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Wet Boots at the Ninth Rope

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Widow Petch, the broad, grey-haired tavernkeeper of The Brined Lantern, gave the party the Tidevault approach chart in session 2. She provided it in a salt-sealed case, showing the safe route through the bowl, standing-pool depths, tide-gate mechanism, and the first three chambers as she remembered them from thirty years earlier. By session 3, Petch is known to be a former bell-diver and a vital diver contact with deep knowledge of the old bell-divers’ guild, the Tidevault, and its covenant bells. She supplied the party with the Green-Bronze Wardless Key, later met them at the Tidevault rim, and warned Maren not to be “takeable.” She kept the key until the spring ebb, gave the party six herring-marks as a diver’s advance, and set the entry window at half a glass—though Maren later found the actual window was slightly shorter. Petch cannot make the dive herself anymore. She wrote part of the old warden warning about vault currents, had observed hooded-lantern boats over the vault at high water, and wanted to know who rang the eighth bell, but did not claim that the Low Tide Charter was responsible. She is hostile toward the Charter and remains tight-lipped about its activities and the significance of her key. After the party recovered the Ninth Bell Clapper, Maren entrusted it to Petch. Petch promised to let the divers decide its fate, keep the ninth key visibly behind her bar, and tell the crew first when a decision was made.