Like Sarag, the heat is to much for Sassarra.
She find a Tangleburn Bag.
Syrrex's little gibbering spirits rush back under his cloak as he inhales a little. "...show me your wounds. I will fix them as best as I can." he stated, tapping Sassarra's bite marks. "Let us see what we can scavenge and hide it for when necessary. They should prove useful..."
While working Sasarra overhears that the captain is asking a few of the officers to keep a look out for Reefclaw. As he has not had any for dinner in a while.
After the fight in reply to what you said to Jack:
"It is something to do other then work on this ship." Jack looks over at Sassarra. "That was good work on the rats. Nasty things took a bite out of me."
"One of them got me, too. But we worked together to take them down. And they fixed me up. It's good to have friends looking out for you."
Sarag reappears from the depths of the ship a little while later panting as he gets to the open air feeling better already. He goes to find himself a nice cool spot to hide away and sleep off the exhaustion from the fight.
After a few hours he got up and skittered about and made his way over to the quartermaster to show him what he found and see if he had something a bit more useful for him in return.
Sassarra recognizes reeflaws. They look a lot like large lobsters; but a lot smarter.
Jake looks to get along with Sassarra and as they talk become fast friends. "Friends are always useful on a ship. Makes a long days not as long. Jack smiles at her.
Grok lets Sarag in and smiles at him.
Sarag comes in and screeches a bit as he sits down. "Sarag did not do so well in the boat....no no, Sarag is not so good at combat yet. Rats bit poor Sarag and he tried to hide while inspiring the others in battle but the rats, they think they aren't food but Sarag was food. Sarag had a bow before the ship, but it was lost when he woke up. No no no...Sarag likes to relax and cook and drink and talk over fighting, Grok too?" he said as he got kinda comfy and picked at one of the wounds.
Grok turns her head a little to the side before take up her cup. "They all sound good to me; fight, drink, sing, fight, drink, talk, fight, and more drinking. But less fighting gives more time for drinking. So not a lot worse. You should try fighting more." She pulls out a clipboard and look it over before looking back at Sarag and smiling. opening a locker, she pulls out Sarag's old longbow, quiver of arrows, and any of items (not money) that Sarag came to the ship with. Don't let the cap know that I gave any of this back. I don't feel like covering the loss," she says putting down the stuff.
Day 4:
The weather is warm and cloudy. Captain is throwing a celebrating with his officers.
The ship just passed Dahak's Teeth. A collection of islands named after the Draconic deity of destruction, and ruled over by a old and powerful Red dragon.
The Captain is likely celebrating as the red dragon has a habit of randomly burning ships and towns; even the towns on the islands that worship him.
Swabs get a +2 bonus on their job check as Friendly and helpful Swabs aid them.
Cook's mate gets +2 bonus on job check if not drunk as the Cook aids him.
Everyone gets +2 bonus to influence other NPC.
Riggers:
Rope Work:
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Dexterity check.
Fix Rigging:
DC 10 Climb heck (30 ft)
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Dexterity check.
Cook's mate:
Captain Harrigan is celebrating, and needs one of the ship's pigs killed and cooked.
DC10 Profession (cook) or Survival to slaughter the animal, and help the preparing.
Kroop is drunk: Sarag will have to do the cooking also.
DC 15 profession (cook) intelligence check.
Swabs:
Manning the bilges. Pumping water out.
DC 12 Strength check.
DC 10 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
Happy about your work from day 4, you are been sent to keep hunt rats below decks.
DC 10 Stealth, Survival, or Dexterity check to catch and kill a good number of rats.
After Evening meal, you see Plugg and a few of his cronies leading Owlbear Hartshorn on deck. Owlbear is a simpleminded hulk of a man that Mr Plugg's keeps belowdeck unless he is looking for 'fun'. The crew likes to at his expense and he plays up to it. There is still signs on his body from when the crew tarred and feathered him as a joke.
Owlbear is blind in his left eye. An Acrobatics or Bluff check could allow a person to avoid Owlbear's fist buy moving in and out of his blind spot.
Mr Plugg looks to the five of you. "How about some one-on-one bare-knuckle and wrestling? One of you vs my pet. But no magic. I will even put down a wager of 100 gp on my pet winning. Winner takes or splits the pot.
She doesn't have time to divert her attention. She needs to focus on work.
She looks over Owlbear, seeing him as a victim like themselves.
