Hoggle sent the following report to TMN:
So, here I was sitting on the ship taking the long boringggg trip back to Puddleby . . . I proceeded to do some fishing in hopes of landing some big sea creature to add some entertainment, then all of sudden we felt a big "bang"! Some kinda earthquake hit. It was then I found out that we had crashed into a tiny island. The Captain cussed up a storm and somewhere in there I heard the word "Iceton."
Iceton seemed an odd name for a place so green. The Captain told us he needed a lot of lumber to repair this hole in the ship if we were ever to get back on our way. So the few of us who were awake scoured the island for logs.
I did not notice many creatures. I saw a few boar, and I heard others had seen a parrot, but other than that, the island was pretty empty. Or at least that's what we thought . . .
While I was dumping my pack out to make space for logs, I had thrown out some fish and an old shoe I managed to catch somewhere. Right as I set the shoe down near a river a path opened! On the other side, there was an entrance to these animal pens.
A little man named Doob was there and offered us a mount! There seems to be three different types of them. The first one was 25,000 coins, the second was 35,000 coins, and the last was 50,000 coins. Over in the rental area I paid 200 coins to test out the low-end mount. It was oddly slower than walking. I (my wallet) decided a mount wasn't right for me at this time, so I went back to collecting wood.
An hour or so later we were back on the way home. The ship seemed to be in very seaworthy shape again, and the many slumbering passengers were not even aware of how close we came to missing the feast.
Should ever any of you take a sea voyage, and want a mount, I suggest bringing an old shoe, many coins, and logs in the off chance that the ship runs aground here again.
-Hoggle
Posted by Para at October 29, 2005 06:57 PM