Just because Gogpodda is a gnome and small-folk
settlement does not mean that medium sized humanoids do not visit. They come on
boats bringing gnomes, they come to trade, or sometimes they come on the whim
of the ocean. Therefore, lodging for medium sized humanoids would be necessary,
at an increased rate of course.
The yellow sails of the Okeno slave ships are
distinctive. Most of their ships are galleys which are not built for ocean
travel. To join the Okeno Slavers a captain must simply bring a cargo of at
least one hundred slaves to Okeno and agree to share the revenue with the
organization. That is what one enterprising captain tried to do.
The half-orc had been raised a bastard by a
rich human mother. He had no love for anyone. His mother left him a small
fortune upon her death and a year later he set out with a ship named Ma’s Gift and
a crew of sixty. To the stern the half-orc had built himself a twenty-five-by-fifteen-foot
castle. The main deck had two masts, four ballistae, and two five-foot hatches
to get to the mid-level deck.
The rear hatch led directly into a
twenty-five-foot-square armory. The front hatch led into a five-foot-wide
hallway, one end terminating in a second doorway to the armory, twenty feet the
other way was a wall that if you took the bend to port led to the door to the
ten by twenty-five-foot kitchen. On the port side of the hallway before the
bend was a fifteen-by-ten water closet, that dumped out directly to the water
below. On the starboard a twenty-by-ten storage room.
In the floor at the end of the hall, at the
wall to the kitchen is another hatch. This leads to the holding cells in the
bottom deck. Twenty-two five-by-ten cells with a five-foot corridor down the
middle. The side walls of the cells were wood but the front wall was
constructed of study iron bars. Each had their own set of hinges and a lock.
The crew consisted of fifty basic sailors, five
cooks, four experienced sailors, and the half-orc himself. The crew of Ma’s
Gift sank its first sailing ship with ease and the fifteen living crew members
each obtained their own cells. The captain had gone down with the ship, as well
as nine sailors. The trouble began with the second sailing ship he tried to
obtain. Ma’s Gift did emerge victorious, with the loss of five of its own crew.
They also obtained ten more slaves.
The half-orc took the cook from the first ship
and chained her in the kitchen to help with the preparation of meals. Then he
doubled up the two halflings, one from each ship, in a single cell. There was
only one more small slave, a pink skinned stickily male that they had found
below deck on the first ship. The half-orc dragged him from his cell and left
him chained to the stern wall. Will all the cells full, and not knowing the
quota requirement, he headed to Okeno. Ma’s Gift never made it.
The half-orc had underestimated those he had
let out of their cages. The gnome had been below deck during the battle because
he was the ships cleric but he had already used up all his spells for the day.
He had been getting ammo for the sailing ships single ballista when the battle
ended. With a desperate prayer to Desna he was granted an improvised lock pick.
With the agreement of taking over the ship and sailing it to a location he
designates he freed each and every prisoner.
Meanwhile the lowly cook, now chained in the
kitchen, was expounding the future to the other cooks. If the half-orc had
chained her in there with them, what does that show of his opinion of their
position in the crew. What kind of share were they looking at anyway compared
to the sailors? They said there would be no shares this voyage but once Ma’s
Gift became an official Okeno Slaver ship there would be riches galore. But to
join the Okeno Slavers, the slave argued, he would need to show up with one
hundred slaves for the flesh fairs. Right now he only had twenty-five. Where
would the extra seventy-five come from? It didn’t take much to convince the
cooks to mutiny.
The Cooks freed their compatriot and raided the
armory with nobody above the wiser. They were just about to attack, up both
hatches, when the hatch from the slave level was smashed open by a dwarf below.
The din attracted the loyal crew above. After a long campaign, with many
deaths, the slaves killed the half-orc and the remaining crew members agreed to
terms.
They sailed the ship to Gogpodda, upon the
gnome clerics request. The enterprising gnome cleric set about making sure anyone
from Ma’s Gift who wanted to leave Gogpodda had an alternate form of
transportation. In the end nobody complained when he claimed the ship for
himself, removed the iron doors and replaced them with wood, then rechristened
it Boruta Boarding after a plant creature believed to come from the First World
and who view themselves as the avengers of those that cannot defend themselves.
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Crew:
5
2nd level Cooks
3
3rd level Experienced Sailors - Boatswain, Master Sailor, and Master
Gunner
1
4th level Oracle who acted as healer, carpenter, and navigator.
Plus,
the 5th level owner.
Ship One: 15
Cohort level 10 Alchemist Cook!
Level 2!
13 level 1 sailors.
Ship Two: 10
Cohort level 10
9 level 1 sailors
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