"Other than our group, I've only been talking to Sandara, Rosie Cusswell, and Grok the quartermaster," says Linnet in response to Aqguazula's first question. "I admit I want to know why Sandara was interested in us; I doubt it's entirely altruistic, though I think she could be a good ally. She's the only one with healing powers, as far as I know. I think I should keep talking to the people she pointed out to try and figure out what her game is."
She nods in response to Aqguazula's warning. Really, she's probably safer not knowing everything he's getting up to.
Aqguazula will tell Linnet, " I'm playing with fire, if it burns me alive, better that I cast myself to pyre than let everyone come down with me."
He will put his arm on her head and ruffle her hair," you're a good kid, it would be ashame to this boat spite you out or kill you, know that I will do what I can to help."
" Oh she's not the only one, the question if are you willing to accept my magical gifts from Forbidden gods and pseudo divine entities?"
Aqguazula will teach her of divine powers from other sources, Demon Lords, Arch-Dukes of Hell, even pagan gods from before the current Pantheon.
"With my powers came...certain sacrifices let's say." He seems unsure of himself and crestfallen.
Cheering up, " regardless be careful with Sandara, however I'd continue to befriend Rosie as Sandara asked us to do, even I will tell her that I befriended Cogwards although with some "forgotten details", anyways let's report that our duty is done, lest we want a lashing."
Linnet raises an eyebrow, curiosity piqued. "I'm always interested in something that can help me survive. You're right though, we better hustle if we don't want to get in trouble."
Chandria examines the tome, blowing onto it to send its dust covering flying. She coughs a couple times, her throat still sore from the previous day's mishaps. Ten Thousand Meals Under the Sea... She flips through a few pages, reading carefully. "Take a turtle, throw it on its back, carve 'er open along the center with a dagger to access the most tenderest of tendons! Just kiddin', ya still payin' attention!?" It seems the writer, or writers, had quite the sense of humour when authoring the book, but the recipes seem sound and have her mouth watering as she imagines what the dishes may taste like. Chandria thinks about taking the book for a moment.
Sasha smiles and takes the glass of wine. to new friendships. I know its kind of a bit forward of me considering we just met, but.. she turns to the gnome giving him the "damsel in distress" look, The quartermaster has something that was taken from me. it is the last thing I have from my mother. Do you think you could help me get it back?
Sasha kneels to look him at his eye level, placing a hand on his cheek, please. she begs of him.
(+4 for the work diligently option)
Sasha spend the third day fully engrossed in her tasks. she has evening plans has no desire to wear herself out on these tasks, there are men available for that later that night.
Kroop is currently wrestling with a larger than average Leatherback turtle, trying in vain to stab the creature but hitting nothing but shell. Growling in frustration he tosses the knife over his shoulder and begins to work on the meat he has already harvested, leaving the turtle to amble around on the tabletop, biting out at some carrot.
"... no, no you shut up, I'm the Cook ere, yer just a bloody Turtle!" Kroop waves a bottle of rum at the Turtle before exhaling sharply through his nose and turning away. "Ah forget ya!"
Conchobhar stares at Sasha for a moment, before shaking his head slightly. "I don't have all of my own things back my dear. In fact the Quartermaster isn't my biggest fan, something about 'little roving hands' or something. If I had the ability I would help but... Have you asked her yourself? She might just give it back to you!"
Looking over at Kroop, Chandria stifles a laugh that would have otherwise alerted Kroop to her discovery of the tome. Now's my chance. This tome will come in handy on this ship. It's worth the risk... But that sweatbox.. She pauses for a moment. No. If I can't cook day in and day out, they may do worse.. The Tengu shuts the tome and slips it under her harimaki in one quick action.
Aqguazula pour out the rhum not caring to drink any more of it, he prefers his own.
approaches the beat up half-elf, before getting too close he weaves a spell on himself and into his empty tankard.
Now approaching her. "Hey Badger, hell of an introduction huh?" he laughs a little. "Don't take it too hard, you know how it is to be new...the others just shat the bed is all. However let's put us behind us"
He offers his tankard of to her, but remembers that she may be suspicious of his intent. He drinks about half of it before.
"Here a toast to the Wormwood and it's crew. Don't worry it's not spiked or poisoned. Think of this like a peace offering, I don't want to hurt you lest I wanted to end up like Maheem, Chandria or even that poor sob stuck in that cage? Do you think Tam's and Jape's company is worth it? I bet those bastard wouldn't even hesitate slit your throat or rape you in the dead of the night. I mean one's a smelly greedy fat Dwarf and I don't know about Orcs." He says racistly while looking to make sure Grok isn't near by.
