Nixie's Skulls & Shackles (Inactive)

Game Master MayDay

•First, a order the crew to load their balls (haha) and roll 6 STR checks for them, DC10 with a +4 modifier for them. You should hollar at stupid crewman who fail their checks.

•Next, command the crew to set their flintlocks and aim: roll six DEX checks for them DC10 with a +2 modifier.
•Finally, FIRE! Roll six attack rolls using YOUR INT modifier vs AC10. Narrate the results of your battery's shots.

"Port battery, Load!"

Calin frowns, "Gun's 2 and 5, your mommy isn't here to help you. Let's try again."

"Port battery, Guns 2 and 5, Load!"
ST: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (8) + 4 = 12
ST: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (19) + 4 = 23

"Aim!"
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 2 = 21
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 2 = 20
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17

Calin will say disdainfully, "Gun's 2 and 4, you might want to note that your guns are not pointing in the same direction as the rest of the guns. Port battery, Guns 2 and 4 only... Aim!"
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (7) + 2 = 9
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 2 = 3

"Gun's 2 and 4, if you're finished with your drill perhaps you would like to join us in ours! Port battery, Guns 2 and 4 only... Aim!"
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (8) + 2 = 10
DEX: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (16) + 2 = 18

"Fire!"
Int: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
Int: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
Int: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (15) + 1 = 16
Int: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
Int: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (18) + 1 = 19
Int: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

Calin will walk over to the crew of gun 6 and cast color spray
will: 1d20 ⇒ 3
will: 1d20 ⇒ 5
will: 1d20 ⇒ 19
To the crew member who passed his will save he'll tell quietly, "fall down and play dead"

"This was a drill, not a game. In a real battle these men wouldn't be sleeping peacefully. They would be dead. You all are going to have to do much better if you're going to survive in battle."

I loved that post!

Navigator
First, Choose a heading between 1 and 360.
Roll a profession(sailor) or INT check to decide how well you've interpreted the charts and stars.
Then Pass the course and how confident you are about it to the Helms-man

1d360 ⇒ 210

Intelligence: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13

Kaz looks at the charts and stars for a bit. He has never seen such things before and gets embarrassed and a little red in the face before he says.

Well hell I ain't no sailor! Kaz throws the charts in the floor with a shrug. Lets go that way dammit! May we sail into the mouth of hell itself! The embarrassment of not knowing is making him lash out in anger.

He then stomps below decks.

Ix Chal looks shocked when asked to be helms man. "I... I... don't..." realisation dawns, This is test she wants to know what I can and can't do. Well she'll learn quickly... or I will. "Yes Captain! Captain I'm sure you already thought of this but it would be wise to keep someone experienced near me today. Sorry." He says regretfully.

Wind direction: 1d8 ⇒ 3

With a the wind coming from the south east Ix stairs the ship around to roughly 90 degrees to the wind and tries to keep it going Southwest. Intelligence (default): 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Ix starts out cautiously, but soon feels the power of the ship in his hands relaxes feeling good about how he is going. Until he jumps at the captain shouting in his ear. "What direction are you going MISTER Chal" Ix checks to find they were now travelling directly with the wind on a bearing or 315. "Do you know where we are? If there are reefs in this region? NO! YOU don't. Go make yourself useful and scrub the deck." She continues.
Ix slinks off like a cat caught with its paw in the goldfish bowl. Finding the cleaning equipment he tries to make up for his mistakes.

Capt O'Malley steers the boat herself after Ix's terrible display. After a while she hands the job off to a sailor and retires to the aft cabin in the sterncastle. The weather is fair and the sea calm during your voyage, but soon there is a commotion on deck:

You have been using a net to catch fish. This time you have caught a sea centaur, a strange-looking creature, with a top half like a man, and a bottom half like a sea horse. It struggles feebly, clutching at the net with webbed fingers, trying to saw it apart with a long, serrated dagger made of some sea shell. You all gather around to see the strange sight.

We’ll have to kill it – they’re terrible bad luck to have on board, says one of the senior sailors. Another of the sailors is already readying his cutlass...

Whattaya do?

Put yer damn sword down. Cut em free an he wont be on board now will he?

skill checks based on a dc 10

"Yer arms are all mushy and yer bellies be saggin you slack jawed sons of whale whores. When you be down in a pit and a giant gecko be spitting goo on yer face YOU AINT GONNA BE HAVING YOUR MOMMY PULL YOU UP! You gotta pull yer own arse outta that pit." Bucket yells out at the marines as spittle flies from his lips into the face of one of them. "Get up on that boom stay and give me 10 pullups ya dog faced bloat flies!"
Pullups
Marine 1 Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
Marine 2 Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4
Marine 3 Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
Marine 4 Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (5) + 1 = 6
Marine 5 Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2

"AAAARRGGHH I cant believe half ye cannot even pull yer own dead weight. And you there tubby, (marine 5) Ye cannot even pull yer own arse up without falling back on the deck. Ye be pulling half rations for the rest of the week."

