The storms grows stronger and stronger and in the meantime the whole crew is working on deck and in the rigging to keep the ship from sinking. While most do their work good, some can´t keep up with the bad weather and conditions. Randall let´s a rope snap, which causes several other sailors to swear and they need to work a lot harder to keep the sail and rigging there from falling apart.
After changing out the damaged rope, Radval is set to repair it, but he can´t manage to do it fast enough. More and more ropes snap and he seems still too busy with draming and brooding, even in this storm.
All teh while you can feel the disapproving eyes of Mr.Plugg and Master Scourge on your backs.
The crew must stay up all night battling the storm — there is no evening rest or entertainment, and after the evening meal, ship’s biscuit only, on this occasion, you are immediately called back to work again too.
Each one get´s a new task.
You can also feel the hard day and the storm in your bones now, creeping up on you cold and wet.
Maybe two hours before sundown, you hear a voice shrieking over the storm. Man overboard, man overboard! Obviously, one of the bigger waves flushed Tilly Bracket overboard. It is still bright enough to see a hundred feet, even though it is raining and very clouded. Tilly is 10 feet away from the ship, but it is clear, if she is not saved or a rope tossed to her or some other miracle happens, she will swiftly drift away in the storm and then probably drown to death in the open sea.
Jaina gets to work running the mainsail against the storm.
This time, she doesn't feel the slightest bit tired, but she does hear Tilly's scream as she goes over the side.
Snatching up a rope, she tries to throw it to her...
Motivation came to Radval when the ship shook hard enough to almost slam him into the other side of the ship, it was at this point that he knew that he had to try his hardest or he may get his wish of seeing this pirates dead...and him along with them.
The climb up was difficult, many a time Radval swayed with each shift of the ship, the crashing waves lashing him with whips of water, that while didn't provide a lot of pain, still tasked his concentration. The sorcerer's fingers began to ache as he got higher, but he clinched his teeth, turned a deaf ear to the screams of pain and moved on...the climb almost felt like it was taking hours and the higher he got, the tougher it was to hang on.
Radval never realized he had reached his destination, he didn't know how long he hung there, but he was alive and the ship needed to stay afloat, so he began to work and once he done all he could, Radval exhaled as he knew the climb down awaited, the boat shook yet again and the black haired teen quickly began descending while the matter was still in his hands. Once on the floor, he dropped to the ground...he had done all he could Plugg can go sink himself if he thinks I'll do more Radval closed his eyes, got up and walked carefully towards the lower decks.
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Perhaps it was the storm, or the fact he was tired but he was almost to the spot on the rigging where a series of ropes had become entangled causing problems where a sudden swell caused him to lose his balance and go tumbling down. He hit the deck hard, perhaps the only thing that saved him was the rope attached to his waist. With several lound strings of curse words dark enough to turn a devils ear he rose right back up and made his way up again this time fixing the problem.
The call of overboard made him pale for a moment and he looked to see where the person went over.
Rigger task
Con Check (+2 and +4 for Endurance feat)
Climb
Climb
Climb
Profession Sailor
Lilly watches the woman fall overboard with horror. She tries to direct Eyeball to help direct the rope towards the woman.
Handle Animal.
Eyeball takes off through the storm to try and deliver the rope, his poor little reptilian wings fighting the chaotic winds of the storm.
Fly
Jaina decides to try and help hold the rope steady so Eyeball can get there!
In the back of her mind, she can't help but applaud Lilly's ingenuity.
Good thinking, Sunshine.
Eyeball is able to drop the rope on Tilly Bracket, who grasps it desperately, seemingly knowing that this is maybe her only chance to be saved from drowning in the stormy sea.
All the while Jaina jumps up and down on deck, imitating a bird´s wings.
Despite the heavy storm, several sailors can´t help but stop and watch her. It looks very interesting.
Tilly Bracket holds onto the rope and tries to swim back to the Wormwood.
Jaina holds the rope and tries to haul Tilly in.
"Hey! Dandy! Gimme a hand here!" She yells over the storm.
Randall hears the commotion coming from mid deck, looking up from his work in time to see Eyeball drop a line and Tilly grab a hold for dear life. Forgetting his work he rushes over to give Jaina and Percival a hand hauling her in.
With combined strenght you are able to haul Tilly Bracket, who clings to the rope, back on deck.
She is so shocked, she doesn´t even realize what just happened to her and goes straight below deck, hugging a bottle of rum.
