Unique NPC ships-The Windsong

Earlier this year i tried to get a Unique Ships thread going-meaning
vessels and unique NPC crews,  ready to drop into games, as oppossed to
"new" ship designs.  here's my latest contribution and an attempt to get
the thread started again:)

Those familiar with my Realmspace update might recognize the following
vessel,  it began as the adventuring craft of a small campaign I ran about
seven years ago,  my wife was the only player:)  Eventually we retired the
characters and shifted to a Cormyrean campaign when we found a few
additional players,  this represents the character's "retirement".  Since
old PCs are usually very well detailed they always make the best NPCs in my
opinion.:)

>From my Realmspace/Waterdeep Update:
>Wavesilver Fleet-The Wavesilver family doesn't actually possess a fleet,
>the family's patron is very old fashioned.  However,  one of the patron's
>children, Sasha Wavesilver (CG hef F9/P9{of Selune} Sasha wields a magical,
>flaming two-handed sword), owns a spelljammer.  Sasha's vessel,  the
>"Windsong", is a standard Galleon equipped with a minor helm.  It's crew is
>somewhat unusual; Sasha has established a temple to Selune on board,  the
>crew are all 1st-3rd level priestesses of Selune.  The ship is officered by
>Sasha,  her lover Blade (CN hem T8/M8), their friend Maularde (N em
>F8-Gladiator, a barbaric looking moonelf with long,  bright blue hair),
>and a small, grime covered gnome named Fizzle Flashpoint (NG gm).  The
>officers and crew of the "Windsong" act as agents and diplomats for the
>Lords of Waterdeep in Wildspace.  When acting in an official capacity they
>fly the Lord's arms,  as well as those of Waterdeep and the Wavesilvers.
>Some DMs may wish to use Sasha, Blade or Maularde as a Lord of Waterdeep.

The "Windsong"
Waterdahvian Galleon of the Wavesilver noble family
Tonnage:40 tons
Hull Points: 40
Crew:20/40
Maneuverability Class:E
Landing;Land:No
Landing;Water:Yes
AR:7
Saves As:Thick Wood
Power Type:Minor helm
Ship's Rating:Per spelljammer (usually 3)
Armament
        2 Med. Ballistae (FP,FS)
                Crew:2 each
        1 Light Catapult (APS)
                Crew:3
Cargo: 20 tons
Keel Length:130'
Beam Length:30'

Crew:
Sasha Wavesilver (female half-elf)
High Sword of the Lady
Fighter/Priest(Selune) 9/9 Champion Kit
AL:CG, HP:56,  AC:0
Str18/75, Dex17, Con12, Int 11, Wis18, Chr14
Appearence: Sasha is tall and muscular with brown hair and eyes,  she
favors the color purple in her clothing.  She is 35 years old.
Personality: Sasha is brash,  imposing, and confident.  She is used to
getting her own way,  but never a bully.  Some of her earlier, wilder days
as a devotee of Sune remain,  she is in unrepentent flirt especially when
Blade is around.
Nonweapon Proficiencies:Riding (Horse),  Healing,  Swimming,
Religion(Faerunian),  Herbalism,  Seamanship,  Navigation,  Astrology,
Riding (Pegasus),  Common, Dwarven,  Orcish,  Elven
Weapon prof:Two-Handed sword(specialized),  Sling,  Shortsword, Footman's
mace,  dagger
Abilities:Std half-elf,  Turn undead, Cast Starshine (as 3rd lvl priest
spell) x2/day,  Cast Moonbeam,  Raise,  or Lower water 1x/day,  Cast
Moonblade 1x/day
Spheres, Major: all, animal,  astral,  combat,  divination,  guardian,
healing,  necromantic,  numbers,  summoning,  sun,  travellers,  weather
Spheres, Minor:  Charm,  elemental,  plant,  wards
Spells/Day:6x1st,  6x2nd,  4x3rd,  3x4th,  1x5th
Equipment:Thorn of the Rose (Shortsword +1,  casts entangle 3x/day);  Flame
of the North (2 handed sword +2,  +4 vs any CE,  everbright,  10%chance to
reflect spells when drawn,  absorbs harmlessly all magic missiles and
electrical attacks at wielder,  in CG hands blazes w/bluewhite flames when
drawn,  detects all CE beings w/i 20' (regardless of magical cloaking) and
alerts wielder by whisper "strike!" over and over in her head.); Ring of
regeneration,  Ring of protection +2
Mounts: Sasha has 2 special mounts;
"Flame",  a charger quality heavy warhorse with max hitpoints.  Flame will
only allow Sasha to ride him and is stabled at the Wavesilver villa when
she is away.
"Fidelis",  a pegasus (25 hp) who is often carried aboard the "Windsong" in
a stall in the hold.

