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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 572014" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chinese Take-outChapter 72, “The Battle at the Ship", September 28, 1018, 1:45 A.M. The only enemy that had been on the ship’s bridge was one of the Ragnor flesh golems, who was piloting the ship.   Multiple fireworks hit the Ragnor for all of his hit point, causing him to then explode.  The explosion destroys any parts of the bridge machinery that had survived the flare attack.   The flare alerts the enemy to the party’s presence.  The cleric Roger hops on a saddle strapped to the back of the Chimera, which had been magically enlarged so that it is now three times than when the party last saw it.   The monster makes a strafing run at the truck.The chimera’s dragon head takes a bite towards Narg as Roger uses his Staff of Wonder to create a large Stinking Cloud inside the cab of the truck.  Rather than ducking back to avoid the monster Narg slams the creature’s face with his shield, then dives out of the speeding truck towards his foes.   Flying through the air Narg gabs the Nargblade deep into the creature.  This causes minimal damage to the monster, but does give Narg something to grab on to.   Using the sword as a handle, Narg swings himself, feet extended, up and onto the Chimera.   He manages to kick Roger full force, knocking him from the mount.   Narg’s momentum propels him across the beast, and he falls to the ground after Roger.  Narg lands atop of the evil cleric, the man cushioning the impact Narg’s fall.  Deciding that Narg may need some help, and wishing to get away from the noxious odor now filling the truck cab, Barthrock leaps from the vehicle. Inside the truck Mojo had been hit by the brunt of the cloud and is completely incapacitated by it.  Serita immediately tosses up her Breathe without Air Ioun Stone, and grabs the steering wheel.    Mojo had been steering the vehicle to ride up the ramp and onto the ship.  Realizing that this would propel them directly into the burning ship’s bridge; Serita now turns the wheel sharply to the right to avoid the ramp.  Given the velocity that the vehicle is travelling at it still strikes the ramp, but at an angle.  This causes the truck to tip, as the two left wheels strike the ramp at an upward angle.  The truck is propelled into the air as it also falls sideways.  Just as the truck’s angle changes Lannon uses the Giant Strength that is still in his system from the potion to propel himself off of the truck’s roof and onto the ship’s deck.  The dwarf flies directly into the enemy cleric who gets knocked onto the deck. The truck flies off from the riverbank.  It flies through the air into the fifteen foot space between the ship and the shore.   It lands on its side with a large splash, and then begins to sink rapidly.  By the end of the first round the driver’s side of the vehicle is the only party of the truck still not submerged.  Serita climbs out onto it.  She sees that Mojo is still incapacitated inside, and uses all of her strength to pull him out, as the truck continues to sink beneath her feet.  The five in the back of the now submerged truck are also faring poorly.  Aradyn, Fiona and the heavily armored Timothy were near the back doors and swim out of the truck before it goes completely under. With the other seven of the party members now preoccupied, Barthrock, Lannon and Narg are greatly outnumbered by all of the remaining foes.   However the odds soon even out as the senior enemy mage chooses escape over assisting his allies.   He orders the mage Ashemmi to have here Ragnor bodyguard get them alternative transportation.  He then grabs Ashemmi and teleports the two of them away.   The Ragnor turns invisible, then exits the ship via the ramp.  This leaves only two other foes on the ship with Lannon, a thief and a cleric.   Back on the shore an unarmed Narg begins to pummel Roger, as Barthrock attacks the oversized chimera.    Back in the water, Timothy manages to grab the edge of the shore before the weight of his armor pulls him down.  Aradyn and Fiona swim over to him and help to push the cleric up onto the shore.  Further away, Serita is busy pulling the barely conscious Mojo through the water and towards the shore.  Aradyn then realize that Cassie and Mark have not surfaced yet, so he dives down into the water to search for them. Up on the ship, Lannon attacks the enemy cleric.  With the benefit of the Giant Strength potion it does not take long for Lannon to defeat the clerics.   Only then does the invisible enemy thief reveal himself, backstabbing Lannon for thirty-six hit points.   The very wounded dwarf staggers then pivots around, striking the thief in the chest.  Two sword swipes later the thief is quite dead.   Lannon looks around, seeing no more enemies on the vessel.   He then applies a healing salve onto himself.  Ten feet below the surface of the water Aradyn finds Cassie who is now swimming upward.  Aradyn starts to assist her, but she waves him off, gesturing back to the truck, where Mark is still trapped.   Aradyn swims down another twenty feet, where the truck is now lying on the bottom of the river.  He swims into the back finding Mark’s unconscious body.   He grabs his fellow ranger, and swims him up to the surface.   On the shore, Narg and Roger continue to fight each other, as Barthrock attacks the Chimera.  Roger attempts to use his Staff of Wonder against Narg, but Narg is successful at blocking it.  Narg manages to then knock the staff away from the cleric.   Narg is then head butted by the Chimera’s goat head, but ignores it, staying focused on the cleric.   The chimera turns its dragon’s head towards Narg for a breath attack just as Barthrock charges forward, swinging his sword and decapitating the dragon head.Back at the river bank Serita has dragged Mojo to shore and leaves him there as she looks for her next foe.   She then sees a Ragnor exiting the enemy’s truck, and hits it with a Faerie Fire to alert everyone else to its presence.   Further up the bank, Fiona has pulled Timothy up onto the shore.  She then tosses a Magic Missile spell into the now illuminated Ragnor.  Fiona and Cassie then help Aradyn pull Mark out of the water.  Cassie and Timothy then give him a combination of cure spells and artificial respiration to try to get him breathing again.   Aradyn retrieves a dry bowstring from a water-resistant pouch of his, and begins to restring his bow.  Lannon decides to exit the ship.  Not wanting to leave the enemy bodies behind, he uses his enhanced strength to tosses them both onto the shore to search later.  He then hurries down the ramp to assist Barthrock with the Chimera.  Narg and Roger continue to fight each other until Narg manages to gets in a phenomenal swipe with the Nargblade, decapitating his opponent.  Narg then goes to help Barthrock with the Chimera, converging on it simultaneous to Lannon.  The three make short work of the mortally wounded monster.  Mojo has recovered enough to now assist Serita with the Ragnor, tossing his hammer into it.   A second hammer toss causes it to then explode.   Meanwhile, the invisible Ragnor has joined a final Ragnor that is inside of the enemy’s truck.   The Ragnor communicates Ashemmi’s order to his ally.  The truck starts up, and speedily drives around the Chimera.   Narg unsuccessfully tries to stop it.   The truck reaches the road, and starts to head away.    A pair of Aradyn's arrows then strikes the rear tire.   Both penetrate, but the tire does not immediately flatten.  Aradyn lets two more arrows fly, another one hitting the same tire.  The truck now comes to a stop.</blockquote>

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