Krastus has a tough hide and the leeches in the brakish water fail to attach to the barbarian!
"What do you think brought that turtle man out here," the ferryman muses aloud using the pole to navigate around a fallen log floating crosswise and blocking easy passage.
Before Krastus gets into the water again however, Lu grasps the dragonborn's arm then points to a floating mass the size of the flatboat! The mass then moves sharply into a dive, as a crocodile's tail flicks the humid air before disappearing into the murky water!
"Everyone on their gaurd," Lu says softly easing the elegant black bow from thier quiver and pulling a arrow fleched with owl bear feathers next before knocking it in the bow at the ready!
Elthias sees the crocodile, grabbing his already loaded crossbow and moving to stand next to Lu as they ready their bow. He levels the weapon towards the reptile but holds off on firing until they are sure whether or not it is going to attack. "Could we attempt to lure it away? Perhaps if you order the owl to fly over and cause a distraction we can avoid fighting in an environment where it has the advantage." He asks, turning slightly in the direction of Ben as he speaks.
"Could be luring us into a trap," Fianna says softly in reply to the ferryman. "Or showing us the safe way... Then again, the Tortle may want nothing to do with us and could merely be trying to get away? Though wouldn't they just go underwater if that was of?"
The entire area is in some ways comfortable to Fianna, as she is used to being surrounded by nature. But yet this is not her nature, not the surroundings she is used to. Everything is different and strange and potentially deceptive.
"Luring it away may be best," she says in agreement to Elthias. "Probably best not to hurt anything we don't need to. Nature tends to seek revenge..."
A spectral, ghostly looking hand appears about 30' off the bow of the flat boat. As the boat drifts, the hand keeps that 30' distance away. The hand dips down to water level, and trails a finger in water.
Looking down at where the crocodile swims, Krastusunstraps his great axe and readies for action. If the crocodile draws near, he will strike out, seeking more to scare it off than to hurt it.
"I collect all sorts," Lu replies to Ben their eyes focused on the murky water.
The party watches next as Ben's mage hand makes a path in the water but at first it only moves the green scum collecting on the surface. As they continue to watch a sudden splash emerges as a large tiger stripped fish springs from the water seeking the movement! The fish finds nothing as it attempts to swallow the mage hand to no avail. It's comical at first. The tiger stripped fish suspended in midair until it decidew it's unable to capture the mage hand and let's go! With a heavy plunging sound the fish resubmerges into the mucky water's dark depths. Lu let's out a nervous chuckle but before the Dusk Warden can even utter thier joke the party feels the flatboat lurch into the air as something rams the flatboat from beneath! The mysterious attacker hits again with enough force that most of the passengers loose their footing!!
"Find dry land," Sky hisses at the ferryman, "we can't fight whatever that is on the raft," he adds his tone a growl as he draws his longsword and readies his shield emblazoned with Pelor's sunburst sigil!
OOC: I need everyone to make a DEX save DC 13; failures are knocked prone! As a rule NPCs will never roll for these types of party checks.
This post has potentially manipulated dice roll results.
Ben enjoys the sight of the fish trying to eat the magical hand but that’s short lived when the boat is hit hard.
“What was that?” He thinks to Chronos.
Ben’s no athlete but he’s lived far too long with his aggressive brothers not to have had to think quickly to stay on his feet. Instead of fighting the motion, he rolls with it and tries to go down to one knee to make it easier to balance.
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Fianna Dex save: 3 Fianna was amused as well by the hungry fish and not prepared to be attacked from beneath. She lets out a bit of a yelp! When they are hit but tries to maintain her footing…
As the boat rise the party scatters across the deck. Mostly the party remains shorefooted but Fianna goes tumbling towards the edge, Krastus in an attempt to get her from falling over board, narrowly saves her from plunging to her murky doom!
"Land," Sky hisses again at the ferryman this time the fear palpable in the paladins tone before driving the poke into the water away from whatever lurks below...
