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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tuxgeo" data-source="post: 7116171" data-attributes="member: 61026">Pinning down this middle-aged sailor's Bond to the adventure: #2 sounds more like what I was going for: A former crew member aboard the Coral Curse who somehow survived the disease (reasons for survival to develop during story?), and who had previously been involved in a disastrously failed attempt to find and salvage the wreckage of La Gloriosa, thus having a very personal motive to repair his reputation by making another attempt. [HR][/HR]Sometimes my mind tosses out silly ideas when I'm fading in and out of sleep. Remember the business card of Paladin on "Have Gun Will Travel?"HAVE GUN WILL TRAVELWire Paladin, San FranciscoIn that vein, if this 'Beck' character knew the "Dead Reckoning" Seafarer's Trick, his business card (calling card?) might have said: Ship Mage For HireYOU BECKON, I RECKONContact Beck, Nassau[HR][/HR]Further silliness: A Ship Mage who knows the "Shape Water" cantrip from the Elemental Evil Player's Companion can form up to an area of water that fits within a 5-foot cube into simple shapes which can be animated (i.e. move about). The range is 30 feet from the caster to the water. That's a volume of water equal to 125 cubic feet. A cylinder is a simple shape, and a cylinder that is 1 foot in diameter has a radius of 1/2 foot, giving it a volume of 0.785 cubic feet per foot of length; so 125 cubic feet of water could be formed into a foot-wide cylinder 159 feet long. That would look like a fire hose to onlookers: a 5-foot cube of seawater forms into a leaning cylinder of water 159 feet long, rising from sea level and leaning over the ship. Then the Ship Mage dismisses the spell as an action, and the water falls back down -- straight down, onto the ship that it is leaning over. This might put out fires aboard ship? (Or it might help remove bilge water if it is cast downward through an open hatch?)If Flynn O'Rourke was known as "The Firebrand," a Ship Mage with that cantrip might be known as "The Firehose." (I said it was silly.)And, perhaps, any stray Ontarian nearby might denounce him as, "You Hoser!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[hr][/hr]Not nearly so silly: Potential Character Arcs -- (1) Discovering that all that wealth won't buy you health: Watching as Capt. Van Djik and Blackbeard grow older and feebler, and as the character starts to feel the same effects himself. (2) The Sea Is Big and You Are Small: your vaunted "simple tricks and nonsense" are no match for the power of The Force (of nature). The beginnings of wisdom lie in realizing the extent of your own limitations.</blockquote>

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