posted with Dante's permission
Dante Darkheart said:Dante had some poison drawn from the Red Fang Serpents that needed to be shipped to Serpents Hold. For some unfortunate reason all his ships would be busy delivering other orders until a few days after the venom samples began to deteriorate. He consulted Chelsea Dagger on who to hire for the job. She quickly recommended the Saphire Trade Company who had been operating in the North of Felucca. Chelsea sent word to their captain Yaerus and arranged a meeting the next day.
Yaerus arrived at Red Fang Pointe. Dante Darkhearr, Chelsea Dagger, Yaerus , and unbeknownst to Yaerus was the wraith Rogal Ravenwood. They hashed out a deal in which the Saphire Trade Company would earn 70% of the profits earned by the Naja Trade Company. The other 30% would be retained as a finders fee for the work. And the Saphire Trade Conpany would be allowed to trade their products twice a month in the Southern seas of Felucca for a 10% cut of their profits going to the Naja Trade Company rather than the usual 25%.
After discussing terms the three discussed the route as Yaerus was somewhat unfamiliar with the southern waters. It was a fairly direct route that used the strong currents coming from the South Pole.
The next day the Saphire Trade Company packed up the crates carefully packed with the venom samples.
Dante watched them load the crates as carefully as possible. If a single seal was broken the toxic venom samples would corrode through the rest.
Just as the ship raised its anchor a small rat possessed by Rogal scuttled aboard and hid under a cannon.
The first day of sailing went just fine. Most of the crew sat at the front of the ship and told stories and laughed.
Meanwhile Rogal set his sights on possessing the captain at the helm.
As the captain he altered the route.
The route took them to the serpent pillar. The crew thought this was odd but had been trained not to question their captain. Rogal cast a spell to transport the ship from Felucca to......
....Trammel. The crew hardly knew what had happened and they continued on sailing as they had before.
It wasn't long after the ship ran into a fierce storm. Several of the lightning bolts struck the ship and the cargo containing the venom samples. Now that the samples where electricly charged the venom arasolized.
Rogal did what he could to further tempt fate and began breaking the seals.
The crew became quite ill.
Some even died to weak to carry on sailing the ship.
Except for Rogal who continued on his collision course for Vesper. After crashing into the docks the rats began to pick at the infected bodies as the guards arrived to clean up the accident.
After the crash Rogal possessed several of the contaminated rats and scurried off to the various businesses and tainted their food and water.
Now with the towns food and water supply contaminated Rogal just had to wat for the panic to set in.
((OOC: For Rules go to The Rule for The Sickness of Vesper))