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Justin Andrew Mason
Mini-Dungeon #047: Stowaway on the Singing Sea
For 3-4 characters of levels 5-8
The adventurers have been hired by local authorities to sneak aboard the merchant ship, The Last Song. The vessel is owned by the Elloise Drake (suspected of also being the nefarious pirate, Lady Wavedancer). Law enforcement at the port city of Tangran’s Landing have managed to arrange for a “special piece of cargo” to be loaded upon the vessel for its upcoming voyage. Rather than the fine silks said to be in the shipment, the adventurers are smuggled aboard hidden inside.
Their mission is to await for the sounds of the Last Song boarding another ship at sea, and then to exit their hideaway to investigate. If they discover the crew committing an act of piracy they are to present their documentation, arrest Elloise, and commandeer the ship.
Mini-Dungeons are single page, double sided adventures for the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game which are setting agnostic and are easily inserted anywhere in your campaign.
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An Endzeitgeist.com review
This pdf clocks in at 2 pages and is a mini-dungeon. This means we get 2 pages content, including a solid map and all item/monster-stats hyperlinked and thus, absent from the pdf, with only deviations from the statblocks being noted for the GM. Oh, and the series now comes in an archive that also contains…*drumroll* a .tif-version of the map! Yeah, that’s pretty amazing
Since this product line’s goal is providing short diversions, side-quest dungeons etc., I will not expect mind-shattering revelations, massive plots or particularly smart or detailed depictions, instead tackling the line for what it is. Got that? Great!
This being an adventure-review, the following contains SPOILERS. Potential players may wish to jump to the conclusion.
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And now for something completely, radically different! This adventure takes place mostly with the PCs cooped up in a crate, with rations, portable hole for…ahem…necessities. Two weeks. Even if you fast forward that, it’ll be interesting if you just briefly mention each day and wait for your PCs to interact a bit. I’m serious. If you have good roleplayers in your group, this’ll be pure gold. That being said, there is a reason for this unorthodox way of travelling. You see, the PCs have been hired by law enforcement to catch captain Elloise Drake in the act, with the means of granting her crew amnesty. Thus, they stowed away on her vessel…and once the crate’s opened, the PCs explore the pirate vessel, catch it in the act of piracy and may use their social skills to make more of the crew turn against their captain. And yes, furious fight included. Sure, you can play this as a fast-forward one-big-encounter type of scenario…but if ran as provided, it can actually provide easily a full gaming day’s worth of fond memories.
Conclusion:
Editing and formatting are very good, I noticed no significant glitches. Layout adheres to a beautiful 2-column full-color standard and the pdf comes sans bookmarks, but needs none at this length. Cartography is full color and surprisingly good for such an inexpensive pdf. The .tif version included here, which you can easily cut up and hand out to the players as they progress is a huge bonus -and even better: A KEY-LESS VERSION sans the annoying letters/numbers is included as well for full VTT-compatibility!!!. The pdf does sport one nice piece of original full-color art – kudos!
Justin Andrew Mason’s “Stowaway on the Singing Sea” is a classic module that depends on whether it is perceived as a blast or as bland on both the GM’s prowess and the player’s temperament. Roleplayers willing to depict the journey will absolutely adore this gem and indeed, as a kind of break, as a means of taking tempo out of a campaign that seemingly runs from time-limit to time-limit, this works phenomenally well. You know your players better than I do – can they cope with such a set-up? if so, they’ll love it; if not, you can fast-forward through the two weeks of set-up, but you’ll lose out on the impact of the finale when it hits. This is, more so than most modules, a matter of taste.
In fact, if it has one neutral weakness, that would be that exploration of the pirate vessel does not really yield advantage when turning the crew – some one-sentence angles for key-crew-members to turn them would have been the icing on the cake. Still, this represents a great example of how cool a module you can craft even with a minimum of space. 5 stars.
Endzeitgeist out.