Kildrax rushes forward and chomps at the blue enemy with his sharp teeth and surprisingly long neck!
"NOM NOM NOM!"
Reva follows her demon into battle, drawing her morningstar and bringing it down on her enemy's shoulder with a bloodthirsty cackle.
The crocodile seems to ignore the Vanara, perched on the side of the building- even attempting to ignore the banana tossed down at him. The bomb, however, is a little harder to ignore.
It strikes true and the crocodile erupts into flames, just like the red one.
Kildrax and Reva step forward into the fray, each landing blows against the creature. However, much to their dismay, it doesn't appear the crocodile creature takes any damage from the assaults.
"Hey! No attacking Lady!" Craigie shouts. He pulls out his spear and stabs the croc-man with it.
"Get him, Lady!"
Lady Jade snaps her jaws at the enemy who tried to eat her! Then she whips him with her tail.
Craigie and Lady finally get their chance to retaliate against the creature. The half-elf stabs at the croc with his lance, but is unable to connect. His own crocodile's bite also slides odd the skin. Just as it feels hopeless, Lady's tail strikes a crunching blow.
The sound of the strike echos off of the wood buildings and everyone stops- expecting to the the creature fall. Much to your surprise, the croc-man appears to be almost entirely unphased by the attack!
The croc man rounds on Craigie, licking his lips. "Then I guess I should be attacking you!" before lunging in teeth first.
He quickly follows with his tail
Not caught by surprise, Craigie nimbly evades the creatures attempts to bite and twist him to the ground.
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Round 2/3; bold are up
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Riy-Zi
Baddies (Blue -19, Red -15 (Fled))
Craigie
Lady
Smacky
Reva
Riy-Zi keeps flying around the battleifield. "Bye bye slowpoke!" He makes and trows another bomb at the blue guy!
Smacky keeps talking to him. ”Hey! Why didn’t you eat my banana? You wasted it! Well, maybe this time I shouldn’t throw it. You should really eat this instead of my friends. It’s much tastier.”
She opens another banana, eats half of it, and tosses him the other chunk. ”Catch! It’s tasty”
Craigie takes a step to the side, flanking with the monster shark, and attacks with his spear.
"Yeah! Get 'em Lady!"
Lady Jade continues her assault with tooth and tail!
The bomb from Riy-Zi does the trick, erupting over the skin of the creature leaving it steaming and motionless on the ground.
Kildrax leaps upon the crocodile and begins to devour it!
"NOM NOM NOM!"
Reva smirks and hooks her weapon onto her belt. "Has anyone heard of this Hyrix fool?" she asks her shipmates.
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Smacky hops down from the roof, walks over to the dead guy, and plucks the toasty warm banana pieces up off the ground. And she eats them! "Mmmm! Never waste a good banana!"
Smacky pulls out a little bushel of bananas and passes one to each of her new friends. Even Kildrax and Lady Jade. Smacky smiles. "Now don't waste it!"
When Reva asks about Hyrix, Smacky shakes her head. "Nope!"
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Riy-Zi cackles like a maniac! "Well, there's your food, Kiladrax! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!"
When he is done laughing, Riy-Zi says, "I don't know of Hyrix, but I knew he's a FOOL! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA!"
He looks at Kildrax. "How do you like your dinner?" he asks seriously.
While the name Hyrix doesn't seem to ring a bell, the party is reminded of the Captian's warnings to be mindful of someone following them while they are out and about in Lilywhite.
Snacks consumed (banana and crocodile and all) the party reconvenes in front of the lumber yard.
Smacky swings on into the woodcarvers. "Hi! We killed those drakes! Also, there's a dead crocodile man in your yard. He wouldn't take my bananas! And he tried to eat us!" Smacky laughs. "Silly guy! Hahahaha! Bananas are WAY tastier than people." She nods. "Hey, we found this statue! Can you make it a masthead for us?"
"Yeah. Can you fix it? Or is it faster to make us a new masthead?"
"HA! DELICIOUS!" Kildrax replies to Riy-Zi. "You've learned well, future-food!"
When Kildrax slithers into the Hartha's shop he laughs at Smacky. "There WAS a body! Only bones and blood now!"
He laughs some more, and doesn't bother speaking to the wood carver.
Reva smirks at her demon. "Always bragging," she chuckles.
"You did girl," Craigie says to Lady Jade. "Come here. let me have a look at you." Craigie casts a healing spell on Lady Jade.
Then he strolls over to the dead croc-man and takes his gear, keeping a special eye out for signs of his boss and magical gear.
"Thanks for the banana." Craigie peels and eats his banana. Then he heads inside as well.
Craigies magic doesn't appear to find anything on the remains of the crocodile. Aside from some simple rags and common items there is nothing of particular note or value.
Smacky swings open the door of the headstone shop, brightly exclaiming the groups accomplishment over the past 24 hours. Hartha is caught off guard by the sudden intrusion and she has a somewhat annoyed look on her face.
"Don't anyone knock 'round here anymore?" the dwarf mutters to herself.
"What is all this about drakes and croccodiles?"
Walking over, she looks at the wood that was picked out from the lumber yard.
"Where'd you get this cut? I haven't seen lumber this good fer a while now. I knew Old Taryn was holding out on me. I aughta head over there and give him a piece of my mind. Gnomish fool."
"Nope! I never knock! Pirates don't have privacy! HAHAHAHA!"
