Round 9
Will vs. DC18
"Hey! I got one...oh wait, not I catdn't," Cats attacks Red red scarf with flank.
to hit;
damage + sneak (maybe)
to hit;
damage + sneak (maybe)
[ dice]1d20+11[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+6[/dice] slashing damage.
[ dice]1d20+6[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+6[/dice] slashing damage.
[ dice]1d20+12+2[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+7+4+4[/dice] damage.
AC: 21 +1 Circle Prot Evil+1 Shield Other
HP: 52/52-17+19-25+
LoH: 3/4 used
[ dice]1d20+10 damage.
[ dice]1d20+8[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+8[/dice] damage.
Catrenrae’s Gift: 1/2 used.
Mini Smite: 1/1 used: Once per day as a swift action, you can add your Charisma bonus to your attack rolls and deal 1 additional point of damage for each class level you have against evil creatures for 1 round. You must have a good alignment to take this trait.
+6 Bab +4 Dex +1 magic +1 PBS -2 DA -2 Rapid= +8/+8 to hit
+2 Str +1 magic +4 DA+1 PBS = +8 damage
The Mariner focuses his blade on the parrying blow.
Fearless projects his mind outwards and links up with the Captain's mind to try and cause the brief moment of pause that Mariner and Cat's need.
HP 5/46
AC 20
Spells: 1st 0/5 | 2nd 3/4
Inspiration 7/7
Tactician 0/1 (Rounds 0/3)
Challenge 1/1
Phrenic Pool 0/3
Wand of Magic Missile (3rd) 14 charges remaining
Cats cuts at the wraith, it opens a dark mouth in a scream if agony and rage.
Fearless hurls his mind against the Captain, but finds strong resistance.
The Mariner gets in a lucky shot and cuts the Captain deep, but not deep enough to kill.
Pinkie and the last buccaneer continue to fight on the deck, with the kid getting in two good stabs.
The wraith reaches again for the Mariner.
The Captain cuts and stabs in a flurry of attacks on the Mariner.
INITIATIVE
Effects: magic circle vs evil
Buccaneers
Wraith -34
Captain -91
Cats (36/45, normally 52) *-2 Con, Shield other from BB, freedom of movement
Fearless (11/46) *Shield of faith +3
Mariner (55/119) *Prot from Cold
Pinkie
Meanwhile...
Brother Butterfly wakes and looks to his companions. Each twitches slightly in their sleep, but he cannot see any indication of deep distress.
Pinkie continues to circle his opponent making quick defensive counter strikes "You know you could just run away meathead you all but lost this fight"
The Mariner swings hard and nearly throws himself off the side of the ship.
Round 1
Cats hacks at the wraith.
to hit;
damage
to hit;
damage
[ dice]1d20+11[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+6[/dice] slashing damage.
[ dice]1d20+6[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+6[/dice] slashing damage.
[ dice]1d20+12+2[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+7+4+4[/dice] damage.
AC: 21 +1 Circle Prot Evil+1 Shield Other
HP: 52/52-17+19-25+
LoH: 3/4 used
[ dice]1d20+10 damage.
[ dice]1d20+8[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+8[/dice] damage.
Catrenrae’s Gift: 1/2 used.
Mini Smite: 1/1 used: Once per day as a swift action, you can add your Charisma bonus to your attack rolls and deal 1 additional point of damage for each class level you have against evil creatures for 1 round. You must have a good alignment to take this trait.
+6 Bab +4 Dex +1 magic +1 PBS -2 DA -2 Rapid= +8/+8 to hit
+2 Str +1 magic +4 DA+1 PBS = +8 damage
Fearless' mind continues to find small cracks in the Captains mind that he can get into.
HP 5/46
AC 20
Spells: 1st 0/5 | 2nd 2/4
Inspiration 7/7
Tactician 0/1 (Rounds 0/3)
Challenge 1/1
Phrenic Pool 0/3
Wand of Magic Missile (3rd) 14 charges remaining
The fight nears a bloody end, though who will prevail remains unknown. Cats slashes the wraith, tearing into shadowy pieces. The Mariner clashes with the Captain, and though Fearless batters it psyche with mental power he cannot seem to finish him off.
Pinkie fights on the lower deck, slowly getting the better of his foe.
The wraith swipes at the Mariner again.
Though badly injured the Captain fights without fear.
INITIATIVE
Effects: magic circle vs evil
Buccaneers
Captain -112
Cats (36/45, normally 52) *-2 Con, Shield other from BB, freedom of movement
Fearless (11/46) *Shield of faith +3
Mariner (28/119) *Prot from Cold
Pinkie (43/76)
Feeling really light headed...
Pinkie growls struggling with some internal arguement as he hacks at his foe, horns sprouting from his forehead as he gets angrier. "I'm trying....NO..I said NO!"
