[i]"Velvezal. Why are you still sitting down? The fight's over. Get up already...Velvezal?"[/i]

As he browsed the various posters on the board, it took all Talogan had to not search through all of them at a frantic pace as he desperately tried to find something to take his mind off that accursed question.

[i]"Did you seriously fall asleep during a fight? You do not conquer the sea by sleeping."[/i]

Hector's words had brought memories to the surface. Memories Talogan did not enjoy recalling in the slightest. Memories he really wished hadn't even been made in the first place.

[i]"Talogan."
"You can't seriously expect me to believe fighting a few koalinth tired you out that much."
"Talogan."
"I've seen you take far worse than that and still have the energy to finish the fight. Wake up already."
"Talogan!"[/i]

He noticed two items of interest on the board. One was a bounty for Captain Goreguts Blood-Waters from Doros and the other was a 100 gold piece reward for finding a missing person named Robert. Talogan checked that poster for further information, less out of a desire to pursue the job and more in a vain attempt to derail his current train of thought.

[i]"It's no use, lad. She's gone."
"Gone...Gone?...No. No! That can't be right! You're wrong! You're lying! She said she was fine! She said she just needed to sit down for a moment!...You're wrong! You have to be!"
"I wish I was, Talogan...I wish I was."[/i]

Then he saw the axe. All other thoughts left his mind as he zeroed in on the symbol he was all too familiar with. The holy symbol of the Mighty One, drawn in great detail on the corner of a notice requesting that someone investigate a shipwreck to the south of Red Shard. Talogan realized at once that this was a sign. Maglubiyet himself had taken an interest in this wreck, and had called upon Talogan to go to investigate it. "Your will be done, Mighty One" Talogan said as he took the poster from the board.

[i]"...She wasn't supposed to die like this."[/i]

When he returned to the table, Talogan had a look on his face that his crew knew well. It was the determined face of a man on a mission and the fanatically glinting eyes of someone with a freshly stoked religious fervor that that the crew always saw when Talogan interpreted something as a divine missive. Talogan put the poster down on the center of the table and sat back down in his seat. "There has once more been a slight change of plans." Talogan declared. "We will still be spending some time off here for a few days. But first we will be investigating a shipwreck."