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 ==Prologue==
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 [[File:wanton-wench-bottom_web.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Wanton Wench - Berth Deck]]
 [[File:wanton-wench-hold_web.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Wanton Wench - Hold]]
-DM's Note:  What follows is a description of the explored portions of the ship.  Much is left unexplored.  The current status of the Wanton Wench can be found [[Wanton Wench Statistics, Crew, and Manifest|here]].
+''DM's Note:  The current status of the Wanton Wench can be found [[Wanton Wench Statistics, Crew, and Manifest|here]].  What follows is a description of the explored portions of the ship.  Much is left unexplored.''
 When first encountered, the Wanton Wench is scrapped off the shore in Portsmith.

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	NOTE: They killed the guards, robbed them, and are wearing their clothes.		NOTE: They killed the guards, robbed them, and are wearing their clothes.
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		+	==Mission 11: Fixin' The Wench==
		+	[[File:wanton-wench-top_web.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Wanton Wench - Top Deck]]
		+	[[File:wanton-wench-bottom_web.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Wanton Wench - Berth Deck]]
		+	[[File:wanton-wench-hold_web.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|Wanton Wench - Hold]]
		+	DM's Note: What follows is a description of the explored portions of the ship. Much is left unexplored. The current status of the Wanton Wench can be found [[Wanton Wench Statistics, Crew, and Manifest\|here]].
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		+	When first encountered, the Wanton Wench is scrapped off the shore in Portsmith.
		+
		+	===Berth Deck - Fore===
		+
		+	Three ladders descend into the fore birth deck. The boat rocks back and forth rhythmically, and air is stale and fetid. At the far aft of the ship, a single candle glows on a table. The fore portion of the berth deck is dark. With illumination, you can see that the ship looks ransacked. The galley and storerooms are empty.
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		+	'''Cook's Room - Wendy'''
		+
		+	The door to the Cook's room has been nailed shut. A silver coin showing the orb and cross of the Order of the Silver Throne - a holy symbol of sorts - has also been nailed to the door.
		+
		+	Opening the door or removing the coin will "free" the spirit of the Wanton Wench.
		+
		+	A gust of cold wind floods the still, calm air of the berth deck. The ship creaks and groans as you detect it suddenly shifting in the water - almost in reaction to the figure in front of you. A ghostly apparition of a young, busty woman dressed in pirate's attire floats before you. Her continence is a mixture of sorrow, anger and despair.
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		+	If placated, Wendy - the Wanton Wench - will sink into the ship.
		+
		+	===Berth Deck - Aft===
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		+	The mustiness of the air is overwhelming as you descend the ladder into the aft berth deck. Groans, once the ordinary creaking of the hull ribs and decks, seem amplified and unworldly in the darkness.
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		+	'''Wardroom'''
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		+	As you descend the ladder, you can hear the scuttling of small forms, moving in the darkness - or at least that is what your mind tells you.
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		+	A single candle illuminates a pile of silver pieces piled neatly on the wardroom table. The wardroom beyond is wrecked - pewter mugs and plates are strewn about the table and floors. Instruments and tools are scattered as if a hurricane passed through the area. Beyond, you can see the openness of the crew area. Nine doors all stand slightly ajar. A foul stench seeps from the door behind you - leading to the captain's quarters.
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		+	Hidden in niches and behind doors are eight dire rats and their fey master, Shadowlack.
		+
		+	Shadowlack is a quickling that has taken up residence here and will attack the party using his large rats as decoys. If outgunned, the quickling will insult the party, threaten them, try to get them to leave. He particularly hates elves, gnomes and other fey.
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		+	Shadowlack looks like a short, slight elf wearing drab clothes and a wicked grin. Standing just over 2-1/2 feet tall, he weighs 15 pounds. In a blink, Shadowlack darts from sight.
		+
		+	'''Captain's Room'''
		+
		+	Upon opening the door, a desiccated figure of a what must have once been a woman in green robes lunges at you from a leather chair she is sitting in near the door. Wisps of blonde hair and glowing green eyes are all that are left of her beauty. The smell of death is overwhelming.
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		+	This is the Lady Clarinda (see below).
		+
		+	Across from the leather chair, an ornate mirror hangs from the wall. Its frame is of a blackened wood carved with fantastical beasts in wondrous precision. The mirror grabs your attention as several thumb-sized gems glow dully from filigreed settings in the frame.
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		+	Careful examination shows five gems - two rubies, two emeralds, and one sapphire in place. A one space is empty. It looks like the stone and setting have been pried out.
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		+	The reflection in the mirror is the room - including the current occupants - with the sole exception of the leather chair - which reflects the skeletal form of a human sitting in repose.
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		+	'''Lady Clarinda Winsworth'''
		+
		+	Lady Clarinda died several months ago when her lover, Captain Bainbridge, discovered that she was pregnant with his child. The captain strangled her on the night before he was to leave Portsmith for the war in Teufeldorf on his ship, the Scarlet Ranger. The elder Lord Winsworth was accused of the murder and is imprisoned in the Vault.
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		+	Clarinda was actually in a coma when buried. When she died (becoming a coffer corpse), she clawed her way back to the surface, still dressed in her funerary and went to find a boat to follow Captain Bainbridge. She has a brooch with a "CW" on it.
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		+	'''Sailing Master's Quarters'''
		+
		+	These quarters are identical to the other officer's quarters with the exception of the sailing master's quarters. On the wall of this small room is a strange metal box mounted to the wall. It is square in profile and about 6 inches thick. A strange pattern on the front.
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		+	[[File:wanton-wench-puzzle.jpg\|center\|200px]]
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		+	Tracing the pattern causes the box to open, hinges along the bottom form a small desk. Sitting on the desk is a book - [[Wanton Wench Statistics and Manifest\|Log Book of the Wanton Wench]].
		+
		+	===The Hold===
		+
		+	The large cargo doors to the hold are open. Four rope ladders descend into the darkness below. Other than the creaking of the ship and an occasional rat squeaking, the area is quiet, dark and foreboding.
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		+	The hold runs the length of the ship. A wide galley in the middle is empty - with storage space for many barrels, crates and boxes.
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		+	The walls of the hold are a strange sight. Four large brass gears about six feet in diameter are attached to the wall at the fore and aft of the ship, two on the port and two on the starboard. These gears are connected by a series of metal shafts which run in and out of a series of wooden boxes mounted along the walls. In the center of the port and starboard walls is a large lever, currently in the up position. To the side of each levers is a small silver box currently closed. A set of wires run from the silver box into the machinery.
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		+	Your attention is drawn to the fore of the hold. A pile of 300 silver is strewn on the floor. Lying on the silver is a small sleeping green dragon. It has a brightly colored pair of butterfly wings sprouting from its back.
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		+	It does not seem to have noticed you.
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		+	DC to check and see whether Tammie notices you or you notice Tammie.
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		+	A creaking hinge behind you reveals a very well hidden smuggler's compartment opening in the wall with the machinery.
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		+	Watch out for the dragon's breath weapon - it's a stinking cloud of noxious fumes. Knocked me out. Luckily I came awake before the dragon or its little imp friend could eat me....
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		+	'''Smuggler's Compartments'''
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		+	This does not change a ship’s cargo capacity. A smuggling compartment can hold anything that fits within a 5-foot cubic space.
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		+	A DC 20 Perception check is required to locate smuggling compartments in a search of the ship.
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		+	There are two on the ship - one port and one starboard.

