Swamped

It's Colleen. She helped with fixing up your shelves after they were knocked over during a particularly bad storm last month.

You saw her in the infirmary a moment ago, asleep. She still seems quite tired, but you notice a hint of ether about her. The warden probably kept the patients asleep to avoid too much of a commotion while she was summoning swamp chickens.

And speaking of those chickens, they disappeared once she left the room. Except, apparently, for the one Colleen is holding up in front of your face.

"You mind telling me why I woke up with a swamphen sitting on my head?" she asks. "I can't imagine one could have been smuggled in and gone unnoticed for six months. Even if it was an egg, they only take two weeks to hatch. And what happened to Donnie? He's out cold."

"The hen was summoned here by a wizard who had infiltrated the ship," you reply. "She had taken on the role of warden. I suppose that position's open now, as is that of the cook. She threatened Donnie, and I'm not sure if he was rendered unconscious through magic or simply fainted due to the stress, but he's safe now. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm afraid I have work to do. And shouldn't you be resting?"

She just stares at you for a while. You turn around and continue walking. But her footsteps suggest she's following you.

"What in the hells is even going on?" she shouts, finally.

"We're still working on figuring that out. Unfortunately, we don't really have time, because the Ship of the Dead is supposedly about to attack us."

Colleen suddenly goes quiet. So does everyone else in the hallway you're walking down.

Oh, that's right. You've spent so much time thinking about how silly the superstition where no one calls you by your name is that you've forgotten about some of the other ones they have.

Though now that you think of it, this one is less of a "don't mention the Ship of the Dead" rule and more of that "everyone fears the Ship of the Dead". So now you've got an entire hallway of frightened sailors. Who might spread the word and frighten more sailors.

You should probably try to calm them somehow before they go and do that.