Dour Dour Docks

Dour Dour Docks
The Docks __________ The Vessel __________ The Job __________. (d6/table)
1 A quiet section of an old 1 A vessel painted black, with 1 An anonymous benefactor

stone city. Canals run shutterred portholes. The has charged you with
through the streets, lined crew are veiled, wearing scuttling the vessel at any
with moorings for small cloaks and dark robes. A cost. Burn it down, sink it, or
vessels. Most of the ships strange hum can be heard render it in any way
here are used for daily coming from belowdecks. unseaworthy. But see that it
commuting. In areas where The sailors are synchronized happens at this port, before
the canals meet the sea, in their movements. They are the vessel heads out to sea.
larger moorings are available members of an ancient cult,
to large vessels arriving from using onboard captives to
the sea. Inside of the city, the power the vessel with
water is glassy and telekinetic winds.
undisturbed in the evening
and rolling from traffic
during the day.
2 A bustling harbor which has 2 A newly built passenger ship 2 Commandeer the vessel and
existed for centuries. Each which has just been delivered pilot it to a small offshore
civilization has built their from dry dock for its maiden island. The crew is
infrastructure on top of the voyage. The vessel is largely expendable, but you must
last. Concrete on stone, stone nondescript, and said to be protect the ship and any
on wood, wood on mud. The unsinkable. The shipbuilders, cargo onboard. It may be
waterfront is crammed with as a reflection of their hubris, possible to charter passage or
fish markets as well as have not included any life join the crew before your
dockworkers, beggars and rafts for passengers–many of hijacking.
travelers. Great flocks of whom are already onboard.
seabirds feed around the
open markets and
fishermen’s scraps.
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3 An aging pier of rotting wood 3 A ship of livestock. Strangely 3 Assassinate the captain of the
nestled deeply into the subdued sheep follow the vessel. Be sure that whoever
backstreets of a dangerous eyes of anyone onboard. One you kill is the one who is truly
city where guards fear to large black sheep stands at in charge.
tread. Black market deals are the center of the flock with
conducted openly. Violent strange intelligent eyes. The
brawls begin in scum-filled sheep guide the ship,
bars and spill out into the surreptitiously controlling
brackish waters. The marine the minds of the human
layer fog seems ever-present crew.
and lit by the yellow gas
lamps, creating a sickly
ombré which never quite
burns off.
4 A serpentine set of wooden 4 A trading vessel has arrived 4 Board the vessel and locate
docks winding through a from a distant port. The ship an object known as the
stinking marsh. The piers are is laden with large crates Gilded Sextant. It is said to
made of twisted black under heavy guard. The be capable of traveling vast
brambles and driftwood. The guards outnumber the distances on the open waters
marsh winds for miles before sailors, clearly taking great by ethereal means. The crew
reaching the sea: the only care to protect whatever is likely to be protective of it.
coastal access in the region. strange treasures the ship
As a result, the docks are has borne to these shores.
constantly overrun. The foot The guards will not abandon
traffic ensures the docks are the ship, even under threat of
ever-sinking into the marsh. death.
5 A long-shuttered port, fallen 5 A pirate ship of grim infamy, 5 Gain passage aboard the
into disuse after a canal was long the subject of dread and vessel by any means. Sneak
built which allowed quick paranoia. The captain long on board, join the crew,
access to a more developed ago made a Faustian bargain charter the ship, or buy a
village nearby. Trash floats in with a scorned demigod. ticket. However you can,
the vacant harbor. Moorings Tales speak of the ship being make sure that you are
are fallen or broken. blasted to pieces, sinking to aboard the vessel when it
Vagrants live in listing ships its doom and rising again departs.
lashed to old docks. The only from the black depths to sail
vessels who dock here are once more. The crew appear
lost, in danger, or have to be missing, but they’re in
something to hide. an undead hibernation,
clinging to the hull of the
ship, underwater.

6 A pleasure port built outside 6 A ship lies empty and 6 See that the ship is made
the walls of an old castled unmoored. Inside, the deck is inoperable only once it has
city. Accessible only by the slicked with blood. Visible returned to sea. Destroy its
water or through the city burn marks run up the main ability to sail or steer and
center itself. The music never mast to a burned sail. A great leave it stranded far from
ceases, as the elites spend day hole has been torn through to shore. What happens after
and night luxuriating in the cargo area, which lies in that is none of your concern.
every sick indulgence they shambles. It appears
can imagine. Ships adorned something was aboard that
with velvet, rimmed with tore its way to freedom. The
candles and carrying their crew is now cleaning and
own kegs of wine are repairing the ship. They have
chartered for offshore no memory of whatever
indulgences. strange events took place
here.

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GLUMDARK - RANDOM TABLES OF THE MACABRE AND MUNDANE

GLUMDARK - RANDOM TABLES OF THE MACABRE AND MUNDANE

GLUMDARK - RANDOM TABLES OF THE MACABRE AND MUNDANE

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