Janus, for the moment safe from targeting, fires once again at the female.
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Alexander blasts the sahuagin with glitterdust, leaving both blinded (the female was already blinded by Dantes' efforts)! Janus fires, catching the female right in the midsection. A second later, the bolt explodes, creating a small vacuum and leaving the water blue with blood and viscera. Chumtooth stabs and bites, and manages to hit with the first attack, while the second is turned by the male's thick scales. The fishman roars in anger and stabs and swipes at the pirate captain, trying to rend his foe. Both stabs with the trident get through Chumtooth's defenses, though the other attacks miss.
(save vs. Fortitude (DC 16 or be slowed one round)
(save vs. Fortitude (DC 16 or be slowed one round)
Gritting his pointed teeth through the excruciating pain, Chumtooth wills himself to continue attacking the sahaugin king. His calcified muscles and bleeding wounds make it possible to only make one valiant thrust at the monster with his harpoon.
Alexander watches as his spell seemingly has little to no effect on the warriors and rolls his eyes. but nonetheless moves back to support his fellows, hoping that at the very least hoping the blindness from the spell would let his blade slip into a softer area of scales. He darted in and thrust the blade towards the male's chest.
Why don't ye try ye luck on someone with a bit more finesse at swordplay? Or afraid I'll gut ye like the fish ye are?
Opportune Parry and Riposte (Ex): At 1st level, when an opponent makes a melee attack against the swashbuckler, she can spend 1 panache point and expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt to parry that attack. The swashbuckler makes an attack roll as if she were making an attack of opportunity; for each size category the attacking creature is larger than the swashbuckler, the swashbuckler takes a –2 penalty on this roll. If her result is greater than the attacking creature’s result, the creature’s attack automatically misses. The swashbuckler must declare the use of this ability after the creature’s attack is announced, but before its attack roll is made. Upon performing a successful parry and if she has at least 1 panache point, the swashbuckler can as an immediate action make an attack against the creature whose attack she parried, provided that creature is within her reach. This deed’s cost cannot be reduced by any ability or effect that reduces the number of panache points a deed costs.
Seeing Faengrim fall, Dantes prepares to intervene more directly. He casts true strike and readies his axe.
Janus sighs in the watery corridor and fires yet another shot.
Rolling for confirmation.
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Perhaps it is the luck of the gods, or perhaps it is borne of desperation, but everyone's attack hits the fishman! The combined assault is more than even he can weather. Chumtooth and Alexander's attacks set him staggering, and Janus finishes the job, blowing him into so much chum! The trident he was using sinks to the cavern floor, still grasped by one scaly hand.
Alexander pulls out one of his wands and rests the tip on himself.
Well. Alex says, throwing a smile to the others.
That was fun. Let us pause for a moment and catch our breath. Also, someone should get that trident for our cap'n here.
Chumtooth points to the fallen Faengrim. "Use the wand to close his wounds. He is close to death," he says to Alexander.
Meanwhile, Chumtooth takes a moment to swim into the bloody mess of the sahaugin king's remains. As he searches for its hopefully intact head, he grabs several gobbets of flesh and devours them.
Once he locates the head a determines its condition, keeping it if it is intact, he retrieves the trident from the floor of the cave.
"Once each of you has healed yourselves, look for hidden and hoarded treasure. We will take what we have bled for."
Perception
In the aftermath, Dantes will cast detect magic on the remains of their foes. Perhaps it was a magic that made them so formidable.
"Sadly my potions do not work so well under the water. But, if we make it back to the ship I will be more than happy to minister to your wounds." The monotone way Janus pronounces every syllable belies the man's sadistic glee when applying his surgical arts.
I don't know how far under Faengrim is.
When he's healed up, Faengrim will help search.
Faengrim can make good use of that trident.
Chumtooth makes use of the cure light wounds wand to heal himself.
Alexander will help the others heal up and then looks around.
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Among the personal items in Krelloort’s bedchamber are a gold-plated conch shell engraved with images of sea elves and hippocampi that holds a selection of putrid fish and humanoid livers, a gilt tattooing kit and a burnished brass hand mirror. In the seaweed bed, there is also a gold Varisian music box (no longer functional) that holds the ivory image of a dancing harrower. Inscribed on the underside of the lid are the words “For my darling Isabella.”
Behind the massive throne (which also radiated magic, Dantes, my error, sorry) Alexander finds a secret door. The chamber hidden behind the great throne is empty save for two chests. One is a iron-banded chest decorated with skulls that seems to have held up remarkably well considering its immersion in seawater. The other is a stone box with the image of a fish-headed demon carved onto its lid, whose seams appear to have been sealed by lead.
Well well well, what do we have here... Alexander almost purrs as he sees the chests.
He then casts detect magic, and inspects each for traps. If he detects no traps, he would attempt to see if he could open them.
Faengrim takes a few practice swings with the trident. "So. How do I make it turn people to corral?"
Knowledge (history)
Dantes examines the throne closely. "Astonishing! It is Cyclopian! From the empire of GHol-Gan if I am not mistaken."
Spellcraft
Janus continues to float watchfully, crossbow at the ready for anything that might try to sneak up upon them.
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The first chest is securely locked but appears to have no traps. However, Dantes notices that the chest itself radiates magic. The stone box seems harmless enough, but the fact that it is sealed with lead gives Alexander brief pause. Is the lead keeping people out, or keeping something in?
Dantes asks Faengrim if he can examine the trident. Looking the weapon over, he says, "Best I can figure, you simply will it to do so. It would seem, however, that it can only be so used seven times each 24 hour period. It is particularly dangerous to humans, however."
Alexander sets aside the lead lined chest aside before looking to the others.
did anyone find any keys on our late enemies? Or do I need to try and jimmy this boy open? ;
"Perhaps it is best to bring the chests up out of these caves first," Chumtooth suggests. "If it is trapped and releases some foul magic inside this place, it could be worse than if we open it under the sky."
"The box holds something of great value or great danger. Why else make it part of the floor? If you wish to open it, you may do so, but the rest of the crew should move far back from it," Chumtooth says once he realizes the box cannot be moved.
Alexander nods.
Well then, stand back a ways, you know what they say right? Curiousity killed the cat...but satisfaction brought it back.
Dantes will stay with Alexander until he is ready to open it. When says he is ready, Dantes grants him +2 natural armor, then +2 dexterity, then the dwarf bolts away to a safe distance.
Alexander pops open the chest and waves red cloud after covering his face with his scarf. As it disperses, he peeks in and cracks a wide grin.
Well well, I think we found some actual buried treasure haha!
”Fill bags and packs with what we can carry, then we make our way back out,” Chumtooth says. ”Take the chest with us, he says, pointing to the ornate one not fixed to the floor.
Faengrim will try to heft the one chest on his own.
Chumtooth turns to the dwarf wizard. "Dantes, is the magic of this chest dangerous? Tell Alexander if it will kill him before he tries to open it."
"We get it back to the ship and I can take a look, chances are I can identify the items."
Alexander takes his own look at the magic over the chest, in hopes that this chest does not also contain a blood money trap.