Captain Stone

Stub-class article · First seen: s17 · Last seen: s17
Captain Stone
the painted pebble · Pim's gift · the captain
Captain Stone — Mundane sentimental object portrait
Item
StatusHeld
First seens17
Last seens17
TypeMundane sentimental object
AttunementNone
HolderMike
OriginGift from Pim, daughter of Nella, s17

Captain Stone is a small, smooth grey pebble with “two cold dots and what looks to be a scratched mouth on it” — a child’s painted pet rock — given to Mike by Pim (the elder of Nella’s two children) on a wrecked fishing boat in the Sapphire Sea in session 17, in exchange for two trail rations Mike had just handed the family [1]. Mike then ritually cast Detect Magic for ten in-fiction minutes; the DM ruled the pebble is not magical [4]. Mike kept it anyway and used it as a goodbye wave when the skiffs parted [3]. Pim’s framing was the line that named it: “See, here’s this Captain Stone. He’s brave.”

Overview

Captain Stone is a small, smooth grey pebble. It has two cold dots painted on it for eyes and a scratched mouth scratched on it for a mouth, per the DM’s description at [1]:

“she pulls out of her pocket a small, smooth grey pebble. And as you kind of look at it, you see two cold dots and what looks to be a scratched mouth on it. And she hands it over to you. See, here’s this Captain Stone. He’s brave.” — Nick (DM, voicing Pim through Nella), [1]

The gift was an exchange for Mike’s two trail rations to Pim and Leo — the only food the party gave the family. Mike, lawyer-brained and recently shipwrecked, ritually cast Detect Magic on the pebble [2]. The DM ruled it not magical. Mike pocketed it anyway and the next time he interacted with it was the goodbye wave as the skiffs parted [3].

Significance

Captain Stone is non-magical and mechanically useless. It is logged in the wiki because:

  • It was named in a moderately significant scene and may become a callback or sentimental prop.
  • It is the only piece of inventory the s17 Nella encounter generated for the party.
  • It is Mike’s first non-Mizzium-Apparatus item revealed on-character and is the kind of detail a future scene could revisit (e.g. if the campaign ever swings by Gloamhearth and finds Nella again, or if the pebble’s “two cold dots” become something on a closer look in the right magical light).

Status as of session 17

Held by Mike. In a pocket of his backpack or chain-mail. Not magical. Not attuned. Not lost.

See also

References

  1. ^ Session 17, line 927 — Pim hands over the pebble: "See, here's this Captain Stone. He's brave.".
  2. ^ Session 17, line 932-938 — Mike ritual-casts Detect Magic for 10 minutes; DM rules the pebble not magical.
  3. ^ Session 17, line 1057 — Mike waves Captain Stone at Nella as a goodbye gesture as the skiffs part.
  4. ^ Session 17, line 938 — Inline citation.
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