One of the crew – Varlan they call him – rushes onto the deck as the crew’s shouts of “Grapples!” ring through the air. He has often been seen looking after the compass or attending to and supervising repairs, but now his shield is on his arm and his fists are sheathed in electricity.

His armour, which he never seems to take off, is a mixture of metal plates and chain, backed by leather. It looks heavy but also seems tight-fitting, like a second skin, and almost covers his entire body. He moves effortlessly in it despite its weight. Beyond the armour it is hard to see much of the man himself.

He stands at the doorway leading to the lower decks, his grey-green eyes assessing the situation. A small curl of black hair escapes from under his helmet, matching the dark – almost black – armour.

As the passengers attack the raiders, he leaps into action attacking any remaining sailors on the deck or, if none remain standing, hacking at the ropes themselves with the blade of his dagger. Electricity seems to briefly ripple over his armour.

"Cut the ropes!" he shouts to the crew.

Attack 1: 22 Damage: 13

Attack 2: 10 Damage: 14

BA: Defensive Field (5 temp HP)

If no enemies left standing on boat, he hacks at the ropes with his dagger.

If no sailors are left, and he has cut all the ropes he can, Varlan will crouch down below the edge of the deck, near one of the uncut roipes, trying to take cover. Otherwise, he stands in front of the sailor blocking their path.

So not everyone has gone but all the Blackrift sailers on our ship are dead, so I will take then next turn of the Monsters.

All ropes are cut but 6 new grappling hooks fly over, again they need a 10 to make it onto the ship

1 8

2 22

3 7

4 17

5 20

6 3

So now there are 4 new Blackrift sailors a d 2.5 dozen left on their ship along with the Admiral a d the Far Elf leader.  Second round of combat.

Kraven flies a bit closer to the other ship, trying to stay as hidden as he can in the rigging and then will re-focus his aim onto the elf leader who is barking out orders.

Psychic Dagger: Attack: 18 Damage: 14

Corpse Psychic Dagger: Attack: 28 Damage: 12

Sneak Attack: 10 (thought I doubt the damage will apply as no one is in melee range of the Elf Leader.)

Varlan stands up from his crouch and moves in front of the nearest enemy sailor. As he does so a burst of energy seems to radiate toward the sailor, trying to push him over the edge of the boat and into the ocean below.

As the wave of energy dissipates, Varlan moves to attack the nearest sailor.

"Cut the ropes agaim, or we'll be overrum!" he shouts.

DC 16 STR save or be moved 5' away (hopefully over the edge of the boat)

If they don't go into the water, he atacks them, othwrwise he moves to attack next nearest, or th rope if no enemy near.

Attack 1: 23 Damage: 6

Attack 2: 23 Damage: 6

Kuatho keeps moving to where the Blackrift sailors are trying to board, works in tandem with Varlan to attack each as they land.  If one sailor drops, he moves on to the next, his spear spinning and he aims a kick into the chest as well.  

Spear attack 1 : Attack: 16 Damage: 6 

Spear attack 2 : Attack: 21 Damage: 12 

Bonus action kick : Attack: 17 Damage: 10 

Kraven make a stealth check to see if you can get the sneak attack. 

Varlan kills one of the 4 on the ship.

All of Kuatho attacks hit the Blackrif sailor but he is still on his feet ready to fight.

(How did Vlar do on the 6 scorching rays?)

Mist has been spending the entirety of the past week or two in solitude and out of sight, below decks on the ship. Really an extraordinary feat for the loquacious little man.

At the sound of violence breaking out above, he waterjets out of the hold in Freb's arms (with a torrent of rain flowing out beneath them) and they quickly makes their way toward the bow of the enemy ship and the far elf keeping watch (using Freb's rain lift and movement from the previous round and dashing in the current round). Freb deposits the halfling, now -- astoundingly -- standing nearly a foot taller than he was back on the island (now an imposing ~4'5"), on the deck of the enemy ship standing directly in front of the zealot.

"Oi! We travel wit' the blessin' o' the dragon Aurora, emissary o' the Lady Lux...an' you're dangerously close t' pissin' me off! Call off yer dogs now an' I'll be more likely to omit yer transgression when next I hold an audience with the great wyrm 'erself. We'll call yer losses thus far 'recompense' fer the unprovoked attack and let y' off easy."

His eyes narrow as he crosses his arms and cocks a hip to the side in a display of unbridled audacity while he waits for a response.

Kraven Stealth Check: 30

Sorry for messing up on seeing who Vlar's scorching rays were at.  I will leave it that all 3 saliors are dead as thats what I thought, and then move the 6 attacks on the the Admerial, 5 of the 6 hit, dealing all 74 points of dammage.

The Admerial smiles as he takes each hit being rocked back little by little the giant of a man starts to show why he is known.

The Admerial still smiling from the damage he has taken looks to Mist, points his Great Axe at him and yells "KILL IT!" the volume is more to over come the storm, not in anger of any kind.

Kraven your Sneak Attack also hits.

I will post the NPC and Monster's turns tomorrow night, Wednesday morning, or when I see the 2nd turn from Vlur and Jecob.

Jacob steps onto the deck (finally).
As an experienced sailor who only recently joined the ship, he was working hard, trying to make a good impression. Concentrating on his duties, he gradually became aware of the shouts of alarm from above deck.

