With sound returned, Ashlei screams epithets so foul it causes short hairs to curl.
"He shot me! I'm going to KILL YOU!! I'm coming for you...!"
She then lashes out furiously at the man in orange!
Full ATTACK(Melee Starknife!)
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Percy cuts Green again, his second strike hampered by the narrow corridor he's in.
Ashlei carves up Orange badly, the scent burnt meat filling the air.
Orange curses foully and slashes back at Ashlei
Purple is stuck behind Green and so shoots passed him at Percy
Missing twice.
Cassiopeia may act.
Cassiopeia launches a flurry of magic missiles into the same target .
Yellow is off doing something you can't see.
Blue takes his shots at Ashlei.
Missing by inches. :(
Green is coughing blood so withdraws, hiding behind Purple.
Ashlei, Percy & Rhialla may act.
She then lays into the bastard, silvery starknife flashing!
"Come on! Is this all you got?!"
Full ATTACK(Melee Starknife!)
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Asheli cuts down Orange after flailing about for a moment.
Rhialla?
"Ashlei, keep an eye out and yell if anyone else is coming, but do NOT go running off again! The last thing we need is to be fighting on multiple fronts!" Rhialla says sternly, before turning to look back at Percy engaging the remaining two pirates. "Love, be a dear and finish these fools quickly, before the rest of the welcoming committee arrives." she says with a grin, calling upon Besmara's blessing to heal her companions.
Purple hisses in pain as Percy cuts him. Swinging back with the resolve of a veteran piratte.
Hitting hard then taking a 5' step to the side.
Cassiopiea may act.
Enjoying the feeling of her wounds healing, Ashlei drops the corpse of the man in orange, licks some blood off her blade and squints at the blue-cloaked bowman backing away.
"That's right! Start running b+!$%! You're next!"
She then glances back at Cassie and Rhialla, winking her left eye at them quickly.
Cass grunts something indecipherable at Ashlei, but remains stuck in the narrow hall, unable to target around corners with her spells and unwilling to step out in front and become a primary target for someone with a bow or a sword.
Blue misses, just!
Yellow returns from whatever mission he was on? Moving to close with Ashlei.
Green is waiting for Percy to come out the door.
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Asheli, Rhialla & Percy may act.
Shrugging at the new man in yellow, Ashlei draws, heats, and throws two daggers at the man in the doorway.
Full ATTACK(Thrown Dagger!)
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Cursing as one of the daggers bounces off the doorway, She then moves out of the direct line of sight of the bowman.
Ashlei wounds Yellow once, then turns and finds the door beside her opens without any trouble.
C6. Herb Drying Room
Rows of wooden shelving line this chamber. The shelves contain trays and containers of roots, cuttings, twigs, mosses, and unprocessed herbs. The fragrance of dried aromatic flora fills the room.
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"Your mother is a smelly hooker!"
He growled after the man deftly cut him pretty deep. That one was liable to scar.
"Getting chewed up a bit over here. . . we closing in on the objective?"
So they wanted to get him in a flank? Not as dumb as they looked it seemed. He glanced out and brought his blade down in a hard arc trying to bat the blade from (purple) his opponents hand.
As he moved to disarm the man he moved to the counter deftly clambering atop it and continuing his move to slide along it, til his back was against the wall. If they wanted to flank him, they would have to work for it.
Percy knocks the cutlass from Purples hand, jumping past him to get on the counter. Green curses as he realizes he should have been closer to effect a flank!
Rhialla?
Ashlei waves at Cassie to follow her into the fragrant room and out of immediate danger.
Hearing the man's blade clatter on the ground, Rhialla quickly dashes to the doorway to take advantage of the opportunity to stab him in the back, tuning their attempted flank against them.
Rhialla jabs Purple.
Purple goes for his weapon.
Cassiopeia may act.
Cass steps into the space vacated by Ashlei and lets a lightning bolt roar down the hallway!
Cassiopeia blasts both the guards in the hall badly.
Both respond by shooting at Cassiopeia
.
Green steps up back slashes at Rhialla
But hits the doorframe.
Percy, Rhialla & Ashlei may act.
