<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/c4/a2/eb/c4a2eb3622a5fd5f4149b8e094a22fa3.jpg)</div><strong>Name: </strong>Danae Vine-Lott (https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/13428552/mqOlTT)<br/><strong>Location: </strong>The Mercy, cargo hold<br/><strong>Wearing: </strong>White cotton jodhpurs, loose grey muslin riding shirt with collar open and sleeves rolled up, barefoot<br/><strong>Content: </strong>Caught!<br/><strong>Tagging: </strong>Jacqueline, Colleen, Baykur<br/><br/>She knew the sudden forcing of the padlock would attract attention, but she<em>needed</em>to know.  It was a compulsion greater than every fibre of self-control in her being.  Then the choked sounds, and the swirl of turbid water gathering at her feet. Cold, lifeless, stagnant.  "Mademoiselle Jacqueline, what in all the worlds is this?"  She breathed.  There seemed to be<em>animate</em>things in the boxes; living, almost certainly, thinking, she hoped not.  Her hearth thundered in her chest, as though she were trapped in the summation of all her nightmares made flesh at once.  Of course they would not have been allowed down here - this was forbidden cargo.  Perhaps it was no coincidence that the<em>Mercy</em>had been close to the wreck of the<em>Charlotte</em>.<br/><br/>Baykur's sudden arrival came was scarcely a surprise.  The noise and Colleen's relentless struggle were bound to draw attention.  Now outnumbered, and unarmed for melee, she and Jacqueline found themselves at the dubious mercy of the ship's captain.<br/><br/>"What then, were you hiding here, Captain?" Danae spat, and fixed her gaze on Baykur's, never once demurring from the challenge, "We are grateful for your hospitality, but this ship is accursed!" She posed no resistance when she was seized, for she knew that her strength was better preserved for whatever struggles lay ahead.  "If you wish to lash us, it is your prerogative as captain of this vessel, though I only ask that you do it by your own hand.  It is only for me to say that you should not flog my crew-mate. It was by my command that we entered the hold."<br/><br/>Truth be told, she would be relieved to be taken out of the hold.  This was a place of incipient madness, and she knew that what she had seen and heard would not soon be forgotten.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Wisdom Check</div><div class="spoiler_body">At 2019-10-04 22:24:19, MdG (uid: 41210) rolls: 1d20m1 Result: 8 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=140166)</div></div>