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==A Bard's Adventure of Discovery ==
'''by Bardess [[Eoworfinia]] Galarang, Bladesinger '''

I don't recall exactly what year it was but it happened when I
was a younger bard. Ya see, I grew up in [[Ratha]] and knew lots of
the sailors (to my parents' distress), but there was a Chantey
man named [[Olaus]] that I was often found seeking out to listen to
his songs and tales of the sea and his days of working for
the [[Redthornes]].

He had a wonderful songbook filled with many songs as well as
tales of mysteries of the seas and lands. Olaus never said if
they were truth or not but after my adventure with him, I have a
feeling that songbook held more than just songs and stories but
many clues to secrets. It is a shame that book was stolen, but I
get ahead of myself.

One day, I happened upon Olaus in [[Jack Tarr's]] bar to learn that
Olaus had spotted that good-fer-nothing Captain [[Janus]] selling
some strange instrument to [[Elepaio]] in her shop. This instrument
I came to find out was a [[shintu]] and made of [[coral]]. It made no
sound, though, Olaus went on to tell me. Odd, we both agreed, and
after a few rums, Olaus pondered on the instrument, and perhaps it
was just the rum, but he vowed he thought he'd seen something of
an instrument that made no sound in his songbook. We parted our
ways that day and it was several weeks before I was able to speak
to him again.

Upon our meeting, Olaus told me and a few others of a song
scroll he found on a creature called the [[selkie]]. He sang the
song -- well, what he could recover of the song -- and a few
rums later he was off, and we were left with a puzzle.
Over and over we sang this song:

"Long, long, long and lone
Is the selkie's song when the storm winds moan,
Is the sigh of the sea as it rubs the stone,
Is the word of the sea that lives in the bone..."

"By a fire on the beach at the edge of night,
She brushes her hair in the flickering light.
Her throne is the shadow of a broken keel,
Her white feet rest on the hides of seal."

What could this mean? Surely this creature was not hidden to us
on our island? But just maybe it was. After all, that bastard
son of the Redthorne's, Captain Janus, along with that Skra'Mur
thug of his, [[Thaarl]], wouldn't happen upon the island for nothing.
We began to realize that there was something on our island they
wanted and it was very important we find it before them.

We began to search day and night but with no luck. Olaus did his
best to find more of the song of the selkie but the pages were
too ruined. Olaus took to carrying his songbook with him as we
searched, which turned out to be a mistake.

Mark my words, one day this is going to come back to bite us all.
That Skra'Mur Thaarl ambushed us and took that songbook. Poor
Olaus had a bump on his head that the empaths could only shake
their heads at and tell him to put a cold slab of meat on till
the swelling went down. I think Olaus merely cooked that meat up
and proceeded to down a bottle of Jack Tarr's rum instead. I
heard tell many years later of visions the moon mages were
getting that I tell you, my body took a chill the moment I heard
the retelling of those visions because I knew right away it was
Thaarl and the stolen songbook.

The Skra'Mur in the visions murdered his guides after they helped
him through the jungle as he sought his prize, a mask. The
visions stopped, and I can only hope that nothing else ever comes
of them, for the Skra'Mur knew he had found a treasure book filled
with many prizes if he followed the clues to them.

But again, I fall away from my tale. Soon after that eventful
eve when the songbook was stolen, we looked on the horizon to
see the volcano; did that not look like a keel? Quickly we
began to explore, climbing down a step incline to a water's
shore. Our excitement grew as we dove into the water. When we
surfaced the most beautiful creature I have ever seen was there
before me. She wasn't nearly as tall as an ale barrel, almost
looking like a thin Olvi child wearing a grey pelt cloak. She
was hairless and pink-skinned with golden, almond-shaped eyes
that glinted from beneath the hood like the first light of dawn.
She moved with a feline grace that exuded an aura of wisdom as
would an ancient creature conscious of its place in time.

We looked at each other curiously then suddenly she opened her
mouth and sang. Olaus got an idea and pulled out the coral
instrument that Janus had brought to the island and handed it to
me. To my surprise, he told me to play it for her, and as I
lifted it to my lips to play it, instead of silence coming from
it or a watery-airy sound, a beautiful song sprang forth and the
selkie began to sing with it.

After several mesmerizing moments had passed, we were suddenly
confronted with a web-footed creature with razor sharp teeth
called a [[merrow]]. Before I could blink, those teeth sunk into me.
The selkie grabbed me, pulling me away from the teeth, but I had
already suffered wounds too deep, and soon my spirit floated over
my dead body. My spirit watched as the selkie protected my body
until someone was able to get to it and bring my spirit back to
it to once again breathe.

Since that day, I often go to the area and play the shintu to the
selkie, listening to the song they will sing back. I have
learned that some hunters will seek prize from the slaying of a
selkie. Many of those hunters have found a prize of my blade at
their throat instead. Olaus explained later how the selkie had
gone there years earlier, back in the time when Ratha was ruled
and the selkie were used for torture and experiments. So remem-
ber dear hunter, do not let your blade silence another song from
a selkie -- she will protect you if you let her. If the creatures
with teeth so sharp, the merrows, surround you, call out to the
selkie with a shintu and she will come to your aid.

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Bard's Voyage of Discovery, A - Revision history

ISHARON: ISHARON moved page Bard's Voyage of Discovery to Bard's Voyage of Discovery, A

CARAAMON at 00:15, 11 February 2015

CARAAMON: CARAAMON moved page Bard's Voyage of Discovery (book) to Bard's Voyage of Discovery

ZUERCAT: Created page with "==A Bard's Adventure of Discovery == '''by Bardess Eoworfinia Galarang, Bladesinger ''' I don't recall exactly what year it was but it happened when I was a younger bard..."