Underneath his heavy splint armor is the blue-green skin of a water genasi, but he does not have the typical fey or djinn features. In dim lighting where his skin tone is less obvious, he could pass for human. He is heavily muscled, with black pupils like the ocean depths. He pulls his heater shield off his back, and starts twirling his devotee's censer to be used as a flail. (Mist recognizes some of the religious symbols on the censer.)

"Return to your own ship, invaders! I protect the travelers on this vessel."
The words are unlikely to deter the attackers, but maybe they will heed the advice to leave, when more of their crew have fallen.

Jecob moves to the nearest Blackrift sailor and attacks twice with the magic flail. (For each attack, first d8 of damage is bludgeoning, second d8 is radiant.)
If there is a friendly crew member fighting nearby, assist.
The melee blows will be non-lethal, but he is attacking with full power.

• Attack1: 10 Damage: 15
• Attack2: 25 Damage: 15

Vlar looks out around whatever cover he has found, growling slightly as he sees the admiral is still up. He lifts a hand, sending another single blast of flame at the man...
fire bolt
Attack: 18 Damage: 9

He then slips back behind his cover. he trusts the others to continue to deal with any sailors that get on board and is concentrating on hitting the leader of this other ship.

(OOC: Does the Admiral seem hurt? I.E. do the blasts of flames, from last round or this one, seem to have harmed him at all?)

Strength save 1 16

Strength save 2 14

The Blackrift salor that Varlan hits stands his ground on the first attack, but the second one sends him falling over the edge if the ship, silent as he goes.

Both of Jacob's attacks hit,but the salor gives a nasty look at him.

The admiral is giving Vlar a death stair as the fire bolt comes flying his way he moves his head slightly as the bolt Flys past him.

For our NPCs Bollo will send a fire bolt at the Admiral following Vlar's lead. Attack: 8 Damage: 8 (Bollo is a young dwarf who hates the confines of caves and wa to to fly.)

Francis will attack side by side with the new Oahtu admiring his form, staff attack Attack: 21 Damage: 5 followed by a punch Attack: 19 Damage: 6 (Francis is a young human who talks about how much he loves his wife but hates his in-laws, also talks alot about his old days as an athlete)

Gorvenal Serpentwind will look at the Far Elf who is trying to find Kraven and sends a Sacred Flame at him dex save DC 14 or 13 dex save 22. (Gorvenal is an old timer, and the time shows on him his right hand is missing a finger but across his nucleus tattooed "Bad Days".

Lilia screams before she attacks the same Blackrift as Jacob Attack: 18 Damage: 10 (Lilia is a halfling woman who wears little clothing but what she does wear looks like it was fashioned from the ocean. 

Ronald pulls his shield up and eyes the Blackrift that has not been attacked yet and strikes out. Attack: 10 Damage: 4 (an albino aarakocra)

As the admiral dodges one fire bolt another hits.

As the admiral dodges one fire bolt misses he is hit by another.

The sailor that Kuatho and Frances are attacking falls over from the battering of hits.

The Far Elf distracted by looking for Kraven gets hit by the scared flame

Jacob and Lilia's sailor falls over dead.

Ronald's attack hits.

Monsters turn.

The remaining sailor will attack Ronald twice, first Attack: 24 Damage: 6 second Attack: 5 Damage: 5

6 more sailors will swing over leaving 24 left on the Axe.

1 7

2 11

3 16

4 3

5 12

6 19

The far elf turns his attention to the deck of our ship, and sends out a radiant bolt of lightning at Lalia.  She needs to make a DC 18 dex save or take 25 radiant damage.  Then the  Far Elf with out effort leaps off the Axe and onto our ship.

In a smooth soft demanding voice the Far Elf says "The Compass belongs to me and my people, hand it over."

One last thing happens, the space between the 2 ships starts to swerl and an opening in the water comes, pushing the ships a little further apart.

Both attacks on Ronald miss.

I forgot Lalia's dex save 6 so she takes the full 7 damage from the 3d10.

"Och," Mist cries as the elf leaps away from his attempt at civilized conversation. "Rude!" A small blade quickly slides out of the sleeve of his robe and he swipes at the fleeing far elf.

Reaction: Dagger Opportunity Attack: 18 Damage: 5 piercing

Setting his sights on the Admiral, the overgrown halfling grins as Freb descends and picks him up again (Freb's standing on the deck of the enemy ship with Mist's legs dangling much closer to the floor than usual).

With a spray of seawater, a rift appears in the air just above the deck next to the Admiral, and a large translucent tentacle bursts through, slamming down at the man and proceeds to writhe in anticipation of further havoc.

Bonus action: Tentacle of the Deeps Attack: 15 Damage: 1 cold and his speed is reduced by 10ft for the round

The primordial face slap of challenge thus imparted, Mist points back and forth between himself and Stehl and shouts over the din of battle, "You 'n me, beautiful. We've got words what need t' be said. I thought fancy boy o'er there'd be the one in charge but he's clearly got tunnel vision. You're the one seein' the whole board, yeh? Yer crew's droppin' like flies and we haven't even broken a sweat. What say we talk this out so we aren't forced t' kill the lotta yis and sell yer fancy ship fer parts?"

To emphasize his point, a pair(!) of twin bolts of energy streak from his pointing finger and fly toward the big man.

Action: Eldritch blast
Attack: 17 Damage: 11 force
Attack: 20 Damage: 6 force

Looking down at his own finger, Mist simply says, "Well... That's new..."