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

Game Master Rynjin

Climb check, yes. You recall from waaaay back when you took the Man's Promise. Jrahk cannot fail.

Though IMO that just slows things down. Assume you can jump across easily.

Coo'.

Jrahk jumps across and moves toward the bell.

Psst, Ixrul-you're up

I don't have many options left...

Ixrul casts Stone Call so that the undead captain will have to cross as much of the difficult terrain as possible without impeding Jrahk's access to the bell.

2d6 ⇒ (1, 3) = 4 Bludgeoning to Pilk. As well as any other baddies Ixrul can catch in the 40-ft radius area.

Ace cheers the orc on, thinking that they might need the captain alive if they want the bell.

Ixrul drops a bunch of rocks right on top of Pilk's head, stunning him momentarily and allowing Jrahk to push past unimpeded to the bell.

Unfortunately, it doesn't quite stop him from pushing through the rocks. He ends up about 5 feet away from Jrahk, and his ghostly self comes out and reaches across the distance once again.

He only had to move through 15 feet of rock, sorry. Jrahk's pretty strong against this attack though.

1d20 + 11 ⇒ (12) + 11 = 23

Jrahk Fort: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (20) + 11 = 31

Yep that's a pass.

Cyrdic, you're up.

Cyrdic aims for the bell again.

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (2) + 10 = 12
Damage: 1d8 + 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + (3) + 4 = 11

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (20) + 10 = 30
You have got to be kidding me...stupid objects and immunity to crits.
Damage: 1d8 + 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (1) + (2) + 4 = 7

Maybe try shooting Pilk instead of the hard bell? I'd think that would be obvious.

Don't worry nerds, I'll smash the big stupid bell into a million little stupid pieces. You guys focus on the ghost pirate chump.

Yeah, but remember last time when we killed Pilk and the ship immediately sank? I don't think that'd be very wise, seeing as right now you're all on it.

Cyrdic manages to make a tiny little scratch on the bell this time.

I goofed on the Init order, my bad. Ixrul went, it was Ace's go, then Cyrdic, then Pilk's attack, then Jrahk. So, Ace you're up. Then Jrahk.

Ace fires off three magic missiles at the bell

dmg1: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3

dmg2: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

dmg3: 1d4 + 1 ⇒ (4) + 1 = 5

Jrahk moves up to the bell and smashes it. If Ace already broke it he instead attacks Pilk.

1d20 + 12 ⇒ (1) + 12 = 13
2d4 + 18 ⇒ (4, 4) + 18 = 26

Full attack if appropriate
Bite: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12
1d4 + 12 ⇒ (2) + 12 = 14

GRAAAAH WHAT DRRRGH

Jrahk unleashes a mighty chop at the bell!

He looks very proud of himself for a moment, but after opening his eyes, he realized he should have aimed first. He has managed to hit nothing but the deck of the ship. Really hard though. Good job.

I waited a week and a half to do that >:(

Ixrul, you're up again.

Ixrul twiddles his thumbs, as he is out of applicable spells. Shrugging, he decides he may as well put his cantrips to use, and hurls a fist-sized globule of acid at Pilk.

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12
1d3 + 1 ⇒ (1) + 1 = 2 Acid flask focus. woohoo

Then kill the zombie.

Cyrdic kills the zombie.

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (14) + 10 = 24
Damage: 1d8 + 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + (2) + 4 = 10

Attack: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29
Damage: 1d8 + 1d6 + 4 ⇒ (4) + (3) + 4 = 11

yo ho

So uh yeah I completely forgot about this. Computer troubles put a cramp on my GMing style a lot of the time.

TBH, this encounter isn't really important to run a second time. You'll mulch Pilk before he can try to Suffocate someone who isn't Jrahk (who's basically immune), and then you now know how to stop him from coming back. Anyone mind if I handwave this so you can make some actual progress, or would you prefer to play it all out?

I'm all for moving forward, don't think we've made much actual story progress in ages.

Yes...the story will actually progress once you return to the Keep.

K.

Can we at least steal the bell from him?

Complete metagame knowledge: Only destroying the bell will get rid of him for good. It doesn't really tell me what would happen if you took the bell, but given that the bell controls the whole dealy, I'd probably rule that Deathknell reappears inside your ship and explodes it from the inside. =)

The crew handily defeats Pilk again, now knowing the trick to put the pirate to rest for good.

