PoPP: Souls For Smuggler's Shiv [01]

[Maidhc O Casain]

Auron races around the thing to get a better angle of attack, but ends up slamming his huge hammer into the beach; the sand kicked up by the hammer flies into the big man's eyes, blinding him temporarily.

Lerissa laughs as she slips her scimitar neatly between two of the bony plates protecting the creature . . . it shudders once and is still. The tiefling leans over to clean the goo from her scimitar on Auron's sleeve.

Abraxis is moving to retrieve his glaive when all three of you hear a groan from up the beach. You turn just in time to see Auron's summoned pony smash it's hooves into the remaining creature, cracking its carapace and sending it to its death. Leaf groans and stirs; he sits up weakly, then rolls over to vomit violently into the sand.

[sblock=All]Combat's over. None of the others (the NPCs) are stirring as yet.

As you slow your breathing and begin to take stock, you realize that your last clear memory before waking on the beach is of sitting down to dinner aboard the Jenivere. After that, there’s nothing but a confusing jumble of images, remembered as if in a dream—feelings of nausea, panic, fear, and drowning.[/sblock]

[sblock=Lerissa]You note that your gear - that of the Pathfinders as well as more that you conclude belongs to the other castaways - is stacked neatly rather than strewn along the beach as though it washed up.[/sblock]

[sblock=Auron]As you clear the sand from your eyes and take stock of your surroundings in the aftermath of the fight, you notice footprints back and forth between your current location and the water's edge. There are several furrows in the sand as well, each leading to an unconscious castaway or to the location one of you awakened.[/sblock]

[sblock=Leaf]You immediately recognize your nausea and fuzzy memories as the aftereffects of poisoning - most likely by Oil of Taggit.[/sblock]

 

[Rhun]

Abraxis plants the butt of his glaive into the sand, and leans heavily on the polearm. The aasimar was clearly still feeling the aftereffects of...well, whatever had happened. "What in the Nine Hells happened? And who stripped us of our gear, and left us to die on this crab-infested beach?"

 

[HolyMan]

Leaf sits on the beach both his large hands in the sand, his head bowed while he empties every meal he has ever eaten from his stomach.

Feeling very weary he watches the water lap up from the ocean to cleanse the beach of his vomit. He shivers at the fevered like dreams he remembers just before awaking.

Taking the back of his hand across his mouth in an attempt to wipe it off he finally notices the blackish cast to the bile that came from his stomach.

"Poison?" he declares shocked. "We were poisoned!"

 

[mleibrock]

Lerissa

Trying very hard to keep her temper in check for letting her guard down and being taken advantage of, she sees Leaf struggling and she quickly goes to his side to give him what aid she can. When she arrives, she takes the big man's arm and places it over her shoulder and attempts to stand, struggling with the incredible weight.

Softly to Leaf, Lerissa speaks. "I think we are here for someone's amusement. Our gear seems to be stacked so that we might use it...I'm not happy about it but I think we are being toyed with."

[sblock=Stat Block]

   HP: 12/17     AC: 16  AC(T): 12  AC(FF): 14  Init: +02


Saving Throw   Total  Base   Mod  Misc   Special
Fort:            03     2     +1          
Ref:             02     0     +2          
Will:            04     2     +2          


  BAB: +01       CMB:+02     CMD: 14

Weapon                  Attack    Damage      Critical     Special
Scimitar                +3        1d6+1       18-20/x2     +1 (weapon focus)
Secondary               +0        0d0         00-00/x0     
Missile                 +0        0d0         00-00/x0     


Judgments: 0/1 per Day

Spells Available:
    * 0 Level                * 1st Level (2/2 per Day)
      * Create Water           * Cure Light Wounds
      * Purify Food            * Inflict Light Wounds
      * Detect Magic
      * Guidance

[/sblock]

 

[HolyMan]

Trying not to put to much weight on Larissa, Leaf is still thankful for the help. "But why?" he asks as they move towards their equipment.

"And where is the ship?" He asks looking about.
_

 

[Rhun]

"Poison?" mutters Abraxis. That would make sense. It would be the only way he and his companions could be overcome so easily, and with no memory of the situation. At Leaf's question about the ship, Abraxis turns his head seaward, scanning the horizon for any sign of their conveyance.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

It takes only a moment for Abraxis' keen gaze to spot the Jenivere; she's listing hard to port and half submerged, her hull chewed to a gaping ruin by the rocks on which she's lodged. This ridge of rock, about 150 yards off-shore from the cliff face, is all that keeps the ship from sinking completely. As it is, only the ship’s stern seems to have survived the wreck. This portion is wedged at an angle between the cliff and the rocks, and each wave shakes and tosses the wreck alarmingly. It won’t be long before the constant pounding of the waves dislodges the wreck and allows the hungry sea to claim the last of this once-fine ship. Each time the surf rushes out Abraxis is able to make out scattered peaks of sharp rock in a line from the cliff-face out to the wreck of the ship.

 

[Rhun]

Abraxis shakes his head and sighs. "Well, we certainly won't be going home on the Jenivere. So I guess we will have to find another way off this island."

 

[HolyMan]

As Leaf and Lerissa reach the spot where the equipment is he looks to see if it has been placed there or just "happen" to end up all in the same place. (Which he seriously doubts.)

"Thank you," he says to the slight tiefling. It seems to the goliath that she is alot stronger than he took her for. He is just glad she is Pathfinder like himself.

He hefts his trident as Abraxis starts to speak. Turning his head to the ocean his jaw drops and he looks chagrined. "What happened here? They drug us and set us on the beach and then what? Got caught in the rocks before they could escape? What of our mission and why were we all chosen?" Leaf asks the last question looking about to see who all is present.

A few of the people he remembers from the voyage, but he never truly befriended any of the Jenivere's crew. They were mostly human and thought him a monster. And for his part Leaf could only look at them and remember what monsters humans could become if they wished it.

[sblock=OOC] Closest Jenivere castaway Leaf would even think of talking to during the voyage would be Jask. But again I don't think he did so to start Leaf has zero repore with the NPC's [/sblock]

 

[mleibrock]

Lerissa

With her pathfinder comrades up and about, Lerissa takes stock in her surrounds.

OOC - Mike,

1. how many other ship members are here?
2. how much beach is here before other terrain starts or is it all beach?
3. other than the footprints, are there any signs others have been here?
4. Did anything else wash up here yet (assuming we washed up?)