With a shocked scream, both sailors fall into the pit, despite them trying to grab the sides.
The other sailors, seeing the huge pit, try to make their way onto the other side of the Sellen Starling.
"Piotr, you need to get out of there!" Winter shouts as she channels to heal.
If Piotr backs up, Violet grabs onto to his shoulder to hitch a ride and heals him.
As soon as Piotr moves (and Ann), Rose steps closer and strikes!
Seeing Piotr fall, Garrosh swifts his focus to the Captain, unleashing arrows repeatedly - "You will pay for that"
Piotr does stumble in pain toward Winter, but still hacks his sword at the captain. Ann uses her ghostly form to run through the battle, to get behind the captain.
As Ann tries to run through the captain, he strikes her with his scimitar, but it bounces off Piotr's mage armor.
Garrosh manages to strike the Captain with his arrows twice while Rose manages to land a single claw. The captain dodges the remaining arrows and attacks. Piotr also manages to catch the captain on his backswing.
The captain takes a 5 foot step towards Piotr as some of his wounds heal, uttering the incantation for the spell vanish, his scimitar swinging.
The captain seems to vanish for a moment before running Piotr through his guts then coldly running his blade through the fallen Piotr as Winter screams a loud, "Noooooo!"
You feel a sharp pain in your abdomen as you look down to see the Captain's scimitar sticking out of it. You hear Winter scream, "Noooooo!"
as you feel your knees buckle as you fall into darkness..then you awaken on the Sellen Starling.
The captain then turns to strike Rose with his scimitar, but misses.
Tiff sighs audibly, ”See if you had just negotiated we both wouldn’t have lost our men. And now they’re going to go blind too!” Tiff intones a spell, ”You look fabulous!”
1st:
2nd:
3rd:
4th: Beast Shape II, Summon Monster IV, Summon Monster IV
The captain cleaves through one of Tiff's images as she tries to cast glitterdust.
Tiff tuts at captain magus as it destroys one of her illusions, she taunts it, "A real wizard wouldn't have any trouble bypassing mirror image."
Both sailors stumble around blindly as they try to shake the glitter out of their eyes. They do manage it after 6 seconds.
The sailors at the bottom of the pit try to climb out without success, lacerating their hands.
Winter snarls at the Captain, "Burn in Pharasma's light!", as she unleashes a burst of radiance onto him, but it is blocked by a yellow shield.
"Pah dispelling mirror images is not as easy as it looks."The captain retorts.
Rose makes a step and wildly attacks the captain from ten feet away!
Violet blasts the captain, then flits behind Winter.
You find the staircase, but it's not glowing and touching it yields no result.
The captain dodges most of Rose's blows except for a single claw that does not seem to hit anything vital. The captain also dodges Violet's blast of holy energy.
Garrosh continues attacking the captain.
Garrosh manages to hit the captain on his shoulder with one arrow.
Rose suddenly finds the area she is standing on become slippery, as the captain closes in and starts slashing at her with his scimitar and attempts to bite her, without success.
Winter tries again to blast the captain with a burst of radiance, but is blocked by a yellow shield.
Tiff waddles up to the nearby crewman and graciously offers, "If you surrender we'll let you live. We're pretty merciful." To prove the point she nearly kills him, or actually kills him.
Tiff badly wounds the sailor with her claws and horns and the sailor uses his flail on her, but misses her once and destroys an image on his backswing.
The other sailor pokes at her using his long spear, being deflected by her mage armor.
The two sailors in the pit try to climb out, only lacerating themselves in the process.
Violet moves over the water, beckoning to Rose.
She readies her wand.
Rose makes a 5’ step out of the grease.
Her limbs flail wildly, but she misses several times before finally striking her foe!
Feeling they will probably need every edge they can get against the resourceful captain, Garrosh takes a moment to further study him.
Then he fires a single shot.
Rose manages to catch him with a single claws as some of his wounds heal.
Garrosh's arrows flies too high.
The captain turns onto rose once more with his scimitar, claw and bite without success.
Winter tries again to blast the captain, this time blasting him with grey flame, but he does not seem to be blinded.
Tiff tears into the sailor, "I hope you like your life choices."
