Mayday Plays - Chapter 8: "Into The Greenstream" | The Happy Eater | Tales From The Wildsea

Episode Date: August 12, 2026

Kezza, Bebo, and Zin link up with the crew leaders of the Screw Loose and the Little Rascal to plot an escape from Happy's suicidal embrace. But first, they have to cross the Greenstream, the mighty southern current separating the safety of the Mesoreia from the lawless mangrove jungles of Ragged Wood. Mile-tall irontide trees sway and crash in unison, threatening to splinter their ships before they even reach the far shore. Survive that, and the real challenge starts: finding the fabled juju bean, a guaranteed cure for parasites, including the happy kind. But the deeper they push into uncharted Ragged Wood, the closer they're drawn to something they can't outrun: Happy's lady love. Disclaimer: This episode contains profanity and violence. Viewer discretion is advised. CAST • Darryl Dorsey (he/him) as Zin (he/him) • Allison (she/her) as Bebo (he/him) • Caleb James Miller (he/him) as Kezza (he/him) • Sergio Crego (he/him) as The Firefly VIDEO, MUSIC & SOUND EFFECTS • Recorded, Edited, and Mixed by Sergio Crego • "Uncharted Passage" written by Sergio Crego and composed by Kyle Moore • Epidemic Sound • Soundly • Envato • Beneos Battlemaps WILDSEA LINKS • Get your copy of The Wildsea today @ https://myth.works and use promo code: MAYDAY for 20% off! We're running a WILDSEA CONTEST! To enter, do any/all of the following: - Subscribe to us on YouTube. - Leave a comment under an episode (video or audio). - and/or mention the show on your socials (Reddit and Discord count). If you've already subscribed to us, that's fine, you can still send us proof by DM'ing us or emailing us @ [e-mail] Runner up will receive: A 100 card set of Skwirl's Primal Menagerie, a DnD 5e supplement with stat cards from every beast in the monster manual plus original art by Aaron Miller. Third place: Physical copies of the scenarios One-armed scissor and Red Right hand plus the supplement Ship Gardens. Second place: A set of Cthonic themed dice and a Mythworks totebag. First place: A hardcover copy of The Wildsea core rulebook plus a folio screen. Good Luck! -- 👕 MERCH: http://ko-fi.com/maydayrp & https://mayday-merch.printify.me/products 💵 Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/maydayrp 📰 Join our newsletter: eepurl.com/iIVUjo 🌟 Other Socials 🌟 🐦 Twitter: http://twitter.com/maydayroleplay 📸 Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/mdrp.gram/ 🔴 Website: http://maydayroleplay.com/ 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maydayroleplay 👾 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/maydayroleplay Thanks for your support! #mayday #roleplay #actualplay #ap #ttrpg #thewildsea #wildsea #fantasy #indierpg #tabletoprpg

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forward slash Mayday RP. Carter steps up and says, well, I guess I might as well kick it off. We find yourselves in a predicament. We like our captains. We want to try to keep them safe if we can manage it. But we can agree that we'll help you however we can to get as many of our sailors safely away from whatever Happy is bringing us to. But we don't want to spill blood to do it. That's all we have to say. Well, I kind of have

it on good authority that Happy shouldn't be harmed either. I talked to the first mate over there and she seemed to think that he could protect us if we protect it. That's what Svirina said? Yeah. She was a stowaway when we were sailing.

I don't give, I don't care. what Sphirna has to say. Hey. Stowaways have important things to say, too. Yeah, we don't talk bad about Stowaways around here. Not everybody gets to decide where they come from. Realizing he's lost the advantage, he takes a step back. So, no bloodshed from the captains.

No bloodshed from Happy. I sort of do one thing. Quentin speaks up and he says, I've been thinking about the parasite. I've heard that there. There's an herb called a juju bean. If we can manage to find it in ragged wood, I hear that consuming it is pretty much a guarantee to rid any parasites in your body.

So we get three juju beans, we feed them to the captains, and then we send Happy on his merry way. Here's the thing. Happy wants one thing and it's what we all want, am I right? friendship. Yeah, Zinn, sure. If we can find a way to impress his lady love

without the fleet that would eliminate his side of things. And then we would have juju beans to our captains, something new to impress her, and then we could all just head off in other directions to a big, beautiful life.

Quentin speaks up. It seems pretty clear that he needs to, the ships to impress his mate and the juju beans well they usually take about an hour to take effect I'm worried that when those captains go down or when those parasites leave happy's gonna know then it's best to have our ships prepared if we are able to outrun happy he'll have to choose his new friends or his lady love and seeing how determined he is for his lady love I think he will choose the latter maybe we can

leave them the happy eater. And the dinghy, Kesa points to the conflagrant swarm piece they'd used before. They already accounted for that thing being lost in action here. And a few ships is better

than no ships. Maybe we wouldn't be enough to chase if he had those left over. It is a sound plan. Kese, I believe you are better suited for acquiring the juju bean. well at least this time you won't come back with any extra body parts

and if I do I'll just chop them off yeah I can go into the craz if it means getting the beans I'm down they grow all over the thrash and the tangle but you shouldn't have to go too deep we will have to cross into ragged wood though so let's get that far and then we'll look for the juju beans I thought it might be fun to distract him by having him put together a gift for his lady loves of flowers or something to that effect maybe we could convince them that we're doing the same thing. Have him looking in one direction.

We're looking for the beans in the other. Actually, the beans do have a pretty beautiful yellow and pink flower. It might be the perfect combo. Perfect. There we go. And to be sure, there is no room in this plan to shoot anything. Oh, there's absolutely room, but only if things go horribly wrong. Or if that bigger fish shows up, the one that

is the threat to happy and his lady love. If it's what I think it is, Captain Zanko says, standing, you know, after being silent for so long, a bullet's not going to do anything. I've got a sneaking suspicion that the Cracken, the thing that Raggedwood is most known for, is probably what Happy's after. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I hadn't thought of the Cracken. Well, that's what happens when you fall in love, he says. Yeah.

