Strong Wind
Chapter 6, Part B
Session Start: Sat Dec 19 23:12
Session Close: Sun Dec 20 02:04
Elapsed Time: 2, 52m
Total Elapsed: 33h, 10m

Cast (In Order of Appearance)
  • Windstar as Salah
  • Storen as Lynna
  • Criz as Criz
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  • Bahamut as Miriamele
  • Storyteller as Storyteller, Vile Peons, PseudoAudrey, Meteorological Techno-Elemental, Crewman, Captain/Ramus II, Patricia, Skivers, Vargomere
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    Main Dock, Reachdeep

    [Storyteller] You had just defeated a group of Vile Freaks who were harassing Vigo. Unfortunately, they pushed him off the pier during the fight. He quickly drowned in the frigid water. In an unexpected act of selfless bravery, Criz made an attempt to dive in after him. Unfortunately, he was unable to find the young boy. While you were licking your wounds, you heard movement in the rubble. It looked like there was more fighting to come.
    * Salah looks toward the moving rubble, ready for another fight.
    * Lynna eyes the destruction that is now Reachdeep, wondering if it's a survivor...
    * Criz shivers from the cold water he has just came out from and sneezes.
    [Storyteller] You hear a cackling sound... A high pitched giggle...
    [Criz] Did you hear *sneezes* that?
    * Miriamele eyes dart back and forth, eyeing everything..
    * Salah winces slightly at the annoying voice.
    * Lynna narrows her eyes.
    [Storyteller] Miriamele catches the tip of a green ear dart behind a crushed wall.
    [Lynna] If somebody thinks this is a joke, I'm not laughing.
    [Storyteller] The giggling increases in intensity. It's coming from all around you.
    * Miriamele shouts!
    [Miriamele] There!
    * Criz slowly stands up.
    [Storyteller] Every place but down the pier, of course...
    * Miriamele charges after the flit of color!
    * Lynna glances all around for the source...
    * Salah quickly follows Miri.
    [Criz] What's...what's going on?
    [Storyteller] When she gets there, she finds nothing... You spy another flash of color behind you, back the way you came.
    [Salah] Miri? W-what is it?
    * Criz looks all around them.
    [Criz] It came from the way we came from.
    * Miriamele looks around, angrily..
    [Criz] Ok...now who is playing games with us?!
    * Lynna slashes at a crumbling wall with her claws.
    [Storyteller] You see a pair of peons, hopping back and forth and giggling down the end of the pier.
    [Lynna] Come out!
    [Salah] Over there!
    * Criz quickly goes for his Bo-staff.
    [Peons] Stupid humies!
    [Criz] Not getting away this time!
    * Salah points to the peons
    * Criz runs after the peons.
    [Peons] Ugly!
    * Lynna shifts her gaze to the Peons, and charges them...
    [Miriamele] I dunno... I don't think those two could be responsible for this..
    [Storyteller] As soon as you reach the end of the pier, they vanish.
    [Miriamele] A trap..
    * Lynna stops short.
    * Criz almost falls back into the water, but stops.
    [Storyteller] The giggling behind you intensifies...
    * Salah looks around.
    [Criz] What the hell was that? *sneezes*
    [Storyteller] A horde of peons start bounding out from every crevice...
    [Salah] This is a game...
    [Criz] A game where we have been checkmated so far...
    [Storyteller] A few pull themselves up over the edge of dock...
    * Miriamele reluctantly draws her weapons..
    [Storyteller] At least a dozen... no... two dozen... or is it three...
    * Criz starts to spin his bo-staff with his hand and then holds it under his right arm.
    * Miriamele unleashes her boomerang at the nearest group!
    * Salah looks towards the pier and rushes to it.
    [Salah] Follow me!
    [Criz] This... has to be an illusion.
    * Lynna looks over the horde, feeling a slight tinge of fear.
    [Storyteller] The boomerang knocks the nearest three off of the dock and into the water before returning to Miri's hand.
    [Criz] Too many of them, and just five of us!
    * Salah climbs into a boat in the water.
    [Salah] Come on!
    * Criz quickly follows the rest into the boat but trips.
    * PseudoAudrey hops into the boat... furrowing her brow, she tries to remember how to sail.
    * Criz gets back up and rushes into the boat.
    [Storyteller] One of the peons latches onto Criz' foot, putting a nice big bite mark in his boot.
    * Miriamele eyes the remaining peons as she slowly backs up, covering the retreat of the others..
    * Lynna slashes at the Peon's ugly face.
    [Lynna] Get moving Criz..this is no time to be lazy!
    [Storyteller] The three that Miri knocked into the water start to swim under the dock, toward the boat.
    * Criz winces as he holds onto his foot from the bite.
    * Salah looks around for paddles.
    [PseudoAudrey] Ah ha!
    [Criz] Ah ha what?
    * PseudoAudrey starts hauling away on a line...
    [Storyteller] The sail comes up and boat starts to pull away from the dock.
    * Lynna slips down to the boat in the nick of time.
    [Criz] Damn it, they're swimming trying to catch up to us!
    [Storyteller] The boat strains against the lines holding it fast to the dock.
    * Miriamele races to the end of the dock, takes a flying leap, and lands in the boat!
    [PseudoAudrey] Somebody cut the lines!
    * Criz looks at his bite mark on his foot as he notices the blood.
    * Lynna does the honors.
    * Miriamele tries to slash at the line in mid leap!
    [Storyteller] One of the peons makes a grab at Lynna as she cuts one of the lines, as he gets sliced thrice across his face for the trouble... With the lines freed, the boat begins to make good speed away from the city.
    * Miriamele catches her breath..
    * Lynna grimaces at the Peons as they fade away..
    * Salah sighs and sits down.
    [Storyteller] The remaining two peons quickly find themselves unable to keep up and fall back, bobbing in the frigid water.
    [Lynna] Idiots...
    * Criz smiles as he then sneezes and faints.

