Editing On The Sea 2 (section)

===Day 20 [Salamander 24]===
Nesh rolls a 12, bumps it up to a 13 with Karma.  He gets the option of arriving safely or having an encounter.  We decide on an encounter.

We can see the island off in the distance, but there's another boat, about our size.
A saurien uses some kind of speaking tube calls out to us, first in Melmani, then in Common.  “Sail around.”
“Is there a hazard?” we inquire, as we start to sail around.
“You should be fine.”

“I don’t believe in Saurien pirates.” – Gale<br>
“Hey!”

We look under the water; they have some Suppress up, so Scout’s DI buff doesn’t help, but Nesh sees a big metal globe being lowered.  Maybe a bathysphere?  A sea mine?  Hard to say.

Having snooped as much as we dared, we arrive in port!

We take stock of our plots:
We need to make alliances between Berana, Melmane, and the Mer.
Middlesea.
Prisoners.
Jabar?
Stop the Swords.
Scout bemoans the lack of phones to call Green and tell His Majesty what he has learned.

We think talking to Philippa might be first.
Maybe Nesh wants to talk to the Sauriens?

Stella thinks that in Orange, the Sauriens are part of the citizenry, but there is definitely an extent to which they’re probably not treated as well as the humans are.  And there are some cultural things which unite them as a race, but there’s no Saurien formal anything.  It’s quite rare for Sauriens to become Masters, rather than Journeyman.

Before we sleep, Stella asks what needs fixing with the situation with the feather.
Suvatra’s not a priest, so she gets a briefing.  Suvatra was sending a message to a priest of the Cult of Al’an, and they had a long discussion about how Love Life and Lore felt they were all the most important face.  But Suvatra works for the Maharani, and the Maharani needs them all working together to fight the slith.  The priest from the Cult of Al’an wanted to smooth it out.  (Scout's theory is that we are the closest thing to Luigi that the spell could find). 

The Goddess isn’t giving her opinion on what needs fixing here.  She knows what Stella’s opinion is, which is that the Church should be evened out like it is in Orange, but the Goddess is not giving directions to work against any of Her Priests.