Well, it sounds like a plan. We'll keep our ships in order and we'll pay attention to what you guys have to say. Maybe a signal of some kind so we know that things are moving. Do you think you could help us out with something while he sleeps, though, just before the morning? We need assistance repairing our ship if we're going to make it out of here. We're still hurt to hell. If you could spare a few hours right now, maybe the crew that runs the late shift could come over. We're also hurting for supplies to do so.

I hate to ask, but we are your meal ticket out of here. We've got plenty of weird scraps and things that they've collected from various orchards and other smaller ships that happy deemed not big enough to add to our fleet. We've got plenty of supplies. We can help you. Yeah, we've got a night shift. Perfect. What sort of signal were you thinking?

Maybe a thumbs up or, uh, I don't know. A wave? Do you speak any old hand? Sure. I know all the curses. I was going to suggest one of the curses. Just choose one, Kesa. Okay, so if anything goes wrong, if anything goes right, to all of us, we old hand out, and he hands out, fuck shit.

Great combo. We got it. All right, sleep well. We'll see you in the morning. Thank you for your assistance. They tip their hat towards you and head out. My suggestion for a signal was going to be Keza's libido. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Hey, I don't think that we have enough time. Thing goes on forever, am I right?

Well, luckily, I helped you out in that department, so you can thank me later. What do you mean? What, what? You help me out? What do you mean? Oh, um, I put in a good. word with Svina for you. You put in a good word? What did you say to Sphirna? You're not supposed to talk. Just a few words.

I wrote them down in beautiful poetry. It's nothing. You can thank me later. You wrote her poetry? Yeah. Like from you. What does she want a poem? Bibo.

Yeah. Bibo. Yeah. I have to go fix this. Poetry? You think Kesea writes poetry. And I think he runs off. He's trying to go back to the hungry eater. Spira, I don't fucking write. He's going to go solve this for the night.

That boy ain't right. Okay, I'm going to my room and I retire for the evening. After everyone leaves in Bebo, laughs and takes a look at the figurine that's still in his pocket and gives a little kiss on the head, like tucking a doll in for the night, sticks it back in his pouch, and then heads. down to the engine room for a night's sleep. You're used to the sounds of the wild sea even in the evening. Now they are interrupted and pierced by the sounds of hammers and saws and screws as the lake crew comes aboard the godsinger to make their repairs. You may clear another dot of ratings damage to your ship. It's morning when the sounds come to an end

and the sunlight streams in through the available portholes and the Happy Eater and its crew are busy at work. Happy's tentacles pulling up random large creatures and shoving it into its gullet while the crew eagerly climb the rope ladders and drop the sails to assist Happy and the screw loose and the little rascal make their preparations as well.

Keza is just keeping an eye out on the horizon from the deck of the Happy Eater and staying as close to Captain Oric as possible before we enter into that green stream and have to cross that powerful current. He's just getting ready. Bivo is following Sphirna around on whatever deck she walks, kind of following her footsteps, watching the things that she's doing on the ship and been making them when possible. and also flexing his new hooks that he's sewn into his body, like a little porcupine practicing, retracting, and extending the spikes. Zane is simply on the lookout for yet another attack. Zanko stays aboard the Godsinger, and the four ships, the fleet now sets sails south.

Hours pass, and at a certain point, you can hear it. This low rumbling sound as if every iron route was beginning to move and run. The sound builds until you see it about a mile out. This shifting movement in the thrash. The tops of the canopies of these iron roots are shifting. not just a little as if from the breeze, but several degrees, as much as 90 degrees, where all in unison,

the treetops will bend northeast and then shift back southwest, and then over and over again, creating this rhythmic-like flow, the noise, the rumble, the sheer scope of it as it goes from one horizon to another, you found the green stream, and in a few moments you're going to be crossing it. The crew seemed to be more tense,

and using old hand to signal what needs to be done. Everyone in their stations, you can feel the tension in the air as you get closer and closer to the massive crossing that you're about to embark on. I check my weapons one last time to make sure I've got all of Bebo, out of them.

And then I set my, through my scope, I begin scanning ahead of us just to make sure there isn't anything waiting to hop on board. Build a pool. Cut of one. No enemies in sight. The vastness over a mile ahead of you is the green stream beyond just running northeast and southwest, and it almost is too much to take in in your scope. There is something you do notice.

One of the iron roots nearest the current, a little taller than the rest, has several colored banners attached to it. Tiny now in your scope, but as you get closer, it's obvious that this is some kind of hitching post or place in which people leave messages and banners and paint the bark of the iron route as recognition of their passing through this. area. Bebo breaks form from following Sphirno's footsteps and goes to the edge to gaze at it, even at a distance, to see if he can make out any messages, symbols, anything of note, taking it in with wide saucer eyes, just loving this kind of ephemeral messaging of people who have traveled in the same way he has. And he just like, you know, hands on the rail, just taking it in.

Mostly names of sailors in Lossauer written on colored banners. Sometimes names of ships, dates. The sound now is almost as loud as the god singer's long jaw. Captain Oric takes his place at his throne. Sphyrna wraps her hand around a rope and grabs onto a railing, says, good luck, everyone. Keza climbs up to the crow's nest, sort of piercing his hands into the sides of the wood

and crawling to the very top. And from that perspective, looking out at the huge waves, pushing through and the bending trees before him, he calls down to Svirna and Oric and says, I can scout from up here. I'll point out where to go. And he's going to go through

process of trying to pick out the best routes through, memorizing the patterns of that wind as it pushes through, and the pockets you can fit the ship in between in order to get through to the other side, trying to stay true to his hacker nature. Build a pool with a cut of one. Bebo seeing you take this position, seeing the practice nature of what sailors do, holds his gaze on the post with all the messages and just like in a quick scan as they're moving past he releases a whisper that he's held on to for who knows how long just into the winds of the wild sea

whispering back room chatter as he looks for a sailor's message with some intel on a good path or tips for navigating maybe someone who's gone through and back again so he can help Kesa in this effort. As if the soul, the essence of a former wild sailor that once crossed the green stream floats down from that tree banner into your ear, you are motivated to understand that the bloom tide can be used to your advantage. the ships could potentially be flung southwest by the green stream

and so while riding them can be necessary there is also a way of taking advantage of these upward winds that keep you out of most of the treacherous parts of the green stream understanding this bebo begins a clamorous ascent up to where Kazza stands and as he reaches it like just kind of doubles over from the effort like a full minute of just breathing heavily and then I know that we can use the bloom tide and begins to explain it in detail and then at the end of the whole cardio effort.

