M.I.S.T. Campaign: Session 18

I helped out a bit to fix the boat, when asked, learned a few things.  But…for the most part just avoided the ranch.  No real inclination to be there, at this point, plenty of reason to avoid it.  I spent most of the time underwater, actually.  Solitude, there are a lot fewer people who could get down there to try to engage me in a conversation I’d have really not wanted to participate in.

Eventually, blessedly, the time came to leave.  Manannan gave us some short, motivational, speech.  I didn’t really listen all that closely, wasn’t in the mood for it.  And as soon as we were underway I went up to the crow’s nest and stayed there.  All the better to keep watch.  Lexi said a little something to try to cheer me up, which helped.  Didn’t override whatever Altair did…but I was thankful for it. 

Though the vigil proved unnecessary, wasn’t long before we entered the mists.  Thick mists, not at all natural, slowed the ship to a crawl.  It seemed to be fairly apparent that we were nearing Avalon.  Whatever the case, they interrupted the conversation Cindy and Claire were having about pirate captains.  We were about to start planning.  Andrew mentioned that Thoth was being held by Tishtrya.  Fucking wonderful…that means we have to get in and out under the nose of a major Yazata God.

Then the ship stopped dead, we could feel something bumping against the side, Lexi could catch glimpses of it.  But the blasted mist kept us from seeing much.  So I went over the side and slipped underwater, mist couldn’t impede my vision there.  And…it was about as bad as we could’ve expected.  There were a ton of little monsters tearing at the boat, and a bigger serpent that hit me almost as soon as I entered the water.  Thankfully I was tough enough to weather it.

And I called Cindy down into the water right away.  Couldn’t help but feel that this one was going to fall even more squarely than usual on our shoulders, too.  I mean, we’ve always been the front-line fighters.  But we’re also the only ones that can handle ourselves in water as well as we can on land.  For our sake, the world’s, the Æsir’s…just had to hope we were up to it.