Enchantment of the Royal Sea:P1:Captains Log5
Title: Captain's Log
Author: Johne
Later that evening...
The weather is much of what I'd expect given our location, which at last report, had us somewhere in the vicinity of the Western Coast of Ocllo. Winds continue to hold, seas are relatively calm. My head aches with a dull throb. I'm hitting the rack early. EXO Kirkpatrick has night watch.
A full day past, midafternoon...
Something has gone terribly wrong. I was thrown from my rack in the wee hours of yesterday morning by a violent jolting of the ship. When I arrived on deck the helmsman was nowhere to be found, and only Kirkpatrick was fighting against a ripping current like none I've seen in all my years at sea. Kirkpatrick is a fine officer but not worth a damn as a sailor. I am told Kirkpatrick was making rounds when he returned to the ship, wildly off course. If I had not seen it with my own eyes I would not believe it...some kind of vortex....a swirling current with the Ararat loss to its embrace. It wasn't shortly thereafter I was thrown to the deck...what little I can remember, as seems to be the case with most of the crew is sketchy at best. The Ararat, while structurally intact is not fit for sailing. Her hull has been breached and her sails torn. Debris litters all decks. If I didn't know any better I would say we were on the bottom of the Sea itself. One step off the Ararat's deck and you find yourself up to the boot cuff in sand...yet I can move and act as if I were standing on Britannia's shores...even the sea creatures appear to move effortlessly around us. Our crew has sustained casualties, albeit a minimal loss. All officers are present and accounted for with 72 able bodied souls on board. I am leading a search party after I and the crew have rested and fed. I can see no sun nor the moons from where we are...
