Gameplay - Chapter 1 - The River Queen

"I don't know, Fen." Eferneya answered the goblin with the spear. "But stay on guard. Two persons have been taken off the boat while we've slept, and whatever took them may very well still be around."

Eferneya then called up to Darthon in the lookout.

"What do you see, Darth?"

Looking on for a while, in an attempt to discern what he saw on the outside of the railing, close to the others. He only snapped back to attention when Eferneya called out to him. Leaning against the mast with his ellbow he grinned down to her "I see many things, a roving band of lizardmen, a beach filled with stunning beauties and a castle on the clouds.", gesturing with the bow in his other hand into random directions, before finally pointing to the smudge he can't discern close to Eferneya "But what I can't see is what exactly that thing on the outside of the boat is, so be careful when you take a look.".

Fenya's eyes go wide. Lizardman, stunning beaties, castle in the clouds! He tries to follow where Darthon points but doesn't quite know where to look.

Eferneya made a silent motion for Fenya and any others around them to follow her, and then she moved cautiously towards the side of the ship where Darthon pointed. Eferneya moved with the lethal grace of a silent predator prowling its prey, hinting that the barbarian with the red-painted forehead was an experienced huntress. Closer to the spot Darthon had pointed at, she motioned for the others to spread out and get at whatever it was that Darthon had spotted from more angles, to give them an advantage in an eventual fight.

Once the eyes weren't on him anymore, Darthon stopped leaning against the mast and acting cocky. While nobody was watching he had no reason to pretend to be more careless than he actually was. While the others moved to investigate the curious spot on the outside, he did his best to aim down with his bow and keeping his footing secure, afraid to fall down from the platform.

Eferneya points at the gouge in the railing. She moves closer to the railing, to a spot a bit removed from where the gouge is, attempting to move as stealthily as possible, to get a proper look at that side of the River Queen, ready to strike at anything that might suddenly jump at her from the mist.

Fenya squints at the guoge that Eferneya is examining. He sniffs at the mark in the wood.

"This mark looks like something Kverula might make", Fenya says, patting the sow's head. "But different. Bigger, for sure."

With nothing exciting happening, the sense of danger slowly faded and led Darthon to climb back down from the lookout. "What?" he said loudly, focused more on the group than his climbing. To his detriment, he should have been more foucsed on climbing. Missing a foothold, Darthon slipped and broke almost into a fearful scream at the end of his question. Clinging to the handholds with all of his might and eyes clamped shut, only to realize when he looked down, that he had been on the bottom end all along, only a step away from the planks.
"How could a big piggy hit our ship." Darthon said in a joking tone, attempting to be humorous and distract from his accident. Smacking his hands together, he rubbed them as he spoke "So then, what do we have here.", more to himself than to the others, before investigating the gouge himself for what might have caused it.

OOC: If the result for the quick check should have a different effect just mention it and I'll edit.

After looking over the marking for a moment, Darthon's gaze wanders over his comerades, before he realized that they might want to hear what new information he was able to grasp. He pointed at different parts of the mark, while he rambled "The basic idea that something boney scraped along here seems right, though going by the directions of the wood splinters and the location of the mark, I have concluded.". A second long he paused to give his conclusion some more impact "It's bigger than Kverula. For sure.".

Darthon spends most of his time at the front of the boat, trying to look ahead and spy some form of dock or similar thing in the distance. The duration of the ride and recent happenings made him uneasy and wanting to get off of the river, where thoughts of something coming out of the water to pull them into the depths made their way into his mind.


Nothing particular, mostly keeping an eye out, unless he is talked to.

Fenya and Kverula sit huddled in a corner, the goblin's eyes watching the others intently, particularly Eferneya.

When it became apparent that whatever took the two crewmembers and made a gouge in the River Queen's railing was no longer a present threat, Eferneya let her guard down a bit, but not completely. She decided to stay awake for a while and gathered Fenya and Darthon for a hushed meeting where she suggested taking turns sleeping as if camping in the wilds, if needed, not completely sure how far away they were from their destination - the inn where they were supposed to meet with their employer.

As the boat sailed deeper into the Davokar and the forest became denser and darker around them, Eferneya took up position at the bow of the ship next to Darthon, keeping a close watch on both river and woods. They were in the wilds now, in the Davokar where all manner of dangerous beings roamed and Eferneya knew all too well the importance of keeping a sharp eye out for whatever might prowl in the ancient forest, as surprises in the Davokar were rarely of the nice kind.