Nistivo and Lanel pull out wands, the latter using a charge to cast mage armor.
Purple: ded.
Green:
Orange:
Black:
Lanel: (mage armor)
Nistivo:
Grilgoth:
Dr. Avery:
Ekadan:
Patros:
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Grilgoth, there is a wall (as explained earlier) at the top of the steps to the right of Patros. I added brown lines to show placement of walls. These walls block line of sight. A PC will need to get through the door in front of Patros, or be in the spot Patros is currently at, in order to see or attack an undead. I'm not going to bother with difficult terrain going up the steps.
Grilgoth goes into defense mode while waiting for an opportunity to head up the stairs.
The undead creatures, being mindless idiots that they are, start flailing their arms wildly in some kind of panic after the Doctor casts his spell. They scamper frantically towards the aft of the ship as they hoot and howl, their footsteps being heard on the floor overhead by those in the hold below.
Purple: ded.
Green:
Orange:
Black:
Lanel: (mage armor)
Nistivo:
Grilgoth:
Dr. Bellows:
Ekadan:
Patros:
Lanel drops his wand of mage armor and watches the wand roll towards the breach in the hull. He sighs in relief as the wand gets lodged under a crate nearby. He hustles up the steps and fires a crossbow bolt across the dimly lit room...
The bolt misses its target and sticks into the back wall.
Avoiding the mold, sea scum, and tiny gross sea creatures clinging everywhere, Nistivo carefully moves up the steps and through the doorway onto the mid-deck. He shoots a magical bolt of energy from his wand at the green zombie-like creature, nailing the creature in its back.
Seeing the green creature get nailed by a magic missile, Grilgoth glares at the creature in an attempt to hex it with bad luck.
The creature retorts with an insulting gesture of its middle finger at the witch.
Dr. Bellows runs up the steps and stops right near Grilgoth. His eyes quickly adjust to the dim light in the hold. With a clear line of sight, he takes a shot at the green creature. The arrow flies past the mast and lodges in the creature's side.
Patros hustles forward and flings a dagger at green...
Even with the dim lighting, the dagger strikes true. The drowned sailor collapses into a pile of bones and rotting flesh.
With his fast movement, Ekadan is close behind with lucerne hammer gripped tight. He makes a wide sideward swing into the orange undead...
And manages to crush in half of its skull.
Dr. Bellows hollers out that these creatures are drowned sailors! These evil, undead creatures are similar to zombies except that they move faster and all types of weapons can fully damage them .
Purple: ded.
Green: ded.
Orange: -10 hp
Black:
Lanel: (mage armor)
Nistivo:
Grilgoth:
Dr. Bellows:
Ekadan:
Patros:
Their eye sockets glowing red with necromantic energy, the two drowned sailors turn and hiss at Ekadan. Little Orphan Orange, with barely half of its skull remaining, steps down from the steps leading up to the top deck and swings wildly at the barbarian. .
Neither fist of rotting flesh manages to land a blow.
Black Bartholomew lunges forward and swings a left hook at Ekadan's face.
The blow glances off Ekadan's armored shoulder, doing no harm.
Purple: ded.
Green: ded.
Orange: -10 hp
Black:
Lanel: (mage armor)
Nistivo:
Grilgoth:
Dr. Bellows:
Ekadan:
Patros:
Ekadan smashes Orange into a pulpy, rotten mess. Black Bartholomew remains, clawing relentlessly at its attackers.
Nistivo waits to see if his teammates drop the zombie before he acts.
Grilgoth hexes the zombie and laughs maniacally.
Dr. Bellows gets into position to fire his bow. He shoots and hits the zombie in the thigh .
Patros swings his blade at the zombie, however, he has difficulty seeing the creature in the dim light.
Purple: ded.
Green: ded.
Orange: ded.
Black: -8 hp, misfortune
Lanel: mage armor
Nistivo:
Grilgoth:
Dr. Bellows:
Ekadan:
Patros:
Patros quickly dispatches the remaining zombie.
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Lanel comes back to retrieve his wand.
"Where is it? Where-? AH! There it is!" He sighs in relief and stashes it away.
He returns to his companions and will ask Ekadan. "Hey, big guy, do you want me to make your hammer glow? Just in case we are separated from Patros and you need some light" If agreed, he will cast Light on the weapon and any other weapon someone requests.
He will take a look around with detect magic as well.
Searching around and using detect magic, the group doesn't come across any notable items. One of the drowned sailors leaves behind a large patch of it's rotted flesh covered in a tattoo of a treasure map.
The door at the front of the ship on the mid-deck leads to a food storage area, its contents claimed long ago by the sea water and tiny sea creatures.
