Midian frowns as he finishes his call and a single porpoise appears, but the creature dutifully rams toward the water woman, even as Midian himself looses an arrow.
Her enjoyment out on the high seas is starting to draw thin with all of these attacks. Her frustration gets the better of her and has an effect on her crossbow shot at the woman in the water.
The serpent woman in the water hisses in pain as a hail of arrows strike from all sides. Both Midian's and Seria's arrows strike true, while Whisper's hastily drawn crossbow is slightly off the mark. The porpoise squeals and rattles off a series of clicks and chirps before charging snout first into her. Its rigid nose plows into the creatures soft underbelly. The woman emits an inhuman screech as she turns her attention on the summoned creature. She opens her mouth wide revealing a pair of enlongated fangs that she sinks into the throat of the porpoise. The porpoise squeals in pain as the serpent woman wraps her body around the dying animal. The animals body is limp when she disentangles herself and turns to glare balefully at those still on the boat.
The serpent woman in the water hisses in pain as a hail of arrows strike from all sides. Both Midian's and Seria's arrows strike true, while Whisper's hastily drawn crossbow is slightly off the mark. The porpoise squeals and rattles off a series of clicks and chirps before charging snout first into her. Its rigid nose plows into the creatures soft underbelly. The woman emits an inhuman screech as she turns her attention on the summoned creature. She opens her mouth wide revealing a pair of elongated fangs that she sinks into the throat of the porpoise. The porpoise squeals in pain as the serpent woman wraps her body around the dying animal. The animals body is limp when she disentangles herself and turns to glare balefully at those still on the boat.
OOC
Spoiler:
I've added the new players to the initiative list and the map. Each space is a 5' square. Use Invisible Castle to link your rolls. You can roll your own attacks, damage, saves, and some skill checks. If you use an ability that requires a check from me, such as trip + a followup attack if you succeed, make sure you post the result of a success or failure along with the original check.
Example: Bob makes a trip attack against the orc, his trip check is 12, if he succeeds he rolled a 15 to hit for 8 damage.
Map
Spoiler:
Code:
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| X|
|X |
|--H---|
|X |
|X O G|
|W ####|
| ####|
N | ####|
====OX==== XW
| HJ|
| R|
|M |
| DO |
|S X|
|--H---|
| XX |
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S : Seria
J : Johan
M : Midian
W : Whisper
X : Sailor
N : Water-Women
R : Raysuldra
D : Doral
G : Glaive
H : Stairs
0 : Mast
W : Shark
Init Order
Doral
Midian
Seria
Johan
Glaive
Whisper
Raysuldra
Sailors
Bad Guys
While he grimaces at the pain the summoned dolphin must feel, Midian maintains his focus. He knows the nature of his summoning magics mean the dolphin is not truly dead. Unlike Seeqir. And this was likely his murderer. He looses another arrow into the creature's side, trying not to think about how he's failed his companion this day.
The situation worsens and forces Glaive to act, at last. He hoped the "heroes" on the ship would hndle this situation without his help. Now he hopes, that no one will penetrate his magical disguise.
The dark-clothed human mercenary grips his longspear with one hand and points at the shark in the water. A red lightning races at the animal from his fingertips...
Doral grimaces as he takes in the situation. He was hired to join the crew as a simple scout and that's how he liked it. Now, however, he realized he had to act and reveal his abilities else his own life might be in danger. He turns his wand of magic missiles towards the serpent woman and fires.
"You could have saved some lives if you'd used that earlier," the changeling says irritably. And it was the lives lost she was upset about, she decided. Not that this -wand- was more powerful than she was. Of course not.
Raysuldra leans over the side of the ship and decides to use her breath weapon to attack the shark attacking the sailor. She inhales deeply then exhales a cone of cold.
Start of Round 16
The shark spasms and arcs out of the water as the eldritch blast and cone of freezing ice strike it. It thrashes, churning the water violently in its death throes before rolling over, still twitching along its muscular length. Johan manages to get a loop of rope over the sailor in the water and pull him closer to the ship.
On the far side, Midian's arrow and the twin volleys of magic missiles strike the snake woman. Black blood spills from the wounds across her scaley body. She shrieks again in an unintelligible language, and casts another spell. After she casts, her mouth moves as if speaking, but you hear nothing.
Whisper - Make a Will save DC16
Spoiler:
Suggestion: You hear a whispering, sibilant voice next to your ear urging you to leap into the water and fight at close range to prove yourself.
If you failed your save you must follow the above course of action. Otherwise you shake off the effect.
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| X|
|X |
|--H---|
|X |
|X O G|
|W ####|
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N | ####|
====OX====
| HJ-X
|D R|
|M |
| O |
|S X|
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S : Seria
J : Johan
M : Midian
W : Whisper
X : Sailor
N : Water-Women
R : Raysuldra
D : Doral
G : Glaive
H : Stairs
0 : Mast
W : Shark
# : Catapult
Init Order
Doral
Midian
Seria
Johan
Glaive
Whisper
Raysuldra
Sailors
Bad Guys
OOC
Spoiler:
The #'s on the map are a large, rotating catapult for attacking other ships.
"I'm sorry I didn't act sooner, my dear, but I simply lack your experience. I hope not to disappoint in the future," Doral apologizes to Whisper in the most polite way he can manage.
After he sees that the serpent woman can cast magic he sighs and says, "Oh... I think that we've seen enough of that now." He sends her a spell in return.
OOC
Spoiler:
Silence on the serpent woman. DC=16.
__________________ My Involvement:
Spoiler:
Player of Doral Kinsman the Beguiler in Who Wants to Be a Wayfinder IC
Whisper doesn't answer Doral right away...she's too busy heaving herself over the railing. At the last second, she catches herself with a foot, precariously hanging out over the edge and clearly fighting the compulsion with everything she's got.
"Nnnnno!" she yells, fists clenched, face contorted. "I will not submit to you!"
When she opens her eyes, they're bloodshot from strain, but despite the protesting knots of her muscles still trying to obey the imperative, she forces herself back onto the deck, nearly falling over as she does.
Seeing Johan pull the sailor to the ship Raysuldra runs over to the other side of the ship. She loads her crossbow and fires a bolt at the snake woman.
As Dorel incants his spell, Glaive lets loose another powerful eldritch blast that sears the snake woman's midsection. Midian's arrow deflects when it strikes the edge of a wave and fails to hit the target. Raysuldra's arrow strikes a glancing blow along the creature's spine. Dorel finishes his spell and for a moment it begins to take hold, but the snake woman's will seems to be too strong to overcome, and his spell unravels. The spells and bolts draw the snake woman's attention away from Whisper as she in turn begins to cast a spell. Opening her mouth impossibly wide, four bolts of energy spring forward. Two of them strike Dorel in the chest, and the other two strike Raysuldra. Dorel and Whisper easily recognize it as the same spell they used moments before.
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