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Rolled 19 - 1 (1d20 - 1)
It doesn’t happen all at once – but steadily, the gusts become weaker, more fitful. The sails of your galley and of the ships grow slack, hanging impotently, and the sea becomes preternaturally calm. You look about in all directions, but can see no silver threads, no swimming daimons amongst the ocean waves – although, with Odysseus aboard Menelaus’ vessel, you do wonder… You recall the archery competition between Castor and the resourceful King of Ithaka, and the easy way that divine assistance was produced to correct an errant bowshot.
The lack of wind is all to your galley’s benefit, of course. Your ship possesses the strongest rowers, and therefore the lack of wind benefits you and your crewmates most of all. One of the hostile vessels before you cannot keep pace with its peer – the oars fail to coordinate properly, whether due to exhaustion, or poor discipline, you aren’t sure. As for the other, it just fails to keep pace with Menelaus’ ship – very gradually slipping further behind Menelaus’ galley.
You hear Ajax shouting triumphantly behind you – “A flock of kingfishers are owed to fast-shifting Aeolos! He restrains the Ανεμοι to our benefit!”
>okay, players - give me a dice+1d20+11 for ship on ship initiative against the laggard piratical vessel!
