"Better late than never, I guess."
Gwyn hops up and takes a running leap to get over on the Talirean ship.
[ooc]Move to stand, Move to board the other Ship and avoid the AoO.
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Acrobatics to avoid AoO:
Teon hisses with plesure as the sailors souround him, bringing themselves into his reach. then with annoyance as a blade or two manages to score his hide. Still disguised, he appears bizare as he battle with unseen tooth and claw.
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HP: 25 / 25 THP: 2
AC 21 T 11 FF 20
CMD 17 FF 16
F/R/W +3/+3/+4
1st Spells (4): xxx
Summon Monster II (7): xxxxxxx
Effects: Eidelon, Mage armor, Bless
Price lets loose an ear-blasting screech at the Captain before calling down a judgment on his crew, bolstering her defenses. The Inquisitor moves into a position supporting both Teon and Gwyn. Seeing the wounds on Teon, she barks, "If we can clear a path, I'll try to heal you."
As the sailors move to focus on Teon Shulme takes the opportunity to stab at a retreating back. He straightens after the blow and moves closer to the melee, whispering something as he moves, in strange syllables that sound as if no human tongue could have produced them. Magical energy settles around him, and he directs it with a baleful glare against the Talirean captain.
"Cain, I'm boarding. Cover me or follow."
Cain's bow clatters to the ground a few seconds behind Price's as he stalks after her, "When have I ever turned down a dance?"
Shulme manages to drop another of the sailors as they move away, opening it up for Price and Teon to move into position. Teon let's loose a string of attacks, sinking his teeth into the captain's shoulder and clawing into his abdomen, finding an opening in his breastplate. "Foul abomination, the depths will take you!"
Cain and Odenkirk both board the ship as this occurs. Odenkirk calls out to his men as he does. "Leave not a Talirean alive, men! And prepare to push away."
Price and Shulme both attempt to disrupt the Talirean Captain, an piercing scream ringing out, a small bit of blood coming out of his ears. This he fights away, but looking up at Teon, suddenly starts to cringe in fear. "Nooooo!" The Captain looks ready to run.
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Gwyn feels the heat of the flames, but decides to chance it and takes the extra moment needed to set up a double thrust to the kidneys of the captain.
Jakes eyed the fighting around the Talingarde captain, eager to join in, but first she had to remove the fool in front of her. With a cry, she sent her as yet unbloodied new weapons arcing in.
Kalina deals a wicked strike to the soldier, but he manages to stay up.
The Talireans begin to prepare for a final assault when their captain suddenly screams out and runs to the end of the boat, hoping to leap into the water. As he moves, Odenkirk brings his own axe up and finishes the captain as he runs by, a vile look on his face as he does. The rest of the Talireans throw down their own weapons. "Please grant us quarter, we surrender to you!"
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Cain gives the surrendering crew a growl as he watches the smuggler-captain out of the corner of his eyes, fingers itching to draw his massive blade. "Odenkirk, you in the business of taking prisoners?"
It always struck Cain as odd to have to take orders from a man he plans to kill, but hunts often required patience. As he waits, he also watches his teammates to gauge their actions.
Shulme smiles knowingly as he watches the captain's terrified death.
With nearly no emotion, Odenkirk simply swings his greataxe with impressive speed, removing the head of the nearest sailor. The remaining two easily dealt with, it becomes obvious the boat you are on will soon be wreckage at the bottom of the ocean.
"Back to the longships. We're done here." Turning towards Cain, he gives the man a smile. "Not sure how you did that..." he points towards the flaming sphere, "...with just a fire bomb, but impressive."
"What can I say? I'm full of surprises."
Cain takes stock of the situation. No reason to waste anything of value, he thinks as he begins searching the bodies and ship. "Price, help me look for anything useful or valuable before this ship goes down."
Price starts searching but clearly is distracted...
Gwyn wastes no time hopping back across.
Odenkirk leaps back across the boat, "Best hurry, she wont' be standing much longer. Going to push off before that fire spreads to us."
