Startled at finding the pilot to be not a barbarian native, Tony gapes for a moment.
...but we were simply responding to your attack on Lord Aerodus.
Tony points his finger at the tengu and says with righteous indignation; "Yeah!"
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"Master Pezock, we are sorry for invading your 'home' but we were simply responding to your attack on Lord Aerodus. I appologize for your injuries and if you're willing to sit and talk with us we can heal your wounds and be on our way"
"Yeah!"
'Ah... everything is Pezock's fault?!' the tengu screeches, his tone dripping with sarcasm, 'You approach Pezock's home with weapons drawn... in the company of a cannibal... and it's all Pezock's fault when he waves a claw over your man's head?!' he spits blood and mutters in what is presumably his native tongue (and presumably isn't saying anything nice...).
"Murders?!? You tried to take Tony's head off!.. Seems to me, you drew steel first."
'Lies!' cries Pezock, 'Your man still has his head - a tengu doesn't miss with a sword unless he wants to! And your people "drew steel" first! You evil, deceptive, witch-elf!' he spits again, clutching his wound...
"..And I am no brigand! I do have Some standards!"
'Pezock is yet to see any evidence...' snarls the tengu, as he leaps for Shisa! A swipe with his broken dagger opens a nasty wound across the half-elf's face, and a rake with his sharp beak tears her shirt and rips open her shoulder!
"I believe we got off to the wrong start Bird-Man. If you could all sheathe your blades, we may be able to have a discussion like civilized folk, instead of trying to take each others head's off with steel or claw. But first, let us treat that wound..."
Pezock ceases his retributive assault on Shisa for the moment, but eyes the group warily, broken dagger raised... he doesn't seem keen on letting Aerodus get anywhere near him...
'Get out!' he yells, 'All of you!'
The stinging pain in her face and the burning pain in her shoulder begin to make Shisa think she may have underestimated the tengu's abilities given the severity of the wound she had inflicted. Her brow furrows as she grips her short sword more tightly and starts to back up toward the door.
Keeping her weapon at the ready, she glances quickly to the others out of the corner of her eyes. "Great, my luck I'll get rabies, and this my only shirt," she says sarcastically. "Now I can add getting pecked to my growing list of isle ailments."
Taking a huge chance, she lowers her sword slightly. To the others, she says, "Blood for blood. Let us take our leave. There's been enough shed this day and we've ways to go."
With the door to her back, she looks at the tengu before speaking, "If I were evil, I'd continue the fight. If I were a witch, I'd have bespelled you. I am neither."
Turning abruptly, she leaves the shell of the crab and steps out into the sunlight.
As the others turn to go, Aerodus will say "So be it but remember BirdMan, there are more dangerous things out there than us. Be careful." Before leaving himself.
Leaving the crab shell, Aerodus will wave/hail the others to join them and continue past the giant lobster of death. Mentioning to the others "A birdman golemancer lives in there."
And seeing Shisa's obvious wounds, will offer to LoH "Though I don't know what went on in there, you drew steel to protect another. We'll make a righteous crusader out of you yet!"
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"If I were evil, I'd continue the fight. If I were a witch, I'd have bespelled you. I am neither."
'So... if you were evil you'd be stupid too?' retorts Pezock, with a bitter, mocking, laugh, 'running because you realise you're out-matched hardly speaks to the purity of your character... witch!'
"So be it but remember BirdMan, there are more dangerous things out there than us. Be careful."
'Yes, ApeMan, Pezock knows well the dangers of this place... whilst you obviously don't...' replies the tengu, before adding, '... keep an eye on your witch-elf... she's too keen for blood by far...'
Outside...
"A birdman golemancer lives in there."
'A tengu?' asks Gelik, sitting on a rock and putting the finishing touches on a sketch of the giant crab, 'Fascinating! Did you make friends? Can we talk to him?'
