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Deep Thoughts: Getting There Is Half the Fun

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The Journey, and her captain, are not hard to find. Twenty or so crewmembers and dock workers labor
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to prepare the sturdy caravel for its departure in the next few days, scrubbing the decks, making minor repairs, and replenishing her stores, under the supervision of an alert woman exuding casual competence.

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CorwinGillerithan TavernerSorcerer 3every 1-2 dayscannon, face
Blackdragon Storm cleric lv 2 3x a week
Cheshire Tolan Rogue 3 (Thief) 1-2 days Ranged support, Face, Combat Stabilizer, Locksmith
Mindsiege Morgan Ranger 2/Cleric 1 (Life) 1-2/week tank, healer

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StormStorm stops at the temple of Zeus and was given blessing to go on the voyage as reluctant as he is to go to sea. If Zeus wants him to go, go he shall. He walks very slowly with a tiny halfling following. He finds the dock and his legs shake with every step. At the journey he holler up." Ho there! Captain I am Storm cleric of Zeus. I've come to help with the mission. " Storm shakily says. Knowing this will be a awful quest as he hates boats and wishes he had found a different land based adventure. Believes the ship will sink and everyone will drown. No matter what. In his mind this will be the end of him and all who go..."Could I get aid to my quarters?", asks the 8ft Dragonborn who currently is frozen in place at the boarding plank.


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"Right, Cap'n. I'll just keep outta the way 'til yer ready to cast off." Gil disembarked and strolled the docks in search of ale and something to eat.

He weaved back to the Journey's dock several tankards later, carrying a greasy old departure schedule rolled into a cone full of hot battered scallops. Gil leaned on a post and munched until the paper was nearly empty, shook the last few bits of crispy batter into his mouth, and ignited both hands to burn the fry oil off. Wisps of burning paper ash drifted into the water along with a bit of the cuffs of Gil's sleeves.

A towering dragonborn stood at the bottom of the boarding plank, looking apprehensive. "Ey, din't I see you at the Shield? Storm it was. Gil Taverner, pleased ta meetcha. You're doing the Gauntlet thing too, yah? Come on, let's go grab bunks 'fore the best ones are taken." The cleric saw a half-elf wearing a patchwork of gray and green skip up the plank.


 


 
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Tolan followed Storm to the dock. The two didn't talk much, the halfling walked behind him not really paying attention to where they were actually going. As they got to the boat, the rogue almost bumped into the dragonborn.

Without a word to Storm, Tolan strolled up the gangplank with a smile on his face. "Morning Cap. Name is Tolan, I am sure you have heard of me." The halfling jumped up on the side of the ship easily balancing on the wood. The rogue casually walked along, down the side of the ship looking up at the sails. "This should be fun." Looking at the two men that seemed to be joining on the journey, he gave them both a wave followed by a bow. "Well met the both of you."

 
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StormStorm herd the halfling pass him. Then a greeting from a drunk Gil."Yes I am Storm. Your Him right ? " Storm says. "I know your drunk my friend but...Could I get aid to my quarters? You see I'm afraid of the sea and boats.", asks the shakey Dragonborn who currently is frozen in place at the boarding plank.


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"Morning Cap. Name is Tolan, I am sure you have heard of me."

“Nope; sure haven’t,” responds Captain Schon, “but if you’re here for the Grumbulbarg trip, you’re welcome aboard. We’ll have The Journey ready to go tomorrow, but I’ve been told to wait for the full party, so you have until then at least if you need to pick up any supplies or gear. Maybe you,” Schon says to Storm, “want to wait until then to board.”
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StormStorm herd the captain and replied."If it's all the same to you captain I'd much prefer to find my quarters and stay there." Storm says as he continues to try to board the journey.


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Gil blinked at Storm with a slight lack of comprehension. In the sorcerer's opinion, three ales was a light lunch. It'd be his last for a while anyway as he didn't drink while hunting. Unless the ship served grog. It didn't do to turn down hospitality, that would be rude.

"Not got yer sea legs? C'mon, sailin's good times, just like hikin' but ya don't even gotta walk. Not jokin' though, ya'll want to claim a bunk early, no fun to get a hammock under a seasick type." Gil grabbed the cleric by the arm and made an effort to tow him up the gangway.

"G'day again, Cap'n Schon. Where ought we stow ourselves? Cheers, Mister Tolan." Gil nodded to the halfling and looked for a hatch heading below the deck.


 


 
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StormStorm moved faster up the plank with Gil's help. Albeit wobbly as the man staggers drunkenly and Storms legs weren't much willing to go."Much appreciated friend. I'd much hope we get to know each other better on this voyage. So I'll tell you something I've learned as a tempest cleric. The main cause of death for those of the tempest, is drowning at sea on a sinking ship." Storm says as he continues to try to board the journey.


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Jolly sort of fella. Gil determined to cheer Storm up.

"Ya must be good luck then if ya made it to Westhaven in one piece. Look at the cap'n here, sailin' all over the place all the time an' just as alive as anybody. Leave it t'the experts, that's what I say. Pfft, stop by my old home sometime, tons o' ways ta die there. Freezin'. Starvin'. Wargs. Orcs. Other tribes, yer own tribe if ya step wrong. Trampled by elk, that 'appens. Plenty round 'ere too. I got et by spiders the size o' wagons. Satyrs, goblins, bugbears, zombies, mad cultists even." Gil shivered a little. The cult of Karaan still had a bounty on him as far as he knew. "An' I'm fine. See, Tolan 'ere's alive too. Who's been tryin' to kill ya, Tolan?"