In the short time you have, you manage to acquire only a few items. The captain's sword, a finely made blade that has seen some use, as well as his signet ring, a shield set with three anchors arranged in a diagonal line. The engraving around the edge identifies his family as Sambryl.
In addition, you collect a 8 shortbows, 8 daggers, 60gp, 115sp, 93cp.
Xanos goes back to his book, not even bothering to watch the ship sink.
Salvaged gear in-hand, Cain leaps back across the expanding gulf between the ships. Finding a place on the already-crowded hull of the ship is tricky, but after a few minutes, the salvaged gear is stowed. The crested shield, blade, and ring of the fallen captain are given special treatment.
As the ships begin to really separate, Cain looks back. He gives his team's handiwork a half-grin and elbows Price. "Now there's a sight I aint ever seen before... the water. The waves. The flames. Kinda pretty, if ya ask me."
Teon leaves the doomed ship, think what a shame it is that so much potential loot is left behind But maybe it does not have to be. On his own ship again, he concentrates and the illusion caused by the headband shivers for a moment.
Fargo stares at the fireball burning in front of the stairs and the spray in the air condenses in a small serpent formed of water. The serpent touches the ball of fire and it winks out, allowing the elemental to descend into the ship and grab anything it thinks may be of value.
Price looks curiously at her ally as he hands her a ring and waxes poetic. She gives him a grin. "You're so romantic, Cain. But aren't you supposed to take a knee when you plight your troth to a lady?" She hefts the ring, examines it briefly, and pops it into her belt-pouch.
"I'm a deep guy, what can I say?"
As the ships begin to really separate, Cain looks back. He gives his team's handiwork a half-grin and elbows Price. "Now there's a sight I aint ever seen before... the water. The waves. The flames. Kinda pretty, if ya ask me."
Jakes watches with Cain and Price as the Talingarde ship burns down to the waterline.
"There's a saying we had in the army.....F&$@ the navy!"
She offers a wayward salute to the wreck with the tip of her bloodied sword, and turns to collect one of the looted shortbows.
Gwyn cleans her knives and assumes her normal disguise once more. She runs over how she could have been more effective, and comes to the logical conclusion.
That's in I'm getting a bow.
The ship sunk, you all continue on your journey. Seven days aboard the ship, the routine has become simple. Travel the day, sleep at night. The Talirean ship just a break from the monotony.
The next day sees the same continue, an uneventful day. As night begins to fall, Odenkirk calls for a stop. Making towards a small cove where the ships can rest out of sight, suddenly danger erupts on deck, a tidal wave of assaults. At first it seems the ships themselves have overturned. But a moment passes to realize instead the water has came to you, living water on deck, elemental creatures. Splashes from outside tells you they are not alone either.
Cain
Gwyndolin
Kalina
Price
Shulme
Teon
Xanos
Odenkirk
Odenkirk's men
Tritons
Dolphins
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"WAH! I thought water was supposed to not do that!"
Gwyn looks up at the water doing things water shouldn't.
When in doubt, stab it, I guess.
After slashing at the thing, she moves back and to the right, trying to get it to move into a flank.
Shulme perhaps unintentionally foils Gwyndolin's plan as he steps back to create space between himself and his own assailant, which had slipped in under the reach of his spear.
Gwyn strikes at the water creature, attempting to cut something within it's aqueous form. And cut something she must, as the creature calls out, a voice that sounds like a rushing torrent of water escaping what passes for it's lips. Yet the creature still stands as she backs away.
Shulme attempts to follow suit, striking hard with his spear, yet the creature flows around the strike, avoiding the powerful thrust.
One of the tritons, seemingly a leader of sorts, calls out and begins incanting a spell.
One of the elementals surges towards Cain, attempting to force him off the ship, though to little effect and opening him up to the man.
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Cain pivots under the water thing's push as he growls out a curse. His wicked blade rips from its sheathe and flashes horizontally across what seems to be the water creature's torso. "Anyone have any idea what these things are?" he shouts as he takes a retreating step backwards, trying to deny the creatures his flank. "Or more importantly, how we kill'em?"
