Lady Luck

The Lady Luck is a legendary cursed ship of the Attamat Islands, whose name is seen as something of a cruel joke. Originally built by a Barlovian merchant, for trade with the colonies of Saint's Glade and Dreadman's Isle, this ship was plagued with bad luck from the start. At the keel-laying ceremony, the chief shipwright slipped and broke his neck. The Lady Luck's construction was rife with other disasters, as well: an entire shipment of lumber was found to be infested with wood-eating vermin, requiring the replacement of nearly half the hull. No fewer than thirteen of the men working on the ship died during construction, and several more vanished under mysterious circumstances. The owners of the coaster should have cut their losses then, but they decided that they had spent too much money on the ship already and that the only way to redeem the expense would be to complete the ship and make a profit with it.
Finally, six months behind schedule, the Lady Luck was completed and launched under Captain Riordan Saltwick in 1549. The launching ceremony was marred by the fact that it took the coaster owner's wife three tries to break the ceremonial bottle of wine on the ship's bow. Despite this bad omen, Captain Saltwick elected to sail on. Three weeks later, a fishing vessel found the Lady Luck adrift at sea. All her sails were perfectly set for the wind, the cargo and supplies were untouched, and the ship's log gave no sign of trouble—but the crew was nowhere to be found. More chillingly, based on the ship's course and location when it was found as compared to the last entry in the logbook, it was clear that someone had been manning the sails and steering the ship for at least a week after the last entry. The Lady Luck was towed to Providencia, where she has stayed docked ever since while her owners look for another captain willing to command the ship. During her time in port, the crewmen maintaining the Lady Luck have reported seeing strange apparitions and ghostly figures, particularly at night.
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