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-DM's Note:  Dungeon not explored.
+''DM's Note:  Dungeon not explored.''
 ==Mission 10:  Recruiting the Siege Engineers and Gunners==

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 ==Escape from the Vault==
-[[File:the-vault.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Map of the Vault]]
+[[File:the-vault.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Map of the Vault]]
 Overlooking the harbor from the southern hills, the Vault is an old square stone building.  Once used as a roasting house for barley and coffee due to a hot geyser just beneath the building.  The Vault has been recently re-purposed to hold prisoners of "lesser offense".  The most notable feature of the building is a central elevator which previously had been used to move the grain through various stages of preparation.
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 ==Mission 2:  The Keys to Six Sisters==
-[[File:six-sisters.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Map of the Six Sisters]]
+[[File:six-sisters.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Map of the Six Sisters]]
 The barkeep shows you a ring with six large iron keys on it.  The keys are new and shiny - each about 4 inches long with a different symbol in the bow.

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 At dusk, a tall, thin figure wrapped in black and two small figures mirroring the first in dimensions slip through the shadows - apparently unnoticed by the guards.  The tall figure holds a small black leather bag.
-I am Mrs. Dourmoor. My husband bade me to pay you the gold for our transport. May I come aboard?  I am Anastasia Dourmoor - may I come aboard?  I am Zachary Dourmoor - may I come aboard?  Mr. Dourmoor regrets to inform you that he will be late - most likely showing up just before daybreak.  He is, how shall I say it, detained at the moment.
+I am Mrs. Dourmoor. My husband bade me to pay you the gold for our transport. May I come aboard?
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 You see the figure of Mr. Dourmoor running down the dock.  He moves quickly, looking backwards often.  He is silent and seems almost to flit from shadow to shadow.

