S&S Battle Book [GMBB]

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This here be my GM's Battle Book for me Skull & Shackles campaign, hearties!

If ye be crewing the Wormwood, may poxes you cannae count infest you if you read the contents of this thread!

Skull & Shackles: The Wormwood Mutiny [IC] gaming thread is here.

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Round One ...

R1T26: As the PCs are "processing" what the first mate just said, a man sprints forward before the final resonance of Mr. Plugg's statement has exited his mouth. The man is an even 6' tall, has pure white or platinum blond hair (dirty, hard to tell), and wears clothing that might be even more desperate than your own. He attempts an accelerated Climb right off the bat, getting to a height of 15'.

R1T22: Drack, it will be a MA to get to the closest point for you to begin climbing. What do you do?

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Selkie: 26. 15'.
Drack: 22.
Vanora: 18.
Squall: 16.
Arashi: 13.
Irstan: 12.
Sima: 6.
Sandara: 3.
Other Press Gangees: 2.

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R1T22: Drack bolts towards the rope, trying his best to climb it, having the body for climbing but not much experience in it. The boats he was used to in the river kingdoms were not quite so tall. He begins climbing, and is at 5' altitude.

R1T18: Vanora, what do you do?

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Selkie: 26. 15'.
Drack: 22. 5' altitude.
Vanora: 18.
Squall: 16.
Arashi: 13.
Irstan: 12.
Sima: 6.
Sandara: 3.
Other Press Gangees: 2.

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R1T18: Vanora tries to ignore the headache as she listens closely. She scowls as she sees another run towards the rigging. She rushes to the rigging and begins to climb up as quickly as possible. She gets to a 10' altitude.

R1T16: Squall, what do you do?

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Selkie: 26. 15'.
Drack: 22. 5' altitude.
Vanora: 18. 10' altitude.
Squall: 16.
Arashi: 13.
Irstan: 12.
Sima: 6.
Sandara: 3.
Other Press Gangees: 2.

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R1T16: Never one to back down from a challenge of skill, Squall will bolt forward after the platinum haired man and join the race up the rigging. As he moves towards the rigging, his hair and exposed skin begins to look damp, it's hard to tell if he's just really sweaty from his drug induced hangover, but it looks like more moisture than that would produce. He gets his foot tangled on the first cilimbing square, and the dampness is enough for his foot to slip .... his leg to slip through ... and then the rest of his body upend as he falls on his back, his left leg tangled in the rope latticework. There is much laughter from the salts about at Squall's kerploppity.

R1T13: Arashi, what do you do?

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Selkie: 26. 15'.
Drack: 22. 5' altitude.
Vanora: 18. 10' altitude.
Squall: 16. Elemental aspect [water] til R11T16. Entangled and prone.
Arashi: 13.
Irstan: 12.
Sima: 6.
Sandara: 3.
Other Press Gangees: 2.

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R1T13: With a shrug and a sigh, Arashi will chase after the others grabbing hold of the rigging and starting to haul herself upwards, swearing softly to herself in Minkian, cursing her lack of physical strength. She finds however, that the rope lattice combined with other lines, supports, spars, and so forth, will likewise be easier than expected. The fear of climbing and failing is more daunting than the challenge itself, as she ascends 5'.

R1T12: Irstan, what do you do?

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Selkie: 26. 15'.
Drack: 22. 5' altitude.
Vanora: 18. 10' altitude.
Squall: 16. Elemental aspect [water] til R11T16. Entangled and prone.
Arashi: 13. 5' altitude.
Irstan: 12.
Sima: 6.
Sandara: 3.
Other Press Gangees: 2.

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R1T12: "Heh. This reminds me a this one time I was bein' chased by a group a ruffians..." Irstan begins to say as he runs for the rigging, the sailors all laughing along with his joke, before he takes a leap at the end hoping to gain some ground before attempting to scramble up the rigging. He clears a WHOPPING SIX FEET off the deck before landing like a howler monkey against the rope lattice. Unfortunately, he tries to get too much momentum, not accounting for his 175 pounds of impact with such a powerful jump, and really doesn't make any headway, and is at a 5' altitude.

R1T6: Sima, what do you do?

