"The bell!' Nico shouts, hints dropped by Manny & Kalban from half remembered dockside tales and barroom shanties finally clicking into place. "Break his damned bell!'
"Bastard rang it as he took his ship to its death. Breaking it will finish it!"
Giving Nico a grateful nod, the captain shouts, "I'll try to keep the zombies at bay! Someone else deal with the bell!"
Hearing the orders, Ci Ci calls down a bolt of lighting on it.
Hearing the orders, Ci Ci calls down a bolt of lighting on it.
[dice=Call Lightning]3d6
You did some damage to it, but you don't think another bolt will be enough.
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Goblins have heard heads, I can headbutt it!
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hardness 9
Capricia hacks at a nearby zombie, wondering if her crew have dented the cursed bell yet...and if a precise blow from her falcata might damage the thing.
for
Have Kaliban bash it!
Let's finish with the zombies...
Seeing that her lightning bolts aren't sufficiently damaging the bell, Ci Ci, sends her last bolt down on the zombie fighting Kaliban.
Nico and Emma are up
Nico tries a shot at the bell, 'Break the fricking bell! The Zombies will keep coming back until it's gone!"
sorry the bell has a hardness of 9
Who all is going into the hold to get the plunder?
Not me
Reluctantly the entire crew will move the plunder over to your ship's hold.
No one going to try aid another besides Capricia?
I will
Cast scorching ray at the bell
Fire and lightning spells do half damage vs objects. Counting 3 from the call lightning your total is now 18 pts of damage done.
One zombie attacks Capricia
another Manny
and the last attacks Kaliban
neither confirms
Kaliban
Cici
Nico
Anyone got a weapon I can swing with two hands?! My fists won't do much to that thing!
Uhh.. I have a dagger and a goblin harpoon
Ci Ci moves toward the demonic Bell of the Deathknell.
Ci Ci cries out, "Feel the bite of Besmara's Blade!" as a rapier made of glowing force energy appears in the air beside her.
Sure, ring my bell
Nico starts pounding out a tune on his drums, using Inspire courage to give the party +2 to hit/damage.
Inspired, Kaliban reached to pick up a blade dropped by the zombies.
Ci Ci grasps the hilt of the glowing blade of force and hurls it at the bell.
Inspired, Kaliban reached to pick up a blade dropped by the zombies.
He needs to use his standard for one of those move actions.
Manny will try to roll over to flank the zombie south of Caprica and stab stab
With Manny dropping their flanked foe, Capricia gives the tenacious goblin a quick nod and grin and then scoots south to the rail, following it--out of range of any attacks from the remaining zombies--and climbing up the stairs to the deck, stopping when she's next to the allegedly cursed bell.
move to the bell
Spider climbing across the mast.
Fiting magic missile
The bell shatters. The zombies all fall to the brine they came from and the ship begins to sink into the sea.
XP=1400 each.
Whoa! Time to get back to our ship!
Let's MOVE!
"Getofftheboatgetofftheboatgetofftheboat!" Ci Ci repeats with urgency as she moves back across the boarding plank.
Nico stands at the railing of the Queen's Grace watching the end of the Death knell closely.
Even if he can't make it into a song that will be sung around the Shackles for years he can memorize for description to those who can.
Capricia scampers or swims away from the doomed vessel and regroups aboard the Queen's Grace with her crew. "Well done, brothers and sisters! I wish we could've grabbed something to prove to the rest of the world that we vanquished Pilk and his crew, but you all know the truth in your hearts. We've done an admirable thing this night, worthy of song and a tale that ought to be regaled! But we've done a good thing, be it known or not--we've removed a threat that has haunted these waters for years and now is no more. I salute you all!"
Party time!
"No worries Cap'n!" Nico says cheerfully, "I remembered the first rule and got the crew to grab the plunder."
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When you get back to the ship you see your crew stacking up the plunder they transfered while you were killing zombies and destroying the bell.
If the PCs manage to permanently lay Whalebone Pilk to
rest, award them 2,400 XP (or 400 each), in addition
to the XP awarded for defeated foes. Furthermore, they immediately
gain 2 points of Disrepute and Infamy for triumphing over a
legendary scourge of the Fever Sea.
Several days later you made it to Ricketey's and your meetup with Capt Pegworthy.
"Not all grim news, though," the captain adds with a rakish grin. "Though there's a new danger roaming the Fever Sea, we've balanced the scales by eliminating an older one: my crew and I defeated Whalebone Pilk and sent his ghost ship--the Deathknell--to the briny depths! I'm lucky to have such a fine crew, so clever and courageous!"
Eventually, Capricia asks how the squibbing on Captain Pegsworthy's ship is progressing. " You did us the honor of christening our vessel before we sailed out into the Fever Sea," the captain points out, "and I'd like to repay that kindness, if you'd be willing to accept my offer. Though I'm not a Free Captain--yet--and am no noblewoman, I am the captain of a pirate ship and am a blood relative of the Maxeme family, so I'm likely as close to one or the other as you're likely to find out here in the middle of nowhere. What say you--shall I christen your refitted vessel before setting sail?"
Kaliban tags along, figuring he should keep an eye on his new Captain. Seems to handle herself... well.
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Nico follows along, curious to see how the ships officers handle things. He keeps his mouth shut and just listens.
Manny stays on the ship. Give the crew some shore leave?