Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Pyrax day 5

Today I got my first job as a helmsman. I'm now the lowest ranking helmsman onboard the Triop ship, stargazer. Our cargo this trip is transporting 20 tons of food from Trinona to Hatha. The trip will take approx. 3 months.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Munigur day 10

We got surprised by pirates during our travel through the great belt. We have succesfully battled the pirates but have lost 30% of our crew. We now only have 2 helmsmen and it has been decided that we will make a extra stop at highport to hire new crew. The bounty from the pirates has been good. I can now add a second spellbook to my belongings and each of the crew is a 50 goldbar richer.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Munigur day 20

We have reached Highport, our captain has arranged that some of the damage will be repaired and a request for crew has been put on the street. We will stay here another two days before continuing our journey to Hatha.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Munigur day 22

We are still 4 people short but it will do, we have a third helmsman so we can now go back to a normal schedule. I have used the past two days to learn and copy the spells from my second spellbook to my first. I now have all my spells in my first book and will use my next few times off to erase the second book.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Seltaine day 28

We have reached Hatha without encountering any more problems on the way. I've sold of my second spellbook at the guild. We will stay here at least another two days and try to find another cargo.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Hordent day 3

It has been hard to find a cargo, but we now have 10 tons of minerals onboard for shipment to Highport. 2 days ago, the hammership Ariadne docked, she clearly showed the traces of battle. After inquiring with their first officer and helmsman Vladimir I found out that they have encountered a Nautiloid. No casualties have fallen among the crew of the Ariadne but it will take several weeks before she has repaired the damage. I've copied a new spell from Vlad's spellbook.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Tradifos day 19

We have reached Highport, after unloading our cargo and loading a new cargo we will head back towards Hatha.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Yul day 25

We have reached Hatha, when we arrived we saw the Ariadne rising from the asteroid. To bad, I was looking forward to see Vladimir again. We have taken on a cargo of leather hides, and are heading back towards Trinona again.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Reqis day 11

We have docked at Trinona, our cargo has been loaded of and we are free to roam about for a week before again taking to the stars. I'm planning on visiting some family and paying some old debts. Ofcourse a visit to Arcigols has to be made. I'm looking forward seeing my sister again, the little one should be here now.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Reqis day 18

Well it's been a intresting week. I've paid of my debts and visited Arcigols. The old man isn't looking good, his face is ash-gray and he's coughing with every sentence. My sister gave birth to a twin, both boys are looking mighty healthy. With the money left over after selling the spellbook and paying of my debts I've bought myself into a small buiseness adventure. My sister will keep a close eye on that for me. The stargazer is a little over loaded with cargo, we have 2 tons more onboard than we can store in the cargo room and one of the crew quarters has been converted to extra cargo space. We will leave in two days heading for Tronsogard. Our cargo this time is iron wood.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Reqis day 24

We have left Trinona 4 days ago, and this morning we were attacked by two pirate vessels. Both vessels are wasp class, we have taken on heavy damage but managed to destroy one of the vessels and capture the other. We have taken the Wasp ship on tow, and have searched to the debris of the other vessel. The Stargazer is to badly damaged to continue our journey so we are heading back to Trinona to first repair the ship and then make another run for Tronsogard.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Reqis day 30

We have finally docked at Trinona, the Stargazer will go into drydock tomorrow and the expected repair time will be 5 days. Our captain will try to sell the captured Wasp in the mean time. The spoils have been very little this time, with 80% going to the ship but still each crew can add another 300 goldbar and after the Wasp is sold probably another 200 goldbar can be added.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Wajek day 6

Yesterday Arcigols, my mentor died. Before his death he gave me one of his travelling spellbooks and a empty 50 page book. Today we are leaving, I'm sorry I can't be at the funeral, the man has meant so much to me. I left most of my savings with my sister, the Wasp hasn't been sold yet, so we'll have another bonus to look forward to after returning from Tronsogard.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Wajek day 10

