<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: impact;"><span class="bbc_u">Shattered Isle Survivors</span></span></span></div><div align="center">(https://c4.wallpaperflare.com/wallpaper/49/635/743/fantasy-art-island-artwork-nature-dragon-hd-wallpaper-preview.jpg)</div><hr/><br/>It has been a rough month and a half at sea for the survivors of the Big Shake. The stones of your home broke apart. The mountains crumbled and bled fire. Finally the ocean drank your island home as you bore witness; clinging to your makeshift raft. Yours was the first craft to leave. You all could only watch helplessly as your friends, neighbors, loved ones, and tribemate's similar craft were battered by the massive waves, and drifted farther away on the fickle currents. You had barely any provisions on board, and it has been a hungry and thirsty last few days as you have been forced to ration. At least your little raft had a sail attached to the fore along with poles to use as oars, unlike some of the other's. But as the sea took away hope, it also brought into your lives a very unique artifact.<br/><br/>It does not matter which of you first glimpsed the odd shiny bottle bobbing on the waves, what does matter is the Navigator is the one that for some reason fished it out of the water. Popping the wax coated cork the Navigator emptied it out to get at the scroll inside. Only to hear the faint sound of scribbling as if someone hurriedly put pen to paper.<br/><br/><div align="center">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/40/NPCmap_2.2.png)</div><br/><br/>The strange mystical map explained how it could help lead your small band to a new land. An unexplored continent where it claims to have been made. With nowhere else to go and limited food and water you all have dared to hope, and decided to follow where this little guide will take you.<hr/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/8/8f/Wizard%27s_lighthouse.png/625px-Wizard%27s_lighthouse.png)</div><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/2/2f/Waves.jpg/800px-Waves.jpg)</div>As the first rays of the morning break on the horizon the air smells of rain as Rudka laid eyes on the coastline, and the beach the map informed you was the safest to land on. Off to the South a great bridge, aged and deteriorated, spans from the mainland. It leads to a tower on each of the smaller three islands before ending at a colossal glowing lighthouse which casts a pale ghostly light across the surf just as the map described. The bridge, lighthouse, and towers are made of the same deep-green bedrock as the islands on which the surf breaks sending salt and spray into the air. You made it! Your new home beckons.<br/><br/>Before she can inform the others, you are all thrown from your posts as the waves grow choppier around the raft. As the rest of you get to your feet on the hard planks the sky behind you breaks into dark tendrils that seem to chase your small craft as a massive black storm bank barrels down on you. The raft begins to lurch and heave as the wind picks up. It snaps the poor sail taut on Galgoran yanking her almost off her feet as the raft lurches sharply in a new direction. In the distance you can already hear the crash of thunder and see lightening crackeling in the clouds. None of you are sure your poor little raft will not be swamped in this large a squall. The Navigator realized in horror the wind is now dragging you towards the North. Further away from where you wished to land. Eska as the waves buffet the raft you spy a very large shadow as it passed underneath the craft, undulating in the depths below.<br/><br/><strong>GM:</strong>Welcome, and thanks for letting me run this for you folks! Nothing like throwing you all into the deep end at the jump, right? Everyone make a reflex save, DC 14, to stay upright and/or not get sea sick. Everyone should be that far on their sheets by now anyway. No posting order is set. So first to post, first to act. Those that succeed make whatever skill rolls, or take any actions you think you need to. Can you get the raft under control, and headed back toward the beach? And whatever is the shadow in the water Eska saw? Hopefully she tells someone about it.<br/><br/>So get creative, discuss plans, and interact. I reward logic and imaginative solutions. Everyone succeeds the reflex save after this first round of posting, and can act as normal. The storm will be on you after two character posts each.