Magdi's hand crackles with energy and with a quick touch discharges on the draugr. The undead shakes electrocuted, babbling incoherently under the shock!
Jonah's volley of bolts is powerful, but the will-o'-wisp proofs too difficult to hit even while visible, due to its extreme speed, it dodges all of the shots while quickly approaching the group!
Seeing the danger posed by the aberration, Tonny quickly advises to focus on the creature.
Tewa calls upon her Goddess’s favor to provide guidance and power to her blows, and to her warrior ancestors to grant her even greater focus.
Tewa smashes her greatsword down on the draugr in front of her, trying to get it out of the way so she can circle around to get at the wisp.
Tewa connects with a mighty blow that sends the draugr head flying over the railing and into the river!
Adriana focuses the power of the goddess to make her edge poison for the will-o' and only thanks to Tonny's whip, manages to cut through heavily damaging the aberration!
The fallen draugr stands up and joins its pairs to fight Magdi.
Magdi dodges two of them but the last draugr stabs the rapier deep into the man's liver.
The pirate captain jumps over to the party's deck and faces Jonah!
The undead delivers a brutal slash that cuts through the agile crossbowman.
The will-o'-wisp pulses and energy crackles through.
One of the sparks strikes on Adriana, who is further shocked by the electrical discharge!
Ouch! jonah yelps as the pirate captain gets to him. "one is behind us! watch out!
He steps back and unloads point blank into the draugr
Magdi yelps as the rapier pierces him, twisting and scrabbling away as quickly as he can. Even as he does so, he lashes out with his off-hand, slapping at the creature and slamming it away from him with a burst of hydraulic force.
Recoiling from the electrical blast and shaking off the numbness in her hands, Adriana continues to press the attack on the Will-O-Wisp
Tewa licks her lips and steps closer to the wisp.
Tonny pushes the team on a final assault over the will-o' while brandishing his whip menacingly on the creature!
Jonah unloads a bolts salute over the draugr captain chasing him, but the bolts have a terrible time penetrating the hide of the undead, and only one chips the dead flesh.
The sudden torrent of water that springs from Magdi's hand buffets the draugr, that although immune to the strike, is pushed over the deck railing, falling into the waters!
Adriana and Tewa fight the will-o'-wisp, but despite all their efforts, the small flying thing manages to avoid their attacks!
The creature pulses again in response trying to discharge its shock on Tewa.
The discharge hits, but Magdi's spell keeps the sailoress protected for now.
The captain steps forward on the deck, keeping its pressure on Jonah "Whaaa"
The slash cuts badly on the hunter's right arm!
The other draugrs keep attacking without bothering for their fallen companion, and while Magdi dodges his rapier, Tewa is stabbed by the other one.
All of a sudden, the hand of the fallen draugr appears over the railing where he keeps his grasp, trying to soon jump back over the deck!
Magdi focuses, calling upon the lightning of the storm above to surround him in an aura of sizzling electricity. With that, he takes a quick step back and away from the draugr, trying to give himself a chance to heal his injuries.
With a grimace and ignoring the lingering numbness in her fingertips, Adriana pushes forward on her attack on the obnoxious flying skull.
Tonny's whip cracks in the air as he tries to set the will-o'-wisp in the exact perfect position to be attacked.
Focused on staying alive, Magdi menaces the draugrs with reprisal, the spirits covering him with crackling energy.
Meanwhile, Adriana slides on the watery surface of the deck which sways slowly with the water flow. The woman does not fall, but needs to grasp herself to the railing, which makes her attack go awry.
Ah!! #$%&$! I need some help here, I'm not doing anythign to this guy!
Jonah steps away from the zombie, seeing his arrows doing little good. he shoots at the wisp, hoping to free up his allies with melee weapons to maybe kill that draugr...
Tewa continues to circle around the wisp, trying to get into position for a flank, as she swings at it again.
Jonah tries to shot the will-o'-wisp but his bolts are too imprecise and go wide, past the aberration.
