Sargasso
The sounding line started to dredge up seaweed days ago, but now before you stretches a doleful sight.
d4 | You can clearly see several derelict ships, but skirting the edges... |
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1 | may prove tricky, as the powerful gyre seems to draw your ship nearer and nearer the mass of vegetation |
2 | you spy a recently ensnared arrival: a pirate, vessel-of-the-line, or rival adventuring company |
3 | is a scavenging vessel called The Disappointment, who may see your ship as easier pickings |
4 | rival factions battle for territory or looting rights - the losing side calls for your aid, promising plunder gleaned from abandoned galleons |
d6 | Should your ship approach too close... |
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1 | strangling, leafy runners will rapidly begin climbing the hull, taking only moments to reach the decks. Like kudzu, if left alone, soon all you will see is a slick, leafy-green, vaguely-ship-like shape |
2 | the helmsman is likely to become distracted by air thick with mind-clouding spores |
3 | you may draw the attention of the primary resident: a Druid obsessively collecting sea-going vessels for some mysterious purpose |
4 | you are likely to be overrun with a tangle of aquatic shambling mounds |
5 | seal-lonely sailors are likely to desert without a second thought when beckoned by the numerous Kelp Dryads who make their home here |
6 | you will spy curious figures peering nervously out from the wrecks |
d8 | Marvelous treasures may await within, such as... |
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1 | a floating garrison, mired here on its way to reinforce a forgotten war. Full of weaponry, some of which may prove magical |
2 | an Immovable Anchor, dwarf-made, the command word translates to a curse |
3 | a very special Sleuthing Spyglass, a stubby switch on the side can be depressed to show past events at sea |
4 | the pirate ship Patience, its hold laden with plunder from yuan-ti ruins |
5 | a barnacle-encrusted Apparatus of Kwalish, containing a small spell library |
6 | the sacred bones of Saint Luchet the Scapegoat, each piece of his skeleton is a valuable and highly portable holy relic |
7 | the golden Godship of Olifrax the Ungenerous. The entire hull glimmers in the sun. It's only gold leaf, but enough could be scraped off with a week's work to lease a small armada |
8 | a king's ransom, along with the True King in arcane stasis below deck. How will the kingdom react when they discover they've been ruled by a double-walker for the past two decades? |
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