Ardin – Day 3
As evening came we heard a long deep note from a horn of sorts. With that sound the boats were hauled up and the ladders leading down from the village were retracted. Leads me to wonder if they are not protecting themselves from something?
The white glow came from the sun reflecting off of the barnacle houses, this white glow faded and was replaced with the warm orange glow of the lanterns being lit as night fell.
Things settled down and we turned in for the night, making note to check on the village if we happened to wake during the night. The gentle lapping of the shore and the calls of unseen creatures in the sea providing the soundtrack before I dozed off.
The morning was fraught with panic, we awoke late, to find masses of boats sailing towards us, for a moment we feared we had been spotted but that panic ebbed as they sailed past us and to one of the large islands that stood between the village and the Link in island.
From observing the village it looked like the entire place emptied out.
Worried about them seeing us on the way back we hid everything and retreated in between the rocks and waited, 2 hours passed before the first boats started heading back.
I stayed another hour, watching and making observations, from what we can tell they seem to be a simple fishing community. I have opted to return to Sul for a while and continue some of my other work, Steven is staying another night to continue the observations, tomorrow we plan on heading over to the other island they visited to see what is there.
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clam Says: February 22nd, 2010 at 6:14 am
A thought: has anyone seen what type of fish the villagers have been catching? Do they look like they’re hunting larger beasts, or netting shoals?
Perhaps they are fishing for the barnacles the village is built upon?
K.Lord Says: February 22nd, 2010 at 8:23 am
Steven has been there for the last few days, and yes, not two days ago he witnessed them fishing the large barnacles for additions to the village.
Aside from that he hasn’t seen anything else being fished that would be considered large, he said most of the stuff is small fish for eating.