Fifteenth Session (10 page pdf) – “Twister” – The sea-twister is dispatched in unusual style. Then it’s to Drenchport for drinking and betting on Green Blood on a Black Rock!
I’m firmly of the opinion that “how are the PCs going to get out of this one?!?” isn’t my problem as the GM. The Teeth of Araska, courtesy of a critical 00 on a weather roll, runs afoul of a waterspout and isn’t fast enough to escape. So one of the PCs spends one of their scarce Infamy Points and they’re saved – one of the pirate lords of the Shackles is a high level druid, the Master of Gales, so he happens by and just magics it out of existence as it is a minor inconvenience to him.
They end up in Drenchport and make a cursory effort at following up on plot leads but the drinking distracts them and they get super interested in the Green Blood on a Black Rock monster pit fight tournament. I should have known this already, but anytime there’s an opportunity for wagering the PCs demand to know all the participants and the odds and it becomes an entire session. And lo thus I pulled out a crapload of pirate captains (Shackles pirate lords, captains from Freeport supplements, whatever) and random high level monsters (off a high level encounter table) they could conceivably capture and fight and they spend the time running through the whole bracket and trying to influence the odds. I actually run some of the fights with the PCs’ participation for some combat fun. The eventual winner is a tetrolimulus, courtesy of its DC 22 paralysis poison, sponsored by werewolf pirate captain Avimar Sorrinash.
And then they sail towards our next adventure, Treasure of Chimera Cove.
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