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Returning 26 results for 'Miken'.
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- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Spelljammer Academy
Freeing Miken If the characters leave the ship and race toward the cadet quarters, they hear sounds of musket fire as they get closer to Miken’s quarters. (See the inset map in the Spelljammer
you, obscured by the smoke, are two gaunt figures in armor. One clutches a greatsword, while the other holds a struggling, badly wounded Miken Haverstance.
Hallway Features The hallway in the cadet
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Staying Put If the characters chose to remain aboard the Flighty Foundling, the two wounded survivors of Vocath’s extraction force come to them with Miken in tow: Two gaunt figures in blood-spattered
armor emerge from the academy onto the platform where your ship is moored. One clutches a greatsword, while the other holds a struggling, badly wounded Miken Haverstance.
Creatures The two
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the helm. If no character can attune to the helm, Miken Haverstance volunteers to serve as the ship’s spelljammer. Otherwise, Miken keeps quiet and sticks with Petty Officer Ryeback.
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hornlike protrusion on its head. An armored figure rides on its back. The rider says, “Hail to you. I’ve come to retrieve something that is of interest to my employer. Please produce the human named Miken
damselfly ship lurking behind the asteroid. The damselfly is one of several ships dispatched throughout Realmspace to intercept the characters and retrieve Miken. Qitru and her githyanki shipmates
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battled the mephits. Miken denies knowing who or what started the fire, but he’s the only NPC cadet who has any magical talent, making him the most likely suspect. A detect thoughts spell or similar magic
can reveal his guilt. A character can try to force a confession from Miken, doing so with a successful DC 13 Charisma (Intimidation) check. If the truth comes out, Miken explains that he was recruited
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Part 2: Journey Interrupted In this part of the adventure, the characters must deal with Qitru, a githyanki working for the mercane Vocath. Qitru’s mission is to retrieve Miken, the traitorous cadet
. The githyanki doesn’t know Miken is no longer aboard the tyrant ship, so negotiations could get interesting.
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revealed Cadet Miken Haverstance to be the saboteur. After his capture and interrogation, Miken told the characters that he’d been hired by a mercane (a blue-skinned giant), who holds a grudge against one
of Spelljammer Academy’s founders, Mirt the Merciless. The mercane’s name is Vocath, although neither Miken nor the characters are aware of this fact.
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someone’s heart is through their stomach.”
Meeting Miken By the time the characters have picked up their meals, the only table with enough space for all of them is occupied by a cadet named Miken
conversation with Miken, he expresses anxiety about the upcoming training exercises, having already convinced himself that he doesn’t have what it takes to be a recruit. But he’s even more afraid of
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Fire Alarm None of the characters should be on the Cargo Deck when this scene begins. Everything has settled into relative peace and quiet. Then, without warning, Miken climbs out of the access shaft
of air.
Though winded and fatigued, Miken is unharmed. When one or more characters approach him, he croaks out, “Fire… in the galley… out of control. Must… save others.”
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island of Nimbral, Tarto tells you to get some rest while she and Saerthe brief the senior staff. Tarto orders you to stay away from Miken and report for maintenance work in the morning.
The characters
aren’t allowed to attend the senior staff briefing or see Miken, who is confined to his quarters. Two veterans stand guard outside Miken’s room, the door to which has an arcane lock spell cast on it.
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. Miken Haverstance
Human Cadet
An apprentice wizard, Miken (MICK-unn) constantly worries about whether he has the right skills to graduate from the Academy. When his nose isn’t buried in a
technical manual, he’s scribbling mathematical and arcane equations in a battered pocket notebook he always keeps on him. Miken has light-olive skin, dark-brown eyes, and short, disheveled black hair
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is moored on the side of the Spelljammer Academy’s structure, about 400 feet above the Sea Dock, roughly at the level of the Gymnasium (see handout 1). The characters’ work is interrupted by a strike force that is determined to retrieve Miken and commandeer the Flighty Foundling.
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As soon as the giff land on the Flighty Foundling, the damselfly ship swings around to the other side of the academy’s tower, heading to make its second deposit—the team to extract Miken. The
damselfly ship then departs. Creatures The two giff shipmates have orders to secure the Flighty Foundling while an extraction team retrieves Miken, dead or alive. The giff give the characters a chance to
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Cargo Deck Conflagration Miken follows the characters as they head to the Cargo Deck to combat the fire, as does Wizpop if the characters found and repaired the autognome. The characters arrive to
fire, which Miken set using two spell scrolls (glyph of warding cast at 4th level and conjure minor elementals). The glyph of warding was triggered when Petty Officer Ryeback activated his portable
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Wrapping Up The characters have a few decisions to make: Do they turn back or press on? What do they do with Miken (assuming they know he’s the traitor)? What do they do with the body of Petty
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characters travel back to Toril, they cross paths with an asteroid and run into a githyanki agent of Vocath looking to retrieve Miken. Part 3: Homecoming. The characters return to the Spelljammer Academy
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a recruit named Miken Haverstance, who waits until the opportune moment in the adventure to strike. Until that time, he acts no differently than any other young recruit.
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Toril and make sure Spelljammer Academy knows that Vocath has operatives searching for Miken. “Hopefully, we’ll get to him before they do,” Saerthe remarks. Damselfly Ship The damselfly ship has a crew of
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addition to tending to their own wounds, the characters can head to the other simulation chamber where Miken’s group of cadets was being tested. If the characters spoke with and encouraged Miken in part
unsuccessful in their overtures or made no effort to interact with Miken or his fellow cadets, two of those cadets are critically wounded. Unless they receive magical healing, they die in three rounds
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NPC Information Petty Officer Winston Ryeback takes command of Miken, Krik’Lit, and Pffred and puts them to work unpacking gear (see “Equipment List” below), taking inventory, and setting up a
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personal retinue; only the mercane’s most trusted operatives earn it. Miken’s Fate If he survives the attack, Miken is sentenced to five years of hard labor, to be served at a penal colony on a small
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to tell they’re in trouble. Miken is among them and waves for help. The characters can choose to leave the other team to their fate with the goal of beating them to the finish line, or they can
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Ryeback, who will ensure you don’t go hungry. He’ll command the deck hands Miken Haverstance, Krik’Lit, and Pffred. You’ll need to identify who among you is in command of the mission, as well as who
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Mission Briefing The characters arrive with another squad of six cadets, including Miken Haverstance. Read or paraphrase the following: You arrive at the Simulations Deck at the same time as another
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Tarto levels a steely eye and says with a glare, “Intact, not first. Get the mission done well; not quick.”
If the characters were friendly with Miken in part 1, he wishes them good luck. Both teams
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Trek To H’Catha After securing the tyrant ship and capturing the cadet saboteur Miken, the characters wait for the hammerhead ship Flighty Foundling to double back and take Miken into custody. Two
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the ship starts to spin, Petty Officer Winston Ryeback activates magic tattoo on his arm that allows him to cast the feather fall spell once. The tattoo then vanishes. If Miken, Krik’Lit, and Pffred