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Selkie: 26. 15'.
Drack: 22. 5' altitude.
Vanora: 18. 10' altitude.
Squall: 16. Elemental aspect [water] til R11T16. Entangled and prone.
Arashi: 13. 5' altitude.
Irstan: 12. 5' altitude.
Sima: 6.
Sandara: 3.
Other Sailors: 2.

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R1T6: Sima watches everyone take off towards the mast. He walks up to it, looks at everyone, and then quietly grabs onto the rigger's lattice. He begins to climb ... slowly, but with solid form, getting to a height of 5'.

R1T3: A woman of slightly taller height (5' 8") and with broad shoulders, broad hips, and other broad features .. and yet still possessing the illusion of a narrow waist with a corset ... strolls up to one of the climbing leads. She has hair like that of dark, embers on a fire, deep brown eyes, and obvious Chelaxian features. She is intoxicatingly sultry while likewise taking nothing from her great beauty. She makes a great show of having trouble reaching her own arms around her .... front ... to grab onto a guideline, much to the now building whooping and hollering of some leering sailors. It's almost as if she was drawn up by a talented crew of hormonally unfulfilled gynosexual sailor-teens.

"Please, boys, girls ... settle down," she somehow coos while also being easily heard. "I'm a just a cleric of Besmara! She gave me these girls to float in water, not float in the air." She continues, while helping Squall get righted and on his feet amidst the hoots and catcalls. "Sailing is all about teamwork, you delicious scabs, and I know you're all getting your wagers ready, aren't you? So let me give this dark horse a little help and make things interesting."

R1T2: And that seals it right there as the sailors lose their minds. Very few are actually paying attention to the climbing race, instead leering at her .... none nearly so much (or so creepily) as Mister Plugg himself. Still, just as she had figured, sailors will bet on which way the wind will blow late on a Moonday in a sea they've never seen just for the fun of the wager, and now they eye her and the climbers again ... each one using random, descriptive epithets to call out to their "favored" climber in this diversion.

Mister Plugg had thought to whip Squall for his incompetence and to drive him up, but the redhead's little floor show has his attention on two closely grouped points and off of the elf.

End Round One, Begin Round 2 ..

Okay, everyone (to make this go a little quicker) ... give a post for your next bout of climbing! Squall, you are no longer entangled and prone, but comfortably on the deck. Drack, Arashi, Irstan, and Sima are at 5' altitude. Vanora is at 10' altitude. The white-haired man of elven extraction is at 15' altitude.

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Selkie: 26. 15' altitude.
Drack: 22. 5' altitude.
Vanora: 18. 10' altitude.
Squall: 16. Elemental aspect [water] til R11T16.
Arashi: 13. 5' altitude.
Irstan: 12. 5' altitude.
Sima: 6. 5' altitude.
Sandara: 3.
Other Sailors: 2.

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Round Round 2 ...

The white-haired elf does a double-accelerated climb, ascending another 30' for a 45' altitude.

Drack chuckles to himself at the displays of the other kidnapped crew. They didn't appear to be a very professional outfit, but that served him so much the better for now. He just keeps trying to put one foot in front of the other, he didn't need to excel here, just avoid making a fool of himself. He climbs another 5' just fine, but then has a little trouble.

After a quick glance down at the commotion, Vanora rolls her eyes and focuses on climbing, muttering in halfling about people that need all the attention. She continues to climb, hoping the distraction will work in her favor. She really picks up speed, ascending a total of 20'!

Squall looks really flustered almost angry, but he mutters in his native tongue the words for "Thank you." More deliberately this time, he grasps the ropes and begins to climb, ascending a total of 10'.

Doing her best to ignore everyone else, Arashi pushes upward, focusing on putting one foot above another and not losing her balance. She steadily climbs 10'.

"They's chased me through tha' streets of Port Peril and I's thought that tha' best way ta' escape harm was a daring climb..." Irstan continues as he does his best to scramble up the rigging. He scrambles quickly a total of 20'.

Sima is unswayed by the hollering of the sailors or the looks of the cleric and continues his slow ascent. He steadily climbs a total of 10'.

The Besmaran cleric shrugs and says, "Well, if I can't put my arms in front of me because of the girls..." and she then puts her back to the rigging ladder. She bends down to a sitting position as if there were a chair ... "for leverage, mind you" ... and then langurously reaches her arms up and back to catch the rope, which of course only stretches the fabric in certain places to even more readily reveal/ not-reveal what is hidden by it. Having "trouble" climbing this way, she then arches her back and thrusts forward her ... forward.

