While he woke up late, Mopsank still was able to get his job done for the day.
Sassarra's singing, and liveliness, makes some among the crew smile.
[ooc]For the next 24-hours Sassarra has a +2 circumstance bonus to all Charisma-based skill checks among the crew.
While looking around Sassarra found a little bag that looks to have falling from Harmak Gruf's cage hanging off the mizzenmast. Harmak's body still in the cage rotting for the last 6 weeks after he beat the captain in a game of dice. His parrot Pluck, still sits on the cage waiting for his master to wake up.
The bag holds a set of Cards, a set of 6 dice, and two keys.
Day 10:
The storm has cleared make a party cloudly day.
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:
Some of the upper Rigging needs to be changed out for the clumer weather.
DC 10 Climb
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Dex check.
Cook's mate:
Kroop the cook wants to talk and drink with you today.
Sarag ends up drinking an additional rum ration, but can take an additional ship action.
Takes 2 con damage from the rum.
Swabs:
Master Scourge is having you run around delivering messages today.
DC 10 Acrobatics check
DC 10 Constiution check to keep from getting fatigued.
If you have the run feat you auto pass this job.
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Day 11:
The day starts sunny, but cool.
Everyone gets +2 bonus to influence other NPC.
The day passes slowly. The ship sails near the coast; forcing it to slow to navigate the waters.
Mr. Plugg calls each of you and Jack Scrimshaw up to the deck. Four round small cages sit at his feet.
"The captain wants crabs tonight." Plugg points out to the north. "The reef about 200 feet out should have a good number. Swim out with these crab pots fill them, and swim back."
Looking out over the water, you can see that it is very calm. Likly the calm comes from the reefs breaking up any harsh waves. The same reefs look to be filled with life that is keeping the water clear.
Sarag slowly stumbles his way up top. He wasn't the best drinker...and keeping up with Fishguts was really a task for someone not thirty two pounds. He hiccups a bit and nods as he's told what to do. "Saraaaggg....Sarag not so good at sswwwimming, but Sarag will not fail, Sarag not drown today." he said letting out a hissing like giggle.
While Sarag said he wouldn't drown, he proved quickly that swimming was definitely not his thing. He floundered about for a while.
But he soon caught his stride finally and began to kobold paddle about.
It took Sarag a while and you could tell he didn't swim often in his life but he seemed to be getting better at it. He seemed almost an innate crab hunter.
Though the storm surge is passed, Sassarra is still a bit manic. As they swim out, she watches over Sarag. When he flounder, she watches to make sure he recovers. Since it never gets too bad, she lets him recover. It's the only way to learn.
Jack easily swims over and 3/4 fills his pot in four rounds after getting to the reef.
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Mopsank easily swims over and 3/4 fills his pot in four rounds after getting to the reef.
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Four rounds (8 actions) after arriving at the reef you see a beast swimming up out of the water much larger then an crab. It looks to be some type of mix of a lobster and an eel.
It is a reefclaw. Poisonous beast that go into a frenzy if killed.
Sarag, Mopsank, and Jack
Lobster beasts
Sassarra
Jack stays afloat and pulls out his cutlass. He readies it to strike if one of the beast come within range.
Sarag burbles a bit as he tries to swim with his basket and spies the evil weird thing. He tilts his head as he tries to figure it out.
He has seen this evil before, he yaps out at them "Careful, it's an angry critter known as a Reefclaw." he said as kept himself afloat.
While he couldn't move he at least didn't drown as he began to yap out obnoxiously
Meanwhile not far from the wormwood, a mix of small and larger pieces of wood are drifting on the current. It are the remains of the Braunfisch, a ship whose black-powder supply was ignited by a lightning bolt in the same storm that struck the Wormwood earlier. The Braunfisch consisted of a mostly human crew of traders and transported some 'exotics' to and from nearby islands. Some of these are the three surviving kobolds which are clinging together on one of the larger remaining pieces. Who knows what happened to the sailor that also survived the storm ... The least you can say is that these kobolds are not yet suffering from famine.
"There's a ship, we can get out of this mess! What's the routine we'll use to make them pick us up?"
"We'll be honest kobolds from a trading vessel that was sunk during the storm? So we can handsomely repay them for our rescue when they bring us back to the "Formidable Maid" in Port Peril?"
Grauchi, Eepers, and Skrelznit slowly float along in a large reef moving slowly closer to land. Along with the ship they see a few kobolds and a human in the reef. They keep swimming down and coming back up.
After a short while of floating closer, they see some beast come up out from the depths and go after that group.
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You's fool, Grauchi, just like alwayses. No "honest kobolds" be wearing-k-k-k armor and weaponses. They never gonna believes that-k-k-k.
