Trina's volley of shots is enough to pin the remaining crew down so the Lizard man warriors can finish them off. However there is another boat and it's farther away. You can either try and snipe from where you are at or you can get closer to the other ship. They seem to have noticed that the first ship is under attack.

"Range is now five hundred and twelve meters. I am targeting the near gunner."

Yeeng states as she takes aim. The suppressed SVD makes a thudding sound as it's fired. At the landing craft on the far beach a man behind a mounted gun falls.

Trina watched the cargo ship crew dive for cover from her shots accomplishing Exactly what she wanted leaving them vulnerable to the Lizardman's in their face assault.  But seeing the other ship take note of the fighting on the cargo ship... the gunner began to turn to deal with it when he was taken out by Yeeng.  Trina knew that the pirates would find another to fire the emplacement weapon if not given another distraction.  She needed to give Mary time to bring the Razortooth in and hopefully not under fire...

So she decided to do something that was particularly ...brave if not foolhardy.. provide a distraction to any new gunner...

Shouldering her rifle she stood and moved next to the nearest palm tree and began to climb it as rapid as possible...

14:38, Today: Trina rolled 10 using 3d6.  Trina - Climbing [12-]. – 10 'With her Encumbrance penalties.. that just makes it, lol!'

At the top of the tree, Trina stretched out her will.. to call Kyrie to her and grant her the gift of the skies...
The Wind buffeted her briefly whipping her cloak about her shoulders... and she leaped from the height... but did not fall...

Invoking the power of Hawk Flight ... Trina flew on the winds, her red feathered eagle Kyrie at her side as swift as an catapult boulder she soared over the surf flying for the cargo ship gliding upon the winds her cloak wildly fluttering in her wake!

She made herself quite obvious letting the magic flow through her... confident of her Missile Shield and Resist Fire spells still protecting her.. hopefully drawing every eye to her ... !

When Pirates shoot at her she will react by jinking and 'dodging' in the air to make it look like she is actually trying... when she is NOT as their missile weapons will never hit her... but she does not want to reveal that as yet...

The lizard men knew nothing of sailing a ship but Trina did.. she needed to take charge of their efforts to make sure the ship was ready for Mary to take charge of it ...after she had dealt with the other Pirate vessel..with a little help from Trina's magic... and guns!
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Mary even as far away as she was could hear the distant crack of gun fire... and paced nervously... Yeeng was at least at the periphery of the fighting... sniping, as usual,... but that still did not make her worry any less.  Even the new unknown Trina was in the thick of it and she was a complete unknown.  Despite the shortness of their acquaintance.. she had grown quite fond of the gentle magical elf-blood woman.. and so had her crew.  Mary dreaded the possibility of either Yeeng or Trina being injured.

Then the cryptic radio contact came from Yeeng.. 'Cargo ship taken by lizard men.. second ship engaging...!'

Turning to her crew, "Well what Are Ye waiting fur ya scurvy bitches? Go-Go-Go!  Get us in there NOW!"

The Razortooth roared to life and was soon skipping waves heading for the battle...
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In reply to Mary Reaver (msg # 105):

What is the range to the second vessel?

In reply to Teruo Nakamura (msg # 106):

From what Island Spirit has told me...

512 meters or 556 yards.
The Mounted MG on your side of the boat has already been sniped {by Yeeng}.

Here is the Visual Tactical...



[A] = Pirate Cargo Ship
[B] = Pirate Combat Ship
P = Pirates
PR = Princess A
T = Friendly Troops
TR = Trina
R = Razortooth
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Trina: Your areal acrobatics do get people's attention. So far two men with rifles are trying to hit your dipping and diving form. You're not sure if your missle shield is working or if they have missed you because of your movements and the range. However a couple of bullets do get close to you.

Teruo: you have a couple of men shooting at Trina and another two watching the show. There are others onboard but you cannot get a clear shot at them.

Another Lizard man pops it's head up where friendly forces can see it. There is a raised hand and a slap of the water before it dives back under the water. The rest of the Lizard men are making their move. As they do so the bow starts to raise and the anchor chains start to reel in. The boat is trying to get out of Dodge.

In reply to Island Spirit (msg # 108):

Teruo targets one of the rifleman shooting at Trina...
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Trina saw that the lizardmen had command of the Pirate Cargo ship.. and we eliminating the crew... {eek... they don't take prisoners' apparently!}, she realized.