Some of the sailors just don't seem to be as much into the betting, but for the most part the Besmaran is encouraged, catcalled, and still there are shouts for the three "crowd favorites" emerging --- Selkie, Dolly, and Sprawl --- whomever they may be.

White-haired man is @ 45'. Vanora is @ 30'. Irstan @ 25'. Arashi and Sima are at 15'. Drack and Squall @ 10'.

Okay, new round of climbing!

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Selkie: 26. 45' altitude.
Drack: 22. 10' altitude.
Vanora: 18. 30' altitude.
Squall: 16. Elemental aspect [water] til R11T16. 10' altitude.
Arashi: 13. 15' altitude.
Irstan: 12. 25' altitude.
Sima: 6. 15' altitude.
Sandara: 3.
Other Sailors: 2.

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Begin Round 3 ...

Without missing a beat, the white-haired man zooms to the top of the crow's nest first, winning the event.

Contest Ends ...

With no clock to worry about, when the bell rings and Mister Plugg yells, everyone carefully makes their way back down to the main deck, and the bettors pay or receive based upon whom they favored. Selkie is what they call the white-haired man; Dolly is what they call the blonde halfling; and Sprawl is the man who was telling a story as he went up.

Mister Plugg looks at the white-haired elf. "Well, the crew has dubbed you 'Selkie,' and if you swim half as well as you climb, it makes sense. You're now a rigger, and you work directly for me. Stand over with that lot over there."

Selkie goes over to a lanky looking lot.

"The rest a'you, line up! .... No, not one behind another, damn it! .... Side-by-side, you sea slugs!"

He looks at the line of recruits and goes to the end. The first one in line was Dolly.

"They say halflings are good cooks. Can you cook?"

Dolly, what do you say?

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Dolly: 16.
Squall: 15.
Arashi: 14.
Sima: 13.
Sandara: 12.
Drack: 5.
Sprawl: 5.

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DAY 3 ABOARD THE WORMWOOD

Mere seconds after the bell tolls to summon the crew on deck (so after the PCs do their setups for today), four pirates—Aretta Bansion, Fipps Chumlett, Jaundiced Jape, and Slippery Sy Lonegan—block the PCs’ path.

“In a hurry?” the corpulent Fipps says as he laughs, pushing Tramp in the chest.

Round One ...

R1T28: Dolly, what do you do?

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Dolly: 28.
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (20:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 15.(20:20).
Sparkles: 15.
Jaundiced Jape: 14.(20:20).
Tramp: 9.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 5. (20:20).

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R1T28: Dolly nonchalantly walks forward, looking at Fipps, and smiles, “I’d love to stay and chat, but I need a head start on my day: short legs and all.” She gives a slight shrug right next to him, looking him up and down. As heavyset as he is, that requires a lot of looking.

R1T27: "Oi!" comes a call from the forward part of lower deck. Selkie walks right up to Fipps, and he has brass knuckles that he has pulled from somewhere on himself that was hidden. "Now, these all here are a bunch of mewly scrubs, but as we woke up together, and were impressed together, that sorta' makes me and them like family. And you just can't choose family, but you can choose to f*&k up those who mess with family. You know, for fun."

R1T18: Handbag, what do you do? And just for guidance, the hammocks that you see are not tied up for the most part, as sailors are required to roll and tie off their hammocks when not in use, so they aren't "in the way."

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps.
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (20:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 15.(20:20).
Sparkles: 15.
Jaundiced Jape: 14.(20:20).
Tramp: 9.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 5. (20:20).

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R1T18: Handbag hisses at the people blocking their way, opening his mouth to show large fangs. He glared at the ones mostly blocking their way and says, "Move."

R1T17: Fipps gulps and steps away from Sprawl and Dolly.

R1T15: Sprawl, what do you do?

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps.
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (20:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 15.(20:20).
Sparkles: 15.
Jaundiced Jape: 14.(20:20).
Tramp: 9.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 5. (20:20).

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R1T15: "Come now ma dear friends, if ya have a quarrel wi' us, best we settle it afta hours. Unless ya want to be getting tha officers involved in why we are late ta duty. If ya would be so kind as ta let us through?" Sprawl gives the men a smile and makes his way towards the deck, nimbly moving past them. "S'cuse me, pardon me."

