So session one of a pirate themed dnd game where the world is like 95% oceans a group of heros in a tavern hear the dockmaster complaining about how the ghost ship docked in the harbor is scaring off sailors and how if someone clears the ghosts out they can have the boat. the crew dutifully goes there and defeats them all from the top decks down into the underbelly of the boat, once they finish, they realized that the boat had drifted so far from shore it was no longer in sight, and now they were in the middle of the ocean in a huge ship that normally needs a much larger crew.
luckily they had found in there time here a key that when used could re-awaken a certain number of skeletons at a time. even though necromancy is super illegal the crew reluctantly brought the skeletons back.
I thought they'd mostly be silent sailors then be dismissed or would quickly die in battle (its very inconvenient to be hiding high treason at every port and they don't have a lot of hit points)
but the crew took to the skeletons, befriended them, and have despite having faced truly so many high level threats, the skeletons have been actively kept out of harms way, not even a single skeleton from that first session years ago has been destroyed.
Some are named silly things, some are named after characters siblings, all of the skeletons are, by the nature of the key that brought them back to life, trapped on the ship, but the crew are working on finding a way to give them back their freedom.
The players are searching for keys to extra-planar seas, there is a god collecting all of them for an unknown purpose, and the warlocks patron asks for another to free him, these keys are hidden and scattered throughout the world, perhaps even at the bottom of the sea.
(screenshot of the skeletons on the boat named Ken, Moth, Tiga, Neil Armstrong, GI Joe, Marquis de Saude, Tim, Magnus, Mark Zuckerberg, Barbie, Raymond Luxury Yatchet (pronounced throat Warbler Mangrove), Margie, and just Skeleton), maps for the boat and water are from two minute tabletop)
(despite the silly names of basically everything in this game the players are committed to playing their characters fully seriously and dramatically, even the chef who's signature weapons are throwing pies and a potato canon)
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