Talked to our navigator today, we are taking the shortest way possible to reach Tronsogard but won't travel through the glacier. Our journey will takes us very close to the dark groups. We will travel not far from the glacier if trouble finds us we will run into the glacier and hide.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Sstasa day 12

We are making our first stop at Achemon, we will refresh our air take on additional food supplies and tommorow we will continue our jouney to Tronsogard.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Lugribossk day 8

Today we encountered a shou long dragonship. They are magnificent to behold. They where on their way home, the ship looked battered. Apparently a ten-day ago they had a run in with a nautiloid and barely managed to escape. After sharing a drink and wishing safe journey we have continued our travel.

Cycle 1305, The year of Reqis, Lugribossk day 18

We are on our closest path near Torin. We haven't seen any sign of Mind Flayer activity so far, and everyone is keeping his fingers crossed that it will stay this way. I've been studying the spellbook which was given to me by Arcigols, a lot of the spells in there i do not understand but did manage to learn a few new ones. I must have gained in power since I also find it easier to commit more spells to memory.

Cycle 1305, The year of Wajek, Pyrax day 12

It happened, we almost made our way past Khel when from the glacier there came a Nautiloid. It changed course to intercept us. I was right when I thought I gained power since I find it easier to push the Stargazer forward. But I still am no match against the mind Flayer's helmsmen, the chase took about an hour but after that they managed to board us. I don't think I ever felt so helpless as I did at that time. Never knew that our captain was also one who knew the way of the mind, but that turned the battle in our favor, with his powers and the magic from our chief helmsman we managed to take down several Mind Flayers and they turned and fled. We lost 15 of our crew and now have 4 Varan's onboard, these slaves from the Mind Flayer's are really sad to see. They continually scream that there masters will come for them. We have resumed course after taking note of the damage received from this battle.

Cycle 1305, The year of Wajek, Munigur day 10

We have reached Tronsogard without any more incidents happening. The iron wood is being unloaded, and our captain is going to see if it is possible to have our damage fixed at the local shipyard. I am going to the guild tommorow, I have to renew my membership before it expires and I ones again have to pay the full fee. In the beginning of the evening the captain has summoned the crew together, he informs us that he has sold the Stargazer, and bought a new ship. In 4 days we will have to transfer all our belongings to the new ship, when asked what kind of ship it is, he says it's a surprise.

Cycle 1305, The year of Wajek, Munigur day 14

I have renewed my membership at the guild, and have been helping the crew packing up things for our move to the new ship. Our captain has called us all together this morning and says we are going to the new ship, we have to take all our personal belongings with us, and 2 of the crew are staying behind. After a short walk down the peer, we have reached our new ship, the Stargazer II. It's a hammership. After boarding the ship, the captain gives us a brief tour of the vessel, the heavy ballista has been upgraded to a 180 degrees turreted dual heavy ballista. We have spend the remainder of the afternoon bringing stuff from the triop to the hammership.

Cycle 1305, The year of Wajek, Munigur day 28

We have taken on a lot of new crew members and the cargo bay has been filled with sails and dual ballista's. We are ready to head back to Trinona. There are rumors of increased Mind Flayer activity near Khel, also the Neogi appear to be on slave raids in the glacier near Achemon. We are going anyway so al we can do is wait and see.

Cycle 1305, The year of Wajek, Seltaine day 20

Today a squid ship coming from the glacier was heading towards us, it wasn't flying the usual Mind Flayer flag so we didn't expect the squid to be a Mind Flayer ship. We were wrong, in the initial conversation made with the use of semaphore, they appeared to be traders, when the gap between our ships closed they started firing and raised the Mind Flayer flag. It has been a difficult fight, but we won. Mostly because there where only 5 Mind Flayer's onboard. We have lost 10 members of our crew, but when searching through the squid we found 17 slaves. They have been taken onboard to recover. The squid's bounty has been good. Not only has each crew member 500 goldbar, also we found in the cargobay of the squid several spare sails and 2 minor furnace helms. The Stargazer II is now stuffed to it's max, unfortunately we had to leave the squid behind, she was badly damaged but still in good enough condition to be fixed.

