"Sailing for Beacon Island."
Bri will give directions as needed.
Over the next day you spot several sails in the distance but nothing proves to be a threat. The winds continue to favor you.
Over the day the crew gets more comfortable with the ship and equipment. The new members blend in well, and the new mates prove knowledgeable.
Sorrin speaks to the crew, wondering if any are carpenters... His hope on a ramp.
Yeah you find there are two trained carpenters in the lot of sailors you have on board.
Bri you've plotted a course that takes you a bit south of course, but easy enough to tack and correct for given the wind conditions.
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Astri make a knowledge check (engineering?) as you look over the newly installed water pump and start to understand the mechanism.
Chell it's been something of a relief not being under pressure for 24 hours, it's actually relatively peaceful. You can gather your thoughts and say your prayers without feeling the weight of imminent death or destruction. Granted to doom of the full moon is looming.
After a good, hard sleep, Astrianna feels refreshed. In fact, when she wakes up, she's surprised to have slept so long- how strange they didn't get attacked, and clearly there wasn't any kind of calamity while she slept. I used to not worry about getting ambushed or thinking monsters were going to attack around every bend, but the Razor has certainly given reason to change my tune.
She wanders around the ship looking for something to do, and is intrigued by the new pump mechanism installed in the hold. This looks familiar, here...
Astri sits down and starts to tinker with the pump, looking at the design, gears, and simplicity of this ship saving device. One day there should be a universal place where someone could get legal authority over their ideas. Like a license or a patent...hmmm...if only. soon she has figured out all the nuisances of the equipment and then starts to explain it to her water-bale team.
In the meantime, Sorrin and Ptahh have worked groups of men. Organized boarding crews and Sorrin has worked with the seaman in rigging. All looks good.
Astrianna enjoys working with the pump, making the gizmo creak and sputter water. Hmm, I bet in a Lawful plane somewhere every idea is cataloged and filed away, and ownership of that idea is claimed by the one that had it. Every time you had a thought or spoke it you would have to give credit to the original thinker!" She chuckles. How silly. But if you could charge for using those ideas...
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Being the daughter of a captain and familiar with ships, Chell is aware that the damage they recently sustained shouldn't compromise the bouncy of the vessel. Still, never leave a wound to fester. She hops in the swing used for painting, de-barnacling, and fixing the side of the ship and is lowered to the damaged section. She didn't need to but the closer she was the better she could heal it completely.
In case you wanted to get any from the ship funds.
The first 24 hours go by without incident the second day, the lookout spots two orca carcass that have been viciously attacked and mostly devoured. Both were huge in measuring 25 and 30 ft length. There are a few lesser sharks grabbing at the skeletal remains.
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Astrianna tells Sorrin they're off to fight a haunted lighthouse at Beacon Point that has been possessed and animated by the spirit of Dajobas. It has been using its light to lead ships into the nearby coral reef, causing the ships to sink and then the sailors are set upon by hungry were-sharks. Their current plan is to fire a grappling ballista bolt at the upper rung of the light house, have Sorrin run up the rope to the top while dodging a storm of bricks tossed by the sentient lighthouse and smash the evil jewel beacon that has been placed at the top with a silver sledgehammer dipped in holy water.
After he he digested this, a good laugh is had, and she actually fills him in on everything they learned.
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Before she really fills him in... Sounds reasonable... That it?
Bri continues to steer the ship, taking out time enough for a couple hours rest and a meal.
She is also rather disappointed they didn't have time to linger in port for some fun, but figures she'll get a chance when all this Dajobas business is taken care of.
Roughly 39 hours after you set sail from Sharkjaw, 8:00 am on the second day. You get a shout from the crows nest, "Land HO!!! 10 miles...Northeast."
Everyone can make one diplo check to pick up information from the crew, the rumors that they've heard.
A group of Quell’s faithful, lost at sea amidst storms,lightning, and clouds in the shape of black sharks."
You see a lighthouse and tunnels or cave netweork underneath the water but the picture is blurred.
Diplo Check results:
A group of adventurers once went to seek Bloodbane’s treasure near Beacon Island and never came back.
Diplo results
”Heard the lighthouse on Beacon Island was an important structure helping guide shipping to eventual safety in Kai Bay. Yet no matter how many folks Port Shaw hires to staff it, the lighthouse eventually flickers out. The last fellow to take the job as lighthouse keeper, never even reached the island. Guess we’re lookin’ into that.”
”There’s a legend of an underwater garden off of Beacon Island where Garr Bloodbane hid his treasure!”
”Beacon Island that’s where Razor’s Edge went down kilt by the Kracken, himself.
Astrianna mingles among the crew in the mess, and in typical character gets their entire life story, as well as everything they did and heard in Sharkjaw, over a game of One-and-Thirty.
She finds all these rumors very interesting... especially about Garr Bloodbane's treasure hoard...
Ptahh spends dome time talking with the crew, both old and new, building comroderie and renewing old acquaintances
Despite his best efforts, he gets very little from anyone other than a could shoulder.
Ptahh spends dome time talking with the crew, both old and new, building comroderie and renewing old acquaintances
Despite his best efforts, he gets very little from anyone other than a could shoulder.
The nickname "Killer" probably didn't warm the crew up to the half-orc.
Your ship approaches Beacon Island from the southwest and Captain Donovan barks, "Steady now, lets get to 3 miles from the shore then circle once for an overview."
Astrianna is on deck when the orders are given to circle the island and give it a once-over. She decides to try out the new telescope, packing it in her Haversack and climbing the rigging into the Crow's Nest.
Carefully setting up the instrument on its tripod Astrianna fiddles with the lenses and nobs, wondering why it's so blurry. Then she notices there is some kind of tabacco stain on the front lens and cleans it off with prestidigitation.
Her keen half-elven eyes peer through the ocular piece, and she trains the scope on the island to give it a sweep as they circle it.
"Aye" Bri will do as suggested, getting within about 3 miles of the island and then doing a counter-clockwise circle around it.
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Astri keen vision picks up two ferrets rutting near the tree line.
The isle is overgrown with foliage, mostly tangled weeds and wildflowers, but the towering Beacon Light rises from the untamed undergrowth like a colossus. Along the Light’s sides, spirals of black and white paint peel away, exposing the ugly gray stone like the scales of a fish torn off to reveal the soft tissue beneath. The Beacon Light stands dark where once brightness shone forth, directing ships to safe harbor.
At the center of this light tower stands an enormous, steel hooded lantern with a rotating lens, fueled by whale-oil. The tower is open to the air, with several archways gazing across the shining waves of the
Razor Sea. You see a wyvern perched up near the lens.
What's that tall thing...
Astri keen vision picks up two ferrets rutting near the tree line.
Astrianna gasps as she spots the ferrets. Are those grey mitt ferrets? Their fur is quite valuable... They would make lovely scarves.
Training the scope off of her serendipitous discovery, she looks to the tower to inspect its unkempt exterior. Looking farther up, there is giant whale-oil lantern. If they were going to pay for the lighthouse, couldn't they have just paid a bit extra and got a Continual Flame instead of an oil lantern? She muses, before noticing something is... off. Well, on actually, because there's a wyvren perched on the lighthouse.
Astrianna flicks her fingers and says a Cantrip, including Chell, Sorrin, Ptahh, Embri, Rex, Norb, and Donovan in the Message. "There's a wyvern perched on the top of the lighthouse, near the lens. I can't tell what type from this distance but we may want ballista at the ready as we close."