"... and that is why, as you can see, Silvio's request docking with the is both sound and necessary", Silvio says as he finishes his argument to Amella as to why the ship should dock with the Blue Nixie. The chelaxian is, in all his magnificence, oblivious to the events transpiring below deck.
Hearing nothing, Sekathral continues his search for Dargon.
"fluffy does sound nice right about now, Kyson," she says with a sigh.
Round 3
Zstelian, you don't hear any sounds that lead you to believe anyone heard you yelling.
As you try to grab her, she lithely twists, easily breaking your grip, dancing back away from you. "Do you really think you'll catch me again, so easily? Help me, and you don't have to die!"
Kyson looks at Khaz with a serious look on his face.
"Oh, it's not just clouds that are fluffy, Khaz. Rabbits are fluffy too. I can't imagine anyone hurting a nice rabbit...or thinking harm on a fluffy rabbit. That wouldn't be nice, no sirree." Kyson walks on, thinking.
"That ooze wasn't fluffy either. It was sticky. And gooey. Gooey and fluffy are different things. Don't get them confused. Gooey makes for a bad pillow."
I learnt that lesson the hard way, Kyson thinks, remembering his shaved scalp from his what-he-thought-was-terrific 'sugar honey pillow' idea.
Perception
"Did you hear that? Sounds like a damsel in distress!!" Kyson looks around. "Oh wait...it was nothing. Just my tummy. Nevermind."
I assume she did move back more than that after taking the Escape Action. Should he have gotten an AoO last round?
Tosh misses last round
Tosh, bleeding and hampered from his earlier attempt to attack Rowyn, misses as she escapes Zstelian's grasp, retreating to his master's shoulder again.
The ranger chucks another chakram, drawing another splash of crimson as it slashes his target.
She snarls, and casts again, disappearing once again from sight!
She doesn't respond.
You see a sudden flash of movement as a small bolt slams painfully into your side before Rowyn ducks behind a pile of goods in the hold.
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"That ooze wasn't fluffy either. It was sticky. And gooey. Gooey and fluffy are different things. Don't get them confused. Gooey makes for a bad pillow."
Sekathral, coming the other way with a rope coiled around his shoulder, turns to Kyson.
"You can have both, mate. My missus bought some pink stuff made from spun sugar off a gnome once - he called it 'Candyfloss' and it was the same colour as his sodding hair. Anyway, she was walking along with it and some **** came up and started giving her bother, so she shoved it down the front of his kecks. Loud hiss, sickening smell of dissolving flesh, and he ran off, never to be seen again. Lethal stuff. I used to use it to unblock drains"
He frowns.
"Oi - where's Zstelian? Is he telling those bloody rats his life story or what? D'you reckon we should go and see if he's alright, before he vanishes like Dargon?"
You hear a thump, like the sound of a body falling, as you last dagger hits, then silence.
Your last dagger took her in the throat -- she's dead.
"I'll be sure to keep them separate, Kyson." Khaz she says, repressing a chuckle.
Khaz head tips as she tries to follow Seka's tale,"I didn't know you were marr.... Err, uhhh, yes, we should probably see what's taking Zstelian so long."
"Nice one!", comments Sekathral. "It's that piece of **** from the caverns, ain't it? Pity she can't talk..."
Silvio raises an eyebrow and breaks into a smile as he notices Zstelian drag Rowyn to the deck. He breaks off the conversation to jump deftly over the railing and down beside the ranger and the body. The jump is preformed with such grace it is, when combined with the chelaxian’s pleasant smell, more akin to a summer breeze than a full grown man hurling to the deck. ”This is the red headed beauty from Elender, is it not? But what has happened to ravage her looks like this?”, he says with a frown. ”This proves Silvio’s theory and makes Silvio’s request to check on the Blue Nixie even more prudent.”
He turns back to the bridge and yells ”Coxswain! Bring us closer to the Blue Nixie! You, deckhand. Ready a boat for Silvio!”
Kyson looks down at the dead body of the not-damsel Rowyn, and doesn't know what to think.
