"BBsure, Ibb just don'bbt think he'll unbberstand me," Terri says with a grin.
Shrugging, but withholding a sigh so as to not make any more bubbly sounds, Daud swims back into the hold to try to get the shark to leave.
Tolenn hurriedly pulls herself down into the hold after Daud, shaking her head at his rashness. Pausing she waves the others closer with thier light sources.
Wednesday and Tolenn decide to enter the hull, swimming through the man-sized portal. Agitated, the shark circles on the far side of the hold, the rocky abutment hazy in the background. It immediately stops and starts to swim directly for the duo, it's jaws pulling back to expose many rows of razor-sharp teeth! Amira sees her companions' features tighten, and figures the shark is probably charging.
Initiative:
Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Cassandra, Wednesday, Terri
With a fluid movement, Amira sends her illuminated starknife flying towards the shark, looking to both wound and display the target.
Seeing their reactions Amira swims closer to provide more light, at the same time calling upon the City's protection, a soft glow enveloping Tolen and Wednesday as well as Cassandra, Terri and herself.
Amira drifts down to the door, calling upon the protective energy she draws from the nearby City of Korvosa to help protect her relatively defenseless allies.
The shark plunges forward, jaws extended as it tries to bite Wednesday. Its powerful jaws easily force their way through the shield of Amira, clouding the water close by with the ranger's blood.
Meanwhile, the door behind Tolenn and Wednesday suddenly opens, revealing a green-skinned humanoid with bulging white eyes. It holds a short spear in one hand, and has clearly sharp and long talons bared on the other.
Initiative:
Round 1: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Cassandra, Wednesday, Terri
Round 2: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Cassandra, Wednesday, Terri
Gritting his teeth in a feral grin as he enveloped in his own blood filled water he tries to hack at the shark.
Glaive in one hand, and the other holding the holy symbol on the chain around her neck, Terri says a quick prayer as the battle is joined.
"The Eternal Rose, may you guide us so we may protect others," she prays.
Cassandra isn't in her element. These aren't rooftops and she feels clumsy and slow down here. So, she backs up and casts Mage Armor on herself.
Round 1
Waving her hand to dissipate some of Daud's blood from the water in front of her, Tolenn swings her scimitar through the water, realizing too late that the water was impeding her efforts.
Focusing on the green skinned humanoid, Amira burbles out the words to a spell the water around the spear beginning to boil as it starts to heat up.
[ooc]Damage halved (underwater. Surrounding water boils as per spell description)
Tolenn attempts to strike the shark with her scimitar. Too late she realizes the viscosity of the water will slow her strike. While on target, by the time it reaches the creature it just bounces off its rubbery skin.
Cassandra, feeling exposed in this arena, swims back a bit and cast a spell upon herself, a glimmering force surrounding her.
Wednesday has much the same problems as Tolenn, finding his weapon deflected by the shark's natural protections.
Terri casts a spell, holding along her holy symbol. While those around her mainly hear a jumbled mess, they feel a certain amount of divine vigor infuse them, a bit more confident than they were before.
Amira blurbs out a spell as well, and the green-skinned woman's spear starts to boil the water around it. The creature tries to toss it aside and does so, the boiling water bubbling around it as it sinks further into the hold.
The shark, smelling Wednesday's blood, goes into a near frenzy, again trying to catch the ranger in its wide jaws. This time, the strong jaws of the creature are turned aside by the invisible force Amira summoned.
As everyone gets a good look at the hideous green woman, they feel a certain sapping of their strength, their vigor fleeing at the terrifying appearance of the creature. With the blessing of Shelyn, two members of the party are able to throw it off, but Terri is not so lucky, feeling her strength leave her.
The hag then focuses on the Paladin, affixing her with an evil look. A sense of overwhelming dread starts to overcome the Sarenrite. Tolenn digs deep, calling upon her faith to help her easily overcome the creature's curse.
Summary:
Wednesday - 9 damage
Initiative:
Round 2: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Cassandra, Wednesday, Terri
Round 3: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Cassandra, Wednesday, Terri
Aggravated by the shark grinning in his face he attempts to hack at it again.
As her scimitar bounces off of the shark's rubbery skin, Tolenn feels the malevolent presence of the hag behind her.
Her instincts ate to confront the hag immediately, but she won't leave Daud to the shark alone.
Dropping her scimitar, she draws a dagger and attempts to drip it into the shark's side...
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Seeing Tolenn's and Wednesday's strikes bounce off the shark, Terri swims next to Tolenn and begins another prayer.
"Shelyn, give this one the strength to cleave the heavens!" She says as she touches her holy symbol to the paladin's shoulder. Golden runes in Celestial spread from where she touches, flowing along her muscles, giving them even greater strength.
