Kassius:
Kibeti stares at the man that had injured him, as if puzzled by the man's audacity. Prey was supposed to run, not fight back, and Kibeti seemed quite sure that these men were prey, not predators. After a half-second pause, as the cat processes the situation, Kibeti apparently comes to a decision. In a sudden burst of feline anger, Kibeti pounces on the man, a screaming fury of bites, claws, and yowls.
The man is overwhelmed by the shear number of blows and topples over as Kibeti claws and bites at his head. With a sickening crunch the giant cat closes his jaw over the man's face and the fight is over.
Kassius:
Kassius meanwhile moves to the side, trying to gain a clearer shot. Moving to the other end of the boat, he calmly draws another arrow and fires it at the man. However, the fury of combat makes it difficulty to aim, and Kassius curses as another arrows flies past the man to land somewhere in the bay.
As for the new-comer, and whoever she seemed to be shouting at, Kassius groans. This doesn't sound good. Maybe some confusion might slow the woman down, and give someone time to get below-decks and interrupt this Mera person.
"Mera! I would sugggest not burning things! Fire and boats don't mix!" Kassius shouts in the general direction of the hatch.
There is no response from below the decks. It appears Mera is busy.
Kassius:
Note: Kibeti has a max of 14 HP, not 11 (I took toughness)
Logan:
Logan steps to the side, flanking another thug with Kibeti. Taking advantage of the disctraction, Logan attacks him with both weapons.
The man gasps as Logan opens up a small gash on his thigh, and drops his sword to clutch at the wound.
"Ahhh ah, that hurts!" he screams.
"I give up," adds the 'pirate', and slumps against the railing.
OOC: Bah! These guys are such pussies!
Celene:
Calling out to her charmed pirate, Celene pleas: "Who is Mera? Can you stop her from making this into an inferno. We'll all be burned to cinders!"
The charmed thug chuckles.
"Oh, that's Mera Veskat she was yelling at. Mera's a bit of a klutz so we keep here down in the hold to feed the... *ahem* cargo. She's no use on deck 'cause she get's all tangled up in the ropes and keeps droping things."
The man looks serious for a second.
"Honestly, it is best if we just burn the whole thing. If the district watch finds out what we've got down there... well, let's just say I see us all spending a lot of time in the Hellfurnace Mines for the next couple of decades, you know what I mean!"
Celene:
She then moves around the grid above the animal pen, trying to spot anyone down there.
OOC: Around the pen, not just in it. If she sees a person down there, she'll cast another charm person (ready action, right?). Is it possible to also ready a sleep, in the odd case that Mera is not a person?
Does convincing the charmed pirate take a Charisma check?
Do I need to roll something to see if I spot someone (Mera)?
2) We'll see what you want to do after I describe what you see down there
3) Yes, if it is something he wouldn't normally do. If you want him to yell out to Mera to stop burning the place down, then I'd need a roll, but as it turns out this is not relevant.
Celene walks around the grate, trying to get a better angle on what is going on down in the hold. After she has walked around a quarter of it, she is able to see a young lady trying to use a tinder and flint to light a torch. The young lady is standing to one side of the animal pen which the grate forms the top of. The animal pen is made up of thick metal bars which criss-cross horizontally and vertically to form strong looking squares.
The girl continues her efforts, but try as she might, she is not able to get the flint to spark - it appears that ineptitude of this crew of wantabe pirates extends beyond fighting to fire lighting.
Celene prepares to cast a spell (probably charm person), but before she can start the girl's vigorous efforts cause her ass to bump against the door of the animal pen. The door can't have been fastened properly because it promptly unlatches and swings quietly open.
In a corner of the pen, squished up against the corner underneath Celene and therefore almost out of line of sight, a strange animal that looks like a furry dark brown beetle with brownish-yellow stripes - but a beetle about the size of a pony - slowly uncurls itself and climbs onto four pairs of legs. It has a fifth pair of limbs at the front of its body and these reach out towards the female thug.
Celene calls out a warning, but this only gives the girl time to turn and scream in horror as the creature plunges one of its forelegs towards the girl's head. The sorceress sees that the front legs end in discs studded with dozens of terrible hooked suckers, and several of these hook into the girl's cheek as the front claw strikes her. The pad on the other limb latches into her stomach and then the creature lifts Mera towards it as it rears up. Celene then sees that its head is horrifically oversized, and dominated by immense mandibles that now flex open widely. The creature brings the screaming girl to its mouth and then cuts her in half at the sternum with one clean bite. The blood flow is immense and actually spurts out of the grating.
The creature hears Celene's scream and looks up, its mandibles chattering with obvious hunger. It drops the girl and skitters off in the hold towards the hatch.
This message was last edited by the GM at 18:48, Mon 22 June 2015.
