"No, no," Ixrul gestures at his skeletons. "That won't be necessarry. I may move all of the lab gear over, if there's a room I may set up."
Ixrul preserve Slick's head and body as well as Jrahk's leg.
"uhh, mind if I borrow your spellbook for a while, I would like to see what other mages like to cast"
"Ah... I will want to transcribe from your book as well. And my tome is fairly heavily trapped, so it would likely be best if I was present for the transcription."
He pauses. "I'm also thoroughly out of inks, so if I may borrow yours, that would be convenient."
"Damn bro, trust issues much?"
The two mages sit down and transcribe together.
The only spell Ixrul finds that he wants is Invisibility.
Jrahk lazily watches the new recruit and his skeletal minions for a while until Arron's question snaps him back to reality.
"Speaking of which, I'm feeling a mite peckish. If you're not using it any more...?"
Jrahk shrugs. "Do what you want. Cannot put it back on, anyway."
"I like bigger ship. We go to port, sell Fat Dragon, move ballistae to Pallor. Maybe find magic-maker who can grow back leg, or build magic..."
He stumbles to find the right word "...pro-ste-tic? Fake leg that moves like real one."
He grins. "Maybe even put glamer on it to look like peg-leg."
Ixrul gives Jrahk's leg to Arron.
Ixrul continues to repair the Fat Dragon and animate undead servants, giving them spare armor if possible.
Starting Health: 719
Day 1 Repairs (See Last Page): 47
Day 2 Repairs:
Day 3 Repairs:
47+86+60 = 193
719+193 = 912 COMPLETELY REPAIRED
Ixrul repairs the Fat Dragon in a total of three days. During those three days, he will animate a total of six skeletons and make sure he has fourteen other corpses ready to reanimate.
The crew heads back to town once more. As they're sorting through the loot, one of the crewmen overhears you talking about the Rock, and how you don't know where it is, and fills you in.
"Yeah, I know where it is. Most every pirate does, if he's been on the sea long enough. They say whoever cracks the Rock will have good fortune in their career, and for the most part it's held true over the years."
Haggling for better prices on Plunder, anyone?
Total dosh:
Fat Dragon, sold: 5k
+1 Keen Falcata: 4k (yes, Gortus' sword is worth almost as much as your whole ship, why do you ask?)
+1 Agile Dagger (4k)
4 Masterwork Armored Coats (300 gp)
Jrahk works with the various buyers to reach a mutually beneficial arrangement - one that doesn't end with their heads being ripped off their necks and skewered on his peg-leg.
Cyrdic helps Jrahk out with the negotiations, by demonstrating his newfound sniping abilities on some passing birds.
No dice, Jrahk.
4 Plunder sold for 4k gp.
3 masterwork weapons (450 gp)
+1 Heavy Shield (500 gp)
Gained:
Shares Per Person (3710 gp)
Devil's Pallor, Shackles Drekhar (Warship)
Magically Treated Sails (Doubled HP and Hardness on the sails)
Ram (+2d8 damage on ram, ignore damage to ship for first square entering solid object, take no damage for ramming a ship or object unlike normal)
Right. Typo. Editing.
Ixrul finishes his foul undead animation.
"Shall we crack this Rock, gentlemen?"
"I guess we should bring a few pickaxes or something..."
"So where is it then?"
Jrahk buys a clockwork leg with steel armor.
When a Free Captain named Magna Stormeyes discovered the natural harbor on Windward Isle over 2 centuries ago, she immediately recognized that it would make the perfect haven from which to launch a pirate fleet. Starting with just one ship and a small encampment on Windward’s harbor, she began to ply the trade of piracy. With the plunder from her initial hauls,she set about building a keep, which she called Tidewater Rock.
From the vantage point atop the Rock, she found she could pick out particularly ripe targets while receiving ample of warning of hostile ships approaching.
Over time, Stormeyes’ successes enabled her to build a sizeable fleet, as well as more strongholds on several different islands. She became the scourge of the southern sea lanes and eventually claimed the Hurricane Crown as her own.
Shortly after becoming the Hurricane King and relocating to Port Peril, she was assassinated by rival Free Captains. Stormeyes’ burgeoning fleet , naturally, fell apart among its squabbling captains without her to hold them together. Gerta Frome, first mate of Stormeyes’ flagship, the Cocksure, seized control of the Rock. Within only a few years, Frome became a powerful Free Captain herself, and the legend of Tidewater Rock was thenceforth known as both a powerful good luck talisman and an impregnable bastion.
