Don't Drink Salt Water by Lunadris | World Anvil

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Thu 24th Feb 2022 05:33

Don't Drink Salt Water

by Lunadris Marianath

The island is warm and humid which is nice but damn are these trees dense. We took so long to make barely any head way. Kallibek is being very weird. He says he is seeing a floating talking fish and I am not sure if he is referring to me. We made it to a small clearing and our concern for Kallibek has grown. He is becoming increasedly more interested in burning down the entire jungle and is now talking to a person named Fergus that does not exist. We took his black powder bag from him to prevent any issues.
Torrielle, our new druid companion and I went back to the coast to send a message to Ana, our ship's surgeon, to see if she could help. Unfortunately, she doesnt have anything that would likely help. We got the crew to row the large water barrels over to the cliffside and with Torrielle's help (she turned into a massive spider!!) we got them all to the top of the cliff. She climbed a tree to view the island and saw a bay to the east. I informed Kuresh, our quartermaster, that he should bring the ship around to the Bay and we will meet him there. I went back to the group to get everyone to help bringing the barrels along the coast to the shore.
It took a bit but we made the journey with the barrels before evening. Kallibek is now seeing a clown of some sort juggling or mocking him. We are worried as he is growing increasedly more insane. Algar thinks it might be best to knock him out but I don't want to hurt him.
We made a small camp on the beach with the barrels and found some small trickling streams that may be prospect for water. Silly that the folks of this plane have soooo much salt water but cannot drink it. I began my ritual to bring back Gill but it was disturbed when Algar was attacked at the tree-line by some snake headed people.
Torrielle and I tried to talk to them to see if they would be willing to pursue a peaceful alternative to killing. They called us unclean and unworthy. They seemed fanatical, almost like home.
We fought well as a crew and were able to dispatch the two snake-men. I was going to send a message to the crew aboard the ship when we heard more fighting coming from it. I leapt into the water immediately!! I hope I am not too late...