    Zoc Bay, Katarina Zone

    * PseudoAudrey guides the boat away from the land and toward the mouth of the bay...
    [Salah] Vigo...
    * Lynna notices Criz faint...
    [PseudoAudrey] Where are we going now?
    [Salah] Audrey's home....
    [Miriamele] Wherever the wind takes us, I guess..
    * PseudoAudrey nods, trying not to think of where they just left, but where they're going...
    * Lynna bends down to take a look at Criz...
    [Salah] What's going on... why?
    [Storyteller] The peon's bite goes all the way through the heel of the boot.
    [Lynna] Hmm...that's a nasty wound...
    * Salah looks down at the water.
    * Lynna turns her head to Salah and Audrey.
    [Lynna] I think Criz needs a little medical attention here...
    [Storyteller] Blood trickles out of the wound...
    * PseudoAudrey is manning the tiller and controlling the mainsail...
    * Criz is still motionless.
    * Salah turns back to Lynna.
    [Salah] Huh? Oh, Criz..
    * Miriamele quietly looks towards the direction the boat heads..
    [PseudoAudrey] Somebody take the tiller... I'll look...
    * Salah walks over to Criz's side.
    [Salah] Criz? Are-are you hurt bad?
    [Storyteller] The boat is heading past Dragonmaster Key, out toward the ocean.
    * Lynna nods to Audrey, and takes the till, trying her best.
    [PseudoAudrey] Just hold it straight...
    * Salah places her hands on Criz's wounded leg and begins glowing a faint blue light.
    [PseudoAudrey] Salah... Get the boot off first...
    [PseudoAudrey] Those creatures may be infected...
    [Lynna] It wouldn't surprise me one bit...
    * Salah removes the boot still glowing, and returns her hands on his leg.
    [PseudoAudrey] If you heal it, you'd trap any poison inside...
    [Storyteller] The foot inside the boot is... black...
    [Miriamele] Ew..
    * Lynna looks out to sea for a moment...and then casually glances back to Criz.
    [Storyteller] The skin has long ago scarred, but it appears as if it was horribly mutilated at some point in time...
    * Lynna blinks...
    [PseudoAudrey] It looks like it was burnt... That can't possibly... be from the bite...
    [Lynna] Wait a second...that's a burn...
    * Salah struggles harder, hoping to remove the burns and heal the wound.
    * PseudoAudrey nods...
    [Miriamele] Looks almost, uh, uh, gangrenous.
    [Storyteller] Salah's magic seals the wound, but it does nothing for the scarring.
    [Lynna] I remember back at the shrine he told Imogene to put out her torch...do you think he was caught in a fire long ago?
    * Salah continues to try her best.
    [PseudoAudrey] Salah... Stop... Look at it... It's not doing any good... It must have been like that for a while...
    * Criz mumbles in his sleep.
    [Criz] Sis....sister...I......find....
    * PseudoAudrey works a little bit of magic, speaking a few words to Althena...
    * PseudoAudrey casts Purity Litany...
    [Storyteller] With the toxins flushed from his system, Criz begins to come back around...
    * Salah sighs and stops, feeling a little dizzy she lays her hand on the ground to hold herself up.
    * Criz mumbles again and then starts to blink his eyes as his vision becomes clearer.
    [Storyteller] Salah's fingertips brush against something cold and metal under one of the seats in the boat.
    [Criz] Huh...what...*then notices his boot is off and his scars are showing*
    * Lynna sighs and looks out to sea again.
    [Criz] What...WHO TOOK MY BOOT OFF?
    * PseudoAudrey moves backwards to take the tiller from Lynna...
    [PseudoAudrey] I got it...
    * Criz quickly grabs his boot and places it back on.
    [Lynna] Ok Audrey...
    * Salah looks curious and pulls out the metal thing before Criz gets his boot.
    * Miriamele sighs, and resumes her gaze over the water..
    * Lynna gets up and moves over to Criz a bit.
    [Storyteller] Salah is now holding a metal box... It's dark blue in color, with silver-gray banded metal edges.
    [Criz] Whoever healed me...thanks. I'll be over there if you need me.
    * Criz quickly walks away from the group.
    * Salah finds a good spot to hide the item from everyone's eyes and opens the box.
    [Storyteller] As soon as Salah opens the box, she is knocked back into the middle of the boat.
    * Miriamele spins around to look.
    [Storyteller] Swirling blue and gray energy shoots upwards from the box.
    * Salah lands on her back hard and coughs.
    * Criz looks back quickly.
    [Salah] Salah what happened?
    * Lynna looks directly at the box, lifting an eyebrow.
    * Criz looks up at the energy swirls.
    [Lynna] More surprises?
    [Miriamele] What'd you do?
    [Storyteller] With a crackling, swooshing sound, the energy coalesces in the air above the party....
    * Lynna looks skywards...
    [Salah] I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to-I mean I didn't know...
    [Storyteller] A figure forms out of the energy... It resembles a woman, wreathed in cloud. Lightning flashes across her skin as she looks down on the party.
    [Criz] Oh god...what's going to happen to us now? Salah what did you do?
    * Miriamele watches in anticipation of something bad..
    [Lynna] This better not be a Pandora's box or we're in trouble...
    * Salah looks up at the woman.
    * Miriamele wipes a bead of sweat off her forehead.
    [Miriamele] Uh oh.

