004 - A Sticky Door

14th Mirtul 1357 ctd.

  It is still stuck in the doorway. Lox tries to fly a paper crane through the doorway but it gets stuck as well, and has to pull it out with some force. Thoma scratches off some of the glyphs on the inside of the doorframe. Moldrig tries to summon water to separate It from the door, but all it does is make him wet.   At the sound of footsteps on the stairs behind them, Lox and Thoma dart into the galley, while Moldrig hides (badly) behind a barrel.   It is Mary and Sarah who start to interrogate It, while he pretends to be Moldrig. Moldrig himself overhears Sarah removing the spell from the door by tracing a figure of eight and saying "vær så snill". It successfully gets away by pretending to be Moldrig, but Sarah and Mary catch the real Moldrig and interrogate him about the glyphs which have been scratched off the door. Mary escorts Moldrig back to his room.   Meanwhile, Lox and Thoma hide out in the galley. Mary finds them there, confronts them and then sends them back to their rooms.   Moldrig and It agree to work together and split everything 60:40.   Later, they are called up for their final dinner on the ship. After the first course, Sarah has a fight with Eldridge 'Fearless' Sykes, confronting him and accusing him of being a member of The Misseen. Villiam Partanen gets caught up in the argument and pushes Sykes over the side of the ship. Everyone is shook by what happened.   Thoma notices that the ship is now heading west and points this out to Lox. They have a conversation about who on the ship they can trust. Loretta Testa comes over to them and asks if they've noticed that things are strange. After talking to Loretta, they go looking for Jan Válek and arrange to meet him in his cabin that evening.   Timothée Calvet and Villiam talk about The Misseen.   Meanwhile, Moldrig is trying to escape the table but gets caught in conversation with Aurelia Sanctus. When he finally gets downstairs to the door to the captain's cabin he sees that there is a gnome leaning against the door. He tries to persuade the gnome that someone is throwing people overboard as part of "the play". The gnome panicks and knocks on the door, and Mary comes out. She escorts Moldrig back to his cabin, ressuring him that everything is fine.   Moldrig gives It the "password" for the door, and sends him downstairs to try to get in to the captain's cabin to steal glue and gold. It gets into a fight with the gnome and kills him quickly. Mary comes out of the office, realises that It's lying about who he is (as he's pretending to be the gnome) and asks him who he is. It runs, and Mary chases after him, falling over the ballbearings that he throws behind him. It gets to Moldrig's cabin, dripping blood behind him. It heads to the porthole in the cabin, but Moldrig goes to the door and sees Mary barrelling down the corridor, following the blood trail.