Wow; I still really like this module.
In order to address the needs of the Deadly Sea, the location of the SSC was changed to being out at sea, five days in a poor ship sail from Fog Stone. We opted to take both the Red October and Greytare's ship. Our destination was a huge statue, along the lines of the Colossus of Rhodes, this one being a huge statue dedicated to Olhydra (Greytare was fully aware of the statue but not that it was of Olhydra).
So, on this little spit of land was a giant statue to Olhydra with three tentacles resting on one piece of land, a water pass through with landing on either side, three tentacles on a piece of land on the other side, and, two tentacles in the air. The party chose a side (it did not matter which), found an entrance and descended down into section 3 of the module.
Once they did I turned this on for a sound track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAP26hS82BUIt was so cool to see the affect the soundtrack had on the players. They were instantly spooked!
We sallied forth, found the temple room - when anyone stepped on the alter a minor water elemental appeared. Several encounters in and the team was acting and reacting very well together, and, consistently making good decisions (which helps add to a good time). Darkmantles make for good wandering monsters. The group ultimately worked it's way down to level 4, the loading docks, to meet the combination of pirates and tritons (in exchange for the locathas), and then over to the cage room where Greytare's wife was found and, ultimately, Sslithia was met and defeated.
Once that was accomplished we left, bringing the whole family back to Fog Stone. Heading back to Fog Stone we knew we would be happily rewarded by Greytare as we had restored his family.
Also, we would touch the near by town, in this case Welton, to share the knowledge that the tritons lead by Sslithia (now deceased) were looking to sack the town.
Also, We had heard that Greytare had been loading up on underwater magic (which turned out to be our payment for services rendered) but we did not actually go underwater. Clearly, the other spit of land with tentacles had some access to an underwater section that would be home to tritons, something which Greytare really wanted us to address.
Also, Greytare's daughter had a very interesting affect on the party, four of whom are guys, one a gal. The four guys thought she was a hot babe (all having really failed their saving throws), the gal was nonplused. Whenever Chantal figured into the story/action the guys were more than anxious to follow what she said. I gave a few follow up saving throws and so the session ended with two guys now totally enthralled, one pissed at himself for being sucked in, the fourth being pissed at Chantal but not sure why. I am not certain what I want to do with this but enjoy adding the angles to our play.
Losloris