She also noted the pair pirate gunmen from the landing craft on the beech shooting at her but what was more conscerning was the Pirate Landing Craft was closing its ramp trying to leave shore realizing they were meeting conventional armed resistance they were not expecting. They could NOT be allowed to escape!

Swooping her flight around she pulled her shield off her back and drew her enchanted Broadsword QUADRAMORTE... then as she closed the distance to the Pirate landing ship she cast a spell...

19:46, Today: Trina rolled 12 using 3d6.  Trina - Casting 'Flaming Weapon' Spell [13-]. – 12

And her enchanted sword Burst into flames as she came in with a war cry to land on the Pirate Landing ship to meet the pirates in Battle close quarters to take the ship personally!

She will fuel the magic from her powerstone...

Expend: 4en from Powerstone

In her homeworld of Urth her ship had been the Triumphant Eagle.. it was itself a 'prize-ship' won from Pirates... for Trina and her Circle of Five were a party of all mostly women adventurers and they were Pirate hunters before she lost her dear friends in the Banestorm that had stranded her here in this reality.  She had been holding in the grief and despair of the loss of her crew and friends... THIS was her rage unleashed.. and chance to give voice to her frustration and self-recrimination for surviving when all her friends had perished as far as she knew.  This was her anger and her sorrow given a target AT LAST to unleash her fury!

She screamed an Elven battlercry ~ "An thui emel ~ Gurth a fuin!" {For Thy Heart ~ Death and Darkness}

Trina swooped in to land on the deck and swung her burning blade at the nearest gunman from above as she dove in like a bird of prey ~ An All Out Attack!

She wanted to leave an impression... especially since the men were not ready for melee but shooting guns!

20:06, Today: Trina rolled 6 using 1d6+2.  Trina  -  Initiative [IQ13 {+1}, Tactics {+1} +1d6]. – 6

20:08, Today: Trina rolled 17 using 3d6.  Trina - Broadsword {attack from above +1, All out attack +4} [13- '18-']. – 17 [Miss]
- Gah.. got too excited in my typing and forgot to add the +4 for all out attack, but a 17 STILL misses! Grrrrr!

Trina is triply infuriated by her missed swing with the flaming blade...!

She points the burning blade at the crew and Yells in english, "You WILL Surrender or I will GUT EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!!!"

... of course the Pirates still have guns, but her Missile Shield spell should still be running.

Totals:
5en from 'Kyrie'
6en from Powerstone

Teruo: the man that you are shooting at goes down. Yeeng shoots the two guys who are waiting for Trina to get closer to their ship.

Trina: you land on thew ship as one guy is still shooting at you. You can feel the bullets wizz past you. There are three other men you can see on the ship and they move to surround you. As they do so a large number of Lizard men Vault over the side. Seeing as they are surrounded the men give up. the Ships now belong to you. As you stand there with sword drawn you can hear gunfire on the island and shouts over some sort of box by the steering wheel.

Trina strides over to the largest lizardman and bobs her head in respect saying carefully in broken lizardman, "No kill boat men.  Capture."

Then extinguishing her flaming blade and sheathing it she walks over to the steering column and the talking box... she had seen Mary use a similar device.  She did not mess with the dials she just picked up the 'mike' depressed the button on its side and spoke, "This is Princess Trina of Elven Nation in the Great Forest of Caithness, in service to Princess Aanandita of the Isle of Three Sisters. I'm Now in command of both the Pirate Landing Ship and the Pirate Cargo ship, we have taken both ships!  Pirate invaders on the isle Surrender NOW or be slaughtered to the last man!  You will not be warned a second time!"

In reply to Island Spirit (msg # 111):

Seeing things settle on the ship, Teruo now turns his attention to the island, to see what can be done there...

The Razortooth finally arrived several minutes after the sea engagement had been resolved...

Mary arrived to find that the Pirate Cargo ship and the Pirate Landing Craft were both under Lizardman occupation under the command of Trina who had closed the landing Ramp on the Pirate Landing Craft and was providing support fire from the gunnery position on the Landing Craft for the Island defenders against the Pirate invaders.

She had been informed of Trina's message across the radio a few minutes ago but was not sure if it was all bluster to sow confusion... but it seems it was all true the feisty elf-girl had indeed seized control of the Pirate Ships.

