Post by BB on Sept 3, 2019 19:26:55 GMT
Today I learned how to swim properly! I think, no one told me otherwise. As usual there were a lot of events leading up to this rather rushed swimming lesson (if there’s one thing I’ve come to understand is that things never tend to happen to me in a straight-forward way). It all started with a job posting for help at the new Temple of Two Faiths in Port Ffirst, asking for a group to help greet and mediate a meeting between the worshippers at the temple and some underwater visitors from Zeyshel. Interestingly the one posting this job was Voros Lenoir, so off I went to the Cavernous Seashank to meet the others involved in this and find the Lenoir himself. When I arrived there was a real fun and drunken party happening, everyone was chanting at two people to drink themselves silly. A strange way to have fun, but I’m not going to question it too much. I met the others amongst the crowd, Bruce and Traavor even had a go at drinking against each other (I guess Traavor lost because he projectile vomited all over the floor). After scaring all the other clients off we gathered to get some more information from Voros who was incredibly drunk themselves, I remembered at this point it was his name I was chanting along with the others. He waved us off very quickly to the temple, didn’t really seem that bothered about the whole thing so we didn’t get a lot out of him (but he did mention there was gonna be food!).
So off we go to this temple, when arriving we were greeted by Gloria and Donovan, an air genasi minotaur and human respectively. They were very enthusiastic about their expected visitors and about showing off the temple (a lot more so than Voros that’s for sure). The temple itself was split in two with a literal line down the middle, with an altar to a deity of music and arts on the left side and an altar to a deity of the deep sea on the right. My knowledge of deities is limited I will admit, but that’s not going to stop me offering up some freshly cut flowers to both of these altars. By this point the visitors from Zeyshel still hadn’t shown up and Gloria was getting more concerned by the minute, so we immediately left to form a search party, but before we could even form a strategy a triton lady named Sherlyl dragged herself into view in front of the temple doors. She was badly bruised and even more concerned about the rest of her group after they had been attacked by sahuagins and kidnapped, going off about how she had failed them and that she needed to go back and help. Of course we weren’t going to let her go in the state she was in, so we did our best to patch her up before we let her guide us back to the sea.
At this point we realised we were a bit stumped on how to track the kidnapped group through the ocean, and how we were going to not drown while doing so. Sherlyl casually mentioned that she had a dolphin companion (so cool!) named Freddie who might be able to recruit some aquatic friends to help track the group and even transport us around. Luckily Rama and Jacinta recalled that there was an apothecary run by someone called Egor who would cast the ability to breath underwater on us (for a price of course).
It was this point that Bones and I received a very impromptu swimming lesson of sorts, at first I was a little unsure but was relieved to find the ocean water here is a lot warmer to what I had grown up with, being in it was definitely a lot more pleasant. After we finally persuaded Bones to join us we each hugged a new dolphin friend and got dragged along to the south, Sherlyl unsurprisingly looked super suave as she swam alongside her dolphin while most of us struggled to just hang on.
After a lot of work on account of the dolphins we were able to track the missing group of tritons to a rock formation in the dark depths of the ocean, which was helpfully surrounded by sharks (could it be any more menacing). Luckily we managed to sneak into a cave we could see in the rock formation without alerting the toothy guards, once inside we had to swim for a really really long time before we emerged in this air pocket with a tiny rocky island on the edge of it. And right there is the tritons we were looking for, and some menacing multi armed sahuagins guards unfortunately surrounding them. Most of the others scrambled onto the island to fight, but there was no way I was going to be squashed into a confined space with those guys (I bet they could have easily punched me 4 times in a row). As the battle progresses, it seems we had alerted the shark guards after all as they start to make themselves known in the water, where both Jacinta and I are swimming around. Luckily I still had the Shocker from the games tied to my belt, so I loosened the lasso and successfully wrangled a whole shark by myself! Hope I looked as cool as I felt doing that.
