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[Adventure] Serpent's Skull: Souls for Smuggler's Shiv (DM: Mewness; Judge: THB)
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<blockquote data-quote="Mewness" data-source="post: 5677326" data-attributes="member: 14889"><p>The watch schedule has Castile on first, followed by Aerys, then Gelik, then Noriaki, with some of the Irregulars on each watch. Sasha asks to be woken for the second watch as well, and ends up replacing Aerys entirely. Jade stays up for most of the first watch, chatting with Castile (he is still curious as to her origins).</p><p></p><p>The first watch is uneventful. Sasha is a lively presence during the second. She comes out of the shelter carrying the flower that Dartmoor left for her and plays with it, sometimes smiling with a sort of secret satisfaction (she apparently does not connect the flower with Dartmoor). When she sees some of the Irregulars looking up at the sky, her attention is drawn there too. Eventually, the mysterious creature passes over once more--its shape again only discernible as an absence of stars. <span style="color: DarkOrange">“Creepy,”</span> Sasha murmurs.</p><p></p><p>The night otherwise passes peacefully, except for a couple of the sleepers....</p><p></p><p>[sblock=Castile]You are shaken roughly awake. Groggy and sick, you try to crawl away from the disturbance and get back to sleep, but the person will not leave you be, and hauls you to your feet with strong hands. Suddenly the whole world pitches alarmingly, and you realize that the <em>Jenivere</em> has hit a rock and is breaking up. Alton, the first mate, drags you across the shuddering deck to a lifeboat and gets in with you, rowing away from the doomed vessel. His face is sunken, his expression fixed and unblinking, his skin bloodless, gray. There is a deep wound in his chest, but no blood flows from it. The lifeboat reaches the shore and Alton helps you out, saying nothing, apparently not even breathing. You are dimly aware that your companions are lying scattered around you on the shore, but as Alton rows back to the <em>Jenivere</em> for more survivors, you cannot shift your gaze from him--you are simultaneously repulsed by his horrific appearance and amazed at his heroism. Suddenly feeling you should be doing something to help, you find that you cannot move--your feet are rooted to the spot, and your arms are stuck weirdly up in the air. Bark forms around your legs as you stare at them. You are turning into a tree.</p><p></p><p>You wake up, jammed against a wall of the shelter, and suffer a brief moment of panic before realizing that you still have control of your limbs.[/sblock]</p><p>[sblock=Noriaki]You have another strange dream. You are back in the Kingdom of Jade, trying desperately to persuade Hachi not to set sail on the <em>Jenivere</em>, which you know will never safely reach its destination. But Hachi will not listen to you, no matter what you say, and as you grow increasingly insistent, he becomes very angry with you and tells you that you are no longer his student. Despite all your efforts, he departs, and you watch the doomed ship sailing away with a feeling of utter desolation. When you wake up, you soon realize how ridiculous the dream was--the <em>Jenivere</em> would never have sailed as far as the Kingdom of Jade, Hachi was never on it, and your quarrel with him is in the past and not related to any recent event--and yet, even as you reassure yourself of these things, you cannot shake the feeling of hopelessness engendered by watching your former master sail away to his doom.[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mewness, post: 5677326, member: 14889"] The watch schedule has Castile on first, followed by Aerys, then Gelik, then Noriaki, with some of the Irregulars on each watch. Sasha asks to be woken for the second watch as well, and ends up replacing Aerys entirely. Jade stays up for most of the first watch, chatting with Castile (he is still curious as to her origins). The first watch is uneventful. Sasha is a lively presence during the second. She comes out of the shelter carrying the flower that Dartmoor left for her and plays with it, sometimes smiling with a sort of secret satisfaction (she apparently does not connect the flower with Dartmoor). When she sees some of the Irregulars looking up at the sky, her attention is drawn there too. Eventually, the mysterious creature passes over once more--its shape again only discernible as an absence of stars. [COLOR="DarkOrange"]“Creepy,”[/COLOR] Sasha murmurs. The night otherwise passes peacefully, except for a couple of the sleepers.... [sblock=Castile]You are shaken roughly awake. Groggy and sick, you try to crawl away from the disturbance and get back to sleep, but the person will not leave you be, and hauls you to your feet with strong hands. Suddenly the whole world pitches alarmingly, and you realize that the [I]Jenivere[/I] has hit a rock and is breaking up. Alton, the first mate, drags you across the shuddering deck to a lifeboat and gets in with you, rowing away from the doomed vessel. His face is sunken, his expression fixed and unblinking, his skin bloodless, gray. There is a deep wound in his chest, but no blood flows from it. The lifeboat reaches the shore and Alton helps you out, saying nothing, apparently not even breathing. You are dimly aware that your companions are lying scattered around you on the shore, but as Alton rows back to the [I]Jenivere[/I] for more survivors, you cannot shift your gaze from him--you are simultaneously repulsed by his horrific appearance and amazed at his heroism. Suddenly feeling you should be doing something to help, you find that you cannot move--your feet are rooted to the spot, and your arms are stuck weirdly up in the air. Bark forms around your legs as you stare at them. You are turning into a tree. You wake up, jammed against a wall of the shelter, and suffer a brief moment of panic before realizing that you still have control of your limbs.[/sblock] [sblock=Noriaki]You have another strange dream. You are back in the Kingdom of Jade, trying desperately to persuade Hachi not to set sail on the [I]Jenivere[/I], which you know will never safely reach its destination. But Hachi will not listen to you, no matter what you say, and as you grow increasingly insistent, he becomes very angry with you and tells you that you are no longer his student. Despite all your efforts, he departs, and you watch the doomed ship sailing away with a feeling of utter desolation. When you wake up, you soon realize how ridiculous the dream was--the [I]Jenivere[/I] would never have sailed as far as the Kingdom of Jade, Hachi was never on it, and your quarrel with him is in the past and not related to any recent event--and yet, even as you reassure yourself of these things, you cannot shake the feeling of hopelessness engendered by watching your former master sail away to his doom.[/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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