Chico also joined the two divers, looking for herbs. Together they found some herbs and discovered several small atolls. Captain Finisterre advised us that we would be at the salvage site tomorrow.
Prinn and an aquatic elf crewmember decided to dive down again to look for more herbs. It was then that the rest of us, aboard ship noticed that a turtle was heading towards them. The creatur eoved quickly, attacking Prinn and grabbing him. Prinn, although grabbed managed to swim upwards, bring the turtle with him. However, the turtle was still too far away from me to enable me to cast a spell at it.
At this point, due to the damage he had taken, Prinn fell unconscious, and wasting no time Rapheal used his speat to pole vault into the water. Finder also dived into the water and grabbed Prinn. Rapheal, meanwhile, tried to stab the turtle but missed. The aquatic elf managed to break away from the turtle and swam off in another direction. Rapheal went up to the turtle whilst Prinn was hauled aboard. Eventually due to taking some damage from Raheal, the turtle swam away.
18th March: There was no wind today so we all rowed for approx 2 hours until we saw an island. We also noticed that offshore from the island were several coral reefs. Captain Finisterre reveled to us that on a previous trip he had found the wreck of ship, called the Marie, lodged on a reef. He also advised us that the Marie was smuggling something, labelled 'Machine tools'. We rowed away from the Luchy Sue but the edge of the coral reef was as far as we could get to the Marie. There was a great deal of heavy surf in this area.
Prinn wandered off the rowing boat when we rached the reef, and using a rope to pull the rowing boat and a spear to test the coral, he led the way to the Marie. Unfortunately, this did not go completely smoothly, at one point he failed to spot that an area of coral was slightly weak and he fell through, cutting himself slightly.
When we reached the Marie, Rapheal climed aboard first. He noticed that the deck was very cluttered with clothing and rags. He also saw that there were scratches and bloodstains on the deck. Slowly, we all clambered aboard. The lanterns on the ship were still up but there was no oil, all the doors of the ship were shut, seemingly rotted shut.
Forcing open the Master's cabin we saw that everything from the cabin was on the floor, including rotten food and mould. The cabin looked as if it may have been stripped. We then spotted on coming back on deck that the Lucky Sue appeared to be sailing away. It had run up some flags signalling that they were leaving port and coming about. We also saw several war canoes moving towards her. Realising that there was nothing we could do at the moment we decided to look at the hold.
We noticed that the outer hold was full of water.