No-Eyes turned his eyepatched face to Suny and applied another dose of his flask to her shredded feet as he cast Cure Light Wounds on her as well.
"Here; you too lassie!"
damage.
Happily hugs Bellamy, (^_^)
Then looks about for where Granny has gotten to...
The hag is floating about 30 feet up, over the water instead of the deck. She scowls down at the group as blood trickles down her seaweed-covered figure in droves.
With a sudden and extraordinarily rude gesture, the hag drops from the air and plummets into the dark waters below. As the gentle waves lap over the spot where she vanished, the angry little fishies give up on their endless hunger and attempt to flop towards the sides of the ship.
A strange quiet falls over the ship. The deck lays half-covered with a ruined sailed and splattered with blood of humans, hags, and fish. The empty rowboat the hag arrived in bobs gentle beside the Magpie Princess. Signs of the battle are evident on each of you... but most clearly on the unconscious Nhati.
Ol' Salty is used to deadly battles. Not with hags and flying razor fish, mind you, but deadly battles all the same. Wasting no time, nor sigh of relief, the old sailor goes about making sure no one is bleeding too heavily. He promises everyone some magical healing in the morning, before passing out on the deck from exhaustion.
The barbaric pirate continues to ignore the blood trickling from his wounds as he yells a throaty war cry. Swiftly, in a desperate last attempt to take the creature's life, he casts his boarding axe at her... but it goes wide.
Grunting as the thought of losing his fine axe to the ocean sets in, he dives into the waters to retrieve it. Once back on deck, his scowl is unmovable, even by the sight of ever-smiling Suny.
The moody sailor begins to bind up his own wounds, using torn bits of the shredded sail in silent ragefulness. The thought of repairing it makes him even more sour, if that's even humanly possible.
Only then, after his own wounds are bound, does he look around to see if the others are okay.
The others might notice that blood continues to ooze into the fresh sail-bandages, however, dripping to the deck. Apparently, canvas does not make a very effective bandage, and neither does rageful blood-pumping help any...
Still feeling the worst for wear after the fight's adrenaline has worn off Suny slumps down for a moment before moving to help Nhati and any one else. She also looks about.
"Oooo... we's got some cleanin' ta' do...." As her gaze takes in the blood, gouges and canvas strewn every where.
No-Eyes will determine who's bleeding and has two more Cure Lights to dispense before he has to rest.
Nhati stands up, seriously wounded and shaken, but alive. "Did we win? Did she get away or did we kill her?"
Looking at Bellamy, whom she saw hovering over her holding a potion, she says, "Thanks -- I believe it was you who saved my life?"
Looking around, she says, "I wonder what would have happened to this ship if we hadn't been here? Hopefully captain Redclaw will be happy she hired us. Unless that attack came because we were here...."
The dark waters surround Reijo as he fishes for his axe, and you swear you feel the vicious eyes of the hag glaring at you the whole time. Perhaps not wishing to push her luck, the quick dive turns up his axe and he returns to the water's surface without further event.
As he climbs back aboard the Magpie Princess, however, Reijo makes an interesting discover. In addition to the rowboat now sitting empty at the side of the ship, another sides at the aft end... just below the captain's quarters. Even in the dim moonlight, it appears as though one of the windows is open...
With a sigh and some wincing Suny gets up and begins first helping people in their recoveries... and thence beginning the job of setting things to right on the deck.
Nahti says, "If anybody could spare some magical healing, I'm in pretty bad shape."
(Does Reijo tell us what he sees?)
Sunny scampers over to poor Nhati, though the tanned Elf can do little more than offer moral support,
"I dun't got no skills at soothin'." She laments. "Maybe.... I could give ye a nice back rub? Help ease yer mind some?" She offers helpfully. (^_^)
"Thanks -- I believe it was you who saved my life?"
Bellamy turned his eyepatched face to her and gave a gap toothed grin.
"Hee! All part o' the service lassie!"He will give another performance with his flask to give Nhati another Cure Light Wounds healing, and some other deserving candidate, preferable with bleeding damage healing.
Viktorra sheaths her blade, still feeling the after effects of the hag's strange glare. "Besmara's blessings aren't much for healing... but I can help patch up anyone who might still need a curative kick in the ass."
"Oi," Reijo harshly whispers, "'Nother one of dem dinghies be at th'Cap'n's open winder." With blade and axe still in hand, the sailor sees fit to sneak on over to the aft of the ship and peer overboard...
Suny bounces up and scampers over to the railing where Reijo has disappeared at hearing the hoary sailor's call.
Peering over she notes his gaze being cast astern. She leans out and tries t peer aft herself.
" Whut t'is it ye be seein'?" She calls in reply.
Suny follows Reijo up to the ship's stern and peers over the side into the water... where another rowboat bobs gently below an open window.
Suny scampers back to every one else,
"Here! Some one else come aboard durin' tha' fight!" She informs/whispers to them hurriedly.
"I think Reijo's gone fer a look-see, come on!" She urges her friends even as she scampers towards the Captain's cabin at the stern.
