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"Yes Bloodcove seems like it would be a good port to check out first. Don't worry about my well being I would propose that you two check things out in the day and I will scout around at night. We can meet up again at dark the next day. I will send Beaufort with you as I will work better on my own. Perhaps I will find my way into the quarter of whoever happens to be in charge. Surely such person would know who's who in Bloodcove."

Prime
Very well perhaps we should avoid making a show, at the very least until we have more strength to show. We need to be careful. If word gets around about our flying ship we may become a target from men like the Hurricane King. Perhaps we should avoid setting down in any port and should travel in by other means?

Prime
"Well Vimes, what do we know about the Hurricane king? I'm not opposed to setting down in another port, or perhaps not a port at all, but it might be good to make an example of strength here. If that were ill advised then I would agree with Tris."

After listening to the plan and everyone intentions Belor chimes in
"As much fun as it would be to visit a place as wonderous as the city of brass, I plan to stay aboard the ship with Aiesha and Beaufort. With any luck you may be back before we even reach the shackles. If not then we are more than capable of handling them on our own. Just do me one favor. Be sure to bring me back a souvenir."

I think I'd rather stay back with the ship actually and crack some pirate skulls... I mean look for new recruits. I'll be making a gameplay post in a minute, but overall the plan reads well to me.

"No reason to get rid of an ally that has proven so very useful to us. We should keep at least one as you suggest."

Belor gathers up everyone on board onto the main deck to make a speech about the next direction.

Greetings everyone. As you know Praetorius and I are captaining this ship and we have discussed between ourselves and with several of you as to our next direction and we have made a decision. We are going to fly to the Shackles. Not only will this give us a good oppurtunity to pick up more of a crew with good experience, but it will also present a chance for our first venture into combat."

"Now you all have your roles and positions, so you know what you need to be doing. If you have any issues please take them up with Praetorius or I. You are all dismissed."

Yeah half the captain lol. I think Praetorius is still out of commission at the moment so I'll make the declaration to get us on the move.

We should defintely go to the piratey area! We can totally get all the people we would need and I bet we could find a crew that can very functionally use the cannons. Aside from just getting a crew together I think our next really significant goal should be getting that scroll of greater demiplane and then murdering the gorilla king to get the mega cannon. What do you guys think?

Yeah we leaned towards the Fiends mouth cannons. Less cost to enchant ultimately.

Once a good hiding place has been established Belor will look through the goods to see what is there. He looks for anything small, valuable, and potentially useful.

Sneak: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (12) + 27 = 39
Perception: 1d20 + 22 ⇒ (19) + 22 = 41

Sparel I can't add anything to the situation since I'm not there, but I absolutely love the prospect of getting a captain and some more men.

Belor is going to find a safe place where he can wait through the day when it comes up and then hang around watching the docks for either the rest of the party to come out or for anything unusual to happen.

At the earliest opportunity Belor sneaks off from the group with the intention of not getting taken in by the guards. If possible he tries to get just outside of the area of the docks without attracting the attention of the guards.
Stealth: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (4) + 27 = 31

Belor uses his ability No one of Consequence to avoid being noticed by the guards and says discreetly,
"Sparel you should handle this."

Belor lies on the boat for a while quietly before finally speaking in a more desperate tone than usual.
"I thought swamps were stagnant! I am never going into another swamp again!"

Oh god is this running water? I thought swamps were stagnant so I'd be fine. I will get out next round... You said Dark Flight still worked right?

I'll just take your word for it.
Belor tries to stab anything vulnerable looking in the back of the creature.
attack: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (11) + 15 = 26

The problem is that doing that makes me move at half speed and since its huge sized I figured I would need both my move actions to make it behind him it. Would I be able to make it around in 1 move action?

Belor seeing his own nasty wounds and realizing his own ineffectiveness, tries to get around behind the beast to get a flanking position with Tar'jub. To do this he uses

Sneak: 1d20 + 27 ⇒ (7) + 27 = 34

Belor grimaces at the tentacle wrapped around him. He draws a second dagger (quickdraw)and makes a full attack on it to try to cut himself free.
Attack 1: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (10) + 15 = 25
Attack 2: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (20) + 15 = 35
Attack 3: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (13) + 10 = 23
Damage 1: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
Damage 2: 1d4 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 = 5
Damage 3: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (2) + 4 = 6

Attack 2 Critical threat: 1d20 + 15 ⇒ (1) + 15 = 16

I'm back, sorry for the delay guys
Seeing Tar'jub grappled Belor runs up and tries to cut the tongue off to release him.
attack: 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (17) + 17 = 34
damage: 1d4 + 4 ⇒ (3) + 4 = 7
The attack and damage bonuses are adjusted for no magic.

Belor prepares to head out with the rest of the party. "Don't worry Praetorius It have the money. Now lets head out to the city."

A shine gleams in Belor's eyes.
"Walking in the sun again. Yes I would pay a great deal for that. When you have the opportunity please begin work on this. I have gold to pay for it's creation."

