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May 10, 1325

The Floating Island, Pt 1

by Sentry of the Ohrder Helma

Ohri has to teleport Altair, Mori, and I to the island, then I throw my javelin (plus rope) to get to the ship. Someone ties the rope to the ship so we don't lose it. The three of us explore for a while. I don't find a lot, but I do find one blue flower. The pedals of the flower are very large and flesh-y. I recognize the flower as a Seabloom flower, something that only grows deep below the ocean's surface. I harvest it right away. It can be used as an ingredient for marine-themed potions, and also as an enhancement for any potion. It's incredibly valuable.
The island doesn't look rather large. We continue climbing upward, and soon we reach a bluff where there are large tree-like structures with kelp on them. On the ground is a layer of dead, dry kelp. They aren't exactly trees... they're difficult to describe. They're almost bone-like. Mori expresses his worry about the potential danger of this place, and I shush him. What an idiot.
Phelo taps me on the shoulder. Huge iguanas are coming down off the trees... 5 of them. They don't seem super hostile to us, more curious. They're easily bigger than a human. They all begin to hiss, though, and we turn to find a giant mantis-like creature behind us. It looks like a mantis but with fins. The ground starts to shake and rumble, and we hear a deep oceanic rumble, and all the creatures start scuttling away, except for one iguana-like creature, a red one with orange stripes, which keeps looking at me and approaching me slowly. I try to befriend it, reach out to it, but it backs away, looks behind it and back to me, and then leads me deeper into the island. Mori and Altair want to get the rest of the group before we go deeper, but I won't leave the iguana. They follow me. We start descending toward the middle, and find the kelp grass getting a deeper pink shade. There seems to be a large crystal in the center of the island that the iguana is leading me to. I can smell a strangely potent smell. The hairs on our arms start to rise. I'm reminded of alchemical experiments of lightning. We reach the center of the island where there is a huge blue crystal, like a giant spike gowing upward, and my new iguana friend immediately scuttles away.
The crystal lies in the center of the clearing, it looks like there's some kind of light coming from inside it, moving. There's a scale-like pattern along the ground near the crystal, and it looks like the scale pattern has something to do with the crystal. There's a little crackle, and a bolt of lightening comes out of it, and hits a tree behind it. As I walk toward the crystal, I can see a pole or stick sticking out of the base of the crystal. My hair starts to stand more and more on end as I get closer, and I see that the stick is a spear, and there's a skeletal hand fused to the spearhead. I can imagine that someone may have tried to pry the crystal out of the ground, but got electrocuted.
Altair uses mage hand to touch the spear, and we hear an electric scream. An electric elemental comes from within the crystal. It hits Altair, and Ishtar heals him. I drink a dexterity mutagen and hit it with a bomb. It screams and wretches. Phelo comes up and hits it as well. Altair also comes in and deals damage with a scythe. It screeches, and launches into the air, sending bolts of lightening down and creating two more, smaller elementals. One trips me. Tumi comes to help. Mori celebrates a kill of the other small elemental. The medium elemental comes back down onto the playing field. We continue fighting, and eventually Phelo is the one who crushes the medium elemental. Now there's just one left, the one attacking me. Myself, Ishtar, and Tumi, can't kill it, so Phelo comes over and takes care of it. I spit blood at him, because I'm tired of getting saved by Phelo. He tells me if I'm so tired of getting saved by him, I should save myself next time.
I spit at him again.

Continue reading...

  1. The Island, Day 1
    May 8, 1325
  2. The Island, Day 2
    May 9, 1325
  3. The Island, Day 3
    May 10, 1325
  4. The Day We Left that F*cking Hellhole
    May 7, 1325
  5. The Sea, Pt 1
    May 10, 1325
  6. The Floating Island, Pt 1
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  7. Welcome to Iolas
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