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The salamander continues tearing into the person at the wheel, nodding in response to Ashlie's hail, while Rhialla keeps the ships in contact.
The Salamander has now nearly killed the Helmsman.
Percy wounds Captain Jove.
Esmarelda slips past Blue and stabs him nastily in the back.
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Blue grits his teeth and swings at Ashlei.
Ashlei was waiting for him and ripostes elegantly, finishing him off.
Lilac runs across the bow and attacks Ashlei.
Missing from the stairs.
Orange, Yellow & Black decide the winds are not in their favor and drop their weapons, raising their hands in surrender.
Captain Jove scowls at Percy, "It'll look even better in yer gut!"
Green is slowed and can't reach anyone this round.
The party can now act!
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Cass sighs disappointedly at the fact that the enemy captain lacks any panache. Oh well, they can't all be notable foes. She speaks a few twisted, guttural words and crooks a finger in his direction.
Frowning as purple falls at her feet, Ashlei turns to the attacker with a chartruse headband who just missed hitting her. She spins her starknife so it glitters dangerously in the sun.
"You just messed up BADLY...boy."
Full ATTACK(Melee Starknife!)
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Captain Jove winces as Cassiopeia's spell wracks his bones, he shakes it off but not without some damage.
Percy pokes him again.
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Ashlei waves her arm wildly and shreds Lilac.
Esmeralda & Rhialla to act. Red, Green & White still fighting.
"Is it just me, or do some of these people get more foolish with every moment?" Esmarelda asked with a small smirk. "Think they would fall in line with their clear superiors." She added as she moved to one and struck.
Esmarelda pokes White.
Rhiaala?
The summoned slamander moves across the enemy deck, striking at another sailor after leaving the wheel
The Salamander stabs Green
White swings back at Esmarelda
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Green yelps in shock and swings at the Salamander
Captain Jove looks desperate and stabs at Percy.
The party can act now.
Kissing her starknife, and with a sheepish grin, Ashlei tosses it at the enemy captain…
ATTACK(Thrown Dagger!)
…if it hits the enemy Captain…then it ricochets toward Green!
You can aim a thrown weapon so it strikes two foes.
Prerequisite(s): Dex 13, Point-Blank Shot, Startoss Style, Weapon Focus with the chosen weapon.
Benefit(s): As a standard action, you can make a single ranged thrown weapon attack at your full attack bonus with the chosen weapon. If you hit, you deal damage normally and can make a second attack (at your full attack bonus) against a target within one range increment of the first. You determine cover for this attack from the first target’s space instead of your space.
You can make only one additional attack per round with this feat. If you have Vital Strike, Improved Vital Strike, or Greater Vital Strike, you can add the additional damage from those feats to the initial ranged attack (but not the second attack).
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VIP! VIP! Cass doesn't even bother with the really impressive spells, she just unloads a set of magic missiles into one of the pirates .
Ashlei throws and slashes both Red & Green.
Cassiopeia blasts White with Magic missiles.
Th salamander proceeds to tear into the pirate, stabbing crushing and burning the unlucky bastard.
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Esmarelda had a small gleam in her eye as she lined up an attack. "Did you know that the body has these really squishy areas?" Esmarelda questioned as she leaned in a bit to slide her rapier into a particularly nasty spot.
"Is that how you flirt, Esme? Sliding things into the body's squishy areas?"
"Oh dear Cassiopeia, if we've gotten to that part my flirting is no longer needed."
The Salamander finishes off Green with a smell of cooked long pig.
White looks around and ignores Esmarelda's flirting and sighs, dropping his weapons and surrendering. "I give." he scowls.
Percy ends Captain Jove's dreams of raiding your island and becoming a Free Captain[/b] by killing him.
Loot
Breastplate +1 (8),
Full Plate +1,
Heavy wooden shield +1,
Cutlass +1 (16),
Trident of warning,
Composite longbow +1 (+5 str),
Ring of swimming (8),
Amulet of natural armor +1,
Belt of giant strength +2,
Cloak of resistance +2,
Gloves of swimming & climbing.
You have a captured merchantman, missing the ram at the front, but still fitted with a ballistae.
4 sailors surrendered.
What are you doing now? You are two days out from your island and would lose valuable time going back.
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"Cap'n, shall we take command of the merchantman and have it join our flotilla? I can handle the ship even though it has a limited number of sailors left."
Ashlei immediately retrieves her Starknife. Then looks over the captured men.
"I say we put these 4 in the brig until they tell us how they found out about us and where we were...were we found by accident or not?"
