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Boatswain Tarto wakes the characters and tells them they need to retrieve an adamantine meteor from a place called H’Catha.
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H’Catha is filthy with beholders, so characters will take a tryant ship to sneak in.
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Petty Officer Winston Ryeback will lead the mission. Miken Haverstance, Krik’lit, and Pffred will act as shiphands.
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The Tyrant Ship
- Note gravity flips depending on which side of the gravity plane you are on.
- Make a handout of the equipment:
- Make sure you give the characters the ship handout, it explains a lot about getting around.
- Characters have to work together to get the spelljamming helm up to the command deck and installed.
- When characters get to the command deck, a trap activates that makes ship spin end over end.
- Roll initiative.
- On 20, DC 15 Dex save or 7 damage and knocked prone. Half damage and no prone on a success.
- On character turn, they can take countermeasures:
- Brace: DC 15 strength (Athletics) check for advantage on next Dex save
- Deactivate Trap: 10% chance to randomly deactivate by mashing buttons, or DC 20 Intelligence (Arcana).
- Magic: Can mitigate with feather fall, levitate
- Roll: DC 15 dexterity (Acrobatics) for advantage on next Dex save.
- Ryeback uses featherfall on himself and NPCs.
- Characters with passive Wisdom (Perception) score hear clank of metal on stone from closed hatch
- On hollow deck, 3 clockwork horrors are building another from autognome corpses
- Horrors taunt character in thri-kreen, saying the characters brought a helm to their ship
- After horrors are defeated, DC 11 Wisdom (Perception) check to find an autognome named
- After horrors are defeated, DC 11 Wisdom (Perception) check to find an autognome with defective vocal cords named Wizpop. DC 15 Intelligence (Arcana) check to repair his vocal cords.
- 5 100 gp pearls and a spell scroll of rope trick
- Miken Haverstance shows up disheveled, says there is a fire in the galley
- Characters have to deal with smoke - DC 10 Constitution save at start of turn or gain exhaustion
- Miken set the fire with a glyph of warding
- Characters find Ryeback’s dead body, get attacked by magma mephits. Area is lightly obscured.
- Krik’lit and Pffred help put out the fire.
- Following supplies are destroyed:
- DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) to know:
- fire started near Ryeback’s cooking station, but station itself couldnt make a fire that big
- Likely explosion started at mephits summoned by a spell.
- Miken did it. detect thoughts or DC 13 Charisma (Persuasion) check to get him to admit it.
- Miken was hired by mercane whose name he doesnt know. Offered life changing gold to sabotage the mission. He didnt think anyone would get hurt. Surrenders to characters.
- If characters contact Tarto, she tells them to wait for backup, she arrives the next day