Chapter 2 - The Bullywug Gambit

Still seeking Vanthus for their employer, Lavinia Vanderboren, and spurred on by discoveries made inthe Lotus Dragon guildhall, the Heroes seek ou Kraken's Cove, nestled within the scarlet reaches of Blood Bay. Expecting to find a secret pirate hideout, the Heroes instead discover the place in the grips of utter bedlam. Arriving shortly after Vanthus releases the Savage Tide, the Heros must contend with savage flesh-eating pirates. To make matters worse, this particular crew was transporting dangerous and exotic creatures in the holds of their ships, and now their deadly cargo, infected by the Abyssal energies of the tide, has escaped. Man and beast haunt the cove's twisting passageways, and the Heros must navigate the caverns of Kraken's Cove while enduring an onslaught from savage enemies.

Eventually they encounter Captain Harliss Javell, one of the few pirates to survive the savage tide intact. From her, the Heroes learn that she sent her first mate and a band of froglike bullywug conscripts into Sasserine to extract revenge from Vanthus and his home, erroneously assuming the cowardly man fled there from Kraken's Cove. The party must race back to Vanderboren manor before their patron suffers at the slimy hands of bullywug mercenaries.

Yet in order to reach the manor, the Heroes must first navigate a city in the throes of a wild celebration in honor of Kyuss' defeat one year past. Parades and revelry reign in the streets, and the Heroes must wind their way through the wild throng to Lavinia's manor. In transit, they are targeted by a band of assassins hired b the Kellani family coin to pay the party back for their transgressions against Rowyn and the Lotus Dragons in the previous adventure. After contending with stilt-walking monks, the Heroes reach Vanderboren manor with little time to lose.

Inside, Drevoraz Kabran, Captain Javell's first mate, has captured Lavinia and her household. The Heroes must stop the bullywug gambit, battling the frog-men to free their lovely patron before she pays for her brother's crimes with blood.