Arjun's voice increases in volume and surprise. "House Thrune? Why would the illustrious House Thrune show an interest in us? Are you house servants, or are you military?"
He leans in and hisses in his ear.
Noro spends some time watching the interrogation, she remains in the room staying out of Arjun's way listening to the "confessions"
She awaits her turn, if its needed.
she has a bottle of rum in her hand as refreshment for the entertainment.
House Thrune has many servents. Some lowly, some high. I am on the lowly side, as for why? Narthul is the man you would have to talk to.
Arjun's smile fades, slowly replaced by a frown. "I really hoped it wouldn't go this way." He stands from the chair and slowly walks behind the man. He draws one of his saps, and strikes him on the back of the head, repeatedly if necessary, until he is unconscious. Unties, over the shoulder, and up on deck. "I'm going to take care of this one. I'll be back in a short while." He carries him off the ship and tries to find a secluded alley.
Suny takes wome time to clean up the area before going about her usual ship-board chores as well as showing her off sider the ropes etc...
Calah waited patiently outside, trusting in Arjun's capabilities. Once he comes back out with the unconscious man she asks. "Just a moment Arjun. What did he say and what are you planning with him?"
Arjun shifts the unconscious man on his shoulder for a better grip. "Our friend here is a retainer in service to House Thrune of Cheliax. He would not disclose his name. He works under the direction of a man named Narthul, also a servant of Thrune, and apparently the leader of his cell. They were charged with finding and killing us. He did not know the reason we were targeted or what why Thrune finds us important. He said that House Thrune is planning an attack on the Shackles, with the goal of dispersing the pirate lords and subjugating the region. I'm guessing that his cell was assigned to us because we were recently recognized as independent pirates." The ninja pats the man reassuringly. "I'm going to dispatch him, then dump his body near the site of our attack. With any luck, they will assume we killed him in the fray and won't go searching anywhere for him. Witnesses might tell them where we docked and where we were heading."
Suny listens to Arjun's explanation to the captain, shifting form bare brown foot to bare brown foot absently... Then skipping forwards and saluting the Captain and acknowledging Arjun,
"Um, Ma'am? I be thinkin' there's a short reach under Master Arjun's drift...." Suny nods apologetically to Arjun, "But.. if'n tha' folks who're tha' rest of this un's crew take up his self when Arjun makes him a 'body', as it were... There be nuffin' aginst 'em, y'know, talkin' ta' dead peoples, like." Suny points out, frowning a little,
"I rilly think tha' best way fer him ta' not be tellin' no one about us none..is fer him ta' maybe be havin' a change of heart an' seein' tha' better of it t'be joinin' our side o' things... um... some hows...." And Suny's voice trails off in thought as she ponders where her current train of thinking has lead her even as she's explained it to her captain and Master Arjun.
Arjun shakes his head. "A devil-worshipping thrall of Cheliax? I would like to keep my throat un-slit. We adopted the marsh giant already. Not every prisoner is a lost puppy looking for a good home. This one needs to die for everyone's safety."
Suny frowns, scratching her blond mop, "I in't talkin' about his state of' bein nor adoptin'. I be talkin' about that his bein' talkin' t'a folks who findin' his self." Suny looks to the Captain,
"Um... no-body is no-happenin'?" She struggles to explain her thinking. "I be thinkin' of a palce I knowin' about where keepin' tha' feller out'a way fer now can be had..." She offers.
"Fine. I will kill him, place his body next to his former companions, and mutilate their tongues and jaws so that they cannot speak through magic. Would that satisfy you?"
Suny shrugs and looks to the Captain. "Wus jus' sayin', is all...."
I believe Arjun has the right of it with these low life devil worshipers...perhaps placing him at the bottom of the sea would suffice? Dimitrious looks at the captain.
I hope the temple in quent has some answers to these strange events
"Let's just dump his body at the bottom of the ocean when we get out to sea. The fish will take care of our troubles." Calah says with a shrug.
"It seems that we already found that there is some truth in Fairwind's words. Troublesome..."
"Very well." Arjun takes the man below deck.
The first day of travel is a rough one with a tropical depression spinning of the Eye of Abendego, you are no landlubbing swabs however and are not deterred.
