Ursion ignores the toothy fish flapping around him and sends another arrow in the direction of the vanished hag.
Ursion hears his arrow make a thunk in midair! The fish continue to glide through the air clumsily and bite at you!
Suddenly appearing out of midair, flying above the deck of the ship, is the hideous green hag! As it reappears it swipes its claw at Patches!
red: 6 dmg
pink: 5 dmg
blue: 8 dmg
Shoallana continues to stab at the creature attached to her, in her mind, naming it the bane of her existence, at the moment.
Harold continues to filet the fish!
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Though the hag's claw rips a gash in his fur, Patches resists the weakening side effect of the attack.
Tapping in the mystical forces of his secret elemental bloodline, he slashes back at the hag with a blade that suddenly bursts into fire!
Shoallana spits one of the fish creatures on her rapier as Harold destroys another! Patches' blade catches the hag in the side, leaving a deep sickly green fluid leaking out onto the deck!
pink: 5 dmg
Ursion drops his bow and draws a kukri, slashing at the fish attached to him.
"I've been hit!" Glubby yells as the flying piranha molests his midsection.
The severely injured Glubby tries to fend off the fish by stabbing it again.
Glubby spears the fish near him and Ursion cuts into the last fish remaining. The fish still glides in the air and bites at the slayer though:
Plus automatic grapple if hit
Plus (forgot last time) 1d4 bleed on your turn if hit
Meanwhile the flying hag continues to claw at Patches.
yel: 5 dmg
Shoallana switches her bane to the other fish and then stabs it.
Harold moves forward to assist Patches with the hag!
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Shoallana spits the fish and Harold moves in to help take down the hag!
Unfortunately you have little time to recover: it seems that your distraction with the hag and the fish has allowed someone else to board the ship and as soon as the hag falls the captain's cabin door flies open to reveal a tengu wielding a rapier. "For Bloody Besmara!" he squawks. Two halflings, a male and female, step around from behind the cabin to join the attack.
Harold fires a at the tengu!
Glubby tries to staunch his bleeding wound while the group attacks.
"Gah! Musta nicked an artery! Time for poor ol' Glubby to die once more!" the frog bemoans.
Harold's missile hits the tengu as Glubby tries to see to his own gaping wound.
Shoallana begins singing a bawdy song as she lowers her sword point at the tengu.
Shoallana begins a song to inspire the crew!
Drawing his dragon pistol, Patches scampers along the deck, slipping past Shoallana to get a good angle on the new troublemakers before firing off a blast of pellets into all three.
Patches' shot blasts through the tengu and one of the halflings, the male halfling taking quick cover from the scatter shot.
Ursion closes with the tengu in one short step, studying his feathered foe intently before slashing down with one kukri.
Ursion's stab is well-aimed and hits the tengu just beneath its wing!
The tengu casts a spell in one hand and instantly his rapier glows red and leaks flames. He jabs back at Ursion!
But Ursion dodges the hit! The two halflings then leap out in front to defend the tengu!
Shoallan grits her teeth as a blade sinks into her side. Stabbing with her rapier, she tries to strike both little people.
Patches takes a flesh wound from the halfling, but doesn't let it stop him from slashing back.
Ursion takes a short step forward to flank one halfling before aiming a pair of futile slashes at the tengu.
Harold moves forward to attack the tengu!
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Glubby tries to apply more pressure to the bite wound, but the loss of blood seems to have weakened him too much.
Shoallana takes down both halflings! Patches and Harold then knock the tengu unconscious!
tengu: potions of cure moderate wounds (2), tanglefoot bag, thunderstone; Other Gear +1 chain shirt, mwk rapier, bag of holding (type I), +1 cloak of resistance, +1 ring of protection, bandolierUE, belt pouch, mwk backpack, spell component pouch, 3,315 gp
As soon as Lanteri returns and sees the tengu, she offers you congratulations and tells you that Hyrix and his companions are mutineers and should have already been keelhauled.