Cycle 1305, The year of Wajek, Tradifos day 24

This afternoon we have docked at Trinona, after taking care of the normal docking activities everyone has been given the evening off. Tonight I'm going to visit my sister, it has been to long since I saw my nephews and I'm curious in my small buiseness investment.

Cycle 1305, The year of Wajek, Tradifos day 27

The past three days have been very busy. I visted my sister two days, she and the kids are doing great, my little investment has paid off almost 130%. I have asked my sister to keep supervising. Yesterday the captain has called us all together onboard the stargazer II, he paid our shares from the booty still left open, and has made sure that the money from the sold Wasp will be given to the family of the crew members who died on the voyage to Tronsogard.I have bought some additional shares with the money from my last trip and now own 7% of the cruiser shipyard on Trinona.

Cycle 1305, the year of Wajek, Yul day 4

We have been summoned back to the stargazer II, tommorow we'll embark on another journey. Our jouney will first take us to The Fringe, from there to Doromakhad, and then back to Trinona.

Cycle 1305, the year of Wajek, Reqis day 4

We have reached our destination in the Fringe, we are unloading our supply of wood and taking onboard several tons of food, ore and raw gems for shipping to Doromakhad.

Cycle 1305, the year of Wajek, Sstasa day 12

We have unloaded our cargo at the Dwarven citadel of Doromakhad, and taken onboard 20 crates of swords and 15 crates of heavy crossbows. Also 50 chain mails have been loaded into the cargo bay. When I looked at the cargo, fisrandi the ships mage told me that we were picking up cargo for the marines of the trinona windriders.

Cycle 1305, the year of Wajek, Lugribossk day 20

We have passed the Dwarven citadel of Cerekazhd, within three weeks I will see the fabeld elven home port Avarien.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Pyrax day 6

We have passed Avarien at a safe distance but still where stopped by a elven Man-o-War and inspected, after being approved we have continued our journey towards Trinona.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Munigur day 24

We have reached Trinona and have unloaded the cargo, we have been given the rest of the month off and must report back at the first day of gelanicus. I'm going to visit my sister and see if there might be some new spells available in the guild.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Munigur day 30

Some major problems have occured at the cruiser shipyard which requires my attention, I have spoken to fisrandi since the captain wasn't on the ship and They will look for another helmsman for the Stargazer II.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Gelanicus day 5

The Stargazer II has left port on scedule, the problems at the cruiser are solved and I'm looking for another job as helmsman. There is a squid in dock who's looking for a helmsman, I'm going to talk there this afternoon.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Gelanicus day 6

I'm hired to be the new helmsman onboard the squid, we're going to Drachengard to drop of some cargo and for a meeting. The captain is also first mage onboard the vessel. Payment is exceptional, I'm getting 250 goldbar's a week.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Seltaine day 23

I'm leeving this ship ones we reach drachengard, the captain is looking for more than just me pushing the ship forward and it is only because of some crew members that he hasn't forced himself upon me.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Yul day 5

Tomorrow we will reach Drachengard, I've told our captain that I'm leaving ship there, he has only paid me a third of what he owes me but claims that I haven't fullfilled all my duties onboard.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Yul day 6

The squid has dropped me off in Drachengard, and changed cargo, they have immediately left. It's a good thing otherwise the old bastard might have found out that I have taken two of his empty spellbooks. I made a deal and now am fully paid, just have to find another ship soon and get out of here, don't want to get caught here.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Yul day 8

I have been here now for 2 days on Drachengard, this morning a vessel landed of a design neither I or any of the people on dockside ever saw. It showed some clear signs of damage, and landed very rough, don't know if this is because of the damage or from an inexperienced helmsman. Also a little later a hammership came down, it was the Ariadne. I have spoken to Vlad this afternoon and exchanged one of the empty spellbooks against soem powerfull spells. The crew of the strange ship has put out a notification that they are looking for crew. I have spoken to Vlad and he says they are trustworthy and on some kind of quest because on of them is a priest. I will check them and their offer out tomorrow.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Yul day 9

