Sassarra Tucks herself aside the door and also prepares to zap the first unfriendly face that comes through.
Round 3:
[ooc]Party is up.
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Skrelznit takes the head and carries it out of the sterncastle, drawing his blade as he goes .
He tosses the head to the center of the defenders with a intimidating taunt.
Here's your master. He whimpered like a baby at the end. Surrender now and avoid joining him.
Looseal, on the other hand, awkwardly stumbles out of the Captain's cabin as she hurries to join her master.
Pew-Pew will spend his standard action this round using the quick clear action to fix his pistol. He will maintain his hide inside the captain's quarters.
Sassarra will step out from inside the cabin. She holds her hands out and winds surround her for a good dozen kobold-paces. Sparks fill the area as the storm rushes into her. She glows with St. Elmo's fire, lighting up the cabin and the bloody bed within.
Seeing Plugg's dead head and the party ready to fight, everyone but Scourge drops their weapons.
One of them, Fipps, speaks up. "We were just doing what the captain wanted. But there is no loyalty to a dead man."
Scourge looks and sears at Fipps and the others,"Traitors all of you", before running and jumping off the ship.
As Skreznit looks at Grauchi each other. He sees a neutral-evil grins on his face.
"polypus, qui vocat vos"
Grauchi casts Nature's Ally II, summoning an Octopus over the fleeing man.
"Leave no open ends," and under his breath "Shinies still on the island."
Sassarra nods at Garuchi, calling out "We're not traitors! You can't betray those you were forced to serve!"
She leaps off the deck and into the water, hurling lightning at Scourge.
Pew-Pew will head out on deck and look over the side with his newly fixed pistol trying to gauge the distance to the weakling that is fleeing.
The combined weight of the parties attacks quickly end Scourge.
Pew-Pew gets to the side of the boat just in time to see the man go still in the water.
"We should try bring him back on floatwood...what if he have shinies?"
Pew-Pew will turn his attention to the remainder of the crew, pointing his gun at them menacingly. "You no fight now, but will you try fight when Kobolds sleep? You want floatwood? If you no trust then you leave."
Grauchi makes sure Owl-bear is released from his chains as well.
He climbs up some stairs and turns towards the crew who remain.
"Greetings men. It is the end of Scourge's and Plugg's command. They were not strong enough, they lacked the keen Draconian intellect we have.
"You must all make a choice. Either you join us. The work will be similar as before, but you'll eat, you'll live.
Or you can get off the ship. Here you can settle on this island. There are some huts remaining, some tents, shelter for the nights to come. The undead are mostly gone, the octogoblins are mostly gone, so you'll be able to make something of yourselves here. If you choose the later when we're away, the swim is much longer."
He looks at the party members and speaks draconic,
"We have our freedom. Now we get to see the world. Who's in?"
"Pew-Pew recognize this island. Ocean not close to home. Will have to travel long to find clan again. Travel with other kobolds better than travel alone. I stay."
He holsters his pistol, eyeing the crew standing on deck suspiciously.
"We will teach tall ones speak proper dragon? Pew-Pew do not trust ones that don't talk well."
"Yes, you can stay with us Pew-Pew. When we have fortune and big names, you can return to your village and become clan leader perhaps? We don't think it a good idea to have them speak our language. We know more then them, we have freedom to talk in private. We teach you long-speak."
"We are dragonkind, so the name should reflect that we thinks."
She thinks for a moment, "How about Dragons' Kin as a name? That will show everybody that we aren't to be trifled with."
"Sounds good for Pew-Pew. Remind all how powerful Kobold is. So long as dragon not see and think we rude."
Pew-Pew looks wistfully out over the ocean. I sure do miss the dragonmother. She was so strong and brave. I hope I get to see her scales again some day.
"What if find water dragon to serve. Floatwood hunt for shinies for her. She protect floatwood and good koboldses."
Much of the crew look oddy at Pew - Pew as he speaks and waves his gun around. But Grauchi makes them relax.
Most of the crew sound pleased having you all lead. Even those who supported Plugg quickly join up; not wanting to be stuck on that island.
The other group of Kobolds on the ship, headed by Quinn and Turlach, walk up to you with Kroop.
Turlach: "Captain Harrigan will not be happy once he find out that there has been a mutiny."
Kroop: "Plugg was already planing to mutiny by not showing up at the meaning place. He was going to take the ship to Rickety’s Squibs. There he could get a refit to hide the ships old look."
Quinn turns to Pew - Pew and speaks in Draconic.
Quinn: "Won't be sailing into many ports once word gets out that this ship has been 'acquired' by pirates. Some towns like Pirates, many don't. This 'Rickety’s Squibs' is a place to change old ship to look not like old ship. So Harrigan, Plugg's captain, and also the ship's former owner have harder time hunting down kobolds and crew."
Should we go get shinies from cave first? If we going to tall ones town we sell shinies no want for other shinies do want.
"Oh, we clear out the shinies!"
When the ship starts sailing, he doesn't miss the opportunity to transform into a great horned owl and fly around.
Quinn takes her hat off and hands it to the new captain.