Round 6
Cats hacks at the remaining foes.
to hit;
damage
to hit;
damage
[ dice]1d20+11[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+6[/dice] slashing damage.
[ dice]1d20+6[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+6[/dice] slashing damage.
[ dice]1d20+12+2[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d10+7+4+4[/dice] damage.
AC: 21 +1 Circle Prot Evil+1 Shield Other
HP: 52/52-17+19-25+
LoH: 3/4 used
[ dice]1d20+10 damage.
[ dice]1d20+8[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d8+8[/dice] damage.
Catrenrae’s Gift: 1/2 used.
Mini Smite: 1/1 used: Once per day as a swift action, you can add your Charisma bonus to your attack rolls and deal 1 additional point of damage for each class level you have against evil creatures for 1 round. You must have a good alignment to take this trait.
+6 Bab +4 Dex +1 magic +1 PBS -2 DA -2 Rapid= +8/+8 to hit
+2 Str +1 magic +4 DA+1 PBS = +8 damage
Cats and The Mariner cut down the enemy Captain. As he falls his body begins to dissolve into ash and smoke, and his tricorn falls off and rolls across the deck.
The last buccaneer falls quickly to the rest of the Watchmen.
As the battle ends the strange red-sailed ship shudders, its decking pulling up in places, chains rattling below. It growls like a living beast and seems to speak.
"What?" Fearless looks around. "You say something Pinkie?" He looks confused. "I heard someone say Denizens of Leng never die. Captain Vadrack is my master. He will come again. And his master, the great and terrible Weiralai, will follow." Fearless grabs the tricorn and plops it onto his head, tipping it sideways a small bit so it stays in place.
Cats moves to retrieve the tricorne, using his rusty blade to pick it up and hand it to Mariner. "Catiner, I believe this is yours. You are my Catptain."
Cats turns to look at Fearless, then his eyes narrow at Pinkie.
"Who are you? Where are you? Because you're not here because we're not here. Where the cat are you?" Cats thinks about leveling his sword at Pinkie, but does not yet. "Cattie? What happened to you?"
"No We here,but your not here. Crap I'm naked!"Pinkie starts digging around the corpses trying to outfit himself as he talks."These boneheads came and shanghaied us and now we are here."Pinkie stands up straight "You are here to help me get back right?"
The Mariner takes the tricorn and and wipes the dreamy sweat off his brow. "Thanks Cats. Now..." he looks over to the young Pinkie and back and forth, and back and forth, at Cats, "What the hell am I looking at?"
"Hey I had to sort some rules with my aunt and uncle among others then i came looking for you guys......yes that is what happened .....im getting to that...now quiet you we talked about this."
Shaking his head he continues
"Then these guys showed up and got all piratey and shanghaied me. Its been easy enough to get out of the belly of that beast"
He then throws any weapon he can find at the other boat
"but with nowhere to go once out id get caught"
Fearless eyes Pinkie suspiciously. Awfully familiar of him to show up with a bunch of pirates and a story that matches! Is he in cahoots with the bald, sex crazed shapeshifter?
"Welcome back Pinkie! We though you got snatched up like The Twin!" Fearless looks around and goes back to grab the rod. "Suppose we wake up for real this time?"
"You are here to help me get back right?"
Cats looks at Mariner, then Brother, then Fearless, as confused look on his face. He won't lie to the guy, but also, he *really really* wants to.
"Uh, we didn't come here *not* look for you. We just sort of thought you were dead or more dead or catting super dead, you know? And also, you know, these are our dreams, and I sort of catting expect my dreams to have more naked hot babes...and you know...not what you look like," Cat explains.
Pinkie Starts pacing"So your not REALLY here like i am"he looks at the 3 in front of him pleedingly You gottta help me figure out this thing" pointing at the deck of the ship"I think its my only way back
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"I think its my only way back
Cats looks confused, unable to figure out either what Pinkie is saying or confused about the rules of the dream world.
"What are you catting about?" Cats looks at Fearless, looking for some back up that probably won't come. "Dude, it's fine that your dream form is here...but where is your *real* body? We don't catting know where you are...and are sort of busy trying to, you know, stop the bad guy from doing bad things...that may involves retrieving memories that I'm pretty sure that I don't want. Also, you have to remember how much Brother Catterfly snores at night...not you're not better off where you are."
"What the boys trying to say is...Hey WE talked about this ....i got it thanks..." Taking a deep breath Pinkie continues "They Accualy came and got me on this thing.I cant wake up. This boat ....all right all right ...ship whatever took them to get me. I wake up here. The boat haas to magic me back but it might be a bit pissed"
Dude, it's fine that your dream form is here...but where is your *real* body?"The Mariner gives Pinkie a good hard poke in the arm. And then another. "..."