+2 Disrepute/Infamy for being badasses.

The crew sails back to Tidewater Rock for a well deserved rest. Lady Smythee has made some improvements to the place while you've been gone, improving the rooms you'll be staying in with more comfortable beds, increasing the quality of the food, and arming her guards a little better.

She's also purchased some interesting toys she can't wait to try out with Ixrul.

Cyrdic, would you mind rolling me a Profession: Sailor check?

"You are lucky man," Jrahk tells Ixrul, as he playfully slugs the elf on the shoulder hard enough to leave a bruise.

btw guys I'm thinking about retraining into Bloodrager. I already talked with Rynj about it and have a build in the works, just wanted to know what you guys think. Basically I'd be giving up a bit of raw hitting power for the ability to become The Hugest every time I rage.

Prof. Sailor: 1d20 + 13 ⇒ (19) + 13 = 32

Go for it, man. Bloodrager looks freaking awesome, I'd love to see one in action.

Trying to figure out what raw hitting power you lose. You actually GAIN hitting power, since Enlarge Person adds to Str, and your Rage is the same. What you actually lose is DURABILITY, worse saves, no DR, lower hit-dice, but you gain whopping power, reach, and some useful spells (like Mirror Image, I believe).

Also, whoops, my bad. I meant Perception check. Still, 30 is really good. It's OPPOSED to a Prof. Sailor check.

Prof. Sailor: 1d20 + 11 ⇒ (3) + 11 = 14

Cyrdic catches a glimpse of a dark ship with black sails coming through the mist. As the mist parts a moment later, the ship's pirate flag becomes visible.

What do

Good point, I was focused on the 2 points taken out of base Str, but I guess I have plenty of ways to make up for that. The loss of tankiness is the real downside, but shouldn't be a problem if I can kill things dead before they can get close enough to hit me. =p

Mind if we retroactively say that I retrained on the journey here? I wanna do a cool thing.

Sure. This is more of a free retrain, not a formal retraining, since it's new content.

"Heads up everyone, we're about to get company. Lady Smythee, have you spent any of the money on extra defenses? I seem to recall the place lacking in them last time we were here."

"Hey, elf dude, mind flying ahead and seeing who they are?"

Jrahk stands up, eager to get acquainted with the visitors, but then immediately stumbles backward into his seat as he is assaulted with a splitting headache.

His vision blurs, and his mind becomes filled with strange visions: A twisted, shifting landscape scarred with bottomless caverns...huge, winged creatures that seem to radiate power and fear...

Jrahk comes back to his senses after a few seconds. He feels...different, somehow...like he is suddenly more capable of exerting himself in ways that...don't involve his muscles?

He decides that he must be suffering some nasty side effects of something he ate, and promptly gets up once again.

And now I have the highest Charisma of the party. I am a sexy, sexy orc.

"Some. I purchased a few ballistae and trained the guards to use them. Haven't had much time to REALLY improve just yet."

Ixrul activates mage armor, turns invisible, casts fly, and goes scouting.

On his way, he flies by the deathknell and calls out to the 20 skeletons he's been keeping in the hull since they captured the Pallor because he likes to play his card close to his chest but now the time is right.

time to wreck noobs

He directs them to go wait near the tower and attack at Captain Cyrdic's command.

Ixrul flies out over the water. He catches a glimpse of two longboats being lowered into the water, each full of buccaneers, before the mist covers everything.

What's the distinction between buccaneers and pirates?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccaneer

tldr

You're a WIZARD.

He's a WOT?

Also if you have time to post here, you have time to update Cubelord gogogo before I make more puns.

oh god no not more puns cube plz

"Is there an off chance they are seeking an alliance?"

"Do you want to be the one who goes out and asks?"

"Hell no."

"I will go."

Jrahk grabs his falchion and heads downstairs.

"Then let us prepare ourselves."

Ixrul flies back out, pulls out his lesser reach metamagic rod, and prepares to stone call the beach from the tower when the buccaneers land.

He also directs his skeletons to charge and attack as soon as he gives the word. Basically, just noting that I may talk as a free action to send them charging in.

How many skeletons? Where'd you get all the corpses? Did you mark off teh monez? You have to tell me these things before you're like "Lol skellies".

ryn jin there's a reason the sentence where I bring the skeletons up is a link