Jack Hammer

## Background

### 8:58 Blessed

My father passed away today, he left me with a ship and crew. He was a crab merchant, but you know. I really fucking hate crab. It tastes so disgusting, they're horrible little creatures. No creature that has claws could possible be of the maker. If I can live my life without ever touching a crab again I'll die a happy man. No I'm thinking of getting into some other kind of work... maybe something more...Pirate-ey.

### 8:70 Blessed

I've come across a curious thing indeed. We were sailing the mountain coast of Rivain when a storm came and swept us away to the east. After days of drifting we thought we were going to starve, that's when we came upon land. A vast forest stretching further than our eyes or binoculars could see. When we ventured inland, the crew and myself instantly felt uneasy. There was something strange about this land, something...wrong. We walked for days in the forest only to end up right where we started, feeling eyes upon us wherever we went yet seeing no one watching. There was a sickness among the crew as well, affecting each of the crew in different ways. Some would get a high fever, others would grow puss filled welts along their bodies, some would start bleeding from their orifices.

Then, after a month of no signs of civilization, we came across a pyramid. It was enormous, made from some strange black greasy stone that seemed to melt in the sun yet lost no mass. The crew refused to go in so I steeled myself and ventured in.

I woke up in the cabin of my ship, I still remember nothing from what I experienced inside the pyramid. The crew said I was in there for a day and a half before coming back out delirious, clutching a strange blue sword in my hand. If I didn't know any better I'd say it was forged from pure lyrium.

We're out to sea now, and on my fathers grave I vow never to return to that cursed place for as long as I draw breath.

### 8:91 Blessed

The crew and I found a mysterious shop run by a twisted old man (if you could call it a man). He called himself Xenon and sold artifacts of such wonder unlike anything I've ever seen. He sold swords and shields of legends, mirrors that could change your appearance completely and potions that could give you years of experience with just one sip. But the thing that my eyes and heart fell for was a small crate containing the most adorable creature I've ever seen. It was a puppy. The shop owner mentioned that the dog would have an extraordinary life-span for a dog and would be fiercely loyal to its owner.

I named him Snuffles.

### 9:00 Dragon

I had a dream the other night, a dream about the pyramid. Someone was speaking to me, a terrible voice was telling me about an elven temple near Costa Luna. I was hesitant when I woke up, but my curiosity got the better of me. I'll be leaving for the temple with my crew and dog in the morning.

But to be honest, I'm getting old. And my as I grow older a story that my dad used to say keep echoing through my head:

"There was a man of the sea once, he'd pillaged and plundered all his life but alas he still he felt empty. One day he met a witch who'm he asked what he had to do to find peace, and the witch replied: Take one of your oars and go to an island, keep walking untill you meet someone who mistakes that oar for a shovel, there you will find people who have never known the sea. There you will find peace."

I am thinking about retiring after this ruin. Maybe buy a house inland. Maybe take a wife, live out my last years at peace with Snuffles.

Just got to do this last ruin.

## Involvement

### Season 3

In 9:40, the party discover Captain Jack's diary and follow his loyal dog Snuffles to his final resting place. Snuffles has been coming and going every day for years, leaving food to his corpse while starving himself, in the hopes that his master would awake once more. An ancient elven temple dedicated to the sun with an empty coffin in a room locked behind a puzzle. Along with the coffin are the skeletons of Jack and all his crew. Emily takes the sword he found in the pyramid and later borrows it to Antonio in the fight against the Kraken.