The Shadow Queen

The Shadow Queen is a nearly indestructible dromond war ship created from the ancient umbral impression of a Quelmar Ship long since sank. As the Shadow Queen is so sturdy, it has been passed down from captain to captain for generations, typically Shadar-Kai. The latest captain was Captain Duskella

About

The Shadow Queen is the "indestructible, but not unsinkable" ship. Like it survives being eaten by a monster that Duskella thinks is a Kraken and is plane shifted in that capacity. Same with a whirlpool. The crew is probably totally fucked, but the Shadow Queen goes on.

At least, that's her understanding of it. She could be 100% wrong.

Part of her new story is finding out more about it, if she can. The other part deals with a repressed memory that started returning when she arrived in the Shadowfell.

Crew (SotS Inc)

As the ship needs a minimum of 15 people to run it properly, the captain in the SotS Inc campaign was tasked with putting together a rather large team. Those members were as follow:

• Captain: Duskella Jaspers
• Chef: Krik-Et
• Rigger: Hillevi
• Resident Mage: Iris the Hag
• Cabin Boy: Julian Winter
• Gunner: Vladimir Petrov
• Shipwright: Olga Petrov
• Healer: Ilakrin
• Swordsman: Heath

Other crew:

• Captain Vimes
• Braeden
• Juris

Crew Lackeys (0-level sailors):

• Behold the Navigator
• Cleo the Quarter Master
• Pattycake the Lookout
• Lola the Spy

Statistics

HP: 500 

AC: 3

Speed: 20 ft

Pilot: The pilot must stand at a control wheel, typically at the rear of the dromond.

Crew: In addition to the pilot, the shadow queen requires a crew of fifteen, all of whom use a standard action each round to control the vessel. The Shadow Queen's speed by 10 squares for every 5 missing crew members. At swim speed 0, the ship moves forward automatically at 10 ft/round with no chance of changing direction.

Load: Fifty Medium creatures; two hundred tons of cargo.

Sails: The Shadow Queen takes a penalty or bonus to its swim speed from –20 to +20 depending on the strength and direction of the wind.

Runekeel: The keel (bottom) of the ship is a runekeel, a special rune en-studded keel which is the navigation focus for the Plane Shift ritual. When traveling to other planes using that ritual, a Shadow Queen must move from one large body of water (or other liquid) to another.