Burian steps off the the boarding plank, and moves to put his back to the fallen mast. He wills his hair to cut through two pirates in a wide sweeping arc.
Round 8_____________
Bryson Deepwinter______
Bryson ignores the pirate that came up behind him as he steps past Lady Vanderboren to get to the pirate captain. "Now ya die" he says. A harsh, bitter smoke rising from his mouth and eyes and trailing from each swipe of his clawed hand.
Ghirrak Ironfist______
With blinding speed, Captain Ghirrak pummels the nearest sailor.
.Suny.______
Grabbing a rope from those hanging about the main topsail she simply leaps away from the mast, initially looking like she's again leaping away from combat.
However, her intent and arc of flight swings her tanned, brown self waaaaay out wide with her aim comeing in at the pirate threatening Zan (Pirate 6 And hopefully with Flanking plus surprise)
[ooc]Suny’s swing caught the pirate by surprise as she booted him off the mast. He gives a classic Wilhem scream as he plunged by luck between the two ships and into the water below, where by unluck there are a bunch of excited sharks.
Marius Hawk______
Staying put and casting haste on himself, Burian, Ghirak and two crew members; snapdragon firework at the closest pirate for 1d4 ⇒ 2 damage plus the usual.
Burian Faldaeral______
Burian steps off the the boarding plank, and moves to put his back to the fallen mast. He wills his hair to cut through two pirates in a wide sweeping arc.
move to F,7 (provoke AoO from 22 for movement)
Zan waived cheerily at Suny, motioned for her to take the last pirate, then slid down a sail with his knife to land catlike on the deck behind a cluster of pirates.
ENEMIES___________________________
You see that with your efforts, the tide has turned and the pirates are surrounded on deck between your crews.
Off the port bow, you see the pinnace crowded with pirates. The boat has a smoking hole where the rudderman and rudder used to be. Half the pirates in it are rowing the waterlogged craft with difficulty, while the other half are bailing like mad. They are a round away from making contact with the Nixie and swarming aboard, possibly tipping the balance against you.
Two pirates grapple Lavinia, she shouted with outrage.
Longshanks LeShiv stared at the place Bryson raked him, then grinned at him with rotting teeth.
”A beast that talks! You’ll make a fine showpiece when we sell ye in Scuttlecove laddie! But first we must subdue ye…” He said.
Bryson isn’t sure what happened, just a flick of his eyes perhaps, but…
Fail.
attack vs Flat Footed AC.
LeShiv is suddenly pulling his sword out of his (Bryson’s) guts, which hurts a great deal.
piercing, magic and precision damage.
Longshanks LeShiv:110
Round 9_____________
Players take their turn in order of posting, enemies will go last.
Suny tries to maintain her momentum, spinning about in place and extending a leg with whirl-wind force into (Red Pirate 3's) legs.
Knocking the fellow's legs clean out from under him.
Also hoping her allies are now in a better position to take the fellow out.
She skips off with a giggle, through her dissipating smoke towards (Red Pirate 2) and helping her ally over there.
(^_^)
Ghirrak is moving even as the bodies hit the deck, a literal blur of motion easily three times as fast as a normal man is capable, and far faster than anyone his size should be able to. Dashing across the intervening distance, hurdling any and every obstacle in his path the Captain of the Savage Kraken strikes one of the men holding his beloved with all the silent fury of his ship’s namesake.
The surprising attack by the pirate takes some of the fire out of the transformed druid. He considers going all out against him, but instead takes a step back (but not towards Lavinia and her attackers) and casts Wood Shape to make a wall (from J2 to I5) to separate them instead.
Burian moves slipping between two sailors to get up close to the nearest visible pirates. He lashes out with his hair again in a sweeping motion.
"Oh, for crying out loud!" Marius snapped angrily. So far as he was concerned, they had not fought their way across a ship full of pirates just to have another batch swarm them.
To the untrained eye, what shot out from his fingertips was just another of those bedeviling fireworks. This time, however, the spark of light detonated in a roiling ball of flame, engulfing the pinnace and most of the unfortunates who sailed aboard her.
Marius stood glaring at the stricken boat, waiting to see if anybody with any fight left in them emerged from the flames.
Round 9_____________
'Sunny'________
Suny tries to maintain her momentum, spinning about in place and extending a leg with whirl-wind force into (Red Pirate 3's) legs.
