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Distracted, a substantial contingent of the sirens recede from their positions waiting for their takeaway meal, while the lighthouse delegation at sea carries out its work. Most of the supplies make their way to the grateful refugees, who begin repairs at Allison's 'encouragement.' Checks through the lighthouse telescopes can reveal the large vessel soon drifts in the opposite direction — slowly, suggesting whatever damage it sustained has not been sufficiently repaired to allow it to journey on at full speed.
As the large vessel is difficult to entrap and capture, the mermaid do not give chase. Denied their pray, they give out an intolerable, short-lasting, shrill shriek of grief — and try to catch up with those who were at sea (Lily, Akira and Allison). The teleporting spell Lily uses will trump this. However, all three will be especially targeted by mermaids whenever they are in the vicinity of sea water, moving forward. Moiraine and Wei Wuxian will also suffer this, if they were close enough to the shoreline to be visible to the sirens (players' choice on this, as you can argue either way). Sorry, folks. You took their lunch.
At first, master Zenobius appears unable to grasp what has happened, before it strikes him that the danger has been averted, and the vessel has been saved. He attempts to (poorly) explain his reaction, but between his recent fit of anguish and his ongoing state of otherliness and confusion, he finds it easier to illustrate.
Asking the rescue group (or as many of them as will follow him) to the 12th floor, he intensifies the light of the lighthouse and briefly directs it not outwards, but, insufferably, down in the sea. From this height and angle, helped by the light, those who are present can see that, past the shoreline, once the waters deepen > 4m, they are filled with the remains of boat debris and the salt-preserved, tattered bodies of former sailor crews. If you're dubiously lucky and taking advantage of a telescope, you might even recognise one of the handsome dead gentlemen who crawled on your boat, on the way to Ellethia-Hamsour.
All Zenobius says, before redirecting the light outwards again, is, "Couldn't bury them here. Not even a candle to rest them easy."
AFTERMATH
If you don't mind flagging the below to your fellow solution-plot participants:
Distracted, a substantial contingent of the sirens recede from their positions waiting for their takeaway meal, while the lighthouse delegation at sea carries out its work. Most of the supplies make their way to the grateful refugees, who begin repairs at Allison's 'encouragement.' Checks through the lighthouse telescopes can reveal the large vessel soon drifts in the opposite direction — slowly, suggesting whatever damage it sustained has not been sufficiently repaired to allow it to journey on at full speed.
As the large vessel is difficult to entrap and capture, the mermaid do not give chase. Denied their pray, they give out an intolerable, short-lasting, shrill shriek of grief — and try to catch up with those who were at sea (Lily, Akira and Allison). The teleporting spell Lily uses will trump this. However, all three will be especially targeted by mermaids whenever they are in the vicinity of sea water, moving forward. Moiraine and Wei Wuxian will also suffer this, if they were close enough to the shoreline to be visible to the sirens (players' choice on this, as you can argue either way). Sorry, folks. You took their lunch.
At first, master Zenobius appears unable to grasp what has happened, before it strikes him that the danger has been averted, and the vessel has been saved. He attempts to (poorly) explain his reaction, but between his recent fit of anguish and his ongoing state of otherliness and confusion, he finds it easier to illustrate.
Asking the rescue group (or as many of them as will follow him) to the 12th floor, he intensifies the light of the lighthouse and briefly directs it not outwards, but, insufferably, down in the sea. From this height and angle, helped by the light, those who are present can see that, past the shoreline, once the waters deepen > 4m, they are filled with the remains of boat debris and the salt-preserved, tattered bodies of former sailor crews. If you're dubiously lucky and taking advantage of a telescope, you might even recognise one of the handsome dead gentlemen who crawled on your boat, on the way to Ellethia-Hamsour.
All Zenobius says, before redirecting the light outwards again, is, "Couldn't bury them here. Not even a candle to rest them easy."
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