Seeing the beast so close made the adventure seem much less fun. Valera quickly tried to freeze it...as best she could.
Heiek swims up behind Iraska, ready to swing with his enchanted polearm when an enemy gets within range.
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Uzziah levels his trident at the giant abomination, readying himself for brutal combat, then launches himself into the fray!
Challenge (Ex) -> 2/day <-
Once per day, a cavalier can challenge a foe to combat. As a swift action, the cavalier chooses one target within sight to challenge. The cavalier’s melee attacks deal extra damage whenever the attacks are made against the target of his challenge. This extra damage is equal to the cavalier’s level. The cavalier can use this ability once per day at 1st level, plus one additional time per day for every three levels beyond 1st, to a maximum of seven times per day at 19th level.
Challenging a foe requires much of the cavalier’s concentration. The cavalier takes a –2 penalty to his Armor Class, except against attacks made by the target of his challenge.
The challenge remains in effect until the target is dead or unconscious or until the combat ends. Each cavalier’s challenge also includes another effect which is listed in the section describing the cavalier’s order.
Whenever a cavalier of the order of the waves issues a challenge, he receives a +1 morale bonus on his saving throws as long as he is underwater. This bonus increases by 1 for every 4 class levels the cavalier has. -> +2 <-
Heiek swims up behind Iraska, ready to swing with his enchanted polearm when an enemy gets within range.
Iraska and Finn swim south, preparing for the behemoth shark to attack.
Uzziah levels his trident at the giant abomination, readying himself for brutal combat, then launches himself into the fray!
Seeing the beast so close made the adventure seem much less fun. Valera quickly tried to freeze it...as best she could. As the attack moved towards the shark sharp icicles formed, these not the cold seemed to harm the beast.
Valto tried to blind the shark but the spell had no effect.
The large shark begins to savagely bite Uzziah.
The sahuagin moved up to try to fish off Uzziah.
Heiek
Iraska
Uzziah
Valera
Valto
Sahuagin Shark -21
Iraska and Finn swim around north, coming in from that direction to try and avoid the big shark's teeth. They attempt to savage the sahaugin.
Modified stats from wildshape + bull's strength + ironskin:
swim 30ft, low-light vision
Str 27
AC 16 T 12 FF 14
CMB +11 CMD 21
bite +11 (2d8+12)
Seeing that her blasts would be less effective against the murder-shark, Valera turned her attention to it’s handler.
Heiek swims as fast as his locathah legs will propel him, coming up a bit behind Uzziah. He studies the giant shark from a distance for a moment.
Grievously wounded but not floating slack, Uzziah swims a little bit away from the priestess and jabs once again at the shark!
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Heiek swims as fast as his locathah legs will propel him, coming up a bit behind Uzziah. He studies the giant shark from a distance for a moment.
Iraska and Finn swim around north, coming in from that direction to try and avoid the big shark's teeth. They attempt to savage the sahaugin.
Seeing that her blasts would be less effective against the murder-shark, Valera turned her attention to it’s handler.
Grievously wounded but not floating slack, Uzziah swims a little bit away from the priestess and jabs once again at the shark!
Valto tries to cast another spell on the shark like creature.
The shark bites Uzziah once more before snapping at Fin..
The sahuagin backs away from Finn but it's thrust fails to land.
Heiek
Iraska
Uzziah
Valera
Valto
Sahuagin Shark -21, Sahuagin -28
Uzziah slumps into unconsciousness...
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When he sees Uzziah go down, Heiek thinks to himself, We were too spread out... again!
But what he says is "S~*@! S%!*! S%$+!"
He pulls out a potion of cure moderate wounds and moves up next to Uzziah.
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Iraska and Finn savage the sahuagin, ripping its head from its torso.
Iraska also speaks to the shark .
Valera waited to see if the shark would stop attacking...but if it didn’t she was prepared to try and freeze it once more.
Uzziah slumps into unconsciousness...
When he sees Uzziah go down, Heiek thinks to himself, We were too spread out... again!
But what he says is "S&@*! S&*$! S++@!"
He pulls out a potion of cure moderate wounds and moves up next to Uzziah.
Iraska and Finn savage the sahuagin, ripping its head from its torso.
"You killed my associates for that you will die and I shall feast upon your flesh. Perhaps I'll save some of you to kill slowly?"
Valera waited to see if the shark would stop attacking...but if it didn’t she was prepared to try and freeze it once more.
Valto casts another spell with seemingly no effect.
The shark lashes out once more at Iraska and Finn.
Heiek
Iraska
Uzziah
Valera
Valto
Sahuagin Shark -25
Somehow the fact that the shark was intelligent made it far scarier. Valera continued trying to freeze it, concentrating with all of her might to do so.
Blood clouds the water as the sharks frenzy!
Cupping his hand over the top of his open potion, Heiek removes it just before he stuffs the neck of the bottle into Uzziah's mouth and upends it.
Uzziah does not yet awaken.
Uzziah does not yet awaken.
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[dice=Uzziah is healed for]2d8+2
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Uzziah's eyes snap open. His trained trident arm drives his weapon at the enlarged mutant shark!
Cupping his hand over the top of his open potion, Heiek removes it just before he stuffs the neck of the bottle into Uzziah's mouth and upends it.
Blood clouds the water as the sharks frenzy!
Uzziah's eyes snap open. His trained trident arm drives his weapon at the enlarged mutant shark!
Somehow the fact that the shark was intelligent made it far scarier. Valera continued trying to freeze it, concentrating with all of her might to do so.
Valto shoots small sharps of ice at the beast but to no effect.
The badly injured large shark begins to swim away.
Heiek
Iraska
Uzziah
Valera
Valto
Sahuagin Shark -105
Iraska and Finn seize the shark as it turns.