Knocking the fellow's legs clean out from under him.
She skips off with a giggle, through her dissipating smoke towards (Red Pirate 2). Move towards, along the yard-arm towards said pirate at best speed.
Ghirrak Ironfist_______
Ghirrak is moving even as the bodies hit the deck, a literal blur of motion easily three times as fast as a normal man is capable, and far faster than anyone his size should be able to. Dashing across the intervening distance, hurdling any and every obstacle in his path the Captain of the Savage Kraken strikes one of the men holding his beloved with all the silent fury of his ship’s namesake.
Bryson Deepwinter______
The surprising attack by the pirate takes some of the fire out of the transformed druid. He considers going all out against him, but instead takes a step back (but not towards Lavinia and her attackers) and casts Wood Shape to make a wall (from J2 to I5) to separate them instead.
Burian Faldaeral_______
Burian moves slipping between two sailors to get up close to the nearest visible pirates. He lashes out with his hair again in a sweeping motion.
move to G,12
Marius Hawk_______
To the untrained eye, what shot out from his fingertips was just another of those bedeviling fireworks. This time, however, the spark of light detonated in a roiling ball of flame, engulfing the pinnace and most of the unfortunates who sailed aboard her.
Zan lashed out with his knives, gutting two of the pirates.
ENEMIES______________________
At the fireball explosion, all the pirates being hemmed in on the maindeck of the Nixie start surrendering and pleading for their lives.
Longshanks LeShiv screams obscenities as he glared at his disintegrating pinnace, his surrendering crew and the sudden wooden wall separating him from his objective.
”Well lassie, looks like ye’ve slipped through me fingers this time. But make no mistake, we’ll be meetin’ again real soon!” He declared finally.
Walking to the rail, he stepped off and plunged into the shark infested water, disappearing from view.
"Woah! Is all a'splodie!" She exclaims, awe and amazement clear to all amongst the rigging. As the cries and pleas for parlay rise from the remaining pirates below on deck Sunny offers a hand for shaking from Red pirate 2 (Assuming they do follow suit) before moving to round up all her allies and sees to them getting safely down to the decks below, with assurances they'll keep said Red 2 watched as well as safe.
Sunny descends to the decks and begins to skip about laughing, hugging and joining in the exuberance of the 'win' amongst her allies and friends. (^_^)
The naturally tanned Elf bounces before Lady Lavinia.
"We come an' be helpin' as fastest we can!" Sunny exclaims.
"I bin helpin' up in'a riggin'!" She waves a brown arm skyward even as she grins brightly.
"We wus swingin' about! An' shovin' an' pushin' an' laughin' an' plain' havin' a great time o' things!" She highlights her adventures up above with lots of motion, arms waving, spinning and general flailing about before suddenly Sunny blinks, noticing the general disheveled appearance of most folks.
"Oh! Peoples is be hurtin'!" So saying the flighty, bronzed lass begins to race about doing the best she can to help those (Of both sides) who've been hurt on the ships or are struggling/surviving over-board.
Eventually and including beginning to organize the salvage and repairs amongst all the surviving vessels.
(^_^)
"Ain't gon' be no next time." snarls Bryson. He slaps Ghirrak on the back while casting Waterbreathing. Then a battle angry and blood thirsty Bryson dives into the water after the pirate.
(O_o)
Sunny scampers over to the railing and peers over.
"He done jump-ed!" She exclaims even as she eyes the threshing waves with large, blue eyes.
"Watch this one!" Ghirrak growls, indicating the stunned purate laying on the deck before diving into the ocean after Bryson.
(o_O) As Ghirrak also flies past the stunned Elf, over the side and into the thrashing waves.
Sunny looks around... to maybe see if the ships are sinking.. or some sort of spell has been cast over people to make them jump into the toothy filled ocean.
"Well, I'm not going in there," Marius remarked, feeling it was probably a good idea to stem the charge towards the tooth-filled waters.
The pirates seemed pretty thoroughly cowed for the moment, which left the thorny question of what they were going to do with them. Following their conquest of a ship, he understood pirates would often give captives with useful skills the chance to join their crew. Did that work in reverse? Should it? Something to discuss with people more knowledgeable in the ways of the sea, perhaps.
Also, what was the line of succession should the captain be eaten by sharks? Marius shrugged this latter nautical question off as unlikely to happen.
