The clarity of the water at this time of day is amazing and the crew can watch their captain approach the ship. Down below, the surge of water and Guillaume's encroaching presence combine to draw out the eel. It lunges out of its hiding spot stirring up silt and and bites Guillaume and doesn't let go. Above they see a large cloud of silt thrown into the air with a sudden movement from the ship. As it begins to settle, they can see a giant eel has latched onto Guillaume.
Eel 100%
Guillaume
Besmara's beasts guard her treasures well. Bessie readies an action to dive in if it looks like anyone gets severely hurt or the group needs strength of arms. Otherwise she orders the lookouts to keep watch on the horizon, not the sea below.
I hope Nasifi thinks to grab that eel if they kill it. I heard they eat well.
Seeing things go sour quickly with the eel, Orslaw goes ahead and dives into the water, starting down towards the fight with his spear in hand. He aims to get in a couple of good stabs before having to come up for air.
Initiative
Guillaume
Nasifi
Eel
Orslaw
Bessie
Nasifi maneuvers to find the best shot she can with her crossbow. With the eel on Guillaume, she figures the crossbow is not the best option, but it's in hand and loaded so she might as well open with it and hope she gets lucky.
Crit?
Wrestling with the eel, Guillaume uses his free hand to blast the eel with a high-pressure jet of summoned water.
Nasifi and Guillaume's attacks injure the eel but its blood is up. Then Orslaw swims down next to the beast ready to give aid. The eel, for its part, gnaws on Guillaume inflicting tremendous pain.
Round 2
Guillaume done
Nasifi done
Eel done
Orslaw
Bessie
Grasping the spear with two hands, Oslaw stabs the wriggling eel with all his might.
Orslaw's spear drives home true and the eel seems about to bolt. Of a secondary concern is all of the blood in the water from the struggle.
Bessie
Round 3
Guillaume
Nasifi
Eel
Orslaw
Bessie
Blood shall call out to my beasts as an offering, and from the depths they shall come to bring you to my service. Bessie recites the lines from Besmara's Code.
Bessie calls to trusted members in the rigging Blood in the water - keep an eye for sharks, I am going to go help!
Holding her tattoo up she calls on the power of Besmara and blue symbols swirl upwards around her head. . She then jumps from the ship into the water to join her Peril Crew comrades.
Growing somewhat concerned now, Guillaume fires another blast of summoned water at the cantankerous fish.
Nasifi draws her dagger and loops a prepared acid flask around the blade as she moves in on the eel. She finds her mark and strikes true
The horribly wounded eel lets go of its prey and with a might flick of its tail it bursts away.
Nasifi takes one last shot at the eel. Because that's a lot of food.
Orslaw attempts to pin the eel on his spear, with thoughts of salted eel on the menu for a few nights...
He then begins swimming back to the surface to get another breath.
Nasifi scratches the swift moving creature but Orslaw misses and it disappears into the depths. Nasifi and Guillaume are then left to head back topside. Assuming shark activity they do so.
Up top, Rattsberger calls out. "I see a shark moving in! Where there's one, there will be more!"
Sure enough a small school of sharks form. They move around the area for a while, testing one another and seeking the injured animal. After an hour they go off looking for other prey. The water is clear again having been cleansed by the currents. The designated diving team heads back down to see what they can find.
Orslaw stares down into the water, looking for signs of shark or the eel.
four from anyone in the water. As it is I will split it up. Your search of the wreck over the next two hours reveal a pair of chopsticks made from manticore spikes (15gp), three bottles of chellish perfume (15gp ea), and a rusty cannon. The cannon appears to be salvageable but it will need a new carriage. Another hour later you come across the ships iron box, the pay for the sailors. Once you bring it back up you break it open to find it is filled with 800gp.
Damage: 4d8
Range Increment: 200 ft.
Typical Crew 5
A ship’s cannon is a smaller version of a cannon, usually on a sailing ship. It requires only 2 full-round actions to clean and load, but still requires 2 full-round actions to prepare the ammunition.
