Arma stabs and bites at one of the sahuagin. Relia stabs the same one with her trident, and Tessa finishes it off with a pair of magic missiles. Abigail impales the second foe with her polearm, slaying it in one brutal strike!
Koloshkora swims up beside the ranger and stabs another sahuagin with her spear.
The wounded sahuagin flies into a blood frenzy. It tears at Relia with its trident and teeth. The other one tries to bite Arma, but fails to hit.
Mentally kicking herself for preparing a fire spell, of all things, as her most powerful attack, Tessa works her lesser magic again, trying to finish off the frenzied sahuagin.
"Ouch that hurt. She stabs at the creature again.
Arma goes into another sequence of attacks against the sahuagin.
Arma and Tessa work together to take down the sahuagin attacking the alchemist. Relia stabs the frenized one, and Abigail swims to flank it, impaling it with her polearm and finishing it off!
Arma can catch one in maybe every three words Abigail is saying underwater by reading her lips and interpreting the burbles. She gives Abigail a thumbs-up and starts off toward the wreck.
Relia points toward the wreck, and begins to swim.
Tessa falls silent, the spell dying on her lips, and relays what the others are apparently having difficulty saying with their magical aid (gills, apparently, made it quite easy to talk underwater), following along as they swim onwards.
You swim forward for another minute or so, drawing near the wrecked ship. You can see a corroded brass nameplate near the draconic figurehead declaring the ship as the Joskadlar. The bow of the ship lies on its side, long ago having become part of the reef. Coral grows up the hull of the wrecked ship, and bone fetishes tied with sinew decorate the gaping opening in the hull. A curtain of coral hangs over a smaller opening in the stern.
Relia points to the hole in the stern, and mimics heading inside it.
Tessa swims along, keeping her eyes and magic sharp to spot threats.
Arma heads in, mainly watching out for traps.
Most of you can spot movement coming from within the stern, and Abigail's keen eyes note the presence of two sahuagin inside. You have a few moments to prepare before heading into the broken ship.
The interior is decorated with the skeletal remains of aquatic humanoid creatures, arranged to form a sigil. Two sahuagin are here--one hefts a heavy crossbow, while the other wears studded leather armor and grips a ranseur.
Upon spotting you, they snarl a challenge and prepare to attack!
Tessa quickly works a spell, and shoots off a pair of force missiles at the ranseur-wielding sahuagin.
Tessa's magic missiles slam into the sahuagin, and he snarls in pain. He swims forward and lunges with his ranseur, stabbing it into Abigail! The other one hefts its crossbow and fires at the elf, but the bolt streaks past her.
Tessa, seeing success with her previous attack, works the same magic again, trying to finish off her previous target.
Relia shakes her head. She doesn't recognize the sigil.
She does recognize Abi getting hurt. So she swims over and heals her.
Before going into the fight, Arma takes her extract of Touch of the Sea, and when it starts she effortlessly cuts through the water, and attacks from inside the reach of the ranseur.
The sahuagin dodges Arma's strike and parries Abigail's thrust, but Koloshkora swims up and stabs in in a vital spot, and Tessa blasts him with magic missiles again.
Abruptly, the sahuagin drops his ranseur and raises his hands in surrender! "Please, show mercy, surface-dwellers!" he pleads. "Stand down!" he snaps to his bodyguard. The crossbow wielder blinks in surprise but ceases its attacks, watching you warily.
Koloshkora seems equally as surprised and looks to you for a decision.
The sahuagin nods to his companion, who drops his crossbow with a look of disgust. He snarls something in Aquan.
By this point, four other sahuagin have emerged from the ship's bow and float in the water behind you. They seem confused by the scene, holding tridents at the ready but waiting to see how things play out.
"He just called the other one a coward." Tessa says in a low voice, thoroughly confused, but speaks up, "Uh.... of course. We would be most happy to discuss terms with you. I'm not sure how this will work, but sure. We don't want to fight you, in any case, not unless we have to."
Big day for making allies all around? she thinks to herself
Relia studies the creature surrendering. "Our terms will be you leaving and letting our Naga friend have her home back. As well as leaving our other friend and her people alone. Can you do that or do we go back to fighting?"
"No, you don't have to fight. We'll leave this place, find a new place to settle. You won't ever hear from us ever again!" the sahuagin promises.
Relia gets the sense that he is lying through his sharp teeth.
Relia taps her lips, and studies him. "I don't believe you. Maybe you are a coward after all. I"m certain you are a liar."
The sahuagin's expression darkens. "Listen, surface-dweller. I don't want to die here, but I'm sure you don't as well. I'm offering you this chance. I will take my people away from this reef without further bloodshed if you allow us. If you insist on fighting... There are more of us than there are of you. I don't think it will end well for either side."
Arma nervously looks over her shoulder at the sahuagin coming up behind them. "Careful," she says quietly.
"You have no honor." She spins to face the incoming sahuagin trident at the read.
The sahuagin snarls, but as soon as he picks up his ranseur, Abigail impales him with her polearm! His eyes widen and his mouth hangs open as he dies on the end of her weapon.
The other sahuagin move to attack!
Tessa allows herself to sink and moves back, swimming to behind her allies. With a few arcane words, she summons a mass of sticky tendrils, growing between two halves of the shipwreck, ensnaring several of the sahuagin.
Relia moves up and stabs at the creature in front of her.
Arma goes after one of the unrestrained Sahuagin with a series of attacks.
Two of the sahuagin get stuck in the web Tessa conjures. Relia misses with her trident but Arma manages to stab one of them with her dagger. Koloshkora swims over and stabs the same sahuagin with her spear, finishing it off before it can strike back at the alchemist.
The sahuagin in the wrecked ship picks up its crossbow and shoots at Tessa, just missing the elf. The one Relia is fighting attacks her but misses. The two stuck in the web struggle fruitlessly to free themselves, but the one who avoided the sticky strands pushes his way free, coming up to Abigail and stabbing her with his trident.
Tessa, running out of options, fires a ray of ice magic at the saguahin that tried to shoot her, and it freezes the water it passes through, forming an icicle shooting at the creature.
Arma skirts the edge of the webs and takes a bite out of the sahuagin Abigail is facing off with. "Hold on, Relia!"
Relia stabs at the creature in front of her. She curses as she misses the creature.
Everybody's attacks miss their mark, save for Arma, who bites one of the sahuagin.
The crossbowman fires another bolt at Tessa that skips off of her mage armor. Relia's foe stabs her and bites her, badly injuring her, while the one Arma bit flies into a blood rage and jabs her with its trident. The two in the web remain stuck.
Tessa, quickly running out of offensive options (and not quite ready to use her fire spell or wand), remembers the figurine the naga gave them. She quickly pulls out the statuette and activates it, making it full-sized, and she directs it to attack the blood-frenzied foe.
Relia swims back just enough to get out of bite range, and casts Cure Light Wounds on herself.