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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 3217211" data-attributes="member: 1213">They find the ship, largely intact, floating atop the river.  Ropes and netting are being used to tie it to the shore and keep to from floating away, and at least some of the outer rings of the "sail" have been brought up on the beach.  Bits of wood keep parts of the beached area slightly raised.  It is otherwise submerged up to the "sail" surrounding it.  There are as many as two hundred ragged though able-bodied men around the ship, many missing weapons and armor.  Soggy supplies are piled up on the shore.  Another fifty to one hundred injured soldiers are laying on improvised beds and being treated by their companions.  There is a huge fire in the middle of their camp providing warmth, and being used as a makeshift forge, which at closer examination is an enormous funeral pyre.  Between the people falling out of the ship when the force walls failed, the impact,  and the flooding of the lower levels, a minority of the crew is alive and well.  Fin's walls still blocked the stairway when the ship landed and flooded, and the sail covering so large a surface of the water prevented many of those who DID swim out the holes from where the force walls used to from surfacing before drowning.The men are seeming working to repair the ship, and working on pumping and bucketing water into a makeshift shute they built.  It seems they have managed to reactivate the force walls on the bottom half of the ship, but need to get the water out to take off.</blockquote>

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