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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6148627" data-attributes="member: 6669384">It was kind of sad, actually.  He explained about the things we would have found if we'd made the dice rolls we couldn't make, or if we'd gone back to talk to the men who had attacked and killed some of us, and it was like he really thought we could/should/would have done that.He truly didn't understand why we were walking away.Now, since I was taking over as DM, my character went into NPC status.  So when we hit Cairo, to pick up our ship from the repair yards, My PC asked each in the group for a small donation.  He was going to stay behind to pray and offer sacrifice to the river goddess who had asked us to help, to apologize for our failure.  One PC didn't have two coppers to his name, and another looked at our dead and said, "We've given enough."So they set sail.  Since I'm winging it, I pulled out the DMG and rolled for a weather effect on the random table.  It's a percentile dice roll, and I was going to soften it by five points because they were in the Mediterranean, a relatively shallow, quiet sea.I rolled 99, one point short of a full typhoon.  The comment from the table?  "I guess someone should have donated to the sacrifice."They were a day and some change out of port when their lookout sighted the storm on the horizon.  The Druid (our former DM) took to Eagle form so he could get a better look.  I described the oncoming thunderheads as being like a line of anvils across the sky.They decided to try and make for port, before the storm hit.  Nearest port was Tripoli, a notorious pirate haven.  They decided to make for Crete instead, but without checking a chart.  The Druid cast Standing Wave and they were off and running, essentially surfing in their ship, at three times the speed it was made for.They managed to hit a port before the storm hit, but it wasn't the one they were aiming for.So wo of the PCs decided to finish a long day on the water by going hunting all night, while a thunderstorm was crashing around them.And that's where I left them at the end of the session.I'll finish the side trip next week, then hand the reins to whoever is up next.In short, we moved on.</blockquote>

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