Tiff tears into the sailor with the flail, leaving a bloody corpse on the ground. The sailor with the longspear drops his longspear and pulls out his flail and tries to club Tiff with it.
The two sailors in the pit decide to wait it out at the bottom.
Violet isn’t sure how to help, but she attempts to create an illusion after Rose and Garrosh have both attacked. Anyone inside it will see swirling violet lights. Those outside will see none of the illusion.
Rose attacks!
”Oh, will you just die?”
All of her attack miss, so no, the captain will not just die.
[ooc]Well… here’s hoping Garrosh actually hits![/dice]
With a snarl, Garrosh continues unleashing on the Captain.
The captain dodges all of Rose's blows then Garrosh shoots him in the chest, on which he looks surprised for a moment then pulls out the arrow like it didn't hit anything vital. The other arrows go wide.
Winter attempts to blast the captain again but is turned away by a yellow shield.
"Your puny magics don't fool me!"The Captain declares as he slashes at Rose. "And don't be fooled either, men, the violet lights aren't there!"
Rose feels his teeth inject some kind of poison into her but she manages to shake off the worst of it.
Tiff seems to be distracted by something. "How you doing over there? I nearly have things wrapped up on my end."
Tiff rips into the sailor with her claws and horns but does not manage to finish him off.
The sailor attempts to flail at her ineffectually, managing by chance to shatter one of her images, while his comrades wait out the pit.
Rose manages to strike hard with a rosebud fist! Whether she struck armor or the captain, she’s not sure, so she keeps flailing away… her remaining attacks as ineffective as most have been!
Violet heals her a little!
"This is a resilient monster!" - Garrosh growled back at Tiff, and shot again.
Rose manages to punch the Captain and Garrosh shoots him one more time before he falls to the ground, rapidly collapsing into nothingness, leaving his gear consisting of an elixir, a magical scimitar, a green potion, his studded leather, rubies worth 5000gp and his battered tricone hat behind.
Tiff identifies the elixir as an elixir of hiding, the magical scimitar as a +2 scimitar, the studded leather as a +1 studded leather and the green potion as a potion of spider climb.
On seeing the captain disappear into nothingness and knowing they're not going to get paid, the sailor facing Tiff surrenders and drops his weapon. "There's no point in this continuing. You'll just slaughter me like you slaughtered my employer." He says as he drops his flail.
Tiff taps the nearly dead sailor heartily, "Good man. You are correct we are quite adept at trucidation, but we are not unreasonable, unlike some. We will take these items as trophies."
She gathers the loot while frowning, "Didn't have the decency to leave a corpse OR a spellbook! Rude."
Having accepted the sailor's surrender, the party wakes themselves up, on the boat, with Winter going immediately to Piotr, holding his hand, "Are you all right?"She asks concernedly.
The relief on Piotr's face is evident when Winter (and the other's) wake up. "I'm fine." he says sheepishly, looking embarresed for getting knocked out of the fight. He also warms significantly as Winter holds his hand, then after a moment of hesitation leans forward to engulf her in a hug, resting his head against hers. "I should have been more careful. Sorry about that." he says softly.
The party tries to board the Bloodwind, but the ship will have none of it, swinging its yardarm trying to grapple and toss the brave, valiant soul who tries.
"Why is this damned thing still fighting us?!" - Garrosh growled - "It is as if it has a mind of its own" - he added, then turned to The Bloodwind itself - "Your master is defeated! Now yield and let us on board!"
Tiff foolishly exerts her will over the clearly intelligent magical boat. Your master is gone. And we can reduce you to kindling from afar if you don't cooperate.
Violet says to the ship, ”May we please come aboard?”
Rose turns to the fairy. ”No, noooo, ma petite amie. This ship is an unrepentant jerk. We must be direct…”
She turns to the ship.
”You unrepentant jerk, cease this nonsense or I shall kick you where the sun does not shine.”
”And where would that be, under water?”
Embarrassed that she is apparently not as scary as Garrosh or even Tiff, Rose simply says, ”Yes. The sun does not shine under water, and in addition, its yardarms swing about in the air. Therefore, under the water is the ideal place to kick a ship.”
The party wonders if the ship even understands common as the threats do not appear to have any effect. The ship however, does allow Tiff, the master of magical artifacts, to board.