Episode 42: Ship of Fools Campaign, Part 1: Eat Spore!
This is Episode 42, the first installment of a two-game campaign where Troy lost his Dungeon Master cherry and our regular DM Eric got to be a player, titled: “Ship of Fools_Part 1: Eat Spore!.”
Enjoy!
Ship of Fools collage by Lauren Clarke, featuring Plato, an illustration by Albrecht Dürer in Stultifera navis (Ship of fools), and The ship of fools, depicted in a 1549 German woodcut of Brant's book.
Table of Contents:
1. We’re on a sailing ship and some storm clouds have rolled in unexpectedly.
2. “Do you want dinner?” “Not really because I’m a vampire.”
3. “Does the captain look like a daddy?”
4. There are two other passengers on the ship, Caz and Rog (he’s sounds sporty!)
5. The captain plans to retire after this voyage, so yeah, he’s definitely going to die.
6. Shae is a 6’ 3” unicorn stallion-man named Salladan Mistborn.
7. Sammy is playing a tiefling Shae Silvereyes (the daughter of Sammy’s character from the Blood Orgy campaign, Episodes 1-8)
8. Maura is Ethrenia Orangecrest, a female satyr/goatperson.
9. Eric is Horkheimer, a Dankwood goblin with a lisp who looooooves spores and mushrooms.
10. Danielle is Reverend Ransom Right, a televangelist vampire.
11. Lauren is Bianca Aricia, a fairytale princess on the run from her evil stepmother.
12. Michael is Dorian Girkman, a 6’ 1” slender elvish man with white hair and beard who will be Santa Claus for the right price.
13. We have mommy issues.
14. The captain goes off to bed… probably for the last time since we’re here.
15. Rev. Ransom rolls a 20 on his Perception roll, and sees… nothing, I guess.
16. “What’s a lovely lady like you doing out here on a night like this?”
17. “Rodg, I gotta ask you, why’s your wife such a b****?”
18. Emperor Dion is the kind of guy who likes to roam around, you might even say he’s a wanderer…
19. TAKE IT OFF, RODG! Show us your scars!
20. Salladan and Rev. Ransom roll for Perception… and notice that there is thunder.
21. Horkheimer has shrooms.
22. Ethrenia goes up on deck to light up and attracts a crowd.
23. Now that we are all on deck, all we need is a big wave to come through…
24. And… nothing continues to happen… until…
25. And now things are already going sideways!
26. Guess we drank a lot of ale at dinner to not notice this…
27. ROLL FOR INTIATIVE!!!
28. Brought to you by A&W Root Beer and whatever company makes ovipositors.
29. “Is he within my spore-cloud?”
30. “EAT SPORE!”
31. “Take THAT, fiend!”
32. Silvereyes rages, so we make Sammy growl a bunch of times.
Screaming Horse watercolor by Lauren Clarke
Song: "Galaxy (Folk Ballad Version)" by Lauren Clarke