Distracted by the other sailor's wild swing, Rhialla comes nowhere close with her attempt to punish the man for picking up his weapon. Giving her assailant a smirk, she keeps her focus on the bastard between Percy and herself, slipping her blade into his open side as he focuses on her lover and captain.
"YOU DID NOT JUST SHOOT THE PRETTY MAGE WHO MAKES ME THINGS! OH YOUR'RE SO GONNA GET IT!!!"
She then moves up to slash at yellow with her Starknife, a look of fury on her face!
Crit??
As the blade of her starknife punches through the man in yellow's chest, she grins at the man in blue and hisses at him.
"Captain Burnout's here, and you're next pretty boy!"
Yellow hits the floor, very dead.
Percy misses twice!
Purple hisses in pain as Rhialla cuts him with Brine's Sting.
Blue runs away around the corner.
Green curses and heads for the door.
Ashlei, Percy & Rhialla may act.
Ashlei moves quickly, screaming nonsense at the top of her lungs as she runs after the Blue guy...
"YOUR LIVER WILL FEED MY SHIP'S RATS WHILE ITS STILL ATTACHED!!!"
If she can get into view of Blue, she will throw two daggers.
Full ATTACK(Thrown Dagger!)
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Crit?
"Stand down and you get to live." Rhialla's multiple images say to the man she just cut, watching him twitch from the salt filling the wound.
Purple surrenders instantly.
Percy tackles Green and has him grabbed.
Blue has run around the narrow passage way and is at a door when Ashlei catches up to him. Rather than trying to open it and take an attack he sighs and surrenders.
Purple & Blue have surrendered. Green is being molested by Percy. What is everyone doing now?
Ashlei has her prisoner drop his weapons and kneel, teeth grinding in frustration. Then when he drops his guard she savagely pulls his head back and opens his throat with her starknife in obvious anger. She hisses into his dying ear.
"I made a promise, and I keep my promises to both friends and enemies alike!"
Once the man is dead, Ashlei visibly calms and starts to turn away. Then she quickly shifts back and kicks the dead man in the head. Nodding, she turns and heads back to the others, dragging what's left of the dead man behind her as best she can.
Crit?
Herding her captive over to the adjacent room (C4), she ties his hands together behind his back, relieving him of any gear. "We'll come back to let you go after we're done here."
Green shrugs and surrenders. He and the other guards are Pirates who had their ship lost when their Captain tried to draw on an inside straight. They took this job to make money until they found a new ship.
Four dead two surrendered.
Loot:
Potion of Cure moderate wounds (6),
MW chain shirt (6),
MW Buckler (6),
Cutlass +1 (6),
MW Composite Longbow (+3 Str) (6),
Keys to all first floor doors.
What are you doing now? Zarskia has been warned you are here.
Cassiopeia pulls out an arrow and tosses it aside, then grumbles, "This is why I was trying to stay out of the line of fire."
Ashlei grabs one of the potions and downs it.
She then hands one to Cassiopea.
"I love it when the prey has just the right stuff! Take one of these and you feel a tonne better! Also, did you see that herb room down there? You must be in wizard heaven there...I wonder if that's where they keep the poisons too? Now if I can only find some brandy..."
"Nice job turning a semi diplomatic approach into almost getting us killed Burnout." Rhialla says with an edge in her voice. "It's only going to get harder from here, since they'll be ready, be my guest to be the first through every door from here on out."
"Hopefully I'll have enough space to use my magic more effectively," says Cassiopeia before she tosses back the potion like a shot.
"I do not like getting arrows in my torso."
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"I suggest you men stay here, We are real pirates needing a word with your former boss. If we dont end up dead, there may be space for you."
He said simply taking a look at himself and the several cuts he had recieved. He took two of the potions and cracked his neck.
" I can still go in first if you folk are ready."
He drew the tidewater cutlass.
Ashlei shrugs.
"In first...in last...either way its 'killin' time for me! And if you don't want me to go start killin' things later for whatever reason, then inform me of the plan next time. All I was told was we were trying to GET IN. We got in. So...I started killing things. No one said...wait she'll come to us. In my defense, I didn't start killin' anyone until they tried to stop me leaving the waiting room."