Monsters.. Monsters in the Mists

You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
Worn by time but kept in good shape by consistent care, this Kalentoi-style naval freighter has proven itself capable of navigating the calmer fringes of the tumultuous Adelantean Sea. A rectangular mainsail spreads out across a grid of ropes upheld by the mainmast here, while a steep and narrow stairway descends down past a hatch into the hold. To aft, the quarterdeck stands over the captain's cabin, and to the fore is the deck above the forecastle that contains lodgings for both crew and passengers.
A deep cast-iron pot is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2)
Also here are a grimy, unwashed sailor and a burly, smelly sailor. Firouzeh is standing at the railing, holding a brass-capped reed cane in her right hand.
You are upon a ship. Fog glistens in the freezing cold daylight.
Cardinal Exits: west to the fore and east to the aft
Other: down to the hold: wooden hatch (open), the forecastle: squat cabin door (open), and out onto open waters (water)

The vessel rocks and creaks beneath you.

The mist surrounds the ship as it drifts on gently.

Firouzeh greets you with a warm smile, bottom lip shivering a bit in the cold fog. "Good morning, dear." [in Sirdabi with a sweet, shaky soprano]

Firouzeh gestures to the bottle in your hand, cocking a brow. "Starting early?"

Rostam inclines his head to Firouzeh as he moves to stand beside her at the railing.

Pleasantly, you say, "How do you do, Grandmother?"

Looking about, Firouzeh says to you, "Well enough, despite his damned cold. It's still better than being cramped inside all day, though."

The ship continues across softly lapping waves.

A thin grey fog clings coldly to the land.

Rostam looks up into the freezing mists, nodding his head. "I get... claustrophobic, down in the forecastle."

The ship tranquilly glides on, the scent of the brine thick in the surrounding fog.

Nodding, Firouzeh says, "Yes, I didn't think it was so bad at first but now it makes my skin crawl to be there longer than is needed to sleep."

The ship moves across serene waves, the scent of the brine thick in the surrounding fog.

Forging through the icy fog, a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak walks through the squat cabin door.

Forging through the icy fog, Kinsa walks through the wooden hatch.

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak emerges from the hatch, moving out through the ominous mists, the eddying trails around his cloaked ankles and sirwaal.

Kinsa raises a cheery hand in greeting to Firouzeh, "Good morning, grandmother!" [in Sirdabi with a sonorous contralto] Likewise, she offers a wave to the various other figures aboard the deck.

Rostam looks to Firouzeh, nodding after a few moments. "I know precisely what you mean."

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak scans towards west to the fore.

Forging through the icy fog, a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak walks west to the fore.

You peer towards west to the fore...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Forecastle Deck]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
The forecastle deck is accessed by short, tight stairs on either side of the entrance to the forecastle proper. Over the prow of the ship, the figurehead rises above the sea - a dolphin's cackling head, painting in chipped green enamel. While slightly lower than the quarterdeck, this section at the very front of the ship is still at enough of a height over the water for the air to be punishing at times. When the sea wind plows into the sails and drives the ship across the waves, this place is also the furthest downwind location. A rickety wooden frame extends off the side of the ship here, slanting down along the prow.
A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x5) A mass of orangey-brown seamoss is here.
A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak is here, holding a kaleidoscopic collection of sand-glass beads in his right hand.
You are upon a ship. Fog glistens in the freezing cold daylight.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft

You peer towards east to the aft...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
You are upon a ship. Fog glistens in the freezing cold daylight.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (open) and the mainmast (steep)

Firouzeh greets the newly arrived with an incline of her head. "Good morning, dear! How does the morning find you?"

Firouzeh peers towards west to the fore.

Kinsa lets out a thoughtful noise, "Finds me well enough, as it stands. Been a busy time tearing the ship up."

Agreeably, you say, "But it did seem as though you enjoyed it."

Kinsa grins away at you, "Certainly!"

A thin grey fog clings coldly to the land.

The mist surrounds the ship as it continues across softly lapping waves.

With a laugh, Firouzeh says, "Yes, the tables were truly no match for you and Yasin."

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Aya walks through the squat cabin door.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Aya walks west to the fore.

You peer towards west to the fore...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Forecastle Deck]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
The forecastle deck is accessed by short, tight stairs on either side of the entrance to the forecastle proper. Over the prow of the ship, the figurehead rises above the sea - a dolphin's cackling head, painting in chipped green enamel. While slightly lower than the quarterdeck, this section at the very front of the ship is still at enough of a height over the water for the air to be punishing at times. When the sea wind plows into the sails and drives the ship across the waves, this place is also the furthest downwind location. A rickety wooden frame extends off the side of the ship here, slanting down along the prow.
A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x5) A mass of orangey-brown seamoss is here.
Also here is Owais. A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak is standing here, holding a kaleidoscopic collection of sand-glass beads in his right hand. Aya is here.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft

Rostam yawns into his fist, absently rolling his neck. "I can't quite seem to wake up."

The ship tranquilly glides on, cloaked in an ominous haze of fog.

Kinsa belts out a laugh at Firouzeh, "Mighty foes though they were!" She glances down at you after, "I could probably solve that for you."

Grinning, Firouzeh says to you, "Your morning drinking habits aren't likely to be helping the matter."

You say, "Mm? Oh. No. I was treating Sayyid Iken's back."

You put down a squat, dark-amber bottle on the railing.

The ship's deck sways as it hits a wave.

You peer towards east to the aft...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (open) and the mainmast (steep)

Curiously, Firouzeh says to Kinsa, "How -do- you intend to wake him up?"

You feel irritated at the absense of Captain and First Mate. You'd think they would be out here helping.

Kinsa lets out a thoughtful hum, "Firm slap in the face should do it."

Worriedly, you say, "Yes, how."

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Iken walks through the wooden hatch.

Firmly, you say, "No. No thank you. No slaps."

Firouzeh lets out a surprised, airy laugh. Nodding her head, she agrees, "Yes, that would probably do it."

Kinsa grins away, "Well, offer stands."

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Iken walks west to the fore.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Iken walks over from the way west to the fore.

You say to Kinsa, "Appreciated, but.. No. No, I'll be quite alright, I'm sure."

Odd shapes whirl elusively through the air as the mist creeps about the land.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Iken walks away through the wooden hatch.

Fog floats past as the ship floats peacefully onward.

Firouzeh's eyes trail curiously after Iken as he departs.

Curiously, you say, "Does it seem as though he's looking for something?"

You peer towards west to the fore...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Forecastle Deck]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
The forecastle deck is accessed by short, tight stairs on either side of the entrance to the forecastle proper. Over the prow of the ship, the figurehead rises above the sea - a dolphin's cackling head, painting in chipped green enamel. While slightly lower than the quarterdeck, this section at the very front of the ship is still at enough of a height over the water for the air to be punishing at times. When the sea wind plows into the sails and drives the ship across the waves, this place is also the furthest downwind location. A rickety wooden frame extends off the side of the ship here, slanting down along the prow.
A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x5) A mass of orangey-brown seamoss is here.
Also here is Aya. A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak kneels here before a kaleidoscopic collection of sand-glass beads, which seem to have been cast about the ship's prow, holding a kaleidoscopic collection of sand-glass beads in his right hand. Owais hugs himself, eyes-wide and shivering, watching a limber, way-worn male kneel before beads.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft

Rostam drifts westward, still rubbing one fist at his eye.

Fog floats past as the ship tranquilly glides on.

Kinsa rubs at the back of her neck, "I can't really read the man."

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, you walk west to the fore.

[The Greenest Dolphin, Forecastle Deck]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
The forecastle deck is accessed by short, tight stairs on either side of the entrance to the forecastle proper. Over the prow of the ship, the figurehead rises above the sea - a dolphin's cackling head, painting in chipped green enamel. While slightly lower than the quarterdeck, this section at the very front of the ship is still at enough of a height over the water for the air to be punishing at times. When the sea wind plows into the sails and drives the ship across the waves, this place is also the furthest downwind location. A rickety wooden frame extends off the side of the ship here, slanting down along the prow.
A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x5) A mass of orangey-brown seamoss is here.
Also here is Aya. A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak kneels here before a kaleidoscopic collection of sand-glass beads, which seem to have been cast about the ship's prow, holding a kaleidoscopic collection of sand-glass beads in his right hand. Owais hugs himself, eyes-wide and shivering, watching a limber, way-worn male kneel before beads.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft

Aya scans towards east to the aft.

Rostam squints at a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak and the sand-glass beads, then over to Owais and Aya, nodding to each.

Eerie mist hazes around the hull as the ship drifts on peacefully.

Owais finally looks back to a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak and the beads.

Aya looks a touch confused as she looks between Owais and a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak, "What's going on?" [in with a smooth soprano] she asks, lips pressing together in a concerned little moue.

Speaking to a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak, Owais says, "I dunno, 's scared. This's -- this's what it's scared of, the --" [in Sirdabi with a youthfully-cracking tenor]

"We must walk the path so set." A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak seems to tell himself, or agrees with Owais. Looking warily at the mist tendrils curling strangely about the beads, he stretches his hand out to gather them up. "Wise words, Sayyid Owais. Come - Sayyid Rostam - the Sayyid Owais has felt omen in the air." [in Sirdabi with a steady, measured baritone]

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak puts a kaleidoscopic collection of sand-glass beads in a black cotton drawstring pouch.

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak scans towards east to the aft.

Frowning, looking over at Owais for a long moment before nodding, Rostam turns his attention to a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak. Crisply, his features firming into a confident mask, he says "Is there any sign of where the trouble comes from?"

The mist surrounds the ship as it calmly moves over glimmering waters.

You feel a certain uneasiness. Last time Owais said that, we got sent halfway across the ocean.

Owais flinches at something unheard, and looks to a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak again.

Aya says to you, "He said something about having to get out of the air, inside somewhere.."

You fall in with a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak.

Owais falls in with a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak.

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak stands, his demeanor grave, and points a finger into the gloomy mist, the backs of his hand inked in intricate mercuric-yellow, his eyes moving from Owais to you.

Quietly, you say, "The bilge, Owais?"

The ship drifts on gently.

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak scans towards east to the aft.

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak stands warily amidst the mists. (Room Pose Set)

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak tells Aya, "Come, Sayyida. Linger not alone here."

Aya nods.

Rostam reaches down to touch the hilt of his saber.

The ship beneath you drifts on peacefully.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak walks east to the aft.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, you walk east to the aft.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Owais walks over from the way west to the fore.

[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Fore]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
Worn by time but kept in good shape by consistent care, this Kalentoi-style naval freighter has proven itself capable of navigating the calmer fringes of the tumultuous Adelantean Sea. A rectangular mainsail spreads out across a grid of ropes upheld by the mainmast here, while a steep and narrow stairway descends down past a hatch into the hold. To aft, the quarterdeck stands over the captain's cabin, and to the fore is the deck above the forecastle that contains lodgings for both crew and passengers.
A deep cast-iron pot is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2)
Also here are a grimy, unwashed sailor and a burly, smelly sailor. Kinsa is taking up more space than she needs to. A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak is here. Owais is here.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: west to the fore and east to the aft
Other: down to the hold: wooden hatch (open), the forecastle: squat cabin door (open), and out onto open waters (water)

The vessel rocks and creaks beneath you.