Helpful? Buddy, that's great. You're a genius. You're a hacker. And he calls down to Captain Oric into Sphirna. If we ride the edge of the swells, it'll slingship. shot us forward. Keep close to it. Just the edge. It's going to feel dangerous, but it's going to work. The ectus deckhand, who you had met yesterday at the helm and Captain Oric behind him, he signals that he's got the message. Keza, complete your role of searching for a good space.

You'll have a cut of one. Okay. The ectus does his best to be in maneuvering the happy eater into the right position as it begins to join the green stream at the right time. I would like you to roll five dice representing the Happy Eater's Tilt Roll. You will have a cut of one. The ship clambers with its tentacles onto the front of the tree as it bends forward. The other ships, the screw loose, the little rascal and your godsinger also clamber aboard in their own way at the right moment.

And it's at that moment that you begin to. feel the shift of gravity as the tree begins to bend in the opposite direction, southwest. It is so intense of a push that all of you suddenly begin to brace yourselves and hold on as the ship is launched in the southwestern direction, and the tree comes to at a near stop enough that the ship is unable to move any farther forward and is ejected out and up into the air, suddenly catching air flying 30, 40, 50, 100 feet into the air as it is launched by the power of this iron-tied tree. What is the twist? I think the twist is we're at least launching in the correct direction.

As awful as this feels, it is a shortcut if we can land. The Happy Eater aims in the correct direction, but it's heading southwest. The progress is half as much as it could be. if you can manage to master the green stream and start moving more southerly. The ship is going to crash hard down onto the canopy. Zend's braces for full impact. I believe that's all I can do is just brace for impact. Keza pulls out the communicator at the side and Morse codes over to Zenko at the helm,

and he puts in counterweight, throw on the engine, everything you have, opposite direction. All of you make reaction roles. Zin is the only one who will not have a cut of one. Bebo, you're able to hold on taking only one point of aspect damage. Zin and Kese, you are rocked by the ship landing back into the canopy. You're going to take two points of aspect damage. Kezell, what's the twist?

There's a whisper that comes about from this, this prescient thought that comes to the forefront of all of us. of the reality of the wild sea and its ferocity, something around the danger of the waves. Take hungry bark as a whisper. The thrash swallows the happy eater into the underside of it. You are now surrounded by enormous branches

and leaves crashing past both the top and the deck of the ship, occasionally hitting a sailor and he was flying off into the canopy. The ectus at the helm of the Happy Eater pulls suddenly, and the ship begins moving straight up, as if trying to break through the top of the canopy again. Give me another roll using saws.

You're going to need a cut of one as well. The Happy Eater breaks through the top of the canopy at the right moment, and I'm going to say that the twist is you can see on its port side an enormous gap in the canopy and what appear to be thousands of enormous lotus flowers floating up into the air are we aiming for the flowers

the ectus cries out you tell me I'm going to say yes he starts pulling hard port side to get the ship to seemingly drop into a rift the edge of the tree is right there and the ship starts to go over your the pit of your stomachs If you have them begin to lurch as you feel like you're just going to drop into the under eaves.

And that's when a powerful wind pushes the bow of the ship up, up, up until it begins floating and is now seemingly floating over this rift going higher and higher into the air. Let me ask for a tilt roll. The ship rises hundreds of feet into the air, and then it begins to. to slowly descend down, sharper and sharper, as the power of the wind seems to give way. The twist, it's visible that you can either go back into the canopy or try to catch another bloom tide.

Do we think we want to gamble another tide? Gamble, hit the tide. It's the only way. Bebo has a few of his hands in the air, like he's on a roller coaster. The other ones are gripping the railing tightly. Let's go. It's favorable. Another roll of tilt, this time with a cut of one. Coming off of hitting the first tide, we attempt to hit the next, but undershoot it.

The very front of the ship hits it. That begins to tilt the ship, but we don't actually catch it flush, and so the ship is kind of going this way. The ship is off. It's kilter. All of you make reaction rolls as gravity begins to change. Cut of one. Zinn, Keza, once again, the ship is twirling. You nearly lose your place on the ship, but managed to grab onto something

or place yourself in a way that you aren't going to fall any farther. Both of you take one aspect damage as you're getting rocked by these sudden changes in gravity. Keza, what's the twist? The twist is that those lotus flowers have gathered about the ship and ran about the decks and have become a resource as they've become lodged in so much of the undercarriage and many of them are attached now. You may add giant lotus pedal to your inventory. Bebo, the excitement is wonderful until it

isn't. Your smaller limbs are unable to hold on and suddenly you go launching off of the deck of the ship twirling and spinning your perspective completely shifted. Biba yells into the air, just everything is up, down. His voices are like a little rotocopter of screaming. He tries to find purchase on something, grasping at ropes or wood, anything that's flying near him to steady himself. Build a pool with a cut of one. He is used to quick movements and small spaces when he's,

on ground, but in air he has no purchase. And so everything he grasps at just slips through his fingers. He even tries to use his new hooks, you know, porcupining out and trying to, you know, every resource, just trying to grab something. But it's like he's in a void and just floats kind of mid-air near the ship, everything out of reach. What's the twist? Seeing as Zana's had such good luck with throwing rope. This time, he throws himself. along with it as he takes a piece of rope and launches himself towards Bebo almost matching the descent equally because he's so heavy himself. Zinn flies in the direction of Bebo. The robe is just long enough that he's able to

grab onto Bebo. Now the two of them are twirling in the air but at least now there is something tied to Bebo. Yeah, seeing all that I am gonna rush over clamber down from the crow's nest and get to that rope point and try and get a group of the crew together bulkiest among them and start reeling them back in just to bring them in before the swell can take them again. Build a pool with a cut of one, but you'll have an additional die because a majority of the crew are assisting. Over all the wind, Zinn is just like, you need to begin exercising so you can hold on tighter. In between his screaming, Bibo says, You're so smart, Zid. You're so smart.

