They've been investigating the Kraken cult, and have heard of weird shit happening in a lot of places
She wants us to investigate for them, starting in Hapcheon, a city in Kamangara to the East by Southeast of Binsogim
Myungja Guanyin wants a first-hand account of what happened there, so they can assess the threat level
I agree to go and investigate
She agrees we should kill any cultists we encounter
We set sail
Going for two days, things seem smooth so far
It almost seems a little suspicious
The next morning, the sky seems off
There’s something about the way it’s glowing, as if the sun’s first light were permeating the entire sky
The light is definitely artificial, it seems to wobble and shimmer and shadow where it should not
The longer we look, the stronger it seems to get
There’s smoke at the edge of our vision, too
We see a brief vision of ourselves, sailing through a sea of thick black icor
I check my Kraken Compass, which is pointing to the east
Some of this black seawater splashes up on the deck, but doesn’t hit anyone or our items
I cast detect magic and examine where the water splashed up
The magic lingers a bit after the visual fades, but I can’t identify the type of magic that it is
We continue on, in spite of the possibly bad omen
The smoke still seems to be there, even after the rest of the vision fades
The air also feels unusually warm
I send Fish-Kicker up to the crow’s nest to take a look
He sees the remnants of two burning ships, one of which is directly ahead of us and the other to our starboard
I call for us to swing hard to port
We can now see the other ships, somehow our vision had been clouded before
The ships are in very bad shape — masts knocked down, sails and flags burned, and carnage everywhere
Once the ship is clear, I have the crew drop anchor
I order Crawn to pick two and take a boat over to check the ships
I want to see if either of those ships belonged to Johan Baraxus
Drex, Ell, and Fish-Kicker notice that a body floating has some sort of starfish thing attached to its face, and it then goes upside down and sinks like a stone
I look to see if other bodies have similar things on them
There seems to be too few bodies in the water, but we spot a survivor clinging on a barrel
Drex uses his rope of climbing to head down for the survivor
We're able to pull up the survivor, who is unconscious and does not have one of the weird starfish on him
I use lay on hands to heal him, but it doesn't seem to do anything
Drex and Fish-Kicker look him over, but Drex falls unconscious when he touches the guy
Fish-Kicker realizes that he has some of the black ichor inside him, in his wounds
We try cauterizing one of his less lethal wounds
There's a horrible smell that comes from the wound, and a scream comes from the man – but it doesn't sound like it's only coming from him
A small drop of black ichor leaps out of the guy's wound and rolls off along the deck