Alain will take 10 on the swim.
*edit* Is that enough? Yep. He sees 4 crabs and takes 10 on the swim to catch them.
Enya sighs. "Fun... Swiming in loads of water... My favorite..." When she sees Aldous, she laughs and has an idea. She swims with him, and giggles mischeviously. She goes under, pretending that she was just swimming under the water, her body slightly glowing. She tries to get his attention by spitting water at the back of his head. When he turns around, she spits more water into his face, laughing hysterically, pretending, very poorly, that it wasnt her. "We're off the ship, might as well have fun while we can!!" She is obviously in a good mood since last night.
Enya sees crabs everywhere and begins to and fill her bucket.
The next morning found Tao on the ground as he had fallen from the small hammock with a hard bang on his face. Groaning to his feet, he watched as River woke for her normal morning routine.
On deck, the new orders are given to the surprise of Tao, and the excitement of his large Half-Orc friend Cuddles. He stretches a bit, cracks his knuckles and neck, grins, then charges the edge of the boat on Cuddles' heels, snatching a crab trap as he went. With a relatively elagent dive, he begins to pump his arms swimming as fast as he can in an effort to give the big man some sort of challenge.
Looking over his shoulder as she says that and he looks then, to her. "Goddess help me." he whispers as he joins in the fun.
In the morning I wake to find my hammock empty and I look around frantically, then see Tao on the floor, so I climb out and give him another kiss as he rises, "Morning and thank-you for last night, it was perfect." I walk with him to the deck after the routines have been completed and smile when I hear that we will be off ship. I grab a bucket and dive off of the side of the boat backwards, landing in the water with a small splash.
I begin to swim full speed to the reef, where I place the bucket and then dive down to find some bigger crabs on the surface of the sea floor.
I seem happier than I did this morning, if that could be possible and it would seem that I can swim very well, who would have known? I can also hold my breath for a long time, staying under the water the entire time apart from bringing up the crabs. It could even be your eyes playing tricks with you, but you think I turned Blue briefly once I had landed in the water and began swimming off.
Once Tao has been given his crabs, I will start to swim around him (like a shark) and whenever he comes under the water, I will kiss him. I seem to be at home and at peace in the water.
The swim race is on! River takes off like a bullet and rapidly disappears into the depths - coming back shortly with a full bucket of crabs before grabbing another bucket and jetting away. Enya and Aldous are having a cutesy water fight and quickly fall behind the other swimmers. Alain, Cuddles, and Tao are neck-and-neck when Tao suddenly surges ahead as they near the (imaginary) finish line. Suddenly, all of you hear ominous MUSIC begin to play as two creatures swim out of the reef and approach River menacingly.
Enemy Average Initiative: 13
PC Average Initiative: 11
My head is just above the water when I shout, "TAO, EVERYONE, HELP!" I swim back 5 feet and begin to cast a spell, reciting an incantation and my hands circling around themselves until a cloud of steam gushes forth from my hands engulfing the creatures.
"The lobsters are hunting us?"
Cast sleep (DC14). He'll try and get both of them in the 10' burst but will settle for one.
River's boiling of the water (Enya would be proud) catches the creatures completely off guard, and they get scalded. Still up, though.
Aldous swims forwards as far as he can go. He had gotten so used to being on the ship, he had stopped praying for effective spells. He would have to change that tomorrow, but this time, he would need to get closer in order to attack the critters.
Knowing he is in a hurry and swimming, he gives Calistria a quick prayer for luck.
Enya watches as the reef claws go for River. "Oh s!!%. What the hell?"
"They're Reefclaws! We have to get to River! They're claws are poisonous! And they don't die without a fight! Careful everyone! Resistant to cold! And for some reason understand common." She looks at Aldous, splashing around in the water. "Fun times over... Be careful..."
She begins to swim towards River, trying to get there before she is grabbed to help her. Mica swimming behind her.
When Cuddles hears the cry for help and sees a great gout of steam he pounds through the water, swimming as fast as he can toward the trouble.
Swim to me!
Tao hearing River's cry for help makes his way to her as fast as possible. As he reaches close to his destination, he hooks a finger along the cross-piece of his weapon and throws his arm hard letting the blade fly out of its holster. With his other hand he grabs the moving blade by the middle of the blade, it's razors edge drawing blood from his bare palm and fingers. His grip hard on the balancing point of the blade, he takes his the original hand and grips the cross-piece the way one would grip a pistol hilt, ready to "jack hammer" the blade into the creatures chasing River.
Red Reefclaw moves up and grabs ahold of River. A moment later, Alain's spell goes off, and it relaxes its grip and falls asleep.
Blue Reefclaw moves to a flanking position and snaps its claws menacingly.
I swim away from the threatening area as fast as I can and swim towards Tao.
Cuddles spots the large crab and disappears under water. He latches onto the crab's claws at the base, hoping to avoid them altogether.
Enya continues to swim towards River, making it, just barely.
Tao moves in on Cuddles' position, diving down below the surface and moving beside him to get a clear strike on the creature.
Aldous tries to swim towards the combat, praying for luck.
Goddess, please, I cannot exact my revenge if I die at the bottom of the sea.
With that, hopefully he can surface and double move.
Alain will cast sleep (DC15) again, being sure only to hit the giant lobster thing.
Blue Reefclaw thrashes about but is unable to get loose. Strangely, it appeared to be attempting a countergrapple instead of breaking free....
Red Reefclaw continues to dream happy dreams of helpless landlubbers being torn to shreds by its powerful claws.
Enya consentrates deeply, looking hard at the reeflcaw grappled by cuddles. "Amok..amok..Amok.. Amok..
Apparently that was the funniest joke ever. Also, reefclaw laughter is not at all pleasant to the ears.
Cuddles braces his foot against the Reefclaw's face and pulls.
Blue Reefclaw doesn't like you very much. It's laughing so hard that its shell starts to crack. Or maybe that's from your foot...
He was going to cast sleep on blue but it would be a bit redundant as Cuddles is trying to pull it's face off right now so he'll stop.
"Hey Tao, do you think you could coup de grace the sleeping lobster?"
move 15' towards Cuddles.
"Actually Tao, let me catch up to you and I'll cast mage armor on your before you go after it.
Tao sputtered last round having started to sink, but regains himself and hears Alain's suggestion. With a nod as his head bobs above the water, he makes a break for the giant sleeping lobster.
Once more, Aldous simply swims towards the combat, very upset with himself for not having anything he is capable of helping with at this range.
One reefclaw is still snoozing away. The other is grappled and laughing hysterically. River feels the burn of the poison wear off, and while still weakened, appears to be over the hump.
Cuddles grunts as he strains against the muscle and shell of the big crab. Bubbles float upward from his nose as his muscles bulge.