"EveEERyyyyy OBbbbnnne BbbbaCBBk off!" Cassandra shouts as she starts weaving a spell. "I neeeebbbd a cleeAAArrr AaarEEA!"
Hearing a wizard yell for everyone to back away immediately throws a red flag up in Daud's mind, who promptly pushes into Tolenn to get her out of what he believes is the area that Cassandra will be blasting/electrifying/dissolving while motioning quickly for her to go through with it.
Amira swims clear, accustomed enough to working with Cass to know that tone usually preceeded something destructive.
Swimming clear sof the area, Amira burbles of another spell, an additional shimmer projecting a curving field of energy moving around her body.
Tolenn again tries to slice the shark, doing a slightly better job this time. However, the water still slows her strike enough to keep the aquatic creature from any real harm.
Cassandra shouts out a warning to her companions to move so she can cast a spell, the words blubbling out of her mouth. Her gestures make it fairly clear what she is wanting, though.
Wednesday again hacks at the shark, putting his shoulder into the strike this time. The blade penetrates the thick hide of the shark even as it cuts through the water, more blood mingling in the area. The ranger then shoves Tolenn out of the hatch, waving for Cassandra to cast her spell.
Shrugging, the wily wizard commences to cast, a literal explosion of rocks and pebbles appearing inside the hold of the ship.
Tolenn blurbs out a prayer to Shelyn, asking for her goddess's blessing. The goddess responds, and Tolenn feels additional divine power surging through her musculature, hopefully to be able to fight her blade through the thick river water.
Amira swims clear of the hatch, aware that the hag can spellcast and not wanting to get tagged in an area of effect. She casts a defensive spell on herself, getting ready for confrontation.
The shark bares its horrifying rows of fangs once again, attempting to bite Wednesday yet again. Thick plumes of blood distort vision in the immediate area as the shark tears a nasty gash in the ranger's side.
The hag launches into spellcasting, waving her arms and saying strange words in the depths.
Summary:
Hag - 7 damage
Shark - 10 damage
Wednesday - 32 damage
Initiative:
Round 3: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Wednesday, Cassandra, Terri
Round 4: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Wednesday, Cassandra, Terri
Tolenn feels Terri's gentle touch and the wellspring of strength that follows. A glance over her shoulder, she flashes a grateful smile at Terri before turning her attention back to the shark.
Cassandra's bubbled shout has Daud physically propelling Tolenn up to the hatch, out of harms way. However, from her vantage point she sees him hit by both her spell and the shark once more.
Diving down , she targets the shark once more....
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Although getting mauled by the shark felt like, well, getting mauled by a shark (and the rocks certainly didn't help) he still kept his grin when he saw Tolenn reenter the fight unscathed. He then takes another swing at the predator getting drunk off his blood.
Seeing Wednesday's terrible wounds, Terri swims up to him and lays the hand holding her holy symbol on his shoulder.
"Shelyn's mercy be with you," she prays.
"TBBhanks." he says without turning away from the shark. Having become accustomed to Tolenn's healing for so long Daud didn't know what to think when Terri healed him, it was similar, but different. He also couldn't remember if Sarenrae was a jealous Goddess or not...
Tolenn, feeling the flow of divine power flowing through her, punches forward with the sharp point of the dagger, finding purchase in the shark's smooth yet tough skin.
Wednesday's blow also finds its mark, though the water again deflects some of the power behind the swing. Still, more of the creature's blood flows out to mingle with the ranger's own.
Cassandra moves into a position to better see the shark that is steadily tearing Wednesday apart, conjuring a small orb of acid, then hurling it through the water at the beast. Even with the wild melee going on, she still manages to singe the creature.
Terri floats down into the hull, taking care to remain out of reach of the shark's jaws. Murmuring a prayer to Shelyn, she reaches out, touching Wednesday and healing some of the more grievous wounds he has taken.
The shark, near mindless in its frenzy, continues trying to tear Wednesday apart. Amazingly, it manages to miss again.
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The hag finishes chanting her spell, pointing to an area just outside the hold. Suddenly, another shark appears, this one attempting to rip into Tolenn! This shark proves more industrious then the other, the serrated teeth tearing deep grooves in Tolenn's arm.
The hag then quickly swims forward, swiping at the exposed Cleric of Shelyn.
Summary:
Hag - 7 damage
Large Shark - 21 damage
Wednesday - 18 damage
Tolenn - 8 damage
Terri - 12 damage
Initiative:
Round 4: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Wednesday, Cassandra, Terri
Round 5: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Wednesday, Cassandra, Terri
Swimming forward, Amira focuses her attention on the second shark, hoping to take the pressure off Tolen.