She thumbs her dagger as she stares greedily at the now captured enemies.
"Sure, why not. That good with you Cass?" Esmarelda asked as she leaned against the railing. Her rapier had been putting away but she was still toying with her dagger.
"I was just about to ask. Love to have you, Esme. ...aboard, I mean."
The brief scuffle only took you a few hours, you resume heading south to Ghrinitshahara in the Rampore Isles.
The rest of the voyage is quiet, you arrive offshore of the Rampore isles after two more days of sailing.
The Vudrani sailors who have come to the Shackles have long tended to settle on the Rampore Isles, named after some long-forgotten captain or
vessel.
The town of Ghrinitshahara once so resembled the hamlets and villages of the distant Kingdom of Vudra that it managed to assuage the homesickness of many Vudrani mariners. But 50 years ago, a trio of rakshasas, fleeing bounties placed on their heads by a powerful rajah, made their way to the Shackles.
These villains managed to infiltrate Rampore’s loose organization, and within 2 years assassinated or imprisoned all rival Vudrani pirate
lords. The remaining population of these once vibrant and thriving isles was subjugated by the rakshasas and the brutal thugs in their employ.
The boldest of the three evil outsiders, a mandrill-headed rakshasa of astonishing cruelty and cunning named Bedu Hanji, managed to do away with his equally treacherous partners, and thus became the undisputed master of the Rampore Isles.
Unlike many of the islands of the Shackles, Rampore has become a well-oiled machine with a clearly delineated hierarchy of evil, centralized around the export and trade of humanoid slaves.
So landing in Ghrinitshahara is not advised. Best to wait offshore for the Jesters grin.
What are you doing now?
Ashlei knows the history and reputation of these islands here all to well. She makes sure all the others are well aware too.
"So we wait here. Let's the 'Jester' come to us...Then we pounce like pirates!"
"I don't really know anything about this isle," says Cassiopeia. "Should we just put into port and conduct our business?"
"Landing is a bad idea. We don't want anything to do with the monkey-headed slaver bastard that runs this place." Rhialla replies.
"Yeah, Bedu is one right git." Esmarelda said with a slight shake of her head. "I'd prefer not to tangle with him, and that would be my advice. Since you know, we're putting it out there."
Cass magically hoists the flag to show that she's anchoring her ship offshore and then takes the launch over to rejoin the rest of the group.
"All right. So we wait off the shore. Post guards at night in case of boarding parties."
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"We wait. make sure our ships are as close as possible. double the watch.... and for fun. lets play some creative excercises in how we woudl asssualt this place to kill an evil git and take over an isle. ....or officer orgy in my cabin. whatever suits everyone. "
He chuckled peering at he port with a slight grin.
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"We wait. make sure our ships are as close as possible. double the watch.... and for fun. lets play some creative excercises in how we woudl asssualt this place to kill an evil git and take over an isle. ....or officer orgy in my cabin. whatever suits everyone. "
He chuckled peering at he port with a slight grin.
"Why not both?"
Cass leans over the rail and says, "If this evil git is a giant, the same strategies that we used against the cyclopes should work. Isolate or move against them in small groups, probably after we identify his location and then come in flying and invisible. Snap his bones with magic while Percy and Ashe stab him to death."
The Jester's grin spots your ships before your lookouts do and immediately turns to run back to harbor.
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Profession Sailor roll to catch him. He's quick and slippery. Currently 200' distance between the ships.
Cassiopeia flings her hands up to bring the sails back up on her own ship, but of course can't roll for s$#% and just fails.
”Move you skallywags! I swear I will split you stem to stern if you let those bastards get away!”
The Jester's grin manages to get its turn in safely, but needs to build up its speed again.
Responding to Ashlei's words of gentle encouragement your ship closes!
100' away now. What are you doing?
Cass can easily hit a fireball out to over 500' so she lobs one directly into the ship's rigging.
Cassiopeia blasts the Jester's grin rigging with a Fireball.
The Grin beings to immediately lose speed as her sails are either on fire, or flying loose with their stays destroyed.
50' away now, closing fast. The other crew is racing to repel boarders. what are you doing now?
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Ashlei pulls out her ‘Fun Stick’ and blasts the enemy deck…?
*47—49 A stream of 600 large butterflies pours forth and flutters around for 2 rounds, blinding everyone within 25 foot (Reflex DC 14 negates).
Laughing her ass off at the sight of giant butterflies dancing around the enemies deck, Ashlei puts her rod away and draws her starknife.
Rhialla puts all of her skill into steering the ship, determined to catch their fleeing prey.