Re: IC: West to the New World
OOC: The DM pointed out that my post made it sound as if Thalassa was only planning to talk to Marvek and Hedwig later, not that she was already doing it. Sorry for not making that clear. To resolve the matter before the next event, Thalassa went ahead and spent a short rest identifying the shard.
After studying the strange shard for a time (while handling it as gingerly as if it might explode in her face), Thalassa approaches Marvek.
"Captain," she says, holding out the shard towards him, "this might interest you. It seems to be a piece of that weird realm we were travelling through a few days back. Yes, I know -- but it seems to be, well, maybe not harmless, but I don't think anything like before is going to happen with this. And it might actually have useful properties for someone with your, um, instinctive ties to magic."
"I think if you attuned yourself to it, you could use it as a focus for your magic. You could even attach it to something like an amulet and wear it to keep it out of the way. And if you channeled your magic through it, I think you could summon a part of that realm to ours and, well, use it to attack someone."
OOC: It's a Far Realm Shard, from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.