The Titan is limping badly. Both ships have been damaged. The sixth crow is released and flies due east. (This indicates that land is likely still far off).
A valued and experienced member of the Titan crew dies. From wounds suffered in the battle with the thallasians. He had been fighting infection for days. Both crews assemble on the Titan for a burial at sea.
The Titan begins to leak. The crew begins to pump water out of the hull. It's just a matter of time now before they are forced to abandon the Titan. Neither captain wants that as it would be awfully crowded on the Third Wind if they lost the Titan. And they would not have enough room for all the stores.
Captain Draabyn releases another crow. His second to last crow. It was a desperate ploy to find land. It flies east but also north. This is a good indication that an island may be nearby. Encouraged, he alters course to follow the crow.
Land! The captains and crews of both ships rejoice when the crow’s nest cries out, Land! It appeares that Callister’s gamble has paid off. The two ships come upon a modest island, perhaps three kilometers across. The ships need fresh food and water. The Titan needs to find a shallow lagoon where it can roll on to its side and have some serious repairs made. The two captains decide that this island will be a good place to stop and rest while the Titan is fixed up.
The two ships find a sheltered lagoon on the east side of the island and they enter it. On the beach in the lagoon, they find a wrecked ship. Old and abandoned. Again, strange colors and an unfamiliar flag. Odd scratch marks on the wood. No bodies, just blood stained wood, bleaching in the sun.
The Third Wind puts down anchor in shallow water in the lagoon. The Titan is rolled (that's where they put the ship in very shallow water and then use ropes and weights to pull it over almost onto it's side. This pulls the damaged part of the hull out of the water and the crew can then work on repairing it).
While repairs are being made, the Third Wind crew splits up into groups. Some of them help with repairs on the Titan. Some of them lounge about on the beach having picnics. Some of them stay on the Third Wind.
Some of the sailors venture into the jungle of the island on a hunting foray. They hope to bring back a wild boar for a feast on the beach tonight.
About two hours later, a handful of the hunters (less than half that went in) burst from the jungle out onto the beach at a dead run startling the crew members who are sleeping on the beach.
Hoist the sails! cried one of the hunters. He is bleeding and terrified as he runs toward the ship. Cut the anchor! All hands to the ship!.
The crew hesitate only a moment and then the very jungle explodes as a horde of ghostly translucent spiders burst through the foliage and flooded the beach. There are thousands of them, a rolling wave of spider bodies and spider legs. This is a running battle. Sailors are fighting the horde of spiders even as they run. Men shove the longboats into the water and began paddling frantically for the Third Wind.
The Titan is still on its side. There is no way it can be made ready to sail in time. The sails of the Third Wind billow out and the ship surges forward, even as sailors are scrambling aboard.
Dozens of crew from the Titan leap onto the Third Wind as it passes. But many more perish. Thousands of spiders engulfed the Titan and the Third Wind is forced to flee. Even so, at least a 100 spiders clattered to the deck of the Third Wind and the crew fight them off. The crew and player characters fight together to fling the spiders from the deck into the ocean.
It is a tragic loss. Almost two thirds of the men working on the Titan were killed. The remaining crew and soldiers huddled on their last remaining ship, the Third Wind. The Third Wind sails out to a distance of about a mile and drops its other anchor. There it waits. The officers and crew watch through spyglasses as the horde of spiders covered the Titan hull.
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