"Ugh," complains Ol' Salty. Picking himself up, the old man sways after Suny like a drunken sailor.
Reijo carefully and stealthily begins to climb down to the side of the open window of the Captain's cabin. When a timber he's using as a foothold lets out a loud creak, the gruff sailor grumbles beneath his breath.
"Bloody Chelish dungheap..." After gruffly whispering obscenities at the ship and its poor construction, he at last carries on down to reach the side of the open window.
Reijo listens intently for sounds coming from within before taking a very careful peek inside the cabin...
Reijo hears someone rustling through the cabin before he sees anything. Suny, listening at the Captain's door, hears the same--if muffled by the rather nice door Lanteri has put there. "Miserable disorganized woman..." In the moonlit light of the chamber, the figure is hard to identify until he takes a single step closer. As the silhouette shifts, you catch sights of the feathers and beak that are unmistakable for a tengu. A pair of ragged-looking halflings stand somewhat closer, a man and a woman. While the fellow digs through what appears to be Captain Lanteri's clothing, the woman's eyes settle on Reijo.
"Boss," she says simply. The tengu turns, obviously frustrated. The halfling simply points, and he follows her gaze to meet Reijo's eyes.
The tengu whips a rapier from his belt, its shimmering point directed at Reijo's window. "By Bloody Besmara... Guess we'll just do this the hard way!"
Suny gulps at the sudden developments then opens the door and steps in.
"Hey-YA there!" (^_^) She greets the fellow brightly.
From outside the door, Nhati looks in and says to the tengu and the two halflings. She says, "Come, let's not do this the hard way. Tell us what you're doing here, and perhaps this can end amicably."
As Suny throws the door open, the tengu and the pair of halflings beside him whirl around. For a moment, there's silence as Suny smiles bright and wide. A smirk graces the tengu's beak.
"Boss, that one's nekkers."
"Yes."
"Should we-"
"Probably."
"Seems rude."
As Nhati pops in to share her thoughts, it's clear that the tengu is somewhat conflicted by this turn of events. "Hyrix Snowfeather," he mumbles, hand on his head and obviously wondering where he went wrong. "I don't see much other way, at this point. It's a little late for explanations and you're all loyal to that traitorous Varosa!"
He raises his rapier and points it at Suny. "It does seem a bit low to kill a... 'charming' naked elf, but no one ever claimed pirates played fair." Laughing, he get ready to charge while his companions grab their weapons...
Round 1:
Gritting his teeth, Ol' Salty gets behind Suny. With a swift prayer to the sea, a cloud of mist swirls around the nekkid elf, granting her protection and modesty at the same time.
Damn this will be a real fight like... says the old man, more to himself.
Suny tilts her head, seeming more puzzled than embarrassed or afraid,
"Here... has ye met afore? Whut's it be a'tween tha' Captain an' yerself? Perhaps we... could come ta' an accord?" She asks.
She skips agilely into the room proper.
Nhati sighs, resigned to combat. "Try to take the Tengu alive," she says to the others. "We need to find out more about this Varosa."
She activates the ability of her cloak to produce a Shield spell, temporarily raising her AC to 16.
Reijo grits his teeth when Nhati mentions keeping Hyrix alive. He realizes this birdman is the one who hired the two werecrocs. But he gathers what sense he can, and realizes Nhati's right.
He needs information. Preferably before he shatters his beak into his skull...
With the burglars distracted by the naked elf, Reijo takes the opportunity to swiftly climb into the room and move in. Drawing his cutlass in one hand and a bloodied bandage from his fish-bitten leg in his other as he moves in to flank with Suny, he hollers loudly at the tengu.
"Oi! Birdie!"
If Hyrix turns to look at Reijo, the tricksy grump smirks as he tosses the sticky, soggy, blood-soaked rag, right into the tengu's face...
No-Eyes starts sounding out a stirring sea-shanty, giving his allies (inspire courage +1 to hit and damage).
Round 1
Hyrix 36/36
Ellara 14/14
Elodin 14/14
While Suny plants herself in the doorway to halt all attempts at escape, Reijo climbs in the same window the thieves entered through with a bloodied bandage in one hand and his blade glistening in the other. Hyrix sneers (a strange gesture, with a beak) and barks back at Suny.
"What's between the cap'n and me is my busi-"
Reijo's words reach the bird and he whirls around, only to get a faceful of dripping bandages. He scrambles to get the rag off his head while his allies draw their bows and, standing near the southern wall of the cabin, launch a pair of arrows at Reijo. One goes wide--straight out the window--but the other manages to nick Reijo's arm.
Behind the immovable Suny, Bellamy starts belting out an inspirational tune while Nhati and Ol' Salty provide a bit of magical defense for the party against the bird-brain and his friends.
Viktorra, still feeling a little woozy from the previous fight, draws her blade and runs up behind Suny. Although equally anxious to impale the bird they'd been warned about--and who was claiming Besmara's blessing to do so!--she didn't want to knock her allies out of the way. Instead, she took the moment to call on some Besmaran blessings of her own, letting the spirit of war guide her blows.
