Ugh... cleaning the bilges is bad enough...Killing whatever's in there makes my job a lot harder...
Tilly takes a look at the rum and realizes what it is. Her eyes widen slightly at the sight of the rum - genuine Hell's Harbor Infernal Black Rum, but she grinds her teeth - still annoyed by Nymph's actions the other day.
Tell ya what, you split that rum with me and maybe we can start over.
As you're about to respond Jack Scrimshaw shouts reach your ears.
Carthus is 5.
As you approach the bilges you realize it's a pretty tight space down there and you descend slowly in order to make yourselves fit.
After a few of you descend into the bilges you all hear the nasty, scurrying sound of rats - familiar enough - but then you see something horrifying - filthy rats the size of a small dog. They have coats of coarse fur, long and scabby tails, and two glittering eyes apiece that look at you hungrily.
Heroes go first!
Wulf draws a dagger from his bandoleer, moves to C9 and throws it at the rat directly in front of him.
"Freakin rats! I hate rats!"
Wulf looks around to see if there are any more rats around. He fails to see anything and barely manages to reorient himself to the rats in front of him prior to his throw.
Rats? At least they're not snakes.
Carthus takes out his dagger from a hidden part of his belt.
He moves to G-6 and jabs at G-5.
A close shave, but not a hit.
Brightening at Tilly's response Scrimshaw's shouting cuts off a response of her own. Pushing the bottle into the other woman's hands she heads over to investigate the commotion, turning back to smile and wave at Tilly as she does.
"Ugh, me too." Nymph grumbles to Wulf and Rafter as she draws her brass knife and moves to the nearest rodent.
And manages to swipe down into the creature.
Upon stepping down into the darkness Ayre casts light
Ayre 5 fts to D5 then fires a spear of wood
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Nymph and Tilly both kill their rats.
Nymph simply skewers her rat on her knife, but Ayre's spear of wood impales the creature into the wall of the ship - a sight profoundly disturbing to the rest of you.
New item on the menu for lunch: Dire Rat Kabobs.
Careful to avoid giving the rats an opportunity to bite her, Yuki closes in next to the slayer and clocks the rat hard in the head with the end of her staff, "Carthus, right? You can borrow my quarterstaff for this if you want, I think you might be better at using it than me."
While Map 1 waits for Galean, Map 2:
Two of the dire rats die, leaving only one left.
It lashes out at Yuki.
It fails to bite home however amongst the filthy water of the bilges moving with the motion of the ship.
Ayre, Carthus, Yuki are back up.
Yuki moves as necessary to try to put the hurt on the last rat, but, alas, the disgusting critter is too quick on its feet! She then holds the staff towards Carthus briefly if wants to take it.
Yikes, I should have done a better job at rat catching today! Best not to mention it though.
Ayre fears he might hit a companion w a splinter so instead he calls upon his heritage and sends a jolt of electricity at the rat
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Galean runs and tries to hit one of the dire rats , by conjuring a ball from his hands and tossing it in his direction.
A massive ball, carrying the howling gales of the northern sea, and the smell of seaweed crashes into the rat, smattering murky water everywhere. The rat's guttural drowning noises carry for a while longer, it coughs a bit of water and stands still.
No worries - some of the PbP games I've been in stall and I can't remember whose turn it is, so I pop in every now and then in a lull and let people know what I'm waiting for.
Galean's snowball falls wide of the mark of the fast moving dire rat, which turns to attack you all.
The dire rats turn on Nymph and try to tear at her flesh.
They're a bit afraid of the scent of a skinwalker however and don't manage to land their attacks.
Wulf throws another dagger at the nearest rodent.
The dagger goes wide of the mark and thunks into the deck of the ship.
"These things are a real freakin pain."
"Less gabbin, more stabbin!" Nymph growls out in annoyance as she slashes wildly, clearly not used to fighting Rodents of Unusual Size.
Thanks lass, have a bow in there and I'll pick out it eyes. This'll do for now.
Carthus winks at Yuki and stabs the rat.
Nymph and Wulf embarrass themselves in front of the kid, while Carthus finishes off the last rat in the bilges.
Wulf throws his third knife at one of the rats in front of him.
....and misses again.....
Ayre will root about
Wiping her blade off Nymph collects the corpses of the rodents she sees so she can toss them overboard, better than letting the next person who gets the bilges have to deal with their stewing corpses. She also looks the area over for anything useful or valuable as well as any more hiding rats.
Yuki will also look around the bilges, since you never know what you might find down at the bottom. "They said to be back in an hour, we got plenty of time to look around, you know?"
She, of course, finds nothing.
Yuki excitedly announces she's found a gold bar at the bottom of the bilge water, but when her hand comes up she discovers evidence that someone has done something unspeakable in the bilge water.
Ayre, you're able to locate the items Rocky gave you.
The 21 coins are all gold; the vial is made of glass and filled with a clear liquid - it appears to have the holy symbol of Desna worked into the side.
The bag is filled with a a mixture of goo and bits of rope and string - a tanglefoot bad. The sticks are tindertwigs, although you may need to dry them off.
might as well look around. This stuff isn't THAT much worse than my cooking.
Yep - ya still got two rats.
Nymph and Wulf embarrass themselves in front of the kid, while Carthus finishes off the last rat in the bilges.
Yuki shrieks in disgust when she finds her treasure, probably misleading those in the lower hold on exactly what was in going on.
Since he didn't roll Sleight of Hand or Stealth, yes. Not that I imagine he'd hide it from you in any case.
"Hey Ayre, if you don't want that buckler, I could really use it." Yuki notes nonchalantly as she washes off her hands with a judicious use of Create Water, "They stole the one I had."
What's a buckler?
"The small shield that fits around your wrist." She explains with a shrug.
Oh sure, here. Give me a hand seeing how nice these things are...a second set of eyes can't hurt.
Oh sure, no problem!" Yuki agrees happily to help Ayre look the objects over, "I wonder how all this stuff got down here. I probably don't want to know though."
Galean begins looking around for anything that his companions may have missed. "They're not going to care if we take a couple of minutes longer. As much as I'd hate to stick here much longer, we don't wanna miss anything that could give us an edge later on, I think."
Yuki, as you search you determine that the handaxe is of masterwork quality - and you find in a crate packed with straw, where Rocky couldn't look, several extra items: a set of leather armor, three heavy maces and 12 sp.
"Isn't there supposed to be someone on pest control daily?" she continues to grumble as she swipes at the rat in front of her.
And proves that she has not been trained effectively in the secret art of Rodent Slaying by Knife.
Wulf draws his fourth dagger and moves up to the rat that has been evading his throws.
Wulf completely messes up the attack on the rat and drops the dagger while trying to slice at the rat.
"Hahahahaa, we completely cleaned the clocks of those pirates the other day; and now we can't even take out a few rats.... I don't know if this is funny or completely tragic. At least we haven't gotten the plague from them.... well not yet anyway.
Wulf, please roll Dexterity (DC 15) to determine if you do drop your dagger.
Although Wulf fumbles the dagger he manages to recovery it in something that looks a lot like one of his flurishes from juggling.
Carthus grabs a mace.
This looks like fun. Now, who thinks they'd look good in leather?