Finally admitting, "I don't know what the hell I'm trying to prove. I mean he feels real, hasn't turned into a vampire like Skywin, yet. But real here means spit. If we wake up, are we gonna find Pinkie pulling up portside in barge? And if we don't, will he be here when we dream back? - I wish that fat SOB didn't wake up but I'm going to let him have his way with our bodies unattended. Let's get out of here."
The Mariner checks the bodies for any stash they can find for the next jaunt, then, finds a spot and tries to wake up.
Fearless hadn't even thought of Brother Butterfly messing with their bodies. It gives him a shudder. "Probably caressing some door while he is at it." Fearless then tries to wake up once more.
"Well, maybe we should agree to meet cat here tomorrow night? I dunno how else to do it? Or if we'd want to meet back here or anywhere? We're going to wake up soon, but I doubt we'll be able to find you or vice versa. We're going to...uh...we're headed to..." Cats rubs the back of his neck trying to think of the next destination of the boat. "We're on Lake Catcatian, I think?"
Cats looks at Mariner, who may be able to explain where they are in the real world.
"Well we aint going nowhere....what about the Boat...i know its magical...no it hasn't talked to me....alright alright." Pinkie sighs dreading the thought of a night alone. "ok boat what do i gotta do for you to get you to take me back. i know you can hear me you freeking dingy so speak up."
"Wait are you saying you don't think you can wake up like us? Or maybe you will wake up wherever you body is." Fearless thinks on this for a bit. "How can we possibly find each other after waking? Meet in a certain port? We can wait for you."
"That's it I cant wake like you my body is here but this boat takes my body back and forth and if we can get the boat to go back i think it has to be near yours in the real world....i explained it just fine....no you couldn't have done better...well you don't know any more about it than I do so keep quiet"
Rolling his eyes he adds"Sorry apparently someone missed you guys and would like to talk but there are agreements in place"
"Agreements like what? And who wants to talk to us?" Fearless wonders if Pinkie is hearing voices.
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"C-A-T", Cats spells aloud. "That spells 'WHAT!?' What are you talking about Cattie? What? Where? What catgreements?"
"Agreements with my aunt and uncle....Shhh you did agree....yes all of you....anyway its not important I got them under control mostly."
The red-sailed leng ship shudders and grumbles beneath the feet of the Watchmen. A yardarm swings in and nearly brains Cats.
Pinkie knows that the captain of the ship called it the Bloodwind and treated it sort of like a horseman treats an unruly horse. The wheel seemed to act as it’s reigns.
Pinkie moves in behind the wheel of the ship "Okay Bloodwind i want off here ass much as you want us off so ..... third start to the east and onword till morning"then he clicks his heals together and adds "theres no place like home"
The ship growls. It’s wheel yanks at Pinkie’s hands, trying to pull free of his grip.
"Anyway its not important I got them under control mostly."
"What?" Cats asks, still confused. "Are your aunt and uncle trapped with you? How can we cat you?"
The Mariner had been squinting his eyes to wake himself up. After a few minutes pass, he still is hears the trio rattling on about extended family members. He pops one eye open "What the barmy is going on? One of you stop imagining Pinkie so we can get the hell out of here"
Cats tries to wake, eventually succeeding. He looks for Butterfly and tries to explain how they will never see Pinkie again because they don't know where he is in the living world.
Fearless tries and fails to comprehend Pinkie’s jumbled ramblings. Unsure if the nine-fingered kid is even real, the Mariner tries to wake himself. With little idea how to rescue the lost little Watchboy, Cats focuses on waking to find Brother Butterfly.
Meanwhile, Pinkie grab the wheel of the Bloodwind, grits his teeth, and wills the surly ship to take him back to the waking world. The ship groans and shudders, and a stiff gust of wind blows in to fill its sails. It then suddenly lurches upwards, rising from water and lifting into the sky!
Higher and higher it goes, laughing with an evil disembodied chuckle.
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Fearless tries to wake himself before the ship flies off with him on board as well. "Find us in the real world Pinkie. Meet us at the port of...." he drowns out as he wakes up able to barely call out the name of the nearest Port.
"....OH....probably not good."
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Cats hopes for a bit more explanation from Brother, but realizes the man might not know everything...or even anything.
"Well, that's pretty uncatisfying. I dunno where Cattie is. Or where we might find him. We tried," Cats grouses. "Okay, we can try again tomorrow night, but not sure how it's going to help if Cattie doesn't even know where he is."
"Maybe there is something in the books." Fearless yawns and climbs back into his chair, prepared to take on a full night of exhaustion to find a way to contact Pinkie to their location.
The Mariner awakens on the creaking deck, opening his eyes to see Brother already on his feet and pacing about. "Wanna tell us what happened back there Big Beef?"