Sprawl does get stopped at the ladder (nautical term for "stairs") because the stairs are packed with the rest of the crew there listening and watching and seeing what happens.

R1T15: Slippery Sy Lonegan gives chase and gets right up to Sprawl, loading up to swing.

Sprawl, she isn't a skilled brawler, so you could get an unarmed attack on her as an AOO. Normally I do them, but we haven't really defined what your PC would do in this scenario. Does Sprawl take an AOO, and if so ... what type and what type of damage?

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps.
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (20:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 15. (20:20).
Sparkles: 15.
Jaundiced Jape: 14.(20:20).
Tramp: 9.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 5. (20:20).

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R1T14 (Cont'd): Sprawl may be a friendly fellow, but not being one to be walked all over he takes his opportunity to let that be known. He quickly tries to knock some sense into his assailant, hoping he doesn't leave too big of a bruise, using the stairs for a little extra height as he knees her in the crook of the left elbow for 7 NL, making her own blow go wide.

R1T13: Sparkles, what do you do?

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps.
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (20:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 7 NL).
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12.(20:20).
Tramp: 9.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 5. (20:20).

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R1T13: Sparkles continues to top deck to do his work, passing by Jaundiced Jape and Aretta Bansion, who don't try to stop him. He gets up next to Slippery Sy Lonegan after a double move and growls, "Move, or be moved!"

R1T12: Jaundiced Jape recovers from Handbag's scary delivery then snarls and steps up to Handbag and takes a swing, missing.

R1T9: Tramp, what do you do?

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps.
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (20:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 7 NL).
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20).
Tramp: 9.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 5. (20:20).

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R1T9: Tramp smiles warmly as she lifts a hand and creates a shimmering, 5-foot-diameter "window" of mixed light and darkness that swirls into existence to the outboard of her, next to a shocked Dolly. Meanwhile, another such window appears appears several feet forward next to Sparkles. She then says, with a bit of sarcasm where appropriate, "As much as I'd love to stay and chat, I really don't feel like gettin' chewed out for being late for duty, so I think I'm gonna have to pass on this one." ​

She then steps through the window by the bulkhead, and in doing so instantaneously appears out of the forward portal to now be screened from Slippery Sy by Sparkles and Sprawl. She does notice all the sailor-kibitzers packed on the stairs, practically impassable right now. They reacted when Sprawl kneed Sy, but now there are all manner of superstitious "sign drawing" that the sailors on the stairs make from Tramp's very overt display of power.

R1T5: Tossed Salad, what do you do?

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps.
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (20:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 7 NL).
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20).
Tramp: 9. Concentrating on portals.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 5. (20:20).

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R1T5: Seeing Jaundice Jape take a swing at Handbag, Tossed Salad will move to intervene. He lumbers over and pushes Jaundice Jape away and says, "Enough!"

R1T4: Aretta Bansion sucker punches Tossed Salad in the stomach for 5 NL since he had overcommitted his momentum, a lot of sailors on the stairs peering over with a collective "OHHHH!"

End Round One, Begin Round 2 ...

R2T28: Dolly, your studied target is Fipps, what do you do?

Selkie on deck, Handbag in the hole ...

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps.
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (20:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 7 NL).
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20).
Tramp: 9. Concentrating on portals.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 4. (20:20).

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R2T28: With a path now clear, and a quick smile towards Selkie, Dolly continues towards the stairs. She takes a moment, holding her new gift, to pray to her goddess in halfling asking for favor should this go badly.

It is a strange thing, for in the past, she had little fetishes she made that would be reminiscent of the waves and the ocean, or even strange bits of detritus and odd materials she was inspired to use, but she never called on a deity. The forms are the same, and she meditated on that water today, for none have shown her about prayers to Besmara Herself. But as she intones the strange words and lets her body instinctively draws the symbols, she feels a connection in calling on Besmara, finally realizing that it was, indeed, the Black Lady who has answered her call. The satisfying release of energy happens that says that magic has been enacted in the world.

Dolly isn't a "church woman," but she is more savvy than most at knowing who to say what prayers to Whom. And Besmara is known as the Lady of Misfortune in some circles, but Dolly hasn't asked Besmara to not smile upon her (for that would be to gain her "favor" ... i.e., unluck), but to actually influence actions in her favor.

