[center]"[color=aba000]My lord! Something's happening in the Dark Surge![/color]"

"[color=ed145b]Indeed. I can sense magic in the fog that was not there before. We are under a very subtle attack... Bring the prisoner girl out! Her life will be sufficient fuel to dispel this![/color]"[/center]

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[center][h3]Varjan Ship[/h3][/center]
[center][b]LOST AT SEA[/b][/center]
[center]~ [@Enkryption], [@The Irish Tree] (LIL), [@AzureKnight] (SHI) ~[/center]

Witnessing everything that unfolded, the villager man could not help but remark quietly to Ian. "[color=8493ca]Are the yokai going to be... alright?[/color]"

"[color=ghostwhite]Oh, totally! They've got this in the bag![/color]" Ian confidently replied. "[color=ghostwhite]Ohhh, you mean as a team helping Shizuyama. Uhh, well, they don't really have to jive together to work but if it gets real bad, Lady Kyouko's probably gonna send them all to Belize.[/color]"

"[color=8493ca]Where's Belize? And who's Lady Kyouko...?[/color]"

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[center]~ [@The Irish Tree] (LIL) ~[/center]

The already-present fog masked [u]Liliana's[/u] approach with the spore-filled one. Invisible, the warrior Fairy arrived at the Varjan ship with no one aboard the wiser. Not even the Varjan Brigands patrolling the deck noticed anything wrong.

[u]Liliana[/u] saw that the two ships they needed to search were connected to each other via a single wide plank. It did not look permanent so perhaps it was only there temporarily to help the two vessels transport supplies to each other. Regardless of the reason, this should aid in the search for villager's daughter. However, the spore fog was not big enough to encompass both vessels. The Fairy will need to fly over to affect the other ship, which she noticed was much larger than the first.

It was only a matter of time before the first Brigand in the initial ship felt drowsy. Soon, multiple Varjans in the deck were falling down unconscious and within moments, they were all out cold. The spore fog then seeped into the inner parts of the vessel to do its work there. [u]Liliana[/u] could head down inside to make sure, but the other ship had already taken notice.

"[color=aba000]My lord! Something's happening in the Dark Surge![/color]" [u]Liliana[/u] heard someone shouting from the other ship.

"[color=ed145b]...Bring the prisoner girl out! Her life will be sufficient fuel to dispel this![/color]"

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[center]~ [@Enkryption], [@AzureKnight] (SHI) ~[/center]

Meanwhile, Ian had taken [u]Shizuka[/u], [u]Alice[/u] and [u]Carroll[/u], along with some rope, in the rowboat and rowed them to the first ship. "[color=ghostwhite]First ship should be down and out by now. Let's hope our little Fairy friend hasn't ran into any sort of trouble.[/color]" He remarked, somewhat cheekily.

The boat was never spotted, or rather, there was no one to spot it as it arrived right next to the first Varjan ship. The taskforce could feel the spore fog hovering above them, but they were still too far to be affected adversely by it. Ian then began cutting and tying the rope together as he spoke up.

"[color=ghostwhite]Good luck with the rescue, y'all. I'll stay here and keep this boat afloat from anything... bad. You know, just in case.[/color]" Ian said. "[color=ghostwhite]Uhh, you guys have a way to climb up, right? Or do you need, like, a grappling hook or something?[/color]"