The Weather over Thrush Pass

UncommonBounty hunts · Act IIIAct III

From a bounty poster

Target: The Storm-Caller of Thrush Pass · 💀💀 · 55 silver

“Four merchant caravans wrecked by sudden freak storms in Thrush Pass. The pass town pays a bounty for the storm-caller, dead or alive.”

Possible rewards: Salvage Hooks Bottled Storm

6 scenes. Choices with a requirement only appear when you meet it.

An Unnatural Storm

Sail to Thrush Pass (1–3 passages away)1

Fly into Thrush Pass and locate the mage summoning the freak storms.

The sky over Thrush Pass is clear until you are a mile inside the gorge. Suddenly, black clouds boil up from the crags and dry thunder shakes your hull. A massive storm-ray circles the edge of the thunderhead, feeding on the lightning, while a lone watch-hut lamp gleams atop the highest peak.

Fight past the storm-ray to reach the watch-hut on the peak.
Riding a blast of lightning, the storm-ray dives straight down the wind toward your guns.
Battle: Storm-ray · Close range, ThunderstormIf you win:+3 crystal
→ The Watch-Hut
[Air mage] Have crewmate trace the magical current to slip past the storm-ray unseen.
Crew: Air caster · Mage
crewmate closes their eyes at the bow rail. "Someone on that peak is dragging the weather down by brute force, leaving a dead pocket on the north face." You slip up the north side of the crag without the storm-ray ever spotting you.
+1 Casting skill XP
→ The Watch-Hut
[Helm 2] Have crewmate skim the outer edge of the thunderhead to bypass the storm-ray.
Crew: Helm 2+
crewmate hugs the boiling cloud-wall where the storm-ray won't follow, taking only minor hail damage before setting down by the hut.
−1 hull+1 Helm skill XP
→ The Watch-Hut
Leave it for now.
You reverse course out of the gorge, watching the unnatural storm dissipate behind you.

The Watch-Hut

Right away2

Inside the stone hut sits a gaunt thirty-year-old woman with stick-thin wrists and hair bleached white at the roots by magical burnout. "I'm Edda Thrale," she says without standing up. "You're here for the bounty. A wrecker captain named Lowrie Vane is holding my brother Tam prisoner in his ship's hold. Whenever a caravan enters the pass, Vane forces me to summon a storm so he can loot the wreck. If I refuse, he sends me one of Tam's fingers."

Ignore her excuse—shackle her and take her in for the bounty.
Too weak to resist, she holds out her thin wrists and lets your crew winch her aboard.
→ The Wrecker's Offer
Ask where Vane's ship is hiding so you can rescue her brother.
"He's anchored in a cove on the sheltered side of the pass, waiting to loot whatever my storm brings down," Edda says, pulling herself to her feet. "Help me save Tam, and I'll summon whatever weather you want over that cove when we attack."
→ Weather to Order
[Surgeon] Have crewmate treat her exhaustion before planning the attack on Vane.
Crew: Surgeon
crewmate gives her hot broth and checks her racing pulse. "Another month of forcing the weather like this will kill her." Grateful for the care, Edda sketches Vane's hidden cove and its approach lanes on your map.
Reveal 2 waypoints
→ Weather to Order

The Wrecker's Offer

Right away3

You have barely cleared the peak with Edda in your hold when a sleek wrecker sloop—the Glad Tidings—rounds the crag with cannons run out. From her quarterdeck, Captain Lowrie Vane hails you through a megaphone: "That storm-witch is my livelihood, Captain! Put her back in her hut, and I'll pay you more silver right now than the town's bounty poster!" Down in your brig, Edda whispers, "My brother Tam is in his hold."

