Lanliss pulls a potion out of his pack and the spiders lash out at him while he is distracted.
Despite the hit, he manages to pull the potion, pop the cork and drink it, healing his wounds.
Lanliss yells out, "Drop down here someone help us out!"
Duo steps back and casts a healing spell on himself, healing the spider bites, but not the damage the poison is wreaking on his system.
The fire in the hallway behind spreads, filling more of the hallway.
The posion from the tiny spiders continues to affect Duo and Lanliss.
They both manage to fight off the effects of the posion and it no longer affects them.
The tiny spiders rush back at their targets, giving Lanliss an opportunity to try and stab one of the ones attacking Duo.
He severs several legs with the blow and the creature drops to the floor, its remaining legs curling up in death.
The other spiders reach their targets, however.
The person-sized spiders both lunge at Lanliss, fanged maws dripping with venom and saliva.
Lanliss is bitten again by one of the spiders, but his poison-inured system manages to fight off the newly injected venom, keeping the poison already in his system from getting any worse.
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looking at the spiders and the ablities that I can see I am trying to get the spiders out of Duo's and my way I take my bomb as toss it at the spider infront of me
DIE spidy
Sunny does the only thing she can now that she's in the water.
And moves to pop up as silently at the prow of the dingy as she can.
She calms herself, settles and gets ready to take as deep a breath as she can for what it is she plans on doing next.
Duo casts
He then watches the fire spread further.
Alestone will yell up to Aoro
"Toss me down a rope"
as he wrestles with Syl.
Sunny tells from the beneath the prow,
"Go see t' Lanliss an' Duo! I be all right enough here. Syl's not gon'a catch me out. Th' bint's not got enough nouse fer that!" Sunny yells Alestone.
"If we lose too many people to the fire, we're all stuffed when we get back t'ship."
Sunny easily swims to the prow of the longboat and yells out.
Alestone attempts to pin Syl, but without the advantages of a few seconds ago, he's unable to pin the struggling woman.
Aoro's silver dart fish burrow deep wounds into Syl and she screams in pain.
Syl, through gritted teeth, grunts, "I ain't gonna die here. Not now, not after I got away." She stabs out with her dagger again at Alestone.
Alestone manages to bat the dagger away and Syl screams again in frustration.
"Alestone? D'ye trust me?" Sunny yells up to the dingy, even as she unwraps the net from about herself and hangs it from the prow.
"Syl, luv? Might we have a parlay?" Sunny calls to the woman
"I dont have any rope and I dont see any. Anyways we need to take down one problem at a time."
Recasting his spell two more fish slam into the woman. In reply to her words.
"You should have thought of that before you attacked. Really what did you think was going to happen."
This needed to end quickly so he could get back to work on the grate, he was still working on how to get them out.
Lanliss manages to fight off the venom currently affecting him.
Lanliss goes to chuck a bomb at the nearest spider and the creature lashes out during his moment of distraction.
Its attack is wild and Lanliss easily avoids it. He throws his bomb, hit the spider square and catching the other human-sized spider, the three tiny spiders attacking him, and himself in the blast.
The blast roasts two of the tiny spiders and they drop off the wall. Lanliss is rendered unconscious by the blast and he drops to the ground, letting go of his longspear as he falls.
Duo releases a burst of healing energy, rousing Lanliss from his unconscious state. Looking over his shoulder at the fire, the worry that it'll spread his direction is looking more likely to become true as fire creeps towards him.
A door at the end of the hallway flies open and standing in the doorway is a massive man dressed in armor made from the carapaces of giant beetles and carrying a shield made of the same material in one hand and a club in the other.
"Ah... Good, just what I needed. More sacrifices for Mazzmezz!" He rushes forward towards Lanliss, beginning to pull back for a strike, but without time to complete it.
The tiny spiders move in towards Duo and Lanliss and each bite at their targets.
The medium giant spider shifts to move after Lanliss and attack him. The spider lunges forward, fangs bared.
Lanliss screams out in pain as the spider again sinks its fangs into him, but much more shallowly this time.
"ALESTONE!? AORO!?" Sunny yells to get the men's attention. "Do ye TRUST me?"
"Leave Syl t'me!" She entreats them. To the angry woman she again calls, "Syl? Might we have a parlay?"
