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The Sea Harriers like to keep clean, as it ties in to their concept of themselves as a noble people, so there are usually 2–12 sailors in the communal bathhouse and 0–3 captains in the exclusive bathhouse at all times. Of course, they have no clothes or equipment, so in combat they have to grapple foes or dash for weapons. When bathing, the Harriers leave their possessions in neat piles against the wall. A sword is more important than modesty; they will grab weapons and fight naked if they have to. If the Player Characters try to fight the Harriers while in the water, the Harriers try to drown them. A combatant who achieves a pin against an opponent while fighting in at least three feet of water can hold the opponent underwater, which begins to drown him if he does not hold his breath. Breaking the pin allows the grappled character to breathe. E. Lower Living Level This level holds another set of cabins and several rooms that are used communally to raise the Sea Harrier children in the life of piracy. 1. Cabins These are identical to those on Deck D (see above). 2. Children’s Nests These rooms have a sour smell of old milk and straw. The walls have childish chalk drawings on them. There are bunks up the walls, with long ladders connecting them. Ropes have been strung between the bunks, connecting the levels in a hempen spider’s web. Scattered across the floor are bolsters packed with hay, crayons, toy ships, sheets of scribbled-on paper and wooden swords. During the day the room is filled with Harrier children yelling, running around and brachiating from bunk to bunk along the ropes. A single lieutenant attempts to keep control of them all. When Harrier families go off on raids, the children are all moved to this room, where they can be supervised together. The high ladders and dangerous ropes are there to get the children used to heights from an early age. 3. Assembly Room One end of this room has a raised floor, with a lectern and a sheet of canvas hanging behind. On the canvas is a painting of the world, with the ocean currents marked in. A Player Character observing the map closely and making a Search check (DC 25) notices something curious. On five places on the map, all of them tiny islands in the ocean, a dot has been marked with a symbol of a bell next to it. These are the Sea Harrier bolt-holes, where they can go to hide from foes, take emergency loot from a store or replenish their food stocks. The bolt-holes are an important secret of the Sea Harriers, as they allow ships to evade pursuit if the Celebration is nowhere in range. Some Sea Harrier bolt-holes have been discovered in the past, which has led to the conclusion that a carefully hidden bolt-hole system is the secret of their efficiency. The Harrier children are trained to memorise the location of these safe havens. 4. Hall of Claw and Fang This room seems to be some sort of gymnasium, judging by the towels and racks of rapiers on the wall. Unlike most training rooms you have seen, it has been fitted with wooden posts from floor to ceiling, spaced at fivefoot intervals. A raised section in the centre has three ropes hanging from a beam above and a scuffed circular platform below. The posts and the room’s walls are covered with nicks and gouges, as if from hundreds of fencing bouts. This room fulfils two functions. Primarily it is the training hall where the Harriers learn to fight, with special emphasis on fighting onboard ship. The wooden posts are to simulate the difficulty of fighting in cramped conditions, the ropes are for swinging on and climbing and the platform can be made to sway from side to side, requiring the combatants to make Balance checks (DC 15) each round or lose their footing. Its second function is as a courtroom. Disputes between the Harriers are settled ‘toe to toe, buccaneer fashion’ in a duel. These are usually to first blood but can be duels to the death if the matter is serious enough. At the Games Master’s discretion (and depending on how battered and weary the Player Characters are by this point), there may be a duel in progress. Two sailors, Scutter Prewitt and Randall Gash, are fighting with daggers on the tilting platform while two more sailors (their seconds) look on stony-faced. Their dispute is over a girl who has gone missing, Tanda Clay. Prewitt is accusing Gash of having abducted her and Gash is protesting his innocence. The truth is that Sunspite has done away with the girl in one of his murderous rages and concealed her body in the bilges, though the duellists have no chance of knowing that. Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73006) 8 67
