Peril at the Port

You’ve proven to your superiors in the Lords’ Alliance that you can get things done: even if it means breaking the law. Now the nobility turn to you under cover of night with dark deeds in mind.

Between adventures, you can spend ten downtime days to carry out a covert Lords’ Alliance contract and gain one renown with your faction. You may only perform this activity once between each adventure you play.

You own a trained parrot called “Barnacles”. Barnacles knows many saucy nautical phrases and has the uncanny ability to detect lies.

You can use Barnacles’ Wisdom (Insight) modifier of +4 in addition to your own when attempting to detect lies. If Barnacles smells a rat, he’ll squawk one of the following phrases: “Thar she blows!”, “Hang ‘em from the yardarm!”, or “Blow the man down!”.

You lost an eye while trying to steal from Port Nyanzaru’s merchants, and now wear a leather patch over your gaping eye socket. If you lift the patch, you can double your proficiency modifier in the Intimidation skill.

You have disadvantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight and on ranged attack rolls. Magic such as the regenerate spell can restore the lost eye and remove this story award.

You’ve unmasked the merchant prince Ifan Talro’a as a criminal. For now, the Emerald Enclave is sitting on the information, choosing to monitor the prince rather than show their hand. As reward, they’ve given you a trained flying snake to serve as your messenger.

Once per adventure, you can attach a message to the flying snake and send it to one of your allies. This functions as an animal messenger spell, but the message can only be sent to people you know.

You helped the merchant princes of Port Nyanzaru defeat Captain Smoke’s pirate armada, and you’re now known as a hero throughout the city.

You gain advantage on Charisma checks when dealing with the merchant princes. If you start a session within Port Nyanzaru, you gain advantage on the first attack roll or saving throw that you make.

A pirate chopped off your hand, and you replaced it with a rusty hook. Your unarmed attacks now deal 1d6 piercing damage.

While you wear the hook, you can hold only a single object at a time. You have disadvantage on attacks made with weapons that use two hands. Magic such as the regenerate spell can restore the lost appendage and remove this story award.

You rescued Gordo the Just from the clutches of Captain Walharrow. In return, he gifted you a fragment of a rare map of the jungle.

The Tomb of Annihilation hardcover adventure provides an unfinished map of Chult. At any time, you can strike through this story award to reveal map details in a 2‐hex diameter from any point on the map you choose. Alternatively, you can strike through this story award to succeed on any check made to navigate through jungle terrain.

You lost your foot in a tomb beneath Port Nyanzaru, and wear a wooden peg leg in its place. Your peg leg has a hidden compartment that’s ideal for concealing a coin purse or a set of thieves’ tools.

While you wear the peg leg, your speed on foot is halved and you have disadvantage on Dexterity checks made to balance. Magic such as the regenerate spell can restore the lost appendage and remove this story award.

You failed to protect Port Nyanzaru from Captain Smoke’s pirate armada. As a parting shot, the pirates cursed you from beyond the grave.

You gain disadvantage on the first attack roll or saving throw you make during a session. Only a remove curse spell or similar magic can dispel the curse and remove this story award.

A naughty flying monkey called “Uku the Spider Boy” has latched onto you. Uku (“OO‐koo”) wears a crimson waistcoat adorned with tiny mirrors and sports a silk skullcap. He has a naturally mischievous nature.

Uku can smell gold from 30 feet away, even if it’s kept inside a purse or container. As an action, you can command Uku to steal or retrieve up to 100gp using his Sleight of Hand skill bonus of +4. Uku keeps 10% of the takings, which he spends on boiled sweets next time you’re in town.