Revhi looks around to see if there's a torch. "Does anybody have a torch?"
Jean reaches the deck below, its a bit uneasy there as he is standing on pile of rubble, he waits for light source. As he waits the librarian lands softly next to him. Her balance is better than Jean.
The two of you hear quite a bit of scratching that is moving towards you. You're pretty certain the scratching equate to rats. There is also some muffled grunting that's at a distance towards the aft of the ship.
"Why?? Stop it...get out of my head. Ok...ok..sorry."
RD 6: Initiative Order
Capt Riggs - acted.
rats -
Revhi -
Jean -
Marcus -
Dinetta -
RD 6: Capt Riggs
The Capt acts but you can't see him or what he is doing, you suspect he is the source of the grunting and mumbling and his voice is moving away from you. Jean and Dinetta do not see Davkas, it is obvious that the Captain is dragging him or carrying him.
RD 6: Rats
It sounds like thousands of rats are surrounding you, it is quite spine tingling. You can make out the leading edges of rat swarms as the begin to roll over the debris.
Marcus gulps his potion and nimbly descends the rope, where he stands next to Jean.
Revhi -
Jean -
Dinetta -
Jean-Phillipe spits out a curse, having forgotten he had a lantern, and lights it.
The glow of the lantern shines, Jean wonders if darkness would have been better, as thousands of beady tiny eyes sparkle with hunger - rat swarms.
You can see two swarms of rats approaching.
The angle is steep (hazardous terrain so no 5 ft steps) The aft fo the ship is flooded but the bow of the ship is high and dry. You are on a pile of debris form the collapsed deck above and the devastation of smashed and rotten cargo. You are in the lower hold. You notice the tail of the captains grey blue long coat disappearing through a breach on the port side, near the aft.
Poulain casts Feather Step and sprints towards the captain.
Poulain casts Feather Step and sprints towards the captain.
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Dinetta groans:
Damn, figured it would be a few, not this many.
With that, she reaches into her pouch and pulls out a small flask of pink flecked liquid. Without a pause, she tosses the flask into the closest swarm of rats where it bursts into an inferno which quickly lights a number of the rats aflame.
Move: Draw Alchemist Fire
Standard: Attack with Alchemist Fire:
Damage: + burn <-- I think it is 1.5 damage against a swarm
The explosion of the fire bomb splatters the scurrying critters.
Capt Riggs acts in RD 7 but from your point of view you can't see him.
RD 7: Initiative Order
Capt Riggs - acted.
rats -
Revhi -
Jean -
Marcus -
Dinetta -
Revhi you see a flash of light coming from below...fire...an explosion.
I assumed Revhi climbed down the rope.
RD 7: Rat Swarms
The two masses of rats converge on the adventurers. One group is ablaze from the alchy fire.
Disease (Ex)
Filth fever: Swarm—injury; save Fort DC 12; onset 1d3 days; frequency 1/day; effect 1d3 Dex damage and 1d3 Con damage; cure 2 consecutive saves. The save DC is Constitution-based.
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Cursing in a rather in librarian like manner, Dinette draws a second pink flecked flask from her pouch, steps back and then tosses it at place where the two swarms intersect.
Burn damage from last rounds flask.
Damage (swarm 1 burning):
5-foot step out of swarms
Attack-flask:
Damage:
Confirm Crit:
Crit Damage: <-- pretty sure you can have a crit with a splash weapon and against a swarm.
While the prior flames seem to quickly sputter out, the new flask bursts just at it enters the squares containing the swarms coating the multitude of rats in a blaze of horrid smelling burning rat flesh, fur and feces.
In order to attack, it moves into an opponent’s space, A swarm can occupy the same space as a creature of any size, since it crawls all over its prey. A swarm can move through squares occupied by enemies and vice versa without impediment, although the swarm provokes an attack of opportunity if it does so. A swarm can move through cracks or holes large enough for its component creatures.
Traits: A swarm has no clear front or back and no discernible anatomy, so it is not subject to critical hits or flanking.
The librarian with her slippers on is able to move 5 feet on the debris. She tosses another canister of deadly concoction which explodes with vigor - splashing the second swarm and a little on the first swarm.
As the Dinetta is about to toss another flaming canister, Marcus dashes away trying to get to the fleeing Captain.
"Bah, little bastards!" A surge of negative energy flies out from Revhi, blasting the swarm but flowing around her allies without harming them.
The negative energy washes over the two swarms, most of the critters die, and the remainder break apart.
Updated map
*I'll take the rats off the board at the next update
"Hmm." Revhi thinks out loud. First she scans the area with detect magic, and if nothing suspicious comes up she goes to retrieve the shiny object.
"Librarian. Gold-lined box. Investigate." Poulain points it out while sprinting after the traitor.
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Fort:
Seeing the scorched swarms of rats disperse, Dinette pulls a halfling sized torch from her pack and lights it on one of the still smoldering rats.
Lets see what this strange ship holds. Those rats had to have eaten something as there is not much on this rocky spire in the middle of the ocean.
With that, she begins to move forward toward where the captain was last heard.
Perception:
Marcus, Jean, and Dinetta are all standing by the breach in the hull, there they can see a large tunnel within the surmount rock it open up at the breach. There is room enough to walk around the hole and you see some of Davkas' gear" his backback, his shortspear, and light crossbow. There is no sign of either the Captain or your comrade. You can see plenty of foot and hand holds cut into the stone, but you do not see the bottom on the tunnel which does have a few twists and turns.
Revhi spends her time walking over to the partially submerged chest. The item is barnacle encrusted as if it's been under water for quite some time, it looks like a captain's sea-chest. There is a gold inlaid of initials CR". You don't see a lock on the chest but it appears to have a small slide bolt.
Dinetta your inspection reveals that this is a sea-chest, and the initials you'd suspect belong to the Captain, the chest has barnacles on it which would suggest that it's been here for quite some time. This makes sense to you given the overall condition of the ship.
As Dinetta begins to disable the non-trapped slide bolt a thick slimy powerful adhesive oozes out, attempting to hold fast her fingers when she touches it, but her fingers are too quick to get stuck.
Perception:
+4 underground/+2 in water
Jean and Revhi you don't sense any additional threats at but the entire situation is creepy. The Captain betraying you, essentially leading you all to this point, is quite startling.
Revhi stays silent, trusting their monk to handle the scouting. She looks at him expectantly.
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Dinetta looks at the chest with a wary eye.
Not sure this is even a chest. Might be a creature that disguises itself as a chest. Strange that it would have taken up home in this deserted shipwreck.
With that, Dinetta will step back, drop a stone into her sling and fire at the chest to see if it is a chest or actually a creature.
Attack-sling:
Damage:
--> if Sneak because of flatfooted -- Sneak Damage: