Skull & Shackles: The Wormwood Mutiny [IC]

[Ostoril]

Sprawl raises his hand. "Very."

[Master K]

Tramp grins and points at her wounds, "Ow"

[Rithryn]

Sparkles will use the wand on the others till they say their good.
"Tell me when your good."

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also using his heal skill to confirm for himselfthat they are fine

[lostsole31]

It's Sparkles knowledge as a healer that actually leads the way as his understanding of triage helps him define where each charge most needs to go at a given point. Sprawl gets three taps from the wand, and Tramp gets two. By the time that is done, they both still have light wounds (~92% health for Sprawl, and ~96% health for Tramp). Do you top them off anyway, considering the dark work ahead, or reserve Selkie's magic wand, which is not rechargeable?

[Rithryn]

Sparkles stows the wand.
"Alright, your both good for now. We will save the rest for when we get hurt again."

[Master K]

tamp nods "Thanks for the heal"

[lostsole31]

Selkie goes to take his wand back from Sparkles. Is there any reason Sparkles wouldn't give it back?

[Rithryn]

Sparkles will give him the wand back.

[lostsole31]

It turns out that Sparkles is the best one to follow the track, though Selkie talks a good game, but at least he's a good assistant.

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Selkie actually has no formal training in survivalism in general, but he shows skill at surviving onboard the ship, and does seem to have a good sense of following tracks in general ... and yet no actual survival training proper.

Sparkles follows the difficult track through the fields, followed by Selkie, Tramp, and Sprawl in the back. Which is good, considering the cornfield has grown to over 8 feet in height and provides concealment for those within it, reducing visibility to 5 feet.

In several places, there are erected scarecrows topped with the heads of dead sailors as a warning. Some eight heads litter the fields next to the main path, each impaled on a crude staff 6 to 9 feet high. These rotting heads are now infested with flies which swarm around the heads in ugly black clouds.

Does anyone mess with one of these heads, or leave them alone?

[Ostoril]

Sprawl mutters a few prayers to Irori for strength under his breath, and keeps his distance from the scarecrows.

[Rithryn]

Sparkles steers clear of the bugs.

[Master K]

While far from squeenish tramp steers clear of the bug infested heads, wanting as little to do with them as possible.

[lostsole31]

You pass uneventfully through the old cornfields south to the shore, and then moving west towards the southern most tip of the island known as Riptide Cove.

It is dark now, the sun has disappeared. There are moon and stars, but that is dim light ... and only for the two people with low-light vision. For another, they can see in the dark. To poor Sprawl, however, it is not usable light. What do you do?

[Ostoril]

As it begins to grow dark Sprawl notes "Is gettin to dark fa me ta travel. Any a ya got a light?"

[Master K]

Tramp will shrug, "I can fill the sky with lightning that can illuminate our surroundins for ya, but it might come might a bit of rain as well."

[Ostoril]

Sprawl shrugs. "We most likely be getting wet shortly anyways."

[Master K]

Tramp will nod and focus her mind shifting her storm to The Fulgeration, and letting the storm coalese around her letting the crackling lightning fill the sky

[lostsole31]

The sky in a broad area around Tramp glows above you with the wrath of nature itself, lightning arcing between and clouds and thundering to the ground at her command.

The party moves along what makes itself apparent is a trail leading to high cliffs that surround a deep cove churning with dark seawater. The cliffs around the cove vary in height from 40 to 80 feet. Selkie tells the group that the cove's dark waters indicate the absence of rock's below the surface. So, what do you do?

[Ostoril]

"Think tha any caves round ere?" Sprawl muses as he looks around the area for any signs of the creatures or any paths up from the waters.

[lostsole31]

Selkie is looking at the ground and nods. "They came this way not long ago, and it appears they must've dived into the hole."

[Ostoril]

"Well, going in be tha easy part. Gettin out looks ta be a bit arder. Guess we could swim around, but no tell'n wha lurks down thar. An I still canna see in tha dark." He looks to Tramp. "Doubt those clouds work under tha water, eh?"

[lostsole31]

Selkie blinks at Sprawl. "I'm not going to say it'll be easy, but that is seawater sloshing around in there, so .... it leads back to sea?"

[Master K]

Tramp shakes her head, "Can't say that they do.... though I don't think using lightning as a light source is smart when underwater"

[Rithryn]

Sparkles speaks up.
"I can't make a light but I can see in the dark and have a spell to help me swim, if were going in I could take point?"

[lostsole31]

Selkie looks at Sparkles with a "be my guest" gesture.

[Rithryn]

Sparkles grabs his holy symbol and prays his words of power.
"I beseech you the winds and the waves to grant me flippers."
Sparkles hands gains webs and his feet turn to flippers and he heads into the water sinking like a stone.

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casting touch of the sea on self and going into the water.

[Master K]

Tramp takes a deep breath and jumps in after him, using Floating Breeze to turn the plumet into something more controlled

[lostsole31]

The group looks on as Sparkles drops the very full height of the dive completely artlessly and slams into the water for 17 + 6 NL!

Selkie looks at everyone ... "I thought we were going to climb down part-"

And then Tramp jumps in, but she has magic to allow her to descend into the water without pain.

"So, I don't know about you, but I'm climbing down a bit before jumping in," Selkie says to Sprawl.

Before Sprawl can answer, there are multiple chittering sounds in cliffs above you, and lots little tiny things flying out of a cave.

[Ostoril]

Sprawl nods to Selkie. "Ya can see better an me, an I not a great climber. Mind pointin out the best handholds before we learn if they friendly or not?" he says looking at the chittering.

[lostsole31]

"NO time. Those are stirges and they'll be on us in no time, and we're more vulnerable climbing. Dive," says Selkie solemnly, realizing there's no way to get around this without getting hurt.