The black-scaled kobold peers intently at the scene ahead.
I gots no idea what that thing is-k-k-k. But it looks like it no like stabsies. If it bleeds-k-k-k, we can kills it.
That be a "lobstereel". Me killed lots of thems-k-k-k. Our only hopes is to saves them kobolds from the lobstereel-k-k-k. Then they gots to helps us-k-k-k!
Not waiting for his friends to help, Skrelznit begins paddling their wreckage toward the scene of battle.
He whistles in a particular way and gives a hand sign to the sky, and high above a bird in flight changes direction toward the nearest outcropping which might contain a largish rock.
"We know there s no honest kobold, but they not of the dragons, they can be bigger fools."
"Das no lobstereel."
Grauchi helps paddling their wreckage.
Eepers gets a somewhat sneaky smile on his face
Hehe, honest kobolds? I seen some dumb creatures, but not that believe in imaginary "honest kobolds". Skrelznit knows right, I save them, and they be thankful to help us! Grauchi, if it not lobstereel, can I eats it? We been here a while, getting hungry!"
INIT order
Sarag, Mopsank, Sassarra, Skrelznit and Jack
Lobster beasts
Round 1:
Sarag cries out a 'song' that weakening the beast resolve.
Seeing the beast, for a moment Mopsank forgets to keep flapping his arms and sinks under.
Grauchi, Eepers, and Skrelznit work hard. With Eepers guiding the 'boat' is able to get over to the other kobolds and the one human.
a 2nd one of the lobster monsters joins the 1st above the sea, as the 1st one charges at Jack.
Jack swings his cutlass. But only hits water. It uses one of its big claws to clap down on Jacks side, cutting him, but jack was able to get free before the claw locked.
End of Round 1:
Start of round 2:
Jack swings again at the Reefclaw cutting deep into the beast.
Sassarra gets ready to shoot the reefclaw, but gets surprised by the arrival of new people and the shot goes wide.
Sarag continued singing rather off key to the ire of those who couldn't handle the dulcet tones of draconic in e minor before he pulled out his bow and tried to line up a shot at it.
He was too busy swimming to aim remotely.
Round 2:
Both Sassarra and Sarag line of shots on the nearest beast. But their aim got thrown off.
Jack's cutlass to the front and Skrelznit's to the side rip the 1st beast open; what is left lays floating on the water. Out of nowhere the beast flinches and strikes out at Jack and Mopsank; missing.
Looseal finds a nice rock on the reef.
Mopsank swims up from under the water.
The 2nd of the beast moves to attack Skrelznit. But its anger throws off its aim.
End of round 2:
Round 3:
Sassarra turns to the new threat, zapping the new threat
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Me killed it with one stabsie! Skrelznit, you is best hunter in the worlds.
Skrelznit, emboldened by his success, stabs out at the remaining reefclaw lobstereel.
This one seems more elusive. Skrelznit looks to the sky, then points to the beast, and the bird high overhead drops a rock on it.
The rock falls wide, narrowly missing Skrelznit himself. He barks out angrily,
The lobstereel, not me, bird-brain!
The raptor replies with an outraged squawk which leaves Skrelznit grumbling under his breath, but nonetheless races off to find another rock.
Grauchi swims around the notalobstereel, confusing it by surrounding it. He then tries to hit it with his club.
Eepers hops of the raft and takes a swipe at the totallyalobstereel with his sharp claws
Unfortunately, while he made contact, he was too busy keeping afloat to put much force into his strike
Sarag stops speaking for a moment and looks around. His feet kicking hard to keep him afloat as he lifts both his hands out the water and starts to count on his claws. He counts out six kobolds and his tail comes up out of the water and scratches his head as he furrows his brow and counts again on his claws.
He screeches in surprise and points at the new kobolds. "My voice reached the ancestors and brought us allies from the depths?" he said looking at Sassara trying to sound like he did it on purpose or something.
Round 3:
Jack swims up to the beast. But his cutlass only hits water.
Sassarra blasts it with the might of a storm as Eepers rips into its shell and Grauchi clubs it in the back.
But even after all that the beast fights on.
Skrelznit and his bird tries to join in, but the beast finally learns to avoid their and Jack's attacks.
Tasting the blood coming from Jack, the beast attacks. One claw goes out and rips open Jack's side, but jack slips out of the claw. A 2nd claw tries comes at Jack. But Jack moves out of its way.
End of round 3:[/dice]
[b]Start of round 4:
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You'se gonna make a tassty soup-k-k-k!
Skrelznit lashes out madly with his cutlass.
Stay still so's I can cut ya-k-k-k!
Overhead, the sea falcon has found another rock and lobs it at the reefclaw lobstereel.