Well, we shall see if Dolly didn't just damn her soul in some way...

R2T27: "Oh, I'm up for a brawl," snarls Selkie. "Been looking for payback, since Scourge had to have had pals who helped to bring us to hits rotting hulk. Likely someone like you, fat man!"

Selkie hauls back like a haymaker to hit Fipps with his brass knuckles. Fipps looks ready to get inside it, but Selkie does swing horizontally, but vertically .... smashing down into Fipps' clumsily planted left foot for 10 damage. There is a loud crunching of bone as Fipps screams in pain.

The sailors were enjoying the show before, but with brass knuckles in play and a hit like that, there is suddenly silence as the fight has taken on a much different tenor and there is real injury.

R2T18: Handbag, it is hard to see on the map, but Jaundiced Jape is on the other side of a stanchion from you, but adjacent. Aretta Bansion is 10' to your west. What do you do?

Fipps on deck, Sprawl in the hole ...

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps. Divine favor til R12T28 (+1 luck bonus to attack/ damage rolls).
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (10:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 7 NL).
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20).
Tramp: 9. Concentrating on portals.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 4. (20:20).

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R2T18: Handbag hisses more at Jape, tripping him with a sweep of his leg before saying to him, "This is your last warning. Try to touch me again and I will melt off your face."

R2T17: Fipps seethes in rage and draws a dagger, then launches at Selkie, returning the favor by stabbing him in the left foot for 4.

R2T15: Sprawl, while only just between Selkie and Fipps, this just became a potentially deadly brawl. What do you do?

Slippery Sy Lonegan on deck, Sparkles in the hole ...

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps. Divine favor til R12T28 (+1 luck bonus to attack/ damage rolls).
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (10:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 7 NL).
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20). PRONE!!!
Tramp: 9. Concentrating on portals.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 4. (20:20).

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R2T15: Sprawl curses when he sees the lethal fight break out. He unloads a focused flurry of nonlethal blows upon his attacker hoping to down them quickly so that he can break up the fight with lethal weapons before it becomes deadly. He knees Slippery Sy in her right elbow for a painful 8 NL, but she evades his followup kick. But she couldn't have expected his ki-infused speed as his fist connects with her belly for 11 NL, causing her to crumple to the ground.

"Knock it off!" he yells aft.

R2T13: Sparkles, what do you do?

Jaundiced Jape on deck, Tramp in the hole ...

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps. Divine favor til R12T28 (+1 luck bonus to attack/ damage rolls).
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (10:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20). PRONE!!!
Tramp: 9. Concentrating on portals.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 4. (20:20).

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Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 26 NL). KO'd!!!

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R2T13: Hearing the sounds of a fight sparkles moves towards where Handbag is - moving around a creepy portal - to see what's going on. "You both better be careful! If any of the ships officers' hear about this, we'll have new volunteers for the bloody hour!"

R2T13: To the aft, Jaundiced Jape isn't really paying attention now to the person that just tripped him, seeing a different level to the battle. "Fipps, man! What you' doin'!" he calls as he stands up and moves forward.

R2T9: Tramp, you were concentrating on portals. What do you do?

Tossed Salad on deck, Aretta Bansion in the hole ...

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps. Divine favor til R12T28 (+1 luck bonus to attack/ damage rolls).
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (10:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20). PRONE!!!
Tramp: 9. Concentrating on portals.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 4. (20:20).

OOC
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 26 NL). KO'd!!!

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R2T9: Tramp lets her focus drop from her portal as it has served its purpose, and she no longer has need of it. After making a quick survey of the situation around her she nods to herself before casting a spell, intoning loudly strange arcane words and making eldritch symbols in the air before disappearing from view.

There's a collective gasp from sailors at another blatant magical display. "Right sure that kelpie's some sorta' sea witch!"

R2T5: Tossed Salad, what do you do?

Aretta Bansion on deck, Dolly in the hole ...

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps. Divine favor til R12T28 (+1 luck bonus to attack/ damage rolls).
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (10:20).
Sprawl: 15.
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20). PRONE!!!
Tramp: 9. Vanish til R5T9.
Tossed Salad: 5.
Aretta Bansion: 4. (20:20).