Tewa tries again to swing at the flying light, but the thing is so small and moves that fast, it results impossible to reach it with this swing.
Meanwhile the will-o'-wisp shocks the woman with electricity, while it shines brightly, expecting the fear to come soon with the desperation. Magdi's protection again, prevents the energy attack to pass through Tewa's skin.
The captain steps forward over the deck trying to finish Jonah.
But the hunter sidesteps on time avoiding the deadly edge!
The minor draugr's press on over Tewa and Magdi.
One of the draugrs manage to skewer Magdi's arm, but the aura bites back, shocking the creature!
Lastly, the fallen draugr climbs up over the railing and licks is lips while looking hungry towards the shaman. This creature is unarmed after his rapier fell to the water.
Magdi yelps again, staggering under the attack. Damn! We're in trouble, aren't we? He nods briefly at Tonny. "Yes!"
Desperate now, he backs away as he whips out his healing wand and debates for a moment before chanting a quick spell, more powerful than the wand, to heal himself.
Tonny makes what he can, directing the team to strike where the draugr can suffer the most, and defending them with his whip.
Magdi, playing it safe, calls the spirits for some healing, and the spirits surround him quickly closing the worst of his wounds.
Tewa steps into a flank with Adriana, trying to take any advantage she can find to down this horrible flying skull.
Nodding at Tewa as she joined the fight against the flying skull, Adriana shifts so that the creature can't escape their combined wrath.
Out of room to escape and shoot, Jonah switches to his heavy flail and attacks the draugr
Despite their will, Tewa and Adriana get both unlucky slashes that end in the air with easy moves of the flying horror.
Jonah changes weapons in an attempt to fight the draugr, but again, Desna is not with the group today as his attack is weak.
It seems the will-o'-wisp does take particular joy on frustrating you as it does not seem to care for Tewa's protection and continues attacking her, feeding on the fear the protection will end at some point.
There are a lot of sparks that come from the touch which are still blocked by the protection offered by Magdi.
The Captain keeps attacking Jonah, but after avoiding the mace attack he is unbalanced and fails its mark.
The climbing draugr goes up the desk to attack Magdi with its unarmed hands, while the others attack below.
The one up skewers Magdi in the shoulder, but the second is deflected by Tonny's timely dagger that bodyguards the shaman just on time!
Magdi's aura sparks back at the draugr offender.
Tewa grows sick of the wisp’s incessant flightiness and decides to let out her rage on one of the undead instead.
Tewa discharges her ire on the closest draugr, chopping the undead head with a clean swing that sends the dead flesh ball crashing against the mast!
Red is dead-dead.
Magdi flinches away from the attack, trying desperately to not be present where the attacking metal is. Though his bile rises, he fights it down with an effort, and stabs out with his wand, trying to heal the undead.
Unfortunately, he's unable to strike home.
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“Excellent!” Tonny hops awkwardly over the fallen seaman’s bones. “Now Adriana, step this way so Jonah has space at the bottom of the stairs… Whoops!” A bit too much nervous energy sends him bumping against the mast. Once he has his footing back, he jabs his dagger at the undead and aberrational enemies around him.
Not as good with the flail as he is with ranged weapons, Jonah still fights with the hefty weapon, trying to fend off the zombie
Echoing Tewa's frustrations and feeling the draugr pressure and corral them, Adriana nods at Tonny and refocuses her offensive pressure onto the draugr.
Magdi endures the nauseating touch of the undead but fails to connect with his wand.
Meanwhile, Tonny offers more help, making room for the group to step out of the dangerous positioning.
Jonah's flail crashes on the captain's chest, taking a piece of dead skin due to the heavy hit!
Adriana's scimitar ignites with flames while she slashes, and cuts the draugr on the neck ending its un-life with Tonny's help!
The will-o'-wisp shocks Tewa, once more reducing her protection from electricity.
With a quick single hand swing the undead Captain cuts badly on Jonah, opening a wound that starts to look pretty bad for the hunter.
Meanwhile, Magdi receives the attentions of the last normal draugr, that hits him in the head with its bare hands.
