S1E8 (Pirates of Salt Bay episode)

"S1E8" is the eighth episode of the first season of Pirates of Salt Bay. The show aired live on November 13, 2019 on the Saving Throw Twitch channel, and is archived on the YouTube channel.

Summary
Investigating Gary/Ilyrio's body, Eoj is hit with the final vestiges of the Gary virus, granting him limited telepathic abilities. Dirty Hank and Trislyn investigate where the fire giant was digging and discover a door that seems to be a portal to the Elemental Plane of Fire.

Darkness falls again, and Jarmi appears to them all, thanking Dirty Hank for releasing him - although it may have kick-started the apocalypse.

The crew return to the Aarakocra for payment, and Eoj raises the idea of the apocalypse with the Dauphin who admits they have experienced portents and warns him about Tor Alach Apti and her thrall.

The crew go to the local markets to sell gear looted from the Fire Giant, but are attacked by a snow storm, a frost monster, some kind of frozen reincarnation of Jimmy Buffett, and Gwendolyn.

They defeat Jimmy but Gwen's appearance causes Dirty Hank and Trislyn to have a desperate and heartfelt conversation about Hadal after it commands Trislyn to kill Gwen.

Locations

 * Voran region of Aarakocra barony
 * Marketplace of Voran region

Main Cast

 * Aabria Iyengar as the GM
 * Dirty Hank, played by Eric Reichert
 * Trislynn Orana, played by NegaOryx
 * Eoj Reymurts, played by Teri Gamble

Absent

 * Havana Mahoney, who plays Addi Balmyar, was absent for this episode

NPCs

 * Jarmi - The ghost that lived in Dirty Hank's' lantern, crew calls him Jeremy. Turns out to be a portent or harbinger of the Apocalypse. Owes Hank a favour for releasing him.
 * Gary - A former gambling acquaintance of Dirty Hank, seemed capable of coming back from the dead and recently emerged somehow from Ilyrio Lupineheart to try and take Dirty Hank's lantern
 * Darevi Q'Vore - Tall Aarakocra with jet black beak, regal bearing and nice clothes, brother of Taran Q'Vore and Dauphin of the Aarakocra Barony
 * Jakol - Red Aarakocra working with Darevi to hire the crew for a job taking care of a Hill Giant
 * Hadal - Elder God of the Ultra Abyss, offers favours to the crew for doing his bidding. Trislyn and Dirty Hank have been accepting the offers and he has some power over them.
 * James 'Jimmy' Buffett - Abandoned by the crew in the cultist tunnels on Abbey Isle. Unknown to the crew is somehow involved in offering them the Hill Giant job
 * Gwendolyn - Minotaur woman and former Captain of the Horned Bitch, the crew marooned her after a stand-off with Addi, but Dirty Hank made a deal with Hadal that she would survive.

Mentioned

 * Tor Alach Apti - A blue dragon that made Boaz' Pool unsafe for use by travellers. She has changed from the natural Blue Dragon affinity for lightning and now has a 'frozen thrall' working for her.