Quietly, you say to Kinsa, "Stand to arms. Something's amiss."

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Aya walks over from the way west to the fore.

You think: Does the Ifrit come, then? Or is it something...else?

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak scans towards east to the aft.

You peer towards east to the aft...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (open) and the mainmast (steep)

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Firouzeh walks through the squat cabin door.

Rostam looks eastward, then over at Owais, frowning thoughtfully.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid walks through the squat cabin door, with slow, careful steps.

An eerie mist creeps across the land, chilling everything it touches.

Aya trailing behind as she comes in from the forecastle, "Should we be in the cabin or the hold, do you all think?"

Kinsa rolls her shoulders, one after the other, limbering up.

Lowly, you say, "I don't know. Owais?"

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak looks up to the quarterdeck, spotting Tekra and Hektor. "Sayyid Rostam - could you warn the mate of the Shipwitch's warning?"

Rostam nods once and immediately sets off eastward, then pauses. "But what am I to say, exactly?"

Aside, Firouzeh says to Kinsa, "What warning?"

Eerie mist hazes around the hull as the ship flows gently across tranquil waters.

Owais seems not very responsive, kind of dazed and constantly-nervously looking around. It's unlikely he is going to be helpful.

Kinsa shrugs helplessly at Firouzeh, "Not a clue."

Firouzeh looks expectantly to you.

Rostam looks at Owais, then at a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak, then shrugs slightly to Firouzeh. "Something's amiss, but I don't know what."

Aya says to Firouzeh, "Owais said that we ought to be inside, out of the mists. I'm not real sure, there wasn't much more'n that."

You say, "Ah."

The ship beneath you floats smoothly upon calm waves.

Teeth gritted, Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid drags himself out onto the deck, casting a narrow-eyed look over the assorted faces. His attention pulls to Owais, then back to you, searching his expression.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid stands just outside the cabin door. (Room Pose Set)

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak says, looking to you, before he nods towards the forecastle. "There is danger lurking in the mists - in the air."

Aya says, "Something about it becoming fetid, or dangerous, or somethin'."

Rostam flashes Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid a smile full of false confidence. "Right, then. I'll go and speak to the First Mate. I suggest the rest of us get down below."

Firouzeh keeps a worried gaze on Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid, lips pressed tightly together. "That's ominous and unclear," she decides, "But we should probably head the warning."

Firouzeh says to you, "What about the injured? Should we try and move Halima down?"

The ship's deck sways as it hits a wave.

Dubiously, you say, "I worry about moving her."

You think: A certain downside arises about having taken charge so often.

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak scans towards west to the fore.

Kinsa asks with a frown, "Is the forecastle much less safer than the hold?"

Shrugging, you say, "I do not know, I'm afraid."

You peer towards the railing...
[Lost Upon A Misty Sea]
The waters are strangely calm, and an eerie silence reigns amidst a persistent, ominously drifting haze. Although the distance is obscured and mysterious, one gets the horrible sense of being alone in an infinitely vast reach of unknowable space.
A small glass bottle is here. A small rock is here.
There is untold depths of salt water here. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east (water)
Other: a timeworn naval freighter


The mist swirls subtly, as if something unseen were passing through it.

A scream in a syrupy bass can be heard from the way out onto open waters.
"ETENNAY!" [in Ruvic with a syrupy bass]

Uncertainly, Firouzeh says, "Maybe we gather in the forecastle for now. There are beds at least... if we-"

You peer towards the railing...
[Lost Upon A Misty Sea]
The waters are strangely calm, and an eerie silence reigns amidst a persistent, ominously drifting haze. Although the distance is obscured and mysterious, one gets the horrible sense of being alone in an infinitely vast reach of unknowable space.
A small glass bottle is here. A small rock is here.
There is untold depths of salt water here. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east (water)
Other: a timeworn naval freighter


Aya scans towards out onto open waters.

You peer towards east to the aft...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
Hektor is here, wielding a heavy ship's mop in his right hand.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid scans towards east to the aft.

Kinsa tenses, "What did they say?"

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak nods, heading into the forecastle with a small group.

Firouzeh scans towards out onto open waters.

You are no longer following a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak.

The mist surrounds the ship as it moves across serene waves.

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak scans towards out onto open waters.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid watches you a moment longer, reaching out to hold onto the door frame. He starts to nod to Firouzeh, but then the scream comes and he glances off over the deck, mouth dropping opening. "Annur's balls..." [in Irzali with a lilting, honeyed tenor]

You say, "I'll see. He's screaming for the First Mate."

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid points at the way east to the aft.

Aya shoots her eyes around, "Did you see that?"

Aya scans towards out onto open waters.

You peer towards east to the aft...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
Hektor is here, wielding a heavy ship's mop in his right hand.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

You think: What are they seeing?

Aya scans towards east to the aft.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt from a long, unadorned leather scabbard with a brass mouth.

Firouzeh scans towards west to the fore.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, a tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak walks away through the squat cabin door.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Owais walks away through the squat cabin door.

Kinsa gets out from a dark leather weaponbelt in her possession and brandishes a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand.

Looking uncertain, Rostam just draws a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt.

You peer towards east to the aft...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
Hektor is here, wielding a heavy ship's mop in his right hand.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

Aya says, "Ah.. there's something there!"

You say, "Where? I don't see anything."

Kinsa follows your lead almost instantly, axe in hand, tapping the side of the head against her thigh.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid draws a sleek slender sword from a narrow sheath intricately decorated with jewels, sliding it free with a pained grunt.

Firouzeh peers towards east to the aft.

You sling an iron-banded buckler off your back.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid begins to watch the general direction of eastward.

The ship beneath you tranquilly glides on.

You shift your grip and brandish an iron-banded buckler in your fist.

Aya points aft, "With the Mate... things are... moving about us!"

Despite his denials, Rostam arms himself.

You say to Kinsa, "With me?"

Kinsa falls in with you.

Aya scans towards west to the fore.

You say to Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid, "Can you fight?"

A shout in a harshly-affected countertenor breaks out from the way out onto open waters.
"HELP! HELP!" [in Sirdabi with a harshly-affected countertenor]

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Ziyad walks through the squat cabin door.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid falls in with you.

Kinsa replies, "With you."

Following everyone's lead, Firouzeh grabs a knife out of her basket.

Aya scans towards east to the aft.

Ziyad scans towards out onto open waters.

Kinsa peers towards east to the aft.

Firouzeh gets out a small utilitarian knife from a wicker basket in her possession.

Rostam runs eastward, nodding, sword upraised.

Kinsa peers towards west to the fore.

Ziyad scans towards east to the aft.

"We will find out," Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid says grimly to you, taking an unsteady step away from the door.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, you walk east to the aft, wielding a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt in your right hand and an iron-banded buckler in your left hand.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Kinsa walks over from the way west to the fore, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid walks over from the way west to the fore, with slow, careful steps, wielding a sleek slender sword in his left hand.

[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
Hektor is here, wielding a heavy ship's mop in his right hand. Kinsa is taking up more space than she needs to, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand. Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid is here, wielding a sleek slender sword in his left hand.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Firouzeh walks over from the way west to the fore.

You peer towards east to the aft...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Quarterdeck]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
The quarterdeck is accessed by short, tight stairs on either side of the door to the captain's cabin. Up here, the large wheel is mounted facing the far front of the ship, with a fine view of the main deck and the forecastle. A battered wooden railing surrounds the dutifully-swabbed planks here, preventing unintended spills from this height above the waves.
A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2) A worn leather ball is here.
Also here are Tekra and a monstrous cloudy creature. Captain Paldeo is here.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: down to the main deck westward

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, you walk up east to the aft, wielding a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt in your right hand and an iron-banded buckler in your left hand.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Kinsa walks up from the way down to the main deck westward, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid walks up from the way down to the main deck westward, with slow, careful steps, wielding a sleek slender sword in his left hand.

[The Greenest Dolphin, Quarterdeck]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
The quarterdeck is accessed by short, tight stairs on either side of the door to the captain's cabin. Up here, the large wheel is mounted facing the far front of the ship, with a fine view of the main deck and the forecastle. A battered wooden railing surrounds the dutifully-swabbed planks here, preventing unintended spills from this height above the waves.
A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2) A worn leather ball is here.
Also here are Tekra and a monstrous cloudy creature. Captain Paldeo is here. Kinsa is taking up more space than she needs to, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand. Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid is here, wielding a sleek slender sword in his left hand.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: down to the main deck westward

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Firouzeh walks up from the way down to the main deck westward.

Kinsa says, "-Oh-."

A monstrous cloudy creature opens a maw full of jagged teeth that surge together over Captain Paldeo's back.

The bite lands over Captain Paldeo's back.
Blood begins flowing from Captain Paldeo's back.

Rostam charges up onto the quarterdeck at the head of a small cluster.

Kinsa shifts aggressively towards a monstrous cloudy creature.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

A monstrous cloudy creature almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash lands a earth-shattering cut upon a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes. *CLASH!*
Blood begins fountaining from a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

A monstrous cloudy creature almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

You shift aggressively towards a monstrous cloudy creature.

You slash with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt towards a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

A monstrous cloudy creature wavers for a second and then collapses to the ground.

The slash slices in with a tremendous blow upon a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes. *CLASH!*
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

A monstrous cloudy creature collapses.

Eerie mist hazes around the hull as the ship floats peacefully onward.

Firouzeh blinks incredulously at a monstrous cloudy creature.

A monstrous foggy creature challenges Firouzeh with a seething rasp!

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid moves into a position to try to guard Firouzeh.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid hunches slightly.

Rostam rushes forward, slashing with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt at a monstrous cloudy creature. "Ifrit!"

Captain Paldeo howls in horror as another horrifying creature of mist glides soundlessly up onto the deck from the seething fog around the hull.

You feel shocked and uncertain, but also...relieved.

Kinsa belts out a hearty laugh, "Finally, a real fight!"

Firouzeh mutters under her breath, "Ember save us," as she braces for the attack.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid moves to defend Firouzeh, intercepting a monstrous foggy creature's attack!

The slam lands over Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid's left hip.

Firouzeh shifts her grip and brandishes a small utilitarian knife in her fist.

You think: A fight. A battle. A simple decision.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid staggers in front of Firouzeh, just about managing to raise a narrow sheath intricately decorated with jewels and keep it up in a defensive position.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid moves to defend Firouzeh, intercepting a monstrous foggy creature's attack!

The bite lands over Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid's chest.
Blood begins trickling from Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid's chest.

Captain Paldeo tries to stop fighting.

The clammy touch of mist brushes your skin, as if trying to catch your attention.

Firouzeh draws a small utilitarian knife back and jab towards a monstrous cloudy creature's back.

A monstrous cloudy creature goes limp.

The stab punctures in savagely upon a monstrous cloudy creature's back. *ZOT!*
Blood is hemorrhaging from a monstrous cloudy creature's back.

A monstrous cloudy creature remains limp.

Rostam wheels to face the second creature as it mauls Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid, roaring.

Esfandiar bursts from concealment.

Esfandiar sneaks up from behind and drives an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt toward the thing.

A monstrous cloudy creature remains limp.

The stab punctures in tremendously upon a monstrous cloudy creature's head. *PEW!*
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous cloudy creature's head.

