The Lost Isle of Thaulak

### Involved Parties

The Bronze Gulf TradersLightning Tribe - *through participation of Sasha Thunderpouch*

## IRL Data

### PCs

SwiftstrikeEricson

Knocks

Bortina

### Log Author(s)

Rilee

**The Lost Isle of Thaulak** was an other oneshot following a small band of mercenaries sent to investigate reports of a strange spell-casting kraken that was supposedly wrecking ships. The mercenary band was comprised of Swiftstrike, a leonthrope ranger, Ericson, an octopus man owned by a larger octopus man, Knocks, a smol bird boy with two big knives, and Bortina, a friendly kobold grandma. The group was led by Sasha Thunderpouch to the island where this kraken was spotted by the Bronze Gulf Traders.

## Character Developments

* First appearances for
	+ Player Characters
		- Swiftstrike
		- Ericson
		- Knocks
		- Bortina
	+ NPCs
		- Sasha Thunderpouch

## Prompt

Attention: Admiral Stukov

The crewman of the SS Dusk Skipper, the ship recorded lost at sea two weeks prior, has awakened. His reports sighting of a mysterious island, followed by a sudden, vicious attack by a very small, magically adept kraken have several discrepancies from standard Kraken observations, but he has no record of giving false reports so I am inclined to believe him. I advise we launch a covert investigation by powerful team of mercenaries; we will want to get ahead of any rumors or additional sightings.

Captain Arete Orre of the SS Wandering Eye

Wednesday, 9 N-SS 879 M.E.

## Entry #1

The mercenaries started their adventure on the sea. Approaching the island by boat, the group was led by Sasha Thunderpouch. Upon entering the near vicinity of the island, the boat was attacked by the aforementioned kraken. A magical effect fell over the occupants of the ship, causing them all to go unconscious.

When the party awoke, they had washed up on the shore of the island, surrounded by shipwrecks of various vessels, some familiar and others extremely alien. A violently rotating cube floated high above the island. Sasha sustained a terrible wound from the crash, a sharp plank of wood lodged into her shoulder.

Ericson and Swiftstrike investigated the edge of the jungle that bordered the beach while Knocks explored the shipwrecks. Searching through a wrecked metal ship, the kenku discovered a small yellow contraption resembling a gun and round ammunition that fit inside. This device appeared to be completely alien to Halintar, and led the group to believe that the island was one outside of time or accessible from multiple dimensions.

After learning that the jungle was potentially dangerous, Ericson suggested that the group try to circle around and stick to the beach. After a long while of walking and little change in the scenery, however, it was determined that the group would have to move through the jungle, risking the dangers of it's inhabitants.

Knocks scouted ahead of the group. Upon encountering predatory animals, he tried to scare them off with the sound of an explosion, inadvertently attracting a much larger threat. A feathered t-rex stormed through the foliage to attack the group, attracted by the large noise.

The group did battle, and with skillful swordsmanship from Swiftstrike, poisonous spores from Bortina, well placed arrow shots from Knocks, and dark eldritch magics from Ericson, the dinosaur was defeated.

Once the danger had passed, humanoid jungle inhabitants revealed themselves to the group. They explained that they too had wrecked on the shores of the island, and had been living there for some time. They bargained for the dinosaur corpse with their knowledge of the area, directing the party towards the desert where a pathway upwards would take them to the cube in the sky. They spoke of a godlike deity that resides within it, and that to leave the island, the party would have to consult it.

Now with a direction, the mercenaries headed out of the jungle and towards the desert. Bortina turned into a bird to make traveling easier, while Swiftstrike and Knocks climbed the tallest tree they could find to get a lay of the land, and discovered something strange. The desert they were headed towards was an impossibly large wall ahead of them, and when they looked up, the saw a flat ocean staring down at them. It was at this time that the party realized they were inside a cube.

When they reached the desert wall, gravity flipped, and they fell down to the sand below. The jungle they previously stood upon had become a wall to them. It was here in the desert that they discovered the crew of the SS Dusk Skipper, the ship that belonged to the Bronze Gulf Traders, all huddled around a crate of oranges. The traders said that the desert was filled with monsters, and that they couldn't pass through safely, so instead they would sit and eat oranges until some other option presented itself.

The party snacked on oranges, then, following the trader's directions, headed towards the stairway that would lead them to the cube. On the way, they stopped at a desert oasis, as Ericson, being an octopus man, need a new supply of water to keep himself alive.

Finding lone camels splattered with blood and spotting large scorpion centaur creatures in the distance, the party made their way stealthy through the oasis, gathering water for Ericson, then made their way through unscathed.

Soon they found the giant ramp, a large passageway that led up into the sky towards the cube. The stone of the ramp was covered in old paintings that depicted humanoid forms making the climb up the ramp towards the cube, eventually touching it and disappearing. The party followed suit, making the climb.

On the way up they encountered large buzzing insect monsters that tried to mind control the party into walking off the ramp, but the battle was unexpectedly quick, with few specific details to describe about how the fight actually took place. In almost no time, the mercenaries had made it to the top, and the spinning fidgeting cube was before them.

Knocks was the first to touch the cube, following the depictions on the ramp, and disappeared upon contact. Sasha followed suit, and soon the whole party was teleported away. They found themselves inside of a larger cube than the one they touched, but smaller than the island cube they found themselves trapped in previously. They were seemingly underwater, but all could breathe perfectly well. The space seemed to distort and bend in odd ways.

It was within this cube that the party met the supposed god of the island, the magic-user kraken creature that had wrecked their ship. The squid sorcerer claimed ownership of all things that found their way to the island, and refused to let the party go. When they resisted his demands, he sicked his minions on them. A battle ensued between the party and the minions, and when Ericson insulted him and Knocks attacked him, the kraken god targeted the two and joined the fight himself.

Bortina tried to reason with the kraken and potentially gain some sort of favor with him, but the tide of the battle was already shifting in the party's favor, and soon, with Sasha casting haste on Swiftstrike and Knocks, and Ericson tanking some nasty hits, the party was able to defeat him. With the source of the magic that held the island together gone, the cubes began to collapse, and reality began to bend.

The party rushed back to the shores of the island, grabbing the Dusk Skipper crew on the way, and with reality out of wack and relatively malleable to the wills of the people nearby, Sasha willed her ship back together so that the party could escape. As they dashed away from the collapsing isle, Knocks saw two people on the beach he recognized. He reached out to them, but was whisked away by Ericson's tentacles and onto the ship.

The mercenaries escaped just before the island collapsed, and found themselves back out on the sea, headed for the mainland.

## Gallery

Oneshot banner. LilgreenfoxA badly wounded Sasha Thunderpouch. LilgreenfoxBortina, a kobold granny. Alex MarihewA young Knocks. RileeEricson. CrabmaliqueSwiftstrike's daytime form. Kim LeveileSwiftstrike's night/human form. Kim LeveileWhere do you work out? CrabmaliqueEricson's familiar. Crabmalique