Price has no idea what the sea creature is casting... but it probably isn't good. She examines the watery being before her, looking for vulnerabilities, even as she steps away from it and pulls her mace. Her vision penetrates the night easily but she knows she is the exception rather than the rule in that.
Darkness is the greatest threat at the moment.
Calling on her Celestial heritage she weaves a spell on her gown that turns night into stark day.
Xanos' eyes narrow. He steps away from the angry elemental behind him and lifts the hasp on the chest he's been sitting on without looking away from the chanting figure int he water.
He waited.
Seeming to rise out of the shadows themselves, a masked and hooded figure unkinked itself from the box where it had been folded in a distinctly unnatural way. It reached into it's hood and drew forth a long, heavy bar, seemingly coming from within it's own body.
It stepped forward and brought the metal club down in a vicious arc.
Jakes blinks the sleep out of her eyes, cursing as the freakish water beasts crash aboard. Drawing her weapons, she steps behind the one attacking Cain and lays into it.
Cain and Kalina move into position around one of the watery creatures, elementals formed of water. Cain manages a strike into it, but Kalina's own blow failes to connect with the watery creation.
Price draws forth the Laughing Demon, calling upon her ancestral heritage to light their field of battle.
Xanos prepares to engage in an arcane battle with one of the Triton's surrounding the boat.
Odenkirk's men put up their own fight against the watery creations on their side of the field. While a valiant effort with a few strikes of their own, it's obvious their skill pales to our villains.
The triton to the south also begins intoning a spell, though of what nature remains to be seen.
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Fargo lets out several choice curses, regretting his failure to have Teon summoned. With enemies on both sides, few options remain to him. Still he repositions himself away from the two water beasts and toward the one .
Letting the magic flow, he never the less keeps a wary eye on his opponent
Giant frog Tongue touch
Fargo summons forth a frog, croaking sulfer and ash as it's horned form emerges from the nether and sends a warped and bloated tongue at the water abomination. Somehow it manages to grasp ahold of the aqueous hostile and pulls it closer, the better to sink it's teeth into.
Meanwhile Odenkirk raises his mighty axe and cleaves one of the creatures over near him in half, sending it's watery form back into the drink. He turns to stare at the next, ready to do the same to it.
The way the creature disappears, seeming for the water to merge with the ocean in a rather unnatural fashion gives form to thought that all of these creatures may well indeed be summoned to this plane.
The tritons begin their assault as well at this point. One of the tritons moves around and fires at Gwyn, using a strangely designed crossbow useful even when wet. His bolt strikes the rogue, inflicting a deep wound to the rogue . Two of the tritons swim under the boat to rise and take shots at Kalina. They experience less than stellar results, both bolts striking the side of the craft.
Two of them attempt to strike at one of Odenkirk's men, one succeeding in a shot to his side. Another triton attacks a different sailor and gets him into the chest. The man starts to cough up blood, but keeps fighting. One last sailor takes two bolts, dropping to the ground bleeding out.
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Gwyn moves back up to the strange creature and tries to sink her long, slender knives into it, but as she attacks what she hopes is a vital spot, she feels a sharp pain in her back between two of her ribs. The wind is knocked out of her and robs her strike of any real power.
She takes a step back and gasps for air. Her vision blurs. Her eyes water from the pain as she coughs up blood that splatters the deck.
Not good. Not good at all.
Shulme spares a glance backwards as the crossbow bolt sinks into Gwyn's back. A sharp command in Aklo follows, and the undersea bolt seems to heed the sorcerer's words, slipping painlessly free of the rogue's flesh and clattering to the deck as the wound knits behind it. Meanwhile Shulme returns his attention to the elemental menacing him, fending it off with his spear.
The masked and hooded figure raises his metal bar and savagely brings it down on the living puddle again.
Xanos continues to wait for the right moment, stepping a little further away from the battle.