"There," Lu says their tone still hushed as they point to a black horned back slinking out of the water before resubmerging.
The horned watery behemoth dives once again underneath the flatboat and again ramming it another time from beneath, like an animal using a tool to knock ripe fruit from a low hanging branch!!
OOC: Again DEX saves. I ask you add RP to your rolls. Success or failure how would your PC interpret that roll with RP, thanks!
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Sometimes a Nat 1 tells a better story than a Nat 20 ever could.
Normally fairly sure-footed, Krastus continues to watch the others carefully. “We almost lost Fianna,”he thinks to himself. At the sight of the long, black back, he starts looking for angle of attack to drive the creature away. He is leaning over the side, trying to predict its movements, when the boat suddenly lurches upward.
Bonivere stumbles a little and says, "Land would be good..."
Her hair is matting to her face with the humidity of the marsh. She tries to wipe it away, but it's awkward. She stands ready with sword and shield in hand, but the sudden lurch of the boat takes her off guard and she begins to fall.
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Ben Dex Save: 17
Before Ben can repeat his question to Chronos about what the owl sees in the water, and before he's even able to get up from one knee, the boat rolls again. Ben grabs hold of the seat he'd been kneeling against and remains low in the boat.
As he fights to stay semi-upright, Ben scans the area again for dry ground, somewhere he can point to for safety.
Krastus CON save: 17
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd
Krastus has a tough hide and the leeches in the brakish water fail to attach to the barbarian!
"What do you think brought that turtle man out here," the ferryman muses aloud using the pole to navigate around a fallen log floating crosswise and blocking easy passage.
Before Krastus gets into the water again however, Lu grasps the dragonborn's arm then points to a floating mass the size of the flatboat! The mass then moves sharply into a dive, as a crocodile's tail flicks the humid air before disappearing into the murky water!
"Everyone on their gaurd," Lu says softly easing the elegant black bow from thier quiver and pulling a arrow fleched with owl bear feathers next before knocking it in the bow at the ready!
Sometimes a Nat 1 tells a better story than a Nat 20 ever could.
Elthias sees the crocodile, grabbing his already loaded crossbow and moving to stand next to Lu as they ready their bow. He levels the weapon towards the reptile but holds off on firing until they are sure whether or not it is going to attack. "Could we attempt to lure it away? Perhaps if you order the owl to fly over and cause a distraction we can avoid fighting in an environment where it has the advantage." He asks, turning slightly in the direction of Ben as he speaks.
"Could be luring us into a trap," Fianna says softly in reply to the ferryman. "Or showing us the safe way... Then again, the Tortle may want nothing to do with us and could merely be trying to get away? Though wouldn't they just go underwater if that was of?"
The entire area is in some ways comfortable to Fianna, as she is used to being surrounded by nature. But yet this is not her nature, not the surroundings she is used to. Everything is different and strange and potentially deceptive.
"Luring it away may be best," she says in agreement to Elthias. "Probably best not to hurt anything we don't need to. Nature tends to seek revenge..."
Ben looks at Lu's arrows for a few moments, lost in thought while the others discuss the large crocodile.
"Are those feathers from a, um, well a young owlbear?" Ben asks. "An adult's would be too big, wouldn't they?"
He finally glances over at the receding ripples from the croc.
"Stay well above the water, but see if you can see it down there," Ben thinks to Chronos.
While he thinks his command to Chronos, Ben wiggles his fingers and says "mage mono".
Ben casts Mage Hand
A spectral, ghostly looking hand appears about 30' off the bow of the flat boat. As the boat drifts, the hand keeps that 30' distance away. The hand dips down to water level, and trails a finger in water.
Looking down at where the crocodile swims, Krastus unstraps his great axe and readies for action. If the crocodile draws near, he will strike out, seeking more to scare it off than to hurt it.
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd
"I collect all sorts," Lu replies to Ben their eyes focused on the murky water.
