They each have a Trident and a Heavy Crossbow.
The amulet is the real prize, worth 1500 gold, and quite pleasing to look at as well.
"Let's tie them up. Bind them all from head to foot, besides the one with the amulet. Leave his mouth free."
" I can speak Aquaian" Ace volunteers
"Keep the amulet for now, we might have to make deals with more sea creatures later on...."
Jrahk ties them up nice and tight.
"I speak it too, don't worry."
Cyrdic waits for their leader to wake up.
Or you could have Sandra slap one witha Cure Light or Channel.
Sandra wakes one up for you, the leader.
"Right.
Why did you follow us? Are there more of you nearby?"
The Sahuagin stays quiet, but grins his mouth full of teeth at you.
Jrahk grabs the upper part of the Sahuagin he sliced in half, and tosses it at the leader's feet.
"Tell him I can do worse if he does not talk."
"See that? We can do it with you...only this time, the pieces will be smaller. And there'll be more of them."
He sullenly replies, in broken Common.
"No. No more nearby. We come for fun."
Cyrdic's brow furrows, and he glares at the sahuagin before continuing in Aquan.
"Ah. Fun, yes. I see. Well then..."
He punches the prisoner in the face, pulling it at the last second-just enough so that he doesn't do any lasting harm to him.
"ARE YOU HAVING FUN YET?! YOUR FRIEND OVER THERE HAVING FUN, YOU THINK? HE LOOKS LIKE HIS SIDES ARE SPLITTING FROM LAUGHTER! GO ON, SHOW ME HOW MUCH FUN YOU'RE HAVING!"
Cyrdic lets loose a witty one-liner and punches at the Sahuagin.
The Sahuagin grins at the incoming punch, and snaps at Cyrdic with his teeth.
He gets caught in the face a split second later, and turns his head to the side, spitting blood, and a chunk of Cyrdic's hand.
He starts laughing uproariously.
"Chu ko lo sha ki lok!"
"Do your worst, surface dweller!"
Me? Nah. It'd be over too soon. Him, though..."
Cyrdic turns to Ixrul.
"He's all yours. See if he's got anything else to say, then do whatever you want to him. Don't make it too short. I don't care what you do to him as long as he's dead by the end."
Cyrdic stalks out of the room to go back to bed, wrapping his bleeding hand as he does so. Before he leaves, he calls back.
"Get rid of the others and go to bed, all of ya. Ixrul, save a few of the teeth for me."
Jrahk is disappointed he doesn't get to have more fun with the leader, but is more than happy to get rid of the others.
He chops the unconscious one's head off (in front of the leader, just to keep him on his toes), then tosses the remains of both into the ocean and goes back to bed.
Calmly, the elf casts seek thoughts and focuses on the sahuagin for a few seconds, before grinning. Then, with perfunctory calmness, he has Jrahk hold down the slimy creature and begins to drive a wedge under the claw on its left little finger to peel the nail away from the beast's fingers.
"Tell me, if one wanted to sell this deep platinum to your people, how would he go about it?"
He gives an odd chuffing sound, akin to laughter.
"You not SELL deep platinum. Is sign of wealth, power, commands respect. I favored by the gods, nothing you do will taint that. Lamashtu take you." he spits in your face.
His thoughts mirror his words.
"So...I can kill him now?"
"Of course."
You chop his head off and throw him overboard.
Just before dawn, you hear the ringing of the Deathknell's bell once again. Following the pattern from last time, your next night at sea it will appear.
"Gah, that bell is getting on my nerves, the next time we meet the bastard, I'm shoving it up his arse."
You sail around for almost a week, but find no ships to plunder.
Kroop comes up to you on day 8.
"We're runnin' low on water lads. It's not really a crisis yet, but we should be seein' to it soon, especially since we've nabbed no prizes in a while. There's a few islands around here with good fresh water, I suggest we find one."
"Sounds wise."
"Thanks, Ambrose. Let's go find some water-chances are there'll be a village or something nearby we can plunder too."
You head toward a nearby island. It takes you most of the day, but you get your water supplies replenished, enough for several months worth of travel.
However, as you begin sailing back up the mouth of the river that led up the island, you notice the rigging of a large ship rising above the trees.
You are still hidden from them.
"Battle stations. I want people watching that ship at all times-if it disappears I want to know immediately. Is there any way we can give them the slip? Doesn't look like they've noticed us yet."
"Shall I perform some reconnaissance?"
"Be careful. Don't be too risky, and come back at the first sign of trouble."
We need to come up with some sort of signalling system for us if this is going to be a thing...
Ixrul turns casts mage armor, fly, and invisibility. He then flies to the other ship, about 50 feet above the surface of the ship.
The cove is completely dominated by a huge warship named, appropriately enough, Dominator. Atop the rigging of the massive four-masted ship fly the colors of the Empire of Cheliax. It is clear that the heavily armed vessel, with a full company of armored marines mustered on deck, is a pirate hunter.
Ixrul flies back to the Pallor.
"Pirate hunter, called the Dominator. Chelaxian. Four masts and a full outfit of marines. We should flee. "
"Well shit. Yeah, let's get out of here. The Deathknell's gonna be here soon as well-if those two attack us at the same time we're dead. Like, even deader than I was last time."
Cyrdic begins giving orders to sail away as quickly as possible.
"WAIT!" Fishguts cries as Cyrdic gives the order to set sail.
"Bad idea Cap'n. We could maybe slip past 'er in the dark without being seen, but she'd spot us fer sure the minute we leave the cove and unfurl sails. She's got more sails than we do, and a helluva lot more firepower. We'd be dead in seconds after that happened."
"We've got to find some way to cripple 'er or delay 'er"
Ixrul dismisses the Carry Companion on his familiar and renders it invisible.
"I will return shortly."
Ixrul carefully examines the ship. His dinosaur assists him by pointing out things the elf may have missed.
Ixrul notes nothing significant about the ship.