The storm goes on through the whole night and the whole crew needs to work as hard as they can, but finally in the first morning light it grows weaker and ceases some hours after sunset.
Everyone is worn out and tired, many fall asleep during their work.
You are all fatigued now too and should make a DC 12 fort save to see if you can stay awake.
Mr. Plugg goes around, tired too, but happily whiping awake all who fall asleep.
Though fatigue plagues Jaina's muscles, she adamantly refuses to fall asleep, and stays awake to finish her work.
The relief she feels at seeing Tilly safe almost outweighs the embarrassment she feels at having tried to imitate a bird earlier. At least nobody else was making any remarks.
...I'm never going to live this down, am I?
The storm settled and with it was any sense of urgency Radval had. The soothing breeze of the ocean rustled his hair and lightly slapped his face as he sat against one of the masts. It wasn't long before he could feel his eyelids slowly coming over his eyes and the fatigue he felt from before finally take over. Within moments sleep embraced and didn't seem to want to let him go anytime soon.
Fort Save
Lilly almost dozes off several times, but is able to find the strength to stay awake and finish her tasks. If she sees any of her new friends in danger of being found by Plugg, or falling overboard, she sends Eyeball to warn them.
Despite the aching cries of every muscle in his body, Randall keeps at his job until relieved from duty. Trudging below deck, Randall grabs his concertina and drops heavily into his bunk. He begins to play a soft tune before sleep overtakes him.
Radvall and Percival fall asleep on their jobs and are awakened rather unpleasantly, whipped back to work by a laughing Mr.Plugg.
You think you´re the heroes of the day now because you saved another sailor? Want to take a holiday eh? Not with me! Back to work you foul scum!
Eyeball keeps you from falling asleep again and later Randall´s performances refresh you. Tilly B racket approaches you too:Hey, ehm, look. Guess i should thank you. You saved my life. First thought you landlubbers are good for nothing, but seems you´re some decent sailors. Ashamed, she looks to the floor.
Jaina winces a bit as Plugg whips Radval & Percival awake.
"Eh, you're welcome." She shrugs as Tilly offers her thanks.
A hiss like shout could heard from Radval lying frame. His body slowly left the floor and it took every ounce of willpower within him to not look in Plugg's way, because he knew that glaring at the man would earn him nothing but more lashes. The sorcerer walked away from where he lay and went about his duties, a stare of pure loathing and rage still stuck on his face.
Randall stops playing his squeezebox and raises an eyebrow at Tilly "There's no need to thank us Miss Brackett. Tilly, if I may call you Tilly, like it or not we, despite the circumstances of our serving together, are a crew. We need to watch out for each other because no one else will." He fixes her with a hard stare "I can only hope that if our places were reversed you would do the same for me, hmm."
Tilly blushes. [b]Erh, you´re the first one to call me Miss! You are right i think, just not used to that. I owe you big time, so don´t worry. Will not let you down sweetheart./b]
She sits down near you and listens to your music if you play on.
The next days fly by pretty fast as you sail along and everybody recovers from the storm. It turns out that you found a new friend in Tilly Bracket, who is really thankful for you saving her life.
On the 11th day, the waters become shallow and tricky to navigate. As the afternoon wears on, Mr. Plugg calls you together on the main deck. At his feet lie four crab pots. The captain wants fresh crabs for supper! Guess who just volunteered to catch them? Yeah, you´re the real heroes. He spits out and points to a reef lying some 200 feet north of the ship. Smiling friendly he adds:You and your darling Tilly here can swim to the reef, fill the pots with crabs and then swim back. With that, he turns his back on you and walks back to the bridge.
The waters are calm (DC 10 Swim checks) and clear (visibility 100 feet).
After some minutes of swimming in the sea you approach a superb coral reef, measuring approximately 100 yards square, lying between 5 and 30 feet below the surface.
Jaina doesn't pay too much attention to the stares, instead choosing to pick up a crab pot and hops into the water to catch a crab for dinner.
"Let's go."
Jaina swims along through the water with ease.
She sees a crab...
...and is able to catch it.
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The noble has spent his days not really caring about eyes or who may be watching, he was recovering from that rough fall mostly taking it easy and just focusing on work. It left him unsettled at the least. At the mention of going swimming for crabs he scowls slightly but shrugs, taking care to make sure he still has his hidden dagger he dives in after Jaina.
