Captain Cadava’s SampleTreasure file By Martin Lloyd, with Illustrations By Ayu Marques Contents

Captain Cadava’s

Introduction 3

Welcome to the Seven Seas 4

The adventure in a nutshell 5

Part One: The wreck of the Rotten Oak 6

Part Two: Welcome to the jungle 14

Part Three: ! 21

Part Four: Captain Cadava sails 30

Handouts

Putrid Pete’s log and a note 42

The 43

The frame 44

The map in the frame 45

Navigating the reef 46

Captain Cadava’s Treasure was put together by: Author Martin Lloyd / Illustrations Ayu Marques / Layout Martin Lloyd & Sue Cowell / Copy editing Chris Walz / Play testingSample by Christina Bullock with Tristan, Martin Lloyd with Ruben and Lisa / file Captain Cadava’s Treasure is Copyright Amazing Tales 2020

2 | Captain Cadava’s Treasure Introduction

Welcome to Captain Cadava’s Treasure, an adventure for the Amazing Tales role-playing game. To play Captain Cadava’s Treasure you’ll need a copy of Amazing Tales. If you haven’t got that, you can get one through www.amazing-tales.net

So, what is this exactly? the heroes are doing — for instance, if Normally, when you play Amazing Tales they flew somewhere or arrived by magic, you make up the adventure as you go. then a description of the walk to get there Captain Cadava’s Treasure is an adventure won’t make sense. that has already been made up. But there is still plenty of room for you and your players to put your own spin on it as you play. Text set like this should be read out loud to the players. The adventure is divided into four parts, each of which is an adventure in its own Spider icons indicate content that might right. Each adventure starts and ends in be too scary for younger children, and a given situation. As long as your games magic wands denote advice for the start and end in similar situations you’ll storyteller. be able to carry on to the next adventure with no problem. For instance Part One  ends with the heroes learning the location of a hidden treasure. As long as that Some of the adventures include handouts happens, Part Two is good to go. to add to the excitement. Print these out so you can give them to your players at the Using the book appropriate time. Before playing Captain Cadava’s Treasure read the whole thing so you have a sense Have fun! of what’s coming. Sometimes you’ll Captain Cadava’s Treasure is a thrilling find boxed text in the adventure. This pirate tale, packed with swashbuckling is intended to be read out to the players. excitement. Now, set sail, to adventure! Of courseSample you may sometimes need to file change things depending on exactly what

Captain Cadava’s Treasure | 3 Welcome to the Seven Seas

Pirates are always talking about the seven Meet the Pirates seas. But if you look at a map of the world Using the rules in the core Amazing Tales you’ll find far more than seven seas. rulebook, create some pirate characters. But those aren’t the seas the pirates are These might be ordinary pirates, or they talking about. Real pirates know the way might be something a little more. An early to seven hidden seas where adventure playthrough featured one pirate who awaits at every turn! could turn into a minotaur, and another who could fly on hawk’s wings. The seven pirate seas are... The only thing you should insist on is that Õ The Dead Mens’ Sea - Where you find the characters have a pirate ship. Later those pirates who can’t be stopped by on in the adventure the ship may well be death. stolen — it’s important they have one to steal! Õ The Enchanted Sea - Where magic and mystery abound. Your kids probably have strong opinions about the number of sails and Õ The Golden Sea - A pirate paradise of cannon on their pirate ship, but be sure to treasure islands and raucous taverns. ask some extra questions about it to add more character. Õ The Mirror Sea - A cursed sea, where no wind blows and no wave stirs the Õ Does the ship have a figurehead, and if surface. so, what does it look like?

Õ The Sea of Ancients - Where lost Õ What kind of food is served on the ship? temples and forgotten lie Who cooks it? hidden on islands. Õ Where do you sleep on board, what’s Õ The Sea of Beasts - Full of sea- special about your cabin? monsters and perilous creatures.

Õ TheSample Sunken Sea - When a pirate ship file sinks, this is where it ends up.

