Stranded on Direpoint

**Gox.1Keig.5284:**

The Galloping Kelpie is sailing across The Titan's Footprint heading from the Kingdom of Makle to the Bovannh. During the night, which had been clear and smooth sailing thus fair, a storm apparted and brought strong waves and lightning. This combination of waves and lightning caused the Kelpie to catch on fire and sink.

**Gox.2Than.5284:**

Survivors of the sinking of the Galloping Kelpie are washed ashore onto the uninhabited island of Direpoint.

**Gox.2Seph.5284:**

The group of survivors wake up on Direpoint, as they would discover the island was named by another stranded individual. This group consisted of Tia Cuem and her cat, Guy, Aratak LeFleur, Johann Joellenbeck, Kelkairi Selar, Calla Oleidine, Elseth T'Sarran, and Zoomus. After everyone awoke and some awkward introductions occurred the group began to traverse the island to see if they could find signs of civilization, other survivors, or their gear that they lost in the sinking. As they walked around the island the group began to hear a noise ahead of them, and as they approached it began to sound more like screaming. Once the source of the noise became visible on the horizon the group discovered it was coming from a young, human child who was being attacked by a swarm of crabs. The group fended off the crabs to save the child. They then proceeded to take a break to calm the child down and learn more about her. The child introduced herself as Aerissa and explained that she had been on the Kelpie with her parents. Aerissa also relayed the events of the night to the group as she had been on the deck when the storm appeared.

With the new knowledge gained, the group became more suspicious, but knew they had nothing the could do with it. Instead the group focused on survival, splitting up into three teams to make progress on exploring the island and gathering supplies. One team consisting of Guy, Tia, and Aerissa stayed back on the beach so Aerissa could rest. While they were there Tia used her skills as an artificer to build a not great but workable still to produce clean water. The second group consisting of Zoomus, Johann, and Aratak traversed the coast of the island looking for signs of wreckage they could scavenge and possibly more crabs. The group did not find more food, but they did find a small patch of herbs that they would later learn was planted by Vikon the Mighty while he was stranded on the island. They also found some wreckage from the Kelpie washed up on the shore which contained a small amount of gold. The most important discovery they made though was a cave system on the island. Investigating the cave system they found it had two passages and they followed on that led to an exit on a cliff face. They decided to return to the rest of the group before exploring further. The other group of Calla, Kelkairi, and Elseth worked their way through the jungle, primarily looking for a fresh water source. While they found a bit of water, the group discovered something far more disturbing in a clearing. In a clearing there was the body of a human man, murdered. He had a pipe sticking through his abdomen and multiple stab wounds. As the group examined the body they found that the man had attempted to leave a final message in the sand but it had been smudged by his hand so only the first letter, h, and the last two letters, n and s, were legible. With this information and the water the final group returned to the current campsite to share the news.

With dusk coming in not too long, the reunited group decided to examine the murdered man further before heading to explore the cave system a bit more. When the group reached the man a few of the group searched his belongings finding a seal of the Kingdom of Makle in the pockets of his fancy suit. This made it seem likely that the man was an important businessman or politician from Makle, and that may have been the reason for his death. While that was happening, Elseth found a trail of footprints that led away. Following this trail the group found a second clearing that had an arcane circle drawn on the ground. The members of the group with prowess for the arcane determined that whatever it had been was used, and people mused if it was something for a teleportation magic. Unable to find anymore information the group headed to the cave to spend the evening. They went down the other passageway in the cave system and found a large cave which had a perfectly circular pond in the center. However, the group was unable to explore the room before they were attacked by a group of crabs. After the crabs were easily dispatched of the group explored the room. They discovered a skeleton and a greataxe which had glowing runes carved into it. Elseth decided to pick up the ax, which was a mistake as he was paralyzed and exhausted by the ax upon doing so. Upon examination the group learned that the skeleton had been there for several years, and was likely killed by the crabs. The only other thing the group examined was the pond. After throwing a bag of ball bearings tied to a rope down the pond, they learned it was about 70-80ft deep. After that and knowing there was no arcane matters involved, Calla volunteered to dive down to the bottom. The group agreed to this and tied 100ft of rope to her. Upon getting to the bottom she found nothing that interesting other than the fact the surface of the bottom had an interesting texture. With this knowledge the group decided to call it a day and set up camp. During watch nothing interesting happened, though Calla talked to Kelkairi about how Kelkairi had been scaring Aerissa a bit.

**Gox.2Taro.5284:**

With dawn arriving the group went back to exploring the island. Going to the only spot they had not explored yet, the swamp. It was also decided that Johann would carry the greataxe with them through the use of the mage hand spell.

In the swamp the group found a makeshift hut that was built on top the wreckage of a ship. Once they learned that there were no inhabitants in the hut or nearby the group investigated it. Elseth found a log/journal in a crab trap that was being used as a makeshift chest. The journal belonged to Vikon the Mighty, the skeleton the group found in the cave. It had shipping logs from the boat that Vikon had been on before it sunk, and then it transitioned into a journal where Vikon talked about his efforts to survive on the island. The only other thing the group found were a couple daggers that Johann found under the floorboards, which he then gave to Elseth. Upon feeling that they had found everything they could, the group began to trek along the coastline hoping to find more wreckage of the Kelpie and a better campsite. While they were walking along the coastline, the group noticed a ship on the horizon, which they signaled for. The boat noticed their signals and approached them. The captain ordered the group to drop all their weapons and then sent his men down to seize their weapons. Upon seeing this the group attempted to warn the men to not touch the axe, but two of them did it anyway. Once the group had surrendered their weapons they asked if the captain would let them finish talking to him on the boat about what happened to them and who they were. It was at this point that the captain's men drew their bows and pointed them towards the group and the captain informed the group that he was going to but as prisoners because he had reasons to believe that the group were the individuals who had caused a war.