OOC
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 26 NL). KO'd!!!

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R2T5: Tossed Salad takes a step west and tries to grab on to the big man Fipps. Fipps stabs Tossed in his cheek for 3, but Tossed still manages to grab him. "This needs to stop."

R2T4: Aretta wants no part of a fight that has deadly weapons, and she moves over by Jaundiced Jape.

End Round 2, Begin Round 3 ...

R3T28: Dolly, what do you do? Fipps is your studied target, and you have divine favor cast.

Selkie on deck, Handbag in the hole ...

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps. Divine favor til R12T28 (+1 luck bonus to attack/ damage rolls).
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (10:20). GRAPPLED by Tossed Salad.
Sprawl: 15.
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20). PRONE!!!
Tramp: 9. Vanish til R5T9.
Tossed Salad: 5. GRAPPLING Fipps.
Aretta Bansion: 4. (20:20). Total Defense.

OOC
Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 26 NL). KO'd!!!

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R3T28: Dolly sighs and moves to the other side of the grabbed Fipps, speaking, annoyed as she walks. "Shouldn't we ALL just get to work?" She grabs for the knife Fipps is holding. "I'd be happy to try to help any injured feel better."

While she doesn't grab the knife, she does manage to knock it out of his hand.

R3T27: Selkie goes to curb stomp Fipps. Selkie is a brawler, descriptively, but is mainly dangerous with his brass knuckles. Truth be told though, while really strong, he's not actually a trained unarmed fighter like Sprawl. So, when he gets a crit that is a bone masher that breaks both of the bones in Fipps' right lower arm for 12 NL + 2 STR + right arm useless until healed ... it is a shocker. Either way, Fipps releases the knife as his hole body goes unconscious.

Selkie takes off his brass knuckles, hiding it in his breeches.

Combat Ends ...

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Dolly: 28. Studied Target: Fipps. Divine favor til R12T28 (+1 luck bonus to attack/ damage rolls).
Selkie: 27.
Handbag: 18.
Fipps Chumlett: 17. (10:20, 12 NL, 2 STR damage, right arm useless). UNCONSCIOUS!!!
* Heal DC 25 needed to regain limb use.
Sprawl: 15.
Sparkles: 13.
Jaundiced Jape: 12. (20:20). PRONE!!!
Tramp: 9. Vanish til R5T9.
Tossed Salad: 5. GRAPPLING Fipps.
Aretta Bansion: 4. (20:20). Total Defense.

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Slippery Sy Lonegan: 14. (20:20, 26 NL). KO'd!!!

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Sparkles, followed by Tramp, go right down into the dark, damp, sauna-like bilge.

Sprawl is able to get a candle from the several that are about, albeit no candlestick, but hasn't gone down yet.

Several shapes move and scuttle about in the water and among all the packed items down below (difficult terrain)!

Round One ...

R1T22: Some type of creature, the size of a small dog, moves on Sparkles. It bites the surprised oread on his left elbow from below for 1.

R1T21: Sparkles, you just got nipped! What do you do?

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ROUS (Red): 22. (9:9).
Sparkles: 21. He is going to contract filth fever.
ROUS (Green): 19. (9:9).
ROUS (Pink): 18. (9:9).
ROUS (Blue): 17. (9:9).
Tramp: 13.
ROUS (Purple): 9. (9:9).
ROUS (Brown): 6. (9:9).
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Tossed Salad: 20.
Dolly: 15.
Sprawl: 12.
Selkie: 11.
Handbag: 8.

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R1T21: Sparkles let's out a angry roar and starts shouting as he slams his fist at the creature that bit him. "Hit me with a whip! Call me short! Bite me! I'll kill you!"

The critter tries to nip at Sparkles as he punches, but ends up putting itself in the worst possible punch, suffering a soft crit for 8 NL!

R1T19-17: Several more critters converge on Sparkles. One bites him in the side of the belly for 4. The other two stumble around getting to him and miss horribly. One leaps up at Sparkles' face, and he actually savagely bites the critter on the mouth/snout/jaw for 6!

R1T13: Tramp, you are on the ladder right now. It will take a MA to get down to the bottom. You need both hands to climb. What do you do?

