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Gregor was walking around the ship with Jask on a tether. Letting him stretch his legs and get some fresh air. The manacles were tight but not bad to cut off circulation. and afforded enough room to move his hands a bit. The keys were on Gregors belt in a pouch.
He looked around and breathed the sea air in. He could understand why someone would take to loving this kind of life. The gentle rocking of the ship was very soothing. A seagull sqwacked nearby and flew up to one of the crossbeams that the sails were affixed to.
he grinned. It wasnt half bad. Well Jask. Ill be almost sorry to see you go. Youve been a pleasant prisoner and I thank you that you havent given me reason to hurt you. I hope Your Nethys is with you and your sentence isnt harsh.
Unknown, Midsummer, Day 1
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You lie on your back and everything around you is dark and silent. You wonder where you are and what happened, when the sensations slowly begin to creep back into your body.
You are feeling sand below your back and you hear the gentle lapping of water on your feet. The sound of oceans waves washing against a beach reaches your ears.
You foggily try to wake up as a searing pain goes through your left foot. You open your eyes and feel a disorienting nausea. When you manage to focus, you find yourself lying on a beach staring into the eyes of a sea scorpion. When you look around you see two more of these crossbreeds of a Lobster and a Scorpion crawling onto the beach. Next to you see various other passengers lying on the beach, although none of them shows any movement yet. A few meters to the left a pile of various weapons, armour and tools lies on the beach.
You are feeling sand below your back and you hear the gentle lapping of water on your feet. The sound of oceans waves washing against a beach reaches your ears. You try to move your arms but your muscles don't seem to listen to your command.
You lie on your back and everything around you is dark and silent. You wonder where you are.
[ooc]To retrieve your weapon (or any otehr piece of gear) from the pile is a standard action.
Unknown, Midsummer, Day 1
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Seeing the creature has started his meal already Davor springs up and moves to the stack of weapons to find something to defen himself with.
The Euryptid snaps after him but catches only a piece of his jacket.
Meanwhile the other creatures move up the beach and start to nibble on Hewit and Kenderella.
You foggily try to wake up as a searing pain goes through your leg. You open your eyes and feel a disorienting nausea. When you finally are able to focus your eyes, you find yourself lying on a beach staring into the eyestalks of a sea scorpion, who apparently is just trying to have you for dinner.
When you look around you see two more of these crossbreeds of a Lobster and a Scorpion crawling around the beach.
Next to you see various other passengers lying on the beach, although most of them shows no sign of movement. A few meters to the left a pile of various weapons, armour and tools lies on the beach.
Next to the pile is Davor standing and trying to retieve his weapons.
You are feeling sand below your back and you hear the gentle lapping of water on your feet. The sound of oceans waves washing against a beach reaches your ears. Far away your someone shouting. You try to move your arms but your muscles don't seem to listen to your command.
When Kenderella wakes up and notices the vermin attacking her she first
looks for her Enzi her animal companion. Unfortunately the jaguar is nowhere to be seen, but she is somehow sure Enzi is still alive.
After another look at the nasty sting and claws of the Sea scorpion she makes sure, that it can't get even more of her tasty Gnominess, before joining Davor in his efforts to wake up the others. Unfortunately it seems to have no effect on the unconcious people.
Meanwhile the last Euryptid decides that people running around are too much effort for him and leaves Davor alone for now to take a bite out of Gregors right thigh
Gregor feels a sharp pain in his right thigh wakening him up immediately.
He opens is eyes and sees a crossbred between a lobster and a scorpion trying to cut a chunk out of him with his claws.
When you continue unsuccessfully trying to open your eyes, you feel cramps in your stomach contracting. Unfortunately its not serious enough to wake you up fully yet.
The creatures are Ochre Eurypterid, the smallest suspecies of Eurypterids. Eurypterids are sea scorpions with a dangerous poison sting and fearsome pincers. Some ship captains are known for seeding their ships holds with colonies of these creatures as they do not eat the ships store but are murder on rats. Alas, one can often tell the ships that use this tactic by the unusually high number of crewmen with missing fingers.
