Where's the Ramshod?

== Overview ==
While adventuring through the Land Beyond Life, the party received a message from Duster via sending stone, asking if Vic was okay, because the rest of the crew of the Ramshod had suddenly vanished. With imminent death being a serious concern, and only one sentence per day being available to communicate with, the party were mostly unable to get a bearing on the situation until reconvening in Bisquay with Laylin.
Once they were able to question someone in person, the party quickly found out that the Ramshod and its crew (but not their personal effects or cargo) had vanished on the spot while the ship was docked and the crew relaxing on Longreach. Laylin insisted that the party keep as much of their investigation of this matter as quiet as possible; the Ramshod was one of Driscoll's last trustworthy ships at full fighting strength, and for the disappearance to become common knowledge and reach Shandy could spell doom for Driscoll.
== Information ==
* The crew and the ship itself disappeared instantaneously from Longreach at some time during the two weeks the party 'skipped' in the Land Beyond Life. Given when the message was received via sending stone, this may have been exactly when Vic died, although there is no obvious reason to suspect this, nor do we have any way of confirming that they happened at the exact same time.
* All of the crew's personal effects (clothes, weapons, armour, etc.) and cargo were either left on Longreach or washed up on its beach shortly after. An examination of the left-behind materials was conducted, and nothing obviously unusual or sinister was found.
* Everybody in Driscoll's forces with enough arcane knowledge to research this is long dead, according to Laylin.
* Nobody from Driscoll's crew has been able to contact Captain Icke or anybody from the Ramshod since its disappearance.
* Shandy's attention is currently turned away from the situation, as she's skirmishing with Pirate Lord Svavil.
== Plans ==
* We know there are magics cast on Vic's necklace that she didn't know about - could they somehow be related? The high level of spellcasting on the locket indicates the interference of someone more magically powerful than Laylin thinks exists among Driscoll's forces.
* Where did they go? The fact that they disappeared instantaneously, rather than leaving as a ship and then disappearing later, indicates that they probably planeshifted.
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