 


 
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OOCLooks like y'all are getting settled without much direct help from Cpt. Schon, but feel to ask her anything. To ask me something, here's our OOC thread. I also have a lot of info there re my standard rulings and requirements.

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StormStorm makes it on deck seeing the halfling again. And hearing Gil call himTolan. "Roland is it. Want to join us in quarts. We can get to know each other better." Storm says as he and His make their way to where they will be for most the trip.


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Tolan stared off in the distance for a moment. "The fish people...Sahuagin...they tried to eat us...almost did too. We were able to find some artifact of theirs and they let us leave in peace. Other than that, just your normal pirates and undead dwarfs. The dwarf almost did me in." He shook his head focusing back on the people around him. "but that was then, it is a new day, and a new mission."

 
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Morgan had spent a lot of time in the harbor during the last few months, but she hadn't spent much time integrating herself into its business. Although Morgan had learned by now that most of Westhaven's adventurers saw her as less strange and deplorable than she had feared after leaving the ocean, the primordial woman had made the keen observation that the adventuring crowd was made up of colorful people, and although a water genasi was most likely less of an oddity near the ocean than anywhere else, Morgan had not given the sailors and dock workers the same benefit of the doubt as to the adventuring folk, to whom she counted herself after her two missions to the temple of the Trinity.

When the green-haired primordial approached The Journey, she did so by land like all the other humanoids around her. It was mostly because some of the belongings she would carry on the adventure were gathered with the expectation of venturing past the walls and into the West Marches landside wilderness, making them more vulnerable to wear and tear if one were to keep them submerged for extended amounts of time. Still, the prospect of starting an adventure out to sea had naturally called out to the former ocean-dweller, which was also the reason why she had gone so far as to offer her hands and magic unbidden when she had heard about the Order of the Gauntlet's need for hired investigators. After she arrived in front of the plank leading up to the deck of The Journey, Morgan stood still for a few moments, just as unmoving like the stone beneath her feet and with the eerily blank expression that she always wore. Only the green tussles of her hair kept rising and ebbing around the still features of her face, following a swaying motion as if the child of the depths had never left the waters of her home.

It is a vessel... But so much bigger than Valkyrie. And much slower... The cleric of Umberlee had not been able to forget the ride that she had experienced inside of the magical craft that she had met in Xyco, but as much as it had given her a certain apprehension against riding man-made vehicles, during the last weeks she had spent a lot of time watching the ships of Westhaven at the edge of her periphery, and also sometimes directly. They were much more lumbering than the miserable speeds that Valkyrie had taken her on, and this was what gave Morgan hope that she wouldn't dislike riding a ship just as much. After all this time... It will be my first ship to enter before it finds its rest at the bottom of the ocean... The hunter-gatherer had never asked one of the dockworkers if it was every ships destiny to eventually fall to the depths, but thinking about it more consciously it seemed rather obvious that they would. The wood that these vessels had been built from was taken from the lands of Silvanus and reappropriated into a very, very large tool. It was a feat not quite of the same magnitude as the wonders of the Trinity, but Morgan didn't contemplate for the first time that there was something fascinating about the land-treading races taking floating homes out at sea. She wasn't entirely sure yet, but in her heart it was possible that Morgan was already looking forward to being the first of her tribe to ever undertake a voyage across the sea on this side of the waves.

There was no emotion on the primordial's face or in her deep-green eyes when she finally decided to walk up the plank. The scale-like metal armor that was a memento of her tribe clung tightly to the athletic frame of her blue, smooth-skinned body, and reached only right beneath her hips, leaving her bare-legged and barefoot, and showing off the thin webs between her toes. Morgan felt slightly self-conscious when she got aboard The Journey, not because of how she looked but rather because she never knew how well she would be able to integrate with strangers when it had even been so difficult to fit in with the primordial brethren of her home tribe. But although Morgan was almost certain that this time none of her former pack-mates would join on her mission, she was at least hopeful that the other adventurers to-be-hired would become her pack, just as the others had before. So when the cleric arrived on deck, she spotted a few of the people that looked not quite like sailors, but even as she regarded them as those she would affiliate herself with most, Morgan had spent enough time in Westhaven to understand that every ship had a chief and that they were to respected first and foremost. She had heard this one called Captain Schon by the people who had told her about this quest, so as Umberlee's own spotted the woman she walked over to the Captain and gave a small deferential nod. When the genasi finally spoke, her voice was quiet and soft, though it hadn't enough of a variation that one would be able to guess her feelings as shyness. "Captain Schon. I... have arrived as I had promised to your... men. I... will see to do my best... to see this voyage and this crew safe and under my care." And although the words had been put together with a bit of difficulty, in Morgan's soft voice and alien demeanor there was nothing but sincerity.
 
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Roland? Gil shrugged, he must have heard wrong. Storm didn't seem to lighten up much either. "Sure, but I dunno if ya want to spend that much time belowdecks. Alright for sleepin', but tends to reek a bit of old fish an' unwashed sailors in my experience. Topside is better. Ya see though, Rolan' here's been et by dwarves and he ain't dead."

Gil wasn't sure if everything was getting off on the right foot in social terms, not that making nice was really something he did much. By luck, another recruit boarded and made her introductions to the captain at that moment, a dreamy sort of lass done up in calming shades of blue and green. There was something about her Gil liked, and that thing was armor. Gil tipped his cap to the new arrival. "Greetin's, ma'am. Ya along for the ride?"


 


 
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