"Lets see how ye all do with some conditioning." Bucket makes them drape chain load cannon balls around their necks and shoulders and makes them do sprints up and down the deck.

Full Gear Deck Sprints
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (10) + 1 = 11
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (7) + 1 = 8
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

"AAAARRGGHH I cant believe half ye cannot even finish one deck run. And you there wormfood, (marine 4) Ye cannot even run past yer own shadow. Ye be running everywhere ye go the rest of the week."

"If'n Yer gonna fight yer gonna need stamina. The dive bell be lowered (while in the bay before open water). Get down in the bottom of the bay and hold yer breath for 3 minutes without sucking air from the dive bell"

Dive Bell Training
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (13) + 1 = 14
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (19) + 1 = 20
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
Marine Training: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (9) + 1 = 10

"What am I gonna do with ye bunch of slack boned bait fish? Yer all need be whipped in shape before ye ever board on any vessel we overtake" Yells Bucket. "But on o ye turds has exceeded my expectations. Marine 1, ye have earned the coveted squad leader position. Ye must lead this brine swill rag tag of a fighting force through pullups and deck sprints every night. Says bucket as he notices a commotion up on the deck.

"How smart are they? Let's try talking with it."

Calin will yell down first in Common then, Aquan, Polyglot, and finally Elven, "Sorry about that. You O.K.? Can you understand me?"

"It be my guess that it breathes no air, but salty water it do want. No matter what we better be sure there are not more of them waiting to cut our hull up with them clam cutters. Marines, post guard on the gunwale and report any sightings of Seahorse MerMutants!." Commands Bucket to the marines.

The men mutter among themselves at your decision to spare the creature. It is much too frightened to respond to Calin and the sight of the marines cause it great anxiety. By the time you cut it free the sea centaur lies barely able to move on the deck. If you splosh it down into the water in this condition it will surely die...Now what?

does it have lungs or gills? or both?

"It would have been easier and kinder to kill it." Ix mutters getting his javelin ready but waiting for his crew mates to act.

Well who knew they was so damn fragile. Kaz says not aggressively to Ix. Throw it back in let it fight for its life I say

knowledge nature: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

The creature has gills but it appears to bet getting oxygen through atrophied lungs as well. At least thats what Ix thinks via an extensive study of anatomy. Calin knows that these creatures are unfathomably rare. It is said that finding one can be extraordinarily bad luck. But that in their graces, the Sea Centaurs can impart fantastic blessings. Blessings so powerful they can clam storms.

Clam storms? I'm afraid to ask :-) But hiding under a lifeboat just in case.

"This whole thing stinks of bad luck I tell ye. Best kick it back into the water and let the sea sort out it's fate. But should ye coddle that mer-mutant in hopes of finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow ye will be sorry for it in the end with nothing but a fools prize for ye troubles, mates. What say ye Cap'n?" Says bucket as he dismisses the creature and lines the Marines up for inspection.

Capt O'Malley is asleep in the stern castle cabin. You wanna wake her up Buckey?

clam storms? I'm afraid to ask :-) But hiding under a lifeboat just in case.

cloudy with chance of clams!!

"Well, if it's not interested in talking we may as well put it back in the water." Calin will try once more, "We're going to put you back in the water now, all right?" He'll repeat himself in Aquan, Polyglot, and Elven.

"Enough of this ye scurvy bilge rats, this be bad luck and me bones be shivering down to the core, be gone with this bad omen" Says bucket as he kicks the sea centaur off the side of the boat and down into the water.

sorry, I am a pirate who has sailed a long time.. I am not exactly lawful neutral. Bad omens be bad omens ;)

Calin jumps back in surprise as Bucket takes the initiative. He looks like he's about to object but catches himself and shrugs philosophically, "Well that was what I told it we were going to do. A little more abrupt that I had in mind, but it's back in the water."

"Calin, me hearty, if only that sea monkey had the skill to mend the net it cut, but even that would not atone for bad luck it brought down upon us. Nay, the only way to counter this bad luck be to drink heavily of rum."

The rest of the day is uneventful, though the wind dies and the ship makes no progress. The crew takes to swiming in the tropical waters and Aurora sunbathes on the poop deck and drinks rum with Bucket and Calin.

But that night several sea centaurs emerge from the waters, their spiny skins glittering with phosphorescent flashes of light. One of them speaks in a burbling voice in the common tounge: Where is our brother, whom you caught in your crual nets this day?

We set em free back inta da water where e belongs.

Kaz Shouts down to the sea creature.

