A ship found drifting with nobody aboard has one witness left, and it is the log. The players read it the way the salvage crew would: calm entries of wind and position first, then the lines where the hand starts to change.
The head of the page names the vessel, the master, the voyage and the page number. Below it every entry is a row of four columns, the date and time, the position, the wind and weather, and the remarks, as many as the page holds, with the master’s signature at the foot. Pencil notes, circles and crossings-out go on top of it all.
Four logs: a Gloucester fishing schooner of 1928 that brought up a bell, a carrack becalmed on a sea that reflects the wrong stars, an ore freighter that took a canister off a derelict, and an Antarctic research station whose borehole is warm. A4 at 300 DPI. The harbour office that entered the ship is a Register, and the telegram that reported her missing is a Telegram.