The Drow War Book Two. The Dying Of - RoseRed

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It is possible to shut the mangle down by opening the
steam valve and cutting off pressure. The steam valve is
located among the pipes and requires a Spot or Search
check to locate (DC 20). Shutting the mangle down
is a full-round action. A character can also attempt to
smash the mangle, which has an effective Armour Class
of 16 and becomes inactive after 150 hit points are dealt
to it.
F. Cargo and Livestock Level
This part of the ship is either teeming with activity
or dead quiet, depending on whether there is a ship
returning from a raid. Most of the time, the only noise
here comes from the animal pens and the only traffic
is to and from the galley, as the kitchen crew fetch up
animals for slaughtering or sacks of food.
The Games Master can choose whether the Player
Characters happen to arrive during unloading time or
not. It is probably best if this level is not busy when
the Player Characters arrive. After the hubbub of the
previous two levels, they can use this level as a place to
rest up and lie low for a while.
1. Main Cargo Hold
This area is vast. You have been in smaller cathedrals
before. It is filled with crates, like a warehouse, packed
into steep shelves on either side, with ladders lashed
into place offering access. Lengths of taut knotted rope
hold down the crates. Down the centre of the hold are
bolts of sailcloth, lengths of wood thick enough to serve
as spare masts, reels of hempen rope and barrels of tar
and oil. The only sound is the scratching of rats.
This area is used to store the ship’s vital supplies, along
with the materials needed to refit and repair any Harrier
ship that suffers damage. The western end of the hold
is for sacks of grain, barrels of salted meat, pickled
fish and kegs of ale. These materials are not especially
exciting but they are necessary.
2. Secure Cargo Holds
On either side of this corridor are reinforced doors
at regular intervals. Each one has a keyhole and a
robust handle as you would find on a safe. Evidently
the Harriers want to keep access to whatever is behind
these doors strictly limited.
Each family headed by a captain has the right to use one
of these cargo bays to store the spoils of their raiding.
The Harriers do not keep all their property in common.
The family who took the prizes can keep half the overall
value, as decided by the amma hadrak and her advisors.
The other half is put into the communal hold and is used
to buy essential supplies such as timber and food.
All the doors to the cargo holds are trapped. Any of
these traps will activate if a person touches the door and
does not look like the captain whose cargo hold this
is. The trap uses clairvoyance as its trigger, has a Spot
check modifier of +15 and can see only the five-footsquare
space directly in front of the door. Triggering
the trap activates a mass hold person effect and sounds
an alarm that sounds like a shrieking human voice,
magically amplified, which draws all the Sea Harriers
in the area to the spot.
Door Alarm Trap: CR 8; magic device; visual trigger
(clairvoyance); automatic reset; spell effect (shout, 14 th
level sorcerer, deafness, Fortitude saving throw (DC 19)
negates, 5d6 sonic damage, Reflex saving throw (DC
19) halves), spell effect (mass hold person, 14 th level
sorcerer, Will saving throw (DC 21) negates); Search
DC 32, Disable Device DC 32.
The contents of the holds are varied and depend on how
well each family has been faring with its raids. At any
one time, the majority of them are empty. Harriers like
to spend their money while they have it. The Games
Master can randomly determine the contents of a given
hold by using the table below:
d10
Roll Hold Contents
1–5 Empty but for crates, straw and packing
cases
6–7 Meagre haul (two rolls on Table A)
8–9 Moderate haul (three rolls on Table A, one
roll on Table B)
10 Fresh haul (three rolls on Table A, three on
Table B, two on Table C)
Table A: Ordinary Goods
d% Goods Quantity/Value
01–15 Chalk 1d12 tonnes (250 gp per tonne)
16–30 Coal 2d8 tonnes (250 gp per tonne)
31–40 Nuts 1d6 tonnes (750 gp per tonne)
41–50 Salt 1d4 tonnes (700 gp per tonne)
51–60 Seafood 1d4 tonnes (800 gp per tonne)
61–80 Timber 4d4 tonnes (400 gp per tonne)
81–00 Wool 1d6 tonnes (700 gp per tonne)
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