As the lizardman acquiesces to his demand, Roderick glances at his companions hoping for some indicator as to their thoughts. "That is not unreasonable, as it will let us inspect our payment to guarantee that it is legitimate. What guarantee do we have our envoy will be safe and that you won't simply fly off with him to..." Roderick struggles for a moment to find the right word, "...coerce him to reveal the location of our goods without paying? Perhaps you will acquiesce to an exchange of persons, of sorts, to guarantee mutual good behavior?"
The lizard looks down at Roderick. "Human is blind, I am standing before human, I have three clansmen on beach. You afraid we going to kidnap pretty faced bird woman and breed new race of winged lizardfolk or something? Would be hard to do with her on ship and us here. You want me to pull everyone off the ship so you can steal or sink it or something?"
Roderick shrugs to the lizardman, "I suppose you are correct that you and your compatriots are here. Though I am not convinced that your understanding of my tongue is complete. I do not want everyone off the ship, I do wish to guarantee our people are safe, much the same as you do, doubtless. I suppose at this juncture, we will allow the good Captain to decide. Captain, would you care to nominate a crewman to inspect the promised payment?"
Rory shrugs and motions over to Elara and Adraniel. "Adran! Elara! Check the payment! Since they kindly sent three I'll send you two over! I'll keep an eye out for your signal everything is okay!"
Hearing the Captain Adran steps out of his hiding spot and starts to fly toward the ship.
What are they doing? Hmmm maybe with Adran and Elara on their ship we can take care of their artillery better. But then I should be prepared to help out the others on the beach...
One of the two on the weapon emplacement picks up a pin and slams it into a piece of metal three times. When he does so, two lizardfolk come up on the deck, in time to meet Adraniel and Elara. The two look big and bulky, far larger than the lizardfolks on the beach. Instead of a green with a feathered crest, they are dark blue-black and have a spiny crest with skin stretching between the spines.
When they land, the one on the left speaks. "Pay." It rumbles, in barely understandable common. Between them is a small chest. The one on the right reaches down while keeping an eye on Adraniel and Elara, and opens the chest with one claw. Inside are some platinum and gold coins, and some gems.
Adran will look at the creature then to the chest. He then speaks.
In Draconic: "Yeah you pay. You give me the chest and your guys on the beach bring back the goods. Now hand it over big guy."
He steps forward holding out his hand to receive the chest.
The two lizardfolk hiss.
"Slimey hands off, huuuuman. No give chest until boss give signal..."
Elara shifts over as ordered, blade drawn but lowered in as non-threatening a way as she can manage.
Adran flies up to the crows nest. He lands/hovers on the railing there.
@ The Strix
He draws his blade lifts it high above his head and tries to catch and reflect sunlight so the others can see. This of course is just a rouse as he spins around and tries to catch the Strix off guard and chop him down.
I should have put some ranks in bluff.
Surprise Attack
Hope he is wearing crappy armor and that hits his FF :)
Adraniel brings his blade down and hits the sniper in the back! The blade clangs off the sniper's back as it hits something hard under the black cloak she wears!
With Adran initiating the attack Alys releases her prepared shot.
Perception check.
the warlord shines as a beacon to his allies on the field of battle, inspiring them to fight with him to their last breath. All allies within 30-ft. of his position gain the benefits of the Die Hard feat, and may add the warlord's Charisma modifier to Fortitude saves versus death effects, fatigue or exhaustion effects, or poison effects as a morale bonus.
Through the use of the Golden Lion disciple's superior tactical ability, he is able to direct his allies in combat for maximum effectiveness. As long as his allies within 30-ft. of him can clearly hear his shouts and understand his language, he grants his allies the ability to gain flanking with all adjacent allies that are fighting in melee against the same opponent (i.e. if two allies of the initiator are 20-ft. away fighting a target together, and the initiator has another ally assisting him in combat against a different target, both pairs gain flanking bonuses against their foes even if they are not normally in flanking position).
Tactical Flanker (Allies flanking with me can get +2 or +3 attack bonus)
Current Readied Maneuvers
Kill The Wounded, Encouraging Roar, Defending the PRide, Pride Movement, Panther on The Hunt, Hunting Party
Surprise Round Action.
