OOC: How much damage! Geeez! :D

Angati slices the final shark into shreads.

Between the two of them, Angati and Alohan are able to drag the half drowned captain through the surf-line and onto the beach where the barbarian collapses into the sand.

OOC: Obligatory roleplaying bit here. You all have some explaining to do to each other.

Celene walked over to where ALohan lay in the sand "Not to make matters worse; but we're not wanted here anymore. I think we should leave as soon as possible." she said not even caring to ask why the captain had been swimming with sharks.

Indeed, a crowd of angry and armed natives is already circling around the party, their spear and clubs at the ready.

Logan finishes his brief jog to the shore, and has just begun to pull out his weapons when it looks like everything is resolved.  "There might be time for talking later, but I don't think we're wanted here right now.  Avner tried to pull some stunt with a girl here, and your countrymen were not amused.  Once we all get back to the boat, you can tell us what exactly was going on out there."

The party head back to the Sea Wyvern with a group of angry locals building behind them. Alohan is in bad shape and needs to be supported by Kinstal and Logan - hence he isn't able to try any diplomacy.

OOC: Any healing for the young barbarian?

They all arrive back at the boat safe and sound and the gangplank is pulled up. The bare chested men from the village of Rencrue mull around the wharf yelling threats up at the vessel, while the crew prepare to set sail out into the moonlight. Avner is brought up the wharf by an even angrier group of men who liberally punch him in between screaming at him. He is then tossed unceremoniously into the Sea Wyvern.

The Blue Nixie, still moored out in the harbor, raises two flags:

DO YOU NEED ASSISTANCE?
WHAT IS YOUR STATUS?

And then Alohan realizes that he left his magical taiaha on the beach...

Angati healed Alohan as best she could, when she saw the big man was more worried about his Taiaha than his wounds she said "Ok, I think I can do something about it if it's still there... your Taiaha is not so heavy after all... let's see..." she summoned an Archon, and told it to teleport to the beach and bring back the Taiaha.

If need be Angati could probably try to swim to the beach herself as a manta ray.

"Still who could have been the shape changer ?... it needs to be that knows Lavinia, and from our ship most probably... Avner could not have been.... "

Angati summons another archon and sends him down to the nearby beach to fetch the barbarian-monk's weapon. The little fellow returns and reports that the weapon is nowhere to be found on the beach. Angati checks it out in her sting-ray form and can't find it either.

The crew and all the colonist are brought on deck in order to sort out once and for all who the guilty party is. The young red-headed woman who was such a competent sailor but refused to answer questions directly, i.e. Lirith, is not aboard.

OOC: Well, dang. I left enough clues!

Angati went down to take Lirith's stuff from where it was hidden, to check mostly if it was still there, and if it could give them any other clue.
"Take that sorry excuse of a man into his chambers let's go speak with him for a minute before moving on".

Once in the chambers with every one and Avner, she said "Well, you are costing us a dear amount of money, and we are keeping a tab on all the losses originated because of your incompetence, so that this is subtracted from whatever agreement you have going on... ". She paused a bit "You have been sleeping with Lirith have you not ?. What do you know of her ? are you paying her for her services ?"

Lirith is/was sleeping in the main bunkroom so there wasn't much space for her to stow her stuff – and she doesn’t even have much stuff in her trunk anyway. Just a few coins, exactly one nice dress made of green velvet with some floral motifs stitched into it, one wooden hairbrush with a stylised dragon on the back and a couple of daggers.

Avner is lying in his bed (well, it’s the captain’s bed really) cupping a wet rag to the side of his face that took the worse of the beatings and is moaning softly to himself. He perks up at Angati’s comments though.

“What?! Charging me for losses? Preposterous! The only reason we are here is that our so-called captain failed to protect our food supply and then decided to visit these savages because he was getting homesick for his own kind! YOUR family should end up paying MY family!”



