Twenty-second Session (9 page pdf) – “Crossing the Line” – The ship is threatened, first by mutated wyverns, and then by the equator!!! And then by squibs! Will the horror never cease?!?
After finishing a whole major plot arc, it was time for a fun session. They sailed south from the Shackles and across the equator. Crossing the equator, to sailors, is an occassion for all kinds of weird fun and games known as a line-crossing ceremony. Of course my players didn’t know that, nor did most of the players, so I got to surprise them…
Wogan notices that the crew is acting strangely. He asks Dum Dum about it. Dum Dum replies, “Nothing.” But when Wogan presses him further, he says “OK. I’ll show you. It’s in this sack.” The curious Wogan peers into the sack. The sack goes over Wogan’s head and he is beaten unconscious.
That evening Sindawe and Serpent are in the stateroom when there is a knock on the door. Upon opening, they are loudly informed by a Little Lord Fontleroy-clad Thalios Dondriel that “All officers and men of your ship are hereby advised that His Oceanic Majesty King Gozreh and his royal retinue will board your ship on the morning watch at eight bells for the purpose of cleansing your ship of all pollywogs as may be present. Be ye in all respects prepared to receive them with full oceanic honours.” He turns on his heel and stalks off.
Most of the session is then engaged in weird shenanigans and they finally arrive at Rickety’s Squibs where they intend to get the Teeth of Araska renamed to Chainbreaker, upgraded, and her lines changed to no longer be recognizable as her previous self.
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