GenCon Contest Week Three: Airship Results

This week was the most difficult judging yet. Most of the entries are posted on the original thread. Some entries made us laugh, most were clever, and John Lach’s stunned with sheer size. But we had to choose one, and in the end, the victor was Gilo.

Unknown to the crew and passengers an Ashbound druid released a swarm of Soarwood-eating ants under the airship’s hull.

The ants work slowly borrowing through the ship’s wood multiplying in numbers.

Just one day away from Stormreach, the pilot notices that he can not maintain the airship altitude and that the airship is slowly descending into the Thunder Sea.

The swarm is finally revealed after a crew member that was busy cleaning the lower ship’s hold fell to his death when a piece of the keel detach from the airship.

Realizing that at this rate the airship will never reach Stormreach, the crew contemplates using the Life Ring feather fall down and take there chances in the water, but they quickly changed their minds once they realize that the rifts below are controlled by human-sacrificing Sahuagins.

Finally the captain comes up with a plan: there is a small semi-dormant volcanic island coming up on the starboard side, the island is spewing black ash, they will turn the airship to pass directly in the ash cloud hopefully it will kill enough of the swarm and buy them the time to reach the Stormreach…

Congratulations, Gilo! The final question (for two seats this time!) will be posted shortly.