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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 7944010" data-attributes="member: 59816">With the care of the healers, both magical and mundane, and the restorative nature of Dellrak's berries, the crew of the Star Goddess quickly regained their health. The Sticks were impressed with the general competence of the crew, once they were well. Miss Imogen and her new monkey (wingless, alas, but clever) helped the sewers as they worked on the balloon.The tabaxi followed Rodrigo's advice, and they used wood salvaged from the abandoned midsection of the ship, now nearly completely taken apart, to wedge the stern-section in place, and to lever a portion of the hull off of where the control rod had been pinned. As the hull moved, Dellrack crammed himself under, perched on a branch that he determined solid enough for the job. But as the tabaxi levered the hull up and away, Dellrak saw too late that the branch was, in fact, broken by the wreck and only held in place by the smallest sliver of wood, and by its resting the other end on a now-gone piece of ship.The branch fell away. As Dellrak dropped, he could see the rod - a length of silver two feet long, engraved with runes. He reached for the device with one hand and heroically found a hanging vine with the other. He dropped about six feet, and swung dangling in the air, cursing. He was fine, for the moment, but the tabaxi could not keep the hull in place (and now it was above him). They began to drop the heavy weight back down, but the branch had been key in keeping it in place, and it rolled to one side.Now there was nothing anyone could do to stop it from falling. It would have certainly taken Dellrak with it, but Harb and Rodrigo formed an arm-chain, and they pulled him back in to the tree as the stern-section fell past with a terrible crash. Birds flew away from nearby trees and somewhere not far away (though thankfully not close by) a very large beast roared defiantly, as if the sound had been some sort of challenge.</blockquote>

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