Blizzard at Revel's End (IC)

[FitzTheRuke]

In the Water

Valrin disappeared into the icy depths. There was only the dimmest of light as he held his breath and thrust his spear into the fish-man that held his leg. The creature thrashed in pain, but it dug in its claws, preventing him from surfacing, and it continued to try to bite him as he kicked to stop it. (3 dmg claw).

The octopus that had been Doc Halfhand squeezed under the dock, shooting away from the Fishman that had speared him. His tentacles shot up out of the water below the cliff, and just missed catching the giant crab as it scuttled up the cliff out of reach.

On the Dock

Py'Cott sent out his Red Ghost and moved to the load of crates that were on the dock. These were sealed tight (action: dc13 athletics to break in), and he could tell that they contained blocks of whale-fat wrapped in cloth.

The Red Ghost walked over next to Lex, who was using his magic to armour up, hoping he'd remain underestimated in the attack.

OOC: I am out of time. I'll be back with more. Don't take another turn yet!

Spoiler: Rolls

S4 Claw vs: Valrin: 1D20+4 = [19]+4 = 23 for 1D4+2 = [1]+2 = 3
S4 Bite vs Valrin: 1D20+4 = [7]+4 = 11 miss
S6: Opp attack vs DocOckSpear: 1D20+4 = [1]+4 = 5 miss

 

[Steve Gorak]

OOC: forgot to add the divine fury damage, so extra 4 damage (total damage: 27)

 

[Steve Gorak]

OOC: bonus action attack: 25, damage 20 if Sahuagin didn’t die, 24 damage to another target if applicable if he did. Note: I’m hoping that the 10ft reach will give Thorbin the chance to strike another Sahuagin, if the first one falls

 

[FitzTheRuke]

On the Dock

Having reached the deck in a hurry, Thorbin saw the men thrashing about in the water and several fish-men coming to the surface. He rushed down the ship's plank in only a few steps and he pushed his way past Py'Cott, who was breaking his way into one of the crates. As he reached the eastern end of the dock's "T", a fish-man rose up out of the sea, dripping icy water. A young guard who was there stumbled back, fumbling for a quarrel for his crossbow. Thorbin grabbed a pike that was next to the fire-barrel and thrust it into the fish-man, skewering him through. By now, another fish-man began to rise up out of the sea, but even before it could reach for the dock, Thorbin tore his pike from the other fish-man and plunged it into the second one, killing both.

Py'Cott pulled a 30-pound brick of whale-fat, wrapped in fabric, from one of the crates as the young guard (who's name was Ludz) finished loading his crossbow and fired at a fish-man who had neared the surface and was mauling one of the guards that had fallen in. His quarrel went straight and true and imbedded itself in the fish-man's back, giving the guard a moment to swim free and reach for the dock in a desperate attempt to climb out of the icy water. He pulled himself up onto the dock, and lay there gasping.

OOC: Ran out of time again. Still more to come!

Spoiler: Rolls

Ludz crossbow Crossbow: 1D20+3 = [10]+3 = 13 for 1D10+1 = [10]+1 = 11
Guard athletics to get outCheck: 1D20+5 = [12]+5 = 17

 

[VLAD the Destroyer]

Jathlin looks at the halfling captain waiting for an answer. The captain opens his mouth a couple time as if his brain was not comprehending the question. Jathlin curses, they did not have time for this fool to pull it together. Jathlin takes a few steps and then dives through the hole in the ships hull. Once in open water his connection to the elemental water returns. Jathlin turns and moves his hand and the water inside the hole freezes solid. With the hole in the ship plugged Jathlin turns his attention to his surroundings, trying to gauge what had caused the damage.

OOC: Moving through the hole and then casting Shape Water to freeze a 5 ft cube of water in the hole. If the hole is larger then 5 ft diameter let me know so I can do the same thing again next round. I can maitain 2 frozen blocks with the spell.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

In the Hold

Captain Halehearty watched as Prisoner #299 (Jathlin) suddenly cursed and dove through the hole in the side of the ship. Thinking the prisoner was escaping, but having bigger things to worry about, the captain called for carpentry equipment. Two sailors in the hold brought him a large wooden board, while two from the deck above slid down on the crane's rope (the ladder was a mess of prisoners and guards, vying to escape the flooding hold) and brought with them hammers and nails.

The ship's cleric made her way up to the main deck to report what was happening to the mate, who had opened a large trunk full of weapons and was selecting for himself a hand-crossbow and sword. The crew that had been on the dock (and fortunately for them had not fallen in the water) and the crew that had been working on the main deck, all grabbed various weapons in preparation of defending the ship. At the mate's order, two crewmen who had been working the ship's crane moved up to the forecastle and threw a tarp off of a large, swivel-mounted ballista.

While this was going on, Jathlin had slid out into the icy water and felt his magic return to him, free of the antimagic field protecting the prison hold. He froze a large block of ice, which very nearly sealed the hole in the hull (it was now a much slower leak). Having done that, he turned to see what was going on, and he found himself face-to-face with two jagged-toothed fish-men. One grabbed him (3 damage) and tried to drag him down while the other tried to run him through with a spear, but to their suprise, he was their equal as a swimmer and did not need to breathe, and he twisted free.