Skrelznit barks at the bird,
That's better. Maybe I feed ya tonight-k-k-k!
It replies with a screech that almost sounds haughty.
"You know what happens when a lobster gets caught out in a thunderstorm?" she says as she throws another thunderbolt at it. "It cooks from the inside!"
Eepers gets the first taste!
Sarag swims a little closer as he sees that one of them still hasn't gone down.
But in doing so starts to drown. He lets out a screech of a yelp and tries to right himself.
But he's under the water and not coming up withing the first few seconds.
Round 4:
A rock falls from the sky knocking the beast out right before Eeper starts ripping into it. The beast tries to fight back, but fails in its final act. Sassarra quickly fries the dying body.
End of round 4 and battle:
Two of the beast now lays floating in the water. One has its head almost ripped off, while the other is full of scorched, and claw marks.
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Skrelznit jumps at his chance of redemption from the sea's cold, cruel final embrace.
Me can slice that for you into tassty dinnerses. Tasty, tassty. What ship you from-k-k-k? Me is Skrelznit, hunter of beastsies land and sea-k-k-k.
Oi! You'se missing one kobold-k-k-k! Be right back!
Skrelznit swims down in an attempt to help the drowning kobold.
Sarag attempts to resurface on his own.
He starts to barely start making his way back up to the surface only to be caught and helped by one of the new kobolds.
He gasps and sputters a bit as he reaches the surface. "I...I..I should get better at this swimming thing ifs I am to be a good pirate. Who is you? I don't know you as Kobold from the crew...ah, you must be one of the kobold's I summoned with my singing to the dragons yes?" he said as he scooped up his basket and began making his way back towards the boat with a bit of assistance.
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Skrelznit briefly considers demanding a sacrifice for the "dragons" in payment for their sending such fine, helpful kobolds. Wisely, he decides against it.
Yes! We is sent by dragons to helps you-k-k-k. You is lucky-k-k-k you gets to keeps us and feeds us and not sends us away to drown-k-k-k. We is good luck charmses! (Mostly Skrelznit, but Grauchi and Eepers also).
Pointing to himself, Eepers lets out a single word before briefly pausing
Eepers...
Da dragons sent us to save you. Also decided we should stay with you to make sure you get back to your boat safe. Maybe stay longer just in case.
Eepers points to Sarag
If we leave, you will drown.
He quietly begins looking around to make sure no other kobolds "hiding" under the water.
Mopsank considers joining in on the fight, but then decides he'd rather not get himself killed today. Instead, he dives under the water and tries to go unnoticed.
Grauchi casts touch of the sea on himself. His fingers and feet grow webbed into almost flippers. He swims closer to Sarag.
"Yess, we help you. Who isses the human?"
"The human is Jack Scrimshaw. He's with us. Quick fingers, good with his hands." Her tone is firm that Jack is one of us. Not food. "I am Sassarra and I was born in Abendego. The storm has claimed me as it's destiny." The winds kick up around her and she holds out a spear of pure lightning to show her power.
"If you don't have a boat, then we'll have to go back to the ship. We've been abducted into a pirate crew. Right now, we're simply scuts, but we're biding our time and making friends among the crew. Both dragonborn and those not so blessed. When we get a chance, we're taking a ship and setting out with us in charge."
"The ship is short-staffed, so they'll welcome additional crew. Just play along until we get our break and you'll be fine."
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Sensing an opportunity to ingratiate himself to his new masters, Skrelznit casts Monkey Fish on himself , gathers up the corpses of both reefclaws lobstereels and tows them toward the ship, bragging all the way about his cooking skills.
These makes good eel-steak-k-k-k fillets. Skrelznit can do that for you'se.
Lobster claw meat very tassty, but hard to get. Me knows how-k-k-k!
Lobstereel eyeballs is a delicacy. Can't get them out without breaking, unless-k-k-k -- like Skrelznit -- you know the secret.
Dids you know lobstereel chitin makes good-k-k-k armor? Skrelznit knows how-k-k-k!
As you come near the ship, you hear one of the man on board call out your return; with more kobolds.
You see Mr. Plugg looking over the side. "You even multiply like rats! We send three of you dirt eaters out, and get back six!
Eepers whispers at seeing Skrelznit's signal
Oh fine. Sassarra says we don't put up with him for long anyhows.
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Just in time, Grauchi keeps his yap shut. He pays close attention to Mr.Plugg while at the same time, tries to see if he can get the 'native' kobolds aboard so he can get out of the cold water as well.
A well tan human, with a ringed beard, comes out onto the main deck. "Mr. Plugg! Has the boot scum came back with my crabs yet!" He turns to look at the party and smiles a twisted grin.
