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[Morrow]

From the journal of K. Garnham, Seeker as translated from the Valossan

It's been three days since my last entry.

We found ourselves caught in a strange morass of seaweed that stretched out for miles around us, dozens of shipwrecks visible in the grim sargasso. The sailors referred to this as Journey's End. Scores of ships were supposed to have been lost to this place.

The weed was thick and strong; the crew dulled axe and blade trying to hack a path to open sea. They made no discernible progress.

Elyosha placed a blight on the weed, weakening it to the point that the Dragon was nearly freed. Some members of the crew went down to work at the blighted weeds when the remaining vegetation rose up into vine horrors, shambling mockeries of people.

Suffice it to say that they weren't friendly.

We fought off that attack with no casualties.

The Dragon was free of the immediate seaweed, but was still surrounded by Journey's End. Elyosha needed time to recharge her magics to make another go at the weed so we decided to rest the night and see what success we'd have in the morning.

There was another attack and we lost Yelda.

In the morning Elyosha made a concerted assault on the weed. Unfortunately it became obvious that we wouldn't be able to escape that way.

We had previously noted a ship near our position that seemed more intact than most of the other vessels. We decided to investigate. Dexter, Elyosha, Liamae, Tollin and I left the Dragon to visit the Rage while Maggie stayed behind to defend the ship.

What parts of the ship that we could access had been plundered. We barely were able to recover a journal kept by one of the former passengers, a monk named either Anhelm or Auhelm, water had made the script hard to decipher.

The journal recounted the Rage's fate after encountering Journey's End. It detailed attacks increasing as time passed. Eventually there was an expedition formed to find the heart of this place and kill it.

It had not been successful, but it gave us the information we needed to find the heart and mount our own expedition.

We went on.

As we approached we saw greater concentrations of the vine horrors. We kept ahead of them and made our way to the ship in the heart of the green web, the Thunderer.

We fought our way through several vine horrors until we finally made our way to the lair of the abomination.

We won out, but it was close. Bolk didn't make it.

With the death of the green heart the sargasso began to disperse. The Thunderer began to sink. Fortunately I had a boat in my pocket and we were able to return to the Dragon without having to swim for it.

While we were away the vine horrors launched an assault on the Dragon. Maggie, Captain Venkalie and Rowyn led the defense, but we still lost Jess Mobley from the crew and the colonists Therese Thoms and Quenge Asper.

There is a part of me that hopes that Rowyn's defense of the ship and it's crew is something more than self preservation. Dexter has made the effort to rehabilitate her and I would like to see something come of it. My worst, if wiser, self will be watching with a far more skeptical eye.

I can also confirm the fates of thirteen ships. I was on the Rage and the Thunderer. I passed the Vesper, the Desperado, the Basher, the Lamprey, the Landfall, the Broken Promise, the Albatross, the Argent Gate, the Maiden's Lament, the Longshanks, and the Trollop. The others were either too far away or too decrepit to identify.