03-09-2021, 03:16 PM
Over the next 12 days or so after entering the Phlogiston the Riposte has fallen into a regular nearly schoolroom like schedule with nearly all of the crew focused on language lessons of one kind or another. Using light spells cast into shuttered lanterns relay stations for light code practice were setup on the forecastle and stern, and a couple of sets of flags were stored right next to them. Anders has also taken to regularly casting Create Water to start refilling empty water barrels in the stores for later use.
It is late into Anders spelljamming shift, ship "evening", that yet again Rupert spotted an anomaly near the rainbow river that the ship had been travelling along. In a pocket eddy of the flow, a slowly spiraling swirl of phlogiston roughly two thousand feet in diameter partially connected to the river itself. In the center of this weak whirlpool spins a gigantic black tree, easily a thousand feet long and with a trunk roughly three hundred feet in diameter. It is apparent that the gravity plane of this bizarre tree was equally strange, apparently shifted due to the mass of the rootball on one end and the branches and leaves on the other. Instead of running the length of the trunk as one might expect, it appeared that the gravity plane cut the tree in half, causing it to stand upright relative to the Riposte's orientation in the river.
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Tethered to the trunk at the gravity plane by a long rope is a old mosquito ship. The fabric of the wings is tattered and worn, and the ship slowly spins as dead weight at the end of the roughly one hundred and fifty foot long line. Some faint lights can been seen seemingly randomly along the length of the black tree.
Threadvine orders Anders to hold position and asks if anyone has ever heard of anything like this before. He freely admits that this is a new one for him. None of the rest of the crew is aware of anything similar either. [[OOC: Each of you can give me a history check with disadvantage to see if you have ever heard of anything even remotely like this. Bazz can take the check straight due to bardic lore.]]
It is late into Anders spelljamming shift, ship "evening", that yet again Rupert spotted an anomaly near the rainbow river that the ship had been travelling along. In a pocket eddy of the flow, a slowly spiraling swirl of phlogiston roughly two thousand feet in diameter partially connected to the river itself. In the center of this weak whirlpool spins a gigantic black tree, easily a thousand feet long and with a trunk roughly three hundred feet in diameter. It is apparent that the gravity plane of this bizarre tree was equally strange, apparently shifted due to the mass of the rootball on one end and the branches and leaves on the other. Instead of running the length of the trunk as one might expect, it appeared that the gravity plane cut the tree in half, causing it to stand upright relative to the Riposte's orientation in the river.
Tethered to the trunk at the gravity plane by a long rope is a old mosquito ship. The fabric of the wings is tattered and worn, and the ship slowly spins as dead weight at the end of the roughly one hundred and fifty foot long line. Some faint lights can been seen seemingly randomly along the length of the black tree.
Threadvine orders Anders to hold position and asks if anyone has ever heard of anything like this before. He freely admits that this is a new one for him. None of the rest of the crew is aware of anything similar either. [[OOC: Each of you can give me a history check with disadvantage to see if you have ever heard of anything even remotely like this. Bazz can take the check straight due to bardic lore.]]
