DOOMED SHIPS MARKED BY DARK MAGIC?

CURSED SEAS OF VAJRA - Story Update!

By TalkFast

The Fringe Newsfeed reported last month on the mysterious disappearance of ships in the waters near the Varja city of Voreko and eye-witness accounts of strange apparitions in the sky.

More recent reports say that normal weather has returned to that region, and that local CEO, Eric Bransen, of Kagome Shipping led an expedition to search for the lost. Bransen’s group found the wreckage of twenty-two ships, including seven that had not previously been reported missing. Only fourty three survivors were recovered, clinging to a reef and close to death. over 1,500 other sailors are still missing, now presumed dead.

Mack Headen, recovery diver for Kagome Shipping, reports on what he found in the sunken ships:

"It was like someone had been summoning demons or something! There were all these weird markings on the hulls, swirly designs and sigils I didn't recognize. Gave me the absolute creeps! You find this stuff in scary children's stories, not on a ship with no crew! I swear, I surfaced so fast I thought the bends were gonna be the death of me! But I'll tell you one thing, that Eric Bransen, he's a real hero, you know. Didn't have to go looking for those people or those ships, coulda written the whole thing off and no one woulda blinked. Real hero to go after those men."

The rescued survivors were found in a near-comatose state and are currently hospitalised. FNF attempts to interview them or get statements were unsuccessful, though we are told that their condition is slowly improving. Medical staff did admit that other than the effects of exposure, the doctors can find no explanation for the symptoms. One unnamed source said that, “none of the survivors can really talk, but a few mumble about ‘SHADOWS’.”