if it's neither been thrown overboard nor already taken to the galley, Goandai will pick it up and head in that direction hoping to find Butchy since he hadn't seen him on deck. Nekare` follows at his heels.
Once the cook/wrangler is found he asks,
so there's been a bit of excitement, I didn't know if you'd heard. but the crew and some of us among the passengers had a skirmish with a troupe of grindylow, I think I heard them called, and this was left among the spoils. indicating the multi-pod he's carrying I know very little about cooking beyond the utilitarian, but you've impressed quite a few people with your skills. Do you think you can do something with this?
Several members of the crew "ooh and ah" at Desula's description, Hezala chuckling, knowing that he only took one spear head to the gut, but not raining on the Drow's parade. the looks from the remaining humans and passengers shows a bit more respect for the party than before, as they are impressed by the part you took in the fight, preventing the attackers in the middships from moving to aid the taking of either the helm or supplies on the foredeck.
Goandi
When you get below decks there is already a couple Grindylow corpses lying in a pile on the floor along with a couple octopie. One strung up above a large tub, upside down and bleeding out into it. He looks at the tentacles of the creature, and nods, pulling down the bleeder String up and bleed out that one. Butchy orders, taking an enormous cleaver and chopping the grindylow in half. From the waist down it looks just like a regular octopus. You may assist in bleeding out and chopping the tentacles in preperation for an octobus meal, and disposing of the upper halves of the bodies.
Thoyoitu
The man that was treating Kraw takes a look at a couple other unconscious tengu and says, Alright mate. I'll let ya know if I hear of anybody lookin fer ya, otherwise you have someone fetch me if they condition changes. Name's Horus Flint, ship doc, aye?"
The captain Shouts an order to the pilot to get em away from these waters once the bodies are chucked to avoid any other encounters, and steps into his quarters with the first mate and the bosun. Shortly thereafter, a man with strang weapons, a pistol and Musket, steps into the room with the officers. The crew waits with baited breath as the ship gets to speed and then slows to a crawl as the mainsail is pulled up, wondering what the captain will have them do next.
All right Gentlemen, Ladies, we e needin all able hands on deck. And I mean EVERYBODY! the captain shouts across the deck. It takes a minute or two for everybody that's able to move well to get up top. When the crew quiets down and looks to be all present, along with the passnegers, Captain Il'zavaan explains, Them Grindylow did a fair bit of damage to our vessel and we're a smidgen short-handed, Savvy? So We'll be needin everbody ta be pullin yer own weight round hereabouts for a spell if'n yea want ta be makin it ta shore on schedule. So see the Bosun here fer details and we'll be gettin ta work.
The bosun will explain the jobs to you all. Every day you can pick one job to do and make the appropriate checks. You will also have an action for the day. If you pick an exhausting task, and fail the DC con check, you will be fatigued until you take the Sleep action.
Thoyoitu leaves one healthy Tengu to help take care of the injured ones. He then decides to rest for the night, having fought that hard battle, then hopefully eats calamari for breakfast. Then he spends his day working on the rigging if they're down some people, or the boiler room or plumbing otherwise.
Take a look at the campaign page and roll your checks for your task.rigging tends to take climb checks, all DC 10.
It's still midday, and the captain has ordered all able crew and passengers to work the rest of the day unless you've taken heavy wounds, namely Desula
Goandai will take Nekare` and spend the rest of the day catching rats.
and will spend the night exploring the deck area just above, as best he can figure, where he heard the noise coming from the bilge
Repair work instead:
Victor looks up the mast high above him,then at the heavy sail, then at the deck.and he frowns.
"perhaps there is a more specialised category of work for me? something that involves alchemy and such/ or engineering?"
victor looks decidedly worried that someone might decide to throw him off the boat for not being able to haul his own weight.
Victor:
The bosun raises an eyebrow at you, and points you in the direction of Horus Flint. Well, i don't know about engineering, but if yea got good hands I could use yea on my repair crew. There's plenty o' chunks tore out the ship, an want ta make sure we don't have any structural issues here.
Thoyoitu, your night action? You mentioned coming back to the Door to check it? You can make a check to unlock it.
Pyre works the rest of the day. Always keeping an eye out for more danger.
Strategically placing himself at repairs near the door, Thoyoitu pulls out his lockpicks when no one is looking and attempts to open it.
Victor gets straight to work, though nothing works out for him.The mass of twisted rope and system of overlapping knots confuses him. Victor pauses and decides to dive straight into the physically repair work, though that doesn't turn out much better.
