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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5795509" data-attributes="member: 11751">Brutus shrugs off Hrimr's spell and lumbers forward towards the group (to M,N,12,13).  Wind and rain lash against his giant form and the light from the strokes of lightning glimmer from his plate.  With a grunt, he raises his massive battle axe and aims to strike Lowduke.  The attack goes wide, cleaving a massive chunk of wood from the guard rail.Suddenly, the entrance to the spiral staircase is closed by a horizontally sliding wood and metal panel.  It seals the deck from the lower levels with a hiss of pressurized air.  Hrimr, you are forced to hop slightly to avoid having a leg broken by the rapidly shutting panel.  The ominous hum in the air begins to sound stronger and higher pitched.  It begins to feel warm and some of the rain around you is turning to steam.  Giorgio emerges from the Captain's Quarters (at O 12).  He wields his quarter staff in one hand, the many attached ribbons and streamers whipping violently in the wind, and a mad grin painted across his face.  "You are too late, meddling fools!" he cries out over the storm, "the Council dies today!  Your pitiful resistance ends now!"He points his finger towards the a barrel by the main mast (L 12) and cries out arcane words.  He then screams a painfully loud and screeching note.  You can all feel the sonic energy reverberating through your skulls.  The barrel wobbles, trembles and then shatters.  Inside you briefly see a hundred or so small vials of alchemists fire that crack, split and explode.  A chain reaction explosion of fire sets off blasting outwards in shockingly loud bloom of flame and broken shards of wood and glass.  Bannock, Torrent, Kirio and Brutus are caught in the main part of the blast (2d6 fire damage + 1d6 damage from shrapnel) and Lars, Hrimr, Arnir and Lowduke are hit by small flaming pieces of debris (1 point of damage, no save).Bannock is saved by the girth of the mainmast, while Torrent holds up her shield just in time.  Unfortunately for Kirio, he is peppered with flaming debris and his clothing immediately smolders and bursts into flames.Torrent hooks her battle axe on her belt and cries out: "Hold on Kirio!"  She begins to chant furiously and a  10 gallon amorphous blob of water is conjured over Kirio's head.  It then falls, drenching the bard from head to toe, but extinguishing his burning clothing in a cloud of steam and smoke.[GM]Torrent and Bannock take 3 points of damage.  Lars, Hrimr, Arnir and Lowduke take 1 point of damage.Brutus takes no damage from the fire.  It seems to just wash over him without effect.  He does take 2 points of damage from the shrapnel though.Kirio takes 7 points of damage and caught on fire - Torrent's create water spell extinguished the fire, but the damage remains.  She rolled a Concentration check to defensively cast, but in my insanity I accidentally tacked it onto post #1435.  Just for full disclosure. [/GM]Giorgio's painfully high pitched spell, combined with the cacophonous explosion of the barrel is loud enough to rouse Setales from his magical slumber.[GM]Setales is not asleep or helpless anymore, but will remain prone until his next turn. [/GM]</blockquote>

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