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 <li>We were going to get them four big brass gears from the scrap ship in the harbor.  They are down in the hold, we'ze been told.  Well, we get aboard - and ship stinks of death - but never you mind, we has a job to do.  Well, Remy went down first.  Said something about a pile of silver.  The next thing we know, he screams and it sounds like a pack of dogs tearin' him apart.  Well, his boot flew up through the companionway - his foot still inside.  Just a fuckin' bloody stump.  Well, me and Tyler here took off and jumped in the dinghy and were gone before you know it.
 <li>A siege engineer and three gunners are at the Lantern & Gargoyle looking for a ship out of Portsmith.  They are willing to work without pay for one month in exchange for passage.  Trying to get to Teufeldorf to fight in the war against the Old Kingdom.  NOTE:  These are the dopplegangers.
-Captains
+</ul>
 <li>Lucky Lulu - she be down at the Lantern & Gargoyle gamblin'.
 <li>Captain Ian Whitehead - late of the King Ernest Goodfellows command.  Lost his ship, the Trident of the Sea, to the Old Kingdom fleet at the Battle of Teufeldorf Harbor in July 906 TA.  Now, he sits in the pub and drinks.

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 ==Escape from the Vault==
 [[File:the-vault.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Map of the Vault]]
 Overlooking the harbor from the southern hills, the Vault is an old square stone building.  Once used as a roasting house for barley and coffee due to a hot geyser just beneath the building.  The Vault has been recently re-purposed to hold prisoners of "lesser offense".  The most notable feature of the building is a central elevator which previously had been used to move the grain through various stages of preparation.
 The building is 50' high and 50' on a side made of grey stone.  There are five levels in the building (one is underground).  The Vault is windowless, very hot, and smells of roasted grains and coffee.
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 ''DM's NOTE:  The Upper Prison Level and Administration Level were not explored.''
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 A naked woman stands on top of her clothing.  She is staring straight ahead and screaming at the top of her lungs.  "They're coming.  No.  Stay away.  I'll kill you."
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 == Rumors Around Portsmith ==
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 It is 907 TA. It is a dark time.
-The Western Reaches have fallen to the Old Kingdom - or so you have been told. The Eastern Reaches are filled with werewolves and strange folk from the Wolfshaunt who wander the streets by night. Yeah, times are sinister, but that's no reason for the Crusader of Portsmouth, Jana Blackfire, to come down on honest citizens and merchants. She rules Portsmith with an iron fist. And her zealousness seems to be increasing. Bah, who does she think she is? Bah to her and bah to her Order of Crusaders.
+The [[Western Reaches]] have fallen to the [[Rembia|Old Kingdom]] - or so you have been told. The [[Eastern Reaches]] are filled with werewolves and strange folk from the [[Wolfshaunt]] who wander the streets by night. Yeah, times are sinister, but that's no reason for the Crusader of Portsmouth, Jana Blackfire, to come down on honest citizens and merchants. She rules [[North Province|Portsmith]] with an iron fist. And her zealousness seems to be increasing. Bah, who does she think she is? Bah to her and bah to her [[Order of Crusaders]].
-Her latest edict, not so affectionately known as The Gavel, gives the Order of the Silver Throne immense power to dispense punishment unilaterally. So, the last mayor of Portsmouth had a bit of demon blood in his veins, and, yeah, he had some peculiar appetites. That's probably why the good people of this port chose Blackfire - charismatic and honest to a fault. Aye, and there's the fault - her new rule of law is filling the prisons with merchants and traders just looking to make an honest profit. A simple brawl - jail. A whisper against the King - jail. And, so you find yourselves in a stinking jail cell with five stinking companions - all of you innocent by your own accounts - and just about to be branded by the holy Order with the mark of The Gavel.
+Her latest edict, not so affectionately known as The Gavel, gives the [[Order of the Silver Throne]] immense power to dispense punishment unilaterally. So, the last mayor of Portsmouth had a bit of demon blood in his veins, and, yeah, he had some peculiar appetites. That's probably why the good people of this port chose Blackfire - charismatic and honest to a fault. Aye, and there's the fault - her new rule of law is filling the prisons with merchants and traders just looking to make an honest profit. A simple brawl - jail. A whisper against the King - jail. And, so you find yourselves in a stinking jail cell with five stinking companions - all of you innocent by your own accounts - and just about to be branded by the holy Order with the mark of The Gavel.
 Dark days. Maybe torture, maybe worse.