For now, he observed from the railing, ready to deliver a bit of ranged support if the opportunity arose.
Suny looks to her longer time traveling companion Marius.
"But? They jus' jump-ed in'a water!" She exclaims again.
"Why? Why is they jumpin' in'a water? Is all full'a finys!" The tanned Elf expresses her obvious confusion at people's actions.
"I blame overconfidence," Marius confided, "It'll get us all in the end. Hopefully not today, though."
Sunny frowns, "A 'Faiy'! on 'Con-fee-dancin''!" She exclaims, "We's got'a be helpin'!" So saying the tanned Elf darts away from the railing and scampers about searching for stuff amongst the ruins on the decks.
First gathering ropes, thence some timbers, getting some friends to help pulls sail cloth and finally some large and heavy items (Balista shot and/or any free chain) dragging them back to the railings where Ghirrak and Bryson disappeared over the side.
As she begins to fashion her item she mutters,
"When is just one finny, an' ye know t'is about an' comin', ye can just y'know bop 'em on'a nose an' they gets tha' message..." She ties and works things together. "But when they's in'a mob like? There in't much ye can do but float still an' hope they dun't run in't ye..."
Basing the idea on the knowledge that sharks 'generally' avoid running into things. Though if they're truly in a classic frenzy, yeah, maybe not so much.
The other possible benefit is that some of the sharks might impact the canvas and become frightened/driven off.
Bryson and Ghirrak dive into the water, stained with the blood of sailors and pirates.
Underwater visibility is around thirty yards, but you see no sign of any human figure swimming within range.
You are unable to even begin a search before the excited sharks attack both of you.
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If Bryson and Ghirrak need to retreat, there are sails and rigging dragging in the water you can climb.
As the massive shark bites into him, filling the water with even more blood, Ghirrak realizes his error and the need to eliminate the threat. swimming into position her grabs a hold of the shark, his mighty arms flexing like bands of steel as he grapples the monster of the deeps.
Bryson's enhanced form allows him to ignore the sharks bites as he changes form into one. Or at least a form resembling one. His toothy maw is smaller than expected, but he has two of them. One dorsal and one ventral. He has bony spikes on all sides of his form making him look even more menacing (just for show, I'm not expecting any mechanical effect from these). All of Bryson-Shark's fins look more like bat wings with jagged claws at the tips.
Using the form's keen olfactory sense, he searches for his prey. Once he locates the pirate, Bryson-Shark goes in for the kill.
Bryson cannot locate any pirate resembling Longshanks LeShiv, or anyone else swimming in the water. Even extending your search to several football fields in volume. No sign of him.
You suspect he used some form of magic to escape or transport himself in the water.
Longshank's escape really sets Bryson-Shark off. He turns around and tears into the frenzied sharks starting with the great whites. He matches bite with bite and adds strokes of lightning from his active Call Lightning spell when they pile up on him, trusting his innate resistance to shield him from the worst of the damage. His bloodlust will not be sated until he has ravaged them all in a terrible frenzy of carnivorous murder, blood, and gore. Ghirrak has to wonder if Bryson will stop with the sharks.
The great white shark that Ghirrak has grappled went from trying to bite him to trying to escape.
Nope.
After a few minutes, Bryson is able to kill or drive off all the sharks in the vicinity of the ships.
Despite your victory here, a chill raises the hackles on the back of your neck. Metaphorically speaking.
Those on deck can only look on with astonishment as Sunny buzzes about assembling an enormous contraption... like a maybe a cargo net made of sailcloth bounded by fenders and floatation bouys. Or something.
At this point those on deck can see Bonden come out of the pirates quarterdeck cabin, hands filled with gleaming silver and gemstones.
"Lookit all this stuff they had!" He shouted, attracting everyones attention.
With a final heave/kick Suny sends the contraption over the side turning to at the shout...
"Oh! Shiny!" She scampers over to admire the glittering trove in Bonden's hands.
One he's done dispatching the sharks, Bryson turns his abyssal shark like form to Ghirrak. After a few heartbeats, he turns away toward the Blue Nixie, eventually changing back to his normal form. He makes his way back onto the deck and lets out a primal roar before moving to sulk at the prow.
Approaching the ships, you swimmers have to dodge a weird contraption, definitely a slapdash jury-rigged thing. It is a floating 'square' of timber from which 'hang' sheets of canvas (Weight added by shot or chain).
