*The group gathers the gold, and Alicia pays the captain the lump sum.*
"Yar har! Ye won't regret this one lassie. Ye be hirin' the best ship and crew this side of the Rainbow Vortex. Yar me hearties--prepare to set sail for the Dolphin Wench's place!"
*The group boards the ship, which manages to stay reasonably sturdy despite its hodgepodge appearance. The ship's crew look like stereotypical pirates, sea dogs, and the like, not unlike extras from the crew of the Black Pearl in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.*
"Avast ye scurvy dogs! Full speed ahead!"
*The ship does prove to be rather quick for its seeming protruding bulk, though not quite as fast as the captain boasted it to be, unsurprisingly. Still, the journey is quick and safe. The worst they have to deal with is the unbearable stench of some of the crew, their yellowed and missing teeth chewing black tabac and spitting it on the deck, the raucous yelling/singing of bawdy sea shanties, the incessant lewd jokes and hitting on Alicia and Babette from several of the men, the strange one-eyed quartermaster giving the evil eye with his one good eye to any of the female party members and muttering something about bad luck, and the clumsy failed attempts at pickpocketing from the otherwise-relatively-excellent ship's cook, a halfling named Short John Copper. Well, that and the seasickness for some of them, probably Krindorf most of all, a fact about which the sailors all laughed and joked raucously.*
*Before long, they have reached the island where the temple sits.*
"See, just as I promised, eh mates? So now, how ye be plannin' on leavin' here, lassies? There shan't be many a ship coming back again right soon, but, for additional coin, we could take ye back, savvy?" the captain