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Ship of Horror, Letter 2


Dear Da,


We are on a ghost boat. I thot we were OK after getting out of the plaig but now we are on a ghost boat.
At first every thing was going OK. Rhavin and me worked on the deck and jven was navigating and kariya worked with the guns and nikita watched up in the crowes next and even Canliss was working. Nikita got reely sick and might have almost dyed exept her magic came back in time and she cured herself. Things were pretty good after that. Jven and me went to a party on deck and i lernt some sailors songs and drank rum and stuff. We went throo a storm which was pretty exiteing when the ship went up and down and up and down and everything was pretty shook up afterwards.
Some weerd things were going on tho. There was this guy called jacob who kept knocking on everyones door late at nite and then walking away. Well everyone but me because I was sleeping on deck becuz the rooms were too small. And then Nikita sed that a littul girl was coming to her door and asking to help find her dollie but the first time no one else saw her and then the second time no one else saw her and nikita always ended up in a room in the cargo deck that wasnt there.
So maybe there were ghosts on the boat or maybe nikita was seeing things but everything was OK and we had oatmeal for breakfast with apples sometimes and sometimes without apples and stew for dinner and nikita let me help finish her stew mostly. Then one day was reely foggy and everyone sed is that the ravinloft fog and jven sed no thats just normal fog. But then this big boat came out of the fog and it was all beat up and old and there were ded pepul on it and it had THE ETERNAL TORMENT writtin in blud on it.
It reminded me of when we were in the dessert of despair and there were all those ded pepul that we had to fight and now we were in the water not the dessert but there were still ded pepul. I yelled out "GHOST BOAT" and got Hilt ready even tho it was already ready cuz i had been practising.
The ded pepul rammed their boat into ours and came over. They were pretty fast and strong for ded pepul and they smelled reely bad. They smelled even worse after i chopped them up a bit.
Nikita and rhavin and jven were up in the front part of the boat protecting the captin and i was kind of in the middle. The sailors fot pretty good, but the ded pepul were reely tuff and would gang up on them. Once they nocked someone down, theyd start to eat him. Even wurse was sometimes if they bit you you couldnt move and then theyd start eating you without nocking you down.
There were two big ded pepul that looked like they were the bosses so i tryed to kill them next. It didnt take long to get the three ded pepul who were fighting me but it was almost too long becuz the big ded pepul were trying eat kariya. She was throwing litening bolts at them and one hit and made them mad but one missed tho and a lot of magik missuls missed too. But I got there just in time and got the one that was hit by the litening and then the other one. I was pretty bad hurt by then, but not as bad as he was.
Then since there were still ded pepul left i had to go help out but the first thing that happened was i got bit and i couldn´t move. By then, most of the ded pepul were killed and the ones left alive jumped off the ship. I couldn´t see becuz i couldn´t turn my head but i heard them splashing and no one was eating me so i knew they ran away.
The big ded guy bit me twice before I was able to kill him and it still reely hurt. I felt week too i mean even tho i got beat up pretty bad i usully get beat up more. When nikita heeled me the bite mark didnt go all away but just turned into a big ugly scar. I gess after all this fiteing i should have some scars but usully everything goes away when nikita or jven heels me. Maybe it just takes longer to get better in ravinloft.
We cleened up the boat. It was reely gros even with canliss helping but finally it was mostly done. We went back to work after a lite dinner and pepul went down to try to fix the side of the our boat where the ghost boat ran into it. Then nikita sed man overbord becuz someone had fallen in. Jven and rhavin jumped in and i threw rope down to pull the man overbord back up. After everyone was back in the boat, the boat changed to look like the ghost boat. It got all old and broken looking and instead of having ENDURENCE written on the side it had SHIP OF HORRORS on the side writtin in blud. Just like the other boat.
I was afraid that we would turn into ded pepul like the other boat but then i herd someone saying oh no not again like the boat was turning into a ghost boat again not just the first time. I gess if this boat was a ghost boat before and no one was ded pepul yet then we probly wouldnt turn into ded pepul now. But then i got reely mad becuz if this was a ghost boat why didnt they tell us on the sign like adventurers needed for GHOST BOAT or something? And all he could do was whine oh no not again instead of making the boat not a ghost boat or finding a boat that wasnt a ghost boat or something. I mean yeah we are on a ghost boat but at least we arent zombies or nothing yet. So i tryed to get him to tell me what was going on but he kept blubbering until jven made me stop. She couldnt get him to tell her nothing either.
Some of the sailors kind of told us at dinner which was stew which normally i like but i was almost too mad to eat. I gess this boat is cursed or something and no one can leave it and every time it leaves a town it turns into a ghost boat but then when it goes to another town it turns into a normal boat like before. Everyone was talking about it and if maybe it had something to do with the two ghosts but it was time to go to bed so we did. And first thing in the morning we were going to talk to the captin and see what was going on. It would be nice if we could get off the boat and i gess the sailors too even tho im still a littul mad that they didnt tell us we were getting on a ghost boat. I hope soon that nikita gets her spell that makes it so she asks a question and gets an answer becuz i dont know how we are going to figgur out this curse thing without a littul more help.

--love,

Ester