At the end of it, the ratfolk looks absolutely miserable. His hands trembling, he retires for dinner though anyone keen enough to observe can see that victor is clearly unsatisfied with the day's outcome. He chooses to spend the night working, to attempt to make up for his earlier mistakes.
Victor takes a deep breath and gets back to work, as he gets back to the mass of rope that had confused him previously.
"those ropes.just like the tunnels."
A little shines somewhere inside the ratfolk's mind
"Tunnels! Indeed! "
Victor begins to follow every rope to it's origin and take note where it ends.wringing his hands out, he dives back into the mess.His mind is clear and onlookers he is a blur of fur.
Spends her day high in the rigging looking out for danger to the ship, when night comes she gos to bed
After a long and grueling day of work for most of you, you are able to undo much of the damage caused during the attack.
Rosalyn,
To the east of your current location is the sea of storms. From your vantage point you can see some signs of it's reach on the horizon. What worries you is that there appears to be sign of storming to the south. Hopefully the darkness on the distant horizon is not heading your way, yet something tells you that you won't be so fortunate.
Goandi and Thoyoitu
In searching for the the location of the strange noises you have heard, Goandi, you run into the Tenguin, Thoyoitu. He seems to be working at a lock, just out of curiosity, tho. He's not heard any indications of something below. When he gets the bolt unlocked and the trapdoor hidden the the deck opened, several pairs of eyes turn to face you in the darkness. There is metal grate in place that could be removed, but at this point it may be unadvisable. The figures in he shadow move closer, Goandi you can tell that there are several humanoids, but they are gaunt and huddled up in the damp darkness and can't quite tell what species they might be, but they certainly are unfriendly.
Goandi hears sounds of approaching crewmen, likely coming in for the night, and don't have much time before you are discovered having broken into a secret compartment on the ship.
Victor, you loose yourself in the rigging and topes for quite some time and don't emerge until after sundown, while the drow are out and working on the ship. While you've missed dinner, there will be a delightful calimari plate sitting in your makeshift lab when you finally come down to the lower decks.
"Storms's hoo to the East!!"
She calls down
Whispers urgently, close it, crow. someone's coming. at the same time he pulls a short length of rope, knotted at both ends, which he throws in the direction of the oncoming crewmen Nekare`! Fetch!
she springs into action running after the fetch toy, her claws clicking on the wood as she tries to gain purchase and momentum
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT!!!
Victor stumbles below deck after a long hard day of repair work.
"yes yes.some sleep would be nice."
Victor consumes the calamari platter and goes to bed.
As the men approach, Thoyoitu whispers, "Goandai, we have one chance to open it, why waste it, huh? How about you try prying it open, and I'll distract the guards, ey? Just find out what's under there!"
Victor
After a late nights labor you almost miss seeing someone deposit and looks to be a player into a home in the floor that shouldn't be there.
Desula
You rise and feel well rested, and significantly better.
In the morning,
Due to the flurry of activity and deposit work, the group can find a few minutes to speak privately if they wish, and have anything worth sharing.
Tho&Go
That's fine, Thoyoitu, you should have at least a minute.
A couple creatures close in, whispering, food...hungry...let us out
Anything you want to ask?
Nekare will go barreling down the length of the ship, careening straight into the large human, tripping him, whenever you are done.
ignoring Thoyoitu for the moment, he whispers back?
Victor
Wow, thanks autocorrect. It was a plate going into a Hole in the deck. Sorry bout that.
Goandi
Rosalyn
The pilot shouts to you, there's always storm to the east. Let us know if they getting closer.
The Eastern stormsigh remains out on the horizon, but to the south, there is a little more buildup, but still too far away to see if it's approaching or miving elsewhere.
"Hello? Goandai, what have you been saying? What's this one talking about? What are these things? What's going on? Are you going to pry the gate open, or what?"
The hob smiles at thoyoitu's question, at the prospect of escape and freedom.
Thoyoitu, you recognize the speech as the goblin tounge, but aren't sure what they are saying.
and gimme your answers quick, there's not much time
to Thoyoitu, sotto voce a little caution, crow. remember what I told you about caution?
he's not being totally straightforward, but he's honest about having been ambushed and on the way to slavery. But that doesn't mean he's a good guy or necessarily the victim. What you know is that the smile he gave you was the familiar bloodlust of a murderous hobgoblin readying for a slaughter.
The grate, if removed is easily wide enough for someone to climb through if removed. If'n ya help us, I'll remember it hob. Birdman. That a promise. Lemme out o'here eh? he adds in common.
