Those who remained above finish the climb up top and settle into what seems to be a ceremonial attack formation...the tentacle lifts the large knight above you "The prophecy is not on your side." he says dramatically to the party, the dark crack in his moist metal helm not showing a hint of expression. "Drop your weapons. Abandon your employer. Help us retrieve the codex. Swear it, and I will call off the assault. Until that time..." he glances down at the men with the strange serrated arms and armor who move in for the kill...
The Reaver (Red) and another cultist (Blue) run up the stairs into melee with Abrel and Bhoors. A closer look at the Reaver's blade reveals that it is indeed consisted of sharkteeth...much like a macuahuitl. It slashes up at Bhoors...
...the tiny little razors make for a painful gash in the plucky bard's side. The cultist (Blue) slashes up at Abrel with his scimitar...
...but the height difference easily confuzzles his inexperienced stance.
Round 1:
Bhoors, Davin
Enemies
Shal, Cole, El, Abrel <--UP
Bhoors winces at the hit and rolls his head on his shoulders like the dwarf revealed as holding out on them was par for the course. He yells down the stairs, "We will be negotiating Hazzard pay following this."
Abrel smiles, Don't tell the cloaks about this...
The young man snaps his fingers as he says a single word, Donner!
With a glare at her dwarven employer, Shaldinari slides to the side and takes out her initial frustration by following Bhoors advice and blasting something. The symbol at her throat flashes to life and is quickly followed by a familiar purple blast flying from her hand toward the verbose enemy knight.
A deafening blast bursts in front of Abrel, flowing down the stairs. The men scream as their ears bleed in agony, and even one of their heads explode in some wild arcane twist...scattering chum to the lifeless sea.
Even Abrel, himself, looks surprised... then draws his blade, Come on, black hearts!
Seeing that the fight on deck is going well, Elandil rushes down the hatch after his employer. Through gritted teeth, "Bloody paranoid bastard!"
Shal's blast strikes the knight square, knocking him loose of the tentacle's grasp and he goes flying...well, crashing...to the deck. The octopus quickly feels around sucking randomly trying to find him again, but finds the task difficult since its eye is below the water.
Elandil, you reach the bottom just in time to see Furgis slam the door to his quarters and hear the lock catch. Across the tiller down a long central hall you see the other half of the boarding party advancing towards you, destroying everything in their path as they go. Even the ship's adorable cat, Jinx, is not spared a hearty boot as it flies out the port hatch. What kind of bastard kicks a cat like that?
Elandil positions himself in front of the door and assumes a defensive stance. He points at the lead raider and says a few words as frost begins to form on his limbs.
Elandil's cold at first seems to ice over the wet metallic armor of the water knight instantly. But a building creaking sound within the armor suddenly shatters the coating and the elementalist strides forth unimpeded...
Round 1:
Bhoors, Davin
Enemies
Shal, Cole, El, Abrel <--UP
Cole moves quickly below deck with Elandil, drawing his long and shortswords as he goes. He advances down the hall in preparation for a fight.
One of the tentacles emerges from the bow carrying what looks like the mermaid figurehead of a destroyed ship, hurtling it Bhoors with full force...
...catching the bard in the knee and knocking him down.
You all hear the wood planks of the vessel creaking and moaning under the great strain of the tentacles...
Round 2:
Bhoors, Davin <--UP
Enemies
Shal, Cole, El, Abrel
Drawing and firing rapidly, Davin sends 2 arrows at the knight riding the tentacle.
Attack:
Damage:
Attack:
Damage:
Bhoors rolls away from the tentacle. Holding his leg in pain he sings a song of healing. Watching the broken and twisted leg mend.
Bhoors hops to his feet still gritting his teeth and moves to the Ballista. He spins it toward the heavily armored chap. "This is probably against the rules of war. But I've never been a stickler." He bears a wicked grin.
Davin plunks two arrows into the plate of the dark knight...who slashes down at them breaking the shafts and powering through the pain. Bhoors turns the crank on the ship's weaponry multiple times, the gears squeaking mechanically, before a burst of wind sends the huge 6 foot shaft flying across the main deck! It misses the octopus whisperer by a sucker before blasting through the rear cabin wall in a burst of splinters.
"You still think you can win? Our might ebbs and flows. You will try to stand against the Crushing Wave and fall." The remaining 2 raiders rush up the stairs, meeting Abrel's bottleneck at the top.
"There...Boltsmelter's quarters. Kill them all." the second knight shoulders his lance and sends in his men against Cole and Elandril...
...the Reaver's nasty sharktooth sword just barely misses Cole's adam's apple, but the other cultist slashes at his back almost simultaneously.
Round 2:
Bhoors, Davin
Enemies
Shal, Cole, El, Abrel <--UP
Abrel, taking three powerful hits, rocks back on his heels, What in the blazes are you doing down there? Blasted dwarf!
The knight takes a quick look around and swings his blade across the cultist sparking a gout of green flame!
After that palpable hit, Abrel seems to catch his second wind!
