The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

The standard cabins for crew families are rudimentary,
with simple beds and chests for possessions. Harrier
custom is to divide a room up with hanging sheets to
give a sense of privacy. Even the poorest of the Harrier
families attempt to brighten a room up with coloured
silks and gaudy ornaments. They cannot stand a room
to be drab.
All of the cabins on the living levels are essentially
identical. A Player Character entering one at random
has an 80% chance to find it occupied by 1–2 sailors
and 0–3 children.
2. Mess Halls
This large chamber has square wooden tables at regular
intervals. There is a smell of fresh cooking in the air.
The walls are decorated with huge silk hangings with
abstract geometric patterns on them.
The Harriers gather here for communal meals three
times a day. At eight in the morning, midday and six in
the evening, the room is packed with Harrier families
(and the rest of the ship is all but empty). Half an
hour before the meals are dished up, four sailors are
in the room laying out places and making everything
ready. The silk hangings on the wall are ideal for hiding
behind.
3. Galley
The air swirls with steam as you enter this room. The
sound of bubbling stew comes from close by. The
Sea Harriers must like their food spicy, as there is a
powerful smell of curry and ginger. The large, freshly
slaughtered carcasses of four cows lie at the end of the
room on a bloody tarpaulin.
One cook (Grebben) and eight sailor assistants are in
this room at all times, preparing food for the others. If
they are attacked, Grebben casts animate dead on the
cow corpses and tries to use them to block off the Player
Characters’ exits.
Grebben is a bald, tan-skinned, red-faced person with a
gold ring in each ear. She is a woman, but her large girth
and lack of hair make it very hard to tell her gender. She
was originally a priestess of an obscure sea-goddess,
Sohallish, serving with a temple in Kahoor. When
the sea raiders attacked her ship, they recognised her
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