Tenth Session (9 page pdf) – “Leaving Elf Island” (Warning, adult content) – Having braved the dark island fairly successfully, the pirates return to Eleder and cash in.
Serpent is bad off after drinking the qlippoth’s blood and decides of the three ways to go with it- drugs, sex, and violence – the safest bet is drugs so he hits the maht (aka “Granpappy Blackskull”) hard to at least keep himself super stoned and out of everyone else’s hair.
The others loot the temple/lab (there’s a weird part with a fairly calm crypt thing; I am prepared for the PCs to talk more with it to get some backstory but they don’t, they just rush to attack, get teleported away, rush to the attack again…) and spend several days repairing the ship and trying to heal the various folks caught in the dark dreams and early stages of hawani transformation.
The layover and trip back to Eleder isn’t eventful combat wise but is spent exploring the after-effects of the island’s unfortunate events. Some of the nobles are still sex-crazed, Melella is depressed and they put her on suicide watch, and even the PCs are having PTSD and addiction drug withdrawl problems…
Genevieve Tolcrist approaches Serpent below decks and thanks him for the rescue. He warns her off, but not well as she pushes herself firmly against him. He pushes her violently away, moreso than he intended. She hits the wall heavily, then sinks.
But finally they get everyone back home, cleaned up, back to their parents, and collect their reward.
And that’s the end of “Sinful Whispers” from Heart of the Razor. Very adult, I laid it on thick early on in the season TV series style to make the point “this is what’s gonna happen”. Razor Coast itself does some more drugs but not that much more sex, but the Hot Springs Island OSR type supplements are all about the ancient sex-drug elves and I’m mashing together Razor Coast, Hot Springs Island, and our own custom shadow phantom/Cyphergate/serpentfolk plot into one big campaign ender! So this exposed them to that and to the consequences and the perils of not being able to control yourself.
The rest of Season Six segues into stage-setting for the other big theme underlying the rest of the campaign… More on that soon!