Tentacles make me sad

Don’t you hate going in circles?

I’ll give Obegard props, he manned up to share Livia’s debt so that we could find out what we had to do yet. Know what it was? Go back to our poison-potion smuggling friends on the Black Lightning, who apparently have some secret knowledge to get them to some Island of Shadow I’ve never heard of in some island group called the Islands of Light and Darkness or something that I’ve also never heard of. Apparently I wasn’t alone either because the others looked pretty confused too.

The whole thing was pretty funny, if you think about it. We’d had the captain where we wanted him and forgot to actually ask him about Jartik. Hahahahahaha.

Obegard and Malakar collaborated to locate the Black Lightning and get us there, but I think the thing that made the difference was my amazing portrait of the captain that allowed Malakar to attain a focus on him.

We weren’t 100% certain of hitting the ship, so we crafted a boat to take with us when we teleported. It made it look very strange when we actually landed exactly on target in the middle of the main deck...

The captain was surprisingly accommodating and in short order we had a deal to sail to the Islands. The captain summoned some storm creature that propelled the ship faster than I’ve ever heard of a ship moving. Not that I know how fast a ship typically moves, but I occasionally saw creatures in the water as we sped past them.

In only a few days we had arrived at our destination. The captain pointed to a wall of black in the near distance and told us this is as far as he goes, and Jartik swam off through the black.

We were a bit unsure whether that was what we really wanted to do, and what we would do afterwards (the captain had been consulting some device he kept carefully hidden to navigate the route here). As we discussed the options a vast tentacled creature pulled up beside the ship and the deck was covered with its many tentacles.

Malakar called for everyone to come to him and he’d cast something to let us walk on water, and I was fool enough to do so. I don’t remember anything else until we were in the water watching the creature chomping on the ship. Apparently it had been less than a minute but the creature had already killed the whole crew of the ship and I’m not sure I understand how we escaped.

Livia and Obegard were all for just trying to work out some way to get to the wall of darkness but Malakar seemed bent on revenge, and quite confident that we could finish this thing off. Malakar usually knows what’s what so despite some doubts we followed along and I can’t say it was easy, but Malakar soaked up the major damage while my trusty shortsword plunged what I figured were sensitive spots at the base of the tentacles, and then into the eye.

Obegard says these things have a lair, but I’m strangely uninterested in finding it. I think I’ll just content myself with looting the ship.