A monstrous cloudy creature remains limp.

A monstrous cloudy creature goes slack and lifeless.

Captain Paldeo looks to Tekra, and shifts as if to try to keep between the first mate and a monstrous foggy creature. One fist comes up, curling defensively before him.

Esfandiar wrenches an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt from a monstrous foggy creature with an abrupt yank, teeth bared.

Kinsa turns her attention away from the dead mist, barreling in towards a monstrous foggy creature.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid lets out a wordless noise of pain and fury, still trying to keep the creatures away from Firouzeh.

The ship beneath you floats peacefully onward.

Firouzeh lets out an unhappy exhale at Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid, muttering "Stop trying to protect me, you are going to get killed."

Rostam leaps toward a monstrous foggy creature, coming to a stop near Captain Paldeo as he slashes a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt in an overhead strike at the monster.

Firouzeh moves into a position to try to guard Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid.

"Then..." Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid pants to Firouzeh, lifting a sleek slender sword again. "End it!"

The ship floats peacefully onward, cloaked in an ominous haze of fog.

Tekra glances around swiftly for an escape.

Kinsa cries out with a manic glee, "Sitgarm aji, nirnenm-nternirn!" [in Tessouare]

Captain Paldeo gasps in relief as Tekra gets clear, sagging. He stares at the others on deck, starting to take a step back, and then holding firm.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Iken walks up from the way down to the main deck westward, wielding a leather-hilted greatsword in his right hand.

The mist surrounds the ship as it glides across smooth waters.

Firouzeh puts a small utilitarian knife in a wicker basket.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid shoots a hateful look towards Captain Paldeo but only for a second before his attention is back on a monstrous foggy creature.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid moves to defend Firouzeh, intercepting a monstrous foggy creature's attack!

The claw connects upon Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid's right eye.
Blood is trickling from Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid's right eye.

Esfandiar goes in for another hard jab with an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt, his narrow gold eyes flashing in deadly determination.

The stab punctures in tremendously upon a monstrous foggy creature's eyes. A truly critical jab!
Blood begins hemorrhaging from a monstrous foggy creature's eyes.

Iken shifts aggressively towards a monstrous foggy creature.

Iken draws a leather-hilted greatsword through the air in a slash towards a monstrous foggy creature's head.

A monstrous foggy creature almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash strikes tremendously true upon a monstrous foggy creature's head. *CLASH!*
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous foggy creature's head.

A monstrous foggy creature almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Khaled Varoush walks up from the way down to the main deck westward.

Captain Paldeo tries to stop fighting.

Esfandiar pants, a grimace of exhilerated murder on his face as he wrenches an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt free yet again.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a monstrous foggy creature's head.

A monstrous foggy creature quakes with exertion, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash cuts in tremendously upon a monstrous foggy creature's head. A truly critical slice!
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous foggy creature's head.

A monstrous foggy creature wavers for a second and then collapses to the ground.

Blood trickles from an indented bite mark on Tekra's left arm, gradually clotting into a scab.

Another choked scream from Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid as he staggers back, blood trickling down his face.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Tekra runs down to the main deck westward.

An eerie mist creeps across the land, chilling everything it touches.

Iken peers towards down to the main deck westward.

Khaled Varoush wanders into the quarterdeck with a distracted look on his face, before he blinks and comes to a stop as he spots the fighting around a monstrous foggy creature. Eyes widen at its sight.

Kinsa howls inarticulately into the air, grinning like mad as she cleaves at the beast in a leaping slash.

You slash with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt towards a monstrous foggy creature's arms.

A monstrous foggy creature collapses.

The slash lands a tremendous cut upon a monstrous foggy creature's arms. *ZANG!*
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous foggy creature's arms.

A monstrous foggy creature goes limp.

A shout in a smooth soprano can be distantly made out from the way down to the main deck westward.
"WE NEED TO GET INSINDE SOMEWHERE."

Esfandiar is endeavoring to drive an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt into a monstrous foggy creature repeatedly. (Room Pose Set)

A shout in a harshly-affected countertenor breaks out from the way down to the main deck westward.
"GET INSIDE!"

Khaled Varoush scans towards down to the main deck westward.

You peer towards down to the main deck westward...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
Hektor is here, wielding a heavy ship's mop in his right hand.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

Khaled Varoush looks like he agrees with those shouts and wanders downwards at a hastened pace.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Khaled Varoush walks down to the main deck westward.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid scans towards down to the main deck westward.

The crash of a wave sends a spray of water over the ship's edge while it tranquilly glides on.

Calling out, you say, "Fall back toward the forecastle, as you can."

Captain Paldeo glances around swiftly for an escape.

"What is..." Iken hisses out from behind his greathelm.

Features rigid, you say, "Ifrit."

Captain Paldeo wheels back rapidly from the fight, looking down across the lower main deck as the mist around the ship nearly bubbles with more creatures seeping up the sides of the hull.

Iken peers towards down to the main deck westward.

You peer towards down to the main deck westward...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
Hektor is here, wielding a heavy ship's mop in his right hand.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

Captain Paldeo shouts, "EVERYONE INSIDE! THERE'S MORE!"

You slash with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt towards a monstrous foggy creature's eyes.

A monstrous foggy creature remains limp.

The slash lands a tremendous cut upon a monstrous foggy creature's eyes. A truly critical slice!
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous foggy creature's eyes.

A monstrous foggy creature remains limp.

Esfandiar cries "Haaaa!" [in Sirdabi with an eccentric, Irzali-flavored tenor] as he drives an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt toward a monstrous foggy creature, almost gleefully, his eyes flashing murder.

A monstrous foggy creature remains limp.

The stab impacts savagely upon a monstrous foggy creature's legs. *ZOT!*
Blood is hemorrhaging from a monstrous foggy creature's legs.

A monstrous foggy creature remains limp.

Kinsa draws a wood-handled hatchet through the air in a bash towards a monstrous foggy creature's head.

A monstrous foggy creature remains limp.

The bash slams tremendously true upon a monstrous foggy creature's head. A truly critical bash!
The distinct crackle of bone can be heard.

A monstrous foggy creature remains limp.

A monstrous foggy creature goes slack and lifeless.

Firouzeh shifts her grip and brandishes a brass-capped reed cane in her fist.

Blood seeps from a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

Amidst the ominously quiet mist, Captain Paldeo runs down to the main deck westward.

The ship beneath you continues across softly lapping waves.

Esfandiar cries "Haaaa!" as he drives an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt toward a monstrous cloudy creature, almost gleefully, his eyes flashing murder.

The stab only grazes past.
Blood begins flowing from a monstrous cloudy creature's head.

Esfandiar draws an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a monstrous cloudy creature's back.

The slash cuts through thin air.

A monstrous cloudy creature challenges Esfandiar with a seething rasp!

Iken peers towards down to the main deck westward.

You say, "With me, everyone! We need to get below."

Esfandiar falls in with you.

You peer towards down to the main deck westward...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
Captain Paldeo is here.
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

Firouzeh falls in with you.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

The slash cuts in tremendously upon a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes. *CLASH!*
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

Firouzeh glances around swiftly for an escape.

Kinsa wheels around and keeps at it, completely ignoring calls to fall back.

Esfandiar reluctantly backs up toward you when a monstrous cloudy creature comes for him, his eyes flashing murder at the thing.

Blood seeps from a puncture wound on a monstrous cloudy creature's head.

A monstrous cloudy creature lashes out towards Esfandiar's chest with vicious claws.

The claw lands over Esfandiar's chest.
Blood begins flowing from Esfandiar's chest.

"Augh!" Esfandiar shouts, thrown back by a monstrous cloudy creature's blow in a ribbon of blood.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid tries to fall back with the others, waving a sleek slender sword around with less control than is really desirable.

You peer towards down to the main deck westward...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

The ship glides across smooth waters.

Blood seeps from a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Esfandiar draws an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a monstrous cloudy creature's head.

The slash cuts through thin air.

Rostam wheels and slashes ferociously at a monstrous cloudy creature.

The slash barely clips by.
Blood is gushing from a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

Esfandiar staggers back, trying to put some distance between himself and a monstrous cloudy creature, eyes darting about as if for an escape route.

Roaring out, you say, "Kinsa! Try to help Esfandiar below! We need to GO."

You peer towards down to the main deck westward...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

Iken mostly holds back from the fight, his head turning to look towards the west as he waits for an opportunity.

Esfandiar hunches slightly.

Almost imperceptibly the mist begins to thicken into frozen billows of fog, yet the sense of creeping tension in the air eases off, leaving the pale day with a fragile sense of relief.

Blood seeps from a puncture wound on a monstrous cloudy creature's head.

Blood fountains from a horrendously gaping gash on a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

Blood gushes from a gaping gash on a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

With a whip of its terrible tail, a monstrous cloudy creature crashes a powerful blow at Esfandiar's left hand.

The slam connects upon Esfandiar's left hand.

Iken retreats towards the way down to the main deck westward.

Kinsa catches enough of your words to curse his name, shifting to cover Esfandiar's retreat.

Esfandiar retreats towards the way down to the main deck westward.

Blood seeps from a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Esfandiar draws an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a monstrous cloudy creature's eyes.

The slash misses.

Iken slashes with a leather-hilted greatsword towards a monstrous cloudy creature's head.

A monstrous cloudy creature wavers for a second and then collapses to the ground.

The slash lands a tremendous cut upon a monstrous cloudy creature's head. A truly critical slice!
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous cloudy creature's head.

A monstrous cloudy creature seems to nearly collapse, but composes itself.

Rostam tries to drive a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt toward a monstrous cloudy creature's hea.

A monstrous cloudy creature collapses.

The slash slices in with a tremendous blow upon a monstrous cloudy creature's head. *CLASH!*
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous cloudy creature's head.

A monstrous cloudy creature goes limp.

Kinsa moves into a position to try to guard Esfandiar.

Iken attempts to break away from teh fighting, but seeing an opportunity takes another slash at the creature.

Kinsa shifts to stand at the general area.

Esfandiar pants through flaring nostrils, clutching at his chest, but still standing... for now.

Esfandiar is no longer following Kinsa.

Esfandiar falls in with Kinsa.

Blood trickles from a small and shallow gash on Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid's right eye, gradually clotting into a scab.

Blood trickles from a skin-breaking bite mark on Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid's chest, gradually clotting into a scab.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid slashes with a sleek slender sword towards a monstrous cloudy creature's back.

A monstrous cloudy creature remains limp.

The slash cuts in savagely upon a monstrous cloudy creature's back. A truly critical slice!
Blood is hemorrhaging from a monstrous cloudy creature's back.

A monstrous cloudy creature remains limp.

A monstrous cloudy creature goes slack and lifeless.

As soon as the creature hits the deck, Rostam turns to hurry down below.

Esfandiar grabs at his chest with a bloody hand, the red stuff trickling through his fingers. (Room Pose Set)

Fog floats past as the ship flows gently across tranquil waters.

Kinsa tries to stop fighting.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid tries to stop fighting.

Firouzeh retreats towards the way down to the main deck westward.

Iken tries to stop fighting.

You try to stop fighting.

Forging through the icy fog, Kinsa walks down to the main deck westward, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand.

Forging through the icy fog, you walk down to the main deck westward, wielding a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt in your right hand and an iron-banded buckler in your left hand.

