Set out the night before last to try and sail my karve around the continent I started on. Made it about halfway around traversing mostly black forest and meadows coastlines, with a little swamp. Had to log for the night so last night I popped in with the intent of completing the journey. Headed north along more black forest coasts and came suddenly on a plains biome so I changed course to get some sea room. It shortly became clear that the sea was narrowing and that there were plains on the other side too. I tried to hold to the middle, which put me in the ocean biome. There were constant fogs and storms, huge seas, the wind was dead on the nose so I'm paddling and the karve is getting tossed all over making it difficult to hold course in the center of the channel. Suddenly I heard a screech and a sea serpent reared up ahead. First one I have seen and I literally ran into him.

He attacked and hit the boat and I'm thinking I am screwed. All my troll armor and bronze weapons are heading for the ocean floor. I put about and got the wind behind me, dropped all sail, and just start scudding back south with him right behind me. The sea state made it very hard to steer and I didn't have much attention left over to give the worm. At some point I realized he was no longer behind me and I thought maybe I had outrun him. I made it to a black forest coast and just as I approached he reared up and screeched again. I ran the boat ashore and hopped off and he followed me into a shallow bay and was promptly set upon by a shaman and a brute. I started laying arrows into him, he killed the brute and the shaman was nearly dead when I finished him off. Killed the shaman too, and picked up the scales and meat. Did I mention there was a troll standing up on a hill overseeing the whole thing? Decided to put off the rest of the journey until I have a longship.