    Boss Battle! Round 1!

    [Storyteller] Target is the Meteorological Techno-Elemental!
    * Miriamele draws her weapons..
    * Lynna flashes her claws in the chill ocean air.
    * Criz quickly goes for his bo-staff and looks up at the woman.
    [Criz] Listen, what did we ever do to you first off?
    [Storyteller] With one hand, she reaches down and smacks the mast from the boat, taking the sails with it... Splash... They hit the water a few hundred feat away and sink...
    [Criz] Why is EVERYONE always attacking us?
    * Salah tries to balance herself as she stands up on the boat.
    [Lynna] I dunno Criz...but I'm not about to find out by ending up dead!
    * Lynna steadies herself and prepares a spell...
    [Salah] Who are you?
    * Miriamele somersaults backwards, landing and balancing on the tiller. "Alright, now you've asked for it!" She unleashes her boomerang at the woman, then lunges at her, stabbing at her with her Katana, then flipping off of the woman, back into the boat!
    [Storyteller] Miriamele hits TechnoElemental for 5 damage. Miriamele hits TechnoElemental for 4 damage.
    * Criz twirls the bo-staff in his hand as he jumps on the edge of the boat and leaps into the air delivering a swift kick and then two blows from his bo-staff as he lands back on the edge of the boat with gracefulness.
    [Storyteller] Criz hits TechnoElemental for 9 damage. Criz missed! Criz hits TechnoElemental for 10 damage.
    * PseudoAudrey defends...
    * Criz looks up at the monster and continues to think what the reason is for her attack.
    * Lynna chants as ethereal mists swirl around the woman. "Visions of past fear...cloud the minds of those who fight your power...Disturbance!"
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental's Wisdom drops by 20 from Lynna's spell.
    * Lynna half-smiles in satisfaction...
    * Salah feels her chest tightening... She closes her eyes a brilliant green flash overcomes the area and a small green orb bursts out from within Salah. The orb flies towards TechnoElemental and in another green flash enters her, then it returns larger and brighter than before to Salah.
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental looses 17 MP to Salah.
    [Lynna] Salah...you never cease to amaze me...
    * Salah gazes down at her chest then her hands, then at Lynna.
    [Salah] Well, I wish I knew how I was doing that.
    [Lynna] Uncontrollable power like that...
    * Lynna hmms a moment...and then returns her attention to the fight.

    Boss Battle! Round 2!

    [Storyteller] The techno elemental raises her arms... Clouds above gather and it starts to rain heavily... The wind whips around the group, making it very hard to hear each other (or yourselves for that matter).
    [Storyteller] Audrey is MUTEd & PARAed for 2 rounds.
    [Storyteller] Criz is MUTEd & PARAed for 2 rounds.
    * Salah starts to get soaked, her hair covering her eyes.
    [Storyteller] Lynna is MUTEd & PARAed for 2 rounds.
    * Lynna tries to hold on, her robe seeming to become slick against the rain and wind...
    [Storyteller] Miriamelle is MUTEd & PARAed for 2 rounds.
    [Storyteller] Salah is MUTEd & PARAed for 1 round .

    Boss Battle! Round 3!

    * Lynna goes to curse, but not a sound is heard...
    * Miriamele struggles to break free!
    [Miriamele] ..!
    * Salah brushes her hair away from her eyes, and looks around, she tries to call out to her friends but as she does she finds she can't speak...
    [Storyteller] The TechnoElemental points a finger at Salah... A bolt of liquid lightning lances out from it and strikes her in the chest...
    [Storyteller] Salah takes 11 damage from TechnoElemental's spell.
    * Salah screams as she's hit.

    Boss Battle! Round 4!

    [Storyteller] Salah is no longer MUTEd or PARAed.
    [Storyteller] The TechnoElemental reaches down to run her hands through the water... She regains 50 HP.
    * Salah chants. She closes her eyes as a bright yellow light emanates from her forehead, and in a brilliant, blinding flash of light, arcs of blue light enter herself healing her.
    [Storyteller] Salah is restored to full HP.

    Boss Battle! Round 5!

    [Storyteller] Everybody is free from PARA and MUTE.
    * Lynna tries to move her limbs and mouth..straining against the winds.
    * Salah watches as the rain mysteriously dissappears, and see her friends again.
    [Storyteller] The TechnoElemental reaches down to drive both fists into the occupants of the boat. TechnoElemental hits Criz for 9 damage. TechnoElemental hits Miriamele for 4 damage.
    * Criz shakes the pain off and stands in battle position again.
    * Miriamele tucks her weapons away, and closes her eyes. She fills the air with the spidery words of magic!
    [Miriamele] Blinding beginning and fiery end, greet thine enemies with a vengeance!!
    * Miriamele casts Pulse!
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental takes 6 damage from Miriamele's spell.
    [Miriamele] This isn't my day.
    [Salah] Nice try anyway Miri!
    [Lynna] Something like this must have a weakness...
    * Miriamele brings her weapons back out..
    [Miriamele] Yeah, it's weakness is gonna be me stomping it's face in frustration that I'm having a hard time hurting it normally.
    * Criz lances the bo-staff into the air, as he leaps off of the edge once more and uppercuts the Technoelemental and then catches the bo-staff in mid air and gives it a swift hit to the front and then back and lands back on his feet...almost falling over board.
    [Storyteller] Criz missed! Criz hits TechnoElemental for 11 damage. Criz hits TechnoElemental for 8 damage.
    [Lynna] Whatever gets it done with...I'm not in the mood for this!
    * Lynna glares darkly at the Elemental.
    [Storyteller] Audrey casts Mana Theft.
    * Salah scans the elemental, her weakness must be....
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental loses 23 MP to Audrey.
    * Lynna gathers up the shadows around her as dark energy shoots from her palms, hurtling towards TechnoElemental.
    [Lynna] Strike down my enemies with your ebony touch of death! Black Beam!
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental takes 23 damage from Lynna's spell.
    [Criz] There you go Lynna...you get a cookie!
    * Lynna frowns.
    [Lynna] Very funny... How about I won't rip your voicebox out, if you explain those scars afterwards.
    * Criz gives Lynna a cold deep stare and turns away from her.
    [Lynna] Heh..we all have secrets we want hidden...
    * Salah closes her eyes tightly, a sudden white flash emanates from her causing her to float a few inches off the ground, in a brilliant flash she returns to the ground the white aura around her gone.
    [Storyteller] Salah's Reaction raises by 21.