Pointing towards the sonsgtress's wound, and shaking his head "Not so much, it would be best if we continued on. It may do good to give him time to calm down."
At Aerodus' comment, she looks over at him with a raised eyebrow. "Crusader? Nah. I just don't like people waving pointy things at those I travel with," she says with grin. Letting out a deep sigh, she begins to feel the healing magic close some of her wounds. "Perhaps I was a bit quick, but he DID go after Tony first."
Shaking her head, she reaches up to undo her hair and retie it. muttering something about bird beaks.. pain where most people sit, witches, and ruined shirts before her words slide into Elvish.. again.
As they walked away down the beach, Tony stopped, looked back and asked; "Alright, how did we turn an ingenious flanking victory into an ignomonious retreat?"
"We fought a battle that may not needed to be fought, but we can hope that our next meeting will go better. I blame myself for rushing in..."
"We fought a battle that may not needed to be fought, but we can hope that our next meeting will go better. I blame myself for rushing in..."
Looking over at Aerodus, she shrugs and says quietly, "I don't think that tengu liked the fact that we have Taki with us either.
As Shisa listens to Marik's assessment, her brow furrows in thought. "I would agree considering he thought me a witch. Deranged or not, that creature is still able to fight quite well even with only a broken dagger."
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Thinking for a moment, Shisa's eyes light up and she breaks out in a grin. Shooting a wink at the others, she stands up and faces the back door of the crab thing then starts talking a bit loud..
"Well, since the Tengu doesn't wish to talk to us nicely, and being a witch and all, I will simply curse him so his beak grows black and rots off."
She bends down and grabing a stick, draws some scribbles in the sand then begins to wave her hands and mutters several unintelligible words in broken Elvish for a moment. She turns back to the others. "There, done. He's now cursed until he becomes willing to talk nicely."
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"There, done. He's now cursed until he becomes willing to talk nicely."
As the others start to head off down the beach, Shisa completes her loud 'curse'... as she turns her back on the giant crab, a broken dagger hurtles through the bead curtain to imbed itself between her shoulders!
'Stupid lying ApeMan paladin!' comes the tengu's cry from the other side of the bead curtain, 'Letting his witch-elf curse Pezock! No-one threatens to rot Pezock's magnificent beak!'
Shisa spends the turn face down and bleeding..
hp -2 / 14
At seeing Shisa write her 'curse' in the sand, Aerodus will actually give a bit of a chuckle. Reminds me of the pranks we used to play as kids. However, as she turns around to give her successful speech, he is horrified as she falls face first into the sand, with a dagger protruding from her back.
With a stern "Cover me!" To the others, Aerodus will rush forward, shield raised to ward off any further missiles from the curtain. Upon reaching Shisa's position will whisper "Don't worry, I'll get you out of this, Aerodus Whiteblade keeps his promises!" partly to her, partly to himself as he drags Shisa backwards towards the group, using his shield to cover their retreat.
Tony puts his hand over his mouth to suppress the impulse to laugh at Shisa's teasing. Then as they start to leave, he looks over and says; "That's...", then Shisa is hit from behind and drops to the ground.
Stunned, all Tony can think is; "Excellent shot" seeing the distance.
At Aerodus' call to "Cover me!" Tony rouses himself to grab one of Shisa's arms and help drag her away from the insane tengu.
Once they are a fair distance away from the giant crab, Aerodus will set about healing the Songstress's wound. Applying his hand to the spot where the knife is imbedded, he invokes the Inheritor's name to heal the injury.
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Aerodus and Tony quickly drag Shisa out of the line of fire, allowing the paladin to attempt some healing...
'Taki can't heal Shisa any more today,' murmurs Taki as she crouches by the fallen half-elf, 'Shisa should stopped getting stabbed so much...'
Kneeling by Shisa, Gelik takes his turn, carefully pulling out the broken dagger as he casts his spell...
'No one will take you seriously with a dagger sticking out of your back,' chides the gnome, 'and they'd be right not to!'
