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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8126956" data-attributes="member: 59816">Thorbin & the Ship's MateSeeing that the ship's defenders would quickly be overwhelmed, Thorbin shoved his way past Ludz, grabbed the netting on the stack of crates of whale-fat, and flung himself up onto the ship's forecastle. He thrust his pike into two fish-men who had Barrie the mate, surrounded next to the ship's ballista. Both creatures died, impaled on the pike, and Barrie nodded to Thorbin, loaded his hand crossbow, and shot one of the larger fish-men that was down on the main deck.Everyone elseThis rallied the ship's defenders, who finally held their own for the moment. Two guards and a crewman (all that was left on deck, among several dead) held back five of the things, while a sixth jumped through the open hatch. Iyatisi, the ship's cleric, cast a blessing from Waukeen on the lone guard and unfortunate remaining prisoners, and took refuge in a forward compartment. Two of the prisoners were manacled, and they shuffled aftward, leaving the guard and one prisoner to defend themselves against a rather large, mean-looking fish-man.In the hold, the Captain and four crew were madly working to patch the hole in the hull, but they quickly realised that it was safe for now, with a frozen block of ice sealing the wound, and that they couldn't quite get their planks into place with the ice there. They could hear the commotion above them, so the captain ordered them to grab what weapons they could, and they moved for the ladder.Outside, to Burton's surprise, the guard who had been mauled by the whale came to the surface next to him, alive. The grizzled veteran grunted at him, "Boost me up on t'the dock, an I'll pull ya up after."Further away in the water, one of the guards who had gone under right at the start, also surfaced, having miraculously survived being drowned by a fish-man who had pulled him down when he'd fallen in.[ooc]I think that'll do.[/ooc]</blockquote>

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