Xander casts overland flight and flies over to the beach.
Oro-Tu chants in Tulita and dances around menacingly as Natalie destroys the creature in a spray of blood, his tongue sticking out in an ugly grimace. He swings repeatedly with his shark toothed polearm at Bonegnaw as he does so.
(Reckless, stalwart, PA, AC 17, DR 5/-)
Leialoha walks up close to Oro-Tu and pulls out his wand of protection from evil.
Oro-Tu senses Leialoha behind him and growls, "Burn them! 25 feet in front of my left!"
This should help to get the party started.
Ps, we are still in the pact
Steal combat maneuver. No Aoo. Brings it to my hand.
Girallon attacks Ivar
Enforcers attack Oro-Tu
Smuggler fires CB at Natalie
Pissed off, the gnoll grabs a crossbow from the smuggler behind him and fires at Oro-Tu as he cannot attack Silas
Xander flies over Silas's head and magic missiles the gnoll
Ivar bleeding from two more wounds now feels a growing anger inside that cannot be deigned and screams at the great white beast stepping forward to get a better angle he attacks the ape again
You missed.
Ivar brings his axe around in a figure eight and attacks the ape again
Ivar turning from the falling ape, Rhea, Ivars amber blade continues swinging in a figure eight pattern as if she has a mind of her own
Rhea dripping in the blood of both her victims, Ivar still raging continues their rampage
Bonegnaw calls out for parley.
"Drop your weapons!"
The gnoll orders his men to comply.
Oro-Tu growls and visibly forces himself to stay his weapon at halfway through it's trip towards the gnoll's heart.
"Throw weapons behind you and kneel!"
He stands menacingly, filling the mouth of the cave and with obvious ready intent to finish him off if they do not. (Delay)
move, just once, go on flinch
as the smuggles kneel and place their hands behind their heads Ivar shaking off the rage and lowering Rhea starts to kick the weapons away from the prisoners.
A feeling coming over of pure rage Natalies bloodthirsty smile now practically drips of benevolent malice. Shge frowns but stays her hand when Bonegnaw calls for parley. Even the blackest of the black pirates respected a parley request. As the blood drips off her cutlass Natalie sneers at the smugglers. "If you don't want to feel my blade drop your weapons, otherwise prepare to die." When it becomes their surrendering Natalie cuts a piece of cloth from one of the dead and starts cleaning the blood off her blade eying the prisoners so they don't get any ideas.
Xander will strike any that move with his Merciful Quarterstaff (does subdual only).
Treasure in the hold:
6,000 gold doubloons (gp) in 12 large sacks, a mechanical clock inlaid with silver with numerals carved from various colored gemstones (2,500 gp value), a complete set of fine china (200 gp value), and a set of exquisite quality
silverware (100 gp value). Xander says he will take the clock for his pay.
Bonegnaw packed this cave with 20 human and 4 elven slaves. Most of the humans are Tulita, as their lives on the Outskirts of Port Shaw make them easy targets.
On Bonegnaw:
+2 mighty (+4) composite longbow, 15 arrows, +2 shadow studded leather armor, masterwork scimitar, a sack filled with 25 obsidian statuettes carved
in the shapes of all manner of strange beasts (25 gp value each)
You find a number of msw ranseurs, some light crossbows, masterwork studded leather armor and about 280 GP on the smugglers and enforcers.
Oro-Tu growls after helping to bind the prisoners, and upon seeing the tulita slaves gets up and storms over to help them, shoving the kneeling Bonegnaw out of his way and into the wall with an utter lack of delicacy.
He frees them from their bondage and offers them sips of water, easing them into restful positions while they finish looting the cave and prepare to return to ship.
The Dragon’s Tail is a small cargo freighter on which Bonegnaw transports dragonsmoke and slaves.
"Take it you've earned it. That was some impressive casting Xander. Well worth the price."
Seeing the slaves Natalie scowls darkly. She knows about the trade from her pirate days, but never liked it. She starts looking around for keys to set them free.
as the other party members are helping the newly freed slaves Ivar stands guard over the prisoners, axe still out, dripping gore. As the freed slaves come over and take their weeks of abuse out on Bonegnaw and his lackeys with foot and fist Ivar watches carefully daring any of the surrenders to change their mind.
serves 'em right, if I had my way we would have killed em. I hate slavers
"Thanks for the help, Xander. You were a great help."
Silas cleans himself of looking like Garreg and makes sure the slaves are helped out onto the beach to enjoy some air and space before our inevitable journey back to Port Shaw.
"We should deliver these to the dragoons if only to keep them occupied whilst we do our work. Xander and Captain Montgomery, is there things we can do to help you? I suspect we will need to find a crew if we are to keep this new vessel, but I would not wish to be presumptuous about whether you would help us."
neat trick changing from one character to another
watching Silas return to his normal features Ivar loads the prisoners onto the boats. hearing the talk about a crew for the ship Ivar interjects
"Between us we have enough experience to limp this tub back to Port Shaw. I've sailed on worse ships, but keep it or not its up to you folks. I like the idea of having our own boat, but if the good captian doesn't ferrying us around for a little longer we could find something more to out tastes."
"Even if we don't keep the ship sellin it would help some. I could care less what ship we're on, just my feet are more sure on a shifting deck than the ground. I have had my feet planted on a deck since a very young age. Theres nothin like the salty air and the smell of the open sea. The groan of a good boat under ye feet. And a bottle of rum."
Ivar smirks remembering his childhood
When I wasn't on ship I was working the farm, cutting wood was the funnest thing to do there, that's when I started with the axe. As soon as I could get away from the farm I did. Kept the axe though."
Oro-Tu leaves and goes to the nearby cave that he saw and carefully checks it out.
"I'm very much in favour of having our own vessel, but we need a good crew to go along with it. Trading it up for something better is fine by me, but a ship is only as good as its crew."
He waits for the Captain and Xander to respond.