The Captain's Log: 1010 LD Book 2

Never Quiet

14th of Sunreign

We are home, but this place seems less like a home and more like, I don’t know. Not normal? It is never quiet when we are here and something always goes wrong. Sea spirits are neutral, but this place is starting to feel restless. The island that is. Parish Manor still feels like a good place to relax.

Lea is preparing to sell all of the goods as soon as she finds a solid buyer, and I’m taking a well deserved break. Tydel got himself into some trouble and Kiera convinced us to help because Gregory was partying. The trouble was some kind of bloodsport fighting ring. The Orc Boys got roped into it too and are now dead because of it. Gregory lost a close friend of his too, but Kiera and I saved Tydel so there are some good things.

Gregory punched me and broke my jaw, and I’m still picking out pieces of that frog thing. I’m going to take the best bed in the house for a change, Lea and Alenka be damned.

15th of Sunreign

My jaw hurts and I have a bit of a headache going. Here is what happened, in case anyone needs details. This is going to be a bit scattered.

We went into The Underbelly to save Tydel from what I suspect was a gang related fighting ring. Gregory hasn’t gone into much detail, but it seems that his friend Rogar was running the thing. It all fell apart when Alenka killed him. Gregory is preparing the body, and has been given leave to pay respect and grieve. I touched a nerve somewhere in there and ticked Gregory off, which is difficult to do. He lashed out and struck me, knocking me unconscious. When I came to, I returned to the manor while Alenka patched up Tydel at her alchemical shop.

Speaking of the shop, Alenka was gifted the deed to it by Kelsey DeMaria. Lea has been a bit prickly over the whole thing, and I can’t say I blame her. The Alchemist is not to be trusted, and I’m not sure Alenka is thinking straight right now with her own mad experiments on Ichor (he can talk now in case I haven’t made record of that).

The Underbelly. We found the fighting ring, and they had Tydel in the middle of it where he was being fed on by a frog beast. It was a mirror and lights trick and ended with Gregory in the fighting ring taking on Sharkshanker. Lea found Zagan at the ring as well, and when she tried to distract him, he used her to get close to Alenka and attacked her. Lea was forced to kill him, but her first blow killed Sharkshanker instead. Some kind of shared pain magic. We really need a wizard or something to identify these things…

Keira and I set on some guards as we tried to recover Tydel. There were prodding the frog beast with an electric prod. I dropped one of the guards, and Kiera took care of the other before pumping the frog full of lightning, cooking it from the inside out. I got showered with the bits. Alenka has had some time to study the remains today and is convinced that it was created by someone, rather than occurring naturally.

I was given a package with instructions to check out a warehouse for our reward from the Chest thing. I have recovered the content in the warehouse. 1 amulet, and a map. I will share more with the crew when we are away from the Island, as Fimton seems really keen to gain whatever I may have been given. They seem to think it will do some damage to House Xemnon.

Lastly, I have met with Marissa and intend to turn over The Barracuda to her. I can’t make up for what I did to her, so this should help a little bit. We had a bit of a heart to heart and she set me straight. It was… good. Time to start calming my own Spirits. Lea expressed a willingness to help me find my family. I think it may finally be time to start thinking about it again. A new ship, a close family, and people to help pick me up if an Oni spirit starts to lead me wrong. This will be a good beginning.

Lea, Second in Command

25th of Brightreach, 1010LD

Gavin, you told me. You told me and there were witnesses and now its official AND it is written in the Log. You made me 1st Officer. Alenka told me not to write in here, and I told her to SHUT UP. I make all the difference on this crew and I’m so proud that you have come to accept that. This will be really good. You made a good choice.

- First Officer Lea De Soleil

The Man Under The Mask

27th of Brightreach, 1010LD

I see Lea was here… She has been pestering me about this. Her taking charge is new. I think it might be attractive too if I weren’t waiting for the other shoe to drop. This may be the least of our problems right now though. It seems that Jenny has taken it upon herself to start brewing coffee, which would be fine if it weren’t for her funding the coffee blends by creating nests of those damn red orb spiders. She roped Tai into seeing the red orb silk for her. I’m glad he came clean when asked because Jenny disavowed her experiments until confronted with the evidence. I had Alenka and Gregory confiscate her “collections”, but I have a bad feeling that Alenka might be in on it too. I’ll have Re Shii keep an eye on things as Gregory seems a bit distracted right now.

The death of Gregory’s friend Rogar put him into investigation mode. He found an enchanted poster indicating a fight at a place called Crickets. He wanted to get more information so I gave him the OK and he set out to see his friend Sargel. Sargel made 4 wrestler’s masks for The Iron Snapjaw and his Ferocious Four. Gregory has it in his head that he can turn around the blood sport that Rogar seems to have put into motion. I’ll entertain the idea for now. Gregory is certainly capable. I just hope I don’t have to don a mask too...