At night Pyre will sleep and maybe over sleep after that fight.
we'll see, but not now. I'll be back though; I promise you that he closes the door I'll explain in the mornkng, Thoyuito. Right now you should probably make yourself scarce and I need to collect Nekare.
he ignores further conversation and heads toward the wolf and crewmen
Thoyoitu sleeps and goes to that same spot the next morning, after eating calamari for breakfast.
The hobgoblin glares at Goandi and hisses I'll hold ya ta that skeptical and slow to trust the druid.
In the morning, the ship is abuzz with busy sailors working. The bosun and Flint have the Thoyoitu's tengu working double-time, making repairs and fetching supplies for both the ship and medical care for the injured. Since it is so hectic, the party is able to find some time after a quick meal with none of the crew around, and can easily find a location to gather.
Thoyoitu, it isn't till midmorning that the bunks seem cleared out and won't have anyone passing through to as everything seems to be done in the kitchens ad Flint is on deck yelling about some piece of carpentry work or another.
After getting some sleep, Goandai will gather every one he can from "the group," not sure who else he can or should tell, and describes what he and Thoyoitu encountered last night.
long and short of it is that this ship is carrying prisoners who are bound for the slave blocks of the underdark
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1st Lvl: Mage Armor, Color Spray x2
Feeling a sore and not all that spry from yesterday. Des takes his time and getting through his morning rituals and greeting awful morning. But as soon as he leaves his room he runs into Goandi and hears there is a group meeting of minds.
At the meeting:
Typical, underdark mentality. Get someone else to do the dirty work. So what, a bunch of halflings, something exotic like a sentient crocodile?
humanoids, I didn't recognize the species. It looks like they were originally bound for a hobgoblin camp before being recaptured, along with one of their hobgoblin captors, by the drow.
Victor looks noticeably worried about the mention of slaves or any captive.
"oh dear.... are they good? Ummmm alright? Hmmmm fine?"
Victor cycles through a bunch of terms, trying to decide on the condition of the slaves.
We should attack the treasure room and cannon room simultaneously, thereby drawing attention away from just one. Then, we free the captives, have them help us, and steal gold from the ship as compensation. Then, with all our manpower, take the ship. Hold the cap hostage to guide us to our destination. Once there, we deal with them however we choose.
Victor panics as Thoyoitu mentions his plan
"What!? No! That's mutiny! Why are we deciding to overthrow the crew who've been taking care of us for so long for a buncha goblins?!? HOW CAN WE BE SURE THE GOBLINS AREN'T OUT TO GET US IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?"
Victor gets increasing shrill as he continues on. He stops to take a breath.
"I don't know..... perhaps we should ask first before busting down the doors.... maybe it's some members of the crew who are doing this while others are unaware..."
takes several seconds looking back and forth between the bird and rat-man and shakes his head. Ruthless as they were, there was something to be said for common sense efficiency and discipline of his people.
let's not go coo-coo for Choco-ku just yet. We can't just... treasure room?… really?… we can't just take over the ship. Even withe the Tenguin's people, who are obviously not warriors, we're still outnumbered, and that's ignoring the fact that I don't think any of us can pilot a ship. Victor's right too. We have no idea who among the day crew are in league with the Drow. It may be necessary to wait untill we reach land before we do anything about this at all, if we do decide to do something
Rosalyn is unhurt now but works with the hurt from the battle, healing where she can for a wile then heads back to the top of the past, where the wind is and looks out, keeping track of the storm.
[b]"Fine, then we let them out and let the slavers be weeded out, ey? Besides, whatever they are, they deserve better conditions!"[b]
"well" victor begin.
"i'll go talk to some of the crewmembers. they'll probably know.I'll try to be subtle about it"
that being said, victor scurries off to fine hezala
As the general consensus seems to be to learn more, you can split off to talk to people on the ship or look around. If you go to the Door to the pit, you'll need to roll stealth to avoid detection.
Hezala has just left the corner of the bunk-room where the Tengu are resting, having just spent some energy to heal them. Ah, little one, what's troubling you? You seem more full of nervous excitement than usual, she notes with a chuckle. Your friend's people are coming along well, and should be waking soon
Victor chuckles and approaches her
"you know, you never did tell me who your patron is.mind telling me now?"
Victor eagerly asks
Pyre sharpens his Ax, watching his traveling partners argue. He shakes his head but says nothing.
Hezala shrugs, It's not really appropriate to talk about her on an above-board mercantile ship... she says, but then leans in conspiratorially. My lady is queen of the Free Captains, and writer of the Code. The ignorant don't take kindly to followers of the Pirate Queen, but I find that among them that live their lives at sea, the respect afforded to her priestesses is well worth it when it matters.