The storm grows and becomes unavoidable. Turbulent clouds move in and unleash their anger upon the seas.
The wind rushes up and rips on the ship, the main mast sprinters just above the weather deck and plummets into the water with a crash....
Suny attends her chores with her usual cheer and gusto. Her new friend seeming to shadow her every where. She checks to make sure Arjun's 'Pet' is properly fed, cared and watered.
As the weather turns increasingly nasty Suny does her best to help man/crew the ship.
As the mast collapses Suny looks towards the sea for sailors who've come down with the mast.
Before turning her attention to the mess of rigging and ropes,
If we have any crew in the water, Dimitrious will help with the ropes or toss a web spell in an attempt to reel them in?
If not begin instructing the crew to begin using axes to completely separate ourselves from the main mast.
Suny spots no one in the water but does realize correctly that if the mast is not cut free is will repeatedly slam in to the ship. Between Suny's quick work and Dimitrious's quick instruction, the mast is quickly set free and floats of in the rolling waves.
The second hour of the storm brings with it a relative calm.
The crew is able to get back out on deck and make temporary repairs to the deck where the mast fell.
The ocean swells increase in size and knock any crew members foolish enough to stand up and not hold onto anything prone.
The helmsman cries out, Loss of steering, rudder seems jammed. It will require some work once the storm abates.
A bolt of lightning hits The foremast, but fails to cause it too much harm.
A massive wave broaches the ship. She is tossed over on her side. Everyone must make a reflex save. Indicate whether you are topside or in the ship.
Noro has spent much of her time below decks during the storm. there was de-watering to be done, damage below to be repaired.
the loss of the mainmast was a serious loss. but the loss topside reveals hidden damage below.
--- +2 more vs falling prone (acrobatic slippers)
Suny spots no one in the water but does realize correctly that if the mast is not cut free is will repeatedly slam in to the ship. Between Suny's quick work and Dimitrious's quick instruction, the mast is quickly set free and floats of in the rolling waves.
The second hour of the storm brings with it a relative calm.
The crew is able to get back out on deck and make temporary repairs to the deck where the mast fell.
During this time Dimitrious will begin spamming mending to help out
The ocean swells increase in size and knock any crew members foolish enough to stand up and not hold onto anything prone.
The helmsman cries out, Loss of steering, rudder seems jammed. It will require some work once the storm abates.
Don't know if it would help, but Dimitrious will cast grease to loosen it or web to bind stuff temporarily while hitting the area with mending
A bolt of lightning hits The foremast, but fails to cause it too much harm.
Storm event hour 6 A massive wave broaches the ship. She is tossed over on her side. Everyone must make a reflex save. Indicate whether you are topside or in the ship.
That would put Dimitrious topside
Dice=Storm event hour 2:1d100
The second hour of the storm brings with it a relative calm.
The crew is able to get back out on deck and make temporary repairs to the deck where the mast fell.
To work on repairs.
Dice=Storm event hour 3:1d100 The ocean swells increase in size and knock any crew members foolish enough to stand up and not hold onto anything prone.
To bounce around with the rolling of the ship.
Dice=Storm event hour 4:1d100 The helmsman cries out, Loss of steering, rudder seems jammed. It will require some work once the storm abates.
Um... I gots nuffin... :(
Dice=Storm event hour 5"1d100 A bolt of lightning hits (Dice=what?:1d100) The foremast, but fails to cause it too much harm.
Moves to put out any lingering fires which might have managed to take a hold amongst the tar and such.
Dice=Storm event hour 6:1d100 A massive wave broaches the ship. She is tossed over on her side. Everyone must make a reflex save. Indicate whether you are topside or in the ship.
Suny is still topside.
Suny automatically takes ten on any swimming in the waters for a score of '15'.
To look for any other crew and begin rounding them up and getting them back to the ship (Assuming she's righted herself and is not heading below. :P) Suny's friend takes top priority in being saved. Then Officers, then crew.
As the topmast breaks Calah curses loudly and shouts her orders to cut the mainmast loose. Not wanting to lose it in the water she asks the Marsh giant to help her pull it back on board. She transforms into a giant octopus and uses her long tentacles and strength to pull the mast aboard so it can be repaired later.