Hyrix rips the cloth from his face, tossing it to the ground. With a very birdy growl of disapproval, he lifts his rapier and levels it Reijo's chest. Arcane energy flows through the tengu's arm and into the blade before he takes a quick quarter-step around Reijo--moving closer to his allies and further from Suny and Vik.
Round 2:
Sunny moves closer to the Tengu, trying to better position to aid Reijo in the fight.
Bellamy continues to belt out a stirring sea-shanty, giving his allies (inspire courage +1 to hit and damage).
Ol' Salty stops to study the Tengu, taking note of it's strengths and weaknesses, before moving in after Suny.
Looking at the blood-stained tear in his shirt sleeve from the halfling's arrow, Reijo growls as he goes in for the kill with red vengeance in his eyes. He retains situational awareness though, remaining in as good a position as possible to prevent the tengu's flight through window or door without a good slash as his cutlass heads for the bowman's head.
As his cutlass merely skims the dodging halfling's hat, he belts out, "Hold still, ye mangy varment!" as his axe comes down to hammer the little rascal...
Suny slowly takes up a 'combat' stance,
"I dun't wan'a be hurtin' folks none. We can still all jus, y'know, talk about things...," She glances at Reijo, "Maybe..."
"If'n we knock em out, we might be doin some talkin then." Ol' Salty suggests to Suny.
Suny tries to give a subtle nod to Salty to indicate she understands, thought trying not to let their adversaries know that she's going to go 'soft' on them.
Nhati tries to maneuver herself around to where she can get a clean shot at the Tengu. Once she's in position, she fires off a scorching ray at him.
"Running low on spell energy..." she says quietly to her allies near her.
She grimaces and winces as her scorching ray misses the target and makes a new burn mark in the captain's cabin....
Suny flinches a little and winces as Nhati's spell 'Zzzatts' into the cabin's walls or furniture before skipping forwards and swinging at the Tengu.
*Biff! Pow!*
"Or.... ye could jus', y'know', call fer par-lay?" Suny offers.
Suny flinches and winces as Nhati's spell 'Zzzats' into the cabin's wall/furnishings. Before skipping forwards and swinging at the Tengu,
*Biff! Pow!*
"Or..... ye could jus, y'know, call fer par-lay?" Suny offers.
Suny flinches a little and winces as Nhati's spell 'Zzzatts' into the cabin's walls or furniture before skipping forwards and swinging at the Tengu.
*Biff! Pow!*
"Or.... ye could jus', y'know', call fer par-lay?" Suny offers.
Suny flinches a little and winces as Nhati's spell 'Zzzatts' into the cabin's walls or furniture before skipping forwards and swinging at the Tengu.
*Biff! Pow!*
[b]"Or.... ye could jus', y'know', call fer par-lay?" Suny offers.
Hyrix 36/36 (5 NL)
Ellara 14/14
Elodin 6/14
From the safety of the doorway, Nhati launches a scorching ray across the tiny cabin. For a brief second, the beam of fire illuminates the cabin with dancing shadows before it misses the bird by a hairsbreadth and instead scars a blackened spot beside the window...
Bolstered by allies' magic and song, Suny leaps into the cabin and unleashes a flurry of (probably) not-quite-as-lethal blows at the tengu. Hyrix ducks towards the wall, trying to evade, the blows, but only succeeds in ensuring both blows hit. They thump off his shoulder as he thunks against the cabin wall, then brings his blade to bear against the elf. He narrows his eyes, parlay not even close to on the mind.
Reijo dives past the tengu towards the halflings at the southern wall, but Ol' Salty leaps (as leap-y as the old fellow ever gets, at least) in to replace him. Though flanked against the wall, the tengu's eyes dart between the small gaps left by his attackers and the open window...
Positioning himself so that neither of the halflings can get far enough from him to properly use their bows, Reijo swings wildly at the nearest of them--the one who'd managed to hit him. Unfortunately, the short man ducks shorter and the blade goes over his head.
Tossing aside their bows, both halflings draw their blades. Though small, the steel glitters in the moonlight that drifts through the window. Stepping around the pirate, the two halflings move away from the wall just far enough to flank him, then quickly put their positioning to use to sink a single blade into Reijo's thigh.
While the tengu might have been the bigger threat, Viktorra sees Reijo take yet another hit from the halflings. Plus, nonlethal takedowns were pretty far from her specialty. Charging through the Captain's cabin with only the briefest consideration to plunder the room herself, she runs up beside Reijo and flanks one of the halflings. Her rapier sinks into the halfling's flank and draws a gout of blood from the tiny man.
As Hyrix glares at Suny, his eyes flash with a sudden arcane light. He takes a quick step forward, moving to impale her upon his rapier, while his free hand flashes with a beam of light rivaling Nhati's own!
The display of arcane prowess catches Suny entirely unaware (she is, after all, still hoping diplomacy will prevail). The rapier sinks into her gut as the blast of fire rushes over her head. In a single instant, the world goes black...
Round 3