Duo will cast
Alestone shouts up to Aoro
"Go make sure Lanliss an' Duo are alright, Syl ain't gonna be trouble."
Then down to Sunny in the water.
"Li' late for me Sunny, you too Syl."
Alestone will then backhand Syl across the face.
Sunny grumbles again, slipping into her native language to express herself.
Sunny reaches up and lifts herself onto the tip of the prow of the row-boat.
"Splash!" As she falls back into the sea. (-_-)
Sunny pleads for different outcome to this little conflict and attempts to climb aboard the boat, but ends up back in the water with a minimum of failing.
Alestone bats Syl with the back of his hand...
...knocking her senseless.
Aoro casts another pair of silver dart fish towards Syl, burrowing more holes into her flesh. The pain of her wounds is too much for her and she falls unconscious.
crouching low and move 5ft step back from the spider.
Trying to climb back in'a boat. :P
Sunny flips back into the boat, spraying water every where and tries to protect the senseless Syl.
"Mine!" She declares to Alestone and Aor.
"Get ye t'helpin' Lanliss and Duo!"
Duo notices Lanliss trying to back up. So healing hem again as he does, Duo changes places with him knowing one of them may not be getting out alive.
Aoro rolls his eyes, well she would be killed by the Captain or nearly as much when they returned. Personally he was not in the habit of leaving enemies alive, he would be sure to remind Sunny of that when Syl came looking to get even.
"Hey Alestone bring my dagger with you. I will be working on the grate."
Aoro uses acid on the grate again.
Sunny nods in thanks to Aoro and Alestone even as she sets to work making sure Syl is rendered 'safe'.
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Delay till after I am healed, take full-defense (standard action), spend a hero point to finish off my last flask of Cure light wounds on myself stand up, (move action that draws an attack of opportunity), and then 5ft-step
[ooc]Move action grab either Aoro's dagger or Syl's, whichever is closer, standard action get back on board the ship.
Duo heals Lanliss, using the cover of the wall to cast the spell without interruption.
Lanliss concentrates on defending himself, pulling a potion vial from his belt and standing up. The spider takes the opportunity to bite at him as he gets up.
Its attack leaves a pair of small gashes, but Lanliss is unaffected by the poison. He moves backwards, into the darker recesses of the hallway.
The man in the beetle-hide armor moves around the spider and into the are vacated by Lanliss. In the light from the fire and his close proximity you can see that he was probably once human, but subtle differences point to something divergent. His teeth are nothing but sharp fangs, suitable only for tearing flesh. This man is one of the cannibals of the Shackles, a kuru.
"Flesh of the divine for Mazzmezz!" he screams as he stalks forward, obviously more interested in Duo than Lanliss. He pulls back his club to strike, which seems to grow larger...
...the club streaks forward and strikes Duo like a massive hammer, sending the healer to the floor, unconscious. The man turns towards Lanliss with a leer on his face.
The fire spreads out, filling the area where Duo lays, burning him.
The tiny spider that was attacking Duo recoils in the corner away from the fire. The remaining one that was attacking Lanliss darts in to take another bite...
..but its tiny fangs fail to find purchase in the elf's flesh.
The giant spider behind the cultists stirs restlessly, but doesn't seem to do anything else.
Sunny and Alestone clamber up onto the ship, the latter grabbing a dagger before doing so. Aoro works at the grate with his minor spells of acid, but the progress is slow.
Sunny looks around as smoke begins to be whipped across the ships deck as it pours form the aft-castle and billows from the deck hatches.
"Keep workin' on'a deck hatch!" She calls, even as her eyes glance upwards.
"Here!" She points to some one, any one not working at getting the deck hatch up. "Help me with these rat lines!" She barks,
"Lanliss? Duo? We's COMIN' FOR YA!" She calls over the crackling sounds of the fire.
Alestone will help Sunny as best he can.
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I look behind me to make sure that there is no fire or anything else that is there before stepping back and then drinking my potion that is in my hand
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Lanliss shoves through the door next to him with an attempt at grace, but stumbles as the door catches on the webbing inside, jerking a moment before ripping free. The cultist takes the opportunity to take a swing at him...