Seeing Adran's "signal" the pirate smiles broadly as he turns back to the lizardman and draws his massive blade. "Looks like the pay is good! Time to see if you can make good on your threat!"
Surprise round action:
Seeing Elara and Adran probably having their hands full with the large lizardmen, Alys fires another shot at the sniper.
Roderick watches Adraniel fly out to the boat, nervously watching for some sign from the man. The flash at the top of the boat, following by the quick plunging of the blade elicit a gasp from the humavian as he reflexes twists his wrist to release the mutagen held in his belt. He downs it quickly and then looks to the nearest lizardman even as his features begin to twist to become more feline.
The northernmost lizardfolk hisses in anger as Alys misses and slams her bolt into the side of the ship, splintering hull.
He turns and steps toward her and unloads both barrels of the sawed off shotgun.
The thing gun roars and sends shrapnel through the trees! Bits of metal whizz past Alys' face, but luckily she is missed as the log jam takes most of the shrapnel.
Connor's blue construct is not so lucky as no less than three pieces of shrapnel slam into it's head, blowing bits of ectoplasm all over Alys, coating her in the nasty stuff. Afterwards, the lizardfolk drops the spent shotgun.
The lead lizardfolk hisses as well, and takes a step back, flipping it's shotgun out of it's holster with such speed that the thing seems to leap out of it's holster and into his hand! After it fires, it lands several feet behind the lizardfolk, as he lets the recoil flip it out of his hand and behind him, spent.
The sniper ignores Adraniel, and fires at Rory!
A pound of lead slams into Rory's back! The double gut punch of being shot in the face and the back at the same time incredibly painful!
Fortunately for Rory, the round comes in at an angle, and most of the lead spends itself on the rock beyond him as it glances on his armor!
Elara shades her eyes with a tentacle at Adraniel's display, before shrugging and turning to face her two burly foes. "...alright then, gents. Bring it on."
Slashing out with her polearm in a professional sideways-slash, she follows it up with a step to the side to hover over the water, her tentacles extruding from the back of her coat to lash out and batter down the lizardfolk.
"Fool. Your fight is with me."
Connor was ready to have Hero tell Adran to start the ambush when the lizardfolk on the beach went crazy, surprising him. Just after Rory spoke the lizards opened fire with their firearms. Hero, I think the 'signal has been sent'. Sending constructs your way. Tell the others. Connor sent telepathically as he dropped to a crouch among all that flying lead. He had no warning - and things had just gotten sandbag-shaped.
Big Blue, fly up and protect Alys by being a target. Connor telepathically commanded. The construct, its' head nearly severed at the neck and missing large chunks of its' body in the torso, unfurled its' wings . Big Red, get over here and attack. The other "Big" construct immediately started crashing through the woods like a runaway carriage. One, Two, and Three - do your thing and get those lizards. The two "escorts" near Roderick changed, their arms becoming heavier as the fighters lost their dexterity. The first flew-jumped straight into the air, throwing a fist at the lizardman across from Roderick as it dropped back down.
The second, damaged, attempted the same, landing on the boulder next to the lizardman and attacking downwards.
Construct #3 burst of the sand trap it had been hiding it, flying above it before landing next to the lizardman at the edge of the woods.
Little Two and Little Three - attack the first not-Adran-and-not-Elara on that ship. Hero - sending two your way! Connor mentally shouted. The two constructs, clinging to the hull of the ship, leaped over the railing using their wings, their bodies changing to attack.
His mind going like a swordsman flashing his weapon, Connor touched the power stone he was going to use for Entangling Debris, using Vigor instead.
The astral construct "shark" continued to lazily swim in a figure-8 pattern on the western flank of the ship.
Big Blue: AC 20, touch 12, 11/36 hp, slam +6 melee (1d6+7)
Big Red: AC 20, touch 12, 36 hp, slam +6 melee (1d6+7)
Medium Construct #1: AC 18, touch 12, 31 hp, Melee slam +2 melee (1d6+6)
Medium Construct #2: AC 18, touch 12, 22/31 hp, Melee slam +2 melee (1d6+6)
Medium Construct #3: AC 18, touch 12, 31 hp, Melee slam +2 melee (1d6+6)
Small Construct #1: (on the rowboat bailing)
Small Construct #2: AC 15, touch 13, 15 hp, Melee slam +2 melee, 1d4+3 damage
Small Construct #3: AC 15, touch 13, 15 hp, Melee slam +2 melee, 1d4+3 damage
Astral Construct Shark: AC 20, touch 12, 36 hp
As Adranal tries to hit the gun with his sunder attempt, the sniper, still bent over the rail with the gun, lashes out with a boot that has a blade sticking out of it!