A feeling of warmth begins to flow through her as she slowly starts to regain her senses. A sudden pain lashes through her back bringing a yelp though clenched teeth. Another flood of warmth and the pain recedes to a more bearable level.
Opening her eyes slowly, she begins to push herself up only to fall back as a wave of nausea hits. Resting her head on her arm, she mumbles, "Ok, that didn't go so well did it? I guess not or I wouldn't be laying here having to listen to Master Gelik's poor attempt at humor."
She tries to sit up again, a bit more slowly this time and lets the healing complete its course. "Well, maybe his beak really will rot off. One can only hope," she quips as she regains her feet, albeit a bit shakily.
"Despite what you may think of him, he is a good shot with a dagger." Handing Shisa the broken blade, "Feeling better? We still need to press on to the Nightvoice this day."
"Despite what you may think of him, he is a good shot with a dagger." Handing Shisa the broken blade, "Feeling better? We still need to press on to the Nightvoice this day."
Looking over at the paldin, she grins widely. "Well, if he didn't like my acting ability, all he had to do was say so.. but.. I got his 'point'.
Taking the proffered dagger, she looks it over. "Nice balance for a broken blade," she says before throwing it toward the back of the crab. "He may need it later."
Shifting her pack and pulling her bow from her shoulder, she restrings it then looks at the others. "Thanks for the help. Shall we?" With a slight bow to Master Gelik, she turns to continue down the path.
As the songstress heads off to scout again, Aerodus will clap the scribe on his back. "Worry not sir Scribe, for I can describe you the beast from the inside-out!" Aerodus will convey the workings of the inner crab-golem to Gelik. "There was a pulley here... and it moved the claw like 'this'.." as he gestures and points to abstract spots in the air, all while having a mailed hand in the shape of crab's claw.
"And there was a foot pedal down here... somewhere and it moved.... something..."
Perception:
To Shisa, concerned: "Are you sure you're all right? That was a serious hit indeed."
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To Shisa, concerned: "Are you sure you're all right? That was a serious hit indeed."
Shisa looks over at Tony and simply shakes her head at the look of concern on his face. "No, Tony. I'm not alright," she says with a little more emotion than she'd planned. "Everything on this forsaken island has tried to kill us. To add insult, I've just been pecked by some walking crow a bit too close to one of my better attributes for comfort. I'll be glad to get off this place and back to somewhere.. civilized."
Turning her attention back to the trail, she continues on in silence.
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After about an hour and a half's more trudging along the beach the exporers come to a four-hundred-foot long swath of slippery, seaweed-covered rocks which rise a little out of the sea, forming a causeway between the main island and a smaller, jungle-covered, island beyond. From the map Marik's been maintaining, the 'wrong island' where the 'little men' dwell lies to the north of the one beyond the causeway - so it looks like the group will need to cross the causeway and the jungle-covered island, then cross to the 'wrong island' before getting anywhere near where the Nightvoice's possible location...
On the other hand, lodged on some rocks, maybe a half-mile out to sea to the south-west of the point the group find themselves on, lies the wreck of a ship... although Gelik says straight away that it's not the right type to be the Nightvoice...
Looking out across the water, Shisa shields her eyes from the glare. She spends a moment eying the rocky trail and the wreckage before turning to the others.
"We'll have to be careful crossing. Those rocks look quite slick. That ship's definitely not the one we're looking for. This one is the Crow's..foot or something like that. Can't quite make out the last part of it from here with all the glare."
Tony peers out over the causway; then turns and grins at the rest.
"Well, my turn! Sir Aerodus, get your swim trunks on; I predict you're going to be taking a dip in the ocean."
Carefully [taking 10], Tony starts walking across the causeway towards the jungle island.
