100 Encounters On The Super-Sargasso

Yep, more pirateposting. I promise I’m capable of writing about things other than pirates. Kind of. Here’s some things for your crew to run into out on the Super-Sargasso. 

1. Martial artist monks in floating monastery on top of giant turtle. 
2. Survivors of various different wrecks on a massive raft made by lashing their various lifeboats and scraps of wood together.
3. Not actually a giant sea monster, just elaborately decorated to look like one, equipped with fog machines. Crew pretend to be ghosts if the sea monster disguise fails. 
4. Actual sea monster, “crew” are parasites living inside of it. Captain is just a head growing out of an exposed lump of brain matter. 
5. Enormous turtle ship (not the kind that’s built on top of a turtle, the Korean kind) being used as a mobile fortress and base for a rebellion. Crew is interested in turning it into a submarine. 
6. Elite bounty hunters. Their ship is relatively small, but is attached to the top of a giant lobster. Can go over land and underwater and is very dangerous. Crew does not have a cook, as any cook who travels with them is eventually overwhelmed with the desire to boil and eat the giant, delicious lobster. 
7. Looks like a floating wreck, actually an ambush. 
8. Looks like a floating wreck, is a floating wreck. 
9. Single pirate in small boat or raft, encountered improbably far out at sea. Is woefully underprepared but optimistic. 
10. Single pirate in small boat, extremely dangerous, terrifying, does not need a larger boat. 
11. Ship attached to a giant turtle. Smaller than the monastery, but the ship is airtight and can submerge. Crew is eclectic and considering a vote on whether they should become pirates or privateers. 
12. Lone monk meditating on top of appreciably large but not island-sized turtle. Is secretly the grandmaster of the temple ship. 
13. Submarine that resembles a mechanical turtle. 
14. Giant human ridden by crew of turtles. 
15. Time-displaced warship from the future and/or another universe. The larger and more advanced it is the likelier that another faction has already found it and is attempting to claim it. This is a mercy, it means that the players are free to escape or join in on either side, rather than just being blown up. 
16. Time-displaced yacht. Easy prey. 
17. Viking longship, led by incredibly skilled mercenary leader who secretly plans on betraying his crew and running away with the loot. 
18. Time-displaced Greek trireme captained by heroic demigod. 
19. Gigantic bottle with message written by giant inside, castaway riding on top of it and trying to build a sail to attach to the massive cork at the top. 
20. Appears to be a small building floating on the water, actually the tip of a very tall tower being carried across the ocean floor by a gigantic crab. Full of ornery fish people preying on surface-dwellers. 
21. Ship crewed entirely by clones of the captain, who was betrayed once and now trusts no one but himself (but does not actually trust himself as much as he thinks he does).
22. Navy ship on verge of mutiny because of asshole captain. 
23. Navy ship of jovial englishmen who sing opera. 
24. Enormous sleigh that freezes the ocean under it to travel. Crewed by Vikings, who are traveling in search of revenge on the ones from number 17. 
25. Ice mage on bicycle, freezing the ocean under him to travel. Lazy but technically under contract to hunt down pirates. 
26. Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans, still chasing the Great Sea Serpent. 
27. Reverse-submarine piloted by the water-breathing emissaries from undersea civilization. 
28. Enormous temple ship on religious pilgrimage. 
29. Ship absolutely bristling with weapons, none of which work and are slowly sinking it. 
30. Ship equipped with enormous heater or plow to break through ice, very inefficient if sailing anywhere without ice. Captain is searching for some way to mass-freeze stuff just so she can have more changes to use her cool icebreaker. 
31. Soviet submariners in Boris Ushakov’s Prototype flying submarine. sent on expedition from parallel world in which the Soviet Union never fell and also discovered a bunch of underwater portals to different realities. 
32. Traveling nautical circus troupe. 
33. Giant messiah walking across water with his disciples riding on his shoulders. 
34. A bunch of boats lashed together, all being sailed at once by one very overwhelmed man who nevertheless refuses to part with any of the boats. 
35. Ekranoplan piloted by brooding secret agent who just had to kill his mentor and is really not having a great time. 
36. Submarine bobbing along above water, damaged and no longer airtight. Crew is nervous and desperate to fix it, because their whole thing is being submarine pirates and if their submarine can’t submerge they’ve kind of blown their whole gimmick. 
37. Navy hunter-killer submarine on pirate hunting mission, damaged the submarine above. 
38. Chariot of Poseidon, towed by giant seahorses. Poseidon absent, chariot was stolen by nymphs for a joyride. 
39. Steam-belching experimental engine-driven craft, being ridden like a jetski by an adventurous, jovial giant. 
40. Airship that was damaged and unable to fly, now being rowed across sea to port. 
41. Prison transport taken over by prisoners. 
42. Dimensionally displaced Disney cruise ship, taken over by haunted animatronics. 
43. Ship made of magic glass, crewed by insufferable elves. Aren’t immediately hostile but will be passive-aggressive at best. 
44. Floating mobile seafood restaurant run by a fat, friendly Pelagic Saurian (think a humanoid marine iguana). Looking for rare ingredients. 
45. Arms dealers, moving slowly to avoid agitating their most recent acquisition, a large but highly volatile bomb they’re desperate to sell quickly. 
