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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aethan" data-source="post: 175261" data-attributes="member: 3270">Daeron's Journals 47Daeron's Journals #47**Notes to follow**My dear Aldar,Things are progressing slowly but surely as we slowly prepare to deal with the aboleth city. *I began my day by having a large contract placed in my hands. It seems that Amahd Jaffar (now I have the spelling correct, I believe) wanted to be crystal clear in his dealings with us.  Principle to his contract, as I saw it, were some worrying clauses about how his loyalty to us ended at the ties to his family. After some reassurance from him as to what this meant, I was able to agree to his terms, after having him read the contract to the rest of the Morning Star… And this nearly precipitated a brawl of sorts.It would appear that almost everyone in the Morning Star has their own idea of what my being Captain means. Silvermane and Naidaushas both seem to want me to be almost an iron-fisted tyrant, while Zerai and Heric are concerned for that very thing. Baer seems a tad confused; I think he’s still trying to figure out how he ended up giving up Finslayer.I finally explained in no certain terms that I would be what I considered a captain. I will balance the party’s needs against the needs of its individual members. In some instances, I would want quick and absolute action from the group, while at other, more leisurely times, it would always be my intention to give everyone a say. This seemed to go over well, thus ending my first real trial as Captain…well, second, if you count the rescue of Silvermane. **This nonsense out of the way, we began practicing with our ship more, and, with Amahd steering and Heric creating wind with his magicks, it seems rather possible for us to make our way on the placid waters of the Sunless Sea. Amahd s a capable captain, and he brooks no insolence or backtalk from his rather ragtag “crew.” I am glad he has joined us. ***We sailed to the southern coast, mostly to practice, but partly to fill in the blank spots on our map. Although we all felt a sense of foreboding, we met no foe there. Instead, a mist on the water concealed an island of great beauty, with geysers and fountains such as I have never seen. I am sad that only Zerai, taking the shape of a young dragon, and myself, who rode him, got to see this. Someday, I will return with the others, and I will show them there is beauty here as well as fear.When Amahd complained that we had no flag, I returned home with Heric and Zerai very briefly. I took some leather hide and stains and returned. I have made it my project to create a “flag” of leather for us, showing a nine-pointed star for the Morning Star company. I am also making a leather covering for my shield, which will show a snarling wolf. If it is slashed in battle, I can always fix it with a spell of mending.With the island explored and camp struck, we decided that we’d explored enough ,and it was time to investigate some of the places on our map. We have agreed to scout out the location of the sunken elven city marked on our map. As we prepared to sail in its direction, Father Baer cast a spell which he says points paths out to him, and, to my amazement, it did, in fact, point diagonally down, into the Sunless Sea, when asked to show the way to the “sunken elven city.” I exhaled when he said this, and I realized I had been holding my breath. Although I have been fascinated by the idea,  I suppose I did not really believe the city was there until now. We are now sailing towards the location that Baer indicates, preparing to descend by magickal mans and explore this possible homeplace of the elesi. What will we find there? I cannot say. I have my hopes, and I have my fears. We shall soon see. ****Until then, my nephew, I remain your loving Uncle,Daeron* Hey, all. Well, we didn't play, week before last, so I didn't post, and then I couldn't get into the Messageboards because of the limit. So, anyway, here's the latest info. No stat blocks, yet. I will try to get those.** This may have been one of the sharpest and most intense sequences of roleplaying in the game in ages. I was letting everyone read the contract (that Amahd's player had really written out), and Silvermane's player just raised an eyebrow and said, in his deep voice, "If the Captain says it is acceptable, then it is acceptable." And then all Hell broke loose. It didn't help matters when Silvermane's player said, "If the Captain gives an order, and you disagree, then maybe you should leave the group." THAT wasn't very popular. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Finally, I got everyone calmed down with Daeron's usual tactful speaking, and I think everyone's satisfied that I will be enough of a leaderwithout being too much of a leader. Oy. Like I need this. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />*** This was pretty funny stuff. Once the Folding Boat was open, Amahd's player assumed command, and explained the concept of swabbing and such. There's also a rather comic bit around the fact that Amahd is aghast at this tiny little boat we're making him capatin of. I think he was hoping for something larger.**** I was sure there'd be SOMETHING. The fact that Baer's spell is pointing the ay to an actual sunken elven city is a surprise to me. I'm excited. Hope we can find something there to use against the aboleth.- Andy</blockquote>

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