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ROUS (Red): 22. (9:9, 8 NL).
Sparkles: 21. He is going to contract filth fever. RAGING!
ROUS (Green): 19. (9:9).
ROUS (Pink): 18. (9:9).
* Pinched Nerve: Reduce your reach by 5 feet for 3 rounds (If at 0, you may not attack).
* Heal: A DC 20 Heal check removes the reach penalty.

ROUS (Blue): 17. (3:9).
Tramp: 13.
ROUS (Purple): 9. (9:9).
ROUS (Brown): 6. (9:9).
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Tossed Salad: 20.
Dolly: 15.
Sprawl: 12.
Selkie: 11.
Handbag: 8.

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R1T13: Tramp climbs down to the bottom and casts a spell, targeting 3 of the creatures attacking Sparkles while trying to figure out just what the hell they are. "I've got your back, Sparkles."

She can't see them well enough to know how she did, or even quite what they are.

R1T9-6: Sparkles gets bit again (Purple) in his intercostal muscles for 2. Tramp just barely keeps from getting bit herself.

End Round One, Begin Round 2 (including everyone else) ...

R2T21: Sparkles, you are raging. What do you do?

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Sparkles: 21. He is going to contract filth fever. RAGING!
Tossed Salad: 20.
ROUS (Green): 19. (6:9).
ROUS (Pink): 18. (6:9).
* Pinched Nerve: Reduce your reach by 5 feet for 3 rounds (If at 0, you may not attack).
* Heal: A DC 20 Heal check removes the reach penalty.
ROUS (Blue): 17. (3:9).
Dolly: 15.
Tramp: 13.
Sprawl: 12.
Selkie: 11.
ROUS (Purple): 9. (9:9).
Handbag: 8.
ROUS (Brown): 6. (9:9).

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ROUS (Red): 22. (4:9, 10 NL). UNCONSCIOUS!!!

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R2T21: Sparkles being nipped and scratched continues to get angrier, and he swings an angry fist at a rat nearby (Green), knocking it solidly on the head for 10 NL, knocking it out. "Stupid biters. Die!"

R2T20: Tossed Salad, it's dark down in the bilge. What do you do?

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Sparkles: 21. He is going to contract filth fever. RAGING!
Tossed Salad: 20.
ROUS (Pink): 18. (6:9).
* Pinched Nerve: Reduce your reach by 5 feet for 3 rounds (If at 0, you may not attack).
* Heal: A DC 20 Heal check removes the reach penalty.
ROUS (Blue): 17. (3:9). AOO used.
Dolly: 15.
Tramp: 13.
Sprawl: 12.
Selkie: 11.
ROUS (Purple): 9. (9:9). AOO used.
Handbag: 8.
ROUS (Brown): 6. (9:9).

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ROUS (Red): 22. (4:9, 10 NL). UNCONSCIOUS!!!
ROUS (Green): 19. (6:9, 10 NL). AOO used. UNCONSCIOUS!!!

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R2T20: Tossed Salad says a brief prayer to Gozreh "Grant me sight to defeat my foes," and he reaches up and casts light on the key hanging around his neck.

Afterwards, he makes his way down the ladder into the bilge and moves off to the side to make room for others to come down. Meanwhile, down in the bilge, there is now plenty of light to show rats that are about two or more feet long each! As Tossed comes down, one of the rats nips at him, hitting the elf in the belly for 1.

R2T18-17: One of the rats appears in some distress and moves forward. Another (blue), scores a soft crit against Sparkles for 4.

R2T15: Dolly, what do you do? You look down into the bilge below.

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Sparkles: 21. He is going to contract filth fever. RAGING!
Tossed Salad: 20.
ROUS (Pink): 18. (6:9).
* Pinched Nerve: Reduce your reach by 5 feet for 2 rounds (If at 0, you may not attack).
* Heal: A DC 20 Heal check removes the reach penalty.
ROUS (Blue): 17. (3:9).
Dolly: 15.
Tramp: 13.
Sprawl: 12.
Selkie: 11.
ROUS (Purple): 9. (9:9). AOO used.
Handbag: 8.
ROUS (Brown): 6. (9:9). AOO used.

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ROUS (Red): 22. (4:9, 10 NL). UNCONSCIOUS!!!
ROUS (Green): 19. (6:9, 10 NL). AOO used. UNCONSCIOUS!!!