IC Story Thread: Ch.1,Ad.2 - The Far Reach

With two bodies slamming against it, it is only a matter of time...

The door comes off it's hinges and topples inward to reveal what must surely be the Captain's cabin.

The room is rather darkened, for although there are a couple portcullises on the walls, there is a heavy canvas tacked up over each one, filtering light and preventing anything from being seen outside... or from the outside in.

There are the big things in the room - a bed, a wooden chest, a desk with chair, a standing wardrobe. But there are also little, strange things about the room. There is writing scrawled on the walls in some foreign script made using black chalk or perhaps it's a dried tar? There are what appear to be a few animal skulls - a deer, some large bird, something that looks almost dragon like - hanging intermittently on the walls. There is, what at an initial glance appears to be, a human skull on the desk. There are black candles in sconces and standing candelabras. And the entire room is saturated in the rich smell of various incenses.

The spectral figure motions to an oar with both hands and it lifts from the ship side wall, and begins swinging about wildly as Eothain moves past, and trying to batter Duinhir, but both are able to fend it off.

Though it is difficult to tell if they have any harming effect, the attacks of Turil and Duinhir do draw it's attention. The apparition recognizes the acts of violence, it reacts as tho it believes they should be harming it, trying to evade the attacks, and when one lands true - like Duinhir's - it does react as tho it at least thinks it harms it...

Searching the wardrobe, Cirion finds it mostly empty. There is a waxed cloak and boots, for weather at sea, and a rope coiled to in the bottom of it, but nothing else of note.

Eothain finds a similar situation in the chest. There are some spare candles, some spare bed cover, but nothing of particular value or now has been left in the storage. Upon his investigation, the chest has no room for secret compartments, and so the most noteworthy things here are the rather macabre accoutrement adorning the room - the black candles, the skulls, the incense.

Cirion's investigation concludes that the the macabre accoutrements scattered about the room - the black candles, the skulls, the incense - are the only things of note in the room.