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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 1287334" data-attributes="member: 9255">STRIKEFORCE: MORITURISEGMENT 021“Planar Travel is NOT an Exact Science”The sea was calm and foreboding.  The sun was setting…dying out as it sank into the deep waters.  A large two sail vessel crossed the waters quickly.  Several moments something of equal size cut through the waters with haste.  Something both natural and unnatural at the same time.  15 minutes later a rift opens up about ten feet above the gentle waves.  Six travelers, five humans and a black cat, spill out of the rift and into the water.Jean surfaces immediately.  Her time living on the waters of Kalamar serves her well now.  Jim surfaces next with his usual sarcasm. The Captain surfaces and Christina has trouble treading the water.  The Black cat climbing on her head covering her face helps little.  Vander, in his full heavy-duty platemail, can not be seen.  “Where is Vander?” exclaims Jim trying to adjust his facial mask.  “The Big lug can’t tread water can he?”  Jean takes in a deep breath and dives under the surface.  She kicks hard with all of her skill driving herself deep into the dark waters.  Deeper she goes.  10feet…20 feet…25 feet.  She cries out in her mind for him.  She pushes herself further still.  30ft now.  She is near her limit.  She has only dove this deep once or twice before.  She doubts she will have the strength to surface carrying him.  Then she hears something.   A rushing sound.  The sound of overflowing water.  Then a dim form emerges from the deep.  It is rising quickly now.  A burst of bubbles blocks her view of it but it was vaguely humanoid in appearance.  Armored maybe.  Sea Elf?  Sahuagin?She slowly turns and reaches for the surface.  Sadness already filling her heart.On the surface floats Vander.  The sound of air bubbling heard in everyone’s mind.  He has shared his psionic talents with Christina and the Captain to ensure their ability to swim.  It is long moments before Jean can say anything.  Vander and the others all know what she wishes to say in the meantime.  Jim with his night vision goggles is first to see it.  A large wave coming out of no where.  The six of them rise and fall as several waves cross under them.  A flare is seen arching in the darkness.  “What the hell has happened to us?” snarls Megamania.  “If I knew this was gonna be a pool party I would have worn my swimsuit.  Do you have any idea how much wet denim chaffs a guy?”“Planar travel is not an exact process…we are within 500 miles of our target.  The locating item suggests we are quite a ways away this time.  Maybe a 100 miles away.” Christina says trying to defend her spell and get the subject back on locating the Ring.30 minutes go by as they try to figure out their best course of action.  Vander guarantees he can empower his Float power many times to get the heavier armored persons a float.  Megamania stares into the darkness looking for something…. Anything.  It is what he doesn’t see that excites him.  “Stars are out.  The sky is full of them.” He comments.The Captain arcs an eyebrow waiting to see what his point is.  The others wait and stare.  The wet nearly drowned cat stares into the general direction he looks to.  Christina then speaks up.  “I get it.  Look there-“, pointing behind her where Megamania and the cat stare.  “There are no stars near the surface there.”Jean speaks up.  “What of it?”“Something large is blocking our view of the stars.  An island I suspect.”Having agreed on the action, they start to make way to the area.  On the way they come across pieces of wood.  Planks.  Worked wood.  Then a body.  Then another body.  And another and another.“I didn’t see this in the tour guide.” Says Megamania whom now searches for the cause.  Everyone is looking about now.  Then the Captain sees something.  “A ship!”The five humans all begin to yell to said ship.  Megamania makes out a man on board pointing to them and calling to others on board.  They are rescued.Behind the ship, in its wake, a large barnacled fin breaks the surface.  It follows the ship for a few hundred feet them submerges.  It submerges out of view and under the dark, dark, dark waters of Ravenloft’s Sea of Sorrow.</blockquote>

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