Had an interview this morning with the crew onboard the Nautilus, a strange name for a strange ship. It's owners definitly fits right in, they are a gnome, a minotaur and four half-elfs. The half-elf who introduced himself as Craid he's ugly. He looks more like a crossbreed between an orc and a bugbear. Haven't seen many Minotaurs, actually this is my first, but something tells me that Kolath the minotaur and Craid could be brothers. The others are average except for Raylan he's cute. I have been hired although they are not paying a fixed amount, but offer a equal share in the booty after ship's repair. I'm now sharing my room with 2 other females, one is a marine the other is a cook. This might become enjoyable, since there are myself included 4 mages onboard. I'm sure there must be something to learn here.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Yul day 13

Well it took 4 days before they had secured a cargo but we are about to leave. We're making a trip towards Tronsogard since the owners want to see the crew in action before beginning any long voyage. Besides me they have also hired another helmsman named Saimon, it's an old guy but it appears he possesses a lot of experience in sailing through space, perhaps I should get to know him better, have been a little harsh towards him.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Yul day 27

We have reached Tronsogard without problems. We have dropped of the cargo and it's gnome owner, and will stay a few days before heading back towards Drachengard again.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Yul day 30

The gnome who's cargo we shipped from Drachengard to Tronsogard has arranged a return cargo. We'll be leaving tomorrow. There hasn't been much action here in Tronsogard.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Fiira day 10

Today we encountered a Lamprey, who was trying to intercept us. We have fired several balista bolts at them and have been hit several times. After about 20 minutes of circling each other, Kolmer one of the owners took the place from Saimon in the helm. Kolmer has much more power and we managed to get our steel cone towards them and crash the lamprey. The lamprey was operated by Scro. Never heard that Scro also uses Lamprey's but still. We have searched the debris, and found a number of valuables.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Fiira day 16

We have docked at Drachengard, or to be more accurate we're in drydock at Drachengard. We will stay here for a tenday to have all our damages repaired. In the mean time the ships owners will try to sell some of the stuff found in the Scro debris. I've managed to copy a few spells to my own books from the books we found in the debris field.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Fiira day 26

We have left drydock and have docked at the normal docks. The Nautiloid has been completely repaired and some of the stuff from the Scro has been sold off. Each member of the crew has received 200 Goldbar's and there is still some money in the ship's registry.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Fiira day 28

We have left Drachengard and are on our way towards Tronsogard. The journey has been uneventfull and boring. Did learn more about the plans of the owners, they want to check out some rumors which will place us near Illiman. Perhaps I should warn them about entering Neogi space.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Chodak day 7

We arrived at Tronsogard, the owners have spent a few days chasing rumours. Kolath has given a big party in the local inn the first night. They have made their travel plans known. They are planning on first visiting Calimar and from there journey towards Avarien . To reach Calimar they wantto go the save route which will take us outside the great belt . While planning they also want to make a first stop at Khalzan.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Reqis day 11

Today we arrived at Khalzan. The inhabitants of the asteroid, lizardmen, didn't welcom us and turned us away. Our next stop will be a small farming moon which is supposed to be a 20 day travel from here.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Wajek day 3

We have docked at a small farming moon owned by some merchant house named Moune. We have gathered some info here and the owners have learned that Calimar has been invaded by Mind Flayers. No real big news. But there is a small asteroid not far from Calimar on which freedom forces are gathering in strength. We will make our next stop there.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Sstasa day 3

We have docked at Calimar's battlestar, there is indeed a force assembling there but I wonder if they really would be powerful enough to win from the Mind Flayer's. On our way to the moon we have been attacked by three wasp ships, operated by what I think must be Yuan-ti's. I'll look it up when I'm around the great library next time I'm home. Our ship has been damaged but it will be repaired during our stay here. We have spent every night partying while being here, except for Saimon who after the first night out has spent every night alone (I think) in his room. Raylan and I have grown intimate, and I think I've fallen in love.

