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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9425855" data-attributes="member: 7044704">Not sure if it counted as properly "before their time" but I had a fellow named Danson the Sea-Raven who was meant to be a potentially long-term hassle for the PCs as an officer on the ship they were privateering aboard.  After a few increasingly hostile confrontations with the guy about (mis)treatment of captured sailors and hostages, half the PCs surprised me by deciding to ambush him during a night watch.  They caught him by surprise, silencing the scuffle magically and locking several manacles on him along with enough weighted chain to make swimming impossible before shoving him overboard while out at sea.  He drowned, as you'd expect, and the rest of the cruise went much more smoothly (and with fewer ethical challenges) with Danson gone.Problem is, he was wearing a <a href="https://sanctumreconditesage.blogspot.com/2021/05/seven-days-at-sea-ring-of-sea-spouse.html" target="_blank">Ring of the Sea-Spouse</a> when he drowned, and followed the ship for weeks till it reached port, at which point he beached himself and suffocated in fish form to regain human form.  Danson then recruited some local bully-boys and went after the two PCs whose faces he'd seen during the ambush for revenge and to find out who'd paid them to attack him (he was assuming one or more of the other ship's officers had funded an assassination attempt - it was that kind of command structure).  He jumped them on shore after they'd been partying (and doing some opportunistic thievery) but because he only knew about three assailants (one just a masked figure) he misjudged the odds and the four other PCs came to the rescue and ultimately finished him off for good along with most of his random thugs.So Danson did die (twice, even) instead of being a mid-to-long term hassle as hoped, but his sudden reappearance had the players paranoid for ages and the second fight where they chopped him to pieces was secretly witnessed by another sailor from their ship who managed to anonymously blackmail them over it for months.  They never did quite work out exactly what the weird magic ring they looted from Danson did, eventually deciding it was some kind of "get out of going overboard free" charm and that was how Danson had survived to come hunting them down.  After carrying it around for months they wound up selling it two sessions before the guy who had been holding on to the ring drowned in a flooding room trap, which was a nice bit of irony.</blockquote>

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