Salvage Operation IC Thread

[Tonks]

Alin

Walking across the deck towards the grate, the young woodworker notices several dark brownish-red stains upon the deck of the ship. While he has not seen many things outside of the shipyards, he knows that this is no normal wood varnish stain.

Blood?

Making his way to the grate, Alin looks down and sees that it is rusted shut and has a ladder mounted underneath it. The ladder bottom of the hold can be seen through the weak sunlight, but beyond the area immediately around the ladder, not much can be seen.

[sblock=ooc checks] Search check=19 success
Spot check= 3 failure[/sblock]

 

[Land Outcast]

A undead crew? hum... those'd make great sentries...

Nicolai walks a bit on deck, Nicolai scans everything with his electric bue eye, and when he is about to fall onto the rusted grate he supports himself on the spear he brought with him, at the same time trying how stuck the grate is.

"hear the moan o' the winds? nice company, ain't it?!... Let's get workin' now" then he mumbles to himself "damn, knew I was goin' tae get a job... tsk... damn all those gods who call they rulers, throw me a rotten shell of a ship" he spins on his spear and smiles widely to those behind.

 

[Tonks]

Nicolai

Walking around the ship, Nicolai notices that the ship's rudder no longer seems to be connected as his lazy spin of the wheel met no resistance. Besides the doors to the fore and aft, there is little to see beside the gentle list of the ship and the butchered stubs where the masts once were.

Approaching Alin, who had made his way to the grate also, Nicolai leaned down and pulled upwards on the grate, but the rusted metal did not budge in his hands.

[sblock=ooc]search check= 5 failure
Profession (sailor) check= 20 success
Spot check= 7 failure
Strength check = 4 failure[/sblock]

 

[stonegod]

Alin kneels down by the grate, and gestures with his longspear at various stains. "Theare do beh blood on dis deck. They not go prehtty, they do." He then gestures at the grate, addressing the bedraggled man. "We do 'dis togethah?"

 

[Land Outcast]

"sure, don't see why not" but he doesn't try lifting it until someone else comes to help "together us all o' course"

 

[Watus]

Kelvad keeps close to the pair at the grate, his eyes open and quarterstaff at the ready.

He looks around the deck with some concern. This all seems a little too easy.

 

[Tonks]

Kelvad

Although Kelvad did not notice the bloodstains on the wood until Alin pointed it out to Nicolai and himself, as he peered down through the rusted grate his eyes caught movement while Alin and Nicolai were discussing how to pry the grate open.

Moving through the flickering shadows by the ladder, Kelvad saw dozens of palm sized spiders moving around the base of the ladder and on the floor. With their dusky hued skins, Kelvad is not surprised that the others missed them with their focus fixed on the grate and nothing else.

[sblock=ooc]Search roll=9 Failure
Spot roll= 13 success[/sblock]

 

[Watus]

"Woah," Kelvad cries, his eyes widening in alarm. He places his hand on Nicolai's shoulder and points down into the gloom with the butt of his staff.

"We will need to find some way of eliminating those vermin before we consider opening this grate."

 

[Land Outcast]

"Oh!... that" Rotten shell, inhabited by dead, and oozing spiders... see, the gods know not of ships and crafts "Damn them all!!!" suddenly he remembers the others...

"yes... this boat will need to be put to flames eventually... thanks for the warning, got a sharp eye!" he nods twice at saying this and moves away from the grate (motioning for Kevald and Alin to do likewise)

suddenly he starts whispering in such a way that is sounds exactly like a strong wind, and his left hand's fingers start playing with blueish sparks... and unless anyone has anything against it -and voices it-, sends a ball of lightning down onto the spiders.

OOC: orb of lighning +2 touch, 1d8 electricity damage

 

[Voadam]

"Well, let's pull out a torch, that should scatter those buggers off . . . woah!" Bruce is a bit surprised at the lightning magic.