On the Cliff

The guards and prisoners at the lift's wheel continued their work and the lift raised twenty feet as the bosun (a dwarf nick-named Dogger) peered out the little window, frustrated to be left out of a fray. The crab and its rider passed them by, climbing high above (110/160 feet). The crab-rider twisted in his seat and held a twisted tube-worm blowgun to his mouth and sent two sharp-looking urchin quills directly down toward the octopus below him (2 damage) and turn

Four guards at the top of the cliff, wielded crossbows, and they fired at the crab-rider, but by an unfortunate combination of wind, range, and angle (firing directly down from the cliffside was both dangerous and difficult) they all missed. These four guards had worked at the prison for many years, and they understood that the enormous octopus had once been Doc Halfhand.

OOC: Almost done, hang in there. I've got one more thing to do, and I'll give Razum a chance to go but the round is nearly over.

Spoiler: Rolls

S1 vs Jathlin
Claw: 1D20+4 = [8]+4 = 12; 1D4+2 = [1]+2 = 3
Bite: 1D20+4 = [1]+4 = 5; miss
S2 vs Jathlin
Spear: 1D20+4 = [4]+4 = 8 miss
Crabrider vs DocOck
Blowgun: 2D20.LOW(1)+3 = [7, 8]+3 = 10 miss
Blowgun: 2D20.LOW(1)+3 = [19, 10]+3 = 13 for 1D4+1 = [1]+1 = 2

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Loose Ends

Razum did not like the cold. He positively hated the water that rushed about his feet. WIth everything going on, no one paid serious attention to the strange lizard-man when he had followed Thorbin up the ladder before the prisoners and guards clogged it with pushing bodies. He made his way carefully and methodically to the ship's ramp, keeping a close eye out for trouble.

Trouble happened, though Razum avoided the worst of it.

From under the dock, a large form moved in the icy water and came to the surface with a spray of water. An enormous black-and-white 'whale' burst out of the water and snatched the guard who had just climbed out of the water. The whale spun about, mauling the poor guard and raining icy spray that sizzled steam out of the fire-barrel. On the whale's dorsal-fin sat a female-looking fish-person with an impressive head-crest. She held a conch in one hand and a coral staff in the other (holding onto the whale with her scaled legs).

The ship's mate had just finished arming and organising his crew to defend the main deck when the fish-woman held the conch to her sharp-toothed mouth and blew. The deck exploded into shards of splinters - the crane fell to one side and brought a heavy spar down on the deck with a crash. Crewmen flew about and fell to the deck, dead. The ballista was left unmanned, though it looked like it survived the blast. Razum dove down the ramp onto the dock. A guard, who was on the deck (he had been inspecting the offloading) was bloodied and battered, but he survived the blast and he took cover behind what was left of the rail and fired his crossbow at the fish-woman, wounding her in the leg. The mate had also survived, and he made for the forecastle, firing a hand crossbow that left small quarrels sticking out of the flesh of the whale.

Then a large group of fishmen swarmed up the far-side of the ship and climbed aboard the shattered main deck, threatening to overwhelm the few defenders that remained.

OOC: Fhew! I think that does it. You can now go again!

GM: Encounter: Sahuagin Attack! End Round Two; Begin Round Three

 

[Kobold Stew]

Doc Halfhand shivers his tentacles as he sees the crab rise up the cliffside. With a burst of speed, he attempts once more to grab the crab before it is out of his reach.

OOC: Round 3. Giant Octopus form. HP 11. HP: 42/52. Move: to the cliff edge below the crab. (Assuming climbing speed is half of land speed of 30', I should be able to reach with 15' reach? If not, then he heads to the whale rider instead and attacks it.) Attack: 1d20+5=25 (Crit!). Damage - 2d6+3=7 plus 2d6=6 - 13 bludgeoning damage total. Target is GRAPPLED and RESTRAINED (DC 16). If there is movement left, he will try to take it out to sea.

 

[Steve Gorak]

OOC: last round’s Aoo on the whale if applicable Attack: 16, damage 23

Thorbin yells at the men still on the boat, “get out, we’re getting swarmed!”

He then tries to help the poor guard being mauled by the whale by repeatedly stabbing the beast from behind the flaming barrel.

OOC: move: none Primary Attack: 20, damage 24 PAM secondary attack: 16, damage 17 if any of these hit, additional 6 divine fury damage Aoo; if anything comes within reach attack: 5 damage 23

 

[Leatherhead]

Seeing a "whale" surface directly in front of him and eat a man made Py'Cott think twice about his snack. The sudden deafening blast made his mind up for him, dropping the load while he scrambled to cover his ears.

Py'Cott knew a powerful weapon when he saw it, and that conch was too dangerous to leave in the hands of anyone who might want to kill him.
The half-orc took a deep breath, and using his pike as a pole-vault, sprang unto the back of the whale, surprising the fishwoman just long enough to bring the pike down on her defensive arm. The resulting blow knocked the conch from her grasp, flinging it into the air, where Prisoner 284 snatched it right in front of the fishwoman's bewildered eyes.

Py'Cott returned the fishwoman's stare with a gruesome grin that faded into the face of the Red Ghost. Back on the end of the docks, the newly materialized Half-Orc gave a laugh to the gnome standing by. "Easy as taking candy from a baby!"

OOC: I honestly expected to fail at least one of them! Unfortunately, now I need a new snack. Athletics: 1D20+5 = [8]+5 = 13 Attacking with Pike, using Disarming Strike: 1D20+5 = [10]+5 = 15 1D10+3+1D6 = [9]+3+[3] = 15 Disarm Check: 1D20+3 = [11]+3 = 14 Slight of Hand: 1D20+1 = [18]+1 = 19 Using a free action to send Red Ghost as far tward the shore from the dock as possible, then a bonus action to swap places. Also, if either the fishwoman or the orca tries to move from where they are at, Red Ghost makes an opportunity attack against them.