Cycle 1305, the year of Sstasa, Sstasa day 13

We are on our way and will try to bypass Calimar and go directly towards Avarien.

Cycle 1305, the year of Lugribossk, Pyrax day 5

Today we arrived at Avarien but got turned away by the elves. They were very short and didn't give any explanation, our course will now take us to Ironport. Two days ago I found out for certain that I'm pregnant. I'm wondering how I should bring this news to Raylan.

Cycle 1305, the year of Lugribossk, Pyrax day 17

We have arrived at Ironport, on our last four hours before docking we encountered 2 nautiloids and several mind spiders. Nothing strange but the owners didn't expect this for sure. We have stayed for 2 days in Ironport. I've told Raylan about my situation, he wants to know what I want. That's the easy answer. Our crew has also been growing. Kolath the minotaur met some female and she has now joined our crew. The whole ship could hear her coming aboard. She is a gruff lady who views all who isn't minotaur as lesser beings. Our voyage will take us to Trinona and after that towards Elrannion. But we are first going to make a stop in the fringe.

Cycle 1305, the year of Lugribossk, Munigur day 1

Today we arrived at the asteroid belt called The Fringe. Apparantly the reason why we are here is that Kolath wants to go frost giant hunting. Well the place is cold enough for them I would guess. Hesther, the female minotaur is slowly coming around and hasn't called any of the crew a lesser specie for the past 4 days. Kolath, Craid, Hesther and Saimon have landed on the asteroid and will go hunting, while the rest of us remain onboard. Within 2 hours Kolath killed the first frost giant. Something awefull was done to the body, Kolath took the spine of the giant and cleaned it and had it lifted aboard. Six hours later our landing party encountered another trio of frost giants. Saimon got himself into big trouble having been the one who was in the helm upon our arrival. Kermit who was in the helm used the ship as a weapon on one of the frost giants, the landing party took care of the remainder and the hurt giant. When returning aboard the landing party was hurt bad.

Cycle 1305, the year of Lugribossk, Munigur day 7

We have spent another few days near The Fringe and have spotted a town in ruins. Kolath, Craid and Saimon who this time didn't come straight from the helm are our landing party and they will investigate. After about three hours they came out from the largest and central ruined structure. Saimon was in very bad shape, he was bitten by something called a Pit Fiend and was poisoned. They however did find a large quantity of several types of metal which they wanted to bring aboard. The plan was to do this tommorow after resting. The next day we indeed loaded several large quantities of silver, adamantite and iron. They are planning on selling this at our next stop, which would be Trinona. I've spoken with Raylan, about my situation and not being able to pilot the ship in the final months. Raylan would take that up with the other possible helmsmen. He also kind off proposed to me. I've accepted, although this will possibly take me out of the cluster forever since he lives in a place called the outlands. We have a long voyage ahead in which I can think things through.

Cycle 1305, the year of Lugribossk, Hordent day 2

We arrived at Trinona space, our first stop will be Netune after that we will go to Trinona herself. Hesther who knows about my condition has told me that she is expecting to, she hasn't told kolath yet.

Cycle 1305, the year of Lugribossk, Hordent day 4

We arrived in Trinona, the crew has split up after paying taxes. I've taken Raylan to my sister. We have talked for several hours, after that we went to the shipyard, gave Raylan a short tour and also picked up the earnings from the last year. It hasn't been much, only 2 arcane platinums. I'm reassigning ownership of my share to my sister. Am not sure if I will ever be back in Trinona. My last action as representative for the cruiser yard has been buying the spare helm and the metals from the nautilus crew. Saimon has some differences of opinion with Kolath on payment of the booty still open. I'm getting married in 2 days ! Raylan and I will marry onboard the Whaleship wanderer.