As the deadly predator starts to withdraw Iraska and Finn take it down with expert teamwork.
+1 locathah bane bolts (3)
+1 merfolk bane bolts (3)
+1 strix bane bolts (3)
Potion of cure moderate wounds
Mwk trident
Mwk underwater heavy crossbow with 20 bolts
Feather token (anchor)
Dagger
Thieves’ tools
53 gp
An opening in the seabed below the coral reef leads to a massive underwater cave. The cave is undecorated save for a single patch of interwoven kelp strands attached to the wall. Small bones are scattered around the bed along with a few rusted curiosities from the sunken ship.
A thin stone tablet near the altar to Dagon bears a detailed map showing a land route along ariver from the east coast of Ancorato into the mountains.
A leather bag hanging on the wall of the shipwreck contains three necklaces of air adaptation.
Some items the water naga Vriskirsa has scavenged remain here, including a corroded breastplate from ancient Azlant (broken, but worth 500 gp to a historian or collector), a statue of a female figure holding a moon set with mother of pearl (weighing 65 pounds and worth 1,100 gp), and a rectangular sheet of pounded copper etched with arcane symbols (worth 110 gp).
A chest near the altar also contains a bounty of coins lost with the
sunken ship: a total of 1,560 gp, 200 sp, and 3,450 cp.
The rusted trinkets from the broken ship have little to no value in their current condition, except for a locked steel box that has resisted time and the salty sea (hardness 10, hp 25, break DC 20, Disable Device DC 25). Inside the box is a folded leather cloak
of the manta ray.
After the devil shark is dead, Uzziah pulls the (I'm assuming) unconscious Uzziah away from the bloody cloud in the water and applies First Aid to the man.
"We should find a safe place to hole up for the night so we can recover. I don't think the naga means us harm, but I'd rather not take the chance."
Later, after looting the devil shark and its sahuagin ally, Heiek notes the passage marked on the stone tablet on his maps.
Later, after looting the devil shark and its sahuagin ally, Heiek notes the passage marked on the stone tablet on his maps.
And he makes a map of the area around the naga's lair.
Uzziah awakens.
"Not dead. That is a relief. Were we victorious then?"[
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Heiek goes over his notes and as he draws the map suspects there might be a bay to the north of the nagas lair, not as large as the one Talmandor's bounty lies within.
Heiek nods absently at the now awake bloodied and beaten Uzziah. He holds up one of his maps.
"Okay, see the contours around in this area?" One of Heiek's quills hovers around a general area of a topographical map of unknown origin before he rapidly shuffles through his papers and pulls out another map.
"And then this river flows kind of northeasterly and then it curves over here," Heiek picks up the map of the stone tablet he copied, "and this trail is way too far south... unless there's something else up here in... that direction.
"Don't you see? There's probably a cove or a sinkhole or something! We should check it out!"
"I trust your judgement, Heiek. I am more than willing to examine this cove - after some rest.", the gillman replies with a pained smile.
The night goes by without incident but as you go through the usual morning routine and start cooking up your breakfast you gradually come to a strange realisation. Normally when you can smell the food getting ready its hard to ignore your hunger but although the food still smells appetising you come to realise you don't feel hungry or thirsty...
”Anyone else...uhm...? Not feel hungry or thirsty? I always look forward to breakfast, but this morning I don’t feel anything. Hope I’m not getting sick.” Valera said, with a touch of concern.
"I do not feel the need for either. This is most strange."
Heiek looks up from his maps and listens to his body.
"Huh. Yeah, me neither.
"Is this something we should be alarmed about? Did we fill up on too much bloody seawater yesterday? Because if so: that's disgusting."
There's nothing obvious in the maps or anything that you have seen so far that would be causing this effect.
"Perhaps something nearby is causing this effect? We should search."
Uzziah doesn't spot anything immediately in the area but the jungle nearby is so dense it could easily conceal something but it would take effort to search it properly.
"Maybe the water naga would know what's going on. She's bound to be in good spirits after we just took care of the giant shark."
"That sounds plausible. Unless anyone else has another idea, we should try speaking with her."
The Water Naga is pleased to see you return. When asked about the mysterious effect she is thoughtful for a moment. "I do not venture onto the island often, and then not far but this area is covered in ancient ruins and some of them still have effects. Some are beneficial or benign but others can be dangerous, you might have ended up near some buried or half buried ruins."
"That does sound promising. Do you have any advice on how to best seek out such ruins?"
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After Uzziah's line of inquiry has finished, Heiek mentions, "You had mentioned that you'd share what you know about other peoples in the region?"
"I did and your settlement is new and has been having troubles. There was a settlement of humanoids on the northern side of the island. Their settlement failed, perhaps it might be enlightening... or at least give you warning of an unknown threat."
"As for the ruins, they can be hidden by soil and plant life or beneath the waves. There is an city called Talasantri to the southwest beneath the tides mostly Merfolk and Awuatic Elves."
"At the centre of this island a hag keeps her lair in some ruins upon the highest mountain in the middle of a small lake."
"I did and your settlement is new and has been having troubles. There was a settlement of humanoids on the northern side of the island. Their settlement failed, perhaps it might be enlightening... or at least give you warning of an unknown threat."
"That's very helpful, thank you. Can you tell me what sort of humanoids they were for the most part?"
"As for the ruins, they can be hidden by soil and plant life or beneath the waves."
Heiek nods at this advice.
"There is an city called Talasantri to the southwest beneath the tides mostly Merfolk and Awuatic Elves."
"At the centre of this island a hag keeps her lair in some ruins upon the highest mountain in the middle of a small lake."
Heiek notes these two pieces of information on his maps.
"That is very helpful. Thank you."