The electrical aura of the shaman bites once more at the offending creature with a spark!
With how easy the undead crumpled to her, Tewa grins and rushes past the wisp, smashing her greatsword down on another undead.
The will-o' utterly fails to preview the fast movement, and Tewa completely destroys the undead with a devastating strike. That's knowing how to fight on a sinking deck!
The draugr captain and the will-o'-wisp are the last and only menaces now!
Staggered and sickened by the attack, Magdi struggles to form coherent thoughts for the time being. Remaining still, he tries to keep his stomach under control.
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Tonny's eyes track Tewa's movement, then jump to the movement of the re-dead sailor flying over the railing and back into the sea. Again. Finally they return to the invisible ball of hatred and malice floating before him. He gulps, drops his whip, then pulls a vial of pale green liquid from his belt and gulps it down. His other hand swings his dagger wildly, trying to distract the wisp from Adriana's incoming assault.
Magdi struggles through the terrible nausea produced by the undead's touch.
Tonny drinks an extract, his mouth now full of adhesive, while cunningly swinging his dagger to maintain the will-o'-wisp away from Adriana!
Jonah is hurting badly, barely able to stand, but he cannot retreat easily from here. he smacks at the draugr a few more times, using the force of his blows to step past the draugr, hopefully opening it up for his allies to come finish it off
With the battle shifting once again but her allies looking in bad sorts, Adriana takes a quick assesment of the battle and refusing to be torn with indecision, points back to Jonah and shouts "Tewa! Help Jonah!" and with a subtle nod to Tonny once again attempts to strike down the Wisp.
With the little remaining forces Jonah can gather, he strikes a solid blow in the captain's head.
Seeing the bad situation, Adriana switches back targets, and helped by Tonny's whip, she slashes through the aberration, her blade igniting with the Dawnflower's flames and bursting the creature into nothingness!
The draugr captain, without fear to fight alone, grasps its blade with strength and slashes strong trying to end Jonah forever.
The man falls to the deck, grasping to life just by a thin breath of air, the next seconds might be his last ones if not quickly fixed.
The draugr turns to the group deciding what enemy to face next!
Tewa rushes over to the remaining foe and cleaves upward with her greatsword. ”Back to the depths with you!”
Tewa's pressed slash comes a bit imprecise, but Tonny's adhesive arrives just in time, getting the draugr sutck and making it fail its dodge on the sailor's blade that cuts the monster in half!
Still Jonah is in danger of death, but if Magdi or Adriana can reach him with a swift heal or stabilize, the hunter will see another day.
The fallen enemies had some weapons and armor that might still be of use.
2x mwk longsword
2x mwk chain mail
8x scimitar
The decks still shake a bit with the movement of the river waters, but otherwise the place seems now calm. Looking down into the holds it seems the ships still have some cargo, but it is dark inside.
Jonah falls unconscious, horrifying images of zombies dancing at the endges of his mind...
Magdi sighs as the final foe falls, before turning and hobbling over to Jonah. "Alright, let's see if I can't help get you back on your feet." He taps the ranger with his healing wand several times, trying to get the man at least able to walk again.
With that, he turns the wand on himself, healing what he can.
Magdi sighs as the final foe falls, before turning and hobbling over to Jonah. "Alright, let's see if I can't help get you back on your feet." He taps the ranger with his healing wand several times, trying to get the man at least able to walk again.
With that, he turns the wand on himself, healing what he can.
"Does anyone else require healing?"
Magdi draws the wand as he strides up the stairs, tapping Jonah to stabilize him just on time to safe him from death!
The hunter quickly wakes up as the healing progresses.
While Magdi works on healing everyone, the others can inspect the decks and holds of the vessels finding interesting cargo within, left there by the pirates and protected from sackers by the undead.
Searching the Hrinjorn’s flooded hold takes 10 minutes, but you uncover 1,290 gp, 12,330 sp, and 1,100 gp in jewelry and art objects that haven’t been destroyed by the water.
