Tales from Talaveroth

"A ship won't help us with our current objectives, I don't think. Nice thought, though."

Si'Juul couldn't help but recall his time at sea, the constant breeze in his feathers.

“I don’t think this ship will ever sail again Ponki, I’m sorry..” Elhanna looks at the ship and shivers.

While Ponki inspect the ship, Elhanna sit down on the ground and take out her everwyrm bones and cast them. “Mishakal, is this an omen of what is to come?” (Ritual casting augury)

While Elhanna casts her ritual, Poinki goes inside the broken ship to search for anything of interest. (Investigation 1 )

...he is unable to even get the hatch open. :D

Si'Juul raises a feathered eyebrow as he watches Elhanna perform her ritual.

"Religion stuff huh? Never really bothered with such stuff myself."

“Religion is not for everyone.” She simply reply and try to focus her mind to gather the necessary divine energy to call for Mishakals attention.  

"Don't get me wrong, I believe the gods exist, and if one or more have been silently looking over me, I thank them. However, I don't see the use in placing faith in seemingly one-sided arrangements."

Si'Juul shrugs.

"But that's just my take on it. Can hardly claim to know everything about it."

Elhanna takes the bones that she had collected and lays out the ritual. After her prayer she casts them on the sand. One of the bones lands so that the side blackened by the fire in the tower is up, the other so that the blackened side is down (weal and woe). In the silence as she finishes the ritual Elhanna can hear the chirping of new birds off in their nests among the tall seaside grass. She can also hear the wind groaning and creaking through the old planks of the ship ahead. She takes these signs to mean that Mishakal sees both good and evil ahead for the group.

Poinki is so fixated on the ship being possibly repaired that he walks right past the large hole in the side of the ship to climb up on the deck and try one of the hatches. While the rest of the ship seems to be rotting away this hatch is still holding strong against the elements and won't budge for all his effort. As he hops back down though he does hear something odd, a sort of strange chattering or clicking coming from within the hull.

“Oh, do you think religion is one sided? In what way?” Elhanna smiles and think back to all the times that Father Joseph had had this exact conversation with her.  And now she is having it with some else for the first time. 

While speaking with Si’Juul she reads the bones. Then looks up at the boot to see Ponki climb up it. “Oh no..” she exclaims when she connects the dots. “Si’Juul, the boat! Hurry!” Hoping she is wrong she stand up and start running towards the ship and cast Shield of Faith on Ponki granting him +2 AC

(Poinki, make a dexterity save for me)

Twitch gives a smile at Poinki and a brighter grin at Elhanna :"You're wrong dear, with a bit of tender loving care, good timber and a bit of elbow grease, I probably could get her in floeting shape again... though Si'Juul is right, that would likely delay us for weeks, and we wouldn't have the budget for it anyways. Still though..." And with that she follows Poinki. Unlike him, she tries to inspect the hole directly, hoping to learn what caused the wreck.

Perception: 13

(Poinki dex save: 12 )

Poinki looks towards Elhanna's shout and then back just in time to jump out of the way of the hand that was reaching from him from inside the ship. Twitch and Poinki can now see a vaguely humanoid form but one that seems to be misshapen and almost falling apart. The creature roars at the two but doesn't leave the inside of the hull.

Si'Juul immediately flies up over the deck of the ship, drawing his pepperbox from its holster. 

"Get outta there, Poinki!"

Twitch quickly draws her two daggers and moves between Poinki and the figure. In her defensive stance, she shouts: "We don't want no trouble. Can we help you?"

The form only growls and paces back and forth a bit, not retreating but never getting any closer either.

"Just get out of there Twitch! Whatever it is, it ain't interested in negotiation!"

Si'Juul takes aim at the entity past Twitch and Poinki, prepared to fire if they are chased on their way out 

Twitch is curious. The creature didn't seem to pose any threat, it just wanted to defend its territory. What, though, was it? Though humanoid in form, it didn't respond to her question...

Nature: 7

The shadows hide part of the form from Twitch but she begins to make out details. The form looks to be human, though some of the parts are wrong. The one arm hangs at a strange angle and the face seems almost too open to be normal.

"Maybe...undead?" Poinki asks. "Helga fight lots of undead. Maybe only come out when dark. Hide in dark hole."

Poinki uses Divine Sense to see if he can identify it as undead and/or evil.

Poinki gets the strong, neasua-like blast of undead coming from the figure. He also picks up a second source of undead energy coming from further into the ship.