Cycle 1305, the year of Lugribossk, Hordent day 10

Well, 4 days ago Raylan and I married onboard the whaleship the Wanderer. We had a big celebration with a lot of friends and the crews from both ships present. Saimon, the other 'hired' helmsman has the hots for Loesje the only female marine onboard but she doesn't want anything to do with him. Two days after Raylan and I got married, Kolath and Hesther married, this happened onboard The Nautilus and we had a small party. Saimon has been very down ever since Loasje told him she isn't intrested in him. Yesterday the decision was finally made on our future actions, today we will leave for Elrannion. Kolath has made arrangements and we will take on some guests during this trip. Our guests will be elven. We are heading for Elrannion because we still have several tradeletters which will be cashed in and Colmar thinks that the elfs can help him further in his quest, if not than perhaps they can help us find Jarlaxle.

Cycle 1305, the year of Lugribossk, Hordent day .....

Our journey to Elrannion was uneventful so far, but today we encountered two Scro vessels exchanging goods in space. One of those ships was a scorpion which was painted black. We have spent almost an hour exchanging ballista bolts with the Scro scorpion. The Nautilus is severly damaged, but several hits from our weapons to critical parts of the scorpion and a few spells from Craid made the Scro decide to leave. We have tried to follow them for a while but lost them in mid space. Nilaroo and Raylan have started repairs immediately.

Today I gave birth to a son, raylan has named him Dennis.

We have arrived at Elrannion today, our elven guests have left and taken their cargo from our hold. Colmar has received a summons from a group of elves. He departed from the nautiloid for a period of almost 6 hours. When he returned he told Raylan and the other owners that the elves will supply him with the needed stuff if we go on a scouting mission for them. We have to go back to Avarien and somewhere in the Fringe there should be a Scro base. We have to report on their strengths, number of vessels, defences. We have been given permission to destroy the base if we can, something which brought a little fire to the eyes of Raylan and Kolath. Jarlaxle has brought his two squid ships alongside ours and we have had a small celebration. This behaviour of the elves I find very strange, and I'm wondering if they really think we stand a chance against the Scro and will be able to succesfully complete our mission. The elves brought several flasks of elven feywine onboard, and Kolath and Saimon have passed out from this wine. After 3 days at the port of elrannion we are going to return to Trinona, for final repairs and possible modifications to the ship.

Five days ago we arrived at Trinona space, on our way towards Trinona we have encountered a Dragon ship leaving Trinona. Two days ago we docked at Trinona. Craid and Colmar went to one of the shipyards to see if it was possible to get the Nautilus repaired and get a estimate on what the cost would be if we painted the ship black and order some black sails. The price asked was high and would come at almost 10.000 goldbar to have it all done. Saimon and Craid went to the wizard guld and we haven't seen them all day. Yesterday Raylan went shoppig and I asked him to stop by the wizard guild to have my membership renewed. Most of the crew spent the evening partying in one of the bars at the docks. Loesjes sister Mandy who is an apprentice working at the guild stopped by at the ship and together with hester and myself we saw crewmembers returning one by one. This morning Craid knocked at our door, he wanted me to go shopping buying clothes for some woman he rescued. She was working as a pleasure girl and couldn't leave because of her connection with the masks. The masks are the biggest and only criminal organisation currently active at Trinona. We are leaving Trinona as soon as possible, because the masks will retaliate on a short term. They would loose to much face is the word got spread that they can't hold on to their girls. I asked kolath to accompany me while shopping while raylan is supposed to look after our son. After having bought al the neccesary items I was shot by someone. The arrow which was poisoned almost took my life, Kolath rushed me to the local temple where I was cured of the poison. After returning to the ship, Craid and Saimon had already returned from their trip to the wizard guild. Raylan was still in town, he left our child with one of the cooks. When he returned to the ship there was a small arrow sticking out from his leg. Kolath made a trip to the harbor master paying our fees and we left after that. Three hours after leaving Trinona, Craid introduced his rescue Laura to the crew, surprisingly also Loesjes little sister was onboard. She would complete her study onboard. After talking with Loesje she explained that due to the actions taken by some of the crew members, Mandy feared that she wouldn't be safe anymore on Trinona.