A single cannon load costs 10 gp.
A ship’s cannon takes up a space 5 feet across.
When they return to the ship, Guillaume smiles to the crew. "Now this has been a good day!" he says, as the salvage is hauled back onto the deck. He also finishes seeing to his own wounds.
The haul from the sunken ship is a pretty good one in Nasifi's opinion. But the thing that really brings a gleam to her eye is the cannon.
"This is a very good start. If the we can find some more on the island it will reall help us get some more people on board."
"And the cannon." Nasifi runs her hands over the iron tube. In fact she can barely keep her hands off it. "This changes the game for us. Once we have it back in working order we'll really be something to reckon with"
Nasifi helps (or at least she tries) Bessie build the gun carriage, and gets the metal polished up and ready for use.
As long as you are not in a hurry.
When she has a chance to build.
That evening, at the officer's mess...
Guillaume looks around at the other officers as they finish dinner. "This was an excellent find today. Good work, everyone. We still need to find that fishman, though. I don't suppose anyone has any ideas?"
We could check the island while we are here. We did not explore much as we rushed through the ghouls to fight the goblin-squids. Perhaps there is additional salvage. Otherwise we need someplace with news about fishman activity.
Bessie tries to recall any place known for sahuagin activity.
@Bessie: she does not know of a Sahuagin active location but she does know that Goatshead is the closest town to the crew's current location. Perhaps they could seek for rumors of sahuagin there.
Guillaume tries to think about where Sahuagin might be found.
When we are done here, we could go make port in Goatshead, maybe get a few more crew and listen for any good talk. Hate to go ashore again so quick, but might be time. Still say we scavenge the island.
"Yeah, while we're hear we should give the island another look."
How do you intend to explore the isle?
"Maybe we should go back to the makeshift fort with the corn planted below first. As I remember it, there's a good view of the island from up there. This time we'll able to take a good look around. We might spot things we didn't before."
So, about two thirds go ashore, one third stays on board? You can see the corn field from the beach so do you have one group go to the corn and one to the fort before you go down to search the water caves?
I agree with Nasifi, 'at fort did serve as a pretty nice crow's nest. Be nice to take some time and look around, rather than rushing. An' considerin there were ghouls on this isle before; and we really don't know that we completely eliminated them, lets 'ave the landin party stick together - even if it means bein slower.
Orslaw thoughtlessly strokes the metal torque around his neck, "The fort's a good a place to start as any. I'm a fan of being thorough, but let's not forget that the ghouls 'ere are nasty and so are the flies. I'd rather spend less time on the island and more in the caves, personally. But definitely stick together."
So, the crew throws together a boarding party consisting of the Captain and his officers as well as a half dozen other sailors. Krupp remains behind as the sole officer to ensure others don't decide to run off with the newly found treasure and leave the Captain stranded on the island.
They land on the sandy beach and head to the fort via the path to the east of the cornfield. Taking the path instead of fighting their way through the jungle makes the going much easier. In short order they find themselves facing the fort.
Bessie surveys the isle, looking at the cornfields hoping for a tasty treat, she sees the insects swarming.
Bugs-never a good sign. Bessie calls out to the others. Reciting the holy text of the Code to herself as a reminder.
From those that are not given their rest beneath the waves shall crawl swarms...
"Bugs? Where? I don't see anything." Guillaume replies, looking around curiously.
When Nasifi sees the flies she hands each of her allies a flask of alchemist's fire.
"Alright, as before the flies aren't hard to handle with fire. The trick is to get rid of them before they get on us and start biting. We'll to find a way through that lets us clear a cloud of them without attracting the other ones as well."
Unsure whether the flies relay mostly on sight, smell, sound, or something else to find prey, she tries to remember something about he subject. She also checks wind speed and direction because it could be important to avoiding more than one swarm at a time.