Eventually Lady Nitrane persuaded him that all was in order and he settled down, just as the party arrived at Sink.
Sink is a plant with only one inhabited settlement - a monastery of monks who sink things into the swamp that makes up the landmass of the planet. For religious reasons.
Approaching the designated landing place the party observed a number of stepped pyramidal buildings and a lot of heavy lifting equipment. It appeared that lots of heavy things were dropped into the swamp, leading Unter to comment that there might be some interesting things down there.
As they landed they suddenly noticed the Aslan's ship just two landing pads away. Klowaaar noticed as well and started to rant and rave about the pain he would inflict on the ship thief. Lady Nitraane exited and talked to a small monk in an orange robe (who turned out to be the Senior Brother in Charge of Star Ports) to arrange for fuel but not for anything to be sunk into the swamp. He clapped his hands and had the novices fetch the carts of fuel to hand pump into the ship.
At this point Klowaaar escaped the grasp of the party and ran across the concrete to his ship, whereupon he started banging on the hatch in anger. The party started up to follow him at around the time that Klowaaar remembered that he had the codes to enter the ship and he proceeded to open the hatch and disappear inside.
Slayed was moments behind Klowaaar, and then the rest of the party followed in to see the Aslan on the bridge shouting at four bodies lying on the floor. Slayed had been so close behind that there was no way this was done by Klowaaar so the bodies were a mystery.
The bodies were dressed in normal ship-board attire. Checking them for marks none were found, and it was seen that they were lying in a row, as if put there. A quick medical scan showed them to all be alive. By this time Klowaaar had been persuaded to calm down as none were the ship-thief.
Unter and Slayed looked through the ship and found that only one stateroom had been used recently, and that by the captains chair on the bridge were ration bar wrappers for about one person's consumption. Checking the computer, Sparrow found that everything had been wiped recently but that in the active memory was some audio of muffled voices talking normally, then they got heated, then there was a small hiss followed by four thumps. After that a voice can be heard saying 'I'm sorry' over and over.
Telling the Senior Brother in Charge of Star Ports about their find the party helped take them in to the infirmary. They then asked the brother if another ship had been here recently, to which he said that one had left only a few hours ago. The party then asked that their ship be refuelled as fast as possible as they had to follow the ship. Klowaaar asked where they were going, and reluctantly they told him it was Fantasy.
Just as they were about to leave word reached the travellers that one of the four crew found on Klowaaars ship had come around. Lady Nitrane went to see him and ask some questions. The crewman answered them, possibly under the impression that Nitrane was Drinax Police or similar and corroborated the theory that Astor was the perp, and that he'd gassed them once they refused to swap ships with him. Theirs was already refuelled and ready to go.
Taking off the party headed to Fantasy.
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