I'm on board for the elemental plan though I can't actually help with it and I would go for that amulet. We would then just need to figure out how to break the vampire clause about going into peoples houses uninvited.

Belor has been enjoying the show put on by Sparel and his Elemental friends.
"We don't know anyone within Alkenstar and for all we know they won't even want to sell us cannons. I think it would be inadvisable for you to send it in your familiar because it could be very dangerous. Maybe I have a bit of bias towards this method, but I would suggest that we sneak in and either convince all the right people that we need cannons, or failing that, murder enough people until they feel like they are taking unacceptable loses."

Wow shows again what I know. Even if it doesnt work in the mana wastes I would still do it now since we had the time.
Alright then Sparrel if you wouldn't mind. It's 8 days to craft and it costs 4000 gold plus I am giving you an extra 1000 just for doing it.

Belor smiles at the excited Imp.

"Why yes I am pointy toothed as is our friend here. My name is Belor Silver. It is nice to make your acquaintance."

He Then turns his smile to the rest of the room, getting a little more devious in appearance.

"Well if you want to get there very quickly and discreetly I do have a way to get us around the mana wastes directly into the heart of Alkenstar."

Belor draws a very black looking dagger and shows it to the group.

Crap scratch that last thought it won't work. We would need Clairaudience-Clairvoyance cast on it and I don't you or any of us have it. I'll catch you later when I can buy a scroll. Thanks though.

Hey Leinathan since enough boring and uneventful time passed in the story would there be enough time for Sparel to do the the 8000g +1 Distance enchant?
Also Sparel would you be willing to do that for me? I'll give you the 4000 gold cost as well as an extra 1000 for the cost.

At this point Belor steps out quietly from the shadows.
"I would vote we not risk taking the ship into Alkenstar until we know what will happen. Be it the possibility of crashing or simply being shot out of the sky, we can not risk the ship in such a manner. I would propose we infiltrate on foot or by carriage."

He begins pacing back and forth as he speaks.

"Once in Alkenstar we can ascertain their feelings towards our ship and its endeavor. Then perhaps we could change their attitudes to more positively towards us. Perhaps we could make them believe we on some more noble journey or maybe we could create some friendly or not friendly contacts and allies inside the foundry."

Alright I guess I'll just spend the gold to make the hackbut and then ill enchant it later. Oh and I forgot, but rather than just MWK I am going to make it rifled like the last one that got destroyed at a value of 4450 costing me 2225.

My mistake. I thought crafting time was done by the amount it cost, not the full value, but after looking it up i'm wrong. Can it be used still if its not fully enchanted?

Hey since there was a week of travel time can it be assumed that Beaufort had the time to craft a new MWK Double Hackbut? It would take 2 days of work and 2150 gold.

Also if that is possible then Sparel would you be able to enchant it with +1 distance if I gave you the gold?

Man I asked for useful stuff, but I wanted so hard to ask for a deck of many things. If it weren't for its ability to utterly destroy or derail the campaign I totally would have.

I'm looking forward to this wine thing you guys have going on. It sounds like it can be a fair bit of fun as well as being useful.

"This is most generous of you to offer my lord. We are about to embark on a journey around the known world in search of wealth and power. What I would ask of you is anything you believe would be of great value to our journey aboard the magnificent flying ship The Good Intentions."

I at least and I believe Praetorius took 10k gold out for personal use.
"My Lord Luvick, we have returned to you to show both our loyalty and our dedication to our agreement. We have an artifact of great power that we wish to give to you to add to your vault. It is a weapon of great power, highly valued by the church of Pharasma. I believe you may be familiar with the Raven's Head?"

Belor presents the Raven's Head to Luvick.

Belor goes around telling everyone he is headed into town to go shopping and then heads out with anyone willing to go. Beaufort stays behind to watch the ship.
In Caliphas he first heads to a coffin maker and wakes him up saying he urgently needs 3 coffins for his recently departed friends and is willing to pay for them.
Bluff: 1d20 + 37 ⇒ (3) + 37 = 40

Assuming this works then Belor heads to Luvick's domain.

"My friends I would suggest those not of the same kind as Praetorius and I hold back from entering as it can be quite a dangerous place"

Ok then lets just save our money and head to Alkenstar. All I can think of needing in Caliphas is a coffin (or two (or three)) and to speak with Luvick Searvage the local vampire lord. I'll go do my shopping and push the game towards leaving Caliphas I suppose.

EDIT: Actually thinking about it. Leinathan do you want me to actually roleplay out the shopping and seeing Luvick or should we just skip on forward for Tar'jubs sake?

Sorry I haven't been posting much guys last day or two has been busy. Anyways as far as shopping goes I talked a little with leinathan and he said we wouldn't be able to buy fiends mouth cannons in Caliphas. I think we weren't able to buy scrolls of greater demi-plane either. Therefore we should either buy what we can here or save some money and go straight to where we could buy them. If we choose to do buy what we can then we might not even want to save a bunch of money and just try to make some on the way depending on how much time we have along the journey. What do you guys think? Ill be checking on this a bit tonight so that you guys don't have to wait on praetorius and I so often and so we can get it this moving along.

