You returned to the harbour as the fog receded, victorious and having not lost a life amongst the crew of The Perk and those who joined you. Already the harbour town of Kennutwaki showed new life- people were peering out of doors and windows or even out on the streets with torches lit, investigating what the unfamiliar clarity of night meant. Ciddar was still mostly unconscious, moaning and drooling but occasionally asking for his sword back. Docking at the harbour, you came ashore as a crowd began to gather, more so as Ahappi called out to them and urged an audience—asking for Talars and Hargan Saltbeard and the Kennutois and others to all come listen. In time, they came. But also some spirits came—the emaciated, crab-encrusted ghost of Merwyne Holland manifested and cleared a space around her with her harpoon, moaning softly. The sea-captain Nardoc Paulwain, of bleeding empty eye-sockets, also appeared on the docks. But they did not attack anyone—the woman’s ghost wailed that she was not freed; that she was being dragged to Hell with Lobata in Her continued servitude, and so were the other haunts that Lobata had trapped. | You returned to the harbour as the fog receded, victorious and having not lost a life amongst the crew of The Perk and those who joined you. Already the harbour town of Kennutwaki showed new life- people were peering out of doors and windows or even out on the streets with torches lit, investigating what the unfamiliar clarity of night meant. Ciddar was still mostly unconscious, moaning and drooling but occasionally asking for his sword back. Docking at the harbour, you came ashore as a crowd began to gather, more so as Ahappi called out to them and urged an audience—asking for Talars and Hargan Saltbeard and the Kennutois and others to all come listen. In time, they came. But also some spirits came—the emaciated, crab-encrusted ghost of Merwyne Holland manifested and cleared a space around her with her harpoon, moaning softly. The sea-captain Nardoc Paulwain, of bleeding empty eye-sockets, also appeared on the docks. But they did not attack anyone—the woman’s ghost wailed that she was not freed; that she was being dragged to Hell with Lobata in Her continued servitude, and so were the other haunts that Lobata had trapped. |