Arrrrrrr, walk the plank, scallywag and all that. This be pirates and so do ye be.
Impositions:
Disgraceful Impositions:
Yes, Sir!: For the next hour, the PCs’ crew completes any mundane tasks they’re assigned in half the expected time. This typically relates to Craft and Profession (sailor) checks made to prepare, maintain, or repair the ship, and cannot be applied to combat or more complex deeds like crafting magic items. Costs 2 Disrepute.
Captain’s Orders!: As a standard action, a PC on board her ship can cast fog cloud, heroism, make whole, quench, or whispering wind with a caster level equal to her character level. Costs 5 Disrepute.
Walk the Plank!: The PCs may sacrifice one crew member or prisoner to grant themselves and their crew one of two bonuses: either a +2 bonus on all skill checks or a +2 bonus on attack rolls. These bonuses only apply while on board the PCs’ ship and last until either the next day or when the captain leaves the ship. If a sacrificed character is returned to life, the PCs and their crew members take a –2 penalty on both skill checks and attack rolls for 1 day. Costs 5 Disrepute.
Get Up, You Dogs!: Every PC and allied character on the deck of the PCs’ ship is affected as per the spell cure light wounds, as if cast by a cleric of the PCs’ average party level. This imposition can only be used once per week. Costs 10 Disrepute.
Despicable Impositions:
5: Lashings!: Your ship's speed doubles for 1 day.
5: Shiver Me Timbers!: While on board their ship, the PCs and their entire crew can reroll initiative or roll initiative in what would otherwise be a surprise round. The benefit of this imposition can be used immediately, but only once per week.
10: Besmara’s Blessings!: As a standard action, a PC on board her ship can cast animate rope, control water, remove curse, remove disease, or water breathing with a caster level equal to her character level.
10: Dead Men Tell No Tales!: While on board their ship, the PCs can use this imposition to automatically confirm a threatened critical hit.
Male hobgoblin Magus 11 |7/92 HP | AC 25, touch 17, flatfoot 17 (29,21,23 with magic shield, 5 DR with damage shield) | fort +12, reflex+11,will +9| init +6 | bab +8| 11/11 arcane pool |
Ace stays in the water and helps guide the ship.
Does ixrul have any zombie sharks or something to help?
M Elf(Undead Army) Wizard (Conj [Tele]) 11 | HP 58/58 + 18 FL | 0 MIs | AC 14 (17+4) FF 11 (14+4) T 13 CMD 18 FFCMD 15 | F +9 R +11 W +13 | Init +12
Senses:
Spellcraft +23 Perc +21 SensMot +19 | DV 60 ft, Light Sens.
Tell him if he works with us we'll feed him souls, or whatever. If he doesn't, we'll splatter holy water everywhere and set up a fun little temple.
As they approach, Ixrul ASCENDS HIS MIND and prepares cleromancy. Fast study.
He will trouble sandra for a guidance and ask all nearby for assistance if they know anything about geography. Basically probably asking Aaron Gortus maybe Sandra?
Male Human Monk 5 (Qinggong Master of Many Styles from the Sacred Mountain)/Fighter (Brawler) 3
Ixrul charts an excellent course.
Perceptions:4d20 ⇒ (18, 10, 5, 3) = 36
However, there appear to be some uncharted reefs in the area, which Ace luckily spots a mere 220 feet away! You need to turn hard to Port or Starboard to avoid the reef.
Make me a Profession: Sailor check. The base DC is 15. However, since your ship is moving at 150 feet (more than 4 time sits 30 foot Acceleration), you take a -20 on the check, as well as the -4 from the Curse. Jalhazar's Wheel, however, adds +5 to this check. For simplicity's sake, roll your Profession: Sailor without any penalties (we'll assume Sandra panics and casts Bestow Insight on you for a +4) and without Jalhazar's Wheel, shooting for a DC 34 check.
If anyone has Profession: Sailor, now is a good time to Aid Another.
Sandra has one rank and 20 Wis, so automatically succeeds on the Aid check.
Male Human Monk 5 (Qinggong Master of Many Styles from the Sacred Mountain)/Fighter (Brawler) 3
Actually you don't need it. Bestow Insight + Aid = You win!
AND JRAHK PULLS OUT THE HAIL MARY STEERING!
"Damn. Really thought I had you that time." Jalhazar says, disgruntled.
The ships zooms by the reef, so close you could reach out and touch it (assuming you didn't mind losing the appendage used) and out of the reefs safely!
With some risky maneuvers you make it through in record time, bypassing the vast majority of the ships in the race. Only two are now ahead of you: The Barnacled B$**~, and of course the Wormwood.
You get twelve minutes (another 20 miles) of smooth sailing before coming across the next challenge: Gozreh's Flow (or, to the more blasphemically inclined, Gozreh's Piss), a swirling ocean current that will drag you off course without careful tacking and maneuvering.
