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Fights were like the ocean… and the hag could smell the tide turning. Damn that cat for ruining my plan! Still, if she could break her opponents quickly enough, there was a way to salvage the situation. With the watchman still a fumbling mess, the half-orc was the largest threat at the moment…

The hag lunges at Yash, savaging him with claws and teeth, trying to tear the life from him before he can bring his axe to bear again. Green flesh is rended over and over, half-orc blood sprays in all directions… and yet the Spirit Walker endures, bleeding from a dozen wounds by the time the crone is spent.

The hag knows true doubt for the first time…

FULL: Attack

~ RND 3, cont. ~

Order
Cookie, Hag, Sable, Yash, Xing (Misfortune rnd 2) , Bob (Misfortune rnd 2), Senna

Bolds are up!

HPs
Cookie 24/24
Sable 25/26
Senna 21/21
Xing 4/20
Yash 5/26 Rage
Watch Bob 32/42

Cookie, I had to move you forward a bit. Ancestor's Council has a 30' range.

The hag leaps between the watchman and the large cat, trying to have her cake and eat it too. Bob’s sword may be on the ground but his armor and shield aren’t. The hag’s claws strike sparks as they slide ineffectually off the watchman’s sturdy shield. Frustrated, she satisfies her hunger by biting deep into Xing’s vulnerable neck – a softer target, for the moment. The tiger’s fur scorches and her flesh sizzles under the crone’s molten teeth.

FREE: 5’
FULL: Attack

~ RND 2, Cont. ~

Order
Cookie, Hag, Sable (Soot rnd 2), Yash, Xing (Soot/Misfortune rnd 2), Bob (Misfortune rnd 2), Senna

Bolds are up!

HPs
Cookie 24/24
Sable 18/26
Senna 21/21
Xing 4/20
Yash 22/22
Watch Bob 42/42

Cookie pushes toward the doorway of the room and Blesses her allies.

All characters get +1 on ATTs and on Fear saves for 2 mins.

The hag shoots a feral look at Cookie for her jibe, then leaps on the two women wiping their eyes and dry-heaving soot from their lungs. Her hooked claws rake across Sabelina’s face, nearly taking an eye. Then she nibbles lightly on Xing’s shoulder, the wound cauterizing around her blazing teeth.

FREE: 5’ Step
FULL: Attack

~ RND 1 ~

Order
Cookie, Hag, Sable (Soot rnd 1), Yash, Xing (Soot/Misfortune rnd 1), Bob (Misfortune rnd 1), Senna

Bolds are up!

HPs
Cookie 24/24
Sable 15/26
Senna 21/21
Xing 14/20
Yash 22/22
NPC Bob 42/42

As the lid starts to move under Xing’s efforts, those of you in the west wing hear a broken, cracking voice say, ”Well, hell…” Soot explodes outward from beneath the ramp filling all of the west wing with a choking, toxic dust.

Xing, Sable, and Senna I need FORT Saves vs DC:14. If you fail, note the spoiler below:

Further Xing, Sable, Senna, and Bob I need WILL Saves vs DC:14. If you fail, note the spoiler below:

Beneath the sounds of coughing and confusion, joints pop quietly, bones flex, and sinews reform as the hag crawls from beneath the lid of the sarcophagus and claws her way up the sarcophagus proper. As the soot clears, you see her in all her ‘glory’.

She is hairless 5' thing with pitted, coal-black skin, blazing red eyes, and jagged teeth that glow like red-hot iron ingots. Curved claws sprout from her dessicated fingers and withered toes. She eyes the three of you and cackles, ”This is fortuitous.”

Hag Stealth: 1d20 + 16 ⇒ (1) + 16 = 17
Hag Init: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (13) + 4 = 17

Xing, when she crawled out and got up you have an opportunity for an AoO, IF you can still see OR (if blind) you make a PER roll that beats her stealth (with all the attendant SOOT and MISFORTUNE modifiers).

COMBAT! Everybody roll INIT. For anyone who blew their MISFORTUNE save, you must roll Init twice and take the worse roll.

On the Water…

Xing reestablishes her hold on the crabman, trying to make it an easier target for her allies. And her efforts don’t disappoint.

Sabelina slithers in like a serpent and deftly drives her blade deep into the monster’s thorax. The monster hisses its pained response.

Joas strikes with the boarding axe but it slides off the slick armor of the creature. He happens to glance toward the sea and stops short… the roiling water is moving now, straight towards the boat. He doesn’t know if his First Mate can hear him underwater so he yells, ”HURRY UP, BOY! I THINK THIS BASTERD HAS FRIENDS!”

Axe ATT vs DC:?: 1d20 + 2 + 2 ⇒ (3) + 2 + 2 = 7 | DAM: 1d6 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7 flanking
PER: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15

Jorah continues to struggle with the ballista bolt.
STR Check vs DC:15: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (2) + 2 = 4 2nd Attempt – Fail

Xing the tiger is all over the crabman, a constant distraction from its plans. By now, it assumed the decks would be awash in blood. Nevertheless, the crabman again tries to get the vexing cat under its own sizeable claws, this time with far more success. Its claw snaps closed on the tiger's neck, almost shattering a vertebrae.

