Sail the Celestial Seas

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Silverfoam may visit places beyond the ken of mortals. If he chooses to travel to a particular place, Silverfoam must plot a course by use of Navigation although he may find Astrology more than commonly useful.
H must sail beyond the horizon as night falls, whereupon he will find himself upon a celestial sea, and from there can travel to any place for which he has the charts.
Whenever he travels to new places, he must take regular sightings and record obvious landmarks, in particular on leaving and entering a new realm, and enter them in his log. From this information, he will be able to make a chart or rutter. In most cases, he will be able to use them to establish a route of travel between his point of departure and the destination.
From time to time, Silverfoam may find a reference on his charts which leads him to believe that he may shorten his travel time. For example, he may find that he has two charts that make reference to the Ombreuse Ocean. By his calculations, he believes he can free-sail from one of these points to the other, thus reducing his travel time. If successful, he can combine the two charts, and it may be that he gains an efficiency of travel thereby.

Entry from Silverfoam's Log

We traveled upon a strange sea where small islets of fire no bigger than a chart table floated, and they were great in number. I have entered this place as the Sea of Flames and note that we travel for what seemed three days upon it before I remarked a great spire of black rock rising up from the depths.
The astrologer informed us that our bearing was some fifteen degrees or so off Wrath, the normal compass directions having no meaning in this place.
We sailed further along this bearing for what seemed another five days, and I noted that the green star, apparently called Wormwood by the astrologer, shifted some four degrees over that period in a direction I am informed is Sloth.
I felt the horizon looming closer, and so used the ship's instruments to note the position of the stars, and record them hereunto.