"Looks like we have more crew to replace the ones lost. I have not made a pair of boots out of any of them yet," he says before looking over at the crabs and reefclaws. "And fresh Reefclaw. I have not had any in a while."
He points to Sarag. "Your the Cook's mate, right? Get that down to him now, and tell Grok that I need to talk to her. There should be a, small, reward for you four. You got me a fine diner and more crew."
He starts walking away before turning back to Plugg. "Get these rats ready for their jobs tomorrow. They will be fine replacements for those loses in the storm." The captain returns back into his cabin.
looking at Mr. Plugg, he looks pissed. "I will hand out the jobs in the morn! Get out of my face." Plugg too walks away and goes below decks.
Along with your work, you can take two ship actions each day, one during the day and one at night. You can attempt to take up to two additional ship actions, but to do so you much make a DC 10 Constitution check (+4 for the 2nd action) or be fatigued for the next day.
You can not take additional actions while fatigued, and any fatigue checks from job comes before checks for additional ship actions.
When Kroop (the cook) is sober, he automatically makes the skill check for the day’s
cooking, with the PC’s assistance. When the cook is drunk, the cook’s mate must make the day’s meal for the pirates by herself, in addition to her normal duties for the day. If the PC has to hunt or slaughter the food as well as cook, all checks for both tasks are made with a –4 penalty. In such cases, if the cook’s mate takes any ship action during the day other than working, all work checks automatically fail (the cook’s mate does not receive the +4 bonus for working diligently in this case).
Daytime:
Work Diligently: +2 on any one check for a job's daily task. Stacks.
Influence: attempt to influence a single NPC
Sneak: Exploring one area of the ship.
Shop: Take a –2 penalty on all checks for a job’s daily task and visit the quartermaster’s store. Stacks.
Shirk: Take a -2 penalty on all checks for a job’s daily task. Take time exploring one area of the ship. May take 10 on a perception or other skill check. Stacks.
Nighttime ship actions:
Sleep: Go to bed early and sleep through the night (automatically recover from fatigue).
Work Diligently: +2 on any one check for a job's daily task. Stacks.
Influence: attempt to influence a single NPC
Sneak: Exploring one area of the ship. May need to make check to avoid discovery based on location.
Entertain: Make one Perform check to entertain the crew.
Shirk: Take a -2 penalty on all checks for a job’s daily task. Take time exploring one area of the ship. May take 10 on a perception or other skill check. Stacks.
Steal: Attempt to open a locked door or locker. The PC must make a check to avoid being discovered.
Since Grauchi doesn't know the ship yet, he tries quietly to approach Sassara and ask her, "Sassarra, where isses a safe place to rest and speak? Da dragonses send us, but they puts us on a raft for too long and we wants to be ready for tomorrows.
Agreed, Grauchi. We do are jobs, and gain their trust.
And then we take the boat...
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.
Day 12:
The after effects of the storm has left behind a heat wave.
When the party gets on deck the next day, they can feel the thick wet air mix with the hot sun. Seeing the party on deck, Mr. Plugg walks over to them. "You are now a swab," he says pointing at Grauchi. The other two are going to the rigging."
Riggers:
Mopsank is working the crew's nest today.
DC 10 Climb checks to Crow's nest.
DC 10 Perception check.
Some rigging has been damaged by a strong wind.
DC 10 climb check for 30 feet.
DC 19 Profession (sailor) or dexterity check to do the repairs.
Lines are needing to be replaced. Skrelznit is needed to coil and stowing of the old lines.
DC 10 profession (sailor) or dexterity check.
Cook's mate:
After the hull from the day before, the cook does not need any help today.
Swabs:
Mr. Pugg sends Sassarra down the the bilges. They need to be cleaned and the pump kept running.
DC 12 Strength running the pump.
DC 12 Constitution check to keep from getting fatigued.
Lines are needing to be replaced. Grauchi is needed to haul out the ropes and tying the knots for the riggers.
DC 10 Profession (sailor) or Strength check.
DC 12 Constitution check to avoid being fatigued.
In the evening, Sassarra helps the new folks to find bunk space. He also lets them know who not to get caught in a dark corner with and who can be trusted. He'll make sure that their other friends, like Quinn, know that these people can be trusted.
In the morning, she'll focus on her work. It's not worth getting punished until we can do.
At night, she's going to listen for rumors and see if there's anything going on.
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This not so bad. At least me able-k-k-k to be out in sun.
Skrelznit does his job, but can't resist peeking down into the hold to see what kind of cargo they're carrying.
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At night he attempts to influence Barefoot Samms Toppin to do the no-clothes-hammock-dance with him.
Me going to be Captain-k-k-k someday.