Sarag seems all to giddy when his bow and such is presented to him and he nods eagerly before going off to hide them when they are done talking.
He arrives down in the cook's nest and sees poor Kroop drunk as can be and shudders a bit at the thought of things not getting done. He sings to himself as he starts to go about his work.
He eagerly jumps on the pig and quickly makes work of getting it bleeding quite well before going about to try and work on getting it properly prepared for the feast for the evening.
His singing inspires him so as he goes about the kitchen grabbing this and that and making the pig ready for the dinner. He would have to try to remember how he cooked this sometime later in case he had reason to celebrate.
Mopsank remains eager to prove himself useful, and spends the day working hard.
Syrrex works hard at his task for the day, hunting down rats and keeping his eye out for anything potentially useful.
As the day drags out, Syrrex quirks a brow at Owlbear. He certainly earned his name... but he looked worse for wear. Perhaps... he could be swayed to their side? Having some muscle like him would definitely make things easier.
"...I will take that bet!" Syrrex piped up, stepping up to the big hulk and hunching over. "(Psst! Owlbear! It's clear they don't treat you well. You don't have to put up with this! Help me win and I will share the gold with you. A dragon rewards loyalty handsomely.)"
Owlbear whispers back to Syrrex. "(Master would be angry if he thinks me throw fight. But I hold back little.)"
As the fight starts Owlbear swings wide over Syrrex's head.
nonlethal
Sarag goes over to Grok and quietly hands him a note.
"Put the price of my axe to win on Syrrex and we'll split the pot. If we lose you can have the axe." the note read.
Grok nods to Sarag. Others can be seen putting in money.
All stand in awe as Syrrex ducks and doges each blow and reply's with his own. But owlbear does not even flinch while Syrrex lands blow after blow. But as the fight goes on they both start to wear. After a minute and a half of taking blows, Owlbear slams his fist into Syrrex's face. Nonetheless, Syrrex shakes it off.
After recovering Syrrex sees Plugg throw a club over to Owlbear. "I am tired of this. I make the rules," Plugg says. "He gets a club, but you still need to use your fist rat."
Owlbear picks up the club and rejoins the fight. Slowly small bruises on Owlbear grow larger under Syrrex' related assault. Owlbear starts to hold his side more as she swings.
another half a minute passes before Owlbear's club connects with Syrrex. However, as Owlbear's blow lands, so does Syrrex's; knocking the wind out of Owlbear. Owlbear drops his club and starts to back away. But Plugg and some of Plugg's followers keep pushing him back in; trying to force him to stay in the fight.
Syrrex tries hard not to hurt Owlbear too much, but as the nature of the fight grows, he finds himself pulling his punches less and less. Even so, Syrrex is silently shocked at how well he himself is doing.
When Owlbear looks like he's done fighting, however, Syrrex relaxes a bit and frowns. "He's tired, let him rest! He doesn't want to fight anymore! Even tried to tip the scales in your favor, I've managed to best him!" Stepping back, the kobold nods up at the brute. "If it's any consolation, my ancestors are impressed and speak highly of you..."
Syrrex took 2 nonlethal, and 3 lethal (club).
Plugg with a frown, waves the others pushing on Owlbear off. "You won this time." He turns to Owlbear. "Get back below desks. The fun is over."
After seeing that fight, many around look in awe at Syrex.
After the pot of 465 GP was split between the different people betting on Syrrex to win;
Sarag split was 97.89 GP (97 GP, 8 silver, 9 copper).
Once Plugg stalks off she'll nudge Giffer Tibbs. "That'll teach 'em to never underestimate us short folk, eh? Especially when we watch each other's backs."
Sarag was quite happy with his purse and chuckled to himself. He bounced around a bit too happily before going and chatting with Quinn for a bit.
He goes again to go visit Turlach in an attempt to try and befriend the surly kobold. He brings with him a bit of rations he saved from the day and some grog he purchased from Grok with some of his spoils
Giffer pats Sassarra on the back and looks to her with her good eye. "Plugg is a right ass. The only short folk he cares for is Scurge; who is even more of a ass on top of being a cowered."
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"That was a good fight, and Syrrex made a friend today. Not many would back off when they have someone like Owlbear at their mercy," Quinn smiles while tapping her own purse. "And I even made a little coin off the fight. Plugg is going to be pissed that he lost so much gold on the fight. He was really targeting you and your little group."
Grok is happy to give Sarag more grog. After a little talk and grog, Turlach starts to act less surly.
