The ex-harlot just snorts as Chubs makes his introductions. "Get away from me you little toad." She walks away.
"I am not surprised..." Peppery says before you walk away.
Chubwart kill you soon and eat you flesh longshank!
He storms off to find his friends. She no invited to serve Captain Cubwart nomore!
"Heya Chubwart. You seemed to like the rum the other night... would you like Opal's or mine?"
No silly longshank. This what Chubwart do with rum.
Chubwart leans against the railing and throws the shot on the side of his face away from onlookers. He tosses the rum overboard.
Whispering: Psssst. Chubwart smart. They use rum to keep us weak.
No one seems to notice Chubwart tossing his rum overboard. A certain female Half-Orc walks up to the group soon after. "Your big friend knocked that Plugg down a few pegs." "Let's get your stuff back." She whispers before leading you down to her store.
Kal hands his own mug to Chubwart with a slight smirk. In a normal voice, he offers, "Here, have some more."
Mmmmmmm.
Chubs follows his friends and the quartermaster.
Frowning at the others comments and glaring at Chubwart for tossing her rum, Opal turns to follow Grok a bit unsteadily down to the store, talking quietly to her.
"Thanks for letting us have our stuff back Grok. So you don't care too much for Plugg either huh? Is Scourge one of his pets too?"
Frowning at the others comments, Opal downs her rum anyway and then turns to follow Grok a bit unsteadily down to the store, talking quietly to her.
"Thanks for letting us have our stuff back Grok. So you don't care too much for Plugg either huh? Is Scourge one of his pets too?"
Kal gives Grok a smile as she approaches, and follows. Leaning over to the goblin as they walk, he says, "Thanks."
"I don't think anyone likes that sod, except for his cronies. Scourge is one of them, that coward." She unlocks the door. Inside is all manner of equipment, including that belonging to the party. "You recognize anythin'?"
That Chubwart backpack there! He walks over and looks through it. Ah...look...it pain and sudden death! He holds up his two kukris!
Kal gives Grok a smile as she approaches, and follows. Leaning over to the goblin as they walk, he says, "Thanks."
Anytime! You not so bad for long shank! Chubs got your back now!
"That's my backpack an crossbow there."
Opal opens up her backpack, looking over her meager possessions and holding up a choker as if to reassure herself that it is still there. It appears to me made of a bit of pale blue silk ribbon and clear quartz stone that appears to have swirls of blue inside it.
She also take a dagger out of it and slides it into her boot. She looks over a sickle that was in the bag as well, but puts it back in the backpack for now.
"That's my backpack an crossbow there."
Opal opens up her backpack, looking over her meager possessions and holding up a choker as if to reassure herself that it is still there. It appears to me made of a bit of pale blue silk ribbon and clear quartz stone that appears to have swirls of blue inside it.
She also take a dagger out of it and slides it into her boot. She looks over a sickle that was in the bag as well, but puts it back in the backpack for now.
That pretty like you Opal. Chubs points at the choker and blushes.
Opal forgets her annoyance with Chubwart as she looks at the choker that used to be her mothers.
"Thanks Chubs. It's kinda important to me. I'da hated to have lost it for good."
The 4th morning comes and everyone is assigned their duties.
Bjorkus has been demoted to swab and along with Kal and Luthor are assigned to swab the deck. Chubs has already been assigned to the bilges and Opal assigned to be the cooks mate. However, before everyone can get to their tasks, young Jack Scrimshaw runs out onto the deck and immediately starts talking to Mr. Plugg. The first mate makes an announcement. "Apparently, there is some creature in the bilge. I need some volunteers to take care of it. Work will be postphoned until this is taken care of." He scans the crew and unsurprisingly picks Opal, Bjorkus, Chubs, Kal, and Luthor. "Do not bother coming out until whatever is down there is dead."
"Why me?" Luthor defiantly asks.
"Because you had the audacity to survive the sweatbox. Now go!"
The demotion and subsequent dirty work do little to damper Bjorkus's high spirits as he sent a wink at Sandara and Tilly.
"Okay Plugg, we'll deal with yer vermin", he rumbles.
"Can we have weapons or did you want us to do this with our bare hands?"
The pair giggle and wink back at him. "I see some of your friends have theirs back. I'll have to talk to Grok about that. But since you seem to be good enough to fight with your horns, feel free to use those." As you walk off, you hear him mutter the word. "Traitor."
Opal can't help but let out a small sigh as she mutters: "And here I thought I was done with the bilges."
Opal will follow the group down to the bilges.
Should chubs sneak down and see what's the fuss before we kill?
"Eh, maybe it'll be something we can add to the stewpot for dinner."
"While I like your optimisism, I don't think we'd want to. Anyway, when did you all make nice with the big bad wolf bull here? I thought you all didn't like each other."
Bjorkus offers a bass chuckle at Opal's comment before evaluating Luthor.
Judging him trustworthy enough, he explains.
"That was an act. I had to get the rum away from these two, it was making them sick. It would have been over with real quickly but someone's an over-actor", the bull minotaur said with a jab at Kal.
"So you weren't trying to throw your weight around.. Well, it was convincing. I couldn't tell. Sorry I misjudged you. Like I told them, name's Luthor. I thought for sure you were one of Plugg's ilk."
"I thought I was too for a while", Bjorkus says in confusion.
"The truth is I just want to get off this rig and these guys seemed like my best bet."
"You think you can get off this rig? Sounds like you got a plan. I mean you all look like you have your talents and all, but how?"
Kal chuckles softly and grins back at the minotaur. "Even you must admit its effectiveness, you overgrown cow."
Bjorkus threw a meaty, but playful, jab at Kal's shoulder.
"Im'a bull you furless calf."
"Let's see this vermin Plugg's so worried about."
Kal loosens his bow from his shoulder and follows the minotaur, still chuckling. "I do wonder how anything dangerous could get down into the bowels of the ship... unless he put it there himself..." The last is added half under his breath.
As you make your way through the bilges, you notice that you are up to your waists in filthy water. You see some rats crawling all over which is not unusual. However there is a shape moving in the water. And before any of you can react, it strikes!
It lunges from the depths and now you see it in it's full glory. At first it looks like an overgrown rat, but the scorpion-tail suggests its quite unnatural status. It's leaps at Bjorkus and bites.
Opal
Kal
Bjorkus
Luthor
Chubs
Super-Rat
"Ugh, a giant rat?"
Opal fires off a small bolt of lightening at the big rat.
Opal's bolt of lightning hits its mark but only seems to further enrage the rat, it is minorly injured.
Kal reaches forward and touches Bjorkus on the shoulder. "You okay? Let's hurry up and kill that... whatever it is. It doesn't look natural."
Figuring the goblin was near the front, Chubs moves his maximum amount (10ft-1/3 movement) and attacks. He is working toward getting in a flank next round if possible.
Bjorkus howls in pain as the creature latches onto his arm.
"Do I look sodding okay? It took a chunk of my arm!"
He bows down and tries to gore the vicious critter.
"Oh, that's not good. We need to focus that thing down before it kills Bjorkus."
Luthor then moves adjacent to it.
Both of Chub's and Bjorkus' attacks hit, garnering an otherworldly shriek from it. It retaliates, by lashing out with it's tail at Chub.
It then bites at Bjorkus.
But it misses.
Kal keeps his hand on Bjorkus' shoulder, willing the wounds to close speedily.