Session Fourteen - 07/16/2021

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Waking up the next morning, most of the group makes their way to the mess hall for a much needed cup of coffee, while Ophelia stays behind to draw from her deck of tarot cards. While in the mess hall, they notice a strange couple of crewmen enter. These crewmen not only have not been seen prior to this point, but they have large watery eyes, pale skin, and notable lack of hair. The crewmen lock eyes with the investigators, who get a malevolent feeling from the odd looking crewmen. Vincent goes pale and his eyes widen like he's just seen a ghost, however he's unwilling to share why he had the reaction. Lotte and Elijah leave the mess hall at this point to go check on Ophelia's tarot reading. They walk in just as she finishes the reading, and she tells them that there will be imminent conflict and that they will be victorious.

Back in the mess hall, the crew starts to clear out of the room in a hurry. The sound of raised voices comes from above. McQuaid, Samuel, and Vincent follow the crew out of the room and to the deck, where they see a ring of crew surrounding a six-person brawl. Captain Farthing is on the sidelines shouting at the six crewmen to stop, but the shouts of the crowd drown him out. McQuaid pushes his way to the front of the crowd and fires his pistol into the air to get everyone's attention. All of the crewman stop shouting, and the six brawlers immediately cease fighting and look directly at McQuaid. He sees that brawlers are the same odd crewmen he saw in the mess hall earlier, and that they have blood streaming out of their eyes like morbid tears. McQuaid looks over the crowd and chastises them for allowing some of their own tear each other apart like this. The crowd begins to disperse. McQuaid asks Farthing for help with the odd brawlers, to which the captain responds that they weren't part of his crew and he'd never seen them before today. Samuel holds up the broken mirror and catches the reflection of one of the crewmen. He sees that their strange features are far more pronounced in the reflection, far more reminiscent of fish. McQuaid suggests putting the six strange crewmen in isolation for the remainder of the voyage. Captain Farthing turns to answer but only spits up blood as the points of a trident emerge violently from his chest. Holding the trident is an 8 foot tall fish person covered in green scales and grinning toothlessly at McQuaid.