Islands of Isolation

Islands of Isolation is the first one-shot in The Extallarim Pages.

This story follows Slicer Styles, Kentheim Daggern, two prisoners on an island in the Accursed Archipelago region of Extallarim, and Katraedeth Nightrock, a warden sent to watch over the prisoners for the Chamber of Extallarim.

## Plot

### Arrival

Upon arriving at the island, Katreadeth (Kat) is met by the current warden, Tyreelius Morganna, who is not very talkative and quick to leave the island. He informs her of the essentials and then takes her boat to leave. Kat then investigates the prison where she meets Slicer and Kentheim (Kent). Slicer is imprisoned for 10 years for attempted bank robbery, where he lost his wife in the act. Kent is allegedly being held until trial for money laundering. Kat treats the two prisoners well, especially compared to the previous warden, giving them some of her food supply (potatoes) and checking in on them.

### Night-time Storm

As the day turns to night, Kat spends her time exploring the shack of a prison, where she finds food stores and a desk that appears to be hollow inside. After looking around for a key to the desk, out of desperation, Kat decides to split the desk with her greataxe, finding a totem, a candle, and some notes. She also finds a quill that appears to have a key carved into the end of it that does not fit anything. About this time, a storm hits the shack causing leaky roofs and terrible wind. The 3 of them hear a strange knocking sound and Kat goes to investigate. She opens the door outside but cannot find anyone.As the night goes on, there is more knocking in the shack, but no one can seem to decipher where it is coming from and the 3 try to go to sleep.

### The Green Algae

The next day, Kat explores around the island and finds a mysterious green algae along the shack. When she touches it, it becomes very hard to breathe. Fearing the worst, she panics and runs off to the side of the island, jumping into the water. Unfortunately, this does not work as she expects, and she begins to drown. After pulling herself out of the water, she tries to run back to the cabin while suffocating. Kat tries to warn the prisoners what is happening, leading them to attempt to break out of their cell. Slicer is able to melt the chains holding him in while Kent is able to lift the door off its hinges in their cell. Unfortunately for Kat, its too slow. She makes it back to the shack in time, but the two prisoners aren't able to help as she falls dead at the door of the shack.

The next morning, Slicer and Kent try and figure out what happened to their new warden. In the process, Kent touches the same green algae and begins to suffocate as well. Luckily, he is able to cut off the algae from his hand, despite damaging himself. The two prisoners continue investigating the shack, finding notes left by presumably the old warden, but they are in cryptic hieroglyphs, so they are unreadable. Eventually, the prisoners find the algae outside the shack in the shape of a candle, and are able to deduce that the candle can be used to remove the algae.

### The Trapdoor

As night comes again, the prisoners hear the knocking again, but are able to determine the source of the knocking - the food closet. Below the carpet in the closet is a trapdoor, which is opened by the quill-key. Inside is Tyreelius - the old warden. He tells the prisoners he has been trapped there for over a week, despite the prisoners watching him leave when Kat arrived at the island. Tyreelius rambles about the "titan of the sea", putting together that the Tyreelius that left the island wasn't the real Tyreelius, but perhaps the Titan of the Sea himself. After this realization, Tyreelius runs out into the storm, followed closely by the prisoners. Unfortunately, the old warden runs into the wall of the storm and dies. Then a colossal octupus appears, ready to fight the to prisoners.

### The Dagger of the Titan of the Sea

Luckily for the prisoners, they find a mysterious dagger on Tyreelius's body. Slicer takes this dagger from Kent and accidentally sends the party as well as the octopus to the depths of the sea. Here a battle ensues. Each swing of the dagger seems to cause some mysterious magic happen to the target of the attack. Though Slicer and Kent fight valiantly, Kent eventually falls to the Octopus. Slicer gets a final slash with the dagger in, taking out the Octopus before it tries to flee. Slicer also figures out that the dagger is able to summon a sea-horse (not to be confused with a seahorse). With the help of Kelpie (the sea-horse), Slicer brings the bodies of his fallen allies to the surface of the water. When they reach the surface, Slicer finds the sun covered in black ichor, clearly they have traveled to a different realm through the power of the dagger.

Slicer eventually discovers how the dagger works, with runes on the side that light up when pressed with different functions. The fish rune brings them to-and-fro this underwater realm, while the seahorse button summons Kelpie. By pressing the fish rune, Slicer returns to the original island with the bodies of his allies.

### Escape from Isolation

After some time, a ship appears in the distance and 3 people approach the island. Two guards are joined by Zant Monogram. Zant explains that they only came to the island to restock on food, but hears out the story from Slicer. Surprised to hear about the titans, Zant listens intently and then eventually takes the dagger from Slicer. Zant invites Slicer to join him on his boat home, as he is looking for strong people to deal with this potential titan problem, but before leaving, Zant makes sure one of his guards killed Kent, even though he was still alive. Slicer leaves the island with Zant and crew and the island is returned to isolation.

## Important Characters

* Slicer Styles
* Kentheim Daggern
* Katraedeth Nightrock
* Tyreelius Morganna
* Zant Monogram

## Trivia

* This one shot featured a puzzle involving a candle and green algae that took the party over two hours to solve.