"Arrgh! These know where he be if they know we had him in our nets. This be owing to the bad luck o' one o' them on our decks. I have no the gift fer talking pretty. I be made for violence. I vote Calin be the one to talk to them while Kaz and I be ready to let loose the dogs of violence." says bucket while checking over his equipment and weapons.

Aurora whispers to two sailors to sneak below decks and man the falconet cannons. The mood on deck is tense.

*bubble gurgle* We would know if he were in the water, we would feel his life force. No, certainly he is aboard your vessel. Release him and we can consider our dealings complete.

"Ye can't squeeze blood from a rock and we can't give ye what we don't have. We let your kin into the water on the moment we encountered it and freed it from the net. If'n you don't feel his life force perhaps you may find his pasty corpse on the bottom o' the ocean. I consider our dealings complete and if you don't see it the same way then there might be a few less life forces you'll be feeling after tonight." Yells Bucket down to the water.

"If ye got a god now is a good time to make yer peace, lads and lasses. I might have just sent us to Hell." says Bucket gently to those around him.

to Bucket

Bah, If in they be wanting a fight we be ready to give em one.

Ix hair starts to stand up and he reaches into one of his belt pouches and pulls out a couple of flasks but doesn't drink them yet.

"On my honor sir, we returned your friend to the sea as soon as he was freed from the net."

diplomacy: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26

The sea centaurs remain silent for a few moments. Then the leader says His destiny was always bleak. We thank you for your honesty. In return I will tell you a secret: below the very place where your ship floats is a sunken wreck. If you wish, we will give one of you the power to breathe water so that you may swim below and take it's treasures: those things the surface-dwellers hold dear.

Accept the offer? If so, who get's to go?

"I'm in. Thank you, and my apologies if we caused your friends demise. We were only trying to catch fish."

"Are they on the level? "sense motive: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (13) + 5 = 18

"Calin may no need air, but i not be letting him go alone. I be swimming with as I can"

I just assumed this ship would have a dive bell to plunder sunken ships cargo, but I see nothing about them in the PF Ruleset or inner sea guide.

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
They appear to be on the level as far as you can tell.

Capt O'Malley: Be careful you two. Calin you shouldn't swim down there alone. Bucket, I have a diving bell. She motions to sailors on deck to find it and lower it into the water.

The lead sea centaur swims close to the boat. He hands a sailor leaning over the side a conch filled with a luminous green liquid. The sailor hands it to Calin.

Sea Centaur Leader: Drink, dear sailor, and come swim with us!

The bottom is only about 10 fathoms (60ft) down. The bell will be lowered to the bottom, and you can swim until I tell you that you need a breath, then you must return to the bell. If we move to combat rounds I'll post a map and you hold your breath according to the rules for underwater combat. You can decide when to return to the bell in that case, hopefully before you drown.

"See you in a bit." Calin will cast mage armor on himself then jump over the side. He'll grab onto the diving bell and let it pull him to the bottom.

(He'll bring a sack but leave his pack and shortbow on deck)

"I'm going too, the more of us the less dangerous it is." He says and drinks both flasks. Touch of the sea and Mutagen, giving more strength and a swim speed (he'll have to hold his breath and surface regularly). He looks very worried for a mement when his claws and teeth grow longer under the mutation but steels himself and dives in to follow the others.

Capt Aurora gives a speech. Something about duty and treasure. Then slaps you each on the back and bits you go down there after the booty.

388 posts. As you dive into the water you all achieve level 2. Congratulations! You will all remember this day forever.

weren't we already level 2?

We'll damn I guess I gotta hop in as well...

Everyone has levelup up. lvl 2 now. To refresh memory: There are the mysterious Awkmutes on the Island that Ix would love to cut open; or you can set sail again. Or come up with your own piraty goals.

Yea we leveled up after we killed Teemo.

Edit: I screwed up the quote but yea you gave us our level on 10-24

oops. I'm having trouble remembering things I think.

Calin breaths comfortably and follows the sea centaurs down to the wreck. As the diving bell reaches the bottom you all take a deep breath from under it, and swim after Calin.

Calin, suddenly the sea centaurs swim away leaving you alone. You notice you are giving off a glow like the sea centaurs. Looking down you see the lower half of your body has turned into a sea centaur... The bastards! You have been taken and transformed by the potion in the conche to replace their lost companion.

You see the wreck looming up ahead of you. Keep going or return to the ship?

Calin will keep going. Hopefully the potion will wear off in time but he may as well explore the wreck in the mean time.

I updated my character after the level up. Remember the sea Reaver part of it Dungeon Master, Sir.
"Blub Gurggle Blub Blub Bwaah Shwak" says Bucket as he see's what has become of Calin. What he wanted to say was "DAMN those sons of goat fishes!"

Bucket follows Calin as best he can.