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Hewit starts awake as he hears a small voice shouting. Moving quickly, he tries to stand while not being stung by the odd beast near him. Once upon his feet, Hewit moves next to Davor and seeing if he can locate his own bow. On reflex he whispers a quick prayer.
"Erastil, grant me the strength of the trees." Hewit whispers and his hands begin to change into wood, with thorn-like knuckles. He flexes his fingers with a slight creak and turns to Davor. "If you see an antlered bow, please pass it to me. I can keep them busy or keep you on your feet."
Free Action - 5 ft. Step to beside Davor (moved on the map)
Free Action - Activate Wooden Fist domain power (1 of 5 rounds used)
Standard Action - If possible locate and draw bow, otherwise no standard action
The commotion gets louder and louder and finally you wake up when you feel a sharp pain in your shoulder. You manage to open your eyes and see directly in the Eye-stalks of a sea scorpion a cross between a Scorpion and a lobster.
You are lying on a beach and feel very sick. You have no weapons on you and wear your best clothes.
All around you the others are already up and engaged in the fight with the creatures. The three man already brandish weapons. and after a short check you see a pile of equipment behind them where you also spot the edge of your shield.
A bit to the right there are the other 5 passengers still lying unconsious.
Feeling the One after one the unconcious people on the beach wake up when the Scorpions try to find someone tasty and willing to remoain still while beeing eaten.
Hewit immediately jumps up and away from the attacker while shouting a prayer to Erastil. The god listens to his prayer and turns his fists into deadly thorny fighting weapons. The Eurypterid tries to get another bite in, but the priest is easily able to defelct it with his wooden fists.
Gregor flexes his legs and jumps up in one fluent motion making his attacker miss.
There is a slight mashup at the pile but in the end all three of them are able to retrieve their weapons and turn to face the enemy.
Spured on by the annoying attempts of his prey to get away the leftmost sea scorpion decides to make sure Gregor can't run away and attacks him with claws and sting. The Andoran is easily able to deflect the Pincers but is caught unaware when the sting catches him from above.
Eurypterid(Red)
The Scorpion on the right decides that a moving gnome is a much harder target than an still Human and takes a bite out of Father Kerndrew
Success: The poison has no effect.
Failure: You take 1 Dex Damage and are poisoned.
When Poisoned repeat Save each round.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
Once he has his weapons Davor moves back to the strange attacking creatures. He shakes his head to try and clear it, almost losing his balance and falling and decides not to do that again. Feeling weak and nauseous, he stumbles up to the nearest creature and tries to skewer the creature.
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What kind of lobstrosity is this?!?" the older man yells. "And didn't I go to sleep on a ship!?!"
"Blessed Iomedae, what's going on!" He begins scrambling backwards away from the lobstrosity, still on his back. He mutters a gruff apology to Kenderella as he knocks into her legs moving backwards.
Kerndrew panically tries to put some distance between himself and his attacker. The Lobsterion tries to snatch him to prevent his escape but only snaps at the air the father left behind.
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HP healed and remove the sickened condition.
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"They are mindless vermin so I can't knock out their minds!" Kenderella says with distress. "Hopefully that means they'll also leave us once their meal looks inedible as they'll be to stupid to realize it's a trick. This is just an illusion to make them leave, not actually real." Kenderella says quickly before chanting a set of arcane words while tapping her fingers up along her arms in a complex set of gestures. Suddenly acid seems to burst up all over the party. Flesh seems to melt where it's touched by the acid and the ground starts disolving, though there's no actual damage.
Feeling the uneasiness in his stomach and seeing his allies also staggering around quite uneasy Hewit preays to Erastil for help. When the Lumber merchant touches him, Davor feels his stomach settle down and attack with refreshed rigour.