The hold of the Loaded Dice remains relatively dry and can be searched with 30 minutes of work. This turns up 8,900 sp, 920 gp, 19 pp, 1,300 gp in art objects, a mithral cigar box worth 900 gp that contains 10 fine Sargavan cigars worth 20 gp each along with four caber twigs, and a rope of climbing all scattered across various chests and footlockers. The ship still features two stern-mounted heavy ballistae that can help the defense of the Lirgeni enclave.
A search of the hold of the Fiend’s Star takes 30 minutes and uncovers 18,900 sp, 4,200 gp, 2,000 in art objects. Searching the captain’s quarters at the stern uncovers eight silver pearls worth 100 gp each, two potions of aid, a potion of resist fire , eight +1 magical-beast-bane arrows, a bead of force, and a dusty rose prism ioun stone. Four light ballistae are secured in the ship’s hold as well and can help the defense of the Lirgeni enclave.
A search of the flooded hold of the Goblin’s Greed, which takes 15 minutes, uncovers 23,400 sp, 1,900 gp, 1,000 gp in art objects, and a waterproof scroll case. Within this scroll case is a treasure map that supposedly leads to a hidden cache of treasure just over 200 miles up the Frogmarch River from Hyrantam. The map indicates this treasure is a powerful weapon—a leviathan’s terror.
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The flash of flame from her strike on the Wisp making her blink, Adriana stands poised ready to strike, eyes whipping around frantically for several moments should the strange creature return, and only when the sounds of combat recede entirely does she carefully put her scimitar away.
Rejoining the others and making sure Jonah is healed and back on his feet, Adriana turns to Magdi and nods in thanks. "Check the others first, I can wait my turn." she says, a small attempt at a joke.
The slow but methodical collection of the treasure from the shipwrecks makes Adriana briefly flirt with the idea of becoming a pirate, but she simply shrugs it off as euphoria from their victory. That and Sarenrae would likely strike her down on the spot.
In the soggy hold of the second ship, something catches Adriana's eye and with a little finagling, pops open a hidden compartment and carefully pulls out one of the vials. "Anyone know what these are?"
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Tonny scribbles down each discovery on the backs of pages, then the margins, then squeezed between lines. “…could just say four times light ballista? But what if there’re differences between them? Maybe add some kind of numbering with tags- Wha? Sorry, there was a question? Ooo, what are those Adriana!”
After carefully sniffing the vial, recoiling slightly, and rubbing a bit of its contents between his fingers, the scholar nods decisively. “It’s a bottled form of the same effect Magdi gave us before that let us breathe normally - well, somewhat normally - underwater. Six of them… Maybe I can fit that in on this page…”
When the map is revealed, Tonny has to use his hand to close his mouth before pouring over it as if trying to spot every possible detail. “…something called a Leviathan’s Terror, what do you suppose that could be, sounds like something large because leviathans are typically large, though there is that behavior of hairless mammoths and mice that Professor Nelki co-published last year and…”
The shaman scratches his chin. "Surely that can't have been the only wisp... right?" He scans the area, but sees nothing. "Maybe they're hidden beneath the waters?"
He looks back to Adrianna and Tewa. "Now that we're mostly healed up, do either of you need some more? I've unfortunately expended my healing spells, but I do have this." he waves his wand vaguely.
Jonah comes to groggily. Thank you my friend. that was a close one. I think I may have seen the gate to the Boneyard...
Jonah picks up his weapons that he dropped and helps with collecting everything the group can find.
As the Harbormaster suggested before, you leave the sturdy ballistae here after your exploration, embark your vessel with the loot you could easily carry up and make it back to the Ligerni enclave.
There you are received once more by Vancen who excitedly listens about your success "Good news then! Do not worry, now that the place is clean of undead, we can go pick up the ballistae. They will be of great use if your actions here make the Stormreaders to turn towards the enclave."
"So what are your next steps? Are you going to try ally with some faction or perhaps you were planning to try reason with the thunderbird?" Mparu inquiries with a broken voice.