Sat in your bunk, the world swaying back and forth around you a part of you wonders why in Clay's name you decided to make this journey.

But, make it you did, finding a ship, The Maelstrom's Mistress sailing under captain Vengar Dukat, an grizzled Alderlander seafarer. It cost you everything bar the clothes on your back to secure passage, but you find yourself in the ships hold, a motley assortment of passengers sharing cramped quarters as the ship makes its way through heavy seas north to the land known as the Bitter Reach.