Aboard the Star of Nostro

Belamina reads over a new entry in the captain's log: "Arrived in Alviz. No problem avoiding the Ibis marines, but Crew balked when I instructed them to avoid fires and lanterns. I had Master of Arms Ricori put the rope to those who balked too loudly."

"Go on, lad. I’ll be alright here. That ship’ll be with us soon, and we’ll be on our way again. I’ll just catch my breath." Gryff the Elder says, absolving the young baker of Amy duty to the older man.

"Right…" Bryson responds, thinking a moment. "I suppose we’d best make sure this ship is safe, for when they get here. Otherwise they might think that we…" he swallows the thought then, and crosses to Dengus, with a a stiff nod.

Eggo slinks in behind the men. Sword at the ready, he makes some reptilian grunt of agreement, and fiddles with his sword, holding it at the ready!

"Listen up." the noble woman starts out. "We are to secure this ship, so that we can safely signal down the Lysians. If there’s anything nefarious aboard, we root it out! Understood?" she commands, as she waits for Dengus to open the first door.

Belamina flips to the next entry in the captain's log: "Strange! The crew injured in the ceremony seem to have taken on a sickness. Lowell believes it may be Banana Fever. I’ve instructed Lowell to leave the sick behind on Alviz but ordered that McCann stays—I won’t be without my Steward."

Brother Longfoot catches sight of the broken lamp hanging from the main mast and gets an idea of how to signal the ship. Light! He remembers seeing some intact lamps hanging from some of the poles down in the cargo hold where he woke up.

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Baldwin enters the galley and sees two corpses, one a member of the crew of the Nostro, and the other is poor Joseph. Both are covered in blood and have holes in their abdomens. A trail of blood droplets leads out of the porthole. A fire is stoked in the oven, and the room is warm with dancing firelight. A slime trail is also present, with coal dust seemingly attracted to it like iron shavings to a magnet.

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Dengus opens the port-side door (or was it starboard?). This stateroom has a large table, a desk, and a shelf with several stoppered jars. Next to the large table is a smaller table with surgical equipment and a large book. Hanging by a hook over the table is an unlit lantern.

On the large table is the exposed body of a young male sailor. Someone has taken forceps and pulled back the flesh of its midsection as part of a post-mortem examination. The corpse bears a savage wound in its abdomen as well as many lacerations on the arms, face, and neck. The corpse has one eye open that leers at you disturbingly.

The eye doesn't follow Dengus. As he stares at it, he realizes it is a false eye.

Merilda sees nothing but the boundless ocean from her vantage point. Eggo sniffs at the slime and gets nostril full of spoiled cabbage, sulfur, and moss. A weird mixture he's never smelled before.