Who wants to be a Wayfinder? Part 1

[Shayuri]

Midian smiles. "Nicely done. Does that effect work on paper? How did the book fare?" he asks Whisper.

"It should have been included...but the spell can't reverse water damage it already took..."

She retrieves the book and opens it gently, so as not to rip pages that might be sticky.

 

[SelcSilverhand]

Once everyone is back on board, the crew gets to work securing the diving bell back in its cradle. The captain checks in on you briefly to ensure you are all in good health before heading to the stern to oversee the work.
Once everyone has dried off (magically or mundanely) you meet up in one of the cabins to pour over everything you've found. Whisper delicately pries apart pages that are stuck together doing her best not to damage the book any further. Some of the pages in the beginning and end of the book suffered the most but many entries are still readable. A brief review of the contents reveal it to be a journal penned by Brother Oallie, the man you were sent to find by the House. His journal documents a trip to an island here in the Lhazaar Principalities in a search for a rich deposit of Siberys Dragonshards. It would take a few hours to go over the readable entries to learn all the details. Upon further examination of the book, you think you might be able to salvage the damaged entries by carefully deciphering the marks and scribing them to fresh paper.
Also in your possession are the plates and silverware, 6 small crystal shards, the larger crystal, and the skeletal arm and hand.

 

[Shayuri]

Taking a human guise for the moment, Whisper decides to catalogue the items, marking down each one's description, and adding to it comments on their magical auras.

"I suppose the question now is do we return right away...or check out that island first."

 

[jkason]

Midian Rightson, human druid

Taking a human guise for the moment, Whisper decides to catalogue the items, marking down each one's description, and adding to it comments on their magical auras.

"I suppose the question now is do we return right away...or check out that island first."

Midian chews on his lower lip a moment. "Given what happened to the last expedition, I'm inclined to say we head back now. After all, that's what we were hired to do: find the ship and what happened to it. If the House wants to mount a full expedition again, I think that's up to them.

"That said, I wouldn't mind digging through that log on the journey home to see just what the good Brother found. And if it's compelling enough, we might convince the captain to change course."

 

[Mista Collins]

Midian chews on his lower lip a moment. "Given what happened to the last expedition, I'm inclined to say we head back now. After all, that's what we were hired to do: find the ship and what happened to it. If the House wants to mount a full expedition again, I think that's up to them.

"That said, I wouldn't mind digging through that log on the journey home to see just what the good Brother found. And if it's compelling enough, we might convince the captain to change course."

"I agree, Midian." Seria says as she sits on the floor of the cabin with her back up against the wall. "We were only sent out to locate the ship and its fate. What do the rest of you think?"

 

[Shayuri]

"Probably wise," Whisper admits. "I'm just a little worried our patron will confiscate all this, and mount their own expedition before we can get there...then pay us a pittance for services rendered."

 

[Mista Collins]

"That situation has not crossed my mind. But what if we find out all we can from the book, take detailed notes, and if they do want to send an expedition to the island, we talk them into us leading it." Seria recommends. "And if we can't convince them, we find our own way there before they can send someone else."

 

[Bront]

"We did what we were hired to do, and I'd guess we'd be rewarded well, and don't forget, we have the other cargo that's ours by right as well. We can write down what we can and probably beat them to the expedition, particularly if we talk to the captain here. Money talks you know."

 

[jkason]

Midian Rightson, human druid

"We did what we were hired to do, and I'd guess we'd be rewarded well, and don't forget, we have the other cargo that's ours by right as well. We can write down what we can and probably beat them to the expedition, particularly if we talk to the captain here. Money talks you know."

Midian nods. "Indeed. And if we can't trust employers to reward us properly, we should probably take it as a lesson to choose better employers, or else seek out our rewards without a patron. Personally, I'm hoping we've chosen well from the outset. Now, let's see if we can't decipher these damaged pages..."

 

[Bront]

OOC: I'll be traveling tomorow though next week, so you might not see much of me. NPC as needed.