Syrrex is going to snag some extra food at dinner if he can and sneak down below decks to share some with Owlbear. And also heal him of his injuries from the fight as well as clean him of those tar and feathers.
Because that is just mean.
Also, if he has any questions he want an answer to, I can consult my ancestors and give him an answer (hopefully a correct one). If he doesn't have any, I'll ask later if Owlbear can be trusted to help in their eventual takeover.
Syrrex sees Owlbear down in the hold eating live crabs, shell and all, by biting down on them.
"thank you," he says after Syrrex heals him. When asked about questions Owlbear replies, "Will you be Owlbear's friend?".
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Day 6:
The weather is Heavy rain. –4 penalty on Perception checks.
Swabs get a +2 bonus on their job check as Friendly and helpful Swabs aid them.
Cook's mate gets +2 bonus on job check if not drunk as the Cook aids him.
Everyone gets +2 bonus to influence other NPC.
Riggers:
On lookout in the crow's nest.
DC 10 Climb.
DC 10 Perception.
Back to repairing the rigging.
DC 10 Climb.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Dexterity check.
Cook's mate:
Use the Ships nets to catch fish for tonight's supper.
DC 10 Profession (fisherman) or Survival.
The coo is sober. So you don't have to cook today.
Swabs:
Swab the decks.
DC 10 Strength or constitution check.
Failing the check results in being fatigued.
Plugg smiles as he orders you to man the bilges.
DC 12 Strength check.
DC 10 constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
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Day 7:
A storm is building. –4 penalty on Perception checks. -2 on all other rigger work checks.
Swabs get a +2 bonus on their job check as Friendly and helpful Swabs aid them.
Cook's mate gets +2 bonus on job check if not drunk as the Cook aids him.
Everyone gets +2 bonus to influence other NPC.
Riggers:
Upper rigging work to ready the ship for the storm.
DC 10 Climb.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Dexterity check.
Stow and secure ropes and line for the coming storm.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Dexterity check.
Cook's mate:
Kroop is sober and does not need any help today.
As punishment you been sent to work the bilges with Syrrex.
DC 12 Strength check.
DC 10 constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
Swabs:
Runner messages today.
DC 10 Acrobatics check .
DC 10 Constitution check to not be fatigued.
If you have the Run feat, you automatically succeeds at this task.
Plugg smiles as he orders you to man the bilges again.
DC 12 Strength check.
DC 10 constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
Sarag braves the weather and gets outside in the weather to work the nets.
Perhaps it's the fear of reprisal as always that causes Sarag to do as well as he does but he happily does his work and hauls in the nets filled with fishes.
He takes to trying to find out more about the strange Purple scaled Kobold in the evening, sneaking an extra fish for him.
Sarag feeling in the mood to talk, moves on to find the officer that was in charge of the fighting crew. He hadn't met her yet and wanted to see if she was as nice as the quartermaster.
Sarag on the second day of bad weather sees that Kroop has things together and moves around below deck to see if he can find the Sailing Master.
He goes down to have a nice chat and see about the shop and talk about repairs to the ship. If she finds it intriguing he even tells her about his little raft he built when he left his tribe.
In the evening, he tries another officer. When he is delivering the meals to the officers he attempts to have a small conversation off to the side with Patch.
He can't help but be happy with how his chats have been today so he presses on into the night a bit to continue chatting with others. He goes back to chat once again Riasris.
Pressing his look on his ability to stay awake he goes to find Turlach and talks about what his life was like as a different scaled kobold compared to his own.
With some resistances, Turlach is slowly talking more with Sarag. On the 2nd day he even smiles at Sarag. "I uses to get in many fights over my scales. Soon I learned to love the fights, and the blood."
While not quite friendly, Riaris does look to enjoy the times that Sarag visits. "You look up to my training soon. I was going to wait another week. But next time Fishguts does not need you, grab one of your buddies and I will run you two by boarding training; I will get him or her out of their job that day."
She does not look interested in what Sarag is saying; mostly ignoring Sarag.
He mostly ignores Sarag. But after hearing Sarag talk about his own carpentry abilities, Habbly gives Sarag a set of Carpentry tools. "A big storm is coming. A few more heads that know how to keep this boat afloat is not a bad thing. So here just in case."
Patch does not look kindly on Sarag talking to her. "Plugg and Scourge told me to keep an eye out on you trash. And if they don't like you, than I don't like you."
