The ship had once boasted the largest ballroom of any ship around. Back in its heyday it was never empty, circling around Lake Craywood endlessly and forever slowly cycling through passengers who were able to enter and exit on the regular docks every half hour.
Unfortunately hard times came and it became financially unsound. Four weeks afterwards the countrywide credit drop the ship's captain announced bankruptcy and called for the last voyage to be held to go beyond the lake for the first time since the ship was sailed into its home.
The plan was to head north and eventually dock in an industrial site with the facilities to break the ship down to its more valuable components and the sailing went perfectly smoothly until they hit the north/south border. It wasn't usually an issue but the large shapes under the water that rarely surfaced in clear weather began to circle the boat, heads almost breaching the surface to smell the passenger's fear.
Needless to say the ship never made it up north. The captain, crew and passengers were neither seen nor heard from again but the ship was found several hundred miles away, as it beached itself somehow on the coast of Denmark fully stocked with fresh fruit and vegetables but utterly void of all two hundred and seven seafarers.
The only hint as to what happened between the large circling shapes and the appearance at Denmark was the tanned remains of a large shark-like creature. It's scales the size of soup bowls and sharper than steel along the edges. Trace amounts of human skin were found between them, as fresh as the fruit on board.
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