68 5. Galekki Lairs These dank, lightless rooms stink of ammonia and raw meat. A cracked femur, possibly from a horse, lies nearby. The wooden walls and floor have been covered with green tiles, presumably to keep the damp off the ship’s timbers. Soaking wet sea-sponges are piled on the floor and heaped in mounds in the corners. Greenskinned, gelid creatures, like some revolting hybrid of toad and panther, are sprawled across them. These rooms are where the galekki rest. The sponges are kept soaking wet with seawater, so the creatures will not dry out. The Harriers allow them their privacy, feeding them live animals twice a day but otherwise leaving them to themselves. There are 1d4+1 galekki in each lair. Most of the time (80%) they will be sleeping. Wakeful galekki prowl the ship, only returning to the sponges when they are tired. One of the more favoured galekki, Chelkhan, lives in the lair marked ‘C’. He is the alpha male of the ‘ship’s cats’ and has a place of honour with the Sea Harriers. In recognition of this he wears an adamantine collar set with spikes and two rusted-looking metal vambraces on his forelegs. The collar is a collar of natural armour +4, while the vambraces are bracers of greater magic fang (caster level 12 th , +3 enhancement bonus to attack and damage with claw attack). Chelkhan is an arrogant beast and loves to play with intelligent prey. Rather than alerting the Sea Harriers, he tries to deal with intruders on his own, chasing them down into the lower decks where he can play ‘cat and mouse’ with them. Chelkhan, Male Galek: CR 8; Large magical beast (aquatic, amphibious); 8d8+24; hp 68; Init +7; Spd 40 ft., swim 40 ft.; AC 23, touch 12, flat-footed 20; Base Atk +8; Grp +20; Atk +16 melee (1d8+9, claw); Full Atk +16 melee (1d8+9, 2 claws) and +11 melee (2d8+5, bite); Space/Reach 10 ft./5 ft.; SA enlarge self, improved grab, pounce, rake 1d8+5; SQ darkvision 60 ft., gelid, low-light vision, poison barbs, resistance to cold 10, scent, spell resistance 19; AL LE; SV Fort +10, Ref +9, Will +4; Str 26, Dex 17, Con 19, Int 10, Wis 14, Cha 10. Skills & Feats: Balance +6, Climb +11, Hide +5, Jump +11, Listen +5, Move Silently +6, Spot +5, Swim +12; Dodge, Improved Initiative, Track. Equipment & Treasure: Bracers of greater magic fang (2), collar of natural armour +4. 6. Gaming Room From the smell of tobacco, the rugs on the floor, the round tables, the stools and the chairs, you can tell that this area must be the Harriers’ lounge. Bottles and half-empty glasses stand on the tables. In the room’s centre, the tables have been moved away to make room for an enclosure made from planks. You can hear a fierce squealing and scrabbling coming from within. The Harriers pass the time between raids by drinking, fighting and betting on animal fights. The enclosure is a five-foot-deep fighting pit, 15 feet square, with a floor of sand. With nothing else to pit against one another, the Harriers have taken to capturing dire rats from the bilges and making them fight. Currently, a one-eyed dire rat called Grimswold is taking on a young challenger, Mogsbane. A group of ten sailors is crowded around the fight, cheering on the rats. These sailors are all drunk, so their abilities have been adjusted. If the sailors catch anyone sneaking around, such as the Player Characters, they will try to have some ‘fun’. This involves stripping them of possessions, rubbing them with stinking cheese and throwing them into the enclosure, then tipping 20 hungry dire rats in after them. Drunken Sailors, Human Rog3/Ftr2 (10): CR 5; Medium humanoid; HD 3d6 plus 2d10; hp 21; Init +1; Spd 30 ft.; AC 14, touch 11, flat-footed 13; Base Atk +4; Grp +5; Atk +5 melee (2d4+1/18–20, falchion) or +5 melee (1d6+1/18–20, rapier) or +5 ranged (1d8/19– 20, light crossbow); Full Atk +5 melee (2d4-1/18–20, falchion) or +3 melee (1d6+1/18–20, rapier) and +3 melee (1d4/19–20, dagger) or +5 ranged (1d8/19–20, light crossbow); SA sneak attack +2d6; SQ evasion, trapfinding, trap sense +2, uncanny dodge; AL LE; SV Fort +4, Ref +4, Will +0; Str 12, Dex 12, Con 11, Int 8, Wis 8, Cha 9. Skills & Feats: Balance +3, Bluff +6, Climb +6, Handle Animal +1, Intimidate +1, Jump +6, Listen +5, Move Silently +2, Profession (sailor) +6, Search +3, Spot +5, Swim +2, Use Rope +2; Dodge, Mobility, Point Blank Shot, Two-Weapon Fighting, Weapon Finesse. Equipment & Treasure: Crossbow bolts (10), dagger, falchion, light crossbow, studded leather armour. Dire Rats (2): CR 1/3; Small animal; HD 1d8+1; hp 5; Init +3; Spd 40 ft., climb 20 ft.; AC 15, touch 14, flat-footed 12; Base Atk +0; Grp –4; Atk +4 melee (1d4 Ibon Presno Gonzalez (order #73006) 8
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2 Introduction Welcome to The Drow
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4 island of Chillhame, then in the
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6 the past and old ghosts will retu
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14 for 1d3 hours after drinking. Ho
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144 ways to create one. A dagger to
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152 The Family Azarak, Zamelak and
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166 Misdirection (Sp): To put hunte
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170 Tyrant of Brass This adventure
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174 The Destriers of Heaven The Sun
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176 News from Jehannum The merchant
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192 these runes with a Search check
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