The door in the aft bulkhead is barred from the outside (your side) in a makeshift fashion, with a single board resting in a bracket on each side of the doorway. A brass plaque on the door reads "Captain's Quarters" in maritime script. A set of stairs to the left of the Captain's Quarters leads up to the main deck.
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Lanel comes back to retrieve his wand.
"Where is it? Where-? AH! There it is!" He sighs in relief and stashes it away.
He returns to his companions and will ask Ekadan. "Hey, big guy, do you want me to make your hammer glow? Just in case we are separated from Patros and you need some light" If agreed, he will cast Light on the weapon and any other weapon someone requests.
He will take a look around with detect magic as well.
"Sure, thanks! And if you're worried about losing your wand in the future let me tell you about this item..."
Ekadan explains to Lanel how Weapon Cords work.
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Searching around and using detect magic, the group doesn't come across any notable items. One of the drowned sailors leaves behind a large patch of it's rotted flesh covered in a tattoo of a treasure map.
The door at the front of the ship on the mid-deck leads to a food storage area, its contents claimed long ago by the sea water and tiny sea creatures.
The door in the aft bulkhead is barred from the outside (your side) in a makeshift fashion, with a single board resting in a bracket on each side of the doorway. A brass plaque on the door reads "Captain's Quarters" in maritime script. A set of stairs to the left of the Captain's Quarters leads up to the main deck.
"Uh oh Looks like they were trying to keep something in the Captain's Quarters. Do we want to check this first or examine the rest of the ship first? Just no one open it without everyone being ready."
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"We have already verified that the ship has indeed sunk with a loss of life for its crew. Now all we must do is discover the cause of this maritime disaster and recover Jaheem's log. Surely the latter (and perhaps also the former) is within the captain's quarters, thus making a forced entry paramount. And moreso, the sooner we accomplish these tasks, the sooner we can leave this horrid, dripping, rotting, smelly place and get paid!"
Strong winds tug at you on the top deck. Gouges in the deck and masts show signs of a struggle, though no corpses linger here and the only scent not carried away by the fierce wind—much to Nistivo's dismay—is the briny stench of low tide. From the deck, the currents swirl away from the reef, churning white spray toward the high cliffs that make up the shore of distant Tempest Cay.
Everyone except Ekadan notices a brass spyglass bolted to the rail, battered and covered in a patina of green from age and the salty air. It appears stuck in place, aimed at Tempest Cay.
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Well, that smell will wake you right up..p Patros says as he takes a deep breath of the "fresh" air.
Maybe this is worth taking back? Might be worth something to someone... he says as he peers through it. Maybe there's a drawing of a scantily clothed woman in there...see those trick telescopes before...and the ones where they leave a black eye...great gags... he says with a chuckle.
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Completely surprised by the appearance of the brass spyglass, Ekadan turns to Nistivo and asks "What's that thing worth? If it's worth decent coin I'll bust the rail and carry it back with us."
He then asks Patros, "What do you see out there? Any more clues about what happened? Or something to beat up?"
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Lanel will use prestidigitation and mage hand to clean the spyglass, and detect magic if the previous one had ended.
If doesn't ping as magical, Lanel approaches it.
"Hold on! Before someone pockets this... let's see the last thing this thing was supposed to be looking at..."
He will take a peek and share his findings...
Patros peeks through the spyglass, but doesn't seem quite interested in what it's actually pointed at.
No scantily clad strumpet...
"Ooo! Seagulls!"
He looks back at the group with a white, salty ring around one eye that contrasts with his dark weathered skin, garnering a few chuckles from the group.
Nistivo takes a close look at the spyglass.
He realizes if removed from its mount, the rotten wood and leather would crumble apart, leaving only worthless, tarnished brass fittings and a scuffed lens that no longer would serve a purpose.
Discerning the spyglass isn't magical and too dilapidated to bother salvaging, Lanel is interested in what is currently in the spyglass' view...
He can see that the blowing currents of wind and waves are leading directly toward a rocky cave in the cliff face along the shore of Tempest Cay.
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"Huh... Would you look at that? I think we found the place they were searching in the first place," Lanel grins letting the others have a peek if they want. "If we don't find anything else here, we might want to explore that place."
Does the boat have any rafts available? How far is the shore from here?
He will look around for any more clues before heading back to the captain's quarters to wait for the others.
Familiar/Alertness included.
No lifeboats are on the Aspenthar. However, your Swan boat can take you there. Judging from the distance, it looks to be about half an hour away.
After a good thorough search on the top deck, there doesn't seem to be anything else of interest.