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Mariner
You are a voyager of the whale roads in search of new adventures. The seas were cruel to you, but you and crew saw it through while you could.
- Rations (3 uses)
- Lantern
- Oil (10 uses)
- Harpoon (d8)
- Bandanna (petty)
How did you nearly die at sea?
- Kraken! Take a Kraken beak (1 charge). You may expend a charge to channel a kraken’s tempest through your body. An electrical current travels from your hand into any conducting material: creatures, water, metal, etc. This inflicts d10+d10 damage. Recharge: Tie yourself to a mast during a thunderstorm while holding it.
- Drowning. Salt blooms on your skin. 1/day, it can be harvested, and it makes you absolutely disgusting to anything trying to eat you. You can drink saltwater like fresh water.
- The Raiders of Torgrim Skull-Splitter. Take a reaver axe (d8), engraved with 13 runes. Each turns permanently red when a foe is killed.
- Sharks. You lost your off-hand and replaced it with a hook (d6).
- Sirens. The siren song never left your head. Take a tuning fork (petty, 3 charges), which you used to break the spell. Strike the tuning fork to create an extended tone that deafens all other sound for a minute. Recharge: Place in a silent space for a day.
- Giant jellyfish. Strange bioluminescent sting patterns criss-cross your body. You emit a dim glow. You can take a fatigue (bringing the pain of the stings to the surface) to emit a brighter glow for an hour.
What was your role on the ship?
- Shanty singer. You know all the best ones. You always ride free on a boat or ship.
- Quartermaster. Take scales and quill and ink.
- Lookout. You can scale heights most would find terrifying. Take a spyglass.
- Surgeon. Take a surgeon’s bag (bulky), containing tools to treat wounds, amputate limbs, etc.
- Cook. Take a cleaver (d6) and a chicken.
- First mate. Take a large ship’s compass (1 burden), a box of crackers (10 uses, petty), and a parrot (3 GD 4 STR 15 DEX) who can repeat things on command and will do simple tasks for a cracker. Eats a ration a day in addition to crackers.
Inspired by The Devil Choked On A Whale.