Forging through the icy fog, Firouzeh walks over from up east to the aft, wielding a brass-capped reed cane in her right hand.

Forging through the icy fog, Kinsa walks away up east to the aft, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand.

[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Aft]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
At the back end of the main deck, the captain's cabin hunkers below the quarterdeck. The battered hardwood of the Greenest Dolphin is evidently kept ship-shape by regular swabbing with oil and tar. Above, the network of ropes that manages the mainsail creaks in any wind.
(All is normal.)
A battered cat o'nine tail whip is here. A length of heavy chain is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x4)
Firouzeh leaning her weight heavily onto her cane, wielding a brass-capped reed cane in her right hand.
You are upon a ship. Fog glistens in the freezing cold daylight.
Cardinal Exits: east to the aft and west to the fore
Other: the Captain's Cabin: squat cabin door (closed) and the mainmast (steep)

You peer towards east to the aft...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Quarterdeck]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
The quarterdeck is accessed by short, tight stairs on either side of the door to the captain's cabin. Up here, the large wheel is mounted facing the far front of the ship, with a fine view of the main deck and the forecastle. A battered wooden railing surrounds the dutifully-swabbed planks here, preventing unintended spills from this height above the waves.
A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2) A worn leather ball is here.
Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid is standing here, wielding a sleek slender sword in his left hand. Esfandiar is standing here, wielding an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt in his left hand. Iken is standing here, wielding a leather-hilted greatsword in his right hand. Kinsa is taking up more space than she needs to, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand.
You are upon a ship. Fog glistens in the freezing cold daylight. The area is spattered with blood.
Cardinal Exits: down to the main deck westward

Forging through the icy fog, you walk west to the fore, wielding a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt in your right hand and an iron-banded buckler in your left hand.

Forging through the icy fog, Firouzeh walks over from the way east to the aft, wielding a brass-capped reed cane in her right hand.

[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Fore]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
Worn by time but kept in good shape by consistent care, this Kalentoi-style naval freighter has proven itself capable of navigating the calmer fringes of the tumultuous Adelantean Sea. A rectangular mainsail spreads out across a grid of ropes upheld by the mainmast here, while a steep and narrow stairway descends down past a hatch into the hold. To aft, the quarterdeck stands over the captain's cabin, and to the fore is the deck above the forecastle that contains lodgings for both crew and passengers.
A deep cast-iron pot is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2)
Also here is a monstrous foggy creature. A burly, smelly sailor has fallen to his knees. Captain Paldeo fights to keep a monstrous foggy creature out of the hold. Firouzeh leaning her weight heavily onto her cane, wielding a brass-capped reed cane in her right hand.
You are upon a ship. Fog glistens in the freezing cold daylight. The area is speckled lightly with blood.
Cardinal Exits: west to the fore and east to the aft
Other: down to the hold: wooden hatch (open), the forecastle: squat cabin door (open), and out onto open waters (water)

The vessel rocks and creaks beneath you.

With panic, Captain Paldeo shouts, "BYREN!"

The crash of a wave sends a spray of water over the ship's edge while it tranquilly glides on.

Rostam rushes forward to support Captain Paldeo.

Firouzeh is no longer following you.

Roaring, you say, "Get below, Grandmother!"

Forging through the icy fog, a monstrous pale creature creeps over from the way west to the fore, , fixated on its prey.

A monstrous pale creature slowly scans the surroundings, with a sense of ominous intent.

Without too much argument, Firouzeh makes her way down the hatch.

Forging through the icy fog, Vahir Ift Aksil walks through the squat cabin door, wielding a light wooden stick in his right hand.

Forging through the icy fog, Firouzeh walks away through the wooden hatch, wielding a brass-capped reed cane in her right hand.

Forging through the icy fog, Kinsa walks over from the way east to the aft, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand and dragging Esfandiar.

Forging through the icy fog, Kinsa walks east to the aft, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand and dragging Esfandiar.

Forging through the icy fog, Iken walks over from the way east to the aft, wielding a leather-hilted greatsword in his right hand.

"C'mere you!" Captain Paldeo growls at a monstrous foggy creature, trying to distract it from the fallen sailor on deck. Blood splatter is everywhere.

You shift aggressively towards a monstrous foggy creature.

Rostam slashes ferociously as he rushes into the fight.

The slash lands a tremendous cut upon a monstrous foggy creature's head. *ZANG!*
Blood begins fountaining from a monstrous foggy creature's head.

Iken shifts aggressively towards a monstrous foggy creature.

Iken draws a leather-hilted greatsword through the air in a slash towards a monstrous foggy creature's head.

A monstrous foggy creature wavers for a second and then collapses to the ground.

The slash strikes earth-shatteringly true upon a monstrous foggy creature's head. A truly critical slice!
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous foggy creature's head.

A monstrous foggy creature collapses.

Vahir Ift Aksil emerges to make sure Firouzeh gets inside.

Forging through the icy fog, Kinsa walks over from the way east to the aft, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand and dragging Esfandiar.

Esfandiar's frame involuntarily slackens.

Captain Paldeo steps back.

Captain Paldeo grips a burly, smelly sailor firmly in one hand, ready to start dragging.

Forging through the icy fog, Captain Paldeo walks away through the wooden hatch, dragging a burly, smelly sailor.

Forging through the icy fog, Kinsa walks away through the wooden hatch, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand and dragging Esfandiar.

Iken wades in through the mist, moving straight up towards a monstrous foggy creature to take a slash at its form.

A shout in a sonorous contralto breaks out from the way down to the hold.
"TAW ETI Marmerm SIGHEW!"

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

Eerie mist hazes around the hull as the ship drifts on peacefully.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous foggy creature struggles to rise, but cannot.

A monstrous foggy creature goes limp.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

Iken slashes with a leather-hilted greatsword towards a monstrous foggy creature's head.

A monstrous foggy creature remains limp.

The slash slices in with a tremendous blow upon a monstrous foggy creature's head. *ZANG!*
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous foggy creature's head.

A monstrous foggy creature remains limp.

A monstrous foggy creature goes slack and lifeless.

The squat cabin door closes.

You slash with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt towards a monstrous pale creature's back.

The slash flies wide.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a monstrous pale creature's eyes.

The slash misses.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

A monstrous pale creature charges towards the way down to the hold.

Iken takes a moment to regain his poise.

Iken slashes with a leather-hilted greatsword towards a monstrous pale creature's head.

The slash cuts through thin air.

Pale fog brings the smell of cold as it shrouds the land in dampness.

Iken draws a leather-hilted greatsword through the air in a slash towards a monstrous pale creature's head.

A monstrous pale creature almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash slices in with a earth-shattering blow upon a monstrous pale creature's head. *ZANG!*
Blood begins fountaining from a monstrous pale creature's head.

A monstrous pale creature quakes with exertion, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

Forging through the icy fog, Kinsa walks through the wooden hatch, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand.

You try to grapple with a monstrous pale creature.

A monstrous pale creature challenges you with a seething rasp!

Kinsa peers towards west to the fore.

Kinsa peers towards east to the aft.

You slash with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt towards a monstrous pale creature's eyes.

The slash flies wide.

A shout in a syrupy bass breaks out from the way down to the hold.
"EVERYBODY SAFE?"

Blood fountains from an earth-rending gash on a monstrous pale creature's head.

A monstrous pale creature opens a maw full of jagged teeth that surge together over your left leg.

The bite lands over your left leg.
Blood begins trickling from your left leg.

Kinsa shouts, "STAY BELOWDECKS!" [in Sirdabi]

Blood trickles from an inch-deep puncture on your left leg, gradually clotting into a scab.

You slash with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt towards a monstrous pale creature's head.

A monstrous pale creature quakes with exertion, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

In close quarters, the slash lands a tremendous cut upon a monstrous pale creature's head. *ZANG!*
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous pale creature's head.

A monstrous pale creature wavers for a second and then collapses to the ground.

A shout in a mellow contralto breaks out from the forecastle.
"IS THE PRISONER STILL CHAINED UP OUT THERE?" [in Sirdabi with a mellow contralto]

You open your mouth to say something.

A shout in a syrupy bass breaks out from the way down to the hold.
"NAH, NOBODY'S CHAINED!"

Kinsa shifts aggressively towards a monstrous pale creature.

Kinsa draws a wood-handled hatchet through the air in a slash towards a monstrous pale creature's head.

A monstrous pale creature collapses.

The slash cuts in tremendously upon a monstrous pale creature's head. *ZANG!*
Blood is fountaining from a monstrous pale creature's head.

A monstrous pale creature goes limp.

Forging through the icy fog, Captain Paldeo walks through the wooden hatch, cautiously edging.

The ship continues across softly lapping waves, the scent of the brine thick in the surrounding fog.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a monstrous pale creature's head.

A monstrous pale creature remains limp.

In close quarters, the slash cuts in tremendously upon a monstrous pale creature's head. A truly critical slice!
Blood is hemorrhaging from a monstrous pale creature's head.

A monstrous pale creature remains limp.

Captain Paldeo squints towards east to the aft.

Captain Paldeo squints towards west to the fore.

A monstrous pale creature goes slack and lifeless.

Forging through the icy fog, Captain Paldeo runs east to the aft.

Vahir Ift Aksil scans towards east to the aft.

Forging through the icy fog, Captain Paldeo runs over from the way east to the aft, dragging Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid.

Kinsa shouts, "SARNIT NMIM! JEGHAZ TGARMINM!" [in Tessouare]

Iken tries to stop fighting.

You try to stop fighting.

Kinsa tries to stop fighting.

You yell, "RALLY IN THE HOLD. IN THE HOLD!"

Iken lets out a hurried breath, as he says, "Forecastle secure?"

Captain Paldeo hustles with speed across the deck, dragging Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid and staring into the fog on both sides.

Captain Paldeo drops Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid on the deck, like a sack of flour.

Captain Paldeo releases Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid.

Kinsa looks over to the forecastle, "Closed, no screams for help." [in Sirdabi]

Iken peers towards west to the fore.

Captain Paldeo squints towards west to the fore.

Captain Paldeo squints towards east to the aft.

Iken opens the squat cabin door.

Kinsa goes to stand near the frame of the open wooden hatch.

The ship's deck sways as it hits a wave.

Iken peers towards the open squat cabin door.

A teal-blue waning gibbous sphere descends from the late morning.

You say, "We stopped them from getting into the forecastle."

With a shudder, Captain Paldeo says, "Let's get indoors before more of 'em make it up here..."

Iken peers towards the open wooden hatch.

You nod.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid is crumpled on the deck. (Room Pose Set)

Kinsa clangs her axe against her cuirass, letting out a whoop!

Iken closes the squat cabin door.

Captain Paldeo looks up at the thin light of the blue moon descending through the mist.

Iken opens the squat cabin door.

Forging through the icy fog, Iken walks away through the squat cabin door, wielding a leather-hilted greatsword in his right hand.

Captain Paldeo shouts, "GET INSIDE--!"

Kinsa goes to stand at the general area, joining a small crowd.

Limping a bit, Rostam makes his way down toward the wooden hatch.

The squat cabin door closes.

Captain Paldeo shouts, "BATTEN THE HATCHES!"

Forging through the icy fog, you walk through the wooden hatch, wielding a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt in your right hand and an iron-banded buckler in your left hand.