Sunny leans forwards and pokes at the shiny...
The obvious damage is both the pirate ship and the Nixie have one mast shattered, with all rigging down.
Crewmen are stuffing their pockets and arguing over who gets what; two have already come to blows.
Ghirrak: With the shark trying to escape, you can disegage at will. If you want to kill the shark with grappling, it will take you several minutes and you may be carried away from the fleet.
Ghirrak releases the shark, watching it swim off before swimming back to the ship and climbing aboard. "Damage Report!" he says to a nearby crew member as he strides towards Lavinia.
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"Woah, woah WOAH there matey's!" She begins to push folks to one side of the cabin. "There's more'n enough shiny ta' be goin' round." She glances to where pockets bulge with swag.
"Whut t'is gotten in't yer head, mates? Where is ye gon'a be spendin' yer swag, hey?" She waves a bare, brown arm at the Captain's windows along the back of the ship.
"We's in'a middle of nowheres. Not a pub, nor shop fer, like, ever around." She sighs and begins to both straighten the room and push people to put back what they've moved into their possession. She glances at some of the more exotic looking baubles.
"Aside..." She knees on the cabin floor as she works tucking things away and helping folks put things down.
"Ye rilly be wantin' a spell maker or spirit folk ta' be lookin' right close at some of this stuff.. There might be... y'know, 'things' sneakin' about an' wishin' ye all harm, like."
"Would want no nasty curses lingerin' about yer-selfs, hey now?" She glances to the two bruised folks.
"Ye should all be more worried about friends hurtin' up on deck.. Or maybe prisoners them pirates got squirreled away in'a hold an' such." She calmly points out all the while working away, Tanned sides flexing as she twists and turns.
She winces as the wound she received in the rigging twinges. Looking down she points to her smooth, brown midriff,
"Ach! Y'see? I gone an' got a knick of'n tha' scuffle, t'boot!"
Her large, blue eyes lift and she looks about the room properly for the first time.
"Alright. Volunteers to go below and make sure the ship is secure?" Marius asked, deciding that the fearsome presence of Bryson should keep the prisoners in line for the moment, and figuring that making sure there were no further surprises awaiting them took priority.
Pausing briefly to make sure he had at least a couple of people to watch his back, Marius led the way below-decks on the pirate ship.
Seeing his allies return to the ship (and hearing Ghirrak's order) Burian begins making his determination on the state of the ship.
Was either of our ships badly damaged?
The obvious damage is both the pirate ship and the Nixie have the mizzenmast shattered, with all associated rigging down.
"Damage Report!" he says to a nearby crew member as he strides towards Lavinia.
A bandaged sailor reports that the Nixie has minor hull damage (Woodshape can fix that with a few minutes work.) And that both the Nixie and the Pirate ship have their mizzenmast down with all associated rigging. Plus someone cut even more rigging down to make a floating shark net.
More than that, you see Lavinia kneeling over ten still figures covered by sailcloth on the maindeck, crying silent tears.
'Sunny'
Despite Sunny’s heroic efforts (and distracting state of undress), the combatants barely pause before renewing their struggle over the treasure. The battle spills out onto the deck and everyone notices now.
Marius Hawk
"Alright. Volunteers to go below and make sure the ship is secure?" Marius asked, deciding that the fearsome presence of Bryson should keep the prisoners in line for the moment, and figuring that making sure there were no further surprises awaiting them took priority.
Pausing briefly to make sure he had at least a couple of people to watch his back, Marius led the way below-decks on the pirate ship.
Burian Faldaeral
Burian starts making a detailed analysis of the battle damage, but is distracted by the fighting on deck as it spilled out of the pirate captain’s cabin.
Standing over the prisoners hoping one of them gets out of line so he has reason to commit a bloody murder, Bryson notes the infighting over the spoils and sneers.
As the fighting escalates Sunny calls out.
"HEY! Somat in't right!" But seeing no effect she sighs,
"Ahh... ye bunch a Numpty's.... " And proceeds to try and extricate herself from the developing scuffle happening around her in eesrch of Ghirrak or other Officer types.
The same desire for the treasure the other crewmen have; the desire to take as much as you can and hug it to yourself; the jealous desire to take it from the others...
But you wrestle your impulses back under control again.