Vallios found the supply room near where the eurypterids had first attacked - he surmised between the location and the scratches on the door that the racket had been the beasts trying to get into the room. As he opened the stuck door with a swift kick, a broom put in place to lock the door snapping noisily, he noticed a stain of blood running underneath.
Laying slumped against the wall was the body of First Mate Alton Devers...quite dead. Examining his body, Vallios noticed a number of wounds: the first appeared to be a bit older and consisted of cuts, while others were inflamed stings. <Vallios makes heal check on wounds> It appeared that Alton took place in a rapier battle which explained the cuts, but they weren't deep enough to be his cause of death. Poison from the sting wounds seemed more likely...Vallios turned and looked at the broken broom, then at the slain eurypterids. Ah. Devers still wore his masterwork studded leather armor and clutched his masterwork short sword in one hand.
A search of the rest of the supply room turned up lumber, as well as several tools Vallios thought could come in handy in building a secure campsite: a block and tackle, five large canvas sheets, two fishing nets, a grappling hook, two bullseye lanters, 12 flasks of lantern oil, 150 feet of hemp rope and five shovels.
He made his way to Gravetooth's home over the last few hours, the larder. Although the majority of the Jenivere's food stores were kept in the now-missing cargo bay below, enough preserved rations were stored here to supply a single person with food for 24 days. As he grabbed the last wheel of cheese from one of the corners, Vallios spotted something buried behind a pile of linens...the body of the cook. He pulled the corpse out and inspected it - the man was nude, his clothes stripped from him, and he had suffered bites on the neck and shoulders, bites Vallios identified as serpentine in origin, though from a rather large snake.
The captain's cabin was quite a wreck. A jagged hole in the side had allowed most of the room's contents to spill into the surf and wash away. However, searching an overturned desk that had luckily been too large to fit through the hole in the wall, Vallios found various items of interest. An upper drawer contained a ring of keys. Another contained several sea maps and charts, along with the captain's log. Vallios found a lower desk drawer to be locked, though fiddling with the found keys for a few minutes took care of that - it contained a bottle of fine brandy worth 50gp, a darkwood model of the Jenivere in a glass bottle, and a small coffer containing 350gp. Also in the drawer were a long leather satchel containing a dozen potions in case of emergency: four potions of cure light wounds, a potion of cure moderate wounds, four potions of lesser restoration, a potion of remove disease, a potion of water breathing, and a potion of water walking. Finally, a large footlocker leaning against the desk was marked "Jask Derindi's Belongings: Deliver to Maester Tomwind of the High Court of Sargava in Eleder". Vallios was unable to open the lock, but did find it light enough to carry.
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