We have left Trinona 5 days ago, after the rescue by Craid. So far we haven't encountered any more incidents besides the poisoning of Raylan and myself. We cannot return to Trinona for a long time, and I'm sure we haven't seen or heard the last of the masks.

We arrived in Ironport, haven't encountered any problems on the way here from Trinona. Laura, Craith's rescue went missing after she had gone shopping. The crew has searched for her for several days in Ironport. Finally a magic spell was bought to locate Laura, after Saimon casted the spell he found out that Laura was no longer on Ironport but heading towards Trinona. A meeting was called in which was decided to go after her. We left for Trinona after making sure we had stocked up.

We encountered a squid in space, the battle following was fierce but nobody on the Nautilus was mortally wounded. The squid lost most of its crew but managed to slip away. We do not know if this squid was ordered to wait for us and attack by the Masks.

We arrived at Trinona, a search party will go out to locate Laura with the help of Saimon's casting. The search party being Colmer, Craith, Hesther and ofcourse Saimon. They are capable of looking out for themselves. Tension onboard the Nautilus is building in wait for the results of the party. Late in the evening Hesther returned aboard, she was invisible, a few minutes later Saimon arrived. They had found Laura but had no idea how to reach her, the party had split up and on the way back to the ship Saimon and Hesther ran into a group of the masks. About 45 minutes later a group of Trinonian knights boarded the ship lookig for both Hesther and Saimon, Colmer and Craith are responsible for a slaughter among the Masks and the other search party memebers are needed for info. Abouth 90 minutes later the party returned with Laura and 4 other humans. They have been give a room to sleep and a place among the crew if they wish so. After questening it became clear that Laura and the other 4 humans were held in a cellar only reachable with either a flat spelljammer of magic.

We stayed at Trinona for a ten-day before leaving, not much happened during these days, we saw a warehouse being raided by the Trinonian Knights, it was probably used by the masks to keep their illegal propertie out of sight. Saimon and Craith had a encounter with a group of the mask but managed to slip away without killing anyone. Kolath requested a quick repair at the docks.It's surprising to see that the mask are not this powerfull as they have always appeared to be.

We have left the great Belt around Trinona about two hours when we were pulled from spelljamming into tactical. A Nautiloid appeared approximately 10.000 yards ahead of us. It set out for a intercept course, they shot their weapons several times but were not able to score a hit until we were in pursuit, they hit us twice with a Jettison, after we had softened them a bit by scoring hit after hit, and Saimon cast a fireball on the deck, we managed to steer our ship in such a position that we could ram them from the side. Colmer who was in the helm didn't slow down a bit and scored a full hit, almost breaking the nautiloid in two. In the battle that followed we lost one of our crew to a mind flayer's attack, Raylan almost was caught by the same attack. Kolath and Loesje really did make the difference this day and within 7 minutes our enemies were dead. After tugging the ship free we took 30 barrels onboard filled with a green pulsating fungus. We managed to fill our ballista racks to max again and also have a few more jettison charges Also some planks were found onboard the nautiloid which we took to make future repairs.

Today again we were pulled from spelljamming, this time by a Octopus ship. A Mind Flayer Octopus. For a moment it appeared as if they wanted to take on the Octopus but with Colmer taking place in the helm we could outrun them approx 30 minutes after seeing the Octopus appear we made it to spelljamming again.