Keza, with the assistance of the others, you're able to reel Bebo and Zinn in, but it's... At the last second, the ship drops from the air pressure, and Zinn and Bebo's bodies both slam into you. All three of you go tumbling. What's the twist? The twist is the ship begins to write itself. Turning upside down, the ship begins to actually write itself.

Once the air pressure kind of hits it from the back end. You crash into the canopy, this time a little easier as if the person at the helm is starting to get the hang of it. It becomes clear that the pattern is dive down into the iron route as it sways one way, and then try to bullet yourself out the top as it swings and then use its momentum to launch to the next tree. Let me ask one of you to make a saws roll for the godsinger. Hours of this, a member of the crew calls out, I see it! I see the shoreline! And the Happy Eater is launched one last time,

just enough over the air to lead the green stream and come crashing down onto the top of the canopy of the other side in Ragged Wood. Screw loose comes clamoring over, one of its mechanical arms literally shorn off, with sparks flying out of it, but another two dragging it out of the green stream. The screw loose comes exploding out from the bottom of the ragged wood side and comes to a violent stop.

Much of the center of it has been destroyed. And finally, the godsinger comes chugging in this heavy bout of smoke emitting from the long jaw. It appears that its saw has been damaged. Much of its sharp spikes have been either torn completely off or bent in one way or another. The ship still functions, but it was a rough trip. You can still hear Captain Oryk, that was fun. In old hand, I signed to Kesa.

If he says something is fun one more time, I'm going to blow. low its eyeball off. Keza, who has been fucking thrown across this ship down from the crow's nest has got a full body workout from pulling in the six ton robot to the floor

and everything. Just signs back. Fuck shit. Bebo is holding on to the edge of the ship as though it's dry land, but it's, you know, just something stable. And he's kind of dry heaving over the edge. And he's

A few of his eyes are like just squinting or wide. Like nothing matches on him. And he's just like resting his head, breathing heavily and completely spent. You hear the ectos at the helm. We made it. We made it. And many of the crew like you are kind of gaining their bearings. The one at the crow's nest calls out, look!

And ahead of the ship, there is a wildling. made sign that has seemingly grown into an iron root. And it reads, Keep Out, Cracken Country, written in bright red paint. So we must be getting pretty close, Captain, right? Captain says, In just a day I'll see my beloved.

I'm so excited. And he starts kind of doing a little jig around the hull. You must be so nervous, though. Showing up without, Flowers. He stops. Do we need flowers? Wow.

I don't know. Sphirna, wouldn't you like flowers in a situation like this? She's rubbing her head and says, yeah, sure. Flowers are nice, happy. And he says, he runs over to the railing of the ship to the others and says, we're in search for flowers. Keep an eye out for flowers. and he starts kind of just running around looking for flowers.

It can't just be any flowers, though. You need something special. Something not anybody can just find, you know? What kind of flowers, Kiza? I don't know. Any of you know? And he looks to Quentin specifically. Ew.

I don't know who you are, but you seem knowledgeable. I hear juju bean flowers are pretty. In behind Keza, Bebo's like, yes. Just giving him the double thumbs up. I don't know, guys. Juju beans are pretty rare. We'd have to get a few. No, Kiza, it's got to be juju beans.

Okay, but we better get a bunch. So many. At least three. Maybe even more than that, but at least three. Captain Oric orders. for the ships to look for the Juju Bean flowers and they begin chugging back at their traveling pace. Spread out now, the godsinger, little rascal and screw loose, spreading out, but staying within eyeshot looking for the Jujube. Let's take a break to thank some people.

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I think Bebo is going to just help how he can with minor repairs on the ship at this point. Like, he's on board with this mission, but he's going to just busy himself, keep his hands busy, and do as many small tasks to bring stability to the ship while they have some downpim that he can. I go back to the godsinger and begin trying to... What I can salvage of the sawblades, I do. The portions that are broken, I cannot do anything for that, but the parts that are bent, I can at least try to straighten so that there is something.

think. The Godsinger's only mode of transportation is the long jaw. You are unable to do anything while it is in operation. Bebo, you try helping and you certainly are able to assist the crew as they clean up the deck and make things as orderly as possible. But the damage to the ship is severe enough that it requires going into port and many of the sailors speak up about as much. The ship is slowly falling apart, but Happy inside with his tentacles pulling along the verdancy is really what's keeping this going. Some of the sailors even speak up and say that the impeller jets and the saw prow at the head of the ship have been broken for weeks, and they've been mostly relying on Happy's strength. Kesa, an hour or so passes, and sure enough, in the distance, there appears to be a spit of some kind,

And there is a kind of beautiful pink and yellow flower that seems to be growing all over it. We're in business. Captain. And he points out in that direction. Can you get me as close as you can? Of course, we can pull right up. And he gestures towards the ectice at the helm. And all four ships begin closing in on this spit.

Yeah, as we get close, I'm going to climb up on that railing and get as close as I can. and see if there's a safe enough route, whether the CRES is in this spit closest to the juju beans, and just what the best mode of transportation in and out will be. As the ship's approach, it appears that the spit is some kind of pre-verdent structure. These five enormous wing-like spires rise from a circular ruin that is half buried in sand, something that is almost impossible to find. This one smooth surface is scarred by rust and salt and centuries of wind,

and the structure feels less built and more like a carcass now. There is very clearly ahead of you an opening into this strange structure. And all along the sides of the building are these beautiful paint. and yellow flowers growing in clusters. Yeah, if Keza can safely get himself into the sand without falling through into the lower levels, he will. And then sand walking through and picking up the fruit as he can.

