<div align="center"><em>David and Seth Do'Urden, aboard the Sea Sprite....</em></div><br/>It wasn't long after the pirate assault was thwarted that the Sea Sprite wound up in trouble too big to handle even for such an experienced crew and their powerful mage and barbarian tag team.  A storm hit, strong and powerful in its ferocity.  The shore might receive a light drizzle but on the open sea, the maelstrom swept in hard over the ship and her crew.  Seth tried to counter nature's fury, summoning counter winds and the like, but that only made things worse as a tsunami formed several miles out and it steered right towards them.  They saw their doom amongst the flashes of lightning, being pelted by stinging cold rain from the heavens.  The twister closed in and the waves roiled and crashed overhead, and one particular wave formed that was at least ten feet tall, and the captain tried to steer the Sea Sprite straight into it, intending to ride it out and over but the winds were too strong.  A lightning bolt slammed into the main mast, splintering wood and iron like so much tinder, destroying their sails and leaving them at the mercy of the storm.<br/><br/>The wave crashed in moments before David and Seth and at least a dozen others managed to secure themselves to the deck with heavy rope, but the rest of the crew weren't so fortunate when the wave smashed into the deck with powerful and deadly force.  Spluttering and gasping for air, Seth and David held on for dear life as others were swept into the ocean, their screams drowned out in the storm.  Another wave crashed in moments later, splintering an already weak hull.  Seth did the only thing he could do, and he teleported them out of the storm, unsure of his direction save for their last heading which was to the west.  Using the stars he had seen as a reference point, the mage managed to drop them relatively close to the port of their destination, but neither he or David were conscious due to the battering they had received out at sea, several pieces of timber following them in their wake.