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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wsclark" data-source="post: 802" data-attributes="member: 97">Session VIII - The Calm Ends?Frosting 14th, 744 YNDEveryone awakens to a beautiful, but still totally calm day. All are nervous at this point, the attack last night does not sit well with everyone since the sea is calm once again. Tension among the crew is rising rapidly and the adventurers are trying to keep to themselves as much as possible without making it look like they are avoiding the crew.The sun sets and the mood is apprehensive. If an attack came during the night yesterday with the sea being calm, won't the same happen again tonight? All are on their toes. And just like last night, four creatures try to sneak up on board the ship, starting to wreck havoc.It happens, again on third watch, except, this time, Pug is sleeping on deck and four crew are on duty. The first thing anyone notices is a muffled cry of surprise from one of the crew as he is pinned dead to the mast from a heavy crossbow bolt. Everyone quickly looks around to see the four creatures that are attacking. Chin kicks Pug to wake him. Two of the remaining crew go to gang up on one of the sahuagin toward the rear of the ship, while the two sahuagin at the front fire their crossbows Shaedra and Thalen, both missing. The last sahuagin at the rear of the ship, fires another heavy crossbow bolt, killing another crew member.The two crew members attacking the sahuagin between are not doing well. They do manage to inflict some minor damage before one of them is cut down by a trident. Chin rushes over to help the other sailor out. Meanwhile, Shaedra goes after one of the two at the front of the ship, hitting it and wounding it severely. Pug gets up and moves toward the other sahuagin at the front of the ship while Thalen lets loose with an arrow at it, missing. The sahuagin at the rear of the ship reloads his crossbow.Chin manages to deal the creature in front of him some severe damage, but not enough to take him down before the sahuagin spears the other sailor dead with his trident. The four crewmen that were on watch are now dead. Shaedra deals another blow to the creature in front of her, killing it. Pug, in an almost repeat performance of the previous night, takes out the sahuagin in front of him in one mighty swish of his greataxe. Thalen decides to shoot at the sahuagin that reloaded its crossbow, missing again. The creature returns fire, missing Thalen.Chin lands another punch on the sahuagin he faces, finally taking it out. With this turn of events, the last sahuagin jumps into the water over the back end of the ship. Everyone takes stock of what happened. The adventurers are unharmed, but four crew members lost their lives. The captain is happy that the adventurers were present to help them out, sad that he lost four crew and apprehensive in that he wonders why he let that crazy wizard talk him into taking these people as passengers. Maybe they are bringing his ship bad luck, he wonders to himself.Frosting 15th, 744 YNDEveryone again awakens to a beautiful day, but this time a breeze is picking up. There is a massive sigh of relief from everyone on board as the ship finally gets underway. It is the start of what turns into a very pleasant day. All on board are starting to relax as the day wears on. However, this is not to be the case that night as the sahuagin return...This time they try to come on board during the second watch, which has Daloren and Pug up, along with Chin and two crew. This time, however, the group on board the ship spot the intruders first. They get themselves into position so that the sahuagin don't have an opportunity to fire the crossbows. Pug and Daloren work in tandem on two of the attackers, taking one quickly down. Chin and the two sailors do the same to the other two creatures. The remaining two creatures try to hit the group, but only succeed in slightly wounding Chin.The adventurers and sailors pound on the remaining sahuagin, killing them both. It was over before it even started. This time, they killed them all.Frosting 16th, 744 YNDGood weather continues to prevail and all are pretty sure that the sahuagin won't be back since none of them escaped. (DM's note: the sahuagin were on a sporting trip. Each one was attempting to throw victims overboard and then leap off the ship to fight in their own element. They were trying to each kill one man or woman, cut off the head and take it with them. Unfortunately, they only partially succeeded on the first night.)Frosting 19th, 744 YNDSailing has gone well for the past several days. Good winds have propelled the ship to the point where they are almost half way to Zoa. During the morning today, however, the watchman cries out and points frantically to the northeast. There, a quarter mile away and making a lazy course toward the ship, is a serpent at least 30 feet long. Captain Pocaat orders the helmsman to bring the ship about and to the southwest but the serpent by then is making a course directly toward the Forsaken.The serpent is about 420 feet away when the crew opens fire with the single ballista on board the Forsaken. Chin and Pug utilize some of the heavy crossbows they recovered in their fight with the sahuagin to take pot shots at the creature. The crossbows hit once or twice and when the creature is about 270 feet away, it submerges.Time passes very slowly as everyone is frantically looking for the serpent. All of a sudden, it climbs aboard the front side of the ship after swimming underneath it. It attacks Shaedra, severely wounding her. The crew turn the ballista in its direction, fires and hits it. Pug runs up to help Shaedra, but takes severe damage from a bite by the serpent (DM's note: AoO, the serpent has a 10 ft. reach) and before he knows it, he is unconscious in the tightening coils of the sea serpent (DM's note: failed his grapple check verse the creature who automatically get a free one on a successful attack.) Daloren runs up to join the fray, but just like Shaedra and Pug, takes a tremendous amount of damage from a bite, but it doesn't stop him from dealing some damage with his longsword. Chin fires the heavy crossbow he's holding at the creature, hitting it as well.Shaedra, in the best position to see Pug, realizes that if something isn't done now, Pug is going to die (DM's note: he is at -9 hit points after the constriction damage.) So, she attempts to climb up the serpent by first ramming her greatsword into it, causing a great deal of damage, pulling herself up to Pug and touches him with her hands, thereby saving him from dying. The serpent has had enough by this point (DM's note: it had taken 50 points of damage so far, it only had 55) and retreats to the ocean, drop Pug into the deep. Chin immediately jumps overboard and rescues Pug. The crew pull them back on board where Lulla heals Pug to consciousness and almost fully restores Daloren and Shaedra.</blockquote>

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