He starts to bundle. And as he's getting a good pile together, his eye cannot stop looking in the direction of that opening. Bibo, having been told that it's a hopeless case, he went to go inspect the damage that they mentioned. And so he's kind of at the front of the ship looking down, seeing Kaza's movements, and focusing mostly on the sand, but in which Kese walks, he'll kind of scuttle to the edge as close as he can get. Searching, actually, in his pack for his Krez suit, which in his mind is what you need to be safe everywhere. He starts putting on his gloves and he's like, that looks amazing. What is that? Can you eat it? Is it soft? Is it hard? Does it crunch?

And he just starts scuttling along the side, looking for a way to get down to see the sand. He's going to toss what he has of the fruit back onto the deck and then just peek in, enough that he can walk into the entrance and at least know he went in. The sign about it being Cracken country has given me pause, and so I'm keeping a lookout because Cracken Country seems to refer to with there being more than just one

and not all of them are going to be Happy's Lady Love. So I'm keeping an eye out for a wayward tentacles coming at us in the distance. Some members of each of the ships join you in the sand and in this spit. They in wonder kind of look around at the odd structure and then go straight for the flowers, many of them collecting bushels,

and you even see Quentin and Carter cutting off these kind of grape-like clusters of apparently juju beans. And as the crew does that, Keza, you can see at that entrance, faded but visible. Some kind of hyphen is written on the top of the arch.

I want to inspect it to the best that I can and try and read it, or at least take a pressing of it, even moving into his pack on the side there, he's going to take out some old pre-vergency parchment he's been keeping for a special occasion and try and charcoal over just to try and get a tracing if he's close enough. Build a pool, no cut. At Kezo's feet, Bebo sits in his full suit gloves and helmet, building what is essentially a sand castle,

just taking piles of sand, running it through his gloved hands, and laughing, kind of sprang it into the air and making little structures at his feet. Bebo, babes, just be careful, he's saying as he's taking the trace. Every so often, some of that sand falls straight through and you'll make yourself your own casket. Had a buddy of mine happened so fast, it was like nothing you'd ever seen.

There one moment, dead the next. Crazy. The arch is just tall enough that it requires you to climb up these vines of flowers and then place your etching and begin getting a copy of this strange hyphen lettering. That Bebo passed the entrance, it's dark in there, but you can see that there's some kind of large space inside. Ancient columns and it looks like there's more kind of paintings and murals on the inside.

Wow. I'm sorry your friend fell through the sand and died, but this one, looks really solid. There's, there's things in there. There's beautiful art. I have to see it. Do we have time? Do we have time?

He stands up and stomp's in his own sandcastle. Now's the good time. What's the twist? There appears to be an oversized juju bean of unusual dimensions growing on the inside of the area, kind of right in the middle of that artwork and columns that I can see from the entrance and it looks like substantial, like its properties

would be amplified because of its size with a strange shaft of light right on it. I think we got time. Sure. I think Keza had already convinced himself the second that he saw these things,

but now the Big Barry gives him a chance to really sell the story. and he's going to start just marching in. He's doing his usual wave walk and making sure he's not going to die, but he's very confident. Zinn, you're scanning the territory on the ship, and that's when you spot it.

It's not a Leviathan, but it's the passage of one. A grand canyon-like tear in the thrash. a gash that runs along of broken branches and limbs and trees that only something as big, if not bigger, than the average Leviathan could do. You're going to increase your mire to two dots. Feeling myself and the rest of us being in danger due to the disinmate nature of crackens, not knowing how a bullet would

kill it. His mind goes to, well, if I can maim it, I can slow it down. So just hurt it as much as I possibly can, and that'll do the trick. And that's how my mire increases. It's just like, well, now hurting is my only option. Keza and Bebo, you step into this dark, hollow space, sand spilling into the inside and then ending in this kind of cobblestone. In the dark, you can see, these long faded murals painted on the walls of uplifted individuals with their hands up to the sky, maybe preverdent people, in their hands, depictions of incredible creations, and almost like a pattern along the bottom of these murals is an underclass, a group of individuals upholding the privileged few.

That's wild. Akeza gets straight up to it, not having any sort of reverence outside of just wanting to touch. And he goes up and he runs his hands along all of it, hopelessly enamored with this strange foreign language, but how beautiful it is. This is exactly why he is the way he is, and he's caught.

He doesn't even give a fuck about the barrier. at this point. He's trying to take as much of it as possible, like anything he can get his hands on that can stay with him. Anything that will lift and stay in his body is going to come along. But he's trying to make sense of it all, even though he has no basis for any of this. The pattern of the underclass is just small enough that could probably be etched onto your paper. He'll do that as well. Bebo, The silence in here begins to be filled with the sound of air filling and expelling from some bag or material. And it's growing in sound.

Bebo says warily, Um, can you act a little faster? I think maybe there's a angry balloon coming towards a. Yes. A metallic sound hits the cobblestone. Another one. Emerging from the shadows is a wildling-sized mechanical beam.

Maybe ironbound, maybe Corin. It's made of dozens of strange accoutrement and pieces. But what seems to stand out about it is this airbag that fills and then deflates. And on every inflate and deflate, it moves. It's about his biggest, it's about half the size of Keza, but it's moving towards you. Angry balloon confirmed. He's going to press himself up against the wall in the darkest part

and try to blend into the shadows to get out of sight of this entity while kind of sideling closer towards that berry that had drawn his eye initially. Careful, Keza. Build a pool with a cut of one to disappear. from view. From the other side of the room, chemical spotlights turn on, and another one of these strange automaton steps out of the shadows, illuminating you, Bebo, leaving no place to hide. Keza, you notice now two, three, four of them now coming out of the shadows walking towards

you, ambling, all of them made of different pieces and only similar because they're all with airbags. Keza, who was in the middle of selling some bullshit about his life, calls back. You know, I was made in a place like this. This reminds me so much a grown... What the fuck? We got to go.