4 | Captain Cadava’s Treasure The Adventure in a Nutshell

A hundred years ago The King of Spain 1. The heroes rescue a pirate cast-away became angry with pirates constantly named Blue Dorrick. He gives them stealing his treasure. So he dispatched his a treasure map which once belonged greatest sailor, Captain Cadava, to deal to the famous pirate Putrid Pete, but with them. Captain Cadava took with him explains that to read it they’ll need a magical treasure, the Horn of Neptune, the help of Pete’s first mate, Stinkin’ which had the power to command the seas. Steve. Steve leads them to the wreck of Putrid Pete’s ship, the Rotten Oak, After much searching Captain Cadava where they recover everything they found the Seven Seas and, arriving at the need to read the treasure map. Sea of Thieves used the Horn of Neptune to still it forever, renaming it the Mirror 2. Following the map to a jungle island in Sea and seizing the treasure of the pirates the Sea of Ancients leads the heroes to who made it their home. Before he could an ancient temple and a confrontation destroy the remaining six seas with a monster in a volcano shrine. kings put aside their differences and Here they recover Putrid Pete’s attacked. The Horn of Neptune was lost in treasure, and with it, the Horn of the battle, Captain Cadava slain and the Neptune. victorious pirate kings cursed his body to sail the Dead Men’s Sea forever. 3. What the heroes don’t know is that Blue Dorrick was really Jehosaphat That was many years ago. Recently a Jones in disguise. Now the heroes have pirate named Putrid Pete found Captain done the hard work he and Precious Cadava’s treasure and the Horn of Mary trick the heroes out of their ship Neptune. Recognising the trouble it could and the treasure! But the heroes are cause he hid it away, with the means able to track them down and, after a to read his treasure map known only chase and a battle, take it right back. to himself and his first mate, Stinkin’ Steve. Two former members of his crew, 4. With Neptune’s Horn once more on the Jehosaphat Jones and Precious Mary have water Captain Cadava and his ghostly come up with a plan to steal it. fleet sail out from Dead Men’s Sea to Samplereclaim it and complete file their mission Can the heroes stop them? to wipe out all pirates, everywhere.

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6 | The Quest for the Dragon Crown Part One: The wreck of the Rotten Oak

Summary Rescuing the man in the boat requires The heroes rescue a stranger called getting past the sharks. The sharks might Blue Dorrick who has been cast adrift. In exchange for their help, Blue Dorrick Õ Surround their prey and circle rewards them with Putrid Pete’s treasure threateningly. map. However the only man who knows how to read the map is Pete’s old first Õ Leap out of the water with snapping mate, Stinkin’ Steve. The heroes travel to teeth. Deeptown and find Steve, who leads them to the wreck of the Rotten Oak, Putrid Õ Bite chunks out of any boats in the Pete’s old ship. There the heroes find all water. they need to discover the location of the treasure, but must abandon ship before Õ Sink their teeth into you and drag you the Rotten Oak sinks. under

Putrid Pete’s Map The rowboat is in terrible condition, and must have been drifting for some time. According to the name on the stern it belongs to a ship called the Rotten Oak, It is a glorious day to be a pirate. The sky is a which particularly clever or cunning brilliant blue and the noonday sun is blazing pirates will know was once the ship of the down. A fresh wind blows from Fair Harbour, famed pirate Putrid Pete. filling the sails as your ship carves through the waves. As you shade your with your In the boat is a pirate with vivid blue hand and scan the horizon, your attention is hair and a blue eyepatch. He introduces drawn to a rowboat, far from shore and himself as Blue Dorrick, a pirate whose seemingly adrift. At first you think the body ship has been sunk. It seems he has been in the boat is dead, but then their hand driven mad by sunstroke. Once given moves and they give a faint wave. water and brought out of the sun he will be grateful, but make little sense. Around the little row boat, you can see the He keeps talking about monkeys and circling fins of giant sharks. rocks, and gold, and diamonds. Then in a Samplemoment of lucidity he says:file What do you do?

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“You’ve done me a powerful favour, rescuing Note for GMs Do what you can to make me. That sun could have driven a man mad. Blue Dorrick’s blue hair and blue eyepatch My name’s Blue Dorrick, you might have memorable. It will be important later. heard of me? I once sailed with Putrid Pete, the pirate who found the treasure of Captain Sailing to Deeptown Cadava — and hid it away where none could The heroes know Deeptown is located in find it. the Sunken Sea, where all the pirate ships ever sunk eventually end up. In the centre Well I’ve got Pete’s treasure map. I took it of the Sunken Sea is a giant whirlpool, from his own hands, just before the Rotten miles across. Strangely, at the bottom Oak sank. Ol’ Pete, he went down with the of the whirlpool, far below sea level, is ship, god rest his soul. a patch of dry land, and that’s where Deeptown is. You’ll be noting that the map has no labels and no X. Pete wasn’t what you’d call a To sail to Deeptown generate two random trusting man. But there is someone who encounters from the ‘Sunken Sea’ chart knows how to read it, a man called Stinkin’ on page 38 of this book, and play them Steve. Last I heard you could find him in The through. In addition, on arriving in Sunken Glass, in Deeptown. Deeptown, the heroes need to sail down the side of the great whirlpool without Now I’m an old pirate. Too old for treasure being sucked under, which is a challenge hunting. So, by way of thanks for saving my in itself. When they succeed, read them life, drop me off at Fair Harbour, where I can this. get passage to Blood Island, and the map’s yours.”

In truth Blue Dorrick is Captain Your ship careers down the side of the Jehosaphat Jones in disguise. Jehosaphat whirlpool, swept this way and that by the stole Putrid Pete’s treasure map, but spiraling current. Below you is a patch of dry knows Stinkin’ Steve won’t help him read land, covered in a collection of buildings, it. So he has decided to let the heroes have each thrown together from the timbers of the map, and follow them to the treasure. sunken ships, and pushed against its neigh- bours. Here and there lanterns cast a dim At thisSample point give the heroes the treasure file map from page 43.

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