Captain's Log, Darktide Ocean, Second Entry

Old Silas had a saying, in the last couple of years. "When a man wrongs you, you serve him lead and steel and fire. You rain ball and bomb upon him until the voice of your guns drowns out his screams for mercy. You make such a red, smoking ruin of him and...

I'm not entirely sure what I expected of a place called the "Great Cleaving" (you cannot imagine how many vulgar japes I've had to suppress on the way here), but it wasn't quite like this. The scope of it is enough to floor you before you notice how const...

Been on the road a few days now. Lot's happened. We finally got paid in Fah Shan Drag, nice tidy little sum. Khallinim the Lazy (apparently Jayloa, the warlord, seems to think it's productive to pin these epithets to her raid leaders) asked if we were ...

Been a while since I cracked this little thing open. It's been a busy few days. I shan't waste much ink going over everything in detail, but in short, we found a girl named Shai'la, Krendror's child, near wasting to death by the road. We helped her recove...

Caeli took off on her own a few days ago - there's been this voice calling to her, this primal force of flame, drawing her towards the World's Teeth. I know she can take care of herself out there, but I'll admit I'm still a little worried. It's her decisi...

Rude awakening this morning. Fools that we are, we forgot to blindfold our serpentine captive. Nearly got the jump on us, but we got it under control. We had a bit of a discussion about what we were to do with her, because as it turns out, the scuffle we ...

Weather on the road has been about as shit as expected. Can't trust the skies this far Firewise. Got sand in places I don't like to think about, but there's worse places to be. The Marshes of Madness, for example. Tir Geersak isn't much to look at, but th...

Shan Derakuth's unfamiliar to me, which is an unusual feeling after a decade of roaming the skies. We never went too far Firewards - the storms, you see. A trade city this big without any kind of skyport ain't natural, but you know what they do have? Thes...

We've made contact with Van Hal'essa via Page of Sending, telling her where we're headed - she was already amidships, and wanted us to meet her in Shan Derakuth. We managed to access the teleportatiom circle without incident, and passage from Naihen to Sh...

Remember how I said Geldris always left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and that there'd be blood in the street before we finished up here? That just seems truer and truer every time I come to this pit in the ground that has the gall to call itself a cit...

He knows who I am. Who I was, what I used to do. What's worse, he had the gall to allude to it over breakfast yesterday, with everyone present. I damn near lost my temper with him. What right does he have to my past? My life? Can't he just leave well enou...

Geldris. The Golden City. A nexus of commerce and wealth from all corners of the disc. An arena and stomping ground for the rich and callous, where their lessers always foot the bill. It was a shithole the last time I saw it, and it's a shithole now. C...

We're flying in one of the most beautiful machines I've ever seen. She's called the Nebesney tantsor, she's a skydancer, and she's immaculate, exciting, brilliant. There's so many things I can say about her, I don't know where to start. Gods, it sounds li...

I'm dead tired, but I'm too restless to sleep. Writing might help - put an order to events in my head, make sense of things, all that rubbish. A lot happened since we left the cave. Can't cover all of it in detail, but here's the important bits: -We g...

I woke up early in the morn with an old shanty stuck in my head. It didn't take me long to place it. It's something Pa used to sing for Ma. I was still so young then, and he was still the one person I looked up to most - but I remember him singing it as t...

I write this from within the hag's lair. We did it. It wasn't easy, but we did it. Melody took us to the entrance, as promised. What looked like a cave mouth lead down for... I don't know how far. But this place - it's like nothing I've ever seen befor...

We arrived in Willowdale a couple of days ago, but didn't stay. We went to the town hall, talked to the headman, and agreed that we'd speak with the locals after things had calmed down a bit... but that was before we picked up the trail. Rabbit tracks, bu...

Got some details about how to get into Araxis. It'll take a lot of money - I knew that much - but it takes some clout, too. Need to get in good with the head of one of the Institute's chapters, prove I'm a valuable asset. Bottom line: hard work and dedica...

Was at the bar today. Again. Waiting for a job to roll in from the AEI, wasting my coin trying to drown my worries in ale. Was halfway to getting a pleasant buzz when a couple of rough folk came in from the street, started shouting at us to surrender our ...

Old captain had a saying: “Every man’s the captain of his own ship, and every captain ought to keep a manifest, that the world might remember and celebrate his voyages.” The man was full of shit, but he had a point there - that’s the trouble ...