It would also work with zombies, ghouls, and ghasts onboard the ship (with a percentile failure chance) because of the Lazurite Focus.

So now, because you're going shopping for a few things in Caliphas, I'd like to get your shopping lists out of the way before we get to Tar'jub's introduction - I was imagining that he enter while the ship had already launched.

Remember that you have that massive pile of gold (some 280,000gp) to make purchases with, but also remember to save for siege weapons, which you must purchase in Alkenstar (assuming that they're firearms).

Okay so what I would advocate is saving 196800 for 6 +1 distance mwk Fiendsmouth cannons and 1000 cannon balls for them. That leaves 83200 gold left over. Of this gold Praetorius and I each want 10k to spend on our own stuff and leaving 63200 to spend on immediate upgrades to the ship. Sound good? If so then lets choose what of the things you guys brainstormed to upgrade the ship with.

"Very well. You seem competent so we will accept you under the same terms that we have accepted Sparel here. As long as you recognize our authority as captains and pull your own weight you will be given a cabin and a fair share of the loot. We however wouldn't ask you to anything we ourselves would not do."

Belor sticks out his hand to seal the agreement.

"Do you agree to these terms?

"Ha. Merely a jest Sparel. I feel that there is nothing we could do to stop her from talking to us."

"Well now my lady I have but two questions for you. The first being what is that we may call you and the second being of what use would you be on this ship?"

Belor looks on at the three of them with curiosity. An odd bunch to be sure, something not quite right with the tall one, something off. He then whispers to Sparel as she looks around.
"Well now Sparel here is your chance to prove just how useful you are. Predict the future. Is this someone we should be talking to?

He then calls out to the lady beckoning her to come up to him.
"You are speaking to one of the two in charge of this ship. Please tell me what it is I can do for someone such as yourself."

"Thank you for the information. We might have to take advantage of that at some point. While the crew works on the ship itself I have matters to attend to in the city. There is the matter of acquiring weapons for this ship, because what respectable ship would go out unarmed. Aside from that I need to get some groceries..."

"Praetorius I believe we have business to attend to with Luvick. We have something which he may be interested in. Sparel you as well are welcome join me. We have much to sell and could use your advice on what to purchase for the ship. Would you care to join me in town?"

"A slave? No most decisively not. I do not think we could make you a slave if we tried. I think what my comrade means to say is that we are in charge of this ship, bizarre as it is with two captains."
Belor chuckles a little.
"We won't ask anything from you we would not expect from our own selves, merely that you defer to our leadership if you wish to join us. We can offer someone of your talents a fair share of treasure and a room on aboard the ship. Do you accept THESE terms?"

Belor holds out his hand for a handshake.

Belor lets loose a chilling laugh at both his comrades action and Sparel's quick and calm response. He stares at Sparel sizing him up before yelling out to him.

"Don't mind him, he is just seeing what your response would be and I believe you have passed. I knew a Diviner once. He was handy until he didn't predict his own death. Come here and perhaps we can discuss your interest in joining our venture."

With that he beckons him closer.

So as it stands we have the option of 10 +1 Distance Cannons or 6 +1 Distance Fiends Mouths. With 1000 rounds as well, each these cost a total of 145k for the cannons or 142k for the fiends mouth. I'm leaning towards the fiend's mouths due to the lesser crew required and the cheaper cost later to upgrade. Any thoughts?

Thanks for catching that. I was under the impression that the Dusty Rose Prism gave deflection, not insight, but I didn't read it very closely I guess. It think its all corrected now. I didnt have ring/amulet of Protection though. The thing about the crossbow is that I pretty much never use it. I got it specifically to fire heartstake bolts in the ashes at dawn chapter of the Carrion Crown. I don't even get full sneak attack when I use it since I'm a knife master. Dagger of doubling is kinda cool. Can you further enchant it?

Ok so I think that my characters are done. A few things to add I want to add to the previously given loot list.

7 Ring of Protection +1
6 Amulet of Natural Armor +1
Relics from Renchurch: 4 Head Dresses worth 2k each, 4 wands worth 500 each, and misc relics worth 3k
Formula Book (can't remember who's)

As well as putting these in the loot pile I want to take a few of the items there.

For Beaufort:
The belt of physical perfection +2, ring of protection +3, amulet of natural armor +2, headband of mental superiority +2, cloak of resistance +3, and the +3 mithral chain shirt.

For Belor:
The scarlet and blue sphere ioun stone and the Headband of Alluring Charisma +4.

Any thoughts on either of my character sheets? Like if I forgot anything or if anything doesn't seem right?

Sorry I think it's just me and Praetorius that we are waiting on. I have my characters all ready I am just in the process of inputting the stats and stuff. Feel free to take a look at what I've put in so far. I have just only had time sporadically lately.

Actually you know Shooting a colossal gun through a permanent gate sounds really perfect. It would allow us to accommodate for it's weight. The only trick would be getting it in there in the first place. I really like that idea.