We arrived at Ironport yesterday, Kolath is going to try to sell the barrels we took from the nautiloid and also the 5 tons of Silver ore we still have in the cargo-bay. Craid and Saimon left for the guild. In the evening after they returned we learned from Kolath that the barrels most likely contained some type of Mind Flayer food, the ore he sold to some old grumpy dwarf who would pick it up today. Also kolath bought some neede rations for our continued journey. Craid and Saimon had learned little but we did have a talk about what to do with Mandy who is almost finished with her studies. It has been decided that the spellbook we still had in the shipsinventory would be hers as her first book. Craid has given her the book. Today shortly after breakfast our replenished rations were brought onboard. In the afternoon the dwarf came by the ship as he agreed and took the ore from our cargo area. We still have these 30 barrels of mind flayer food. I've spent the evening helping Mandy trying to work her way through the spellbook, it will still take a few months before she is a actual mage or able to helm the ship, she is only understands cantrips and read magic. I've promised to help her with her studies during the voyage. Well maybe we leave tommorow, maybe not but it's about time to spend some quality time with Raylan.

This morning the decision was made to leave in search of the hidden Scro base. Kolath went to pay the taxes, when he returned we saw a squid coming into Ironport. The ship was painted blue and was showing a blue flag on which was painted a yellow mask. We left quickly. Kolmer, Craith and the navigator plotted our course. Colmer wasn't really sure where the elves had directed him to search so the decision was made to sail around the Great Belt from Ironport to Cerekadzh.

it has been 28 days since we left Ironport. Still no sign of any Scro activity.

Today we were forced from spelljamming back to tactical by a clipper. Quick decision was made to go into the belt to see if we could loose the clipper. After about 10 minutes playing cat and mouse in the belt the clipper managed to fire a series of balistae's at us. This resulted in a lot of damage and a gaping hole in our hull. The nautilus was turned around to see if we could reach open space and flee. Unfortunately this was not possible and a second salvo of ballistae shots crippled us. We crashed on one of the asteroids, Saimon who was in the helm during the encounter fell into a coma. Kolath and Raylan didn't take well to loosing the ship they left as soon as the crew cleared the wreckage. After about 4 hours they returned. they hadn't find any signs of life. After some talking it was decided to build a flat ship like a cargo barge and mount the helm aboard.

It has been 7 days ago now that we crashed, saimon woke up after 4 days. The building of our barge is getting on its way, with Raylan and Nilaroo making a lot of progress. We are assisting them as good as can.

We were attacked while we slept, John our latest additiion to the crew was almost killed by a bunch of Varan's who sneaked into our campsite. Craith quickly cast a continual light spell to give us some vision. The Varan's are part of a group of Mind Flayer's, probably looking for fesh slaves/food. It took about 10 minutes for us to dispatch the Mind Flayer's and their lackey's. Kolath, Raylan and several of the crew went in search for the Mind Flayer ship while the remaining stayed with the helm and other salvaged parts. Raylan and his group found the Mind Flayer ship at about 90 minutes walking, it was a difficult fight but they managed to overcome the Mind Flayer's. They also found 12 slaves in the slave holding onboard the ship. We now have a nautiloid as a ship. The decision is that we will take the Nautiloid to Netune where we will try to sell the three series helms used by the Mind Flayer's and do some modifications to the ship on our way to Netune.

Day 22, onboard our new ship, We are still flying close to the Great Belt in hopes of finding a trace of Scro activity. Raylan en Nilaroo have repaired all the damage to the hull of the ship which we recived during the takeover of the ship and the ship had to land on the asteroid.

We saw 2 vessels moving out of the Great Belt towards us on a interception course. About 5 minutes later we dropped out of jamming speed and saw that we were being intercepted by 2 Wasp ships. Colmer took the helm giving us max power and about 10 minutes we managed to ram one of the Wasps, it was completely destroyed after Colmer put the Nautiloid through it. The second Wasp was closing in fast. The wasp went through the debris of it's partner and managed to intercept us. We have been boarded by a large group of Scro warriors. The battle took a long time but we managed to fight the Scro back, the still functional Wasp ship had decided to sacrifice it's warriors and was already on the run. We searched through the debris of the other Wasp finding little of value.