Final preparations were underway aboard The Discovery, as a few of our members underwent their first Harrowing. Kizmet Harrow-Moure's talents were provided over several days {see: Ripley's First Harrowing , J'acks first harrowing, Woodsworth First Harrow for more } as more items were made in the Fragment of Creation (Octahedral Crystallizer). Milu Soma began to suspect something strange was going on in the surgeon (see: Zet Lardtoe)'s quarters. Tim-mothy and Tom-mithy's rumors continued to boil. Ripley has designed a new, beautiful Caduceus' Bloodstone Collar for Caduceus. Hopefully, it will remain an unmarred accessory for our precious bunny.
Leaving our boat 1000' at sea, with If Any to look after the boat, and Sheldon to plot a route should something come by, Fortune's Vanguard boarded Isk Relgr (Folded) and traveled ashore.
We had made Landfall on Southwest Island, and headed inland. We discovered the immediate terrain was a Frozen Swamp, and that tracks could be seen - reminiscent of beings that stagger and slag their bodies as they shamble. Numerous woodland critters (squirrels, tiny rodents, etc) weakly assailed us and hampered our progress. There was a crude hole in the back of the undead critter's heads, that seemed to come from something grabbing the skull. When we would rest in a Hideaway, a strange invisible orb discovered us. It moved towards us, performing noises of a swarm of swamp frogs and other critters. It would halt when we would speak. It would repeat what we would say, but garbled or reversed. Riply spoke to it in Aquan, and it made the noise of the rustle of leather before an explosion of lightning. It disappeared. We tucked inside the hideaway, unhinded for the night.
We traveled southwest, and were attacked by strange flying moths!!!