    Boss Battle! Round 6!

    * Salah chants, tiny blue particles floating around TechnoElemental suddenly, as freezing blue beams strike TechnoElemental freezing her.
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental is weak vs Ice! TechnoElemental is PARAed for 6 rounds.
    [Salah] Yes! It worked!
    * Lynna turns back to the Elemental as it's frozen solid.
    * Miriamele grins wickedly... She tosses her boomerang at the Elemental, then leaps onto Criz' staff, bounding off of it, she slashes downward at the woman, landing on the mast wreckage beneath it, and backflipping back into the boat!
    [Miriamele] It's over, now!
    [Storyteller] Critical Hit! TechnoElemental takes 32 damage. Miriamele hits TechnoElemental for 4 damage.
    [Lynna] It was ice after all...
    [Salah] Its weak against its own power.
    * Salah smiles finally be able to help her friends for once.
    [Lynna] Of all the irony.
    * Criz looks up at the creature and studies her as he then laughs and leaps on top of Lynna's shoulders and goes flying into the air hitting the elemental with full force. He rapidly twirls his bo-staff and hits her three times.
    [Storyteller] Criz hits TechnoElemental for 6 damage. Criz hits TechnoElemental for 5 damage. Criz hits TechnoElemental for 8 damage.
    * Lynna half-smiles, but soon stumbles as Criz uses her like a diving board.
    [Storyteller] Audrey Blocks!
    [Miriamele] Leave the flashy stuff to me, Criz! You're too heavy to go leaping off of people!
    [Lynna] Criz...you're asking for it!
    [Criz] Hey, I did it so fast she practically didn't feel me jump off her shoulders!
    [Miriamele] Yeah, as she nearly fell over backwards!
    * Lynna rushes to Criz, eyeing him for a moment...
    * Lynna then leaps off of the deck, slashing twice in the air at the creature!
    [Storyteller] Lynna hits TechnoElemental for 0 damage. Lynna hits TechnoElemental for 0 damage.
    * Lynna lands unevenly, staggering a bit.
    [Criz] Lynna, don't try to be like me...please.
    [Lynna] Just shut up and fight...
    * Audrey blinks.
    * Lynna looks like she's blushing a bit under her hood.
    [Lynna] .oO( $%^&* Bigshot... )

    Boss Battle! Round 7!

    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental PARAed until round 12.
    * Salah crosses her hands and begins to chant as a cold wind begins to blow, she thrusts her fists forward as daggers of ice are hurled toward TechnoElemental!
    [Storyteller] Weak vs. Ice - TechnoElemental takes 44 damage from Salah's spell. TechnoElemental is still PARAed.
    * Miriamele leaps into the air, unleashing her boomerang at the Elemental at the midway point, and holds her katana downward as she slams into the woman, catching the boomerang just as it connects as well!! Miriamele then firmly plants her boots into the woman's stomach as she kicks away, landing back into the boat with an unmatched grace and style!
    [Storyteller] Miriamele hits TechnoElemental for 5 damage. Miriamele hits TechnoElemental for 2 damage.
    [Miriamele] Hah!
    * Salah brushes her wet hair away from her face as it fell down to her eyes when she cast a spell.!
    * Lynna sighs at all the showboating. ^^;
    * Criz is tired of leaping so he walks up to the edge of the boat and just lunges his bo-staff towards the monster twice. And then, out of nowhere he leaps into the air and delivers a kick and flips downward in a 360 degree motion, landing on both feet on the edge of the boat and then flips backwards back into the boat.
    [Storyteller] Criz hits TechnoElemental for 5 damage. Criz hits TechnoElemental for 10 damage. Criz hits TechnoElemental for 7 damage.
    [Audrey] Who needs healing?
    [Salah] I'm okay Audrey...
    [Criz] Right here Audrey, heal me if you can please.
    [Lynna] Criz is gonna need it after I'm done with him.
    * Audrey crosses her arms over her chest and chants. Audrey is engulfed in a white light that seeps into her body.
    [Storyteller] Audrey's Wisdom raises by 23!
    [Audrey] Sorry Criz.
    [Lynna] I'll stick with my bread and butter for the rest of this...
    * Lynna gathers up the shadows around her as dark energy shoots from her palms, hurtling towards TechnoElemental.
    [Lynna] Strike down my enemies with your ebony touch of death! Black Beam!
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental takes 23 damage from Lynna's spell.

    Boss Battle! Round 8!

