by Serge Stelmack
Artwork by Brad McDevitt
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SEPTIC SEA ENCOUNTER TABLE | |
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Roll | Encounter |
2 | Nothing encountered. The players don't know how lucky they are. |
3-4 | Encounter Hell-Hulk (see description below). |
5-6 | Encounter uncharted desert isle (see description below). |
7 | Encounter Septic Sea Monster (see description below). |
8-9 | Encounter another Hell-Hulk. |
10-11 | Encounter yet another Hell-Hulk. |
12 | Encounter Septic Storm. (see description below). |
Hell-Hulks: 18/PFB/8/-3/ A gigantic ten masted iron-sided monstrosity of a ship, bristling with weapons and containing ld6+2 hundred rabid pirates. Basically the shipbuilder's answer to the Billco Backhoe. Hell-Hulks also have a special weapon known as a "vortex generator". A giant propeller under the craft creates a huge whirlpool which draws smaller vessels towards the Hell-Hulk. In this way even fast, maneuverable craft can be caught by a slow-moving Hulk. The sails are made of human skin.
Cool, eh?
Hell-Hulk Pirate Stats
Greymatta -- 0
Pilot Hell-Hulk - 9
Mouth -- 5
Shootin' Kinda Pretty Big Guns - 8
Meat -- 5
Run with Scizzers - 10
Feets -- 5
Seek the Innocent - 7
Nuts -- 6
Cause Hellish Agony - 7
Total Armor -- 7
Eat Anything - 8
Equip: "Jolly Roger" High-Powered Crossbow (A/D 12/2), Fancy Pirate
Garb (armor 2).
Uncharted desert isle: The HM is free to have the PCs discover all sorts of things here. Shipwrecked psychopaths that seem friendly until you try and rescue them, buried treasure (originally grobules that have since matured into a chest full of ravenous groblings), Led Pighp hitching a ride, the possibilities are endless...
Septic Sea Monster: A nameless horror of the septic depths appears and tries to turn the PCs into lunchmeat. GM: -2 MT: 10 MO: 0 FT: 3 NT: 10 Total Armor: 5
HM Note on Septic Sea Monsters: If one of the characters innocently asks Joey if the tentacled beast that just wiped out half the crew was the Great Kuthoolu, read the following passage:
Joey puts his hand on your shoulder, looking into your eyes with the greatest sincerity. "No my friend," he answers "the beast we are searching for is much, much more dangerous."
Septic Storm: The sky darkens and the sea grows rough! Jagged shards of neon purple lighting crackle across the sky! A howling banshee of a wind drives waves of acid putrescence. Everybody better hang on, 'cause if they don't they're going to be doing the backstroke in a raging toxic soup!
HM Suggestion: Have a Septic Sea monster attack while the poor cretins are struggling to bail out the Bloody Marauder. Lots of fun! Eventually, of course, the PCs set to the island of R'ylee. When this happens, pack up the random encounter table and move on to...
Hol Lot of Trouble
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