Avner smirks. “Yes, the young lady came a-calling a few nights during our voyage? What of it?” He twists the ends of his mustache and grins at Angati.



Avner waves his hand around airily. “The usual sob story. Attended that dance academy but didn’t make a career of it, so chalk her up in the ‘failed erotic dancer’ category. Just got away from a bad boy friend who trashed her place… you know, the usual. Damn firecracker in the bedroom though!”



“Me? Paying? Oh goodness me Mistress Lidu. It is HER that should have been paying ME! The opportunity to spend a night with the most eligible bachelor in Sasserine is kind an attraction, I can tell you!”

The nobleman’s manservant reappears in the room with a new wet cloth in hand. “Where the devil have you been you pathetic little baboon!” explodes Avner. He rips the fresh rag out of the old man’s hand and presses it against the other side of his face… a little too roughly, Avner gasps in pain. “I am going to come back here with some of Father’s troops and show these coconuts what is what, that I promise you!”

OOC: We had found her secret stash of weapons etc, that you said were the tools of an assassin, when Angati went down with Logan to search the place were she was stowing the cargo, remember ?.

Yep, I remember that you found a stash of assassin stuff down in the bilge below the lower hold when you searched it with Logan, but why do you connect that with Lirith? Okay, it is starting to look a bit suspicious... but you don't have solid proof connecting her with those weapons... other than you saw her mucking around down there at the start of the voyage...

...mind you, as the night continues towards dawn Lirith does turn up. Either she really was the assasian or some nasty fate has befallen her on the island that prevents her from returning to the ship.
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Celene had followed Angati and listened as she question Avner. The words 'dance academy' had struck her as odd. "What dance academy did Lirith attend?" she asked him.

Alohan hasn't mentioned anything about Lavinia, but have we seen her?

Avner looks over at Celene, noticing her for the first time. "Well heeellllloooo," he says with a extra smoothing of his mustache down. "I'd imagined you been in my cabin before, but maybe not quite like this."

"Err, there is only one Dance Academy in Sasserine, it was the Telvanta in the Merchant district. Heh. There are some fine fillies attending that school, I can tell you..."



OOC: Nope. Alohan was the only one her saw her.

Celene heard the name Telvanta and her blood grew cold. They had been the breeding group of evil once before; why not again? She decided to table that in her mind for the time being and instead focused on the letch in front of her. She drew power from the succubus blood within her and attempted to further impress her will upon Avner.

Casting Charm Person. DC 17 will save.

OOC: Well done, XP bonus or something to you!


20:03, Today: Dungeon Master rolled 17 using 1d20+2.  Avner save vs charm.
20:04, Today: Dungeon Master rolled 22 using 1d20+2.  Avner reroll.

OOC: Heh :D

Avner shrinks back as Celene casts her spell, but shows no sign of being effected. "What are you doing? Are you trying to cast a spell on me?!"

"Huh... seems you haven't spent so much time with the Telvanta dancers after all. I assumed you'd have seen a mating dance or two in your time. Oh well...perhaps I misjudged you." Celene said as she flicked her hair and turned from the nobleman.

Hoping his want to believe will give me some kind of bonus.

15:39, Today: Celene rolled 13 using 1d20+5.  Bluff check.

Avner doesn't seem very convinced.

"Mating dance? What are you talking about you crazy girl? The Telvanta trains dancers for the opera and ballet, everyone knows that!"

OOC: So it looks like Lirith was the culprit, and she is definitely off the boat. Are we ready to move on?

Well, I also meant have we seen her since that attack?  Alohan doesn't know that was Lirith in disguise, right?  He's got to freak out a little when he sees Lavinia back on board acting totally normal.

Sounds fine with me.

OOC: No, none of you have seen "Lavinia" at all today, since she is aboard the Blue Nixie which is still anchored out in the middle of the harbour. This scene is taking place on board the Sea Wyvern.

Okay, well, I'm fine with continuing on.  It'll be interesting when we do see Lavinia, then