Meanwhile Kelendra is still faced with a hungry scorpion somehow finding herself in the frontline of the battle. The gnome executes a series of complex gestures when suddenly all over the beach and the passengers acid burst out and melts the flesh and clothes of everyone.
The center Eurypterid looks confused at Davor trying to decide whether the prey is still edible. When he does not smell anything rotten, he decides to at least give it a try, but Davor is easily able to avoid this tentative stab.
Kenderella shouts a warning to everybody, but the other still have a hart time shaking the feel that there skin is burning with acid.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
While he feels better at Hewet's touch, he doesn't know what these ridiculous, lobster-scorpian, acid-breathing monsters were. Davor steps ahead to get out of the burning cloud and tries to skewer the creature.
Perhaps it was the residue of the acid cloud burning his eyes, and making them water, but he misses miserably....
Gregor felt his stomach turn and felt weak in the knees...almost like he was hung over.
the sting was burning and he glanced at his upper thigh where it had pricked him. He recognized the creatures as a sea scorpion and knew their venom was to keep creatures from fleeing and fighting back... fortunately the burning seemed to abate.
Then it appeared his body was melting and though he retrieved his battleaxe, he almost dropped it from fear as he swung it at the sea creature....was their a side effect to their venom he wasnt aware of?
The others are quite surprised when the lobsters seem to grease everything with their acid breath. Only the priest manages to see through Kenderellas trick and is curious to see how the creatures react.
Davor immediately tries to step out of the cloud and is quite surprised when he see the velts on his skin disappear immediately. He tries to skewer the side of the Scorpion, but glances of its armour.
Meanwhile Gregor is distracted by the acid so much that he almost drops his axe while traing to swing it at the Lobsterion in front of him.
But the vermin is as confused by the sudden turn of events as our heros. The scorpion in front of Kenderella is milling about before trying to find an easier food with the other passengers.
But the third Eurypterid drops back into the water where he is able to swim around the Boulder with a unexpected speed before trying to take one more bite out of Davor. He only scratches him at the leg
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
In your turn roll a willpower save +4 +2 vs DC 16
PCs who fail the save believe in the Acid grease illusion and should act accordingly. You can repeat the save each turn.
The blessed father starts screaming with wild concern as his flesh begins melting off of his body! He steps among the pile of weapons and other gear, grabbing his shield and hoping he can find his sword.
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Hewit sees the reaction of his companions and thinks he sees a way to help them. Noting that Davor seems to have caught on when he stepped out of the area, Hewit grabs onto Gregor and gives him a shove. "Gregor, sir," he says as he shoves. "the gnome is playing a trick on the beasts."
Then Hewit moves towards Davor and one of the beasts he is fighting, hoping to provide a distraction to keep it busy.
Move Action - Move into flanking position for Davor. This will also provoke.
Hewit decides to try to shove Gregor out of the Acid carpet. Luckily for him The rangter is total surprised by the attack and thus is forced to step back to keep his balance.
Kerndrew finally finds time to stand up and uses the current confusion to retrieve his shield from the equipment pile and starting to retrieve his longsword.
Meanwhile Hewit rushes to join the fight. When he passes by the first feeder it tries to snap at him but misses badly.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
In your turn roll a willpower save +4 +2 vs DC 16
PCs who fail the save believe in the Acid grease illusion and should act accordingly. You can repeat the save each turn.
"Please step back into the fake acid. It's just to distract the beasts. It doesn't cause you any harm. The effect is just an illusion. Please, trust me." Kenderella says as she concentrates on maintaining the acid, moving it about to cover the people near the Eurypterids.
Seeing the others disperse Kenderella tries to adjust the position of the figment accordingly while urging the others to cooperate. Meanwhile she nimble doges herself behind the priest of Erastil to get protection should the Lobsters attack.
