"Nothing to see here! Must be under the boat." Yorikata shouts back.
Another something rocks the boat, after a second you can hear wood that sounds like it is groaning under pressure.
Yorikata climbs down from the crow's nest, just in case the boat falls apart.
Something is wrong. Do you want to see what it is?
Lanneth offers to help the captain onto the deck to see what is going on.
Dain follows the noise to see what is up.
"I think I have an idea, get your people down stairs." Ragg says standing and going out on to deck with Lanneth.
A loud bellow comes below decks, Balder and Gran't' get almost the full brunt of the bellow as it comes from behind a wall and the locked door that divides the ship in two.
Yorikata does as told and moves downstairs with her daggers ready.
Dain gets his bow out and nocked.
The crew, Balder and Gran't' all back away from the wall just in time as a large 4 armed creature comes bursting through.
Lanneth moves down, staying a ways back from the door and close to the stairs to get back up.
I have a bad feeling about this.
Dain shoots the nasty
Dain lands a solid blow on the Very large ape like creature. The beast lets out a roar and rushes forward at the group, it looks a bit unsteady on it's 6 limbs, Oar poles snapping it moves. As the creature gets close to the main mast it slows moving a bit gingerly around the mast.
Yorikata uses the dim light to sneak into a corner hiding from the ape. There she waits for it to come past and stab it in it's back.
Balder readies his Large mace for the beast to come to him.
Dain ploinks again
Lannth focuses her eyes and curses the beast.
The large best rumbles a head, stopping 10' short of Balder and Gran't' Swinging 1 of 4 large arms at them.
Yorikata takes that chance to stab out with her dagger, unleashing a torch like light source on the mid deck, the poison still in her veins softens her blow a bit.
With Lanneth preparing the ape for a big fail, Yorikata gives the beast the evil eye.
Balder Steps forward, trying to buy some time for his companions.
The cramped space hampers Balder's swing, his blade catching on some rope that is hanging.
Dain shoots
Night Faries!!! Come help us now!
Lanneth calls before cracking madly at what is about to happen.
Dain's arrow finds its mark moments before Lanneth's hex settles upon the beasts mind.
The Large creature starts to look a bit hazy, eyes already looking addled become more so. Slumping to the floor the creature begins to sleeping.
Yorikata uses her special knowledge of anatomy and the fact the ape isn't able to hinder her to stab some main artery.
Sure hope no one was going to buy that and pay the crew a bunch of money
Well if they were, they should have learned to put their toys away more securely.
That one has no belt pouch. Yorikata thinks and checks instead where the ape came from.
Yorikata ends the giant creature with a single blow to the neck, hot blood stains the deck as the life escapes the body. Behind where there was once a door you can see the Storage room of the boat. As Yorikata starts to move foot steps can be heard behind them, "What happened?" Ragg says being helped down by a crew member.
As Ragg enters the rowing room he sees what happened. "He was drugged and locked up, how did this happen?" Ragg leans against the door for support
"He was? Last time I checked we were drugged. And where were he locked up?" Yorikata inquires.
Seems like someone put the drugs in the wrong food... Lanneth says acidly. Not even bothering to hide her ill temper with the situation.
Someone took it's drugs so it stopped being drugged?
Ragg moves forward slowly towards the hold, making his way around the large creature,
Balder moves beside Ragg his short sword at the ready, Ragg makes his way towards a very large cage, the door is wide open no damage can be seen done to the cage.
"So are we throwing the ape over board and go back to moving the boat? Or will there be some inquiries, about the lack of drugging that ape?" Yorikata wants to know.
Lanneth looks over at the big monster she just put down.
What is that thing? And do you have anything more on this ship we should know about?
Dain readies an arrow in case something else lunges out. Are there any more creatures like that?
"We were ta sell it in the fighting pits of Urgir, where I used to fight." Ragg says "It was the only one, it is a Girallon, from the Mwagi expanse. Was going to make me a lot of money." Ragg moves about the cargo hold, everyone can see there are cache's of weapons and suits of Armor down here as well.
The lock appears to have been just opened, no tampering with it
Near the front of the boat behind a barrel is a trap door that leads to another level of the boat.
Looks like the lock was left opened. Who was in charge of the cage?
Ragg things on it a minute, "Taug was on duty this week for the cargo hold."
Taug is a twin with Shaug, the have facial tattoo's each of them on one side of their face that is the same as the others
Well let's go find Taug.
Yorikata looks out if Gashnak is around. "I still believe our cook had his hands in that."
You might want to find and talk to Shaug too since they are clearly siblings. You can tell by the face tatoos that both have. One might know something about what the other is up to.
"Aye we should talk to them, I will have them brought down here. Gashnakh we will question after." Ragg says. The crewmen with him leaves to go amd get the twins.
"Do you want to talk to them together? Or apart? I need to be there when you do ask them questions." Ragg says sitting down on a chair.
"You're the captain, and the questions should be obvious. How about you ask them, and we just watch?" Yorikata suggests
Question separately, so they have no idea what is going on when one is questioned.
"Aye I will ask em stuff, Just figured ye would be wanting to as well." Ragg eyes Yorikata "We can take em up to my cabin, talk to them in there. Seperately" Ragg says standing by himself and moving back towards the top deck. "Bring them to my cabin" Ragg bellows as he makes his way up the stairs.
Taug is brought in first, Ragg sits in his chair, still feeling slightly off from the bad food less than 24 hours before.
"Why are they here Ragg? I was told ye wanted to talk with me, not with audience." The half orc almost snarls out.
"We want to learn from him how to be captain in a difficult situation." Yorikata offers as explanation with her sweetest smile.