"I've been on a lot of ships and met my fair share of filthy balless sons thousand of whore soned bastards, women always have it hard, even under Besmara's watchful gaze. We're both swabs here, I will help and protect you if it's needed. By the looks of it though, you throw a mean punch. But I'm a very scary bastard as you can tell. "
" Look see my ears, we're few of the only f!$%ing elves on this boat, think of us like we're very distant cousin, I'm an Aquatic Elf of the sea and from the land(maybe?). We elves need to stick together, What do you say mate? Tell me about yourself over this wine and I will do the same."
Nighttime 3
Bleepos starts his night drinking his little green throat away.
Happy and reenergized, it's time for more rogueing around. He's gonna try to sneak around and Steal from another locker.
Yarr! Such is the life of a goblin pirate.
Shuddering at the noxious fumes, Linnet tries to let her drink slip overboard again.
She looks around the deck and decides to approach Conchobhar, the gnome that the cleric had pointed out.
"Hello. Heard you were also caught up in a press gang. What's your story?"
Sasha gives Conchobhar a hug, "I'll see what I can do for us both then." She finishes her wine, "best get some rest, we'll talk again later." she gives him a reassuring smile, and heads below for some much needed rest.
As soon as possible Sasha heads to the quartermaster's area. hoping to find her there.
Feeling rather to be sober that night, Gupson dumps his tankard of strange alcohol out in to the sea. Tonight, he'd rather be fully sober in hopers of seeing Tilly.
Badger listens to Aqguazula, frowning at him as he continues to speak. Her ears, slightly webbed in look, twitch as she slowly eyes the man up and down. Badger smiles, taking the mug and staring at Aqguazula intently.
Bleepos pops the trunk open and rifles around inside. He finds 16 gold worth in mixed coinage, a fancy peacock feather quill and two vials of clear liquid.
Sasha makes her way to the Quartermasters Store, only to find it empty of people and surprisingly unlocked.
Conchobhar looks up as Linnet approaches, his cheeks blushed with the wine he is drinking. "Well well well... another beautiful woman. How did I get so lucky? Yes indeed my dear, I was put on the wrong side of this crew, ha ha ha. Now I find myself here. My name is Conchobhar Shortstone Turlach. And you are? What do I owe this extreme pleasure to?"
Gupson spends his night wandering around the deck, till he spots the woman from earlier. He approaches Tilly who waves to him with a smile. Tilly is merry and happily playing a game of cards with some of the rest of the crew. She gestures for Gupson to join.
The Cabin door is locked and you can hear heavy snoring from within. What do you do?
" Don't be rash Badger, this doesn't need to end with one of us on the floor. Just finish your drink and calm down, you've got a mug and I have a spear with a giant mace head on the end of it."
Try to avert the situation but it get's ugly he calls for Cog and Shivikah so see if they can help her see reason.
" Oi Cog, Oi Shivikah, can I get a hand here?"
Badger laughs loudly before lashing out, throwing a punch towards the taller mans face. "Get f%$~ed. Calling for your friends in a fight. Not man enough to take me one on one?"
The punch misses, as Cog and Shivikah approach from opposite sides, frowning, unsure what to do.
"What game ye be playin?" Gupson walks over to her and the other crewmen with a warm smile.
" You're right, back off mates. Badger you old c*@$, It's bed time you f@&+ing Seahag of a whore!"
With that braids will lash out at her and wrapped around her neck. non-lethally
once the hair wraps around her neck, he will pull on the braid like a garrot. dragging her to his feet and lifting her up like an angler trophy.
" Listen and listen good mate, stop now! you Swavy!?"
Linnet smiles at Conchobhar's gallantries, though she doesn't take them seriously. This might be the most normal conversation she's had on board yet.
"Linnet Applesby. Part of the last batch of 'recruits,' so Sandara thought we should make each other's acquaintance. Did she say something like that to you when you got on board?"
As Aqguazula pulls Badger off of her feet, the woman draws her shortsword and jams it in to the mans shoulder, twisting slightly as she does.
As the attack hits, Aqguazulas hair pulls back and Badger lands on her feet, twirling the shortsword before her. "I woz just gonna punch your face in but you brought that freaky f#&~in hair in to it so now you bleed fish dick!"
Conchobhar nods and offer Linnet some wine. "Aye, she said we should make friends with you all if we get the chance. Seems like a good idea to me, one can never have too many friends!"
Bleepos puts the coins with the rest of his gold, and quickly runs from there to hide the quill and the vials together with the rest of his stash.
With that done, the goblin simply decides to go to sleep. Good rum, good loot, he needs now a good night of sleep... He knows the next day will probably be tough on him!
"Were playing Towers, simple 2 copper buy in if your interested handsome!" Tilly smiles up at Dacota.
Right as the woman speaks, Dacota catches a brief flash of a scuffle on the other side of the deck, his eyes drawn to a bleeding Aqguazula standing before a Half-Elf woman who is rubbing her bruised larynx with her free hand.