Bibo out. And he picks everything up. He stuffs everything back into his bag. And he's going to book it back to Bibo and try and sling him on to his shoulder and make for the exit, trying to narrowly avoid, you know, still sand stepping out of the away from these slower wind-bagged automaton. Having been caught in the spotlight, Bebo is pressed against the wall comically, likes a thief who had been slinking along and like a little catwalk,

and he's just like frozen in place with his arms up and allows himself to be picked up, but kind of looks as he's being carried forward, just eye contact directly with that large berry, and he just looks forlornly at it. Goodbye, my love. He says holding out an outstrived. fresh hand towards it. You're blinded for a moment from the sun as you rush back out into the midday, rushing

through the sand, huffing and puffing, doing your best to get to the ship as fast as possible. The other sailors see this sudden rush from the two of you and they start making the way back to their ships. Many of them stuffing in satchels and in their pockets the very sand at your feet before giving chase back to their ships. you board the happy eater again and just instinctively look back and in the threshold of that gate

is the four automaton's just saying in the shadows enough that you can't see all the details but turning their heads and watching the ships curiously Captain Orrick walks up Are we ready to go? Yes we are

Boy, did we get you a harvest She's gonna love all this Look at these flowers They're beautiful And he starts putting some in his beard And his hair Yeah I mean enough of these And you might not even need the crew

I hadn't thought of that Stop Start mixing them all over And the crew begin placing these flowers All along the hole and the rail And in every hole that the ship has Good, yeah, she's gonna love this She doesn't want these sweaty guys

And he point to the nearest, sweatiest crew member. I mean, look at this. You're going to give your girlfriend this over the flowers? Or have it showered in a month, he says. In a month. A month. I could tell.

We could all tell. Captain Oric looks between them all and, You're right, they are quite smelly, including this one. He might be the worst of all. I heard he never showered when he was, well, I was going to say alive, before he was whatever he is now. The ships disembark from the strange spit and begin making their way further south. Bebo clambers down from Keza's shoulder and begins to disrobe from his full suit that he had donned to go down there and begins emptying sand out of all of the crevices.

There's some caught in his gloves and some caught in the legs. He's like, I'm going to have to sew this again, apparently. Because he says kind of sideling up. Maybe go easy on the stink. I don't want them to get killed. No, no, no. It's all part of the plan. If he thinks they're nothing, they'll let us go.

He might kill them. No, no. He's going to. He will, he might eat them instead. He's kind. so far. We got to trust Sperna. She spent the most time with him.

I think if we... Spirna did say he was nice. As you're discussing this, you notice one of the sailors is at your feet collecting the sand that you are seemingly dropping. Sorry, and he gets a good

bundle of it and then begins to walk away. Are you... What do you need this for? What do you mean? It's one of the most valuable things in the wild See, sand? When was the last time you saw sand? And you start to look around the deck.

Many of the sailors who brought the sand aboard are laughing uproariously and kind of throwing you. Oh, I'm rich. I'm rich. No kidding. I hadn't really thought of that. This'll trade great. Well, shit, we should have got some sand. Anyone who didn't grab sands an idiot.

That was my sand, Bibo says all of a sudden, chasing after the guy that took the pile. I was more preoccupied with that, and I point to the Grand Canyon-sized trail. Oh, fuck, geez, yeah. The ships are having to actually maneuver around it. It's so large. Well, at least we'll see it coming. That does not bring me any more happiness. Oh, yes, it does.

You want to kill that thing so bad. I can see in your eyes, literally. No, you cannot. I can see it. They're big and red. I know what that means. That means I want to kill Cracken. You might as well write it on your chest, Crackin.

I'm done with this conversation, because I can't talk to you when you are like this. I figured. Completely unreasonable. He, to cap it off, goes up to B-Bow and says, Hey, I know you didn't get your berry, but I did swipe something on the way out. I thought you'd like it. And he pulls out in his hand. It is like a half-dome geometric.

figure with a metal base, some sort of silvered base. And in the inside is some strange pre-verdent structure that is illuminated by these muted pieces of dust that when you shake the apparatus, that dust dances about the structure inside. Amazing. This is beautiful. It kind of looks like your face in a way.

Oh, okay, yeah. Yeah, it does. Like old and made for some other reason that I don't understand. And nice. Choosing to take this as a compliment, and he pats the hat down on Bebo and sets off to go spit in Oric's ear enough about saving the crew. Bebo will run off kind of taking this, taking a moment to study the game. gift, puts it in a satchel with the same precious manner that he put the paper machet figure earlier, and then rushes off after the guy that took his boot sand, yelling, that was between my toes, and that's my favorite part.

The journey continues as the day progresses. The sun sets and the ships, the fleet, find themselves again moored to a iron route, waiting for the sunrise to continue. The crew of the Happy Eater once again pull out their instruments and begin to sing to Captain Oric who eventually falls asleep by his big throne. Before everyone settles down, you hear from the crow's perch,

something's flying by to our west. Sure enough, there is an air, vehicle, an airship of some kind, silhouetted by the many stars and moon, but you can hear the sound of their engine similar to the engine that you heard of the airship that attacked you in Red Crown. Should we signal to him? We could send flags, see what they're up to. Are we sure that's not our foes following us? That's why I wanted to ask before I did it, and that's character growth. Does anyone have a spyglass so we may see who they are? I'm still cleaning my sightglass or my rifle.

Yeah, I made sure to clean that extra well so you could see through great. Keza runs up to the helm and grabs this eye, this spyglass that is near the sleeping corpse of Captain Orrick, and he does like wave his hands out in front of him. No response. And then takes the spyglass and runs back down and hands it to Zen. I take it and see what I can see. It reminds you of the same kind of a piece-together airship that you found at Red Crown as it does a slow circle around your fleet.

It's definitely from Red Crown. If it's people we do not like, Happy can have a meal. Well, let's keep an eye out And if they come for us, we'll be ready After a few passes It begins to turn and head northeast I'm going to go try to repair portions of the saw Build a pool and tell me what resource you're going to use

To fix that saw Using a combination of these beetle parts And my own brute strength and know how I begin to either straighten out or replace portions of the saw so that it may, even if it's not on the same level that it was able to cut through, it is at least functional

and will be able to work in a pinch. Build a pool with the beetle panes as an additional dye. You work through the night with the other crew members who are willing to help, and it seems like many of these very badly bent teeth,

on your long jaw are replaced by these unique semi-translucent beetle panes sharpened along the edge to make a good makeshift bite. What's the twist? We begin to hear movement in that very large crevasse that we were passing. Not nearby enough to cause pause, but we can hear whatever it is moving in the night.