Over the many years since, control of Tidewater Rock has passed from hand to hand, and its strategic location and practical defensibility have enabled its owners to enrich themselves substantially. With the rebellion of Sargava and its ostensible alliance with the Free Captains, Tidewater Rock became of less strategic importance, and its owners came to be of less prominence, but the age-old axiom of “Good fortune and sure sail await what one can crack the Tidewater Rock” has stood the test of time among the pirates of the Shackles and is often quoted (if seldom heeded) even today.
The most recent lord of Tidewater Rock was Bertram Smythee, captain of the Vale and three other brigs. Like his predecessors, he held Tidewater Rock as his seat, but controlled a few other small castles on surrounding slands as well.
Over a decade ago, “Iron Bert” Smythee went to sea with his small fleet in a feud with Free Captain Carola Antiochus and was never seen again.
Word came back that Antiochus had lured Smythee into the edges of the Eye of Abendego and ambushed him with the help of a previously unknown ally, (a fledgling Barbabas Harrigan) and that Smythee’s fleet was cut to pieces between the enemy fleets.
Though Captain Smythee managed to sink Antiochus’s Pergador, he was last seen on the deck of the crippled and sinking Vale at the mercy of the Eye’s hurricane winds.
Captain Harrigan claimed the remainder of Antiochus’s fleet and took control of several of Smythee’s undefended castles. He made an attempt to take the Tidewater Rock as well, only to discover that Smythee’s able widow had taken charge of its defenses. She managed to fend off his attack with such alacrity that Harrigan decided to leave the widow to rot in her tower.
Although Tidewater Rock remains a secure base and harbor, it does not command the reputation it once did. The current owner of the Rock is Agasta Smythee, widow of the late Iron Bert. Though Lady Smythee is a competent and formidable figure, without any of her late husband’s ships or network of castles, the Lady of the Rock has fallen upon hard times. Lady Smythee’s forces have been reduced to a small body of loyal guards and a few family retainers whom she employs to eke out a living.
The Rock still commands some treasures—its favorable location, its security, and the late captain’s fabled iron shirt from which he gained his nickname—but it is otherwise remote and at the mercy of what the sea chooses to throw upon its shores.
Jrahk buys a clockwork leg with steel armor.
Jrahk manages to find someone with the expertise to construct and attach the automail clocwork leg after a few days, with the help of crutches and his friends.
In an excruciatingly painful process that leaves him too weak to move for several more days, the leg is attached to his nerves, clicking and whirring loudly for a while, but settling down into a gentle whirring with the occasional tick or hiss by the end of the process.
With the process complete, Jrahk is happy to note that this leg acts just as well as his old one, despite feeling a bit heavier and making a loud *CLANK* noise if he steps down too hard or tries to move faster than a walk (like running or Charging).
Cyrdic buys a belt of incredible dexterity (+2) for 4k gp.
Also, he thinks that Jrahk's leg is insanely badass.
We need a plan of attack. Direct assault is not the only way. I have a good bluff mod. We're lacking in diplomacy.
Additionally, I could send in things like a note with explosive runes on it. The lady might not be more than a low-level NPC class who could die to 6d6 damage (average 21).
Other options: Shrink Object + Animate Dead shenanigans to get a skeleton into her room.
Shrink Object shenanigans in general.
Sneak a dedicated strike force onto the island. Not sure how. Would probably have to approach on a dinghy at night.
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Since nobody else noticed it or seemed to know it was magic, Ixrul picks up Slick's haversack.
Satisfied with his shiny new leg, Jrahk seeks out someone who can turn his trusty masterwork Falchion into a +1 Falchion.
This he is also able to find fairly easily, and much more quickly now that he can move around on his own (not to mention that crafters of that skill are a dime a dozen here).
"Ooh, nice belt, Cyrdic, I gotta get one for myself too."
Ace gets one, too.
Ixrul picks up some spells while in town.
Ray of Exhaustion, 135 GP.
Burrow, 135 GP.
Clairaudience/Clairvoyance, 135 GP.
Aqueous Orb, 135 GP.
Gloomblind Bolts, 135 GP.
Knock, 60 GP.
Total: 600 GP
Ixrul also snatches Slickjaw's Snapleaf, because nobody else seems to have noticed that it was magical.
Ixrul crafts a pair of Boots of the Cat (500), a Whip feather token (250), and a pair of Gloves of Reconnaissance (1000).
All are successful.
"Yo, craft me one too!"
Ace gets some other goodies.
1 scabbard of vigor, 1 robe of needles.
"Thanks, Ixrul. Appreciate it."
With the money he saved by having Ixrul craft the snapleaf, he buys himself a swanky new cloak of resistance.