Refuse Vane's bribe and fight his ship.
Vane lowers his megaphone and orders his gunners to fire. Down in your hold, Edda closes her eyes and summons a fierce tailwind to aid your ship.
Battle: Sky pirates · Close range, GaleIf you win:+20 silver
→ The Pass Town Council
Accept Vane's silver and return Edda to the watch-hut.
Vane's paymaster tosses a heavy purse across. Without a backward glance at your ship, Edda climbs the rocky path back to her hut to call down another storm on the next caravan.
+110 silver+1 heat
The questline ends here.
Release Edda on deck to summon a blinding fog bank so you can board Vane's ship and rescue her brother.
Edda opens her eyes and summons a thick, milky fog that swallows the pass in seconds. Vane is still shouting orders blindly when your bow looms out of the mist beside his rail.
Battle: Sky pirates · Close range, FogIf you win:+20 silver
→ The Wrecker's Hold

Weather to Order

Right away4

From the ridge overlooking the sheltered cove, you spot the Glad Tidings at anchor with her loot skiffs swung out. Bracing herself against the rock, Edda looks to you: "I have enough strength left to hold one weather pattern over this cove for the duration of the battle. Tell me what sky you want, Captain."

Have her summon a dead calm to becalm Vane's ship at anchor.
The wind dies instantly, leaving the Glad Tidings hanging motionless with slack sails as you bear down on her under Drive power.
Battle: Sky pirates · Long range, Dead calmIf you win:+25 silver
→ The Wrecker's Hold
Have her summon a lightning squall to batter Vane's ship before you close in.
A violent thunderhead forms over the cove in minutes, sending a jagged bolt of lightning crashing through the wrecker's mainmast as you charge into range.
Battle: Sky pirates · Close range, ThunderstormIf you win:+25 silver+3 crystal
→ The Wrecker's Hold
[Boarding Harpoon] Have her summon thick fog so you can grapple and board Vane's ship unseen.
Room: Boarding Harpoon
Dense cloud fills the cove, allowing you to slip in undetected and sink your boarding harpoon into her hull while half her gunners are still in the loot skiffs.
Battle: Sky pirates · Close range, FogIf you win:+25 silver
→ The Wrecker's Hold

The Pass Town Council

At a port5

Deliver the storm-caller Edda Thrale to the council at the pass town.

The town council meets in the haulers' hall beneath the salvaged nameboards of the four wrecked caravans. Staring at the gaunt, exhausted woman standing between your guards, the town reeve frowns. "That's the storm-caller? Just her alone?"

Turn Edda over to the council and collect the bounty.
The reeve pays your bounty from the toll chest and locks Edda in the town wool-shed, never bothering to ask who looted the wrecked caravans.
The questline ends here.
Present Captain Vane in irons along with his wrecker's logbook and the recovered caravan goods.
After reading Vane's logbook aloud, the council hangs Vane's nameboard on the wall, sentences Edda to seven winters of keeping the pass weather clear, and pays you the full bounty plus a generous salvage bonus from the grateful merchants.
+30 silver+1 The Guild standing
The questline ends here.

The Wrecker's Hold

Right away6

Your crew free Tam Thrale from the wrecker's hold, his left hand bandaged where two fingers were cut off, surrounded by stacks of stolen caravan bales stamped with Guild marks. Exhausted, Edda leans against her brother's shoulder and looks at you. "Four caravans wrecked in my storms, Captain. What are you going to do with me?"

Bring Edda, Captain Vane, and the stolen caravan goods to the pass town to face judgment together.
Edda nods, and Tam refuses to leave her side. Your crew transfer the stolen cargo bales—and Vane's hidden strongbox—aboard your ship for the flight to town.
+20 silver
→ The Pass Town Council
Let Edda and her brother go free, and keep Vane's ship salvage and stolen silver for yourself.
Edda and Tam row away eastward in the wrecker's skiff while your crew strip the Glad Tidings of her heavy salvage hooks and silver chest. The storms over Thrush Pass never return.
Fitting: Salvage Hooks+60 silver
The questline ends here.
Offer her a place in your crew.
Edda signs onto your crew and sleeps for two days straight while Tam works his passage to the next port. Before resting, she bottles the last remnant of her storm in a lead-glass flask and leaves it on your chart table.
New crewmate: Edda Thrale, Wild casterDevice: Bottled Storm
The questline ends here.

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