Aya gets out a bundle of 5 scraps of cloth from a heavy woolen knapsack in her possession.

Esfandiar lies on the ground, bleeding from a strange gash on the chest, panting through defiantly clenched teeth. (Room Pose Set)

Captain Paldeo walks through the wooden hatch.

Firouzeh takes stock of you.

Sassafrass takes stock of Esfandiar.

Blood seeps from a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

(Quietly): Aya shifts closer to Esfandiar.

Aya offers to put pressure on a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Aya puts pressure on Esfandiar's chest with a hand.

Aya says to Esfandiar, "Careful there, let's see if we can stop that bleeding!"

Kinsa walks through the wooden hatch, wielding a wood-handled hatchet in her right hand and dragging Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid.

"I can't," Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid admits to Kinsa, grabbing onto her as best he can.

Rostam leans against the hatch, staring around as he tries to appraise the situation.

Aya offers to bandage Esfandiar's injured chest.

Aya uses a scrap of cloth to bind Esfandiar's chest.

You peer towards the open wooden hatch...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Fore]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
Worn by time but kept in good shape by consistent care, this Kalentoi-style naval freighter has proven itself capable of navigating the calmer fringes of the tumultuous Adelantean Sea. A rectangular mainsail spreads out across a grid of ropes upheld by the mainmast here, while a steep and narrow stairway descends down past a hatch into the hold. To aft, the quarterdeck stands over the captain's cabin, and to the fore is the deck above the forecastle that contains lodgings for both crew and passengers.
A deep cast-iron pot is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2)
Vahir Ift Aksil is here, wielding a light wooden stick in his right hand.
You are upon a ship. Fog glistens in the freezing cold daylight. The area is spattered with blood.
Cardinal Exits: west to the fore and east to the aft
Other: down to the hold: wooden hatch (open), the forecastle: squat cabin door (closed), and out onto open waters (water)

The vessel rocks and creaks beneath you.

Esfandiar makes a strangled hissing noise at Aya's touch, his darkly glittering eyes shifting toward her face abruptly, as he if wants to look into her soul, too.

Rasping, Captain Paldeo says, "We gotta get everyone inside and close the doors.."

Vahir Ift Aksil walks through the wooden hatch, wielding a light wooden stick in his right hand.

Captain Paldeo trudges away through the wooden hatch.

Kinsa rolls her eyes at Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid from behind that helmet, just holding close to the boy, "You'll live."

"Oh, dear," Firouzeh mutters, quickly moving to Kinsa's side.

You yell, "IFT AKSIL! GET INSIDE!"

A burly, smelly sailor looks at you disapprovingly as loudness ensues.

Kinsa peers towards the open wooden hatch.

Aya crouches down near Esfandiar as she starts working on the bleeding gash, giving a curious look at his reaction to her touch. "Are you bleeding anywhere else Sayyid?"

Sassafrass watching Aya bandage up Esfandiar, she asks, "Right, well, who else is dying?" [in Sirdabi with a wispy soprano]

You peer towards the open wooden hatch...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Fore]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
Worn by time but kept in good shape by consistent care, this Kalentoi-style naval freighter has proven itself capable of navigating the calmer fringes of the tumultuous Adelantean Sea. A rectangular mainsail spreads out across a grid of ropes upheld by the mainmast here, while a steep and narrow stairway descends down past a hatch into the hold. To aft, the quarterdeck stands over the captain's cabin, and to the fore is the deck above the forecastle that contains lodgings for both crew and passengers.
A deep cast-iron pot is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2)
You are upon a ship. Fog glistens in the freezing cold daylight. The area is spattered with blood.
Cardinal Exits: west to the fore and east to the aft
Other: down to the hold: wooden hatch (open), the forecastle: squat cabin door (closed), and out onto open waters (water)

The vessel rocks and creaks beneath you.

Vahir Ift Aksil ducks into the hatch, and nods firmly to you.

Captain Paldeo walks through the wooden hatch.

Blood seeps from a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

"Where - " Esfandiar chokes, looking toward Captain Paldeo, "Where are the bookbeetles...?" [in Irzali]

You say to Captain Paldeo, "I think we're clear, Captain. What is *happening*?"

Firouzeh departs.

Looking to you, Captain Paldeo says, "I -- I dunno."

You think: When he saw the moons, he knew something.

Kinsa grins away at you like some kind of mad beast, "Adventure!"

Knitting his brow, Captain Paldeo says, "But..."

"Ummm..." Esfandiar looks distracted, his attention shifting back toward Aya as he blinks, as if trying to think. Then he shakes his head.

A ghostlike strange beast stalks through the wooden hatch, , fixated on its prey.

A pale strange beast glides through the wooden hatch, , fixated on its prey.

A predatory roving eye scans the surrounds as a ghostlike strange beast stalks here.

A pale strange beast slowly scans the surroundings, with a sense of ominous intent.

Kinsa drops Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid on the floor.

Kinsa releases Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid.

A ghostlike strange beast challenges Kinsa with a seething rasp!

A pale strange beast challenges Kinsa with a seething rasp!

Captain Paldeo turns to glance up through the hatch, almost with a stunned sort of puzzlement, then gives a small headshake. "Deck seems clear," he grunts gruffly, then suddenly stumbles backward.

Sassafrass stares.

A ghostlike strange beast creeps through the wooden hatch, , fixated on its prey.

Kinsa draws a wood-handled hatchet through the air in a slash towards a pale strange beast's head.

The slash slices in with a tremendous blow upon a pale strange beast's head. *ZANG!*
Blood begins fountaining from a pale strange beast's head.

Captain Paldeo screams, "AAGH!"

A burly, smelly sailor looks at Captain Paldeo disapprovingly as loudness ensues.

A predatory roving eye scans the surrounds as a ghostlike strange beast stalks here.

A ghostlike strange beast challenges Kinsa with a seething rasp!

Captain Paldeo closes the wooden hatch.

A pale strange beast disintegrates slowly towards once side, then solidifies with a malicious snarl that is felt more than heard.

You move to assist Kinsa!
You'll now focus your attacks on a pale strange beast.

Captain Paldeo scrambles abruptly through the charging monsters, and drags the hatch shut.

Vahir Ift Aksil shifts aggressively towards a pale strange beast.

Vahir Ift Aksil draws a light wooden stick through the air in a slash towards a pale strange beast's back.

A pale strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash strikes heavily true upon a pale strange beast's back.
Blood is flowing from a pale strange beast's back.

A pale strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

Sassafrass lets out a hoarse gasp as she leaps to her feet!

Sassafrass straightens to stand at the general area.

Kinsa grins all the more, "Jert wiratg at ce etenm tarminm erir!" [in Tessouare]

Esfandiar shouts, "DREAMER OF DREAMS, BREAKER OF BONDAGE, STEER US CLEAR OF DARK NIGHTMARE!" [in Sirdabi]

A burly, smelly sailor looks at Esfandiar disapprovingly as loudness ensues.

Rostam snarls and raises his sword.

Blood gushes from a bite wound on a burly, smelly sailor's right leg.

Sassafrass hunches slightly.

Esfandiar struggles to rise, but cannot.

Esfandiar visibly struggles to remain conscious.

Khaled Varoush blinks at a ghostlike strange beast, startling backwards.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a pale strange beast's arms.

The slash cuts through thin air.

Vahir Ift Aksil steps in, flowing up with rapid footsteps to help you and Kinsa.

Firouzeh arrives.

Esfandiar tries to climb to his feet, grabbing onto whatever he can find, but after shaking, he falls back to the ground.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a pale strange beast's head.

A pale strange beast wavers for a second and then collapses to the floor.

The slash lands a earth-shattering cut upon a pale strange beast's head. A truly critical slice!
Blood is fountaining from a pale strange beast's head.

A pale strange beast collapses.

Vahir Ift Aksil tries to stop fighting.

Aya startles as the creatures emerge from the deck and begin to attack.

You shift aggressively towards a ghostlike strange beast.

Rostam snarls as he steps forward to face a ghostlike strange beast.

The slash only grazes past.
Blood begins flowing from a ghostlike strange beast's back.

Firouzeh shifts aggressively towards a ghostlike strange beast.

Firouzeh drives a brass-capped reed cane through the air in a strike at a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The whack misses due to a ghostlike strange beast's dodge.

Aya says, "We should move everyone who's injured or can't fight to the galley!"

Captain Paldeo hangs onto the hatch he just dragged shut, quickly scrabbling about on the ramp on hands and knees -- in a very undignified and uncaptainly fashion -- to stare on at the fight.

Kinsa draws a wood-handled hatchet through the air in a slash towards a pale strange beast's head.

A pale strange beast goes limp.

The slash slices in with a earth-shattering blow upon a pale strange beast's head. *ZANG!*
Blood is fountaining from a pale strange beast's head.

A pale strange beast remains limp.

Esfandiar rasps, with a defiant wrinkle in his nose as he glares at a ghostlike strange beast, "What does it want?

A pale strange beast goes slack and lifeless.

You take a moment to regain your poise.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's arms.

The slash barely clips by.
Blood is gushing from a ghostlike strange beast's back.

Captain Paldeo shifts aggressively towards a ghostlike strange beast.

Blood seeps from a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

Captain Paldeo aims a punch at a ghostlike strange beast's eyes.

The punch is blocked by a ghostlike strange beast!

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The slash only grazes past.
Blood is hemorrhaging from a ghostlike strange beast's arms.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid tries to stop fighting.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The slash only grazes past.
Blood is gushing from a ghostlike strange beast's legs.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The slash only grazes past.
Blood is hemorrhaging from a ghostlike strange beast's legs.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The slash cuts through thin air.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid tries to draw his sword again and is apparently entirely unable, instead scrambling back to huddle in a corner.

Captain Paldeo swipes at a ghostlike strange beast with a series of punches that oddly impact with the solidity of coalescing mists.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a ghostlike strange beast's eyes.

A ghostlike strange beast quakes with exertion, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash barely clips by.
Blood is hemorrhaging from a ghostlike strange beast's legs.

A ghostlike strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

You take a moment to regain your poise.

Esfandiar removes a wide, bronze-buckled leather belt backed with a red sash with an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt inside, revealing a tasseled barracan mizuda of darkest indigo adorned with beads.

Esfandiar sheathes a wide, bronze-buckled leather belt backed with a red sash with an etched steel jambiya with a curled bronze hilt inside in a curved embroidered-leather sheath.

Kinsa draws a wood-handled hatchet through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's eyes.

A ghostlike strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash only grazes past.
Blood is hemorrhaging from a ghostlike strange beast's back.

A ghostlike strange beast quakes with exertion, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's arms.

A ghostlike strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash only grazes past.
Blood is gushing from a ghostlike strange beast's legs.

A ghostlike strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

Esfandiar removes a tasseled barracan mizuda of darkest indigo adorned with beads.

Esfandiar drops a tasseled barracan mizuda of darkest indigo adorned with beads on the floor.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The slash flies wide.

Kinsa practically screams at a ghostlike strange beast, "Rmaj migh! RNI AJI!"

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a ghostlike strange beast's arms.

The slash misses.

Sassafrass looks mostly frozen with horror -- and, perhaps, horrified fascination -- as she watches the mistmonsters and the passenger's and crew's desperate fight against them.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a ghostlike strange beast's legs.