46. Mobile island full of zombies. 
47. Experimental naval aircraft carrier that launches balloons and gliders. 
48. Gigantic seaplane built and piloted by eccentric, germaphobic billionaire traveling with a reporter writing a biography of them, who they are desperate to impress. 
49. Completely normal whale.
50. Abnormally large and aggressive whale.
51. Two giants on a romantic sailing date in a galleon they’ve converted into a rowboat. 
52. Charles Darwin aboard the Beagle II, seeking specimens and on the run from militant creationists. 
53. Pacifist Vikings searching for Vinland. Ambivalent towards 17 and 24. 
54. The Devil, looking for Blackbeard’s severed head. 
55. The Queen Anne’s Revenge, captained by a headless Blackbeard searching for his own head. 
56. Gigantic water strider with legs that reach down to the ocean floor, wizard living in tower attached to back. Wants to perform experiments on volcanoes.
57. Giant’s hat floating in ocean, converted into pirate ship. Giant is sailing after it in a rowboat trying to get it back. 
58. Pod of normal whales. 
59. Pod of abnormal whales. 
60. Vacationing gods having a raucous party on gigantic yacht. Starting to get bored and will grant a boon to anyone who can entertain them. 
61. Floating arena looking for competitors. 
62. Giant in diving suit with steam drill, about to dive down to work on massive undersea engineering project. 
63. Invisible ship. Crew are rookie wizard pirates who botched a spell and can’t see themselves. Afraid of doing anything since they have no idea where they are in relation to anything else. Loudly calling for help. 
64. Captain Nemo adrift in a lifeboat, still looking for revenge against the British empire. 
65. A completely normal houseboat with a completely normal family inside. Very freaked out. 
66. Navy fleet on the way to lay siege to Libertalia. 
67. Giant shark fin sticking up out of the water. If you get close enough you can see that the shark it’s attached to is actually tiny. 
68. Giant steampunk mech walking on ocean floor. Piloted by recently-thwarted mad scientist returning for rematch with his nemesis. 
69. Giant maze-like intertwined mats of seaweed, if you can navigate them you’ll find a portal to the Super-Super-Sargasso Sea and also some treasure. 
70. Ship carrying a giant experimental superweapon capable of destroying entire islands. Separated from the naval ships escorting it by a storm. 
71. Liopleurodon parasitized by intelligent psychic barnacles. Always hungry.  
72. Ship equipped with enormous tanks of water and vacuums to suck up sea creatures, captained by aquarium curator looking for rare specimens. 
73. Giant mass of above-water floating coral, growing out of control and absorbing anything that gets near it. 
74. Gigantic barge full of garbage, owners are desperate for a way to get rid of it but they’re environmentalists and don’t want to dump it all into the ocean. 
75. Wizard riding a horse across the ocean. The wizard cast a spell on the horse that lets it walk on water, but went too far out to sea on it and is worried that he won’t be able to get back to land before the spell wears off. 
76. Harpies riding a perpetual storm. 
77. Navy ship that appears to have fallen to a mutiny, actually a trap to lure in pirates. Crew have been pretending to mutiny for long enough that they’ve started seriously considering it. 
78. Giant mermaid, singing loudly. Can be heard for miles around. Terrible singer. 
79. Moving whirlpool, guided by wizard floating in center. 
80. Another floating restaurant, bitter rival of number 44.
81. Stranded, floundering merchant ship with expensive cargo. Crew has broken down into factions that have claimed sections of the deck, all glaring at each other and sharpening their cutlasses. 
82. Floating derelict, no signs of damage or struggle but crew completely gone. 
83. Ship full of sirens, who just seduced and ate the crew and are thinking of trying to sail the ship themselves. 
84. Fake whale, set up as a trap to catch whalers. 
85. Two ships smashed together, ghost crews of each fighting eternal battle against each other. 
86. Normal size sea turtle being ridden by crew of tiny fairies. Very enthusiastic about the piracy thing but also very reckless. 
87. Giant sea turtle with tower-shaped shell, inhabited by exiled dwarf craftsman who still secretly hates the sea and misses his mountain home. 
88. Floating laboratory of Anarcho-Biothalassists (like biocosmists, but with the sea instead of space) researching the secrets of immortality. 
89. Really big giant walking on ocean floor, fleeing hydrophobic giant slayer.
90. Assorted surfboarders in long-distance race. 
91. A version of Captain Ahab from an alternate timeline, this one is obsessed with the liopleurodon in 65. 
92. Yachts racing, about to collide with the surfboarders above. 
93. Mentor of the wizard pirates in 61, sailed out to check on how they’re doing but has become hopelessly lost. 
94. Gigantic treasure chest seemingly floating on the ocean, actually a lure used by a giant octopus with a taste for human flesh. 
95. Treasure fleet carrying plunder back from colonies. Admiral is wondering if he can get away with sailing away with all the plunder and starting his own nation. 
96. Mostly wrecked pirate ship that has managed to find a friendly intelligent shark willing to tow it back to port. 
97. Shark-hating navy officer pursuing the pirates above. 
98. Naglfar, chasing one of the crew members of 24, who escaped from Hel and swam back to the world of the living. 
99. Godzilla or other legally-distinct kaiju.
100. Two of the above ships fighting each other, roll twice.