"Hey, Gupson called pointing towards the conflict, "there's some sort of fight going on over there."
Chandria instead heads back into the galley and grabs another bottle of Brandy. She slips it under her armor and seeks out Scourge. I'll have to do what I can to make him think the Captain is planning to throw him overboard. Perhaps a little Brandy might help make my story more believable...
Huffing and puffing," you're good, maybe I bit off more than I can chew, maybe I can use your help guys."
To see if the officers are approaching.
Shivikah
Badger
Aqguazula
Fipps
Cog
"Thanks fish-elf, I appreciate that!" Badger grins as she makes to move forward, only to be accosted by Shivikah. The Mwangi woman lashed out, throwing a punch at the Half-Elf.
Badger slips under the punch, before grinning and spinning away from Shivikah, launching herself at Aqguazula again.
The blade slides past him, but missed. Fipps approaches the fight too, from the same side of Coglen, moving to help Badger.
"Finally some f$~~in action!" Ratline, the Halfling rigger stands up and moves away from the game, the people gathered gravitating after him, towards the fight.
"Ouch... three on one. Doesn't seem fair!"
seeing the quartermaster are unlocked, Sasha looks about making sure nobody else is around, she then slips in and starts searching for her locket.
Sasha slips in to the store and moves to the lockers at the back of the room. Two out of the six lockers are unlocked.
This locker contains mostly mundane equipment, but after looking around in the locker for a bit, she finds a fine looking compass, inset with a large emerald in the lid.
(Anything under 100Gp from the Ultimate Equipment Mundane Equipment chapter can be found here.)
This locker houses the Players stolen equipment, along with your locket and a gem studded flask that belongs to Conchobhar. In the bottom of the locker sits a pair of translucent cloth tubes that shimmer faintly with magic.
"Dagons Balls!"
The frustrated Aquatic elf misses his mark.
Fipps moved around and in to a flank with Badger, throwing a fist at Aqguazila.
Missing completely, Fipps growls, before Cog lashed out at him in turn.
Cog managed to punch Fipps right in the face, causing him to stumble and focus on Cog, not on the Sea Elf.
Shivikah begins to attack Badger from behind.
Badger gets a kick in the ribs, driving her sideways and away from Aqguazula, knocking her to her knees.
Panting, she stands slowly, before lashing out with all of her strength at Aqguazula one last time.
As her blow connects with Aq, she slumps to the ground, falling unconscious from a broken rib and some bloodloss.
Aqguazula enraged with his wound and the smell of blood in the air, his dilate to a solid black colour, his muscles tighten and he almost seems to be feral.
He turns towards Fipps and assaults him.
" I'm going to feast on your flesh...Human liver is a delicacy."
"Cheers to that." Linnet raises her glass to clink against Conchobhar's. "I have experience on a ship, but certainly nothing like this one... it's taking some getting used to."
(+2 Favoured Enemy bonus, since humans/part-humans are involved either way)
Fipps collapses to the ground lying there in an unconscious heap, which Linnet hears, but the combat is over.
For most of the fight, Gupson watches with curiosity. The strange weaponized hair of Aqguazula intrigued him. No Sea Elf he knew had such a strange ability. In all, the fight appeared to be a mess of fighting and flailing limbs.
It was only when Badger falls unconscious after throwing out one last punch does he step into action, hurrying over to the fight with haste.
"Break it up, come on, peace all of ya. Stop the damn fightin'!" Gupson shouts, trying to defuse the situation.
Aqguazula quickly comes to his sense, he decides to heal himself before anymore hell comes his way.
Standing over the body of badger, he stomps on her broken rib before healing her.
"this won't fix her broken bones, but at least I can't be blamed for her dying."
He will quickly turn to Cogward and Shivikah, "Thanks mates, if it wasn't for you I might be dead, I owe you one."
Linnet looks up when she hears a thump to see the scuffle come to an end. "Hold on, something's going on with my friends over there."
She hurries over to see the aftermath of the fight and swears. "I missed all the fun! Sorry I wasn't here for backup, bud." She nudges Fipps then peers a little closer. "Maybe we should do something so he doesn't die and get us in trouble?"
Given the number of times healing has come up, Linnet realizes she had a kit as part of her gear and should probably go get it from Grok. Surely the quartermaster can't object to that.
*Edit* before healing her.
Purse- 5Gp, 10Sp, 23Cp
Combat Equipment- Masterwork Shortsword, Daggerx2, Chainshirt
Other Equipment- Clothing, Silver jewelry worth 10gp, a Scrimshaw pipe that looks like a rushing wave worth 5sp, a Bicorne hat
Linnet lays a hand on Fipps, trying to find a pulse but comes up blank. The man is dead, cold to the touch.
"Medic, we need a medic on the deck," Dacota calls out.