Once aboard, she changes back and orders her crew around making sure everything is tied down properly and makes sure noone is in the rigging as the storm continues it's course.
As the massive wave approaches she once again changes into an octopus to hold tightly to the ship and any crew members who are unable to hang on to something. As the ship is tossed over she makes it her priority to catch her friends and crew, making sure everyone has something to stay afloat on.
@ Dimitrious: Mending is not much help as it can't target large objects but it does take care of some of the small stuff.
The grease spell may reduce the DC of a strength check to unstuck the rudder.
@ Calah, grey visual, give me a perception to spot the crew members that have fallen overboard.
As the ship tips on its side everyone topside falls into the water. Thise inside take as cargo breaks free and crashes around the ship, only to crash back when the ship rights itself back to upright.
@Suny give me a perception check and a swim check. ;)
Dimitrious offers a silent thank you to the locathah for the water breathing and if not rescued by Calah the octopus or Suny. I will cast fly to get out of the water.
@Dimitrious, it is :)
@ Suny, by gosh you are right. I am going to wait for Calah's checks to incorporate you both into the rescue efforts.
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Even through the driving rain and hurling seas, Calah and Suny quickly notice the overboard crew. Calah is able to grab ahold of eight, as the ninth is about to slip below to waves, they find themself pulled up by Suny. As the ship rights itself Calah slithers back onboard crew in hand
SUNY swims to the side of the ship before being hoisted backboard clutching the cook, Fishguts in her arms.
A line comes loose snapping in the wind. she jumps out of the way just before it would lash across her chest.
The next two hours pass without much damage, the storm looks soon to abate.
Finally after half a day, the storm subsides leaving a damaged ship and tired crew in its wake.
I need to know if you are going to make hasty or thorough repairs before continuing on.
Arjun wipes sweat from his brow as he finishes tying off the last ropes. "Captain, I would suggest we make thorough repairs. Reaching our destination is not as important as reaching our destination safely. We cannot defend ourselves with the main-mast broken. We should find an island with trees suitable to fashion a replacement."
Suny hugs and kisses the rescued Ship's Cook before toddling off to dry down and get some rest before getting back into working at sailing the ship.
Suny agrees with Arjun on finding safe harbor so as to effect repair.
"Agreed Arjun. Crew, we just had the mother of all storms over us. We need to make some repairs in case we need to make a quick getaway, let's start with the mainmast. I want you lot to fix the rigging, you two fix the sails." Calah says and starts to order her crew around to make repairs.
I will Fly over the island and search out an appropriate tree for the main mast as well as trees suitable for other repairs Dimitrious says to Calah.
@Dimitrious, the hold did not really flood too bad but some water got down in it. The storm caused to set off.
@Calah, repairing the mast is more along the lines of a make whole spell. Warp wood affects 1 small object/lvl. The spell says these can be combined to effect larger objects. I would consider the main mast to at least be a huge object requiring 64 levels worth of casting. You could do it but it would take many castings.
With a short flight over nearby islands, you find many trees. Just not many beautiful C you find many trees. Just not many suitable to be a main mast. You find a couple that may work, just not well.
Dimitrious will report back his findings Looks like pretty slim pickens, I found a couple over here to the west that may get us to Quent in order to make proper repairs
Independent Research: A wizard can also research a spell independently, duplicating an existing spell or creating an entirely new one. The cost to research a new spell, and the time required, are left up to GM discretion, but it should probably take at least 1 week and cost at least 1,000 gp per level of the spell to be researched. This should also require a number of Spellcraft and Knowledge (arcana) checks.
Suny spends the new day working hard at repairing the ship. Or as making the ship capable as possible given the storm damage. The plucky Elf is slightly less chipper than usual, the previous events having taken their tole on her stamina. As the day progresses though some of her bounce returns.
Noro puts her skills to work where they are best utilized.
first she takes inventory of the rum supply. Important things first. Then she works with the crew to make repairs.
she works to make the best possible replacement for the main mast, given what the crew has to work with.
@ Arjun, Mending works on one object up to one pound a level, the main mast weighs far more than that could ever fix. Cantrips can't fix everything.
@Noro, sounds great. Rum supply is intact.
I guess the question is are you going to try to repair the one you have by bracing it and such or are you going to make a new one out of the trees on a nearby island.