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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lobo Lurker" data-source="post: 2040995" data-attributes="member: 25172">The night draws onward and everyone boards the ship. The crew is an assortment of hard humans, half-orcs, half-elves, and even some sort of strange almost-feral felinoid who tends to spend most of its time hanging amonst the lines and tending the sails.None of you are required to work, though the first mate assigns you duties if you ask for them.You soon learn from the whispering amongst the men that you are not the only guests on board. The captain has given up his own stateroom to a woman and her aides who are never seen on-deck. The captain tends to spend dinner-time with her and about an hour afterward. The sounds of a strange pair of woodwinds can be heard for about an hour or so each night after nightfall.Surprisingly, the Lunar Fury is able to keep pace with and sometimes outpace the soarwood vessals. This should not be possible as the galleons have one more mast and at least 50% greater sail area than the smaller darkwood vessal. (OOC: Common knowledge for anyone familiar with wood, sailing, or trade).Just after sunset on the 2nd day Dodger, the warforged manning the crow's nest, alerts everyone that two ships are on a rendevous course with the Lunar Fury.  By morning, the Osprey, Wavedancer, and Lunar Fury are making good time with a strong wind at thier backs. Along with the two soarwood galleons was a trio of giant mauve-colored owls. Each of them makes a nest on the strange platforms built for them on the aft deck of each ship. At night, they take flight, along with thier riders, and keep a lookout.On the sixth day of your voyage, a nasty thunderhead appears on the horizon and the winds start to slow. The captain spends the day with Jherod in the map room as they spend thier time replotting thier course.News comes from one of the Osprey that they've spotted another ship far off in the distance. The sailors inform you that even if it's fast enough to catch up with your little fleet, it would be arriving for another day or so. You are left to your own devices for the moment.Groswen: [SBLOCK] What exactly did you want to look into?   * Delving into the collective sea of memories, searching for noble family Vlad'dam... you find nothing. Nothing at all which is terribly wrong. It takes mightily powerful magic to excise information from the Akashic record. In recent memory you stumble across shadowy memories of slaving, prostitution, drug distribution, thieving rings, and public official briberies; but those memories are always shadowy and full of doubt (an insignia seen here, a name whispered there, nothing concrete). * Doing the same for the Lunar Fury turns up all sorts of memories from simple pirating to daring raids across enemy lines. This ship was often used to ferry dispatches and secret messages between the Brelish navy and thier spies abroad. This is a known smuggling ship, though the captain and crew are good and thus tend to avoid altercations with the authorities.The ship is actually of independent manufacture; built at the beginning of the Last War and has been captained by the dark elf known as Fharod'den ever since then. * Fharod'den is a native of Xen'Drik who, as a boy, fell in love with sailing. A bitter rivalry and the loss of his childhood sweetheart to the chieftan's son of another tribe drew him away from his native homeland on a hand-built raft. He was soon captured by pirates and slowly took up the lifestyle.[/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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