Random Mini Event: Surfs Up (Way Up)

With the shift in leadership and the Pirates… err… Raiders leaving of Obsidian Beach, the young Calico Jack has found himself feeling melancholy. While many of the pack had stayed, including Rivin, the boy cannot help but feel like some monumental shift has happened. The rainy season down in Auster seems better suited to his mood and he decided to take a short trip down to unfamiliar territory. It took some doing to skirt the castle town’s lands but, with lots of luck, the boy manages to do it. Now, on a golden beach, he stands watching the colors of sunset lightly play across the rolling waves.

Thoughts tumble through his mind as he ponders what the future holds as the last rays of the dying light slip beneath the horizon. Jack’s attention is pulled out of the future and back into the moment as wonderful spectacle begins to take place. He had heard tales of the bioluminescence that lights the waters with its gentle glow but he has never actually, seen it. Wonder crosses his features as he stands at the water’s edge, watching the gentle light shine up at him. Suddenly, as if the Gods themselves are mocking him, the beautiful sight is stolen away as the water recedes down the beach.

Confusion knits his brow together as an eerie silence falls and the glow of mere moments before flickers and gutters out like someone has blown out a candle. His heart leaps up into his throat and his stomach plummets to his toes as a strange feeling tingles his nerves and sets the hair along his spine standing on end. Squinting against the darkness, Calico Jack’s icy blue eyes spy a thin line of that very same blue on the horizon. His confusion deepens and he wonders if something has happened to the sun.

As he stands there, trying to puzzle out what is happening, the boy remains blissfully unware of the danger that is building off of the shore line.


"Calico Jack"