The sea scorpions continue to be mildly confusedby the whole situation. The blue one decides to look for aprey that is not bubbling green all over. He decides to go after the paladin but is easily fended off.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
In your turn roll a willpower save +4 +2 vs DC 16
PCs who fail the save believe in the acid grease illusion and should act accordingly. You can repeat the save each turn.
Davor hears the words of the mage, but the acid cloud still seems real to him! When one of the attacking creatures scuttles away from him he flicks his rapier at it, but misses. Focusing on the one still attacking he stabs it with as much strength as he has....
Gregor got shoved out of the cloud of green acidy stuff. he felt no pain from it but certainly was frightening. Yet he was nauseous...and groggy. confusing. then the gnome who he had no interactions with on the ship said that it was a falsehood to confuse the vermin. He shook his head and before he could puzzle through it the Sea Scorp headed over to strike at the old warrior priest. and he had a chance at striking him before he left
The weakness in his arms made it difficult to attack effectively. No matter what the little one said, the flesh apparently dissolved from his arm was enough in his confused state to make him believe that wasnt the case. Whatever youve done to me Gnome, you'll pay for if I survive this
he rushed the one over by the warrior priest and swung his axe up and over his head at the creature. Thi time he felt the blade of the axe bite into the creatures carapace. he gruffly said to the warrior priest Ive got this one. go to those who cannot defend themselves pointing to the others laying on the beach being threatened by the other sea scorp.
The shifty scorpions prove to be surprising ard to hit as they skuttle along the beach, avoiding several blows.
But with time the group manages to adjust to the difficult conditions. Gregors storms over to protect Father Kerndrew leving a deep cut in the side of his foe, who turns toward him.
Davor slides his rapier under the claw of the lobster and manges to rach below the karapace, but the animal manges to twist free before serious damage can be done.
The sea scoorpion snaps enraged and launches a sting attack on the Half-Orc, hitting in his unprotected left arm.
DC 10
Success: You are not effected
Fail: -1 Dex/Rd new save next round
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
In your turn roll a willpower save +4 +2 vs DC 16
PCs who fail the save believe in the acid grease illusion and should act accordingly. You can repeat the save each turn.
Finally beginning to understand what the gnome was up to, Father Kerndrew begins searching for his blade in earnest. He catches sight of the hilt and rips it out of the pile, sending other gear flying with a clatter. He spins and plunges into the undergrowth, calling out ahead ”Don’t worry, the acid’s not real! It’s a trick to fool the lobstrosities! I’m coming to help!”
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Hewit see an opening as the beast moves away from him. His head is still swimming though and he loses his balance for a moment and his swing never comes close to hitting.
Hewit realizing he's not nearly as effective in a fight as the rest of those in this battle, he lets the blessing from Erastil fade and his hand returns to normal. He moves back between Davor and one of the creatures, and then to behind Gregor. He reaches out to touch the warrior and whispers another prayer to Erastil. "Old Deadeye, your healing has never been more needed. My thanks for it."
- Not An Action - Letting the Wooden Fist effect end (3 of 5 rounds used)
- Move Action - Ending up behind Gregor. This will provoke from Blue
- Standard Action - Calming Touch. No roll to heal as Gregor does not have Non-Lethal damage. But it does remove the sickened condition. (2 of 5 used)
The Father finally manages to free his sword from the piece of leather armour it had caught in and picked it up. The Eurypterid nearby saw him turning his back and tried to grab him once more with his pincers, Unfortunately for the vernim, the effort ruptured the last starnd of the blood vessel Gregor had scratched with his Axe and the creature dropped dead to the ground.
The Lumberjack manages just another miss on the shifty creatures, but than moves to help Gregor battle the sickness in his stomach.
When bitten by the sea scorpion Sasha realizes that she is also covered in acid and completely panics.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
In your turn roll a willpower save +4 +2 vs DC 16
PCs who fail the save believe in the acid grease illusion and should act accordingly. You can repeat the save each turn.