You need to make three successful DC 25 Kn. Geography checks, or DC 30 Survival checks. Commune with Nature or Find the Path negates this need. Also, Jrahk you can make three Profession: Sailor checks as well. Failure doesn't change the outcome, but success means you can gain a bit of a speed boost.
Male hobgoblin Magus 11 |7/92 HP | AC 25, touch 17, flatfoot 17 (29,21,23 with magic shield, 5 DR with damage shield) | fort +12, reflex+11,will +9| init +6 | bab +8| 11/11 arcane pool |
Male Human Monk 5 (Qinggong Master of Many Styles from the Sacred Mountain)/Fighter (Brawler) 3
All but one of those are successful Aids.
You make it through this hazard with minimum effort, Ace and Ixrul's knowledge of current flows guiding you through.
Almost immediately after navigating the Flow you see off in the distance Iris' Splinters, two tall spires of rock. There is a narrow 100 foot gap between them that you must carefully navigate.
Male Human Monk 5 (Qinggong Master of Many Styles from the Sacred Mountain)/Fighter (Brawler) 3
They're in the Skull and Shackles Player's Guide. Gist of it is, you take a -5 to checks depending on how much faster than your ship's Acceleration you're going, up to -20 at 4 times as fast. Your ship has a max speed of a whopping 150 feet per round, but an acceleration of only 30 feet per round, so at max speed you're at 5x your acceleration, hitting a -20 to steering checks. I'm not 100% sure, but I'll say you can decelerate at the same rate.
Male Human Monk 5 (Qinggong Master of Many Styles from the Sacred Mountain)/Fighter (Brawler) 3
Took longer than I thought.
Speeding up you notice that another ship has pulled ahead of you, the Sullied Strumpet.
That will no longer be an issue.
As it passes through Iris' Splinters an ENORMOUS turtle surface underneath it, smashing the ship to splinters.
You will reach the splinters in under twenty seconds, and the turtle is trying to close in.
If you succeed on three consecutive DC 25 Profession: Sailor checks you can out maneuver it (Jalhazar's Wheel adds a +5 here if you speed up, letting you move at full speed and still turn right/left as needed). Failure of one means you need to fight off the turtle. You probably don't want that.
If you wait for another ship to catch up to distract it, you can get by no issue, but that lets the Wormwood and the Barnacled B*&++ get further ahead.
Male hobgoblin Magus 11 |7/92 HP | AC 25, touch 17, flatfoot 17 (29,21,23 with magic shield, 5 DR with damage shield) | fort +12, reflex+11,will +9| init +6 | bab +8| 11/11 arcane pool |
Since Ace is underwater, can he distract the turtle while the gang presses on?
Male Human Monk 5 (Qinggong Master of Many Styles from the Sacred Mountain)/Fighter (Brawler) 3
As I already said you are not underwater. The ship has been, up until this round, moving 90 feet faster than you per round. If you were in the water, you're about 30 miles behind.
You could stick around to distract it if you wished, but you'd be out of the race entirely, unable to catch up with the ship...and potentially dead.
Male Orc Bloodrager (Primalist) 9 | Dead, essentially.
Summon it as far ahead of us as you can, to our left, and have it go toward the turtle. Once it's distracted, Jrahk will speed up and veer to the right.
Male Human Monk 5 (Qinggong Master of Many Styles from the Sacred Mountain)/Fighter (Brawler) 3
Right, but that would mean his focus would be on you and would move to intercept.
Just looked at it for the first time in a long time and your shark's AC is way off. It only has a +4 Natural armor. Template replaces AC, does not add.
Male Human Monk 5 (Qinggong Master of Many Styles from the Sacred Mountain)/Fighter (Brawler) 3
Water elemental is deader than dead.
Hirgenzosk charges at the ship.
Capsize (-10 penalty):1d20 + 17 ⇒ (10) + 17 = 27
Jrahk, you can make a Profession: Sailor check. If the result is higher than a 27, that is good. If not, the Devil's Pallor begins to sink. Don't forget the -4.
Jalhazar cackles madly.
"Ahahahaha! What irony! The beast that sank the Banshee has come to wreak my vengeance on you for me!"
Male Human Monk 5 (Qinggong Master of Many Styles from the Sacred Mountain)/Fighter (Brawler) 3
MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...ahem.
Hirgenzosk smashes a massive hole in the side of the ship, and water starts pouring in.
You have 10 rounds before the boat sinks. The ship can neither move nor attack during this time (my personal justification for this is that you only get 10 rounds because all hands are trying to stop the leak). If anyone has Make Whole, now would be a good time to cast it. If not...abandon ship.
Male Orc Bloodrager (Primalist) 9 | Dead, essentially.
Jrahk spews forth a tirade of curses directed toward (in no particular order) Hirgenzosk, Jalhazar, Besmara and any other ocean-based deities who might have had a part in this, Harrigan, whoever the captain of the Barnacled B!&@$ is, Tessa for telling Jrahk about the race's prizes and thus encouraging him to enter, and his own useless muscles for being unable to wrench him free from a wispy old ghost.
Somewhere in there, he also orders Ixrul to get the ship floating again.
