Humour has always been in my games. Then again when you run a dark fantasy game like Earthdawn, the humor is a requirement to balance it out. I love giving NPCs and my characters accents.
My greatest comedic achievement will always be Admiral Kirel. The character had an accent that my wife has described as Fez-like (From That 70s Show). He was cowardly, hedonistic, and lazy but competent at boating and logistics. He was a Christian man who confessed away his sins on Sunday and sinned the rest of the time.
He was beheaded by a monkape club swing and became Ghost Kirel. Ghost Kirel could be seen in times of strange weather or by the redman assassin So Cai when he took opium. He would often juggle his own severed head when seen. Tellah struggled with playing as captain getting in the way of his Ahab-like obsession on getting revenge on the Sea Hags. When the opportunity presented itself, he brought back Kirel with one of the only two ways to be resurrected in 50 Fathoms.
A few moments stand out for me, Kirel stealing a Lich's treasure and running away as Tellah fought off the Lich. Kirel getting high on opium and needing a Catnap card to wake up and get the ship out of Deiking in a chase. Kirel always surrounding himself with extra sailors as human shields and forcing one of them to load his crossbow so he could keep one hand on the wheel and one on his crossbow. Kirel insisting on being absolved of all his sins on Caribdus before navigating to the Flotsam Sea to take on the Sea Hags. This quest involved going to the New Madrid cathedral and taking missionaries to Torath-Ka for the Church. Then he had to leave Caribdus without committing any other sins. It was just one more delay for Tellah.
But in the end, Kirel made it home to Earth but left with Tellah, a stranger coming to a strange land...
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