The party watches next as Ben's mage hand makes a path in the water but at first it only moves the green scum collecting on the surface. As they continue to watch a sudden splash emerges as a large tiger stripped fish springs from the water seeking the movement! The fish finds nothing as it attempts to swallow the mage hand to no avail. It's comical at first. The tiger stripped fish suspended in midair until it decidew it's unable to capture the mage hand and let's go! With a heavy plunging sound the fish resubmerges into the mucky water's dark depths. Lu let's out a nervous chuckle but before the Dusk Warden can even utter thier joke the party feels the flatboat lurch into the air as something rams the flatboat from beneath! The mysterious attacker hits again with enough force that most of the passengers loose their footing!!
"Find dry land," Sky hisses at the ferryman, "we can't fight whatever that is on the raft," he adds his tone a growl as he draws his longsword and readies his shield emblazoned with Pelor's sunburst sigil!
OOC: I need everyone to make a DEX save DC 13; failures are knocked prone! As a rule NPCs will never roll for these types of party checks.
Sometimes a Nat 1 tells a better story than a Nat 20 ever could.
Krastus DEX save: 17
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd
Ben enjoys the sight of the fish trying to eat the magical hand but that’s short lived when the boat is hit hard.
“What was that?” He thinks to Chronos.
Ben’s no athlete but he’s lived far too long with his aggressive brothers not to have had to think quickly to stay on his feet. Instead of fighting the motion, he rolls with it and tries to go down to one knee to make it easier to balance.
DEX Save: 16
Bonivere draws her own longsword and shield to follow after Sky. DEX save: 19
Fianna Dex save: 3
Fianna was amused as well by the hungry fish and not prepared to be attacked from beneath. She lets out a bit of a yelp! When they are hit but tries to maintain her footing…
Krastus, seeing that Fianna is about to fall out of the boat, attempts to grab her arm to help her stay upright.
Athletics: 20
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd
Elthias curses as the boat is suddenly up ended, doing his best to not lose his own footing.
Dex: 24
As the boat rise the party scatters across the deck. Mostly the party remains shorefooted but Fianna goes tumbling towards the edge, Krastus in an attempt to get her from falling over board, narrowly saves her from plunging to her murky doom!
"Land," Sky hisses again at the ferryman this time the fear palpable in the paladins tone before driving the poke into the water away from whatever lurks below...
"There," Lu says their tone still hushed as they point to a black horned back slinking out of the water before resubmerging.
The horned watery behemoth dives once again underneath the flatboat and again ramming it another time from beneath, like an animal using a tool to knock ripe fruit from a low hanging branch!!
OOC: Again DEX saves. I ask you add RP to your rolls. Success or failure how would your PC interpret that roll with RP, thanks!
Sometimes a Nat 1 tells a better story than a Nat 20 ever could.
DEX save: 16
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd
Normally fairly sure-footed, Krastus continues to watch the others carefully. “We almost lost Fianna,” he thinks to himself. At the sight of the long, black back, he starts looking for angle of attack to drive the creature away. He is leaning over the side, trying to predict its movements, when the boat suddenly lurches upward.
Tamryn - lvl 4 Wood Elf Rogue - Circle of Light Campaign || Drusilla - lvl 1 Half-Elf Ranger - Sleeping Gods || Grrzark - lvl 1 Goblin Barbarian - Danger at Darkshelf Quarry || DM - LTG - Curse of Strahd
DEX Save: 22
Bonivere stumbles a little and says, "Land would be good..."
Her hair is matting to her face with the humidity of the marsh. She tries to wipe it away, but it's awkward. She stands ready with sword and shield in hand, but the sudden lurch of the boat takes her off guard and she begins to fall.
Ben Dex Save: 17
Before Ben can repeat his question to Chronos about what the owl sees in the water, and before he's even able to get up from one knee, the boat rolls again. Ben grabs hold of the seat he'd been kneeling against and remains low in the boat.
As he fights to stay semi-upright, Ben scans the area again for dry ground, somewhere he can point to for safety.
Investigation: 25
Fianna Dex Save #2: 7
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