Final repairs on the Magpie Princess take a few days, during which time you can get to know the crew better, including a few officers you haven’t yet met. After that, Captain Lanteri calls together the entire crew and informs them about the existence of the Three Reasons to Live, and the pieces’ importance in finding the lost treasure of Jemma Redclaw. Her husband and cocaptain, Warvil Lanteri, whom she shot shortly before putting down the mutiny led by Hyrix, split the mysterious magic item into three parts but Lanteri knows that bringing all three parts back together again will lead you all straight to the treasure. So now all you have to do is track down the missing parts.
She then orders the crew to set sail, as there is much to be done before they can claim the awaiting treasure.
Captain Lanteri and the rest of the crew, now including yourselves, set sail on the newly refitted Magpie Princess, seeking the remaining parts of the strange magical relic Three Reasons to Live, which, legend tells, should lead you to a great lost treasure. As you set sail from Motaku Island, Captain Lanteri outlines a bit more about this history. "You see, a decade ago, my husband was part of the piratical trio made up of himself, Zara "Stormeyes" Dahoath, and Rahil Herkalm. Back then they assaulted and slew the great brine dragon Nicorydine and discovered in her hoard a magic instrument along with documents that claimed it was the secret to accessing the legendary treasure of Captain Jemma Redclaw. They split the instrument into three pieces and agreed that whichever lived longest would inherit all of what they came to call the Three Reasons to Live."
Captain Varossa Lanteri says she became aware of this only recently, but has spent considerable time since then gathering information about the other two captains. "Warvil was the last of the three to die and I intend to find the pieces and use them to claim the treasure." At this point, she places a bottle containing a weathered piece of parchment on the table, then carefullly extracts the parchment and unfolds it for you to read. Written with charcoal, the short letter includes a rough sketch of a short, twisted musical horn at the bottom.
Varossa,
If you're reading this, then I am most likely already winking at Pharasma. Never before you did I find my equal in greed and love of the sea, and I don't regret any of the scars you've given me. Since it seems likely I'm a dead man, I bequeath to you the last of my possessions of any worth. This odd little horn may seem broken and useless, but it's the key to the lost treasure of Jemma Redclaw. For safekeepting, I secured it with the guardian of winds on this isle where I find myself marooned. It's part of a greater instrument. If you desire incredible wealth, retrieve it and then speak with Stormeyes or Harkalm. You'll have to knock some heads to get at the gold, but that's far from new to you.
If I ever loved anyone, you were it.
Warvil
Varossa explains, "My husband was stranded on an island he named Warvil's Folly and wrote the note when he thought he was going to die there. He later managed to excape the island, though I have no idea how, but he kept the letter and I found it among his things after he died."
"I now need your help to find each of the pieces. Are you in?"
Shoallana nods as if the question is unnecessary. "Of course."
Glubby nods, eager to be back sailing. "Let's go! Heave ho! Raise anchor and all that lot!"
After looting the dead and making an offering to Besmara (tossing their corpses overboard), Patches holds up the magic ring found on the tengu.
"I'd like to claim this, or the chain shirt."
The Magpie Princess has left Lilywhite and taken to the open seas. The ship is approaching an unnamed rock spire rising majestically out of the ocean when over the wind you begin to hear a haunting melodic refrain echoing across the water....
The sound is too much for of the crew and they begin pushing the other sailors over, trying to take control of the vessel and steer it towards the rock. "Aye, that nest needs protectin'! We gotta save Jezsindre!" they shout.
Somehow Ursion manages to keep his wits about him. He tries to clock the nearest charmed sailor with the flat of his blade.
Ursion knocks one of the crewmen unconscious, leaving two more who have fallen for the siren's song!
The water blast is not enough to knock the enthralled crewman aside and the two dazzled pirates leap at Ursion. "They would harm Jezsindre! We must protect her!"
Patches succumbs to the song and, drawing his blade, leaps at Ursion. "Stay back!!"
"Oh sweet princesses of the sea! Come take me back to my rightful place!" Glubby screams overboard as he tries to move closer to them.
Harold grimaces as his new spell fails to work. What do we do now? Seeing Glubby try to move toward the wailing he tries to prevent him from going overboard!
The two enthralled crew members have gotten ahold of the tiller and are steering the ship towards the pointed rock to reach and protect the siren who has taken ahold of their minds!
The ship has now pulled to within 80' of the rock and the lovely siren takes flight above the rock as the timbre of her song changes.