Please create two characters, a level 5 and a level 13. These are NOT the same person!
You can multi-class if you want.
HP = 75% Max.
The Level 5 get a single +1 magic item, either an armor OR a weapon OR a focus.
The Level 13 gets two items, a +1 magic item and a +2 item or equivalent.
I worked and saved. I bought my passage across the sea, to a new home, a new start, a new life.
The voyage was pleasant, the seas calm, and the winds favorable. They filled the ships sails, spurring it forward, cutting a week long voyage down to just five days. I was apprehensive of traveling by merchant ship, having heard horror stories of travelers who had bought passage on ships only to be crammed among barrels filled with fermenting fish, or piles of tanning hides. I'd been lucky, my ships hull was filled with dried herbs, exotic spices, rare tonics and medicines; the lower decks were filled with pleasing aromas and that wafted about and could take you on mini voyages of their own, to lands far away from where they were harvested.
The sun shone warmly on the backs of my fellow travelers and I as we stood on deck cheering. The ship was sailing past the sand bars and into the protective harbor of Cape Pleasant. We would not be able to set foot on land until the morning, after the cargo had been inspected and our papers checked by the harbor representative. So as the crew made ready the ship and cargo, we celebrated and toasted to our new home, Cape Pleasant.
It was just after midnight when the cargo hold exploded...