"You all saved my life and off'ed that pain in the tail Scourge. If you all waited much longer, I would have had to kill him my self to get him to stop flirting with me.
I also found something among my equipment when I was picking it up from where it was scattered on the floor; a iron bracer that carries some magic in it."
She hands the bracer over as well.
Both items detect as magical.
Sassarra is able to find that the ship is only a few days from Rickety's Squibs.
Grauchi knows that Captain Harriganm is one of the most powerful free captains of the Shackles.
"I can understand he flirting though, what are the pitfalls I should avoid?", Grauchi says with a wink.
Grauchi looks at the magic items, the hat he can't identify, but when Quinn shows the bracers he collects one from his bag as well. "Here's the other, together they form bracers of shoot-a-little-better"
Pew-Pew tries to find somewhere quiet on the ship and will spend the time in transit working with his pistol.
While Harrigan is powerful, there are greater; those of the Pirate Council. The pirate Council is headed by a King.
Being a Pirate is not all plundering. A ship that gathers lots of plunder but fails to make a name for themselves is seen as easy pickings. on the other claw, a crew that is very infamous but little plundering is seen a cruel monsters.
While some captain have a private ports to refit the ships they take; most do not. Places like Rickety's Squibs, for a price, will refit and even upgrade ships. Pirates have reverence for those places and are careful to not upset the owners; blacklisting from those places can end a pirate captain's life. Without a place to refit their ships, they are easy pickings for pirate hunters.
Putting on the hew fancy hat, with thanks to Quinn, she calls out orders to make sail for Rickety Squibb's.
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Aye, aye, Cap'n-k-k-k.
Looseal spends much of her day flying far and wide , catching fish and bringing them back to the upper spars to eat them.
Skrelznit enjoys the view and voluntarily takes a watch each day in the crow's nest, occasionally peeking through Looseal's eyes as he recently learned how to do.
Three days pass before finding a the headland marking the cove and port. As you come around and closer to the headland you see a tower up at its top. A checkered flag of yellow and red rises up above the tower while a Blue flag goes up at the dock in reply.
Looking in you see a cove at the mouth of a wide jungle river, its sluggish brown waters staining the waters of the blue sea like an ugly bruise. A series of docks has been built upon this estuary, with buildings concealed beneath the overhanging limbs of the jungle beyond. A wooden watchtower stands upon the promontory of the headland, carefully concealed among the trees to provide a clandestine view of the seas.
Out of the boathouse a small longboat comes out to meet you. A small crew of six man the longboat.
A short, old man hails from the longboat. He calls for you to drop anchor and to allow them on bored to discuss terms and see what he has to work with.
She will nod at the crew to make it so.
The old man introduces himself as Rickety Hake and going right to work. He inspects the ship top to bottom; the whole time with a smile on his face. Almost half a hour passes as he finishes looking over the ship and walks back over to Sassarra.
"It is a little work, but it should just take 5 or 6 days, and will cost you 2,000 gp. I can add small smuggling compartments for 500 gp each without increasing the time."
Knowing that they can afford it, and it being a good ides, she answers quickly. "Oh, we kobolds know it's always good to have something hidden away for later."
Draconic "Will get to go ashore while they work? Pew-Pew not used to float wood rock yet. Be nice be off water for while.
Rickety nods. "You can stay in the Commons while you wait. Room is free, but any food, drink, or anything else is up to you to play for.
Now I just need to see you are good with the payment. I don't need it upfront, just need to know you will be able to pay went the work is done.
If you don't have the gold, we can buy up some of you goods at the normal rate of 50% of the goods' value. I am not a trading hub. So nothing over 2500 gold worth.
You can also off load any as prisoners as ransom or slaves for 50 gold a head.
I could underwrite you, but I would want my due. It would be 1/3 of your plunder each month till paid back 175% of the cost."
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5 pounds of pepper
Barrel (Filled with fresh water)
Barrels of very cheap perfume
Empty crocodile flask
Gems
Golden ring
Ivory Walrus tusk
Jawbone of a shark carved with scrimshaw images of a vastoctopus eating whales and containing a dozen silver and gold rings hammered into it
Map
Orca bone & pearl harp
Pearls
Scrimshaw blade of great workmanship depicting an octopus
Silver hatpin
Silver hatpins set with tiny obsidians
Silver tankard
Skull of Hamerhead Shark
Spyglass
Wedding dress inlaid with pearls and set with 3 tiny rubies
Whale Skull with scrolls:
Whalebone corset set with mother-of-pearl inlays
Sassarra will show Rickety the pile of booty in the hold. "We can cover it."
"Sail closer and the cutters will tow the ship in," he heads back to the docks.
Soon as the ship is towed up in drydock, they get to work on the ship and point you to the Commons.
Walking up to the commons you find a once-grand building with broad wings extending from its ground floor stands at the end of the docks, its octagonal dome topped by a cupola. It was obviously a fine villa in its day but time and the harsh sun and rains of the Slithering Coast have faded its paint and cracked its boards, leaving it a gray ghost of its former self. A painted board above the veranda names it as “Rickety’s Squibs.” Smaller, less grandiose hovels and sheds clapped together of flotsam and jetsam surround the larger building and merge into the jungle behind it.