**Passing by the boat gave the group a closer look at the body; still no obvious cause of death.
The source of the thrashing soon becomes apparent, at least, when the group glimpses an alligator about 70' away. The boat is currently not on a course to cross paths with the creature (or even float near it).**
Cee - "Is it.. attacking a tree?"
Y'know, the group has a couple ways they could be looking about in the dark, but which one are they actually using?
Arl, to Colt - "I don't... think I've made any wishes?"
Cee - "Maybe it's the sash! It's a divine healing item thing made when the elvish gods asked you to describe a thing and an object. Maybe it destines you to make sacrifices for others?"
Arl - "...I wouldn't put that past them.
**Arl had no objections either, although she left a note explaining the situation [minus the involvement of anyone besides herself] along with a way to contact her in the shack for Jed. Normally she probably wouldn't but.. the condition of the shack was itself more than a little suspicious.
A suspision that was confirmed about a half hour later when the group's boat floated within sight of the second of "Jed's Boats"... and the corpse it bore upon it. The body looked looked like some animals and insects had been nibbling on it, and to the untrained eye it was rather hard to tell how long it'd been since the man had died. The body was still loosely clutching its chest, but there were no obvious mortal injuries on the coprse. Although, again, it would be hard to tell due to the nibbling.**
**The water thankfully isn't very deep. At the swamp's edge, anyway. The group soon finds an old sign pointing towards "Jed's Swamp Boats"**
Cee - "Arl's been trying to tone it down since you left."
Arl - "It hasn't been working out very well though. I got forced by an elven god to free some other ones, ran into two serial killers, got attacked by a random pirate ship, bandits, ..."
**The group sees Jed's Swamp Boats in the distance.
A spiderweb as been spun over the open door, and dust covers every part of the unkempt shack. A lone boat is docked in the adjacent swamp waters.**
Arl - "Well, the reptiles we're looking for probably live in the deeper swamp waters so I suppose we should see if there's anyone nearby with a boat we can borrow?"
The source of the thrashing soon becomes apparent, at least, when the group glimpses an alligator about 70' away. The boat is currently not on a course to cross paths with the creature (or even float near it).**
Cee - "Is it.. attacking a tree?"
Y'know, the group has a couple ways they could be looking about in the dark, but which one are they actually using?
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Anyone paying close attention to their surroundings might hear some thrashing in the distance.**
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Cee - "Maybe it's the sash! It's a divine healing item thing made when the elvish gods asked you to describe a thing and an object. Maybe it destines you to make sacrifices for others?"
Arl - "...I wouldn't put that past them.
**Arl had no objections either, although she left a note explaining the situation [minus the involvement of anyone besides herself] along with a way to contact her in the shack for Jed. Normally she probably wouldn't but.. the condition of the shack was itself more than a little suspicious.
A suspision that was confirmed about a half hour later when the group's boat floated within sight of the second of "Jed's Boats"... and the corpse it bore upon it. The body looked looked like some animals and insects had been nibbling on it, and to the untrained eye it was rather hard to tell how long it'd been since the man had died. The body was still loosely clutching its chest, but there were no obvious mortal injuries on the coprse. Although, again, it would be hard to tell due to the nibbling.**
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Cee - "Arl's been trying to tone it down since you left."
Arl - "It hasn't been working out very well though. I got forced by an elven god to free some other ones, ran into two serial killers, got attacked by a random pirate ship, bandits, ..."
**The group sees Jed's Swamp Boats in the distance.
A spiderweb as been spun over the open door, and dust covers every part of the unkempt shack. A lone boat is docked in the adjacent swamp waters.**
Arl - "... I think I might be cursed."
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Any experts on reptiles among them would know this to be in the group's favor; alligators and the like tend to be nocturnal, after all.**
Start of this whole quest here: <how it all began>
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