    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental PARAed until round 12 ~~
    * Salah looks at the creature and begins chanting again.
    * Salah crosses her hands and begins to chant as a cold wind begins to blow, she thrusts her fists forward as daggers of ice are hurled toward TechnoElemental!
    [Storyteller] Weak vs. Ice - TechnoElemental takes 36 damage from Salah's spell.
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental is still PARAed.
    * Miriamele leaps into the air, seemingly hanging there in mid air as she unleashes a barrage of daggers at the elemental one after another, before dropping back to the ground. "Hah!"
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental takes 41 damage from Miriamele's weapon skill.
    * Criz uses his bo-staff to fling himself at the monster as he rapidly attacks the monster with his bo-staff, spinning it with an incredible speed. Before he falls back down, he blows a kiss at the womanly shaped figure.
    [Storyteller] Criz hits TechnoElemental for 9 damage. Criz hits TechnoElemental for 10 damage. Criz hits TechnoElemental for 7 damage.
    [Criz] A kiss of death gorgeous...just for you!
    * Lynna rolls her eyes...
    * Audrey raises her hands into the sky. A warm light circles around Criz slowly, as Audrey chants.
    [Audrey] Althena, heal his wounds and comfort his weariness! Heal Litany!
    [Storyteller] With the ridiculously boosted Wis, I'm not even gonna do the math. Criz is restored to full HP.
    * Criz feels refreshed as he looks at Audrey and gives her a nod for thank you.
    [Audrey] No problem! ^^
    [Lynna] I hope this thing quits soon or I'm going to have to hurt someone... ¬_¬
    * Lynna fires yet another black projectile at the womanly figure...
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental takes 22 damage from Lynna's spell.

    Boss Battle! Round 8!

    [Storyteller] Techno-Elemental is PARAed until Round 12!
    * Salah lowers her head and holds her arms close, jets of water begin to rise around her, freezing into a barrier of ice around Salah. The ice shatters sending splinters of ice toward her opponent.
    [Storyteller] Weak vs. Ice - TechnoElemental takes 38 damage from Salah's spell.
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental is still PARAed.
    * Miriamele leaps into the air and flicks her wrists, as more knives appear in her hands, and she quickly tosses them at the Elemental!
    [Storyteller] TechnoElemental takes 42 damage from Miriamele's weapon skill.
    * Miriamele drops back to the boat.
    [Miriamele] This thing sure can take a beating!
    [Storyteller] With a burst of energy, the TechnoElemental begins to discorporate...

    Victory!

    [Audrey] How is the boat holding up?
    [Lynna] Is it over?
    * Salah wraps her arms around herself, freezing.
    [Salah] I-I hope s-so...
    [Storyteller] The unleashed forces of nature slam the small boat, rocking it back and forth.
    [Audrey] ...It better be! I don't---whoa!!
    [Criz] Hold on EVERYONE!
    [Audrey] Ahh!
    * Lynna tries to remain upright.
    * Audrey slams into the boat's side!
    * Miriamele maintains her balance..
    * Criz holds onto the side of the boat. He goes up to Lynna and helps her not fall out of the boat.
    * Salah loses her balance and slams against the center of the boat on her back.
    [Storyteller] It smashes against a large chunk of ice disgorged from the disintegrating elemental. The wood buckles and splinters...
    [Lynna] I tell you...trouble is always right behind me...
    [Miriamele] Take that you- whoa!
    * Audrey gracelessly slams into another side of the boat. ^^;
    * Lynna is knocked backwards, flailing her arms for a moment.
    [Storyteller] The boat collapses around them, dumping them all into the water.
    * Salah gets back up just as ice slams against the boat and lands into the water!
    * Criz staggers a bit then remains on both feet.
    * Audrey slips into the water, going underneath.
    [Criz] SALAH! Hold on!
    * Miriamele staggers about, trying to stay above water, but to no avail..
    [Miriamele] Agh!
    [Lynna] Damn!
    * Criz throws his bo-staff on the floor and dives into the water.
    * Lynna tries to keep her head above water...
    * Criz swims in the water searching for Salah.
    [Miriamele] I'm wet! I hate being wet! ;_;
    [Miriamele] Worse still, it's COLD!
    * Salah shivers, too cold to stay afloat.
    * Lynna treads water only barely, her head bobbing up and down. Her sandy blonde hair is soaked, and she has a heaping mouthful of cold seawater.
    [Lynna] Never was...*cough* a good swimmer...
    * Salah goes under.
    [Storyteller] Criz manages to get a hand on Salah just as a piece of flotsam drifts by.
    [Criz] Are you ok *coughs out water* ?
    * Miriamele treads water as best she can, flailing about.
    [Miriamele] IhatethisIhatethisIhatethis...
    [Criz] You stay here, I will be right back!
    * Salah coughs and gasps for air.
    [Salah] Fine, find Audrey!
    [Storyteller] Audrey feels something holding her up, pushing her toward the surface.
    * Criz goes back into the water for Audrey.
    * Lynna tries to make her way to the flotsam...looking like a drowned rat.
    [Storyteller] Something silver pushes Audrey toward Criz before it falls back down, deeper into the water.
    [Miriamele] ...IhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethisIhatethis...
    * Audrey blinks, and bops up, coughing.
    * Criz has a hold of Audrey.
    [Audrey] T----th---thank...you.
    [Criz] What was that?
    [Audrey] I---I don't---know!
    * Miriamele's teeth begin to chatter. ;_;
    [Lynna] Audrey, Criz...get over here...
    * Salah clings onto the flotsam.
    [Salah] Audrey! Are you all right?
    [Storyteller] Amid the debris, you all manage to find something to help you stay afloat... Of course, that's little consolation, as you're due to freeze in fifteen minutes or so...
    [Criz] My...my bo-staff where is it?
    [Storyteller] Criz's staff is nowhere to be found...
    [Audrey] I---I---I---'m just cold....And---I hit--my head.....a few times.
    * Lynna grabs onto a wooden plank, trying to keep warm...
    * Salah already lost the feeling in her legs....
    [Storyteller] Eventually, one-by-one, you succumb to the cold...
    [Lynna] Can't keep my eyes open...huhh...so cold...
    * Salah whispers something before passing out...
    [Salah] Vigo....
    [Audrey] S--so---tired...I'll...see...you...soon...mom...everyone....
    * Criz tries to stay awake from the coldness.
    [Criz] We need to get warm....or we will all die...
    [Lynna] At least Criz's coming too...
    [Miriamele] ...Althena...
    [Miriamele] ...
    [Storyteller] With that, Criz passes out as well.