After all of the excitement last night, sleep didn't come easily. She works hard, but still does poorly.
In the evening, she just rests.
After resting well, she is fit to run the next day.
In the evening, she'll find Shikvah. "You've probably heard by now. A bunch of us are watching out for one another. Waiting for our chance. You in?"
"...yes. Syrrex will be Owlbear's friend." The kobold declared after a moment of thought at Owlbear's question.
Syrrex grumbles a little as he works, but does so diligently to avoid whippings.
Syrrex scowls back at Plugg, knowing full well he was mad at showing up Owlbear in a straight up brawl. But he kept at it.
Meerko :
Day 5:
Day 6:
(failed by less then 5, so did not fall or pass)
Day 7:
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Day 8:
A storm is in full force. –4 penalty on Perception checks. -2 on all other rigger work checks.
Swabs get a +2 bonus on their job check as Friendly and helpful Swabs aid them. Everyone is working the rigging today. So everyone gets to +2 to the job checks (not the con checks).
Waking up, all hands are called to deck; even Sarag the cook's mate.
Even below decks you are getting soaked as the rain drips between the deck boards. Getting above decks you find the sky pitch back except for bolts of lightning crossing the clouds. The wind blows so loud that till you move closer you are unable to hear Master Scourge and Mr. Plugg yelling out orders.
..Cuss! Get those lines secured! Double shifts, no rest for anyone!" You hear Plugg yell out.
Scourge points to your group and hands out your work for the day with the full power of his voice. But you can hardly hear him over the storm.
Riggers:
Mopsank working the mainsail. Raising and lowering so to both keep control of the ship while not allowing the mainsail to be ripped apart by the storm.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or strength check.
DC 10 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
The speed of the work without rest puts more strain on Mopsank.
DC 14 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued. (If failed while fatigued you fail to show up at your next job as you pass out.)
Mopsank is moved to working the lines of the lesser sails into the night.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or strength check.
DC 10 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued. (If failed while fatigued you fail this job as you pass out while working.)
On lookout in the crow's nest with Sarag, and Sassarra.
DC 10 Climb.
DC 10 Perception. Don't forget the Heavy rain penalty from above.
The speed of the work without rest puts more strain on Meerko.
DC 14 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
Lines are breaking left and right. Meerko needs to run Rope so the lines can be replaced.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Dexterity check.
On lookout in the crow's nest with Meerko, and Sassarra.
DC 10 Climb.
DC 10 Perception. Don't forget the Heavy rain penalty from above.
The speed of the work without rest puts more strain on Sarag.
DC 14 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
Sarag is moved to working the lines of the lesser sails into the night.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or strength check.
DC 10 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued. (If failed while fatigued you fail this job as you pass out while working.)
On lookout in the crow's nest with Meerko, and Sarag.
DC 10 Climb.
DC 10 Perception. Don't forget the Heavy rain penalty from above.
The speed of the work without rest puts more strain on Sassarra.
DC 14 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
Some of the rigging's were ripped apart by the storm and most be repaired.
DC 10 Climb check.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Dexterity check.
Syrrex is working the lines of the lesser sails.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or strength check.
DC 10 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
The speed of the work without rest puts more strain on Syrrex.
DC 14 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued. (If failed while fatigued you fail this job as you pass out while working.)
Syrrex is ordered to keep working the lines of the lesser sails into the night.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or strength check.
DC 10 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued. (If failed while fatigued you fail this job as you pass out while working.)
In the middle of your 1st shift Cog goes overboard.
Cog is 10 feet away from the ship, but the ship is pulling away.
Sassarra smiles through the day, not bothered by the wind or rain. She sings along with the howling winds. But her mood changes Wehn Cog goes over. Tying a line to her ankle, she dives over to try and catch him.
Sarag was most displeased, he thought he had done good to hide from such work. He did not like the rain pelting his scales, it made him itchy. But all the same he did his work with as must gusto as he had in the past attempting to make sure that he would not strike the ire of anyone.
He makes it up with gusto and peers out into the weather.
He did his work with pride and showed the true spirit of a sailor but exhausted himself trying to prove that he could do the hard work as well as being a cook.
Sarag runs for the line that was tied to Sassarra and starts running around with it in his hands yapping and yelping for help as he waits for the signal to pull.