...and lands a telling blow that lays the elf out flat. "Another's blood for Mazzmezz!" the cultist bellows.
Duo's alight cloth burns away at his unconscious flesh.
The fire in the hallway spreads up it. It grows closer to the cultist and and the spider behind him chitters nervously.
The tiny spider trapped in the corner of the stairway chitters frantically as it seeks a way out.
The human-sized spider behind the cultist scurries past the fire and into the room that Lanliss is in. Spiders have already begun to descend from the walls towards him, but the creature hisses at them and they retreat. The spider begins to wrap Lanliss in silk.
Sunny ties a rope to the grate and Alestone throws the end over a nearby yardarm. They both take ahold of the rope and pull.
Alestone can't quickly enough get leverage, but Sunny heaves on the rope and just as she's about to loose steam, she jerks again and the grate tears free.
Tying the rope off Suny yells, "Okeys, now where are those two todgers!" She scampers over and leans over the open hatch, looking down into the hold, making sure she is standing 'up wind' of the smoke now beginning to pour out of the large opening.
"Where do them eedjots be!"
Alestone will begin inspire courage and lower himself down the rope.
"I'm common' laddies, don't die on me yet."
Aoro stands above, noticeably quiet.
The cultist below can easily be heard, but only his feet can be seen by those up on deck. He shouts again, "More flesh for Mazzmezz! Only blood will save this ship!" He bolts past the opening, disappearing again from where he originally came from.
The tiny spider rushes out of the corner as the fire reaches it. It just barely gets to the hallway outside when the fire overcomes it and it drops to the floor, a burning husk.
The person-sized spider redoubles its efforts on wrapping Lanliss in webbing.
Sunny peers down into the room below and manages to spot Duo's feet deep in the fire below. Lanliss is nowhere to be seen.
Alestone lowers himself down into the large hallway. Webbing everywhere is beginning to burn along the walls. Through what looks like a shrine, he can see the cultist messing with a door on the far end. Part of Duo's fallen form is visible through the fire.
Aoro again remains silent as he watches what is going on.
The cultist flings the door open and disappears into a room beyond. "Blood will spare us his wrath!" can be heard from within that room.
The fire spills through the door to the front cabin. The sound of wood collapsing can be heard as the deck of the forecastle starts to give way.
The person-sized spider finishes wrapping Lanliss in spider silk.
Sunny groans with grief at the crispy state of Duo....
"Ooooo! Oooo! That be terrible! Can ye see Lanliss? Can ye see any one Alestone?" She cries out, leaning away and trying to to be too affected by the smoke. She glances back over a shoulder at Aoro,
"Get ye ready with tha' line!" She indicates the rope.
Alestone shouts back up"That crazy be fiddlin' wit an altar, an' I ken only see Duo"
Alestone will pull Duo out of the fire towards the grate before shouting at the top of his lungs:
Aoro see's Alestone attempt to pull the fireball that is left of Duo. Along with with the deck clearly giving way. With Lanliss no where in sight. He knew things were going to end badly, he was not going to be added to it.
"Enough! Duo is clearly dead and that fool elf's fire is already bring down the deck. Lanliss made his choices heedless of others and was not the only one to pay for them. I will not be going to my death for someone like that. I suggest you abandon ship before it burns down with you on it. I am done here."
He was cutting his loses. You could not improve your position by being dead or overextending yourself beyond your abilities. He was ready to go.
Sunny shouts down to Alestone and gets a decent length of rope ready to haul up with.
Alestone reaches around the corner to Duo and grabs the man's body by the ankle. The fire burns at him.
He manages to jerk the still burning body into the hallway, but a cursory glance at this point shows the extensive burning. Alestone manages to catch a glance of a person wrapped in spider's silk in a room beyond the fire. A person-sized spider turns to hiss at him through the doorway.
The fires continue to spread, gobbling up more of the ship. The two fires have now joined into a larger, single blaze. Fire covers much of the front third of the ship.
"Can ye see Lanliss? I think we's gon'a have t' bury Duo here at sea!" Suny tells down to Alestone.
"Um...maybe we should leave?" Suny asks, watching the inferno begin to get closer even to the ship's hatch she's shouting through.
"I dun't wana get burned...." (>_>)