Davor ignores the words of the group about the cloud of acid that the stupid lobster things had created. He was out of it and hoping that they couldn't expand it!
The stinking creature in front of him stung him lightly with it's very fast tail. He felt the sting of poison for a moment, creating a moment of panic. Then the burning sensation ended and he aimed his rapier at the creature and steped into the thrust.
"All I've done is help to confuse the Eurypterid so they don't tear us to shreds. I've done nothing to harm you. If you're referring to this awful seasickness, I'm feeling it too. My illusion didn't cause that." Kenderella answers fervently while focusing on directing the clouds so the creatures can't get to the passengers. She turns towards the other passengers to shout out. "The acid is just an illusion. It's completely safe within it and hopefully stepping into it will stop the creatures from getting at you."
After having found the creatures weak spot, Davor performs a quick feint and buries his rapier deeply between the scales of the scorpion.
Kenderella continues to keep everybody covered, keeping the presuure on the last scorpion.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
In your turn roll a willpower save +4 +2 vs DC 16
PCs who fail the save believe in the acid grease illusion and should act accordingly. You can repeat the save each turn.
The last Eurypterid finally decides that the bubbly fluid is no danger to him and attackes Father Kerndrew, but manges only a glancing blow.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
In your turn roll a willpower save +4 +2 vs DC 16
PCs who fail the save believe in the acid grease illusion and should act accordingly. You can repeat the save each turn.
Gregor watches the death throes of the sea scorpion as it's fluids seep out on the beach and then turns toward the one facing the older war priest.
He attacks the creature as he enters the jungle
Seeing the last remaining creature attacking Father Kerndrew, Gregor rushes over but misses.
The character takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks.
In your turn roll a willpower save +4 +2 vs DC 16
PCs who fail the save believe in the acid grease illusion and should act accordingly. You can repeat the save each turn.
Kendrella finally stops concentrating on the cloud of acid. "The illusion did it's job. It confused the creatures enough that they weren't able to attack us effectively. Though it might not have been the best choice..- Perhaps something else would have worked better." She turns towards the last creature, mutters a series of arcane words and hurls a blob of acid right at the creature.
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Hewit sees that the group has most of the beasts under control but he feels they may still be in danger. He's not such a skilled fighter as them, so he takes the chance to get into a better position from which he can provide support to any of the shipwrecked passengers and crew.
- Move Action - get into position so that channel could effect all allies.
- Standard Action - Ready an action to channel if anyone become seriously injured (down to 3 or less HP). Using selective channel allows me to exclude all the bugs.
Flicking the skewered creature off of his rapier Davor scans the battle area for any remaining enemies. Seeing one at a distance he pulls a dart and throws.
With only one lobster left, the group is swiftly able to coordinate its attacks. But the skittish creature still proves hard to hit, before Davor finally is able to land ctach in in the side and hit it for a mortal wound.
Day 1 (Midsummer) - Beach on some unknown shore
Second hour after dawn - the weather is very hot and humid
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With the immediate threat vanquished the Passengers slowly take notice of their immediate sorroundings. After a few steps their stomah start to settle and the feeling of nausea slowly vanishes.
The group is standing on a tropical beach lining a small bay. Behind a small strip of jungle cliffs rise all around the bay. The weather is already quite hot at this morning hour and the temperature is only likely to increase.
When they examine the pile found on the beach they find all of there belongings together with the belongings of the other passengers there. Only Gregor is missing his sea chest and Kenderellas Saddle Bags are not found.
The other people also slowly wake up one by one. It looks like Sasha, Aerys, Gelik, Jarsk and Ishirou are on that beach with you. There is no sign from the other people on board of the Jenivere. Kenderella is once more looking for Enzi, but while she feels that there bond is still intact, she cannot find the jaguar.
Once Davor has his equipment he starts looking around at the beach. "How'd we get here? And where's the ship? Where's everyone else!?!"