Later that evening Sarag is pushed over to the lesser sails and begins his work again, very tired from the earlier work does his best even though night time is not as good for him. He works hard to try and make up for it all.
He is doing his best all the same and continues to strive not to be on the bad end of a whip.
But eventually even the yapping hard worker falls asleep from exhaustion.
Computer just went down hard. Can still run. But post will be more plan looking till fixed.
Mopsank does his best, but collapses from the strain after his first shift.
Meerko +3.
Sassarra jumps in and grabs hold of Cog. Even with the help of Sarag, Meerko, and Syrrex pulling on the line: Sassarra and Cog look to be moving away from the ship.
Maybe it was the sight of someone willing to risk her life to save him and so many up on ship fighting the wind and rain to pull them in, may it was Sassarra's connecting to storms and the wind making an storm eye, or maybe both. But a with a great boost Cog and Sassarra swim up to the boat and are pulled up.
Back on the boat, he looks to Sassarra.
The darkness of the storm and his blue scales almost shining from the water flowing off them almost hides the changes. Normally aloof and crass, Cog looks flustered. Glancing to the sea that he just came out of, with his head as low as anyone has ever seen, he starts to speak.
"...Thank you. Few on this boat would care if I was lost at sea. But you jumped in. You do your dragon ancestors, and all kobolds, proud with your fearlessness." He looks to the others. "And all you pulled at the line. Never abandoning your kin in need. If any of you ever need anything; I am your's."
He smiles and holds his head back up.
While she may not have Cog's desperation, Sassarra is not holding back in the swim back to the boat. She seems to anticipate the swell and flow of the storm surge.
Sassara plays it off with a wink and a nudge, "We're already short handed. If we lost you, we'd just have to do more work." As she looks to the rigging, "Speaking of that, we'd better get back to it or lose everybody."
Sassarra: make a con check, DC 18, if passed you are fine as you worked all night but not fatigued. Fail: you are fatigued.
Sarag, Mopsank: make a con check, DC 18, to wake up Fatigued. Else you fail to wake up in time. You are still fatigued, but take -2 on your job checks today.
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Day 9:
The next day comes as the storm weakens. Sassarra is still working hard.
The storm is weakening. –4 penalty on Perception checks. -2 on all other rigger work checks.
Swabs and Riggers get a +2 bonus on their job check as Friendly and helpful shipmates aid them.
Cook's mate gets +2 bonus on job check if not drunk as the Cook aids him.
Everyone gets +2 bonus to influence other NPC.
Riggers:
Mopsank is stowing all the spare rope that the ship used the day before.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Dexterity check.
Cook's mate:
The Captain is celebrating the ship making it thru the storm. The cook needs you to butcher one of the pigs. The cook is sober. So he won't need any help cooking.
DC 10 Profession (cook) or Survival check to slaughter the animal.
Swabs:
ropes and lines used in the storm need to be taking down and replaced.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Strength check.
DC 10 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
Sassarra has been gathering power from the storm, and helping to rescue Cog has only helped this. She's almost vibrating as she goes about her work.
As she works, she looks to see if anything was "misplaced" in the storm.
In the evening, she can't help herself. She leaps up and begins singing out sea shanties in draconic.
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Much of the crew is slogging away at there jobs; tired from having no sleep. But throughout the day crew look on in shock of how energetic Sassarra is.
By the time bloody hour comes around, she has been awake for over 36 hours. At bloody hour the ships doctor can be seen above desks with a big jar of something. While almost 1/3 of the crew is being called out for failing asleep at their jobs and each take 6 lashes.
Plugg looks to be in a good mood and is delivering the lashes with all his might. But even he looks more tired then Sassarra.
Habbly, the ships doctor, puts a handful of crud on their backs and sends them to their meals, or has them carried to bed for those that passed out.
Mr. Plugg smiles wide as Mopsank and Sarag come for their punishment. "Maybe I need to show you who is your betters," he says as he starts to whip them.
After they each fall unconscious from the beatings, he walks away to the officers quarters.
As the crew clear the area Quinn puts her hands on the two. her hands glow and the two awake.
Sarag does little more then twitch as he is beaten. He has been here too many times in his life and takes it stoically before passing out and curling up into a ball on the ground.
Mopsank does his best not to show how much pain he's in, but the intense lashings eventually bring him to fall unconscious. He wakes up after being healed, but it's clear his pride has been wounded more than anything else.
He tries to think of something to say to defend himself, but all that comes out is a low, meek squeal.