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Three Sick Sailors
Image prompt:

Do not depict: Child Abuse, Suicide, Explicit sexual content or nudity, Extreme graphic violence or gore, Drug/alcohol use. Generate an illustration for a choose-your-own-adventure story. Style: Digital illustration, vivid colours, suitable for a web story. Do not include any text or lettering in the image. The dim wooden deck of an old trading ship at dawn, lanterns glowing, three sailors slumped against barrels, a moody gray sea beyond the rail. in Gouache style

Three Sick Sailors


You are Tom, the surgeon's mate on the ship Maribel. Before breakfast, three sailors fall down sick. Their faces are pale. Their hands shake.

The captain frowns. "Bad water," he says. "That's all."

But something feels wrong. You must find out what.



? A good surgeon checks everything—the water, and the sailors too.

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