That's No Ship

### Autumn 721 - The Argent Isles - The Amaranthus

Kronos used his power of will to not turn to gold. He then hurled gusts of wind at the bull that slid back in the grease. Billy Bob Bones used his conjured red cape to antagonise the bull, somehow to The Captain's surprise it charged at him.

Grug and Kronos gave chase onto the beach. The bull charged the captain shoving him into the wet sand of the shore.

The ship's crew launched a volley towards the beach, the bolts miss wildly striking the palm trees. Billy Bob attempted to clamber into the jolly boat and as he did the bull tossed the human into the boat.The crew of the Amaranthus switched to canons and blasted the bull into many pieces of metal shrapnel.

> *“Shore Bombardment Doctrine” - Billy Bob Bones*
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All four of the heroes lifted the bulls head onto the boat and had a rest on the ship to recoup from the fight. After a long rest, through the mist, the ghost ship from before appeared, the Captain came up with a cunning plan, to grease up the cannon balls and the bolts to set fire to the enemy ship.

> *“They don’t need to stand up to grease the balls.” - Tobias*
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The first volley of cannon missed, Grug landed a solid hit with the front ballista, but the flames did not spread as they should. The ghost ship turned unnaturally towards The Amaranthus and accelerated.

An epic battle breaks out, the crew successfully killed and sunk the mimic ship.

The captain ordered the marines to fire on the flotsom to check if they were also mimics, some were, some were loot. Hans the bad marksman, Boris the good marksman of the four marines. Loot was distributed.

Next Day

The compass still pointed towards the island so after resting the officers emerged onto the deck to find the fog even thicker. The Captain tried to dispel the fog that was clearly magical, it was however too complex and he failed.

They rowed back to the island. The marines were told to guard the beach.

Following the path, the mist thickened into almost darkness. Grug being a ranger of the shorewilds spotted what he knew to be a Willow Wisp, Grug knew that they should avoid the wisp. A voice spoke to the group, it asked what Tobias wanted to betray his friends.

Grug picked the path north through the swamp excellently. The wizard's voice asked what Billy Bob would do to gain all the treasure in the world. The voice then tried to convince Tobias to betray the group. The wizard was hiding and wanted the heroes to find him.

After following the path, there were ruins of a once finely crafted temple.

> *“A once rich island where a wizard lived, one day the island vanished.”*
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The compass pointed towards the sound of the sea. The path lead to a once magnificent bridge, ornate, carving too large for human hands, now makeshift bridges, planks crossed the gaps.

> *“There are creatures under the sea that caress the great mother oceans bottom, creatures that fly are an abomination” - Kronos*
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Kronos jumped into the water, The Captain summoned his trusty disc, Tobias played the flying song. Billy Bob fliew over the sea, Kronos attempted to avoid the giant octopus that was hiding under the ruins of the bridge.

Kronos commanded the octopus to grovel. The spell worked the second time.

Grug spoke with the octopus, the sea creature was trying to save us from the abominations that lived behind the doors, Grug thanked the octopus but explained that the group must venture inside anyway, and they got ready to enter the large cow doors.