Skulls & Shackles (Inactive)

Game Master Foxy Quickpaw

What are you up to? Scaring me to death so I fall down into the water again?

Noonan climbs! Pluck hides in his pack

Climb: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (16) + 10 = 26

As there is now a reasonable number of heroes out of the water and up on the hill again...

Perception: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (12) + 9 = 21

Oh crap the Stirges are coming back!
Lito pulls his rapier and charges it up, ready to attack anything that comes near him.

Ready attack Rapier
Rapier: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 11
Damage + Arcane strike: 1d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 + 1 = 5

Trytton swims to the rope and starts climbing

Bad bugs! Noonan pulls his greatsword
Sword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 262d6 + 5 ⇒ (3, 3) + 5 = 11
Confirm: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (9) + 7 = 162d6 + 5 ⇒ (5, 1) + 5 = 11

Estelle shakes out her muscles, trying to loosen up before they get to close. She gnashes her teeth at the Striges, shouting

"I will tear ye up, and use yer suckers ta spear fish with."

Boar StyleUsing martial Flexibility

Jarrus too busy looking in the water looks up and sees everyone up the rope so he gets climbing too.

Climb: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (16) + 9 = 25

Perception: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Sandara continues staring at the nest with squinted eyes. "What, where?" she asks but too late.

Init Stirge: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
Init Stirge: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17
Init Stirge: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Init Stirge: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (5) + 4 = 9
Init Stirge: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (16) + 4 = 20
Init Stirge: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

Init Sandara: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
Init Estelle: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5
Init Noonan: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4
Init Jarrus: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13
Init Trytton: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (3) + 5 = 8
Init Lito: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (15) + 2 = 17

Noonan splats one of them but all others are unprepared or don't manage to hit.
Touch Noonan: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (6) + 7 = 13
Touch Estelle: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 8
Touch Sandara: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (3) + 7 = 10
Touch Lito: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (19) + 7 = 26
Touch Estelle: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (13) + 7 = 20

Only one handed weapons to attack stirges at your own body. They suck one con at the beginning of your round. Be nice to each other and kill their bugs and they may be dead before they get to do so.

Sandara pulls out her rapier and stabs at the stirge at Estelle. For one to help, but this bug also doesn't move around.
Stab: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24
Confirm: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Damage: 2d6 + 2 ⇒ (5, 2) + 2 = 9
Stirge on a spit. This one will not suck anymore.

Noonan stabs at the one on LitoGreatsword: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (1) + 7 = 82d6 + 5 ⇒ (4, 5) + 5 = 14

Pluck pecks at the one on Noonan
Peck: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 111 = 1

Noonan's sword comes back with Lito's head impaled on it. Uhhh...whoops.

-1 Con so down at 21 HP.

Ouch!!! Hey watch where you swing that thing!

Lito tries to skewer the bloodsucker with his Rapier.

Rapier: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Damage + Arcane strike: 1d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 + 1 = 4

Pluck enjoys his meal of fresh stirge. He rips off a wing and gobbles it up. Lito pierces his bug and can now watch as his blood flows out of the stirges back. Which is no joy as the critter is still alive and sucking more of it.

Jarrus makes it to the top of the rope to find a stirge heading right for him, he rolls aside and swats at the massive bug with hit Tidewater Cutlass.

Attack: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22
damage: 1d6 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 2 = 8

And one more stirge reduced to a splat.

I'll wait for Trytton and Estelle to smack some more.

Trytton blasts one while shrouding himself with water.
attack, dmg: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 112d6 + 7 ⇒ (3, 2) + 7 = 12

Trytton's blast creates a fine rain over the area of the fight after missing the stirges.

Estelle dodges the attack, smiling large.

"Looks like I bes getting me spears for fishing."

right hook: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 151d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + 4 = 8 1d4 bleed
Left hook: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 121d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

Rend if both hit: 2d6 ⇒ (5, 1) = 6

Estelle misses on of those flying freely. With her second attack she backhandedly smacks Lito's stirge. Noonan stirge continues to suck blood and the one left attacks
SELTJN: 1d6 ⇒ 3
Grab: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Lito and sucks his blood.

Noonan keeps stabbing
Stab: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (15) + 7 = 222d6 + 5 ⇒ (4, 4) + 5 = 13
Pluck attacks the nasty who is feeding on his pet
Peck: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 161 = 1

Noonan manages to kill off Lito's stirge. Even though he inexplicably flinches as he does. Pluck rips another wing off the stirge. "Delicious! SQUAAAAK!"

Noona wonders if he should buy a magic beak blade for Pluck. That is one tough parrot.