"The woodman has no wood because drakes were eating all the lumberjacks, so he asked us to go fight those drakes and we did! And they're dead. And we found this cool statue from them! Then we went back to the woodman and he let us take the very last of the good wood he had even though he needed it because he knew the lumberjacks could get him more now. Except that he didn't double check we were telling the truth or anything, so we could be lying for all he knows! Hahaha! But we're not! We really did kill the drakes. Then we came back and got the wood and we brought it to you! And our statue, too! Isn't it NICE!?!? OH! And then we left and some crocodile guys came out of the water and said some ominous stuff and tried to EAT US! HA! But they DID NOT! And one ran away to go back to his boss Hyrix! Whoever THAT is! And the other is dead. And Kildrax ate him! And here we are! OH! Also we fought some cannibals I think. They also wanted to eat me. Why does everyone want to eat me? I like bananas! Want a banana?"
Smacky offers the dwarf a banana.
Reva raises an eyebrow at Smacky's rapid-fire word explosion. "That... was surprisingly accurate."
"Yeah... That all said and what not. The gnome said he'd be able to get you more wood from here on out. By the way, do you know anyone by the name of Hyrix?"
Craigie shows off the drake statue. "You're good with wood. What do you think of this? Can this be a masthead? Might be fitting, seeing what we had to get through to get it."
Lady Jade settles under a nearby table and closes her eyes.
The dwarf appears as surprised by the Vanara's explanation as everything else that has just happened, making eye contact with the others in the group- almost as if asking Is she always like this?
"So... yer killed a couple'o drakes. Which gets Taryn more wood. Which gets me these nice cuts here." She motions at the uncut log now in her doorway. "All so yer folk can get a masthead?"
There is a long pause, as if she is trying to make sense of the whole puzzle. She sighs, almost in resignation. "Sure. I'll be believin' you folk, fer some odd reason."
She walks over and looks at the Drake statue with a keen eye. "She's been submerged fer a while now. If we get 'er dried out I think I could probably spruce her up a bit. Never quiet as nice as a fresh carving, mind ya- but certainly functional. Since yer telling me you got the lumber situation all sorted out I'd be willing to turn that log over there into whatever you'd be wanting."
"Anything that anyone kills is your to eat," Riy-Zi assures Kildrax. "Although we kind of need food to survive too, which you should care about if you want us to keep giving you good food. So, yeah. But, anything we kill is yours, I think. Mostly."
Hartha continues to inspect the wood. Her hand runs down the grain and across the cut surfaces. She echo's each of your ideas, all while remaining focused on the lumber in front of her.
"Drakes. Ok I think we can do that... A banana? And a Rabbit? Alright. I think I might be able to..."
She abruptly, but not rudely, gets up and heads to the bench, beginning to sketch out plans and designs. You can tell she is now very interested in the project. After a few moments of hurried drawing she shows you a rough drawing. "Like this?"
After making changes suggested by the party, she gets the approval of each member of the party.
"Now. Don't be getting too hasty. You can't rush art, now. I think I need probably... 2-3 days to really finish this up for you. No charge, mind you."
"Looks great. Makes sure you get a good depiction of Lady Jade in there, too."
Lady Jade yawns under the table.
"And be sure to put a carving of Kildrax in there, as well," Reva remarks.
"YES! Worship me, mortals! AHAHAHAHA!" Kildrax bellows, sending yellow spittle flying everywhere.
"Two or three days? Fine. We'll be back."
Reva picks up the big water-logged drake statue and carries it out of Hartha's. Once they're outside she says, "Let's see if we can sell this thing. It's a pain in the butt carrying it around all the time."
She takes a few steps away, then pauses. She puts the drake statue back down and sticks her head into Hartha's shop. "Know anywhere I could sell this drake statue?"
Reva pokes her head back into the shop, and sees that Hartha has already started measuring and marking up the chunk of wood.
"Oh! You guy's really don't knock- do you? I'd try the furniture shop cross the way. "
She turns back to her work before again stopping and looking up. "Wait. Bring that back in here."
The dwarf comes back forward and inspects the carving again. "I think I might know the original artist. It would have to be pretty early on in my days at Lilywhite." There is another longer pause. "Yes, I think it is his. I'd give you... say... 600 gold for it?
"Deal." Riy-Zi says. He holds out his hand for the money.
"Ooooh! Money, money, money! I can't wait to go banana shopping!" She helps Reva carry the statue into the shop and gives it to Hartha. "HERE! OO! OO! EE!"
Hartha heads back behind the counter, and after retrieving a small satchel hands it to the Strix. "Should be 'nough there to cover 'er." as she lifts the statue into her back room talking to herself.
"Don't see much carved by Regis anymore. This must have been submerged for a long time to be his original work..."
Reva grins at the bag of gold and heads back outside. "Let's sell the rest of our ill-gotten gains. Keep your eyes open for a weapon shop around here." Then she turns and heads back out into Lilywhite, trying to find someplace to sell their armour and fancy weapons.
"Well, that turned out well. So what are you guys going to get with your cash?"
After they're done shopping, Craigie says, "Hey, let's go for a swim." He and Lady Jade take a stroll through the town, looking for the cleanest place to swim.
Clean is a relative term around these waters, and no particular area is any better or worse than another. The tide brings in, and takes out, many things. Near the Inn, on the northern side of town, is where you last swam. Its short docks are away from the main commercial areas, and it's use is limited to smaller skiffs and other smaller boats.
While Reva's out selling their loot she asks everyone she comes across: "You know anyone named Hyrix?"
...Eventually she gets frustrated at her lack of progress, so she starts bullying people into talking. "HEY! Tell me what you know about Hyrix! TALK!"
Smacky goes swimming with Lady Jade and Craigie!
Riy-Zi flies around town, looking for the man who fled the battle. If he doesn't see him he lurks around rooftops, watching the town secretly from above....
Lady Jade eats a lot of fish.
Craigie leisurely enjoys the water. When it's getting late he begrudgingly climbs out of the water to find some food at the Inn.