Gale - The one who REALLY doesn't make sense. I mean REALLY REALLY. First, he tells you that he's surprised your alive. "Last time I saw you, you were lying in a crucible's worth of blood; an intellect devourer nibbling at your ear." WHAAA??? When did THIS happen? Ever? Maybe if I screwed up the fight with the intellect devourers in the nautiloid just after leaving the beach, I might have been lying in a pool of blood, but otherwise, no. Makes no sense. At no time was I ever in this scenario.
Uh, the implication is that this is something that happened at any time between the insertion of the tadpole and when you woke up on the ground of the Nautiloid outside of your pod.
Not sure what's supposed to be so outrageous about it.
to tell me their story about how they survived the ship, how they got away, and what they've been doing all this time.
Allegedly, more or less like you did? And "all this time" is supposed to be a few hours at most after the Nautiloid crashed. The crash happen in an unspecified moment of the night and you wake up on the bitch at morning (which could be as likely one, two or six hours later, for what you can tell).
I mean, you make some fair point in your summary, but these sound like arbitrary nitpicking.
I was being somewhat serious, but not totally.
I am always confused by the Gale remark, though. We don't wake up in blood, and there isn't an intellect devourer in sight. It's just a little off. I do wonder if it is a mistake or they have something else in mind that we don't know about.
As for what they've been doing, it depends on whether you long rest or not. If you don't, it makes sense. If you do... What have they been doing for a day?
Also, another thing that doesn't sit well with me. If you meet Shadowheart at the crypt entrance, she's got like 4 dead intellect devourers near her, as if she killed them all by herself. Dang! Seriously?
Gale is similar with the goblins. They don't really say it, but it's kinda implied that he killed them since they're near where you meet him. But he has full spell slots and is a baby wizard. Just seems again to be a bit off.
I'd like Investigation checks to piece together what happened in various places. Success means I figure out that the fishers on the beach actually killed the devourers, not SH, and the two tieflings used crossbows and ambushed the goblins from above, or something. You know. Make sense of the scene. I find crossbow bolts or something indicating the tieflings, or something.
Anyway. All minor points, really.
