"Mes, stop eating mushrooms you find; they make you hallucinate."
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Not wishing to embarrass himself further, Holgur lets Mesdoram lead the way with his tracking skills.
"Could you disguise your friends there so that we could take them on-board with us? Keep em quiet-like and say we just found them. Say that they are addled in the head and never talk. Then we could use them as reinforcements for our side." Holgur doubts his plan has any hope of working but desperately wants to be told that it could.
Holgur steps around Mesdoram to get a better line of fire on the horrid debutantes and fires at the rightmost ghoul. He curses loudly as his arrow flies past its target. Attack
"That thing under yer control now, Skulls?" Holgur asks while still holding his bow taught and ready to fire.
Holgur quickly reloads and fires another arrow at the wounded ghoul. Attack
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"Die...again! is all that Holgur can spit out before he fires his arrow into the ghoul that Mesdoram wounded. Concentrate your fire on one and bring it down. Then move to the others he recalls being taught.
Holgur stays his hand when Four Skulls yells. Let's see if he can work some of that creepy stuff that he does.
Outclassed by Mesdoram! The shame!
"Yeah, some killin' would be good right now. maybe they were kind enough to leave a trail for us." Survival to find tracks
I will probably not be able to post tomorrow. Please DMPC as needed.
Holgur stands with his bow ready for any sign of enemies. He is tense while watching the others pull Four Skulls across the muck. Then a thought strikes him. When I am on the rope, we have no one covering us.
While Balthe secures the ropes, Holgur scans the area again. This spot makes him nervous. Perception
Perception
"The trees overhang enough here that, maybe, we could climb the branches over this mess. It would leave us exposed if we get attacked up there."
That sounds like something that calls for back-up characters.
Sorry, I forgot that we are level 3 now. What is the overall plot of Emerald Spire?
"Hurry up, Balthe. Standing out here makes me feel like we are being watched from the jungle." With that Holgur strings his bow and nocks an arrow. Despite his apprehension about looking away, Holgur examines the ground for tracks of any recent movement. Survival to track
"Ripe spot for an ambush, surround us while we look inside one of the huts" Holgur says to the others. He looks about the area intently for any sign of a threat, focusing on the jungle background. Perception
Holgur smiles at the aquatic freak and plays with one of his daggers. Aid another to Intimidate
Perception
Knowledge(nature)
When he sees Plugg, Holgur gets right in his face and points out the corpses of the grindylows. "Them other things like that took Crimson and Sandara. We need to get them or be shortened even more hands than we are now. Plus, it will encourage them to attack again while we are stuck here."
Holgur can just barely hear Jasmine over the driving rain and wind. When he turns and assesses the situation he charges toward the creature nearest to Mesdoram and attacks it savagely but not accurately and his flail simply gouges the deck. Attack
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Embarrassment and frustration drive Holgur to attack in a blind rage. Attack
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Holgur breaks free of the tentacles and swings his flail in a downward arc at the enemy's head but he misses badly. Attack
Edit: I am going to change Holgur's avatar to something more appropriate like a fluffy bunny.
"BOARDERS!" Holgur roars as he loosens his flail and advances on the end one on the starboard side. His attack is stymied by a sudden gust of wind in his eyes so that the enemy does not even need to evade his flail. Attack
Pirate Task:
"What the eff are you doing?" Holgur yells at a swab who is mishandling a rope. He grabs it away and continues "The sail will let loose on one side and we will lose control and get swamped!" Although, when he looks at the waves, he expects that to happen anyway. Profession (sailor) working diligently
"Just when you think a pirate ship cannot get any more undignified..." Holgur says in a mocked upper-class accent.
"You should write a book of philosophy!" Holgur says through heaving belly-laughs.
I am considering changing Holgur's combat style from two-handed to two-weapon. Initially, I wanted to make him a trip-and-disarm machine with the flail. But I did not realize that he still provokes AoOs even with a weapon that has the trip and disarm properties.
Holgur is too pretty for me to part with him.
Profession (Sailor)
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Throughout the day, Holgur is preoccupied with thoughts that this is a trap, and his mind wanders from his work.
Without replying, Holgur heaves himself up to the rigging. All the while he suspects that this is a trap.
"They have to be out and busy just like the rest of us. But they probably still have some kind of potion to keep them up and about. I think I saw them share it with their cronies."
"The two rat-bastards and whoever fights on their side" Holgur adds.
Belated Happy Birthday! Now, off to see what the Maze Minders did while I was out yesterday.
Knowledge (Geography)
Knowledge (Nature)
Swab task
Profession (Sailor)
Con Check
Holgur manages to get close to one of the Rahadoumi sailors before the man takes to his hammock. "You men fought fiercely. If not for the witch who called up that mist you would probably have taken the Wormwood. That would not have been so bad, since we were slaves on that ship. There is no way that you fellows would be as bad as masters as Plugg and Scourge are. Give it a day, at most and you will see." Diplomacy to change attitude
When the foreign sailor stares blankly, Holgur grows irritated. "Do you even understand what I am saying?" he asks in a surly voice.
Knowledge (geography)
Profession (sailor)
Comprehension gradually shows on Holgur's face. Hmmph! Regular folk should be tossed over to the sharks. If nothin' else it would teach them something." The ugly pirate stops abruptly before someone asks him what exactly it is that they would learn from that.
Holgur grinds audibly as he listens to Sandy and Crimson. If a woman don't want you then all you can do is offer coin to change her mind. What Plugg is likely thinking.... he trails off rather than finish the thought. "All right, we got to get them Rahadoumis on our side. Best idea that I got is simply telling them the truth; if not fer Plugg, Scourge and that lot they would still have their ship and their freedom. The rat-bastards will probably offer them something solid and valuable to sway them against us, and they will probably give them better tasks then we get to boot."
"We need to make sure that Plugg and Harrigan are not communicating somehow, even at a distance. Because if they are, when Harrigan stops hearing from Plugg he will be at full-sails to find out why. That is why we need to get farther away from the Wormwood so as to have a head start. Otherwise, we are going to go ship-to-ship against one that is captained by someone who knows how to command a crew in battle. We are not there yet. We can't even count on the crew here, with all the ones loyal to the rat-bastards and the old crew that we just beat now pressed into service with us." "It's painful to say this, because I want to skin those two and their cronies. And I mean that literally. If we can take them alive, I say we skin them and then dip 'em into the salty sea a few times before killing them."
Runner? Holgur needs to repeat this to himself when he hears the new assignment. When he gets his first dispatch he makes his way over to Balthe whether it is a deviation from the most direct path or not. "Watch yourself up there. Whatever Plugg is thinking with these new jobs, its probably a trap. If one of the hostile-types calls over to ye in as if in need of rescue, then it is probably a set-up." Acrobatics
Con Check
Holgur goes about his task with just enough energy to avoid shirking. He takes any opportunity to memorize verbal messages or to look at written ones surreptitiously. One never knows when something useful might be discovered.
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