[color=6ecff6][i]Have you ever seen a waterspout? It's what happens when a twister hits the ocean, sending a column of water hundreds of feet in the air. They only show up in the roughest of storms, and the smart sailors turn tail and run long before they get close enough to see one.

No one ever accused me of being the smartest of sailors.

A few months after I had liberated my "inheritance" and collected my crew, we were sailing in one such storm. Waves crested above our mizzenmast, and winds were so strong that we had tucked all our sails, letting Neptune's fury guide us. And there we saw her: the most beautiful waterspout ever formed by the gods. It must have been a hundred cubits wide, clear blue like a swirling lake in the sky. As the waves drew us closer, dozens of fish began to plummet from the sky, many of them crashing down on our decks. [/i][/color]

"No hardtack tonight, boys!" Jill sang out as she wrestled with the ship's wheel. "Pick 'em up and stow 'em in a bag! And keep an eye on the spout!"

>The party gains two dozen rations worth of raw fish.

[color=6ecff6][i]Little did we know that the waterspout was the least of our worries, for as our ship drew near, it became obvious that this was no ordinary spout. As we looked up to the sky, instead of normal stormy clouds, we saw what appeared to be another ocean, upside-down and glaring at us, with a myriad of unknown sea creatures swimming its ocean depths... or was it heights? 

While we stared dumbfounded into the Mirrored Sea, a handful of fish crested the surface of the other ocean and began falling toward us, crashing down on our deck. The creatures of the other world seemed to notice us, and a couple of serpentine figures swam towards the waterspout with full haste, passing through it harmlessly into our ocean, then approaching our boat. Another figure that appeared as a wolf made of water and ice leapt from the surface of the Mirrored Sea and charged through the air, half falling and half flying toward us, the rain freezing into driving snow around it.[/i][/color]

"To arms!" cried the Captain. Battle was about to start. 

>Roll for Initiative. 

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[h3][url=http://i.imgur.com/wusFt0Z.png]Round 1 Map[/url] 
Initiative:[/h3]22 - Shivs
20 - Garnesh
20 - High Seas
18 - Nemiea
15 - Theullai
15 - Jill
13 - Dyn
13 - Coral Drakes
11 - Reemes
8 - Koan
7 - Eliza
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[url=https://youtu.be/rHTGElCVfSs]Combat Music![/url] - As suggested by [@Hekazu].