The Razortooth came in close to add its gunnery to assist the shore defenders and make any retreat to try to retake the pirate ships a suicide's bargain.

Mary got on the radio with Yeeng for an update of events... and was again amazed at what she was told of Trina's magic revealed and she became quite a bit angry at the Girl's reckless courage and amazing luck to assault the pirate ship alone under gun fire to attack the crew directly!  Her heart was excited at Trina's fearless courage but also really concerned about her getting killed with such recklessness!

"Oy! Tha' pretty-little minge of a girl is going to NEED a Talkin' Too ... preferably in bed!"
Definitely some punishment ~ for Recklessness, was due...

What was worse is it seemed Mary had missed all the action, and had also missed seeing for herself Trina fly and wield a burning broadsword... that was stuff truly out of the fantasy novels!  And she was affronted Trina never told her she could fly or was in fact a Princess... how cool is That?!?

Mary got on the radio for her crew stationed about the isle, "Ok Gals, Captain Reaver speaking ~ the sea is ours the isle defenders have the rest of this. Fall back and let them do their cleanup.  Support from cover but make yur way to the beach for pick up... we got Pirate ships to secure... these lizardmen not be sailors!"
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In reply to Mary Reaver (msg # 114):

Can Teruo take any more pirates out?

In reply to Teruo Nakamura (msg # 115):

Plenty of Pirate stuck on the shore... and in those two fighting land vehicles!

In reply to Mary Reaver (msg # 116):

So Teruo will target gunners and those giving orders then...what range?

Mary gets the smart idea of grabbing one of the smaller boats that had ferried the Pirates to shore and get Teruo and Yeeng to the side of the river that the Pirates are fighting the islanders on.

Currently it seems that the Pirates are more afraid of their leaders than the islanders and Trina's warning to them. They are still fighting. However it seems that you have Pirates heading back to the ships to confirm that they were taken.

You have six pirates leaving a woodline about five hundred yards distance.

In reply to Island Spirit (msg # 118):

Teruo will target the leader with an aimed shot to the vitals if they are less than 500 yds

Mary, seeing the situation as its stands with both Pirate ships under her occupation the landing ship with its drive propellers chain-fowled by the lizard men's efforts she had the Razortooth maneuver a little down-shore to provide a clearer crossing field of fire with its twin dual .50 cal Browning gun nests at the beach.

Getting on the Radio she eventually found the pirate channel from the radio chatter... put on her best urgent rough voice...

"Ships are Rettaken! Repeat Ship Rettaken! All crew retreat ta south shore ~ lets get da ell' out o' ere!!"

09:33, Today: Mary Reaver rolled 14 using 3d6.  Acting - Default [IQ-5, +1/IQ over audience]. – 14

Mary chuckled, she was no Faye Dunaway... this was more Trina's thing.. with all her flowery words and persuasive tone... but perhaps some pirates would come to see if the exit ships were still under their control..

Turning to her gunners, "Aim for guns at the south shore ... but hold fire until I give the word!"

09:41, Today: Mary Reaver rolled 9 using 3d6.  Mary - Leadership [9-]. – 9
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Trina could not figure out how to raise the ramp on the Pirate Landing craft... mechanical devices not being very familiar to her.  The vehicles the landing boat had disgorged she could see were very dangerous with their mass and speed they could easily kill someone on foot if they ran them over.  Much as she was mostly immune to bullets with the missile shield getting hit by one of those vehicles could easily kill her or any island defender .. not even taking into account their mounted guns.

She needed to take them out of the battle..preferably intact.

So she focused her attention on the most heavily armed vehicle first invoking her bond to her familiar...

Kyrie came to her from soaring above to perch upon her shoulder.. as she shared his gift of keen sight... giving her a far better telescopic view of the enemy vehicles.

Hawk Telescopic Vision (5) = -5 Range Penalties Vision Rolls, -10 Range Penalties & +5 Acc w/Aim

Drawing upon Kyrie's energy again she drew a little power from him and wove it with her own as she focused and cast a Flash Spell at the driver of the vehicle... of course the flash was big enough to get everyone on the vehicle but she wants to make sure it got the driver specifically!

If the driver and crew could not see... their heavy weapon attacks would be impossible to aim and likely the vehicle would crash!

