OK, first of all, I'd like to thank everyone who played. We got to over 1000 posts in about four years. That's absolutely amazing and we couldn't have done that without everyone who showed up and showed interest. This was quite the learning experience for me and I'm glad I had a group like all y'all to start out with.<br/><br/>Now, here's what I had planned:<br/><br/>Coral Shelf would be under attack by the same guys with the whale emblem. I'm debating whether you would've fought the same mercenaries as in your second encounter, having been resurrected. They would be poisoning the coral, and part of the encounter would've been disarming the chemical bombs they were planting. Once that was done, you all would've got a choice. You could travel back with the ship on your original route.<br/><br/>However, the mayor was also willing to pay to have someone take a look at the shortcut to your next destination. This would've led to a non-combat encounter involving navigation, where you all'd have to find your way through a series of caves until you reached the next island. On the other side, you'd be introduced to the Whale Syndicate, an organized crime group doing some moving and shaking in the islands. If you took the ship back, you'd encounter them at dock, where they'd be responsible for keeping your ship in quarantine until they could take their revenge on you (you'd have to escape).<br/><br/>In either case, you'd make it to the port town of Unity Cove. This is a town that was designed so humans and merfolk could live side-by-side. It'd be sort of like Laketown from the Hobbit meets Ga-Koro from Bionicle, with low platforms close to the water's surface so humans and merfolk could walk together and buildings specially built so merfolk could enter and browse from the water. You'd have an collection of inns to choose from.<br/><br/>And now you get a new set of options for how to get to the island of Drasz. Option one is bribing someone to take you over. Option two is trying to get in nice with the mayor and the area's representative to try and get onto an official transport to the island. Option three is my favorite, it involves getting in with a mage who's trying to build a series of stable teleportation gates to get between the islands. Your job would be to get him the things he needs. In exchange, he'd transport you to the island.<br/><br/>That wouldn't be for a while, though. Annorus would need about 40 days in Lili's belly in order for him to be ready (1 day = 1 week of pregnancy). In the meanwhile, you'd be kicking back doing whatever. However, you'd also be in the same town as the Whale Syndicate, as well as rival groups the Hammerhead Clan and the Cult of Nezia. Nezia (with permission from Netjak) is a deep sea mermaid goddess of destiny who's gone missing in recent years. The other is a family run by the redhead Lang slept with that one night. They'd both run things around the world which you'd start getting involved in.<br/><br/>Eventually, it would be about time for Annorus to be born, and the group would need to make it to the island. Lili would need to be in Annorus's temple so she could give birth to him there. Yes, there would be an encounter while Lili's in labor, and I'm not sure what the mechanics would be (move action to push? Strength check?). Anyway, once Annorus is born, Drasz would start coming back to life.<br/><br/>From then, I don't really have something solid. There would, however, be a quest with Nezia. She's the subject of Taizee's dream (all of the original players got one and everyone would continue to get them over the space of the adventure). The group would find the crystal pyramid she was imprisoned in and eventually free her.<br/><br/>Then we get to the endgame (about lvl 20). See, the Tobuka islands are the remains of a god. He got curious about life and tried to make his own world, but wound up blowing himself apart. He's still alive, though, and everything going on with various disasters is him trying to pull himself back together. That would be your final quest, putting him back together. The islands would be gone at the end, but you'd have a very grateful god pulling for you as well.