The others had dusted the island guys so we quickly freed the kidnapped tritons, who were very grateful for our help and for Shelyl’s commitment to finding them. Glancing around the air pocket revealed it to be a temple, the walls covered in carvings of sharks and the beginnings of a blood ritual being set up (thank goodness we got there in time). Even the sahuagins themselves had decorative scarring of sharks on their bodies, I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise they had shark guards then.
After we left that place with the tritons in tow, we managed to convince them to finish their journey to the temple with us, at least so they could rest up properly and also to put Gloria at ease. Once we got them back on Kantas ground I think we were all looking forward to getting dry once again, but I did manage to ask if they have flowers that grow deep in the ocean. Turns out they do, and they come in a range of colours apparently (I would certainly love to see them for myself).
Much love,
BB
So off we go to this temple, when arriving we were greeted by Gloria and Donovan, an air genasi minotaur and human respectively. They were very enthusiastic about their expected visitors and about showing off the temple (a lot more so than Voros that’s for sure). The temple itself was split in two with a literal line down the middle, with an altar to a deity of music and arts on the left side and an altar to a deity of the deep sea on the right. My knowledge of deities is limited I will admit, but that’s not going to stop me offering up some freshly cut flowers to both of these altars. By this point the visitors from Zeyshel still hadn’t shown up and Gloria was getting more concerned by the minute, so we immediately left to form a search party, but before we could even form a strategy a triton lady named Sherlyl dragged herself into view in front of the temple doors. She was badly bruised and even more concerned about the rest of her group after they had been attacked by sahuagins and kidnapped, going off about how she had failed them and that she needed to go back and help. Of course we weren’t going to let her go in the state she was in, so we did our best to patch her up before we let her guide us back to the sea.
At this point we realised we were a bit stumped on how to track the kidnapped group through the ocean, and how we were going to not drown while doing so. Sherlyl casually mentioned that she had a dolphin companion (so cool!) named Freddie who might be able to recruit some aquatic friends to help track the group and even transport us around. Luckily Rama and Jacinta recalled that there was an apothecary run by someone called Egor who would cast the ability to breath underwater on us (for a price of course).
It was this point that Bones and I received a very impromptu swimming lesson of sorts, at first I was a little unsure but was relieved to find the ocean water here is a lot warmer to what I had grown up with, being in it was definitely a lot more pleasant. After we finally persuaded Bones to join us we each hugged a new dolphin friend and got dragged along to the south, Sherlyl unsurprisingly looked super suave as she swam alongside her dolphin while most of us struggled to just hang on.
After a lot of work on account of the dolphins we were able to track the missing group of tritons to a rock formation in the dark depths of the ocean, which was helpfully surrounded by sharks (could it be any more menacing). Luckily we managed to sneak into a cave we could see in the rock formation without alerting the toothy guards, once inside we had to swim for a really really long time before we emerged in this air pocket with a tiny rocky island on the edge of it. And right there is the tritons we were looking for, and some menacing multi armed sahuagins guards unfortunately surrounding them. Most of the others scrambled onto the island to fight, but there was no way I was going to be squashed into a confined space with those guys (I bet they could have easily punched me 4 times in a row). As the battle progresses, it seems we had alerted the shark guards after all as they start to make themselves known in the water, where both Jacinta and I are swimming around. Luckily I still had the Shocker from the games tied to my belt, so I loosened the lasso and successfully wrangled a whole shark by myself! Hope I looked as cool as I felt doing that.
The others had dusted the island guys so we quickly freed the kidnapped tritons, who were very grateful for our help and for Shelyl’s commitment to finding them. Glancing around the air pocket revealed it to be a temple, the walls covered in carvings of sharks and the beginnings of a blood ritual being set up (thank goodness we got there in time). Even the sahuagins themselves had decorative scarring of sharks on their bodies, I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise they had shark guards then.
After we left that place with the tritons in tow, we managed to convince them to finish their journey to the temple with us, at least so they could rest up properly and also to put Gloria at ease. Once we got them back on Kantas ground I think we were all looking forward to getting dry once again, but I did manage to ask if they have flowers that grow deep in the ocean. Turns out they do, and they come in a range of colours apparently (I would certainly love to see them for myself).
Much love,
BB