    MSS Dragonmaster-A

    [Crewman] Sir! There are people in the water!
    [Captain] Helm! All stop! Man the lifeboat, sailor... Go get them.
    [Storyteller] Two men hop into a small boat as the ship comes to a stop. They quickly row out to the wreckage. One-by-one, they lift the frozen, nearly lifeless bodies into the boat. With the stiffs aboard, they make their way back to the ship...
    [Captain] All hands aboard?
    [Crewman] Yessir...
    [Ramus II] Helm, best speed south.

    Much later, aboard the MSS Dragonmaster-A

    [Storyteller] Being that she has the highest Stamina, Audrey is first to awake...
    * Audrey moans softly, and opens one eye.
    [Audrey] Where...?
    [Storyteller] She finds herself in a cabin of a ship... It looks like it once might have been luxurious, but now appears to have the breech of a large-bore cannon protruding through one side of the wall.
    [Audrey] ...my goodness.
    * Audrey looks down on herself.
    [Storyteller] Audrey is dressed in fresh clothes, the others having a small problem with resembling wooden planks from all the ice.
    * Audrey tries to get out of bed...realizing someone dressed her...
    [Audrey] Hello? Is someone out there? ...where is everyone...?
    [Storyteller] The door to her room opens, there's a flush of cold air before a tall, lanky figure steps in...
    [Audrey] Um....hello?
    [Ramus II] You're the first to wake up, ma'am...
    [Audrey] Ah...so you saved us....thank you....
    [Ramus II] We did... What happened?
    [Storyteller] Somebody knocks on the door.
    * Audrey jumps.
    * Ramus II goes to it, he opens it a bit, the takes the tray of coffee from the steward.
    [Storyteller] He sets it down on the night stand and pours a mug for Audrey...
    [Ramus II] Here... Drink this... You're still a little blue...
    [Audrey] Thank you....I'm Audrey by the way....Audrey Nanshete. ^_^
    * Audrey nods and takes a sip.
    [Audrey] And you are...?
    [Ramus II] Ramus the Second, Captain of the Battle-Steamship Dragonmaster.
    [Audrey] Ramus....so you're....
    [Ramus II] Ramus the Second, Miss Nanshete.
    * Ramus He sighs a bit...
    [Audrey] I met your father...I see a resemblance.
    [Ramus II] Probably Ramus the Only... You've met him? Where? Is he okay?
    [Audrey] He's fine.  He's at Althena's shrine right now. My friends are looking after him.
    * Ramus II breathes a sigh of relief...
    * Audrey smiles.
    [Ramus II] Then the shrine is still standing? That's good. We wanted to check, but a black ship chased us away from Meribia just after we refitted.
    [Audrey] Black ship...
    * Ramus II nods...
    [Audrey] I wonder...you might want to talk to my friend Salah about a ship. She said something about a ship attacking Meribia...
    [Ramus II] Come on... We'll go ask her...
    * Audrey nods.

    Engineer's Cabin,  MSS Dragonmaster-A

    [Storyteller] Criz wakes up in his cabin, his clothes have been removed and replaced. This particular cabin, at the rear of the ship, has what appears very similar to Will's "engine" sitting in one corner. It chugs along, a few pipes leading out from it through the wall.
    * Criz slowly starts to get up.
    [Criz] Umm...what..where am I?
    * Criz notices he has new clothes on.
    [Criz] Everytime I wake up...something on me has disappeared. :P
    [Storyteller] A woman sits on the far side of the room in a chair. She's dressed in sailor's whites.
    * Criz looks around and notices the engines.
    * Criz is looking at the engines, as he notices the woman and brushes himself off.
    [Patricia] Ah... You're awake...
    [Criz] Yes...as awake as I'll ever be. And you are...
    [Patricia] Patricia... Ship's Engineer. You've been asleep for almost twelve hours...
    [Criz] Twelve hours? What happened...last thing I remembered was the icy cold water.
    [Patricia] You were found adrift in the water. We pulled you aboard.
    [Criz] Patricia? I'm Criz. Thank goodness you found us, or we would have surely been dead by now.
    [Patricia] You hungry?
    [Criz] Well...of course. But before I say yes, where am I?
    [Patricia] You're aboard the MSS Dragonmaster-A, an Alex class Battle-steamship.
    [Criz] Alex class Battle-Steamship you say huh?
    [Patricia] Yes... Come on, I'll explain on the way to the mess hall.
    [Criz] Sure, I just hope you have enough food to feed this hunger inside of me.

