Bob Aberton
First Post
Bimzoole,
As you finish tying off your reef points (the lines used to tie off the reefed portion of the sail), the ship gives a sudden lurch. Or ordinarily agile feet slip of the drenched footrope, and you feel yourself begin to fall.
(OOC: Reflex save, please...)
Vemuz,
You tie off the last reef point, and prepare to head down the ratlines, when the ship gives a sudden lurch.
You hang on with ease, but out of the corner of your eye, you see the gunner, Bimzoole, who was on the yardarm next to you, slip as he begins climbing down, and start to fall.
(OOC: You can make a DEX check to grab the off-balance gnome before he falls.)
Malthas,
You and Malachi begin twisting the wheel as hard as you can, arms aching. The wheel barely budges - it feels immovable. But eventually, ever so slightly, it begins to turn.
With a creak and a groan, the ship begins to turn. Faintly and far away, you can hear Mr. Lang on the foredeck shouting,
"Wear ship, boys! Sweat down the braces!"
With the wind at her stern, CALYPSO'S GRACE stops trying to actively fight you and seems to grudgingly acquiesce to your attempts to guide her through the towering seas.
Malachi,
The captain nods approvingly at your chosen course. He says nothing, gripping the taffrail and staring out across the ocean, giving commands when necessary but otherwise seeming unusually quiet.
(OOC Nicodemus: the Balance check was addressed to Bimzoole and Vemuz, so don't worry about it. However, if you decide to cast Mending on a sail, you will have to go aloft to get the sail into the spell's range, at which point you will have to make a Balance check.)
All,
Swarming with shouting men, rolling and pitching like a drunk, the CALYPSO'S GRACE batters onward through the gale, sometimes seeming dwarfed by seas almost taller than her mastheads. It becomes obvious why seafarers are known as "the iron men in wooden ships;" with seemingly suicidal disregard for their own safety, they - and you - struggle to shepard the ship through the storm, putting another old sailor's saw to use;
Work for the ship while there's still life in your body!
As you finish tying off your reef points (the lines used to tie off the reefed portion of the sail), the ship gives a sudden lurch. Or ordinarily agile feet slip of the drenched footrope, and you feel yourself begin to fall.
(OOC: Reflex save, please...)
Vemuz,
You tie off the last reef point, and prepare to head down the ratlines, when the ship gives a sudden lurch.
You hang on with ease, but out of the corner of your eye, you see the gunner, Bimzoole, who was on the yardarm next to you, slip as he begins climbing down, and start to fall.
(OOC: You can make a DEX check to grab the off-balance gnome before he falls.)
Malthas,
You and Malachi begin twisting the wheel as hard as you can, arms aching. The wheel barely budges - it feels immovable. But eventually, ever so slightly, it begins to turn.
With a creak and a groan, the ship begins to turn. Faintly and far away, you can hear Mr. Lang on the foredeck shouting,
"Wear ship, boys! Sweat down the braces!"
With the wind at her stern, CALYPSO'S GRACE stops trying to actively fight you and seems to grudgingly acquiesce to your attempts to guide her through the towering seas.
Malachi,
The captain nods approvingly at your chosen course. He says nothing, gripping the taffrail and staring out across the ocean, giving commands when necessary but otherwise seeming unusually quiet.
(OOC Nicodemus: the Balance check was addressed to Bimzoole and Vemuz, so don't worry about it. However, if you decide to cast Mending on a sail, you will have to go aloft to get the sail into the spell's range, at which point you will have to make a Balance check.)
All,
Swarming with shouting men, rolling and pitching like a drunk, the CALYPSO'S GRACE batters onward through the gale, sometimes seeming dwarfed by seas almost taller than her mastheads. It becomes obvious why seafarers are known as "the iron men in wooden ships;" with seemingly suicidal disregard for their own safety, they - and you - struggle to shepard the ship through the storm, putting another old sailor's saw to use;
Work for the ship while there's still life in your body!
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