You hear the voice coming form inside the cabin and you heard the reference to Dajobas. I need you to make a knowledge religion check.
Bri would still attempt a sleep hex if he starts moving for the door, especially since he seems to know that someone is here now anyway.
Bri you hear what the man growled and you can see that he is changing.
I thought so:
He failed and topples over with a loud thud.
There is no HD limit for it.
Quoted from the PRD:
Slumber (Su): A witch can cause a creature within 30 feet to fall into a deep, magical sleep, as per the spell sleep. The creature receives a Will save to negate the effect. If the save fails, the creature falls asleep for a number of rounds equal to the witch's level. This hex can affect a creature of any HD. The creature will not wake due to noise or light, but others can rouse it with a standard action. This hex ends immediately if the creature takes damage. Whether or not the save is successful, a creature cannot be the target of this hex again for 1 day.
Bri smiles happily and motions at Sorrin.
"I made him fall asleep. I suggest you hurry in there and tie him up and quickly and thoroughly as you can. It would be best if we can deliver him alive to the authorities and able to be tried for his crimes."
Bri digs into her bag for her silk rope to assist in the tieing up the were-shark. The more rope, the better.
"What just happened?"
Long ago, long before the strangers came to their lands, a tribe of Tulita turned to the worship of a shark idol they called Dajobas. Embodying the fierce nature of the shark and the urge to destroy and consume all, Dajobas was born of their prayers. He quickly claimed
a wide following among the more warlike clans of the Tulita. The sahuagin also bowed to his power, and before long the shark god claimed all the Razor Coast as his dominion. Bloody ruin ruled the waves and shores for over a decade. The senseless slaughter wiped out whole
tribes and entire peoples drowned in their own blood.
Only years later, after countless massacres and wars of attrition, a group of powerful shamans among the Tulita banded together and called upon older ocean spirits to stop the horror of Dajobas. The Whale, the
Dolphin and the Turtle rose against the shark god and cast him so far out to sea he would never harm their people again. Since then, Dajobas has waited.
When the strangers arrived, their massive ships weakened the other spirits of the seas greatly. The newcomers hunt the Whale to near extinction, they chase the Turtle from his beaches, and their enormous
fishing nets drown the Dolphin. With the other spirits dwindling, the Time of the Shark returns – and with it the dark god Dajobas.
Bri smiles happily and motions at Sorrin.
Bri digs into her bag for her silk rope to assist in the tieing up the were-shark. The more rope, the better.
Astrianna returns from following the tracks to the shore to see Bri and the others hustling into the cabin. She raises an eyebrow, and calls out to them. "I thought we were checking the perimeter first! What are you doing?"
Seriously what..." Chell stops mid sentence as her mind recalls from her training to be a priestess. She was never one to study but she remembered the big threats. One of which being Dajobas. "Did he say Dajobas?" Then her mind goes further, connecting the dots. She was sent here to find out why the faithful of Quell were disappearing. Could there be a connection?
But that will have to wait. As Sorrin and Embri ounce on the sleeping were-shark, Chell notices the girl on the bed. She lets out a relieved sigh knowing the bones on in the area didn't belong to her. She scoots around the melee if possible to check on the girl.
The creatures has not reverted back to it's human form.
Whenever Astri enters the cabin - "Astri, hurry up and get some more rope out. I bet this fellow is super strong, so I wanna wrap him up good and tight before he wakes up and we try to move him."
"And do you see anything else we can use as a gag?"
Chell you noticed a sleeping girl, she has bumps and bruises but looks unhurt, but she is has a look of shock on her young face as she wakes. She seems more mentally overwhelmed by all that she has seen and been through rather than physically injured.
According to Tulita legend, during a time known as the Dawn Wars, the first children of the Sky and Earth were born — the totem gods Dolphin, Turtle, Whale, and Shark. When the children of Sky and Earth fought against the Dread Atua, the Shark Totem, Dajobas, betrayed his family and sided with the elder gods after he was promised command over the seas.
At the height of the Dawn Wars, the remaining totems Dolphin, Turtle, and Whale, now called the Three, drove Dajobas into the metaphysical out-of-space, known as “The Deeps” which lies at the beginning of the world. The Tulita consider every dolphin, turtle, whale and shark as one of their avatars.
Astri you and Adriel manage to get inside as Bri and sorrin begin to tie the creature ur. Chell has already gone to check on the Jessica, the child.
Astrianna has a hand on her sword hilt as she rushes into the cabin, taking in the scene. She is startled by the presence of the shark-man, and shocked to see Embri tying it up. Emerald eyes glance at Jessica, well in the hands of Chell. "Get more rope out?" The bard seems confused, eyes widening when notices the thing is still breathing.
She reaches for her bow case, taking Chimera out with one hand while grabbing an alchemical silver arrow with the other. "Why isn't it dead yet?"
"Hi. Its okay. Your safe now. We're here to help. Are you hurt?" Cliché but appropriate.
Bri sighs. "Because someone else is accused of his crimes. Do you know for sure if his body will stay like this or revert to a normal if we kill him? If we bring a normal looking human body to the authorities, how do we prove anything?"
"If you can think of anything better, and safer for us, I would be more than willing to listen."
We could break his arms and legs. Keeps him alive and he won't be able to rum of fight us...
Adriel draws his War hammer from it's belt loop as though waiting for permission.
"We will not!" Chell says outraged form the bed. Really. The nerve of some people.
I'm with the lady on this... Thugs, we're not.
