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"...Just outside the warp portal from Cinder, however, the Gregor's Hope ran into trouble. A group of orcish pirates in a captured Nemaean merchant cruiser intercepted the 'Hope and fired over the bow. Demands were made to surrender from both sides. Windbear, who was piloting the 'Hope brought his vessel's weapons to bear and the pirates responded. One of the pirates, a vampiress, quaffed a flying potion and flew across the void to the players. The rest of the orcs followed with volleys of arrows, and the players returned fire- setting fire to the rigging of the Nemaean ship.
The Half-orc leader conjured a wall of wind to deflect any more incoming arrow attacks.
As the ships closed upon each other, Jaros used a holy smite. If I had any idea how dangerous this was, I would have made a tougher encounter (The orcs were all level 3 warriors)-- it left almost all of the orcs on the ship dead, except for the leader, a half-orc cleric. So by this time, there are like 2 orcs, the half-orc leader, the vampiress.. and thats it.
The vampiress fought againt Brede on the deck of the players ship. She almost got her fangs into one of Windbear's gnoll crewmen upon arrival, but missed her first set of attacks, and suddenly found herself facing Brede, and his bastard sword, Nyland's Fury. Brede and the vampiress fought it out for a few rounds, circling each other on the deck.
Meanwhile- the enemy leader- a half-orc clerc, decided to return the favor of divine retribution to Jaros; he called a flame strike from above. Although Jaros dodged out of the way- Malias' cohort Oakan and Magnus the paladin took the full brunt of the fire blast, which also set fire to the deck, rigging, and sails of the Gregor's Hope.
While the gnoll crewmen scrambled to put out the blaze, Magnus crossed the void between the ships by drinking a flying potion of his own--quickly followed by Malias, who used his boots of striding and springing to jump into the bow-rigging of the pirate ship.
Meanwhile, Nyanin the archer snapped off the heads of three of his arrows and shot them into the heart of the vampiress. She collapsed in a heap of dust on the foredeck of the 'Hope.
Finally, Malias and Magnus fought it out with the enemy cleric and the two remaining orcs and eventually defeated all of them. Magnus lead with a flying charge attack, that bowled the enemy cleric over.
Magnus just happened to have some skill in piloting airships, so he brought the enemy ship back under control. They did some quick in-flight repair work and -- now they had a second airship!"
"...Just outside the warp portal from Cinder, however, the Gregor's Hope ran into trouble. A group of orcish pirates in a captured Nemaean merchant cruiser intercepted the 'Hope and fired over the bow. Demands were made to surrender from both sides. Windbear, who was piloting the 'Hope brought his vessel's weapons to bear and the pirates responded. One of the pirates, a vampiress, quaffed a flying potion and flew across the void to the players. The rest of the orcs followed with volleys of arrows, and the players returned fire- setting fire to the rigging of the Nemaean ship.
The Half-orc leader conjured a wall of wind to deflect any more incoming arrow attacks.
As the ships closed upon each other, Jaros used a holy smite. If I had any idea how dangerous this was, I would have made a tougher encounter (The orcs were all level 3 warriors)-- it left almost all of the orcs on the ship dead, except for the leader, a half-orc cleric. So by this time, there are like 2 orcs, the half-orc leader, the vampiress.. and thats it.
The vampiress fought againt Brede on the deck of the players ship. She almost got her fangs into one of Windbear's gnoll crewmen upon arrival, but missed her first set of attacks, and suddenly found herself facing Brede, and his bastard sword, Nyland's Fury. Brede and the vampiress fought it out for a few rounds, circling each other on the deck.
Meanwhile- the enemy leader- a half-orc clerc, decided to return the favor of divine retribution to Jaros; he called a flame strike from above. Although Jaros dodged out of the way- Malias' cohort Oakan and Magnus the paladin took the full brunt of the fire blast, which also set fire to the deck, rigging, and sails of the Gregor's Hope.
While the gnoll crewmen scrambled to put out the blaze, Magnus crossed the void between the ships by drinking a flying potion of his own--quickly followed by Malias, who used his boots of striding and springing to jump into the bow-rigging of the pirate ship.
Meanwhile, Nyanin the archer snapped off the heads of three of his arrows and shot them into the heart of the vampiress. She collapsed in a heap of dust on the foredeck of the 'Hope.
Finally, Malias and Magnus fought it out with the enemy cleric and the two remaining orcs and eventually defeated all of them. Magnus lead with a flying charge attack, that bowled the enemy cleric over.
Magnus just happened to have some skill in piloting airships, so he brought the enemy ship back under control. They did some quick in-flight repair work and -- now they had a second airship!"
