An Unexpected Journey

[Glocky18 545]

“An Unexpected Journey”

 

   Everything began when His Grace, Romanos Palaiologos, wished for an informal sea journey with his family. While the sailors were packing up the requested items for the trip, such as food and water, the guards were arming themselves in order to accompany the Noble family. The small ship would be ready to set sail now, and everything seemed calm.

 

   However, only an hour after the ship set sail a rather big and unusual storm approached the crew. The skilled and experienced Captain noticed the dark clouds and suggested that they should return back home, before it was too late but the family didn’t want to go back so they ignored the Captain. While everyone was having fun and playing different kind of games, especially the kids, His Grace Romanos and Gaern Briar went to the main deck. It is then, when it started raining… Thunders were striking here and there around the small ship. It’s weak main mast was easily destroyed after the first couple waves. Wave after wave began to hit the ship, while it’s below deck was starting to crack letting the water in. Besides the heroism of the crew, they were unable to save the ship. A big and loud thunder struck right in the middle of the ship, breaking it into two pieces and taking by that many lives. The Captain, who had warned them to change course and go back to Hagios Lothar, told everyone to abandon ship and swim all the way to a small island which was not very far away. Without a second thought, every single one of the crew jumped off the ship while the Captain took a last sip of his rum and closed his eyes. A few seconds later, the ship finally sank, taking with her the Captain.

 

  

 

   The island was quite small, with many trees on it, it seemed as the ideal place for them to rest and start working on new boats, but little did they know… First, they saw a shadow in the water, they were unable to hear anything strange. His Grace, Romanos Palaiologos ordered for a scouting party to investigate the shadow. Many hours have passed, and there was no sight of the scouts, thus forcing His Grace, his personal guards, Gaern Briar and his eldest son to and investigate the sight themselves, which they did. However, by the time they arrived there, the shadow was gone… it was replaced by a large beast, a twenty meters tall sea basilisk. With a single scream, it managed to paralyze the younger members of the party, making them unable to participate in the battle to come. For hours and hours, the heroic and brave men were fighting the beast, not only to kill it, but to survive. Many men were killed, and others got poisoned by its venom and without the antidote they all found quick but painful death. The archers managed to heavily injure the beast, taking away its sight which made it defeatable, making it easier for Gaern to give it the final blow, while everyone else was on the ground, tending to their wounds, and he is known as Gaern Briar “the Beastslayer” ever since.

 

 

   Minutes after the death of the beast, a shadow appeared from its body and thanked the men for liberating it’s spirit from the sea Basilisk, in return it put all of the survivors into sleep, and when they woke up they found themselves in the part of Hagios Lothar. Everyone thought it was a dream, until they counted their losses and took the wounded in the keep for further attendance. After the attack of the beast, his Grace, Romanos Palaiologos knew the waters are no longer safe as they used to be, thus giving the order for the construction of a large fleet, a fleet capable of killing sea monsters of any kind. He also sent word for inventors in order to invent for new weapons to help in the struggle against the sea monsters.

 

 

((It was an actual event and we had lots of fun, thanks to ArcticPenguin aka ClergyManDan, if you wish to participate in future events like this please send me a PM, it’s open for everyone!))

 

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