Swimming it seemed wasnt a problem for the fiery woman either a matter of some amusement to the tall and broad man.
Perhaps distracted by the beauty of the coral reef, or distracted by nothing at all, he watched jaina dip smoothly under the water for a crab. He didnt see any at all.
The following days a sense of unease he cant quite place begins to make the area between his shoulder blades itch.
Randall gives a graceful dive from the deck into the water only to accidentally swallow some water and manages only to come up sputtering and coughing, much to the guffaws of the crew, before managing to get his bearings and swimming off to join the others.
Once at the reef he notices a crab scuttling across the reef and neatly dives after it before it manages to get away and stuffs it into his pot.
about a minute passes before he spies another crab for his pot.
Several attempts to grab more crabs for his pot prove useless as his elusive prey always seems to manage to skitter away into the safety of the reef before he gets to them. Until, at last, he manages to fill his pot with his final two crabs in quick succession.
Forgot to mention, you have three rounds to go fishing. So please give me 3 checks for it and another perception check everyone.
Jaina manages to catch another crab.
"Of course there are. I've got two already, Dandy." She says upon surfacing with her second one. "Could've sworn I saw another one around here, though..."
Radval wanted nothing more than to shove crabs into Plugg's mouth, but he relented like he did many times before and he realized that his patience was slowly being pushed to new limits...and he didn't know how much longer he could go on before....Shaking his head and such thoughts away for the moment, Radval entered the water...
Lilly jumps over the side feet first. Never know how deep this clear water can be, and heads towards the crab grounds.
Swim
Perception or Survival
Swim
Perception or Survival
Swim
Perception or Survival
Swim
Perception
Eyeball flies above the group keeping an eye out as well. At first he's concerned when Lilly submerges herself, then he sees it as a game, and tries to play tag with her.
Perception
While you are swimming and having some fun catching crabs, a pair of predators closes in on you under water, unseen.
Blood-red spines run the length of the frightening creatures, which resemble a lobster in the front and an eel in the back.
The lobster things surprise you.
Jaina feels a claw closing around her feet, as well as Randall.
Beyond creepy advances nothing happend. The first of them is able to try again though before Jaina has a chance to react.
The first swing of the lobster-beast misses Jaina, but the second one latches onto her leg and won't let go.
"What the f**k?!" Jaina kicks at the thing, then tries to punch it with her brass knuckles, trying to get it off her!
"Hey! Little help, please?!"
Caught unawares in the water, Randall punches the creature that attacked him.
Connecting a solid blow, he shakes his hand in pain "Damn, these things have a hard head."
Jaina hits the crab and damages it, but not as hard as she expected.
percival comes to her aid though and stabs the thing deftly though. It shrieks in hurt.
Meanwhile, Randall doesn´t fair so good. He hits the crab´s head, but his knuckles hurt while he finds out it is quite hard.
And the crab hits back.
Both Jaina and Randall find one of their legs firmly grasped by a pincer and feel some poison running through their veins as their skin is punctured.
Jaina manages to stay afloat and shake the venom off. She punches the thing on her leg again.
"Get off me, damn you!"
Her fist just bounces off the thing's shell without hurting it. "F**K!"
Moving to the right so that both beasts would be in a line to him, Radval was somehow capable of staying afloat. He turned and tried to gauge how he could hit both of these beasts without harming his companions, after setting himself on an angle, he let the arcane power twist, turn and gather towards his hands, soon enough he felt a familiar heat as arcane fueled flame sparked in front of his right hand and when he simply extended it forward, the fire lunged, expanded and came upon his targets like an enraged and chaotic wave.
While Jaina struggles with her beast, Percival is abel to slay it with an aimed stab.
Radval manages to burn the one Randall is fighting as i plunges overwater for a second.
Lilly is weaponless, and struggling to stay afloat, when she notices the attack...
"Attack Eyeball"! "Attack"!.
Bite from above (Higher ground)
Bite damage.
Lilly prepares to cast a spell if things don't end soon.
Concentration Check
Spontaneously summoning a dolphin to assist.
Randall gets pulled underwater by the creature before manging to pull his leg free from it's grasp and rushing to the surface to grab a breath of air before continuing the fight "Hey, does anybody know if these things are good to eat? They look like overgrown lobsters".
Jaina is free because Percival slew the lobster harrassing her.
Randall is also able to break free.