Folks in BOLD are up!
Round 3!
ORDER:
Xing
Sabelina
Captain Joas
FM Jorah
Crabman!
Passengers (doing sweet bugger all)

CURRENT HP:
Sabelina 13/13
Xing 1/11

On the Water…

@Xing – yes, this guy is large with reach.

Xing feints to throw off the crabman’s expected attack then she leaps on the creature. Her claws find purchase in the creases of the creature’s chitinous armor. She has prey in her grasp!
You have successfully dodged its AoO and grappled the beast!

Sabelina slides forward cautiously, sizing up their opponent…

Joas curses his ill luck briefly then pulls his trusty boarding-axe from the sea-chest and closes in on the behemoth engaged with the tiger lady. Joas is adjacent to the baddy and can provide a flank, if needed. He shouts to his First Mate/son, ”Clear that damned bolt from our hull! We sink, we die!”

Jorah, a brawny lad, nods, draws a deep breath, and dives attempting to twist and push the bolt back through the hole it made…
STR Check vs DC:?: 1d20 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 2 = 13 1st Attempt – Fail

Distracted by the tiger clinging to it, the crabman ignores the little man with the boarding axe as it tries to capture and crush the ferocious, fur-clad creature. And capturing prey was something it knew very well…

With two claws and two extra arms, the crabman quickly turns from prey to predator. It secures the tiger against its chest with too many grasping hands and then brings a vice-like, claw to bear on the air-breather’s ribcage, attempting to crush the life out of it.

I’m definitely not an expert on the grapple rules… but I think I have this right. Correct me if I’m wrong.

The newlyweds wail in the back of the boat and mourn their impending tragic (but somewhat romantic) deaths.
That ends the round.

Folks in BOLD are up!
Round 2!
ORDER:
Xing
Sabelina
Captain Joas
FM Jorah
Crabman!
Passengers (doing sweet bugger all)

CURRENT HP:
Sabelina 13/13
Xing 7/11

Here... kitty kitty...

On the Water…

The folks on the ’wife might notice the fracas on the shoreline, if they weren’t busy with their own problems…

The boat heels over violently and water begins to fill the prow as the regular passengers get tossed like flotsam. In a high-pitched shriek, one of the newlyweds squeals, ”We’re SINKING!!!” Embarrassingly, it is the husband. (I apologize for gender stereotyping and discrimination there, but come’on it’s kind of funny. )

Xing, sensing danger, leaps amidships and transforms… adding to the general mayhem. Sabelina deftly catches the gunwhale even as the stern tips violently then pivots hard as the prow of the boat has been snagged and acts as the fulcrum on which the boat spins. She realizes, with some relief that despite the sea spray hitting her, she won’t need to apply more olive oil.

Joas only has a moment to be surprised by Xing’s transformation exclaiming, ”Torag’s hairy BALLS!” before his nautical mind takes over. He quickly drops the sail so the belly of the boat doesn’t get torn out on the reef or whatever snagged them while barking orders:

To the newlyweds, he growls, ”Get to the stern.. to the BACK of the boat! Holler if you’re hurt. Ignore that big cat. She ain’t gonna hurt you.”

His first mate doesn’t get that equitable tone. ”Jorah! Get your ass to the bow and find out what snagged us! Looks like the hull is leaking.”

Joas turns to the remaining member of his crew, flummoxed by what to say, ”Xing! You do… whatever you are doing. But we’ll likely need some pitch to seal any leaks.”

Jorah scrambles forward to assess the damage as the newlyweds flee aft, crowding into Sabelina’s preferred spot. The first mate looks over the bow on both sides then dunks his head into the expanding pool of water rapidly filling the starboard side of the prow for a long look. He comes up shaking the water from his hair. ”Da! Ain’t no reef or rocks! We got a big f@<king hole in the hull and there’s, uh, a big spiked arrow… a ballista bolt we’re hooked on. Must be tethered to something below.” The sailor’s eyes go wide as the implication of what he’s saying comes to him.

The boat dips to port as if a considerable weight was suddenly attached to the hull. Halfway between Xing and Jorah, on the port side of the boat, a figure quickly climbs aboard with the use of too many limbs…

Seawater sluices off the creature. It looks like a man…
Except for the feet which are splayed for swimming… And the red-brown lobster-like chitinous plates that armor the torso… And the two sets of massive claws above the withered pair of humanoid arms. And the head, which is all crab. So, not really like a man at all.

Xing was used to being one of the tallest people in any room, but this creature was a bit taller… another 3’ of tall. Standing at a shade over 9’, the monster snaps its prodigious claws and regards the crew with disconcertingly smart eyes.

Sabelina’s DEX Check: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 15
Jorah’s Prof:Sailor: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 17
Crabman Perception: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (8) + 8 = 16
Crabman Init: 1d20 + 0 ⇒ (10) + 0 = 10 – purposeful delay to lower init to act after Jorah

To simplify, the terrain is normal and you can ignore impediments. The crabman is roughly 8’ away from both Xing and FM Jorah. He is 12’ from Captain Joas and 18’ from Sabelina.

Let's get ready to ruuummmbble! Folks in BOLD are up!

Round 1!
ORDER:
Xing
Sabelina
Captain Joas
FM Jorah
Crabman
Passengers (doing sweet bugger all)

CURRENT HP:
Sabelina 13/13
Xing 11/11

EVERYBODY in both battles are free to post! Thanks for holding off.