The slash misses.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid is huddled in a corner. (Room Pose Set)

Rostam slashes ferociously with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt at something resembling a knee.

The slash flies wide.

The fog whirls oddly as if unsettled by a breeze, despite the profound stillness of the air.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash only grazes past.
Blood is hemorrhaging from a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast wavers for a second and then collapses to the floor.

Captain Paldeo tries to stop fighting.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid tries to stop fighting.

You slash with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast collapses.

The slash strikes tremendously true upon a ghostlike strange beast's head. *CLASH!*
Blood is fountaining from a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast goes limp.

Losing none of its impenetrable opacity, the fog attenuates into a spectral mist that creeps in swirling silence across the pale land.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast remains limp.

The slash slices in with a tremendous blow upon a ghostlike strange beast's head. *ZANG!*
Blood is fountaining from a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast remains limp.

A ghostlike strange beast goes slack and lifeless.

Esfandiar reaches out to touch a fat gold pinky ring set with an amethyst.

Captain Paldeo moves back at the creature of mist stumbles into a thunderous crash within the cramped hold. "Let's k-keep the hatches closed," he manages to stay, swallowing and reaching for a jaunty sharkskin captain's hat again.

Vahir Ift Aksil tries to stop fighting.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The slash lands a tremendous cut upon a ghostlike strange beast's head. A truly critical slice!
Blood begins fountaining from a ghostlike strange beast's head.

Captain Paldeo tries to stop fighting.

Aya wipes at her hands a little as she crouches nearby Esfandiar, "We need to get people into the galley, anyone hurt or unable to fight!"

You slash with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash barely clips by.
Blood is gushing from a ghostlike strange beast's arms.

A ghostlike strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

Esfandiar picks up a tasseled barracan mizuda of darkest indigo adorned with beads from the floor.

Kinsa keeps on just slashing and swinging, showing absolutely no restraint.

Kinsa draws a wood-handled hatchet through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The slash misses.

Blood gushes from a bite wound on a burly, smelly sailor's right leg.

Sassafrass lets out a breathy, "Hnnh," in response to Captain Paldeo's suggestion. All things considered, it's probably agreement.

Esfandiar grabs at a tasseled barracan mizuda of darkest indigo adorned with beads, flashing a candid glower in Aya's direction at her description, though he is no position to argue.

Kinsa draws a wood-handled hatchet through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The slash misses.

You slash with a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

The slash only grazes past.
Blood is gushing from a ghostlike strange beast's stomach.

A ghostlike strange beast almost collapses, but stays poised through sheer force of will.

Aya stops pressing Esfandiar's chest.

Aya shifts to stand at the general area.

Blood seeps from a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Kinsa takes a moment to regain her poise.

Blood fountains from a horrendously gaping cut on a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast lashes out towards Sassafrass's left arm with vicious claws.

The claw lands over Sassafrass's left arm.
Blood begins flowing from Sassafrass's left arm.

"Where are the others?" Esfandiar manages to say, looking around, though he's immediately distracted when Aya removes the pressure on his chest and blood starts to flow out again.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

The slash misses.

Kinsa slashes with a wood-handled hatchet towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast wavers for a second and then collapses to the floor.

The slash slices in with a earth-shattering blow upon a ghostlike strange beast's head. *ZANG!*
Blood is fountaining from a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast collapses.

From the interior of the ship, you can sense that it tranquilly glides on.

Kinsa lets out a cry, "Ine, ce wer ntertatg!"

You lean forward subtly.

Aicha Besaid walks over from the way west to the galley.

Khaled Varoush stares at the dead creatures with wide eyes, frozen in his spot.

Kinsa draws a wood-handled hatchet through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast goes limp.

The slash strikes earth-shatteringly true upon a ghostlike strange beast's head. A truly critical slice!
Blood is fountaining from a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast remains limp.

Captain Paldeo looks to one side, at a sailor lying in a puddle of his own blood. Lanternlight in the dim hold glistens in an orange reflection off the dark crimson pool.

You draw a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt through the air in a slash towards a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast remains limp.

The slash strikes tremendously true upon a ghostlike strange beast's head. *ZANG!*
Blood is fountaining from a ghostlike strange beast's head.

A ghostlike strange beast remains limp.

A ghostlike strange beast goes slack and lifeless.

Esfandiar gasps and falls back against the wooden planks, head going "thunk" lightly there.

Aicha Besaid says, "AH! BEASTS!" [in Sirdabi with a honey-drenched alto]

Sassafrass lets out an ear-piercing yelp as the beast strikes her, and attempts to scrabble back out reach again.

Vahir Ift Aksil only has a stick in hand, and swishes it this way and that in the crowded hold, trying mostly to stay in front of the other passengers.

Kinsa wheels around looking for more foes, and finds none.

Captain Paldeo glances around swiftly for an escape.

Esfandiar is laid out and bleeding, with a hand held limply over his chest. (Room Pose Set)

(Quietly): Captain Paldeo shifts closer to a burly, smelly sailor.

Firouzeh takes stock of Esfandiar.

Captain Paldeo offers to put pressure on a bite wound on a burly, smelly sailor's right leg.

A burly, smelly sailor turns up <his> nose at Captain Paldeo's request.

A burly, smelly sailor declines the offer of treatment from Captain Paldeo.

Captain Paldeo growls, "Byren you fool!"

Esfandiar is bleeding on the floor without the aid of Aya's hand on his chest.

You sheathe a steel-bladed saber with a knobbed bronze hilt in a long, unadorned leather scabbard with a brass mouth.

Captain Paldeo offers to put pressure on a bite wound on a burly, smelly sailor's right leg.

A burly, smelly sailor turns up <his> nose at Captain Paldeo's request.

A burly, smelly sailor declines the offer of treatment from Captain Paldeo.

You wear an iron-banded buckler slung across the back.

(Quietly): Firouzeh shifts closer to Esfandiar.

Blood seeps from a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Blood seeps from a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

Blood seeps from a livid gash on Sassafrass's left arm.

Aya starts to take a scrap of cloth from Esfandiar.

You get out a curved suturing needle from a pale leather satchel in your possession.

Esfandiar allows Aya to take a scrap of cloth.

You get out a roll of 2 linen bandages from a pale leather satchel in your possession.

Esfandiar moves a bundle of 5 scraps of cloth to uncover his chest.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid just watches distantly, staring helplessly with his hand on the hilt of his undrawn sword, unable to do anything beyond that.

You get out a ball of 7 sinew lengths from a pale leather satchel in your possession.

Captain Paldeo puts pressure on a burly, smelly sailor's right leg with a hand.

(Quietly): Aya shifts closer to Esfandiar.

Aicha Besaid looks around the place with wide-eyed terror. As she sees the open wounds on offer she covers her mouth - turning a whiter shade of pale. She sprints to the nearest barrel and begins to be violently, effusively ill.

Sassafrass lets out a long hiss of a breath as she wobbles weakly, without actually quite falling. Yet.

Kinsa looks around for a few moments, before letting out a manic laugh, hands going limp at her sides.

Aya offers to put pressure on a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Aya puts pressure on Esfandiar's chest with a hand.

Rostam hurries toward Sassafrass, trying to grasp her good arm and ease her down to the deck.

You say to Sassafrass, "Let me see."

Captain Paldeo finally manages to get through a burly, smelly sailor's squirming when the sailor passes out, and looks around at other bleeders huddled in the hold. "Re..." He starts to say, but fumbles, lost.

Aya stops pressing Esfandiar's chest.

Aya gets out a slender sewing needle from a heavy woolen knapsack in her possession.

Aya gets out a ball of 5 cotton threads from a heavy woolen knapsack in her possession.

Blood seeps from a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Aya offers to stitch a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Sassafrass thumps down to her knees on the deck, looking shocked and pale. "Ugh," she mutters, "I should be helping.." (Kneel - at on the floor -)

You say to Sassafrass, "Soon."

You say to Sassafrass, "Get that cloak out of my way, eh?"

"Don't tax yourself, sayyida," Esfandiar mutters sarcastically to Sassafrass through clenched teeth, his nostrils fluttering with rapid pants.

(Quietly): Sassafrass mumbles, "Those things... they were worse than any of the stories... Good God dreaming..."

Aya rummages around inside of her knapsack to pull out a slender needle and some thread, looking at Esfandiar how best to stitch up the cut.

Captain Paldeo uses both hands to stop blood from spouting from a burly, smelly sailor's leg. He glances towards Tekra, eyes wide in the dim hold.

Sassafrass removes a battered blue wool cloak.

You think: Treat her first, then let her treat the rest.

Aya offers to stitch a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Aya uses a slender sewing needle and a cotton thread to stitch a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Sassafrass manages to fumble her cloak off despite her shaking hands, and lets it simply drop.

You shift closer to Sassafrass.

There's a subtle sense of tension as you move close.

Sassafrass drops a battered blue wool cloak on the floor.

Kinsa says, "First time I've had fun in -weeks-." [in Sirdabi]

You offer to stitch a livid gash on Sassafrass's left arm.

Aicha Besaid staggers over to Kinsa, shivering like a drowned rat. "What... transpired here, my Lion?"

Aya says to Esfandiar, "Lay back and let me stitch you up, Sayyid!"

You use a curved suturing needle and a sinew length to stitch a livid gash on Sassafrass's left arm.

Kinsa waves cheerily at Aicha Besaid, covered in... probably ectoplasm, "Ifrit!"

Rostam bites through a ball of 6 sinew lengths and ties it off. He says to Sassafrass, "Take a moment, then get in there. Start tending the others. Worst cases first."

"Ugh," Esfandiar mutters, and does as Aya says, eyes rolling back into his head a bit as he lies back. The rapid rise and fall continues, though, as his breathing remains wild.

With a quick throat-clearing, Tekra says, "Stop the bleedin'!"

Aya offers to stitch a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Aya goes over Esfandiar's chest with a slender sewing needle and a cotton thread, but finds nothing in need of stitching.

Tekra starts to bark loud, reassuring orders. "We're gonna be fine!"

Sassafrass only winces a little at the stitching, distantly, as if she only barely felt it. Then she draws in a sharp, shaky breath, and gives you a small nod.

Firouzeh looks around, lips tightly pressed together, seemingly unable to decide on where she would be most useful.

Aya offers to put pressure on a livid gash on Esfandiar's chest.

Aya puts pressure on Esfandiar's chest with a hand.

Firouzeh takes stock of Captain Paldeo.

Esfandiar lies flat on the wood floor, panting through rapidly flaring nostrils, his clothing peeled open to reveal the a wound on his chest. (Room Pose Set)

Sassafrass takes stock of Captain Paldeo.

Rostam begins pacing through the crowd, examining each person. He pauses beside Esfandiar.

Blood seeps from a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

Aicha Besaid blinks twice, wrinkling her nose with worry. "Ifrit. Never in my days... You are telling me that we did battle with the spirits of legend and I... was sleeping?" She looks gripped with horror.

Esfandiar's glassy eyes turn darkly amused when he notices you looking at him. None of the rest of him moves, but his eyes do.

You feel tired and your heart is racing.
There is a hot prickly stinging in an inch-deep puncture on your left leg and a slight soreness from your wound but you are on the mend.