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Abrel's blade decapitates the cultist, and as the head falls the air around the swipe congeals into a burst of elvish magic, an olive firelash swinging back and striking the knight as an affront to his authority. The cultists lifeless body rolls down the forecastle stairs.
Round 2:
Bhoors, Davin
Enemies
Shal, Cole, El, Abrel <--UP
Watching as the giant octopus continues to batter away at the ship, Shaldinari slips across to where she is closer to the docks. She stops for a second to shout down below to the others. "You all better get that bloody fool dwarf back up here! This ship isn't going to last much longer against the blasted beast. "
"Not that he'd be any great loss to society." She mutters as she steps over near boars and with a quick gesture, calls on the Lady of Summer to illuminate her enemies which begin to glow with an eerie purple aura.
Davin fires again at the knight. This time his arrow seems to be wreathed in a nebulous shadow that makes it hard to even see where the weapon is.
Attack:
Damage:
The arrow pierces the knight near the collarbone, and the nebulous darkness begins to flow upward into his face. With a quick swipe, he doffs his helm and the black cloud gets carried away leaving behind only his grotesque face...white and swollen like a drowned man, soft blue eyes, and a short, dark, neat trimmed beard. A flash off light illuminates his features like a lightning strike as Shal's fickle fey energies reject their target.
Round 2:
Bhoors, Davin
Enemies
Shal, Cole, El, Abrel <--UP
"That was a nasty slice! Thanks for the backup!"
Chanting words of mending, El moves in to slice at the reaver.
Cole attacks the enemy before Elzndril with both weapons.
Cole delivers a terrible gash across the Reaver's exposed flesh, staggering him for a moment...he licks the blood off his own wound with a crazy look on his face "...you've freed the spirit of my fluids, now you will face my true being..." he rambles.
Suddenly a 7th tentacle emerges from the drenched rubble, carrying a bloated porpoise corpse and flinging it full force across the bow...
...it seems to head straight towards Shal but she ducks at the last moment and only suffers a hard fin slap to the face.
The wood of the ship continues to bend and buckle noisily under the stress of the octopus, and you can hear it shattering and taking on water. Boltsmelter, from within his locked quarters, is making quite a ruckus despite the small space...sounds like something threw a blindfolded dog into a thorn patch in there.
Round 3:
Bhoors, Davin <--UP
Enemies
Shal, Cole, El, Abrel
Shal! Are you okay? Abrel spares a glance over his shoulder but dares not take his eyes off his opponent for long!
Then he calls down below deck, What are you doing down there? Get the dwarf out! This ship won't last much longer!
Bhoors yells down the hatch as he passes from one ballista to the other"Time on this boat is limited. Lets get on the move."
He spins it toward the armored figure fighting Abrel.
Bhoor's long quarrel strikes the knight just between his thighs, doubling him over and almost dropping him prone there at the top of the stairs. On his last limb and incredibly irritated, he pulls a conch from his neck and blows a *tooty toot toot* that echoes across the ruined harbor.
Round 3:
Bhoors, Davin <--UP
Enemies
Shal, Cole, El, Abrel
Seeing the knight almost down, Davin gets ready to join the others on the lower deck but suddenly turns as he sees the enemy draw out a conch horn. He fires in an attempt to stop the enemy from calling in reinforcements.
Attack:
Damage:
"He's blowing a horn. As in calling for help no is the time to move." Bhoors has yet to realize enemies are below deck.
Davin's arrow pierces the conch, shattering it just a moment after the sound cries out...but luckily it also penetrates into the knights throat, killing him. His eye twitches disgustingly as he slouches over, limp.
The Reaver turns to the nature priest with some delight, ready to slash, while the cultist on the other side continues to try and gut Cole...
...the raiders are just too determined to stave off, and Cole and Elandil fall there on the planks, unconscious.
Round 3:
Bhoors, Davin
Enemies
Shal, Cole, El, Abrel <--UP
Abrel heads downstairs, What is taking so long?
His eyes grow wide as he sees his companions sprawled out on the lower deck, You worthless waste of a dwarf! Get your stony heart out here now, you brat! If you do not, then we are done and they can have you!
Then he turns his eyes toward the water men, Back away from them, you Black Hearts, or by Tymora, you will die.
Abrel, the men downstairs seem to be ignoring your companions on the floor and are busy trying to kick down the door to Boltsmelter's, from inside of which you hear the bastard "Arg! Abrel ye've nay idea the coin..." you hear something glass shattering from inside, followed by a loud crash.
Davin moves to the trapdoor and jumps down, bow at the ready.
Seeing his friends down and the enemy attempting to break into the dwarf's room, he fires at the closest one.
Attack:
Damage:
Abrel skirts around the men trying to break down the door and checks on the pair, tries to shoulder them both and drag them to the hatch. (I know I am not going to be able to, but will use Action Surge to get them closer.)
Get down here! El and Cole are down! To the blazes with Boltsmelter!
Davin's arrow surprises the Reaver at the door, nearly killing him.