You're aboard the god singer, you're closest to its Leviathan heart and you could hear the heart beating faster although it hasn't been ordered to in reaction to this strange movement you hear out in the verdancy. It's getting closer. Where are we at with the juju beans?

One of the crew members says I think they're cooking it up as we speak. We can have it for dinner tomorrow or for lunch or breakfast even. Very good. I appreciate the assistance here. They nod in agreement. Bebo, Keza, anything to do with your evening? I think Keza is going to search out

whether any of the three crews have a surgeon on board. Sure enough, the screw loose does in fact have a surgeon. Kind of wiry, mothran covered in bandages. I think Kesa spends the night with them, just getting looked over for the various sort of things. I think Kese is the type of person that waits until he's been hurt like 50 different times before he fixes one. And it's getting to that point. And so the night is spent treating the Mothran almost like an armchair therapist as they fix up some of the wounds that Kesa's in. He goes over Bebo.

He goes over his run-ins with the first mate and basically searches for advice in the wrong kind of doctor, but gets patched up for the night. Build a pool, and you may add an additional dye thanks to the surgeon assisting. As like a form of payment, he extends over the giant lotus petals he had found before, and he, finds that the petals make for great fibrous bandages and can be used for a general purpose to suture and to restrain or bandage. And using that will heal. The Mothran does his best to help you out

wrapping up your worst wounds, popping a shoulder back into place. You may heal one point of aspect damage. What's the twist? I think the twist is Kesa smells very flowery now. He smells heavily of lotus, and it is sort of scented his whole oozing body,

and has taken on some of the color of the lotus flowering across his skin for the duration that he wears the bandage. So his gray has taken on a new hue. I'll say that you have an extra dye. Let's create a temporary track which is a finely scented flower bandages, and we'll say that you can use this in social situations. You smell nice to everyone.

For once, Spiebo is not near the engine. He's actually up in the crow's nest, having had a wild day. He's going to keep an eye out on be on watch during the night, playing his ocarina and kind of sitting with both feet propped up on the railing. He will play a tune and keep an eye on the skies, on the horizons, listening to the creaking and groaning of whatever creature cut that path in the distance, seeing if he sees anything moving out there.

The wind causes the entire verdancy to shift and sway in its unusual complex patterns. And as you play the ocarina, you notice one of Happy's appendages begins to kind of float towards the crow's nest and just kind of dances and rhythm to your music, seemingly feeling the vibrations of the sound. Do you currently have a mire? I do. Sad old secrets from messages past tug at your dreams. The experience opens something up in your understanding of happy and you may clear that mire as it is a wondrous experience. Bebo finishes the song and puts his ocarina down on his chest and says loud to himself.

Ah, I'm sorry I thought you were going to eat people just because they were stinky. You're different. You're special. You're a creature of the wild sea. How magical. And he takes a look up at the tentacle swaying and just kind of swayes himself up there in the crow's nest as he keeps watch. Sleep comes for you all.

rest of one way or another. And you know that the day has come because you feel the creaking of the happy eater in movement. Captain Oric excitedly at the railing, looking out at the bow of the ship out into the distance. I know she's nearby. I just know it. And already the fleet is moving

in further south. I think Keza is getting anxious. and wants this to be over with. It's getting towards that finish line, and he wants it to pass, and so he spends a lot of his time scouting and hoping he's going to find his own happy eater in the distance so we can get this over with.

Zinn continues to keep track of the preparation of the juju beans. Since it was mentioned that they could be used as breakfast, he insists upon it getting to the captains as early as possible to see before we, before we meet the one that could potentially kill happy, which is so concerning. Quentin approaches you Zin with a bowl and says, we've made some special bowls for all the captains,

and here you can give this to Captain Oric, and we've got one for Entente and for Legion. Very good. Well, let us get to it. Vivo has spent the morning walking up and down the deck of the eater, looking into all of the cracks and crevices, trying to get a whole picture of this creature happy, who he communed with a bit last night, trying to see what parts he can see, and at all times trying to avoid the gaze of the eye. So it's almost like a game for him. He's trying to, like, spot what he can spot without being spotted himself. Many of them look in your direction before Captain Oric appears behind you and says, Would you like to see what I look like in total?

Yes, I would. Follow me? And he leads you to the same door that Keza was at the night before. He opens it up and sure enough, this mound of flesh seems to descend deep into the darkness, but he says, if you go down there, there's just a little bit of room for little old you. Bebo is curious and flashes Captain Oryk an uncertain grin and says,

Okay, if I don't come out, can you please tell my crew what happened to me? Don't worry, you'll come out. Okay. He takes one tentative little squishy step and then another and slowly makes his way down into the crevice that was pointed out to him. The flesh is soft. and you're able to very easily get down and begin to descend almost like your cave diving into the belly of the Happy Eater.

Having just watched Bebo go down into the literal bowels of the Happy Eater, I follow behind and step next to Oric. Happy, I'm not sure if you're aware, but the body that you are currently using also needs to eat. Oh, yeah, I'll forget that. Here, this is for Nibati.

Breakfast, as it were. He smiles, a big black and yellow-toothy grin, says, Oh, that's so nice of you, Zinn. I must say that three of you have been just lovely. It has been a pleasure to be aboard the ship as well. Thank you for having us. and almost forgetting Bebo even when down there

he begins to walk away and starts scarfing down on this kind of porridge-looking meal I stay at the door knowing that Bebo is down there Bebo you're able to push yourself through and just when it feels like it's too tight

you just push down a little bit on the flesh and you're able to get farther out a curve eventually leads to a final kind of corner of the interior of the ship that has not been filled by Happy, and you're able to slide down his fleshy belly and land on the inside. It's very, very dark in here.

