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Jack looks at the doorstep, and shrugs. He grabs a bottle of rum, and swims over to the front doorstep. Upon which he sits, and opens his bottle of rum, and toasts the lady of the tower. He then sits, drinking his rum, loudly singing bowdy songs from the northern coasts.
Tap's, no Jack's. Tap's hand. I seemed to recall that the widow is a halfling herself. But if not, Landless Jack wouldn't mind it if he did have a piece of rock to call his own (and her's too of course). I'm taking it the rescued slaves are out of the picture more or less as far as potential crew goes? meta-gaming here, but I'm guessing the Rock is destined to become our base of operations one way or the other.
ok, TODOs 1. Is the ram fitted on our new ship? (what did we name it again?) 2. We want the catapult off of the old ship and put onto one of our others. In particular, I thinking a catapult might be more useful for launching fireballs over walls. 3. What does our balance sheet look like with Ricketty? 4. What next? Do we have enough crew for the second ship? 5. What to do with the former slaves (Ricketty seemed to have doubts about their welcome). 6. We should look for a base of operations. Set up a camp/small town in some nice place. The former slaves may be interested, or not. I'm not exactly sure how far we want to take this. Can we have some kind of idea of what sort of people they might be, and skills? Because if we start up a base of operations, we'd probably want people around that can do things there (for pay, of course).
Ricketty, what would you give us for the ship, against what we owe you?
Well, perhaps we can fit that catapult on the ship we're getting retrofitted now. As for the boat, perhaps we just go back and see if we can trade it in Rickety to pay off some of our debt.
Well, this lot may want to join as freeman crew; otherwise, we drop them off ... where? You are not thinking of giving up this new ship, are you Captain?
btw, Tap, why is wer're taking orders from you here, and in our other campaign too, huh?
Orders captain?
Its getting awfully crowded here. And I think their captain is up to something
Jack leaps out and over the gap between the ships, pulls Tap's beard, and then leaps back over to the other ship to attack the captain, but the captain he sees now is too far out of reach. So instead, he thrusts his sword at the pirate between him and Sunyata. sunyata we have no time to dance with these pirates. Its the captain we want!
Jack prepares to spend a point of panache to parry and riposte
There is a futility to the life of a pirate. In another life, a person might be able to plan out his day from the sunrise to sunset, or from the beginning of a season to ends, or even from a harvest to the next, or longer even. But for a pirate, what is the use? Just today, Jack had planned to go down to the kitchen and make a sweet apple pie, just like his mama used to make. He'd seen that the cook had stowed a sack of them away before they left harbor. But now? Even if Jack survived this fight, he doubted he'd be eating apple pie at the end of this day. Sigh Well, Captain, our plans didn't exactly turn out, did they. But if we kill their captain, maybe we can end it soonest. Send some of his guards to a nice nap, if you can, Captain. With that Jack leapt over the plank, and dived into to meet his doom. At least a pirate's life is interesting. No chewing on a blade of grass for him. Jack attacks the first pirate he sees, a skinny red-skinned fellow, who, lets be honest, didn't look to enthusiastic to meet him. Letting out a ferocious growl, Jack greeted him with a lunge of his blade.
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/other-rules/ship-combat/naval-siege- engines/
Seems like if someone could cast sleep on the rowers on one side of their boat, they'd swerve off in one direction...
150 increments. the usual.
Ramming is designed to damage the ship and sink it. I'd rather take the ship without damaging it, being as we're pirates. I suppose that
We are 300 feet away. We move 100' a turn. Our ballista and their catapult have range 150ft. But the catapult has a minimum range of 50ft. So it can't do anything if we are right beside the ship. Maybe we can outrun them. And now is the time to try. But otherwise, we should get as close as possible (e.g. ram it).
such dirty talk tap
Do we look so weak that they'd turn about? Or do they wish to parlay? There may be more to gain by trade than by a fight. On the other hand, I'm not gonna give up our hard fought gold without one.
Well, like the old pirate RumBuzz used to say, "Running makes ya look like prey. Only run if ya can get away."
I did level up to 5, forgot to update char page on pathfinder.
our ram will probably crack on our first ship, and then we'll just get the one with all the articulation of a giant's fist. anyway, if we're all done with that, I say, we should go ahead with trying to wed tap to the lady of that tower
I'll be headed out Friday and won't be back until after Tuesday. Cabin in the woods; very limited internet, if any at all. Let's just take this as an opportunity to update our loot and character sheets.
Jack laughs and gives Tap a big wet hug.
Jack looks up and sees Tap swimming down. Don't worry Captain, its already taken care of. He stands aside to let Tap be the first to enter the wrecked ship.
Jack watches the undead monster as it swims toward him, and then expertly thrusts his blade through the the monster's chest, and then ripped his blade out, tearing out large chunks of undead flesh.
Jack sees the undead monster try to grapple Sunyata. Jack shudders, but tries not to waste the opportunity.
Jack curses. Pirates? any day.
But undead? Jack shivered, remembering how, once when he was a boy, they had buried his father on the corner of their little farm. His father had gone on a bender, ended up in a brawl, and then had visited a s+$~ty whore house situated outside town in an overgrown wood, and then, never came home. No love lost, the burial was quiet and unceremonious; his mother poured out all the liquor over his grave, and they all went to bed easier than they had for any night they'd remembered. Unfortunately, his father's corpse hadn't been content to lay in his grave, and came a lookin for his liquor late that night, and not finding it, started in him and his mom... ugh. What is the captain doing up there? Jack swipes, aiming to take off the things head.
Jack's head clears, and he manages to swim down to Sunyata. He points to the door, though clearly Sunyata is already pulling out a pry bar. He pushes her out of the way, grabs it and starts prying open the barred door. After a few moments of grunting and straining in his air bubble, he sheepishly moves over for Sunyata.
Jack shrugs, and then dives into the water, and his shoulder slams into something hard. The waves toss him around, and he swallows water.
Jack shrugs and says, I'll go down too.
Yeah, my aunt had it. Was on oxygen, but pulled through. She already survived Polio, so she's tough!
Hey hey Sunyata. Welcome back. Sorry that its been rough. We're about to dive for treasure. Let's do it!
ok crew, what are our options here? spells, techs, potions
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