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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Piratecat" data-source="post: 1998919" data-attributes="member: 2">Rule one: don't panic.We're going to steal a lesson from various sci fi shows here, believe it or not. Here's a sample adventure you can use.1. In a moderate storm, the ship comes across another large boat run aground on a reef. The wrecked ship ran aground fairly recently, and is tilted at an angle on the rocks. The storm and rising tide may free it to sink completely in about two or three hours.2. The captain sends out the longboats. Most are instructed to look for survivors, but the longboat with the mercenaries (PCs) and an NPC are told to board the other ship and look for survivors - and loot - onboard.3. The other ship could have crashed for any number of reasons, but the most likely is that there's somethig intelligent and nasty on board that ate the sailors. The first thing this monster does while the PCs are examining the carnage is destroy their longboat. The PCs ship has sailed farther away because of the storm, so now the PCs must survive for about an hour. . . in a storm. . . on a sinking ship filled with the dead. . . being stalked by a sadistic monster.Sure, it's Alien. But it's fun.  for extra points, make the monster regenerate, so that the PCs can kill it multiple times unless they do something creative.4. The Pcs discover that the ship has a very rich cargo (albeit festooned with the dead, since that's where the beast was sticking the bodies in a hideous parody of art.)  Maybe silks, or spices, or something else that make the whole experience worthwhile.I'd recommend that one of the ship's officers (they can find his cabin) tried to summon a demon to help the ship in bad weather. He got something MUCH worse than he expected. You should take a minor-ish demon and change it to look different (more fishy, I think) and more cruel. Have it enjoy playing with its prey, so that you can draw up the tension as it taunts them mentally and attacks out of the shadows.How's that?</blockquote>

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