You all awaken from your slumber as the sun begins to rise to overhead...
Roll a stealth check to see if you managed to sneak up on Grok... Alternatively you can roll a stealth check and use disable device to pick the armory's lock...
so I guess he's fiddling with it for at least 3 turns.
Barnacle seems to enjoy working the bilges. He even takes the time to examine the woodworking of the ship.
Again I see a worthy vessel. These pirates just need to take care of her!
Later on deck with the others he seems non the worse for the job he did...
During the night, I catch up with Kroop and try to learn more about and make friends with him.
Diplomacy
Next day cooking task...
Turtle-hunting
Task lookout
Take 10 on climb checks, perception
Drahzar successfully reaches his position, but can't see anything.
For brevity's sake you get you gear that will explode and nothing else. Then you go down to sleep...
You all make it up the stairwell to see a group of men before you, four of the crew that roughed you up with Scourge and they are led by one particularly pig like specimen...
The pig like man speaks, where ye think your going swabs?
"Just trying to get to my slave labour there, friend"
Well, none of my gear will EXPLODE for lack of me touching it.
The suggestion that it might explode was in-character, and purposefully worded in a way that would not be a lie. He said bad things would happen, which is true, he would lose ALL of his stuff.
The ONE thing that is the problem, is his Mass Reallocation Unit. It is an invention, but must be "maintained" each day or it goes away. Calloran's (and my) big problem is that all his other stuff is INSIDE it.
So to not be able to maintain it, he loses ALL his wealth. If he gets in, takes his stuff out, it would all be stolen, and this is something he simply would not do. He is greedy and possessive, especially of his creations.
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For sake of your desire to have him not have anything (or the PCs in general to be robbed blind), i think the best in-game solution that Calloran would abide would be to sneak in, take the belongings out, take the magic from the item (losing no items since they're outside of it at the time it's decommissioned), leaving only a metal barrel. Then, stuffing all of his things in the barrel and welding it shut.
In essence, as far as the crew would know, nothing would have changed other than the mysterious metal barrel that they had would now weigh much more than it previously did.
Calloran would then have that invention slot free to create something else using materials outside. It takes him 1 hour total to maintain/create inventions for all slots he has available. If the barrel became inert during his maintenance, so would the grappleshot, and he would have those two slots to create other things. He already has his Thundershot, which is the one invention that he cannot change into something else (since it is a primary invention), he can only change the mods on it.
sound reasonable?
GM?
And before any of that we are met by pigface and coterie?
Sounds reasonable although you will have to find materials for your inventions, shouldn't be too hard with some scavenging although expect a "schizo tech" look to your stuff.
" I 'think' I am going to get my assignment for the day. Isn't that what we are supposed to be doing? Where do you think you're going? For that matter, where ARE we going?"
Barnacle responds to the man.
Looks like a pig man...An ..Orc?... Not sure. But rude anyway...
Calloran sets about to seeing about repairs, tagging along with the Warforged.
vs DC 10
Calloran looks around the ship for things to repair, but his mind is on other things. Throughout the morning he looks for odds and ends to steal/squirrel away for later use. A leather glove here, some iron shavings there, some spare bolts and pipes.
Kree's eyes almost close. She knows these, has suffered under them before. Why keep enduring pain.
"And you? So what! Remove yourselves lest I eat your faces!"
When the buffoon presents himself, Calloran takes a cautious step back to allow for a stronger, more imposing wall of flesh or metal between him and the pirate.
"I shall be very offended if you eat his ugly face rather than the delicious turtle stew Kroop and I plan to prepare, Kree," I protest, squaring up to the pig-faced man. "Now, I assume fighting amongst the crew is at least tolerated, because whatever small pleasure you gain from pushing us around isn't worth a keelhauling," I ask "So I'm willing to get into it if you are," I smile, Kiss writhing around my neck, hissing like a teakettle.
Intimidate:
Startled, Barnacle turns to Kree...
" You would eat his face?"
He rumbles in his gravelly voice.." How... Odd..."
Turning back to the pig man..
" Mayhap you should look for amusement elsewhere. From what I understand of your kind, they don't do well without faces..."
The four pirates don't seem particularly impressed...
Then the pig face one speaks, get em!
Roll Initiative
Pirate 1
Pirate 2
Pirate 3
Pirate 4
Initiative
"If it's a fight you want-" I snap, readying myself for battle...
Initiative:
The pirates move in and all decide to corner the wooden construct...
Pirate 1 attack , damage
Pirate 2 attack , damage
Pirate 3 attack , damage
Pirate 4 attack , damage
Drahzar wades into the brawl throwing his weight into the fight.
Attack for dmg
Kree sets to with gusto, attempting to grapple the pirate nearest her...
[+1 CMB]
"What-???"
With a growl Barnacle attacks the pirate that took a swing at him.
A loud 'Thud!' follows as his wooden fist connects with flesh.
Calloran pulls up the strange device he was given earlier, aiming it at the back of one of the pirates attacking Barnacle. A flash of fire erupts.
(half fire, half piercing)
As Calloran pulls out his strange weapon and fires the shot goes wild and the four pirates before you run for it...
and then you hear a voice from the ship going, what the !@#$ing Khyber was that?
"Some shipmates decided to attack, then a loud noise seems to have scared them off."
Well, since i have time in that case, i will hide the weapon in my clothes.
You all advance up the stairway to see Mr. Scourge staring down at you, the pig faced pirate lurks nearby...
So rats it seems you've brought something aboard? Something like a wand...
Scourge leers as Calloran and squints at him trying to find the "wand"...
perception
Scourge looks up at the pig faced pirate and speaks, annoyed. Fips wheres the damn wand!?!
" I know not of a wand, but I would be willing to bruise more of their flesh."
Barnacle says as he walks up onto the deck.
" They attempted to batter my personage. I cannot work to my best ability on this ship if I am broken or hampered. She needs me to help mend her."
He continues, holding his hands together to make a single club like appendage.
"I think Fips is making things up to hide trying to rough up the new guys and losing."
"I assure you I have no wand. What means to defend myself that still remain are beyond the use of any on this boat but I, so it is of no consequence."
Bluff Check
Kree subtly draws on the skeins of fate to help Drahzar obfuscate the truth...
Immediate Action: Use Second Sight. +1 to Drahzar's Bluff.
prophetic gifts. However, all seers possess the basic ability to use their second sight to grant minor bonuses to a variety of actions.
She may grant a +1 insight bonus to any skill roll, attack roll, or saving throw that she witnesses, applied as an immediate action. This bonus increases to +2 at 5th level, +3 at 10th level, and +4 at 15th level. The seer must declare use of this ability after the roll
is made, but before the results are revealed.
sense motive
Scourge senses your lie and his voice is angry as Khyber...
Yer lying you filthy wharf rat! What the !@#$ happened? That boom did not come out of thin air!
Yous sense the many fold eyes upon you as Scourge breaks into a tirade...
"I honestly have no idea, I was too busy punching one of Fips' guys at the time. There was a boom and Fips and his boys ran like Khyber himself was after them."
" I saw no wand. What I did see, were these four trying to surround me and attack. There was a boom of some sort, but I know naught of it."
Barnacle replies gesturing at the pirates.