    Captains Cabin, MSS Dragonmaster-A

    [Storyteller] Miriamele and Salah are together in one bed. Unlike the rest of the ship, this cabin appears to be in one piece. There is a table in the center with some large sheats of paper tacked to it. A few oil lamps swing in gimbals on the wall, shedding a gentle light across the compartment. There's a fire flickering in one corner... Salah and Miri wake up at very nearly the same time. In the same bed...
    * Miriamele's eyes open, and quickly glance around.
    [Miriamele] Salah?
    * Miriamele sits up.
    [Miriamele] You alright, Sal?
    * Salah moans and touches her forehead before opening her eyes.
    [Salah] M-Miri...?
    * Miriamele looks around the room.
    [Miriamele] Hmm..
    * Salah looks around and sits up.
    [Salah] W-w-where are we?
    [Miriamele] I dunno..
    * Miriamele looks down at what she's wearing..
    * Salah suddenly notices that she's wearing something different....
    * Salah turns bright red.
    * Salah gets up from the bed and walks over to the door.
    * Miriamele adjusts the way she's sitting to get her tail out from underneath her, once more taking a look around the room.
    * Salah opens the door.
    * Miriamele kicks the blankets off, going to look at the papers on the table...
    [Miriamele] Sal? Don't go too far.. it could be dangerous out there.
    [Storyteller] The table is covered in nautical charts. There are a number of different markings on them, most of which you can't interpret.
    * Miriamele scratches her head as she tries to puzzle out the meanings on the paper.
    [Miriamele] Gah... -_-;
    [Salah] I just wanna find out where we are and where everyone else is...
    [Miriamele] But what if you run into something that isn't one of the others?
    * Salah closes the door.
    [Salah] Y-yeah, I guess we should wait here.
    * Salah walks over to what Miri is looking at.
    [Salah] What are you looking at?
    [Miriamele] Maps... or something. I'm not quite sure. ^_^;
    [Storyteller] You hear a knock at the door.
    * Miriamele looks up!
    [Miriamele] Oh oh..
    * Salah jumps and stares at the door.
    [Miriamele] Uh.. ^_^; Umm...
    * Miriamele asks.
    [Miriamele] Who is it? ^_^;
    * Miriamele flicks her tail somewhat helplessly.
    [Skivers] Seaman Third Class Skivers, ma'am...
    [Salah] We're... on a boat?!
    [Skivers] Yes ma'am.
    * Miriamele mumbles.
    [Miriamele] Great... that helps...
    [Skivers] Are you ladies decent? The captain would like to see you in the mess hall.
    [Miriamele] Decent? Umm...
    [Skivers] Clothed, ma'am.
    * Miriamele quickly looks around for something other than a nightgown to wear..
    [Miriamele] I know what you mean.. :P
    [Salah] Well, we, uh... have nightgowns on.
    * Miriamele turns up nothing..
    [Miriamele] As decent as can be, I suppose.
    * Miriamele mumbles.
    [Miriamele] If you call wandering around on a strange boat Althena knows where in a thin silk shift decent.. ^_^;
    [Skivers] Are you ready?
    * Salah speaks up, somewhat nervously.
    [Salah] Y-you can come in if nighties are okay.. I, uh, guess.
    [Miriamele] I guess. Maybe we could climb back under the blankets?
    * Skivers pushes open the door. He has a bundle of clothes in his hands.
    [Skivers] You can change back into your old clothes if you'd like... We couldn't find anything for your um... tail...
    * Salah shrugs, unsure.
    * Skivers sets the clothes down on a chair.
    [Skivers] I'll wait outside. Just come out when you're ready.
    * Skivers walks out, closing the door behind him.
    * Salah picks up her clothes.

    Below Decks, MSS Dragonmaster-A

    [Storyteller] Lynna finds herself below decks... Her room is much smaller than all the others... It's distinguishing feature is the nice barred door with the padlock on it... Welcome to the brig...
    * Lynna regains her senses groggily...
    [Lynna] H-uh? Where the heck is this?
    * Lynna looks at the door...
    [Storyteller] It's a nice pretty iron-bar door...
    [Lynna] Damn...I think I would have been better off dead.
    [Storyteller] And your weaponry is out of reach, against the far wall.
    * Lynna looks down at her clothing...feeling a draft.
    [Storyteller] Lynna doesn't have a stitch on... Her clothing is purely illusory right now.
    [Lynna] Of all the luck...
    * Lynna is not comforted by the illusion of her robe one bit.
    * Lynna slowly walks over to the door, trying to get a better look...
    [Storyteller] It's um... iron... bars... with a lock... You can see a few cells down each side. There are probably two on either side of you, but you can't see.
    * Lynna snarls and pulls at the bars in frustration.
    [Storyteller] The bars don't budge.
    [Lynna] I actually want to see Criz's face for once and bust me out of here. I feel like a caged animal...
    [Storyteller] You hear a voice around the corner... A man steps into your view.
    [Vargomere]You are a caged animal, my dear...
    * Lynna immediately snaps her eyes to the man.
    [Lynna] What the hell do you mean? Do I look like an animal to you?!
    [Vargomere]Yes, you do...
    * Lynna tries to get a better look at the figure.
    [Lynna] Wait...you're that vampire...
    * Lynna grits her teeth.
    [Vargomere] Vargomere, my dear... I do have a name.
    [Lynna] Like I even care what name you have...
    [Vargomere] You know, you intrigue me... I was... observing when they brought you aboard...
    [Lynna] Why's that? Thinking of torturing me or something? And what do you mean by aboard?
    [Vargomere] Your natural form is... how shall we say... impressive...
    * Lynna blinks.
    [Lynna] Natural form? What are you babbling about?
    [Vargomere] You don't know? Hmmm... Again, intriguing...
    * Lynna narrows her eyes.
    [Lynna] You know something about my past, don't you...
    [Vargomere] Should I?
    [Lynna] Seems every one knows something except me. Not like I'd believe what you'd have to say anyhow...
    [Vargomere] Well, I for one do not... Tell sweet Audrey that I'm watching her, and will be coming for her in my own time...
    [Lynna] Audrey? Leave her out of your sick games! It's enough you killed most of her friends!
    [Storyteller] Vargomere puffs into a cloud of mist again and slips out the window...
    * Lynna watches as her anger has no outlet.
    [Storyteller] You hear a voice just as it leaves...
    [Vargomere] And you killed her family...
    [Lynna] W..what? You're not insinuating..?
    [Storyteller] The presence is gone...
    * Lynna slides down to the floor, alone with a haunting thought...