Blade (male half-elf)
Mage/theif(Selune) 8/8
AL:N, HP:32,  AC:4 (leather +dex)
Str16, Dex18, Con11, Int 16, Wis10, Chr12
Appearence: Blade is average height with blond hair,  beard,  and blue
eyes.  He is average height,  trim,  favoring his human side more then his
elven.  He typically dresses in flamboyent blues,  likes high riding boots
and long cloaks. He is 37 years old.
Personality: Blade is a swashbuckling elf, romantic, roguish, debonair.  He
makes many jests, and flirts shamelessly but his feelings for Sasha are
clearly visible when she is in the room.
Nonweapon Proficiencies:Riding (Horse),  Herbalism,  Swimming,  Disguise,
Herbalism,  Appraising,  Spellcraft,  Forgery,  Ancient History (Myth
Drannor),  R/W Common, Elven,
Weapon prof:Sabre,  dagger,  wheellock pistol
Abilities:Std half-elf,  Backstab +4/x3,  PP 35,  OL 55,  F/R 40,  MS 80,
HS 80,  DN 15,  CW 90,  RL 60
Spells/Day:4x1st,  3x2nd,  3x3rd,  2x4th
Spell Book:1st: Read magic,  Detect magic,  Burning Hands,  Alarm,  Charm
Person,  Find Familiar,  Identify,  Shield,  Sleep,  ventriloquism,  Change
Self; 2nd: Snilloc's Snowball Swarm,  Decastave,  Knock,  Wizard lock,
Whirling Blade,  Blindness,  Deeppockets,  Forget;  3rd:Waterbreathing,
Hold person;  Monster Summoning I,  Sepia Snake Sigil,  Familiar Enhancer
I(Dr#181),  Dispel Magic;  4th: Wall of Fire,  Rary's Mnenonic Enhancer,
Remove Curse
Equipment:Ring of Fire Resistence,  Ring of Spell Turning, Scroll(Knock), 2
starwheel pistols (plenty of smokepowder),  Sabre +2
Familiar:
Hilt,  Fox, Int Low(4)  AC 5  HD 1  HP 10  # At 1  DMg 1-2 Thaco 20  MV 18"
Smell, hearing,  night vision,  May _Spider Climb_ as the spell 1x/day
Hilt is very mischeiveous and often gets into trouble,  playing pranks on
the Windsong's crew. He is incredibly fond of rabbit meat,  and will go out
of his way to get it if he smells it nearby.

Maularde Swordmaster (male moon elf)
Fighter 8 Gladiator Kit
AL:N, HP:62,  AC:1
Str18/21, Dex19, Con15, Int 17, Wis10, Chr15
Appearence: Maularde has brillient blue hair that hangs to his waist,  he
keeps it tied in a ponytail.  His eyes are blue with bright gold flecks,
and his skin bleached white with a bluish tinge.  He dresses in his
gladiator armor at all times,  appearing barbaric and menancing.
Personality: maularde is dour, taciturn.  A very atypical elf.  His face is
always impassive and he never laughs...even when in severe pain he remains
composed.  he does have a sense of humor,  expressed through a dry wit.
Nonweapon Proficiencies:Riding (Horse),  Mountaineeering,  Swimming,
hunting,  Seamanship,  Charioteering,  tumbling,  R/W Common, Elven,
Weapon prof:Blades-broad group,  longsword specialist,  2handed style
specialist,  2 weaponstyle specialist,  wrestling specialist,  punching
specialist,  longbow,  staff
Abilities:Std elf
Equipment:Longsword +2,  Samnite Armor(see CFHB),  Pouch of accessibilty

Crew: 33 human Priestesses of Selune (3x3rd, 6x2nd,  14x1st) each in chain,
shield, and Moon's Hand mace.  The "Windsong" is a full temple for Selune,
sometimes wealthy/noble worshippers are allowed abaord for special worship
services high above the cloud cover in the fullest light of Selune and her
Tears.