"Uhm, I think we can try the ropes first and maybe get some chains at the first opportunity. Now that I think on it, we probably should have gotten some shackles at least before embarking on this mission. I will surely be buying a set or two to keep in bag after this. You just never know when you may need such things."
What if there is a family of these things? A school or pack... What if they "bask" together?
They can either be born with the ability (inherited) or it can be acquired usually through some form of attack or injury. acquired it is known as "Fel Lycanthrope".
Fel Lycanthrope can shift quicker, as a standard action, rather than a full round action.
You are pretty certain if it is slain it will revert back to it's original form but you maybe separated parts can retain it's animal form. You are not certain about this.
You are fairly certain that it is resistant to damage when in hybrid and animal form but silver bypasses that resistance.
"Well, perhaps we should get out of here as fast as we can with this one before we find out if he has a bunch of friends coming? We can question this one on the ship about any others of his kind."
Astrianna purses her lips as she studies the man. She keeps a silver arrow knocked in her bow. The bard starts to slowly shake her head. "This man is a shapechanger. If we kill it, it will revert back to a man but if we behead it while it's a shark--man.... it might stay a shark-man-head." She glances around at everyone's weapons.
"I hope you all have some silver. They shrug off everything else... I don't believe we can bring him back alive like this. He'll just shift out of were-form and escape the ropes when he wakes up, shift back, and start trying to kill us." Astrianna frowns, fingers tightening on her arrow.
She takes a breath, and exhales. "If you want to prove Harrok innocent, I believe you'll have to behead it in its shark hybrid form... probably with a silver weapon. All I have are arrows. I'm not 100% sure it will work regardless, I've never tried this."
The half-elf shrugs, glancing at the little girl on behind them. "Personally I say I put an arrow in its brain, and we get out of here with Jessica. Relgin and our testimonies may be enough to free Harrok.- Which, by the way, if we're going to buy his sloop and rescue him from the gallows, you realize we're taking his livelihood....?"
Chell didn't like all this talk about killing a man they just met, even if, in all likelihood, he was as evil as he looked on were-shark form. She decided to find out first. She looks at the little girl asks, "Can you tell us what he was trying to do? Did he say anything about his plans?"
Astrianna gives Chell a skeptical look. "She's a little girl whose mother was killed by this lycan, kidnapped by the same lycan, and then her father was framed for all of it. I think she's suffered enough."
She glances around at everyone. "I don't think we have much time to talk about this. I'm willing to take a vote, but I'm going to put this fish on ice before it wakes up if we turn this into a debate."
Agreed. Beheading works fine with me. Though sadly the only Alchemical Silver weapon I have is my Cesti
He holds up a gloved hand.
I could pummel him to death but this is hardly appropriate for a beheading. I only have a Masterwork Scimitar. But of anyone has a magic weapon I can use my arcane pool to enchant it enough so the material won't matter.
Sorrin looks at Embrianna, remembering his uncle's joke of a one-armed fisherman.
Chell, can you take Jessica outside... Verify she's not been wounded and see what she knows? He might have rambled on to her. Did he speak of others or a basking?
And where is the other man?
As Chell leads Jessica outside the girl remains in her shell, she points to the small table by the bed, "Water...thirsty." She blinks a few times when she sees Gymmer, "T..thanks for help." She waves good bye to the unconscious were-creature.
"If the other man is just a man, perhaps we can take him into custody for his testimony. Plus I suppose the authorities may have access to someone powerful enough to make the head talk once we take it to them. Adriel, I think you enchanting a sword for the beheading would be an adequate plan."
Bri spares a glance over to Chell and Jessica. "I will second that you should look her over for any wounds. Perhaps try to make sure that he wasn't trying to turn her into one of his own kind. Since he didn't kill and eat her right away, perhaps was looking to make a mate. Is there any kind of spell to check for that?
"
Sorrin, your weapon is magical?
I'd prefer the girl be outside... No, Adriel. My weapon is not magical nor remarkable in any way.
But, this scabbard is. It can imbue magic upon a blade for some short time. The duration shorter as stronger magic is... requested. He indicates a handsomely crafted blade sheath.
Astrianna taps her foot as a plan is formulated to behead the creature. "Make it happen Magus." She plants her feet firmly on the floor and draws back the string of her bow, aiming a silver arrow directly at Gymmer's eye while Adriel prepares to behead him.
Her muscles strain as she holds the bow taunt, but if the creature so much as flutters its eyes she will send an arrow directly into its brain.
Chell looks down at the little girl as she walks her out. "Why do you say thank you? Did he not kidnap your?"
Adriel casts SHOCKING GRASP and holds the charge. With it in hand he holds his other out for the sheath. I'll add a spell to the damage to ensure it's enough...ask the girl now. We haven't long..
Keep your sword. Ready yourselves if this doesn't work
He sets his feet at the shoulder and head and a full step back allowing for his reach and the downward angle, then holding the sword in scabbard to his front horizontally, like lighting he pulls the blade commanding the scabbard to bestow it's strongest enchant and adding his own and tossing the scabbard aside as he brings his hands down, reversing the blade to sink tip first and drive through the neck, wrenching it from side to side to try and separate the head from neck.
Regardless of what gets decided, Bri has still been ensuring that the shark-man is thoroughly tied. Better safe than sorry, and if need be I can always take the rope back of his corpse if we chop his head off.
She does make sure that his neck area is free of rope to clear the way for a blow if that is what will be done. Bri also stays clear of his head in case he bites in his sleep.
"We was nice and he's funny." She thinks, "the other one was very nice to me...made sure nobody hurt me and Mr. Gy made sure that happened." In a helpful tone.
Nope. He's dead