp and the lock-door was closed Macon and Boris climbed to the upper deck of the ship and tried to open the "back door". When they got into the spelljammer they hurried to the main deck to open the entry ramp but on half way they found Rob who was tied to a chair and tortured by an antilan. When the antilan noticed them he activated an arcane magical body armor (like the Mage armor spell) and drew his weapon but Macon was faster and killed him with a head-shot (Macon's user was lucky because the attack roll was critical, he used a rune bullet and a 2nd levels spell was channeled into the bullet). The antilan was not alone because there was an arcane magical flying orb which attacked Macon with magical missiles. The orb was destroyed by Boris who slashed it two parts with his long sword.
Finally the end of the last game session they rescued Rob and the party returned to the Dark Star.