Flash [13-] {modified by range -10 '100yrds' negated with telescopic vision}
10:08, Today: Trina rolled 10 using 3d6.  Trina - Casting Flash Spell [13-]. – 10
- Successful against a target no more than 300yrds away; Flash Blast 26yrds Radius!

To all present Trina stood upon the wheel house of the Pirate Landing ship and raised her hands gesturing rapidly and speaking softly then pointed at the Vehicle with the cannon on it (A Tow Missile launcher for those more familiar with modern weapons) and there is a bright blue-white flash that erupts from the driver's side of the vehicle like a silent flash bang grenade.. but Huge and painfully BRIGHTER!

Trina seems to be drinking in the power of the sun shining down upon as her hair and eyes briefly glow with an inner radiance as her sun magery is revealed to all.  What skin that is expose is limned with a golden glow.. as were she topless instead of clad in armored layers of chain mail, kevlar, and ceramic inserts her Phoenix tattoo would be writhing and wrapped in glowing flames upon her skin with her open spellcasting!

Costs:
2en from Kyrie
2en from Trina

Totals:
2en from Trina
7en from 'Kyrie'
6en from Powerstone
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Teruo: you drop the pirate that you were aiming for. The guy apparently in charge falls over and does not move.

Everyone can see a HMMWV roar out of the woods with a guy in the top turret. When Trina's spell goes off the vehicles spins wildly in a roostertail of dirt and plants. the man on top of the vehicle is thrown out and lands at a bad angle. Still the man rises up from the ground he landed on. His left arm is limp and flopping in ways that it's not supposed to move.

Yeeng snipes a second pirate with a radio.

In reply to Island Spirit (msg # 122):

Teruo looks for the next target near the vehicles. Driver or gunner preferably...

Trina noting the effects of her Flash spell upon the HMMWV with the mounted TOW launcher... decides she has expended enough magic energy for a bit and made herself an obvious target so she take's cover dropping below the metal gunwale of the Pirate Landing boat.  Figuring Teruo, Yeeng and Mary can now direct their fire to eliminate the Pirates now directing fire Trina's way.




In guttural broken lizardmen she tells the scaly allies, "Down. Take cover.", not wanting them to be targeted for her actions.

She does ready her FN-FAL battle rifle to return fire when she finally crawls to a good covered position on the boat to return fire...
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Mary notes the arrival of the HMMWV on the beach... and is surprised to see Trina's magic in action marveling at how effective it was and easily spotting Trina casting her spell glowing slightly even in broad daylight.  She grimaced briefly at the sight of Trina standing so openly expecting her to be riddled with return fire, but she relaxed a bit when she dropped out of sight clearly taking cover 'Good Girl, save that bravery for another day or two...!'.

Mary gestured to one of her gunnery nests to target the HMMWV but hold fire.. she wanted to make sure if it tried to use it turreted TOW she would let them have it that was just too dangerous to allow to be used... even if she wanted the vehicle as intact as possible.

Her gunners aimed at the shore but held fire waiting for more pirates to arrive... Twin .50Cal Brownings are loud and pretty distinctive ~ let alone multiple nests of them! Once they start firing no one will be fool enough to risk the beach.. 'Save perhaps the suicidely brave Trina..', Mary thought darkly.

Mary must wait to draw the Pirates in before unloading on them.

Blinded by Trina's magic the HMMWV driver gets stuck in a mud pit. The rear end is bogged down and the front end does not have the traction to pull it out. The vehicle is now a sitting duck.

From deeper in the island it sounds like a rather pitched battle is going on. Mortars are heard dropping on targets inside the woods. you can also hear the crackle of small arms fire and the roar of machineguns. It's currently unknown exactly who is winning the fight.

Trina: as you crouch down you can hear panicking pirates over the radio. it sounds like they bit off more than they could chew.

Teruo: the HMMWV has armored windows. Your shot ar the driver simply puts a small crater in the bullet resistant glass. Still there is the risk of someone climbing up top and manning the gun.

As the small band of pirates realize that they are under fire. More pirates rush from the woods in a panicked rout. Some of them are wounded and all of them are looking behind them as if something is chasing them.

In reply to Island Spirit (msg # 126):

Teruo will target where any gunner climbing up to man the gun would be...