Lito tries to return the favor by poking the last Stirge with his rapier

Rapier: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (6) + 4 = 10
Damage + Arcane strike: 1d6 + 1 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 + 1 = 3

Even if they don't move - stirges are pretty small and hard to hit. Too hard for Lito.

Estelle leaps at the one attacking lito.

kick: 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (2) + 7 = 91d6 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

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Noonan rages and claws the stirge, trying to pop it like a zit
Rage claw: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (11) + 9 = 201d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + 4 = 5

With the good preparation work that Pluck did the bug is dead now. Lito with the bad experiences he had jumps out of the way of Estelle's attack on him or his already dead stirge. He couldn't tell for sure.

Fight over.

Is everyone OK?

If they are gather everyone and trek back to the house.
We should gathered some stuff for the ship before leaving.

"I'm fine." Sandara replies. Looking at her companions - some of which look a bit pale - she states "But without my holy symbol I can't help with that. The magic stick is no good for that."

Where symbol?

"On the boat wit the cap'in, like Lito said earlier. Noonan help me rip the stickers off these things. We could use em for something."

Estelle goes about her grisly business of taking the needle like noses off the bugs.

Jarrus finally stands up after his scuffle with the Stirge and watches Estelle starting to rip off the stingers of the Stirges and skews up his nose in disgust, then looks around, glad to finally be out of the watery caves.

"Well I can't say that was easy. But was still worth the trip ey Sandara. Glad ya have ye back with us."

We could grill bugs. Tasty with butter? Noonan plucks the bugs.

SQWAK! Tasty wings! Pluck chirps

"Then grab em and bring em back with ye."

Estelle will put the stingers in her belt then move to climbing back up the rest fo the cliff face to get back to the house.

Climb: 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (7) + 9 = 16

You walk back on the known path. You reach the well-built timber stockade and the small lodge inside on a jungle clearing. Besides is the bubbling spring.

Inside is the single chamber, crowded with a large amount of furniture, including a comfortable bed, a small writing desk, cooking gear, and several barrels of rotting food. The stench is still awful from the ghast hanging in the middle of the room. On the stockade is the fixed spyglass.

Jarrus walks over and unscrews the spyglass and shoves it in his belt then looks around at everyone.

"What? 'tis for the cap'n." He says with a guilty look on his face.

Thats exactly why we are here, grab what Ye can carry from this place and let's get back to the boat!

Lito grabs the writing desk and empties out the barrels to take with him.

Estelle looks over the bed, then moves it away from the wall. She takes her time to take it apart and keeping the image of how it goes back together in her head so she can give it to the capin'

Noonanb helps carry stuff

It is not easy to get that large stuff down the mountain but the stairs help a lot. Once down at the beach you notice a field with high grass to the right. Besides that there is your boat, that is luckily large enough to carry all the stuff you dragged down the path.

Lito looks over at the field then says:
We need to get Sandara's flag and get this stuff back to the ship. The captain can tell us if she wants us to do any more exploring after that.

Unless anyone objects, launch the ship and head out looking for the flag.

Noonan gets the stuff on the boat.

As everything and everyone is on the boat you set sail and and take course back to your first landing place. The red piece of cloth is easy enough to find there.

Sandara jumps into the water as the red spot on the cost comes into sight and swims there.
swim: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (12) + 4 = 16
Which works out in despite her limited skill. She kneels on the ground, picks up the flag and says a prayer of thanks.
swim: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (14) + 4 = 18
Motivated by having her holy symbol back she swims easily back to the boat. After climbing in she offers "If anyone needs help - I can now offer the blessings of Besmara again."

The boat takes course to the Man's Promise and wit some more work it is lifted up on board again.

"I'm glad ta have ye all back in one piece. How did it go? Who was behind that?" Besmara says. "And I see you used the trip for some looting too. Whose house did ye ransack on that tiny island?"

"some undeads house, was strung up from the rafters. We gots a new bed here from that house. Looks like it was outta a ship as well. I will get ta puttin' it in yer room."

Estelle sets off looking for Owlbear and that other lugg to help her.

Grindys and ghouls. We got some loot. Noonan hauls stuff aboard. So what we do now? Be pirates or haul cargo?

Besmara's eyes glow brightly with joy and she really has to pull herself together to not perform a dance of joy. "You're the best crew ever!"

Turning to Noonan she replies "What to do? Get the stuff under deck first. Preferably at stern for now. The flood is coming in and may soon be high enough for us ta get a hand wide water under the keel. Wanna go give us a push back?"

Then she takes a closer look at the bed parts and strokes over the fine wood of the headboard with an absent-minded smile.