Ourias finishes off the frog in front of him, its muscular legs spasming violently in its death throes.
Despite taking an unorthodox swing, Lars' blade makes contact and manages to cut deep, finishing off the frog on the raft.
However I should also have improved cover from the frog on the boat for being partly submerged, which is a +8 to ACIs this referring to a keyworded submerged? Which book is this in?
Attacks from Land:
Characters swimming, floating, or treading water on the surface, or wading in water at least chest deep, have improved cover (+8 bonus to AC, +4 bonus on Reflex saves) from opponents on land.
Round 3
Bold may go.
Atsushia Init: 16
Morthak Init: 18
Lars Init: 22
Samantha Init: 12
Ourias Init: 23
Now that the frog is dead, Morthak pushes the corpse off the boat and climbs back in the boat. He shakes the water off himself like a dog.
Atsu, being already wounded, tries to fend off any other attack from the frog
RE: I'm assuming that would take a full round.
Sure, that seems fair. Climbing at 1/4th speed is a move action, which may be the easiest way to think of climbing out of water, and removing the corpse is a standard action.
1 = Sam, 2 = Lars
The last frog attempts to bite Lars like a great white popping out of the water, but misses.
Round 3/4
Party up!
Samantha Init: 12
Ourias Init: 23
Lars Init: 22
Morthak Init: 18
Atsushia Init: 16
As the beast leaps out at him, Lars swings his blade wildly in an effort to deter it from swallowing him whole. Still, he put his full strength into the blow, so even a glancing blow would likely do some serious damage.
Lars' mighty swing takes out the last frog, leaving a bloody pool in the newly created wake.
Combat over!
What does the party want to do?
Samantha's song ends, and she will tend to Atsushia first.
A hymn and a touch, and Samantha heals some of her injuries.
"Could things please stop grabbing me, it is getting annoying," Ourias says with a vexed smile.
Thank you Samatha, I couldn't have survived another bite like that. Didn't knew frogs could be sooooo large!
"Pfft. You should hear my mother's stories." Samantha scoffs playfully now that the danger has passed. "She talks about this giant octopus bigger than some dragons that she and her friends fought... But yeah, she'd agree with the dislike. Our family always seems to have problems with tentacles."
Image Reference for some visuals during this part of the adventure.
"Let's hope our quarry wasn't eaten by such creatures. But if he beat them off himself, it speaks volumes of his skill at arms."
Morthak clambers out of his armor and tries to wring the water out. He then begins to check his body for leeches and other things that might have stuck to him while he was in the water.
"Don't think much of swamps," he grumbles. "Let's keep moving."
Once the group is back underway Morthak takes a few minutes to resharpen his daggers.
Morthak inspects his body and gladly finds only dirt and seaweed.
You notice that the raft appears to have stopped on a submerged flat-bottomed boat during the fight with the frogs.
"Hold up, we're stuck on a sunken boat." Samantha declares.
"Hold up, we're stuck on a sunken boat." Samantha declares.
The old flat-bottomed boat lies hidden, concealed by reeds and nearly submerged. The boat has a gaping hole in its side just above the waterline and is upside down.
Morthak scowls. "Well, I'm already wet."
Morthak gets back in the water and peers into the hole.
Morthak investigates the water logged boat and finds a slimy box. Unfortunately, it's too heavy for him to bring to the surface, especially with the challenge of maintaining a grip.
With a grumble, Lars removes his armor, his blade, and his shirt, before joining Morthak in the water.
He swims over to the sunken boat to help his comrade get the box out.
Combined, the two of you are able to bring a (locked)chest to the surface.
Morthak's head pops up above water.
"Anyone have rope? There's something here that can be pulled up."
If anyone has rope Morthak will try to tie it around the box and have the group lift it out.
Samantha will reach down and help get her comrades and the box up onto their raft. "Looks like there really are treasures to be found adventuring." she murmurs. "Thanks mom."
Once the box is on the raft, Morthak comes back out and begins to work on the box. He spends a couple minutes examining it, then pulls out his tools and gets to work on the lock.
Lars climbs back aboard and silently watches as Morthak gets to work, curious to see what water logged treasure they acquired.
No traps are found. Just hinges and locks that have corroded from being under water. Morthak is able to open it though, taking his time. As it opens, stained water pours out to reveal the following: what appears to be some water-logged food items, some clothes, and some items wrapped in cloth. Inside the cloth is a short sword that somehow remains pristine and a wand carved from elm with an ebony handle, that shows some signs of bloating.
"Hm. No rust," Morthak says as he examines the shortsword.
It might be magical, perhaps... Do you want me to check?
asks Atsushia, with a polite voice
Samantha will hum as she looks over the finds, casting detect magic.
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Both the short sword and the wand radiate with magic. Although the wand appears to be leaking magical energy.
"Both are magical, but the wands...leaky?" she says, scratching her head. "Maybe we should dry it out or something? I'm not very well versed in these things yet."
Since water damage warps the wood itself, prestidigitation won't do much. Mechanically, think of the wand similar to Ron's in the Prisoner of Azkaban. It works, but has some risk to it.
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Spellcraft to Id?
"A halfling sized longsword. A good find, no?"
Atsushia has spellcraft. I think she was offering to assist above as well. I'll let her make the roll...
I'll do my best.
After casting a minor spell to be sensitive to magical fluxes, Atsushia concentrates on the wand
The wand is a wand of magic missiles*(Level 1, 18 charges).
That could be really helpful. I don't use evocation spells unfortunatly, as they cause damage to people and goods. But this one is quite useful, as it hurts only the one you target with a projectile of pure magical energy.I guess someone else should use it
...I guess someone else should use it
"What about the sword?"
We're going to do some revisionist history and make the wand a wand of snowball(Level 1, 18 charges). The flexibility of buying and selling magic items for custome gear is much more limited here so it's important that it's of some use.
Once again, Atsu casts a spell to detect magical auras
Wow... the edge of that sword! It's an enchanted weapon.Sure, it's a minor enchantment, but it's still way more potent that anything I can do with my limited skills.
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Samantha will pick up the sword and give it a twirl before tying it to her belt with a loop of leather. "This is a fine weapon. It should help us greatly if our quarry puts up a fight."