"Uhm...where did she come from? How did she get on board? Was she alone?"
Kyson looks at her injuries, then moves to look more at her in general.
Heal check
Perception for clues/searching
Cast Detect Magic.
She's not a real damsel. And if she did the jerky things, then I'm glad she's dead.
"I guess that explains some stuff. But not all stuff," Kyson turns to look at Silvio, but not willing to yet risk another boat ride to the Blue Nixie. "I'll wait here unless you need me, Silvio."
"I should have known it was her!" Khaz resists the urge to spit on the dead body, though not without difficulty.
"Evil always finds a way, Kyson." Looking at the others, she sighs, " Must we...Oh yes! No real need for all of us to cross to the other ship, is there? Still, just in case she wasn't alone here; I'll stay to guard Kyson."
"That is an excellent idea. Kyson and lady Khazmia will come to", Silvio announces with a grand gesture of his hand appearently only having registered that Kyson and Khaz spoke and not what they actually said.
Amella looks over at Silvio. "What in the bloody name of Besmara's t&!# are you going on about! Do you think you're the gods-damned captain of this crow-bitten boat? Order my rotting crew around again, and I'll send you to Gozreh's watery realm faster than your damned mother pushed your f&$!ing father out the door after she took his grubbing money!"
She does not seem happy.
Kyson, in addition to looking in generally poor shape, she has several recent wounds, the worst of which appears to be a large hole in her throat.
On her she has a pair of wands, a potion, nice leather armor, a nice buckler, a nice rapier, a nice hand crossbow with 9 bolts (which seem to have some sort of substance on them), gold earrings and a bejeweled necklace.
The wands, potion, armor, buckler and rapier radiate magic.
Briar, somewhat guiltily, removes the magic from the not-damsel.
Spellcraft Wand #1
Spellcraft Wand #2
Spellcraft Potion
Spellcraft Armor
Spellcraft Buckler
Spellcraft Rapier
Kyson will offer to hold onto the jewelry until the party can sell it.
"Kyson, do you know any of those spells that lets you talk to dead people? We need to know if she got to Dargon."
Kyson frowns.
"Not really my thing, Zstelian. I ain't talking to any ghosts or the like unless I have to. Maybe there is another way to know."
Sekathral groans inwardly at Silvio's breach of protocol.
"Mate, I'll row you across, if the skipper'll let us have a boat"
He looks at Amella for approval before matching actions to words
"Aye, I suppose you can have a sun-kissed boat. Maybe you can leave the great captain over there when you come back, eh?"
While Kyson very seriously declines to enjoin on the boat, he does consider the missing-Dargon problem more.
"I'll find a way to find him. I just need some time to think and pray on it. Don't worry."
When we move to the next day, Kyson will have Dargon-related actions.
In the meantime, Kyson will hover near the side of the boat, waiting nervously for Zstelian and Seka to return.
”Silvio is taking action”, Silvio says as if it was the most natural thing in the world. ”How you would miss me if I was gone. But do not worry, my captain, Silvio will return”, he says smiling and captains the boat to dock with the Blue Nixie. Once onboard he checks up on Liamae and Lavinia, then enquires if there’s been some strange things happening on the boat, and if there’s been people going missing.
Khaz stays to keep an eye on Kyson, just in case. "I'm sure you would probably be fine on your own, of course, but just in case..." and this way, there's no need for me to cross the damned sea in a teacup.
"Dump her in the brink, for all I care. She nearly got the flaming elf killed and caused a mess. I've got as much use for her as Cayden Cailean's got for a third nipple."
You're greeted warmly as your boat pulls up alongside the Blue Nixie, a couple of deck hands tossing down ropes.
Liamae greets Silvio with a broad smile -- "You've finally come to see me!" -- as Lavinia warmly welcomes Sekathral and Zstelian aboard.
They say nothing strange has happened on their boat, though are horrified to hear about Dargon's possible death. Kaskus, if asked, says he was never on the Sea Wyvern and doesn't know why Dargon thought he was.