(Hidden) Aicha Besaid whispers, "- -- - f------ -s - ----."

Sassafrass shifts her gaze back over to Aya and Esfandiar. "Do you.. do you have him?" she asks wanly.

Kinsa nods a few times at Aicha Besaid's questions, letting out a raucous laugh, "I'll go up deck and grab another if you like!"

While brushing through the crowd towards Captain Paldeo, Tekra exclaims, "Take care of each other! We'll figure this out!"

Aicha Besaid falls in with Kinsa.

Sassafrass takes stock of Esfandiar.

Aicha Besaid says to Kinsa, "Please! I insist! For the good of art."

Aya says to Sassafrass, "Yeah, I should have 'im. We ought to get everyone hurt back into the galley though.."

Rostam nods once down at Esfandiar, then turns to Kinsa and Aicha Besaid. "Don't you dare."

Aya stops pressing Esfandiar's chest.

Aya takes stock of Esfandiar.

Sassafrass struggles to rise.

Sassafrass straightens to stand at the general area.

Aya offers to bandage Esfandiar's injured chest.

Sassafrass visibly struggles to remain conscious.

Aicha Besaid plucks a deeply-bellied oud with olivewood pegs.
A deeply-bellied oud with olivewood pegs releases a briefly rising melody of strings.

"You are bleeding," Firouzeh remarks curtly to Captain Paldeo, "Come to the Galley and be treated."

Aya uses a scrap of cloth to bind Esfandiar's chest.

Kinsa opens her mouth as if to complain at you, before taking in the sheer amount of wounded in the hold, "Okay, maybe this time not."

Still breathing raggedly, Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid tips his head forward and pushes himself into less of a slump, weight on his good arm while the bandaged one is held awkwardly across his chest. His gaze strays over the others, fixed on Aicha Besaid as he groans, "Oh, no. Please, no." (Sit - at on the floor -)

Aicha Besaid strums her oud once, breaking into an impromptu song. "Back, oh back, you wretched wraiths! Piss off home, and close the gate!"

Sassafrass nods and hauls herself back to her feet with some effort. Her haze drifts around to everybody else, and she gives a small nod to Firouzeh. "Anyone who is injured and can move should.."

Esfandiar groans unhappily at Aicha Besaid's playing.

Sassafrass takes stock of Hektor.

Rostam cannot help but grin as he glances at Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid. "Right," he agrees as he limps a bit toward the Galley, "Wounded into the Galley. If you can walk, do so."

Sassafrass takes stock of Vahir Ift Aksil.

Aya glances up from Esfandiar, "Can any of you strong fellows help me move the Sayyid into the Galley?"

Aya takes stock of Esfandiar's chest.

Esfandiar lies on the floor resignedly, though at Aya's question he looks up with a smirk, eyes roving over the strong fellows in question.

Aside, Firouzeh says to Sassafrass, "Do we have enough to treatments for the wounds, or will we need salt water?"

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid struggles to rise.

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid tries to push himself upright, one knee, the other, movements slow and laboured. (Stand - at the general area -)

Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid visibly struggles to remain conscious.

Aicha Besaid thinks a few moments, composing the next line. She takes a moment to fiddle and fuss with the tuning pegs of her instrument. "Our ship is old, and our bones are cold! But a lion has claws and her sailors..."

Aicha Besaid says to Kinsa, "What rhymes with claws?"

Sassafrass says to Firouzeh, "I.. I think I should have enough. I don't think there are too many who are badly injured." She sounds rather surprised by this.

Rostam sighs and returns to Esfandiar, kneeling down. "You feel up to having me carry you through?"

Kinsa tells Aicha Besaid, "Doors."

You think: I think I can walk long enough.

Leaning over, Vahir Ift Aksil tells Sassafrass, "I am uninjured - how are you feeling, Sayyida?"

"Please, Annur, give me the strength to escape this," Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid says through gritted teeth, trying to make his way into the galley with a hand on the wall to steady himself.

Aicha Besaid breaks into a hyena-like cackle.

Captain Paldeo blinks with a long stare towards Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid, both hands still clamping onto a burly, smelly sailor's leg, and then gives a puzzled headshake. He looks over at Aicha Besaid and cracks a grin. "Balls!"

Aicha Besaid roars back at Captain Paldeo - "BALLS!"

Sassafrass shifts her gaze towards Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid, her mouth drawing down in concern. "I'm-- I'm fine," she tells Vahir Ift Aksil, shaking her head. "Others-- others are still hurt from yesterday.. Good God, what a waste."

Blood seeps from a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

"I am always up to being manhandled by a fit swordsman," Esfandiar tells you with a snort. He has to blink a couple of times to remain conscious, it would seem, but that does nothing to dampen his grin.

Firouzeh pinches the bridge of her nose, shaking her head. A grin threatens to cross her face at the comments.

You grip Esfandiar firmly in one hand, ready to start dragging.

Kinsa claps her hands together with a raucous laugh, before pausing, stowing her weapon.

Captain Paldeo nods in madly-grinning approval to Aicha Besaid, and glances over at Tekra again.

Kinsa sheathes a wood-handled hatchet in a dark leather weaponbelt.

Esfandiar puts up no resistance to being relocated by you.

Dryly, you say to Esfandiar, "Happy to help you live your dreams."

Vahir Ift Aksil reaches over to Sassafrass, and then points to Captain Paldeo who still seems to be bleeding.

Upright seems to be all that Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid can manage still though, not even able to take a step as he leans heavily against the wall, panting.

Taking Esfandiar by the armpits, Rostam begins to shift him into the galley, limping himself.

You walk west to the galley, holding an assortment of small items in your right hand and dragging.

Aya walks over from the way east through an arch to the hold.

A lit small, soot-stained hearth burns on in a bright dance of oranges and yellows.

You walk east through an arch to the hold, holding an assortment of small items in your right hand and dragging.

(Quietly): Sassafrass shifts closer to a burly, smelly sailor.

Sassafrass uses a curved suturing needle and a sinew length to stitch a bite wound on a burly, smelly sailor's right leg.

Kinsa asks nobody in particular, "Anything I can do, here?"

"I can't," Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid admits to Firouzeh, looking up at her without quite making eye contact.

You say to Kinsa, "Help Al-Kazid into the Galley?"

Aya walks over from the way west to the galley.

Khaled Varoush departs.

Sassafrass mutters quietly to herself as she begins to stitch up the bloody sailor's leg with sharp, deft yanks of sinew through flesh.

(Quietly): Kinsa shifts closer to Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid.

Kinsa nods a few times at you, "Idea, there."

You walk west to the galley, holding an assortment of small items in your right hand and dragging.

You drop Esfandiar on the floor.

You release Esfandiar.

Patting his shoulder, without malice, you say to Esfandiar, "Good job out there."

Firouzeh walks over from the way east through an arch to the hold, wielding a brass-capped reed cane in her right hand.

Kinsa walks over from the way east through an arch to the hold, dragging Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid.

Aicha Besaid walks over from the way east through an arch to the hold.

(Quietly): Irritably, a glance cast to Kinsa, Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid mutters, "You don't have to enjoy it so much." [in Sirdabi]

"Ugh," Esfandiar groans, seemingly as much from being congratulated by you as flopping back against the floor.

Kinsa scoffs at Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid, "You -have- met me, haven't you?"

Aicha Besaid says, "To $striking That is what makes the Lion the Lion."

Rostam absently rubs his thigh, leaving Esfandiar mercifully alone, and wanders eastward once again.

You walk east through an arch to the hold.

[The Greenest Dolphin, Hold, Dimness Below Deck]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
The scant light from a row of round porthole windows on either side of this deep hold does little to abate its darkness. Some warm lantern light glows through the opening to the galley in the front of the ship's belly, and a few more lanterns are posted about in the aft section where stalls for livestock are built into the cargo area. A knife-scarred arch leads to the crewmember quarters, while a ramp leading up to a hatch in the ceiling provides access to the Dolphin's deck.
A battered blue wool cloak is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2)
Also here is Captain Paldeo. Sassafrass is standing here, holding an assortment of small items in her right hand. Tekra is here. Hektor is here, wielding a heavy ship's mop in his right hand. A burly, smelly sailor is standing here. Vahir Ift Aksil is standing here, wielding a light wooden stick in his right hand. Aya is here, holding an assortment of small items in her right hand.
The area is spattered with blood.
Cardinal Exits: west to the galley and east through a knife-scarred arch
Other: up to the main deck: wooden hatch (closed)

The old ship creaks and rocks, a stuffy breath of musty brine stirring through the dim recesses of the hold.

Aya says to Sassafrass, "Oh.. you've the look of a proper healer.. if you need any help let me know. But I'll leave the medicine to you now that folks aren't bleeding to death."

From the interior of the ship, you can sense that it floats peacefully onward.

You put a roll of 2 linen bandages in a pale leather satchel.

You put a curved suturing needle in a pale leather satchel.

You put a ball of 6 sinew lengths in a pale leather satchel.

Captain Paldeo removes a navy-dyed scrap-leather captain's jacket.

Sassafrass sighs, looking faintly guilty. "I'm not a proper healer," she answers Aya, shaking her head. "But thank you. It would have been worse if you hadn't-- hadn't acted so quickly."

Captain Paldeo shrugs off the blood-sodden jacket and cranes his head around to try to look at the mark of misty teeth that went through it to his back. "Huh," he mutters. "God's repayment for my floggin' o'men, I suppose." There's a drawl of surprised amusement in his voice.

Lowly, Captain Paldeo says, "Maybe that Illi Idir boy was right."

Tekra gives an eye-roll at Captain Paldeo.

Sassafrass squints intently at Captain Paldeo's back, as if glad to have another distraction. She makes a tiredly scoffing noise in response to the captain's remark, and gives his wound a careful probing.

Rostam eyes Captain Paldeo for a moment, then looks over at the hatch.

Sassafrass takes stock of Captain Paldeo.

Quietly, you say to Sassafrass, "When you finish with him, they took a chunk out of my leg. It's not as bad, but if the rest are alright?.."

Aya rubs at her forehead before nodding her head, "Well.. you've proper supplies instead of my scraps and stitching needle at least.." She says to Sassafrass before addressing the greather gathering, "So, do you all think the worst of it's over?"

The ship tranquilly glides on on beneath you.

Captain Paldeo sits down at on the floor, politely nodding to Sassafrass.

Blood seeps from a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

You say to Aya, "I don't know. We need someone to get over to the forecastle and check on the other passengers."

Sassafrass nods to you in acknowledgement, and begins stitiching away at Captain Paldeo.

(Quietly): Sassafrass shifts closer to Captain Paldeo.

Sassafrass offers to stitch a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

Sassafrass uses a curved suturing needle and a sinew length to stitch a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

Sassafrass offers to treat a skin-breaking bite mark on Captain Paldeo's back.

Captain Paldeo puts on a navy-dyed scrap-leather captain's jacket, shrugging it back on as soon as the bleeding stops.

Captain Paldeo gives Sassafrass a slight headshake and starts to rise, looking around the recesses of the dark hold and its blood-and-bilge stench.

Captain Paldeo straightens to stand at the general area.

Sassafrass exhales in an exasperated *pfbfpbt* .

You feel unsteady and uncertain. Was that the worst of it? Are there more to come?

Captain Paldeo bellows, "WE'LL RECOVER! WE'LL REGROUP!"

