Yohoho and a bottle of Rep! (subSPUF Skull and Shackles)

Game Master Rynjin

Ixrul examines the ship more closely.

Aided Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (15) + 8 = 23

Aided Checks: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (17) + 8 = 25

Does a 25 cut it? My mod isn't big enough to get a 30, so I hope so.

A 20 is what you needed.

Ixrul deduces that based on the placement of the steering wheel, and the immense size of the ship, there must be a pulley activated tiller in the cabin below.

While the tiller would of course be hard to damage in itself (being below the water and quite large), severing the ropes of the pulley would effectively cripple the ship for hours, long enough for your crew to escape.

He also notes that the Dominator is basically impossible for your crew to take on in direct combat. It's larger, with more crewmen, and a LOT more firepower than your ship, bristling with cannons, 20 of them in total, and catapults for indirect attacks, on top of being significantly better armored than the Devil's Pallor.

So can I get at it from the outside? How long would it take little old 10-strength Ixrul to saw through the rope?

No. The pulley is in one of the cabins inside the ship.

glog dammit ryn Jin is it sacrifice a crewmemver time

Dude make me invisible so I can stealthily CHOP THEIR ENTIRE CREW INTO MEATLOAF!!!

1) out of invisible 2) you could chop one guy - I lack greater invis

I could try and lie my way on deck. Or bluff them into leaving.

You could sneak on board. It's one of the outer cabins, there's a window.

If you could get me onboard, I could probably do some stealthy stuff-I have a +12 modifier.

I've no idea how to do that. If I could re-prepare spells, this'd be easy... Don't think we have time.

If only Slickjaw were here. It'd already be done.

Just sneak to the gunpowder hold, and set it on fire, the fly out. fast.

That... Might work. Maybe. How much powder would a ship like this carry?

A lot.

I will warn you, I do not guarantee you will not be caught in the explosion if you try that.

I may have to sacrifice my familiar...

Blow that thing to hell, yo

Just wanna point out that I have 1 point of fire resistance, DR 2, and HP fo days. You sure you don't want me to just swim over there?

Yes, because an enormous Orc with a mechanical leg swimming over to a pirate hunter ship with firestarting equipment is completely inconspicuous :P

They can't see me if I'm holding my breath!

I have +21 on bluff... I could pretend to be some hermit who lives here and stuff and say I saw a pirate ship heading in the opposite direction that we are.

You can try it. You'll be taking a -10 penalty though.

For what?

The lie being far-fetched. Mostly the part about how a pirate ship fled from them without them even noticing it. If you had their stat blocks you'd see why.

As soon as the cabin clears, Ixrul will haste himself and his familiar, and then enlarge his familiar. They will work together to dismantle the rope

Round 1 (6 damage)

Round 2 (3 damage)

Round 3 (8 damage)

He will then dismiss the enlarge on his familiar and they will both flee out the window, closing it behind him.

Hasted fly away, so quickity quick. Invis should still be active.

Initiative: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (16) + 11 = 27 Evidently someone came in end of round 2 but screw 'em I'm faster.

Stealth: 1d20 + 3 + 20 ⇒ (15) + 3 + 20 = 38

3d20 ⇒ (11, 8, 10) = 29

An officer and 2 marines come in just as Ixrul finishes up.

"Is that a DINOSAUR Commander?" one of them says.

The Commander looks around the room.

"Search for its master, he can't be far. A normal dinosaur doesn't just come in and slice our rope."

3d20 ⇒ (4, 6, 6) = 16

But they can't find him.

With a muttered word, Ixrul dismissess the enlarge effect on his familiar. Compy promptly jumps into the elf's sleeve and vanishes, before Ixrul flies out the window and returns to the Pallor.

"I have severed the main cord in their pulley activated tiller."

While they'll be tied up for some time, the crew would be better off leaving as quickly as possible. Marines are streaming off the boat in great numbers, and coming to scour the island.

"... In other words, we need to move. Quickly."

"Right. We're out of here. Good job, Ixrul."

Prof. Sailor: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (12) + 13 = 25

You sail away. They manage to fire off a few shots, but none do significant damage to the ship.

Later that night, however, you have a new, yet old, problem.

The tolling of a bell rings, and with it comes a heavy fog, out of which sails the Deathknell once again, appearing right next to you and grappling the ship as before.

You waiting for them to come to you again?

Kn Religion: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (20) + 13 = 33

Ixrul remembers a treatise he read about the Deathknell phenomena, recalling that the captain chokes people, that if destroyed he and his ship reform in one to three weeks, that the captain has some kind of connection to his bell, and that he used to be a whaler.

In addition, he knows the rather grisly fact that if he should kill you, he takes you below deck and strips your flesh from your bones to feed his crew or fuel himself.

He relays this information to his compatriots.

"Our best bet is to destroy the bell. We have to cross over."

Ixrul casts Mirror Image on Jrahk. "Kindly prevent him from reaching me. Let's go."

Init: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

Hot diggity dog I should enter the lottery.

Init: 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Cold daggety doo I should never enter anything ever.

Mirror Image is a personal spell. You may not cast it on anyone besides yourself (or your Familiar).

Cyrdic manifests Force Screen on himself and brings his soulbolt blazing into existence.

Initiative: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14

Ixrul instead casts it on himself.

1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Ace summons up a etheral shield and gets ready

init: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (20) + 4 = 24

Jrahk moves to Ixrul's side and readies to slash anything that gets near them.

1d20 + 11 ⇒ (13) + 11 = 24
2d4 + 18 ⇒ (2, 3) + 18 = 23

3d20 ⇒ (1, 15, 2) = 18

Ixrul, Ace, and Cyrdic cast their spells. The two zombies move forward onto your ship, and Jrahk cuts one down. Pilk paces.

Sorry for the brevity, my computer is maddening me with something obscuring part of the screen and I need to restart. Back up to the top of Initiative.

Ixrul renders himself invisible and moves up.

"Come get some you wuss!"

Ace attacks the zombie coming towards the group

atk: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

dmg: 1d6 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12

Cyrdic aims for the bell and fires.

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (9) + 10 = 19
Damage: 1d8 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (3) + 4 + (1) = 8

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (3) + 10 = 13
Damage: 1d8 + 4 + 1d6 ⇒ (5) + 4 + (2) = 11

Cyrdic launches two bolts at the bell, but barely manages to ding it with the second shot, as Ace cuts a zombie down.

The bell tolls, its deep ringing filling the air alongside Pilk's snarls of rage.

He begins heading to your boat at this point, stalking toward Cyrdic.

Your first shot does not appear to have overcome its Hardness, and your second shot didn't do a whole lot.

Should I just go smash it?

BIG HITS

I'll take that as an enthusiastic "yes". Could you be a dear and make me fly?

I could IF I HAD BEEN ABLE TO PREPARE NEW SPELLS ASDF

Eh, I'll make do.

Jrahk activates his eye patch's touch of the sea effect and jumps off the ship to start swimming toward the Deathknell.

Auto-succeed the swim check to not take damage from the fall

They grappled us, Jrahk. Think about it.

Well nobody told me that the last time I did this >:(

So do I just climb the ropes or what?

Uh, I guess so? I don't actually know what sort of check it is, if any.