Deep deep down 27/06/24 albede w/🖌

 Never guess what Adventurers I've been on since my last letter 

I've been to another plane , saw a portal open in the sea , fought pirates , helped a dragon , flown on a giant bird , helped the guards , fought some bad druids magic, helped defend an invasion , helped the Queen of the fey, and of course went to a midwinter festival , not in that order mostly . 

but today something I never thought I'd see for myself ... I am so excited !! 

an old underwater settlement 

a sanctuary to a shark god maybe ? 

we were sent out because a merchant thought to investigate rumours of fishermen saying they saw building and creatures out in the waters . 

when we arrived at the area we saw that 

There was a larger merperson statue with a smooth tail , with an inscription in partially faded aquan 

Saying that there were 12 guards protecting this place for something 

There were also twelve buildings in a circle , some collapsed and the biggest one furthest away 

looking for what might be of value to our boss for the day we head there first 

it's a very large building , the doors have cobalt handles , inside is spacious with pretty carvings on the walls and columns down the middle and a room on either side 

At the back behind an alter there's a larger image of a shark , it's skin has swirls in cobalt carved in 

The frescos along the top of the room show : 

The shark with a crow , the crow is stealing from the shark 

 But part of the floor is trapped and one of my party for shot with an arrow and started to bleed underwater! I tried to get out my healers kit but it's wet , the bandages could still stem the blood since the water would have stopped the blood clotting.... 

but while we started to look around more something had entered the dark sanctuary 

A semi monsterous shark creature , eyeless and so big and so drawn to the faint red in the water 

We had to figure out if was attracted to currents and smells and blood and be very very careful 

One room off to the side was filled with sahuagin history shells on strings (the nearest to writing sahuagin have )

There were also some fish bones but I don't know why 

Sometimes the monsterous shark could follow the flow of water near us and we had to be very very careful 

and another room had beds with prayers from what used to be acolytes I guess ...

But there was also a trapped chest with 2 magical tablets! They had different writing but when you looked you could understand it . 

On them both was written 

we avoid the growing number of monster sharks and try to get those see as much as we can as long as we're careful

We find 

We find all the buildings are called the 2nd/4th/5th house ect , all in aquan 

Some are demolished , a couple have skeletons in them

The skeletons sometimes wear or are near torques twith faded water breathing magic 

I FOUND A TRIDENT

we also found many cobalt coins with images of the swirly shark beast on them 

i tried to draw a map of things we've seen , look !

Dm :willemf (tysm)