"KiBBll the BBhag befoBBre she caBBn summBBon anoBBBther oBBne!"
Seeing another shark materialize and attack Tolenn and Amira call the Hag out Daud lets himself drift slightly before swiping at the sea witch.
Terri lets loose a burbling cry as her side is ripped open by the Hag's claws. She grits her teeth and tries to get into a more defensive stance.
Her hand glows as she reaches out and touches Wednesday's arm, causing him to feel a little more lucky.
Grimacing from the pain, Tolenn pushes the new shark away, the targets the wounded one....
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Amira swims forward, trying to thrust at the second shark, but her strike is too slow for the quick aquatic animal.
Tolenn pushes away from the new arrival, trying her best to drop the larger shark before it can do any more damage. Another quick stab with her dagger has the shark bleeding from yet another wound, yet still swimming about.
Wednesday, meanwhile, heeds Amira's advice, quickly swimming over to the hag and slicing at her, opening a shallow gash on her arm.
Cassandra again swims to get a somewhat clear shot, sending another orb of acid at the smaller shark, this time. Her aim is nowhere near as good this time, the acid flying off to splash against the deck of the ship.
Terri calls upon Shelyn's luck, reaching out while avoiding the hag's claws, touching Wednesday and transferring a sliver of Shelyn's grace to him.
Amira again tries to stab the smaller shark, and is successful this time, the water turning quite murky with all the blood clouding it.
The smaller shark bites at its tormentor, attempting to sink its teeth into the scantily clad druid. The city protects its own, as the teeth get nowhere close to penetrating her defenses.
With its quarry swimming away, the larger shark now bites at the human female in front of it. The shark's teeth start to penetrate the leather that protects the holy warrior, but is stopped short of her skin by the magical force Amira granted to the paladin.
The hag, meanwhile, tries to tear into Wednesday, hissing at him. Both claws score major hits, and the ranger again finds himself in deep trouble.
Summary:
Hag - 12 damage
Large Shark - 34 damage
Small Shark - 6 damage
Wednesday - 34 damage
Tolenn - 8 damage
Terri - 12 damage
Initiative:
Round 5: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Wednesday, Cassandra, Terri
Round 6: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Wednesday, Cassandra, Terri
Terri tries to call upon Shelyn's favor without drawing another attack her way, only to gasp in horror as her symbol flickers then ceases to glow.
Not good, not good at all. I could channel Shelyn's grace, but that would aid our opponents as well. Why must we fight anyway? Was there a way to keep this from turning to bloodshed?
Keeping his snarling grin as he loses himself in the blood dyed waters Daud swings again at the sea witch.
Seeing another cloud of Daud's blood stain the water, Tolenn knows she needs to manage to bring her holy talents to bear upon the hag, however with two sharks threatening her...
Eyes narrowing on the companion shark, she judges the chance it shares some of its masters fell nature...
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Only capable of trying to keep the second shark's attention while the others worked to eliminate the main threat, Amira stikes ineffectively at the newest enemy.
Tolenn attempts to smite the large shark in front of her, but her increasing panic at the predicament the companions find themselves in throws off her aim.
Wednesday's aim also seems off, but the grace of Shelyn guides it home anyway, the hag dodging right into the wayward strike.
Cassandra again tries to tag the smaller shark with conjured acid. Her aim is better this time, but still a bit off the mark.
Terri tries to cast a spell while keeping away from any of the hag's attacks, but can't keep her concentration as the spell fizzles away.
Amira keeps the smaller shark's attention on her, trying to pierce it's thick hide with her starknife. The blade just manages to bounce off the rubbery hide, however.
The smaller shark in turn tries to bite the druid. Her defense is proving to be much better than her offense, as she deftly shifts to the side, evading the creature's bite.
Meanwhile, the larger shark attempts to bite the paladin tormenting it. The creature manages to catch a warding arm, tearing a gash into Tolenn's forearm.
The hag, meanwhile, sees Terri trying once again to heal Wednesday. She lashes out at the small Shelynite with her terrible claws. Two more wounds join the others, and Terri is starting to feel faint.
Summary:
Hag - 20 damage
Large Shark - 34 damage
Small Shark - 6 damage
Wednesday - 34 damage
Tolenn - 17 damage
Terri - 22 damage
Initiative:
Round 6: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Wednesday, Cassandra, Terri
Round 7: Amira, Bad Guys, Tolenn, Wednesday, Cassandra, Terri
Even through his fading vision he tries to swing again at the hag with numb limbs.