Episode: Prayers and Dreams
Posted by Story on 08/17/17
Prince Victus Thrax, Prince of Maelstrom, goes to the shrine of Mangata to pray. As he prays, disciples in the Shrine begin to see something is terribly wrong. The water seems to darken and in a matter of seconds turns black as night, an oily dark ichor... that then geysers into the air, showering over all praying there as most gasp and choke upon the ichor. Disciples of Mangata and priests of the Pantheon there react by dousing the ichor with holy water that seems to burn the ichor away, and as they throw more and more holy water upon it, the geyser slowly recedes, though the shrine stays a bubbling black mass.
Then the screams from the harbor start. Every vessel from the Mourning Isles, every ship with a flag from Thrax, or Navegant or Tyde or Grimhall or Darkwater or Redreef or Kennex or all the others, every last one, sinks into the waves as if it had been turned to stone. Some men that find themselves suddenly frantically swimming appear to be pulled beneath the waves by what looked like oily black tentacles, and a few swore a great eye opened at the bottom of the harbor, but that is quickly dismissed as nonsense. Hundreds drown, and there's little explanations offered for it, though some assume some new cargo by the Isles vessels was terribly dangerous, and that talk of tentacles was nonsense. In all, it lasted no more than minutes, and parts of the wrecked ships gradually resurface, with few answers to just what happened are found even from shocked and terrified survivors.
Then the screams from the harbor start. Every vessel from the Mourning Isles, every ship with a flag from Thrax, or Navegant or Tyde or Grimhall or Darkwater or Redreef or Kennex or all the others, every last one, sinks into the waves as if it had been turned to stone. Some men that find themselves suddenly frantically swimming appear to be pulled beneath the waves by what looked like oily black tentacles, and a few swore a great eye opened at the bottom of the harbor, but that is quickly dismissed as nonsense. Hundreds drown, and there's little explanations offered for it, though some assume some new cargo by the Isles vessels was terribly dangerous, and that talk of tentacles was nonsense. In all, it lasted no more than minutes, and parts of the wrecked ships gradually resurface, with few answers to just what happened are found even from shocked and terrified survivors.