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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6437629" data-attributes="member: 4937">Various types of ships with undead crews are already on my idea list for whenever the game lags.  We've got your ship overrun by plague zombies, your ship with a literal skeleton crew, your ghost ship, your ship full of coffer corpses, etc.The problem with detours to chase treasure is that they are basically trying to save the world so they don't really have a lot of time for lengthy side quests.  In fact, one of the players is currently in a, "Do I save the world or save my family?', moral conundrum.  I do have one of these places on my global map, but they'll largely be avoiding it.  In fact, the area they'll be going through is the Sea of Storms.   They'd only end up in the Sargasso if they get blown there by a hurricane, which is possible, but is a huge detour.  This is not a problem.  They ARE pirates.   They've got a Letter of Marque and have already, as I said, boarded and plundered 3 ships.   The Captain is a gentlemen in a fancy feathered hat, and the first mate is a big guy with a beard, bone earrings, and tattoos all over his body.  The cook is a goblin.  I'm not sure how you get more piratical than that, but if that isn't pirate enough for you then I submit it's a really easy bluff check.  Also, there aren't many pirates of a rank less than Lord of the Brotherhood that are going to pick a quarrel with The Valiant - 22 ballista tend to speak volumes.  So 'The Jonah' in this case is the woman.  One of the running gags is that the PC's convinced the captain to break his long standing 'no women aboard ship' rule to take aboard one of the PC's (a priestess of the Sun goddess), and he's been having crazy bad luck ever since.   He keeps bemoaning that he has to have a woman on board, would refuse to transport her, except that the PC's keep finding ways to make bad luck profitable (such as butchering the dragon that attacked them and selling the body parts at a high profit).   Incidentally, it's the same female character that has Nuati the Storm Lord as an enemy - although the Captain hasn't yet figured that out.Sirens however I do need to add to my random encounter list.</blockquote>

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