History:
        Like many Waterdahvian adventurers Sasha got her adventuring career
started as a member of the Daggerford militia.  Daggerford was a small town
just south of waterdeep,  a frontier sort of place that liked to hire
adventurers for its militia patrols.  Sasha was a young,  rebeliious
Waterdahvian noble lass and noviciate of the Goddess Sune.  She had runaway
from her father, Bleskos waversilver, after one too many fights over the
proper behavior of young Watderdahvian ladies.  She made several friends
during her time there,  including a rouguish fellow half-elf from Westgate
who styled himself "Blade".  After an exciting few months,  Sasha and her
friends returned to Waterdeep,  intent upon blowing their accumulated
treasure on parties and frivolity.
        In Waterdeep, Blade soon drifted from the group.  He joined up with
a disreputable trading organization, the Griffin Griffin Coster,  and so
left Waterdeep.  Sasha and her two remaining friends continued to carouse,
but overtime the carouse began to lose its appeal for the other two, who
were falling in love.  Sasha had just about decided to strike out from the
city on her own again when the Time of Troubles struck.  During the mad,
chaotic battles with Myrkul's minions in the streets of Waterdeep both of
Sasha's friends were slain,  dying in her arms as Sune failed again and
again her prayers for healing magic.  When the battle was over Sasha found
herself standing out side the Temple of Selune, somehow untouched by the
battle.  The priestesses were fanning out from the temple, helping the
wounded around her.  Sasha enetered the temple then and didn't come out for
6 months.
        When she emerged from the temple Sasha had switched her alligience
to Sewlune, Goddess of the Moon and, ironically, longtime patron goddess of
her family, the Wavesilvers.  She spent the next year or so serving as a
guard at the temple,  while slowly repairing her relationship with her
family.
        Blade's return to the city coincided with Sasha's return to the
adventuring life.  A family heirloom, the Thorn of the Rose,  had been
spotted in the hands of hobgoblin raiders north of Waterdeep.  Lost for
years,  the family had given up any hope of recovering the sword.  It was a
mark of her healing relationship with her father that he asked her to lead
an expidition to recover the heirloom.  While recruiting companions in the
Elfstone tavernshe ran into Blade and his new bodyguard, Maularde.
        Maularde had been a warrior of the Elven Court, captured by the Red
Plumes of Hillsfar and turned into a gladiator of the arena.  He had
already slain 8 opponents (including an ogre) when he was spotted by Blade,
travalling through the city disguised as a human.  In a rare act of
compasion Blade freed Maularde and a handful of other slaves from the
gladiator pits.  Afterwords, Maularde swore a bloodoath to repay his life
by guarding Blade's.
        Though angry at Blade for leaving the city earlier (they had
briefly been lovers) Sasha recruited the pair to help recover the sword.
They had only been back in Waterdeep a week after doing so when Sasha's
younger sister was slain by a wolfwere that was stalking the young noble
lasses of Waterdeep.  Together they slew that beast, as well.  Through this
time Blade and Sasha became closer and closer, though neither would admit
their deepening feelings.
        They decided to traval to Blade's hometown fo Westgate, his old
tutor having been slain, and attempt to discover the culprits. Along the
way they witnessed a strange craft fall from the sky,  it was a galleon,
but filled with skeletons and zombies wielding strange weapons
(starwheels).  They cleared the ship of undead and began to explore it,
Blade eventually translated enough of the log to understand how to fly it.
The rest, as they say, is history.
        The group did eventually find a slay the assasin of Blade's mentor,
as well as tracking the Orb of Darkness, an artifact sacred to Shar through
Myth Drannor, a lich's lair, and Chessenta before finally destroying it.
They have since retired to Waterdeep,  where they work closely with the
Lords concerning spelljamming traffic.  Blade also now works for the
Wavesilvers as an agent,  sasha thinks this is simple greed on his part,
she doesn't realize his goal is to earn enough gold,  and enough of the
respect of her father, to allow him to give his consent to their marriage
(an orpaned street urchin from Westgate is not typically a desirable suitor
for Waterdahvian noble lasses, no matter how debonair or charming).

This material has been derived from:
City of Splendors boxed Set
Ruins of Undermountain Boxed set
Volo's Guide to Waterdeep
Spacefarer's Handbook
Spelljammer Boxed set
Realmsspace
Faiths and Avatars
My Realmspace update on Waterdeep

"We look on the same stars,  the sky is common,  the same world surrounds
us.  What difference does it make by what pains each seeks the truth?  We
can not attain to so great a secret by one road..."
Symmachus,  "Memorial on the Occasion of the Removal of the Altar of
Victory from the Senate House" (392 AD)

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