The blade narrowly misses Adranal's stomach, stopped only by his armor! Adranal's blade crashes down into the railing missing the gun by a few inches, shattering the railing where it hits!
Alys wipes some ectoplasmic goop off her face with her shoulder, while keeping her mind bolt trained on the sniper. "Ugh, I'll get to you, purse, get in line." she yells between two shots aimed at the sniper.
Roderick grits his teeth against the pain of the shotgun blast, drawing his blades and steps up to the nearest lizardman. As he draws his blades, he studies the lizardman's movements in preparation. Dancing a few steps forward, he slashes his psionically enhanced blade across the creature's side hoping to cut tendon.
Roderick drives his knife into the lizardfolk, sending a massive amount of blood splashing into the sand to be churned up. The lizardfolk hisses in agony!
On the ship, the gunner fires the main ballista at Rory!
The bolt goes over Roderick's shoulder, glancing off his armor with a clang that nearly deafens him!
The massive bolt wizzes past Rory's ear, and just over the head of the construct beyond him to finally slam into a tree and split the trunk!
Alys's mind bolts hit the sniper as she readies for another shot!
The rifle makes a large splash as it hits the water, and the sniper falls...
...over with it, splashing into the lagoon, spreading blood on the water...
...the shark construct moves to attack the dead body...
One large lizardfolk grabs the railing and puts one foot on the stairs and heaves himself up to the deck, hanging onto the mast with one huge claw. The other claw snakes forward to rake at Adranel!
The other lizardfolk trundles forward a half-step, to give him room, and claws and bites at Alara!
"Ooo... Big lizard."
Adran switches his attack to the large one now that the sniper is down.
He is Flat-Footed while climbing but this probably still misses.
Adraniel's weapon bounces off the thick hide and armor of the lizardfolk!
the warlord shines as a beacon to his allies on the field of battle, inspiring them to fight with him to their last breath. All allies within 30-ft. of his position gain the benefits of the Die Hard feat, and may add the warlord's Charisma modifier to Fortitude saves versus death effects, fatigue or exhaustion effects, or poison effects as a morale bonus.
Through the use of the Golden Lion disciple's superior tactical ability, he is able to direct his allies in combat for maximum effectiveness. As long as his allies within 30-ft. of him can clearly hear his shouts and understand his language, he grants his allies the ability to gain flanking with all adjacent allies that are fighting in melee against the same opponent (i.e. if two allies of the initiator are 20-ft. away fighting a target together, and the initiator has another ally assisting him in combat against a different target, both pairs gain flanking bonuses against their foes even if they are not normally in flanking position).
Tactical Flanker (Allies flanking with me can get +2 or +3 attack bonus)
Kill The Wounded, Encouraging Roar, Defending the PRide, Pride Movement, Panther on The Hunt, Hunting Party
As Rory ducks reflexively from the ballista bolt roaring by he curses. "Well this is just bloody grand! Next time Mr. Connor I'm promoting you to Captain!"
"Keep your heads down and watch your backs! Today is payday!"
Barreling forward Rory brings his big sword in a wide arc feinting for a chop to the leaders head before descending low to disembowel the lizardman entirely.
SWIFT: Activate Defending the Pride: Everyone within 60ft. gains a +4 Morale bonus to AC until my next turn.
5ft. Shift Up.
STANDARD: Activate Hunting Party. If attack hits Roderick gets an AoO on this guy.
Attack
Damage
The lizardfolk, already bleeding heavily, goes down.
Two of the lizardfolks who still have unfired shotguns move and unload both barrels of the sawed off shotguns at Roderick, Rory, and the Constructs.
Both drop their shot guns after firing them!
The third surviving green lizardfolk on the beach crashes into the jungle and closes with Alys!