Cudi Di Batterino/IF-1667

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The waters beyond this point are uncharted, tales from distant shores echoed back into our reality.

Background

The following accounts can be traced to a single leather-bound journal originally found in a locked wooden chest alongside a sextant-like device of indeterminate origin and a shell that matches no known species of mollusc. The chest was located in a storage room in the Legscraper’s lower levels that was described as “smelling faintly of the sea”. Subsequent attempts to locate and navigate to said room have been unsuccessful thus far. The journal details the exploits of the crew of a large sailing vessel, The Tokyo Adrift, descriptions of which are largely consistent with mid-17th century galleons.

With The Tokyo Adrift

Cudi Di Batterino, latest in a long line of highly esteemed privateers, was slated to inherit a family vessel and take over as its captain. He instead opted to stowaway in the grandest ship he could find docked nearby, inadvertently beginning his career as a crewmember aboard The Tokyo Adrift. The journal notes that Di Batterino was a steady hand aboard the ship, hardworking and reliable if a bit odd. Several entries describe him “speaking to himself in hushed tones” but perhaps even stranger is the fact that “whispered replies from unfamiliar voices” were occasionally heard in response. Further accounts from other crew members describe cold spots around Di Batterino’s hammock. In one incident, Di Batterino finished a job in the lower decks meant for five men by himself in half the time. When questioned on how he achieved such results, he was quoted as responding, “Old family secret”.

One entry describes Cudi’s belief in an ethereal shark that follows him around. While the journal does not provide visual confirmation or evidence for the existence of said shark, an unnamed crewmate was quoted as saying “I called him crazy for throwin’ a piece of meat overboard but the bloody thing vanished before hitting the sea”. The entry concludes with the writer conceding that while they had yet to witness the shark themselves, stranger things have happened on the Immateria Seas.