    Mess Hall, MSS Dragonmaster-A

    [Storyteller] The party, with the exception of Lynna, is gathered in the mess hall. There's a veritable feast set out for you. Even refitted as a battleship, the Dragonmaster still boasts an impressive kitchen and a world class chef.
    * Criz looks around being impressed every second on this ship.
    * Salah looks around with wide eyes.
    [Audrey] Wow...so much food...
    [Criz] It's like...a dream.
    [Audrey] Thank you!
    [Patricia] So... You see... It's all made from retrofitted parts.
    [Criz] Not the ship, but the food!
    * Miriamele flicks her tail happily.
    * Audrey ducks her head and says a small prayer of grace.
    [Patricia] Oh... Um, eat up then...
    [Audrey] Sorry.
    [Criz] Let us all say Grace...GRACE!
    [Miriamele] Sorry, Miss Patricia.
    * Audrey giggles and begins to eat.
    * Patricia nods to Criz, nods to Ramus, then walks out...
    [Patricia] (mumbles) I'll go tend to my engines now...
    * Criz stops to eat and looks up at everyone.
    * Miriamele, ravenous, cuts into the food ferociously.
    [Criz] People... Where's Lynna?
    * Salah lowers her head as Audrey did and prays, then she mannerly eats her food.
    * Miriamele looks up at Criz while she stuffs a chicken leg into her mouth.
    [Miriamele] I muffo..
    [Audrey] ....You know....I don't know. Perhaps she's still sleeping.
    [Ramus II] Your remaining companion had to be restrained.
    [Criz] Restrained?
    [Criz] What do you mean restrained?
    * Salah looks up.
    [Salah] Huh?
    [Miriamele] Refrained?
    [Salah] What do you mean sir?
    [Audrey] Why?
    * Miriamele sucks all the meat off, taking the bone out, and looks at the Captain.
    [Salah] Where is she?
    [Criz] And I hope it's a good reason cause you have no idea how I can turn a chicken leg into a deadly weapon!
    [Ramus II] She didn't look well... When we tried to help her, she transformed into... something... and almost killed two of my crew.
    [Salah] Where is she?
    [Miriamele] Calm down, Criz. We're guests.
    [Audrey] What?!
    [Ramus II] She's down in the brig...
    [Salah] Show me to it!
    [Audrey] Nono...
    [Salah] Please.
    [Audrey] I'll go. ^_^
    [Criz] Well...bring her up here!
    [Miriamele] A something? :/
    [Criz] Or take us to her!
    [Audrey] You guys stay here. :) I'll go.
    [Ramus II] I will do no such thing. She will remain there until we reach shore.
    [Salah] Let me go see her!
    [Audrey] Do you mind if I speak with her, Ramus?
    [Criz] You will do no such thing?
    [Ramus II] She's a dangerous... thing.
    [Salah] Show me where the brig is!
    * Criz laughs while nodding his head no.
    [Audrey] I'm also her friend. Don't worry.
    [Ramus II] I'm leaving her there for the safety of the ship, the crew, and yourselves.
    [Audrey] We're all her friends. She wouldn't hurt us. There must be a mistake...
    [Criz] Let one of us see her captain.
    * Salah looks like she's about to burst.
    [Ramus II] Now please, eat...
    [Salah] Please!
    [Audrey] Salah...
    [Criz] Captain...one more thing.
    [Ramus II]  No!
    [Audrey] ...
    [Criz] Let us see her, and if she attacks us...we'll kill her ourselves.
    [Audrey] Criz!
    [Salah] I-I-I....
    * Criz looks at Audrey and winks an eye at her.
    [Ramus II] Nobody will kill anybody on my ship, Mr. Criz.
    [Miriamele] We shouldn't antagonize the Captain, guys..
    [Criz] Then what you are doing is killing her inside doing that to her.
    [Ramus II] She'll remain confined until we reach shore. Then you can do with her what you wish.
    [Criz] Ok...
    [Miriamele] Criz.. :/
    [Criz] Then at least feed her.
    [Audrey] How long until we reach shore, sir?
    * Salah runs off.
    [Ramus II] Depends on where you want to be left off. Damnit...
    * Miriamele looks at Sal run off, and sighs.

    Below Decks, MSS Dragonmaster-A

    [Storyteller] Salah manages to find her way down to the lower decks... After a good two or three minutes of wandering around, she finds the brig.
    * Salah whispers.
    [Salah] Lynna...?
    [Storyteller] She can see Lynna on the other side of the room, but the main door into the brig area is also a locked, iron-bar door.
    * Lynna looks up...
    [Lynna] Salah...?
    [Salah] Its me, Lynna.
    [Salah] A-are you all right?
    * Lynna stands.
    [Lynna] Thank goodness you're ok! I though Vargomere had gotten you all!
    [Salah] Vargomere? He was here..?
    [Storyteller] Just then, the ship rocks to the side...
    [Lynna] He was in the brig just a....
    [Storyteller] You see something purple slide over the window behind you.