----- The Dread Pirate ceases examining the ground and leaps to his feet, his face suddenly looking ashen in the morning light, apparently distraught at something he'd seen hidden in the grass.
-----Looking up at the others, he says, "Arrr, there be somethin very wrong here. I don't want to alarm anyone, but there be some strange tracks in these grasses that I haven't seen the like of in quite some years. I was servin as the navigator on board the Dread Pirate Pufflestuff's ship, when I last saw the like of these tracks. We were on the run from a fleet o' privateers and royal navy. After days at sea, we had exhausted every trick we knew to lose those scurvy blighters, but it was no use. We couldn't shake 'em, and we were runnin farther and farther into the uncharted waters o' the Calubrium Sea. No sailor has ever seen more treacherous waters or weather than we did on the Calubrium Sea. It was a nightmare, sudden squalls of hail would rip the sail, razor sharp reefs lurked under every shoal. And the water itself was black as pitch. Finally we ripped the underbelly o' the ship out one night and ran aground on a godsforsaken isle. At first we thought we were saved, that we were fortunate enough to have escaped from the royal navy. Our supplies were low, but there were plenty of coconuts and fish about fer eatin."
-----"After a couple o' uneventful days passed, we began to cut down trees and lash 'em together with ropes that we twined out o' fibrous plant stalks. Our plan was to make a raft and stock up on enough fish and coconuts to last us til we hit a port. It was then that our real troubles began. One by one the crew started disappearin. Each night, no matter what we did, another body'd go missin. Somethin was there on that island with us. Somethin evil, that preyed on the flesh o' men. And left tracks like these in the sand around our camp. We tried stayin up all night, multiple guards, settin traps out fer the beast, but it was useless. Every mornin another person'd be missin."
-----Obviously shaken, the Dread Pirate continues, "Finally the raft was finished and fully stocked fer the horrible passage back across the Calubrium Sea. And not a moment too soon, fer only Captain Pufflestuff and I were left. I imagine that whatever the beast was, it left me fer last because I was the smallest o' the crew and wouldn't really make a satisfyin meal. And the Dread Pirate Pufflestuff was the fiercest sort ye could imagin, he'd been known to rip his enemies apart limb from limb when the battlerage was upon him. So it came the day that we were goin to leave and Captain Pufflestuff wanted to have one last try to trap and kill the beast that'd massacred and eaten his crew. So he had me hide in this cave and I was to signal him when the beast passed by, so's he could set off a fire trap and burn the monster to death. Anyway, I waited and waited fer the beast, but nothin showed and I was gettin sleepier and sleepier. So I abandoned the cave and started headin down towards the raft, when I heard somethin walkin real stealthy like through the underbrush behind me. Somethin was stalkin me. So I waited til I was near a ridgeline and I made me break fer it. I ran fer all I was worth and I could hear the slaverin jaws o' death snappin behind me as the monster got closer and closer. I knew I couldn't outrun the monster, so I threw meself over the ridge and plummeted over the edge to the reefs and piranhas below. Fortunately, just as I hit the water, a huge wave crashed in and kept me from gettin ripped to tatters on the reefs. It washed me right up onto the beach, nearby the raft. So's I started gettin the raft pushed into the water, when again I heard somethin movin about in the underbrush. So I quickly dragged the raft into the water and leapt aboard. Minutes later, as I was bein swept out to sea, I could just make out some sorta figure runnin down the beach, sometimes on two legs, sometimes on four. But in the dawn's light it was too hazy to make out what it was. I just hope that Captain Pufflestuff managed to somehow get away from it alright."