"Good riddance!" exclaims Silvio as the final spider skitters away.
Silvio keeps a close eye out for more rotting wood or other structural weakness on the decrepit boat. .
"Thank you, Sera." He says as she checks the wounds out. He follows Krojun towards the door
Ruke assists Silvio as the rogue does a thorough search of the walls of the boat, attempting to find the outline of a hidden door somewhere within the hold.
Working together, Silvio and Ruke find the secret door in the hull and push it open, revealing the full extent of the underpier.
A narrow space exists under the fishery, with about four feet of room between the floor of the building above and the languid, foamy river water below. Wooden pilings support the building, and moss and cobwebs hang thick from ropes and rusted chains between them. A wooden walkway floats on the river surface, winding along the inner wall of pilings that supports the building’s frame above, leading from the sodden barge to the east all the way west to a wooden door that leads into an understructure below the fishery’s landbound half.
A shark's fin can be seen moving around, betraying the presence of the predator swimming lazy circles around the fishery.
"Well, lets get on with it then. If none of you men will take the lead, let me show you how it's done." says Sera, making a motion to go, but allowing someone to stop her if they want. Come on, which one of you will take the hint.
As far as you can tell, the pier is sturdy.
Seeing no danger, the paladin follows
Krojun and Staryth being crossing the pier, advancing carefully. The planks seem to hold them fine.
With the path apparently safe, Sera resumes her place in line as they cross the rickety bridge.
Ruke, oblivious to anything except the shark circling in the water makes his way carefully across the pier, definitely not wanting to become shark food before finally tracking down Lamm. "Maybe that shark would appreciate some spiders! We should have brought a few, drat." When the group comes to the door Ruke takes up position behind the massive barbarian, ready to quickly flit into the room and take up a defensive position to support the party.
"After you, Nicolai. I'll watch your back." And let you test out the pier! Silvio smiles and extends his hand out, offering to let Nicolai step onto the pier. Assuming Nicolai does, Silvio will bring up the rear.
The party can easily notice, as soon as they step out from the ship, that a very loud commotion is now coming from the city. Not specifically from near the fishery, but apparently from the whole neighborhood, and perhaps even further, though it is hard to make out much of the goings on from where they are.
Silvio perks his ears up. Does it sound like a battle, or people panicking, or a celebration?
"Well, that's a mysterious ruckus, but we'd better press on."
"He can't have stirred the whole city just to distract us..." The paladin states
The time will soon come to seize your own destiny and unlock your freedom from a long-held grudge. When that time comes, you must think quickly and act swiftly.
While you most likely disregard these words as pointless crock, a shard of yourself feels bolstered by them still. You feel as though your grudge was pushing you forth, and making you more nimble...
Sera ignores the sound of distant chaos, her focus on the task at hand and nothing will stop justice from being served this night.
"Sounds like a riot to me. Let's go."
"Here they come!" The raucous voice of old Lamm rings out, like nails on a chalkboard. "Act lively, you dumb beast!"
The air in the room is chilly and stinks of the river, because of the huge opening in the floor, giving way to the shore five feet below.
Several pilings emerge from the waters to support the roof above, with mossy ropes slung between them. In two places, rusty manacles hang from the ropes over the water. Two five-foot-wide walkways cross the hole’s edge to the other side of the chamber, where a collection of old cabinets, lockboxes, and piles of clutter are strewn about.
Through the door, you see a crossbow bolt fly down into the floor, before the roar of a beast makes itself heard. In the water, a fierce alligator, now bleeding from a crossbow wound, goes into a frenzy, splashing and thrashing about.
"Gotcha!" Yargin booms, flicking a wand in Krojun's direction.
The tip of the wand flares and an orb of greenish liquid flies out, straight for Krojun, only to miss him and splatter against the door nearby, with the recognizeable 'sizzle' of acid gnawing at wood.
"Your time is up, scum!" shrieks Sera as she hears the voices of the men that caused her so much anguish in her youth. The splash of acid serving to remind her that they still have a little fight in them yet. "Abadar! Shield this man so that me may better serve your justice. Krojun, if you must cleave your way through Yargin to get Lamm, so be it. My vengeance can be done through another if that is what Abadar has decreed."
Yargin flicks the wand a second time, but this time, the instrument does nothing but sputter off a few sparks and a puff of smoke.
"Dumb thing! Work, damn you!" Yargin snarls.
In a frenzy, the alligator known as Gobblegut can be clibing up the opposite side of the hole and snapping wildly at the air over it before falling back in.
"At long last the moment of vengeance has arrived" Nicolai rushes headlong into the room and begins gesturing wildly as arcane energy crackles between his fingertips, finally bringing his hands together both thumbs touching as his other fingers splay out into a fan shape as coruscating lights spray forth from his hands bathing both Gaedren and Yargin in light.
Ruke continues to told, waiting to see where Krojun and Silvio will end up in the battle.
Staryth waits until Krojun goes, his current plan to use his longer reach weapon to back the barbarian up.
You are correct, I was thinking about the run action but forgot about the turn. Nicolai can double move to where he is and will cast next round. we can keep it is it was and just call his next round a wash unless someone steps into his area of effect rhen they will have to make a save as well. Regardless he will cast his spell, the others will just be collateral damage if the spell takes them out.
Ruke steps into the room behind Krojun, cursing under his breath that the distance is so far, and continues to move past Sera to stand beside Nicolai, readying himself for whatever trick the wizard has up his sleeve.
Staryth cannot keep pace with the speedy barbarian, but he tries to stay close to join against the same foe
"Time for some payback, Gaedren! Remember me? Your little Lamm is now all grown up."
Silvio also sees that the wizard is preparing a spell, but pays him no heed. Gaedren was his. Silvio runs straight in to the enemy.
A vile smile traces itself on Gaedren's face when he sees Silvio enter the room.
"So you came back against my warnings, huh? I knew I should have taken your head instead of your arm. You were always a rotten apple!"
Lamm grins. He may be old, but he's anything but washed up.
"You were always a foolish one, too. Time to fix my old mistake." Gaedren grins, before lunging forward and attempting to bullrush Silvio.
Gaedrenn's shoulder, surprisingly tough for a man his age, plants itself into Silvio's solar plexus, knocking the wind out of his lungs and throwing him off balance. Silvio is pushed back and his right foot goes over the edge, landing on his feet in the shallow waters of the shore, unhurt.
Given the way Gobblegut seems to eye the lad suddenly, however, that much may not last.
Sera pauses a moment, waiting for Nicolai to finish casting before she rushes in. Unable to get to Yargin, she settles for trying to hit Gaedrenn with her morningstar.
Seeing the muscular barbarian advance with thunderous steps, Yargin's eyes widen.
He draws a small pouch from his belt and, stepping out of the corner, lobs it at the muscular warrior.
The tanglefoot bag misses Krojun and lands behind him, splattering resin onto the path, but proving ineffectual.
Gobblegut, meanwhile, turns its attention to Silvio, menacing teeth bared. It crawls over to him, half underwater, and snaps at his leg. Silvio agilely leaps out of the way, avoiding the attack.
"Woooooah!" Silvio takes a swipe at the old man as he teeters off the edge.
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Silvio strikes and lightly injures Gaedrenn as he falls, but the man's grin makes it clear he considers the injury he got absolutely worth the dive Silvio took.