Vahir Ift Aksil stands, nodding over at you. "I will go to the forecastle, Sayyid Marzani." He reaches up to pull at his cloak as he moves over to the threshold, then clambers out of the hatch.

"It's likely to fester," Sassafrass tells Captain Paldeo, sounding vaguely irked but mostly just weary. "But as you like."

Captain Paldeo bellows, "THE LION HAS CLAWS BUT THE SAILORS GOT BALLS!"

You think: One thing I am growing certain of...neither Paldeo nor I are the leaders we hoped we were.

Sassafrass takes stock of you.

Vahir Ift Aksil opens the wooden hatch.

The ship moves across serene waves on beneath you.

You peer towards the open wooden hatch...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Main Deck, Fore]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
Worn by time but kept in good shape by consistent care, this Kalentoi-style naval freighter has proven itself capable of navigating the calmer fringes of the tumultuous Adelantean Sea. A rectangular mainsail spreads out across a grid of ropes upheld by the mainmast here, while a steep and narrow stairway descends down past a hatch into the hold. To aft, the quarterdeck stands over the captain's cabin, and to the fore is the deck above the forecastle that contains lodgings for both crew and passengers.
A deep cast-iron pot is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2)
You are upon a ship. Reaching tendrils of mist slinks about the periphery of the day. The area is spattered with blood.
Cardinal Exits: west to the fore and east to the aft
Other: down to the hold: wooden hatch (open), the forecastle: squat cabin door (closed), and out onto open waters (water)

The vessel rocks and creaks beneath you.

Vahir Ift Aksil scans towards the open wooden hatch.

Sassafrass shifts to stand at the general area.

A shout in a guttural scrape of a baritone can be heard from the way east through a knife-scarred arch.
"JUST GIVE THE DEMON WHAT IT WANTS, YOU FOOLS! IT WILL HOUND US UNTIL IT GETS IT!"

Vahir Ift Aksil raises the hood of a rugged undyed wool cloak.

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak scans towards east through a knife-scarred arch.

You sit down at on the floor.

A tall person wearing a rugged undyed wool cloak walks away through the wooden hatch, wielding a light wooden stick in his right hand.

You move some dignified natural-hued cambric sirwaal and a fine bisht of azure blue silk trimmed with gold to uncover your left leg.

Captain Paldeo shouts, "MAYBE IT WANTS YOU! AHAW HAW HAW!"

You think: What DOES it want?

The wooden hatch closes.

A shout in a honey-drenched alto breaks out from the way up to the main deck.
"WE'RE NOT AFRAID! WE WILL BE LEGEND!"

Captain Paldeo coughs, and then heads off towards the galley, no doubt looking for some heqet...

Captain Paldeo departs.

Sassafrass says, "Right..." And plunks herself down on the floor next to you. She helps pull the cuff of his sirwaal up for a better look, frowning intently. (Kneel - at on the floor -)

Sassafrass takes stock of you.

Aya tries to wipe clean the blood upon her hands, "What would a demon even want that we have.."

You say to Sassafrass, "It's really not that bad, but.. I want to be able to face the next ones."

A shout in a steady, measured baritone breaks out from the way up to the main deck.
"IT IS VAHIR OF THE IFT IKSIL. I ANNOUNCE INTENT TO ENTER THE FORECASTLE - THE DECK APPEARS CLEAR!"

Sassafrass flickers a nervous glance towards Aya, then gulps a little. "D-dreamer only knows," she mumbles, and returns her stare to your leg.

Sounding troubled, Sassafrass says, "It's a puncture, though, and deep... Those can be trouble."

(Quietly): Sassafrass shifts closer to you.

Sassafrass offers to treat an inch-deep puncture on your left leg.

Rostam winces as he looks down at his calf, saying quietly, "I'm sure it will yield to you."

Sassafrass offers to treat an inch-deep puncture on your left leg.

Sassafrass uses a gently-spiked stalk of aloe to treat an inch-deep puncture on your left leg.
The last of a gently-spiked stalk of aloe is finished.

Sassafrass exhales in a somewhat disheartened sounding breath, but only rubs her aloe pulp into your wound without a word.

The ship moves across serene waves on beneath you.

Sassafrass takes stock of you.

Rostam pats Sassafrass on the good arm.

Around you, the ship calmly moves over glimmering waters.

Sassafrass shrugs a little as she sits up straighter again, removing her hands from your leg after a final clinical prodding. "It's as good as it's going to be, anyway." [in Sirdabi with a wispy soprano]

Hektor uses a heavy ship's mop to painstakingly swab the deck.

Screams echoed on deck through the morning, and bleeding passengers and crewmates alike retreated from the clutches of the mist... crowding into the cabins and the hold. Almost everyone on the ship witnessed the monsters -- terrible creatures of mist-made-flesh that crawled up the hull. Some say these beasts may still roam the deck, especially when the touch of the fog turns malicious. The Captain ordered recovery and regrouping, and to keep hatches closed tight, to stay indoors -- but it's as-yet unknown how many survived the battle.

Hektor briefly opens wooden hatch, just long enough to move through.

Hektor walks away through the wooden hatch, swabbing the deck, wielding a heavy ship's mop in his right hand.

Sassafrass scoots herself back across the floor to put a little distance between herself and you now that she's done treating you, and seems to busy herself with the absorbing task of putting all of her first aid materials neatly back into her satchel.

Around you, the ship drifts on peacefully.

Sassafrass kneels on the floor a short ways away from the livestock stall, fiddling with her satchel. (Room Pose Set)

Sassafrass puts a linen bandage in a pale leather satchel.

Sassafrass puts a ball of 8 sinew lengths in a pale leather satchel.

Aya puts a ball of 3 cotton threads in a heavy woolen knapsack.

Aya puts a cotton thread in a heavy woolen knapsack.

Sassafrass puts a curved suturing needle in a pale leather satchel.

Aya puts a slender sewing needle in a heavy woolen knapsack.

Aya puts a bundle of 4 scraps of cloth in a heavy woolen knapsack.

Aya closes the flap with wooden buttons of a heavy woolen knapsack.

Sassafrass puts a pile of 14 gently-spiked stalks of aloe in a pale leather satchel.

It is midday, the hour of daysong.

Coming out of a sort of daze, you say, "Any news? Does the fight still go on?" [in Sirdabi with a low-toned baritone]

You peer towards west to the galley...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Hold, A Musty Galley]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
This musty galley harbors a continous quiet clamor as crew and passengers eat and attempt to enjoy a bit of leisure in their cramped confines. A series of trestle tables are bolted to the floor, secure against the motion of even the roughest sea, and tucked into the back of the space, across from the arch out to the hold, is a cramped kitchen and food storage area. A few lanterns swing from the ceiling, illuminating the galley with swaying pools of light.
( The grubby kitchen has been freshly stocked with firewood from elsewhere in the hold, next to the small contained hearth.)
A cramped kitchen serves up thin gruel at all hours. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2) A sturdy wooden crate stamped with a rising sun in a circle is here.
Also here are Firouzeh and Kinsa. Aicha Besaid is loitering with bardish intent, holding a deeply-bellied oud with olivewood pegs in her right hand. Esfandiar stands, holding a squat, dark-amber bottle in his right hand and holding a tasseled barracan mizuda of darkest indigo adorned with beads in his left hand. Ariziya Zakil Sezani Al-Kazid is asleep here.
Cardinal Exits: east through an arch to the hold

The voices of crewmembers can be heard echoing in quiet conversation through the creaking stillness of the ship's belly.

A burly, smelly sailor twitches for a second.

A burly, smelly sailor collapses.

Still fiddling about with the contents of her satchel, Sassafrass says, "I think all the fighting is done... for now. I'm sure this isn't the end of it, though."

Leaning his head back against the bulkhead, you say, "The Ifrit is sending creatures to fight us, now. We must get the oars finished, and quickly."

You peer towards east through a knife-scarred arch...
[The Greenest Dolphin, Hold, Crewmember Quarters]
You are on [a timeworn naval freighter].
These dim quarters in the hold are actually quite large, but feel cramped due to the infringement of the ship's great ribs along both sides. The crowding produced by various crates and chests belonging to crewmates doesn't help, and hammocks hung from the rafters in several spots add their own clutter even in mid-air. The battered, bilge-stained floor is made of planks that rock and creak above the deep keel of the freighter, and a few are loose, allowing access to deeper cargo storage. A knife-scarred arch without a door leads into the rest of the hold.
A grimy wooden mug is here. A large oakwood crate is here. A mass of orangey-brown seamoss grows here. (x2)
Jiraya is deeply asleep and dead to the world on a sweat-stained hammock. The Convict Rakim kneels hunched, chains pulled taut where he leans to see out through the door.
Cardinal Exits: west

Sassafrass sighs at a burly, smelly sailor, shaking her head. "Yes, it's definitely for the best you have a bit of a lie-down," she tells him with tired wryness.

Grimacing and rising to his feet, you say, "I better check on our unwilling passenger."

You straighten to stand at the general area.

Sassafrass shifts her back towards you. "The Ifrit...?" she echoes uncertainly. "What is that about? I--" But she stops and just nods.

You think: And I think it is time we consider issuing out proper armor.

Looking at Sassafrass for a long moment, you say, "Just a guess. It seems to me that we are being stalked."

Firouzeh walks over from the way west to the galley.

Aicha Besaid walks over from the way west to the galley.

Glancing out toward the wooden hatch, you say, "I call it an Ifrit, because...what else could it be?"

Aicha Besaid departs.

The wooden hatch opens.

Iken walks through the wooden hatch, wielding a leather-hilted greatsword in his right hand.

Iken closes the wooden hatch.

You nod at Iken.

"*are* we being stalked?" Sassafrass too looks upwards, startling slightly and then frowning at the hatch as Iken comes through it.

You say to Sassafrass, "How else to explain it? Ghosts in the bilge.. that strange storm.. these creatures? And all the Seers, saying that something is out there, watching us. I think, yes, we are being pursued."

A burly, smelly sailor visibly struggles to remain conscious.

A burly, smelly sailor wakes up, lying on the floor.

Aya purses her lips and glances around, "What happened to the peculiar cloaked man anyway?" [in with a smooth soprano] she asks, a touch of a frown dancing across her lips.

Worried, Firouzeh says to Iken, "How did those in the forecastle do through the attacks?" [in Irzali with a sweet, shaky soprano]

Iken makes his way down into the hold, and when he notices Tekra there is a brief falter to the brute's steps. Still, after what may be a moment of hesitation, he continues down as he listens to those talking.

Iken glances over to Aya, "He is in the forecastle." The Tessouare's voice comes from his lowered visor, and then he looks at Firouzeh, "Safe and sound. No injuries." [in Sirdabi with a gravelly, rumbling bass]

Sassafrass says in a tone of doubtful gloom, "If anything, it seems more like we're cursed than stalked. Stalked by ill fortune, maybe."

Firouzeh releases some of the tension in her shoulders, nodding at Iken. "The cloaked man is a passenger. Vahir, I believe." She offers to Aya.

Rostam nods a few times and says, with a wry tone, "Well, if it's fortune.. you must admit, we did fairly well."

Iken glances over at Tekra, as he says to the First Mate, "Forepeak and below, secured as well." A pause. "Cargo included."