Another voyage, nothing new. As usual I kept to myself in
the rigging, sseeing everything, these humanss sseem to sstruggle perched up here,
many of the crew can manage it but they are too inflexible to be comfortable for
long. This new batch of passengers sseemss pretty green, don’t want to be
cleaning up after them. I will have to make sure i don’t sscrew up or join in
when the crew runs amok with play fighting or yippee shootss.
There’s a fairly chatty gnome I helped to quater and a bookish
type, Leana that sseem promising as far as lore goes. Think Leana is a
Varisian that dark olive skin, and the tatts are a dead give away. Shess pretty
short to but then again sso is everyone I meet Chelaxian to Tian. It seems a
constant among these lesssser racesss- apart from the odd Shoanti and ssome of the Mwangi
tribesman you ssee sslaving away at ssome port.
There is ssome fop, an old crone and some army type as well.
The old crone is coping with the ssea the best. Looks as weathered as the dam
figurehead but she barely moves when it gets choppy, smarter than that Dorian
fellow he tries to get about and sstumbles every ssecond wave. Gotta be good on
your feet if you’re on a boat, carry no weight as well, thatss just the basicss. Ron
manages but only cause he shuffless along and death gripss every bit of rigging
and railing in reach. Only other one of note is that guy captain has in lock down,
really pushing my curiosity but not worth the extra duties.
Well my sself control has paid off, some other poor sods are
cleaning up the hurl and i’m of to the captains quaterss for a meal. First time
I am invited! I can feel it in my ssskin a change is coming I am onto something
more than ciphering otherss pisss for something of relevance. Things are looking
up.
WTF. What firkin adversarial cloaca munching infantile god
or goddess have I violated sso to cop thiss. Its frikkin ridiculouss.
From havin a
free meal, thinkin i’m getting ssomewhere to wakin with a headache in the midst
of unconsssiouss fop, crone, army and seeing eurypterids commin at uss.
SSwitched on,
chucked a sstar, yelled at the others to get up or get dead. Our weapons were up beach, lucky I have a knack for palming sstarss all over my
body. Between my sstarss and my barbed vest took 2 out before the others managed
to squish the last one after some faffing about. Dorian was pretty handy, has these healing busts so I
didn’t have to do myself. SSeemss five of the passengers were with us as well.
Once we got geared up we woke them. Ron lost it first, never would have guessed
that, thought professional army boys had more nuts n thicker sskin than that. He insulted,
threatened, one of the handiest looking of the lot. She kicked his asss and
bailed. Pretty sure she would have been mighty handy the way she happily strode
of into – some dank, primordial looking, infested jungle. Recon these idiotss
will have to be controlled.
I ssnuck towards the wreck of our ship to check it out, a
bigger eurypterid came out, I sstared it and backed of, Ron proved his good at
ssomething, freshly healed by Dorian he clobbered it good. After that the last
girl we had with us freaked, tried to calm her while keeping Ron out of it, his
a distracting prick, lucky the crone managed to take her aside and calm her
down while I played interference.
Ron was pretty keen on finding wrecks, he was pretty exited,
even got me pumped. With the chartss and ssome things I recollected about this
place we got a rough idea of the place. Thought its besst to get the sspur cordoned
before progressing deeper into the island where any localss are likely to be,
Ron agreed, got to give it to the army givess anyone a bit of ssensse but anything 24/7 will teach you ssomthin. That ssaid
Ron sseemss like he has plenty if he can manage to use it.
Its humid and there
are sswarms of biting insects, they only leave when it pelts rain every arvo,
which is followed by an oppressive heat for a couple hours worthy of a dessert,
then the bugs return... bloody hell hole. Heat after rain and not before, its
like this place was designed to test us. That first day exploring we got exhausted,
ran food down, moved sslow, got infested and diseassed.. was pretty bad. Ron and
I ssucked it up and got our ssurvival sskills to work. Moving fasster, foraging, used
ssome plantss to fend of the bugss, made some portable shade and sstopped at the
right times it was pretty ssorted. Anyone who landed here without ssome ssurvival
sskills would be dead FAST, we had barely managed and all we did was walk along
the dam beech.
Ron managed to treat our diseasses, have to ssay thats be a handy
sskill and the only useful one I don’t have. He was an army doctor but I never
knew it could do so much.. better than my sspellss will be for a while at least, a definite shortcomming.
Further I would have been wrong as I didn’t want to turn back: I though those other
humans left to build camp should be fine, lucky I was convinced to return. SSeemss ssome of thesse humans can teach me ssomething.
Didn’t
realise how uselesss mosst humans are, the pack of them were lazing about,
diseased, one had even run off. Any ssod without an asssortment of sskills on this place is basically walkin dead. I pretty much cracked it at the humans in camp, the camp wasn't even done and it was couple hours work if that. I gave up, others thought I was being harsh sso I showed them how its done using
my sskillz to get the camp in order, get the bugs away as Ron ssaw to their
diseasses then helped me get the camp ssorted. Tomorrow were going to assign sspecific roless and get after the
freaked out woman.
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