Acrobatics: [take 10 +8]= 18
Perception:
Hand to chin, Aerodus gives some deep thought, before pulling out his rope. "Not if I have anything to say about it!" As he starts tying a knot around his waist. Satisfied with his handy work he will toss the line to the others: "I'll be last, and be your anchor. Once you are across I will follow behind." As the others are on their way over, Aerodus will start his own trek.
Acrobatics?
Shisa takes the lead across the causeway, taking her time and placing each foot down carefully onto the seaweed covered rocks. For the first time since landing on the island, she is grateful for her soft-soled boots which allow her feet a better grip than those with a harder sole.
She pauses from time to time to nudge larger clumps of seaweed off of the rocks to make it easier for those behind her. With bow in hand, her eyes continually travel between rocks and the smaller island ahead.
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Shisa takes the lead across the causeway...
With the tide out crossing the causeway proves simple enough... even though it's quite the slog scrambling over the seaweed-covered, uneven, rocks which form it. By the time everyone's across, the sun's once more sinking below the horizon as another day closes on the Shiv...
Based on Marik's map, the small jungle-covered 'sub-island' the group find themselves on is a couple of miles long... which will probably take around four hours to get through, based on past experience of jungle-travel... although by now thoughts are probably turning to camp, food, and rest for the night. In fact, Gelik has been saying so... repeatedly... in less and less subtle fashion... for the entire causeway crossing...
Tony shades his eyes, looking at the position of the sun.
"Looks like camping time. See any good spots?"
Survival:
"Right by that low tide mark looks perfect!"
"Maybe higher ground would be better..." Aerodus muses, as he begins his own search.
Begin the shelter rolls!
Survival (Aid Another:) (Someone who hopefully has ranks in Survival [Taki/Marik])
Shisa grins at the others at Aerodus' comment. "True, higher ground would be best. I just hope this doesn't turn out like our last beach camp as I've had enough of the undead to last me quite a while."
She lends her eyes to the search for a camp site.
survival (trained)
At the mention of the Ghost Captain, Aerodus's hands will give a slight twitch. "You do, still have that trinket from his ship?"
"You do, still have that trinket from his ship?"
Looking over at Aerodus, she gives slight shrug. "I do have the box in my pack, yes. Provided Tony put the locket back when he was done looking, then I have that as well."
Setting her pack down, she kneels beside it and opens it. She rummages in her pack for a moment before pulling out the box they'd recovered from the ship.
Seeing the other's working, Aerodus try and make himself look busy by re-arranging his bed roll a few times, before rummaging through his things (sans armoUr) and drawing forth 'Blinky' the ever faithful lantern archon (in training).
"I'll take the night watch." he offers, before beginning maintenance on his meager amount of belongings.
Chagrined, Tony rummages around before pulling out the locket and handing it back to Shisa.
"Ah, terribly sorry. I got caught up in events and just forgot. If needed I also have that ships logbook as well."
"Ah, terribly sorry. I got caught up in events and just forgot. If needed I also have that ships logbook as well."
Looking over at Tony, she smiles. "No worries Tony, feel free to hang on to it. As long as we still have it, that's all that matters. None of us know whether or not it will prove useful for more than just selling once we get back."
Stuffing the rest of her gear back into her pack along with the box from the ship, she pulls out a dagger and spends a moment looking it over. She tests the balance after wiping sand from it, then inspects its edge to see if it's still sharp.
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Ok Definetly forget the Armor (Blasted english spelling!! If I spell it armour do I get reduced armor check penalties?)
Eventually, once fed, people start to settle down to rest, Aerodus taking the first watch .
'Mutineer! Traitor! At least let me see m'beloved Aeshamara one last time...'
With a soft curse, Aerodus will dig through Shisa's pack if he can find it... will open it up again to make sure the name is right and the picture is there.
Trinket in hand and Blinky making its patrol around Aerodus's head, he strides forth to confront the captain. Thrusting the trinket before him (open): "Here is your trinket spirit! Go to your slumber, and trouble us no more!!
Although by the end it may wake some people up....