But you can hear the gurgling and the rumbling of the inside of his stomach and body. Bebo looks around, kind of feeling around for purchase on the walls and meeting the soft, undulating resistance of this creature, and he kind of moves with it. And he looks around to see if there's anything of interest down here, anything that sticks out or is notable that he could tell his crewmates. It's almost pitch black. And without doing something to see,

you're going to have a cut of one. Build a pool. Feeling around in the dark, you, your mycelial senses don't necessarily need the dark to understand. what's going on, you press your hand in one area and it feels like sand until your mycelium smells it and you realize it's gunpowder, a lot of it, a huge mound of it. And then feeling around more, you land your mycelial hands land on metal. Feeling it out, it feels like an engine of some kind, something valuable. Reaching more, ceramic batteries square, blocky and heavy.

From my own knowledge of ships, do these things feel like they're in place where they would be? Or have they been gathered here, like in a pile? Like, I'm feeling around to orient, is this a room that I'm in, or is this like a pile of loot? You can tell you're in kind of the back corner of the stern. And it's since you feel that these things have been moved out of place, but are there nonetheless, perhaps why the engines stopped working weeks ago. You got some good stuff down here, happy. Gives him a little pat on the haunch of the flesh nearest to him.

You hear a kind of a rumble inside of it. Bebo mimics the dance, and all of his feet begin to do like a little tap dance and the gunpowder sand. Amazing. I can't wait to tell my friends. Thank you. Have a great day. He begins to crawl back out towards the upper deck. Keza, finally on the horizon, you see, one of the mangrove roots has almost on purpose been physically tangled and shaped to appear almost like a ramp that leads up and below it is a massive chasm. Oh, that might be it.

Captain. Captain Orrick hears he walks over and says, It's her. We've arrived. As he finishes his last bowl of porridge. Yeah, we have. What are you eating? Oh, it's a bit of food that Zins was so nice as to give me.

It's really good. I could taste berries. Oh. That's so good. Juju berries, right? I just know that it tastes good. Would you mind taking it? I need to prep myself for the big moment.

Yeah. Oh, you better work fast. You've only got an hour. He turns to his crew and begins yelling out. All right, everyone. When we get there, I'm going to need everyone to make a lot of noise. And if you could shine things and make the ships as shiny as possible, It'll attract the misses.

And we will do all those things. But Happy, do you think I could talk to one-on-one man to man? Really get you hyped up. I want to be your wingman on this. I want to make sure you're ready for this. This big, burly, ugly captain, former captain of a man kind of looks at you with these doe eyes. Like, please, anything you can.

Come on up to the throne with me. Let's wrap. He's obviously very nervous, wringing his hands, hanging on every word you say. Happy, what do you think that a prospective partner wants in a man? Don't answer. Let me tell you. A lot of people think it shows a strength of power, of control. I am.

I have. I will. I do. It's none of that. He's shaking his. head like a bobblehead. These flowers are a nice way in, but it's just an opener. Eventually happy, you're going to have to talk to her.

And that's really the only thing that sells it. It's never control. It's just connection. Do you hear me? What should I say? You should say whatever is in your heart. And you should say it in your language. not ours, and he points down below the ship,

because that's really all that matters. You guys are on the same wavelength. I remember you said something about the smelly sailors. Maybe they should be out of sight. There's no room on the happy eater, but let's get them out of sight on the other ships. Yeah, so you two could be alone. So you could really have this private moment.

You don't need us to crowd your style, man. got enough. All right. Let's do it. Everyone, everyone get off the ship. And the other sailors kind of look around, but begin making preparations to board the other ships.

And happy, I just wanted to say, because it is, man, it's getting time for your big date. Really great getting to meet you. I didn't know what you were going to be. And I kind of had an idea

of what I was going to do before I did. And now I've got no idea what happens next. Just that I liked meeting you. He puts a reassuring hand on your shoulder and says, Love is what happens next. Last thing, I swear. Then you can get ready for your day. She doesn't want to see this guy.

And he gestures to Captain Oreck. Let me take him on to the other ship too. Just be you. All right. All right, you got it. Okay. Well, take a walk with me. I'll show you the Godsinger, and you can get ready on the eater.

He ambles after you. And immediately he goes to his communicator, and he morse codes out to the others. I have everyone just squid on board moving to Godsinger. And in like a panic before the hour is up, he's like lifeboating everyone over to the Godsinger. and the other ships. Crawling through Army crawling through the flesh, Bebo messages back en route and just squeezes through this small chamber,

mushed mushroom and Happy's underbelly. On the way out, though, he is going to look for signs of that second brain pearl if it's down here at all. He's feeling around. He knows the shape well, So he's keeping an eye out for that as he goes through the cargo. No role necessary.

You can't find it there. He exits, kind of gasping for the air and the freshness of the wild sea, not below deck, and kind of makes his way up the stairs with a bit of a spring in his step after receiving the message and yells behind him, It was lovely meeting you! And then rushes back over to the other ship. Zinn was waiting the entire time for you to get up there because he was the only one that saw you go down there. So you got, uh, final.

Okay, finally, it took you long enough. We're going back to the guns in here now. He had rounded the corner pretty much squarely into you, nearly snacked into your metal leg. Ah, yes, on my way. Oh, thank you for waiting for me, Zinn. Of course, I saw you go down there. I wasn't sure if you were eaten or not. And if you were...

I'm very much alive. Good. That means I didn't have to enact my part of the plan. I mean, no, I don't have a plan at all. Let's go. As they're walking, he says, let me tell you about something you really will like about this thing. And proceeds to share about the gunpowder

and the high value items he saw. Gunpowder, you say. Interesting. Very, very interesting. Just before this mangrove ramp, the ships begin their offload. The Happy Eater begins its offload of the crew, split evenly amongst the three other ships. Now the godsinger with about a dozen individuals from the Happy Eater mostly, and the Screw Loose and Little Rascal helmed by the other captains

push forward as the Happy Eater begins to move forward. forward.