You stand on the deck of the spelljamming ship you've served together on for the last several months, Moonraider, even as explosions obliterate two of its masts and hurl a dozen of your fellow sailors into Wildspace! Distant stars and wheeling clouds of multicolored gas spin around you as the first pirate galleon slams into Moonraider's starboard side, and a gust of foul wind washes over you as the galleon's air envelope merges with your own. Seconds later, your vessel is boarded by astral reavers—humanoids possessed of strange features, waving cruel weapons, and unleashing blasts of magic.
Captain Sardax lies on the deck nearby, her body ruined by shrapnel. "Hold the top deck!" she snarls with her dying breath. "Grant them no quarter!"
"I kill those ones then? Okay." Zap replied to the captain with an almost singsong voice. The plasmoid seems to take on an almost ominous form as the green celluloids inside their body begin to glow and electricity begins to crackle and spark across the surface of their ooze like body.
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Yaris pulls himself up from one knee, the collision having rocked him slightly. Spinning his quarterstaff in his hand he smiles, "Ha! No contest, we got this!"
Init 15
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Yaris Hurley | Water Genasi Monk Lvl 1 |Karrion's Spelljammer Port
As you prepare for combat, two reavers land on the deck in front of you. The first is tall, thin and pale, wearing a black suit with a thin black tie and carrying a briefcase and a light crossbow. The second is mostly human-looking, but sports a long tail, at the end of which is a second mouth, which is constantly spitting insults and curses. "You call this pile of #%@^ a ship?"
*This...ship...she...is not....#%@^!" Da"Kal goes into a Rage and charges the insulter (OOC: took a guess as to which one was it)! She tries to poke holes into him.
STab Attack: 7 Damage: 10
Stab! Attack: 9 Damage: 1
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"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
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Da'Kal charges but in her zeal to defend the ship's honour she fails to land a blow. "All those @%&* arms and you can't still touch this %*#$ idiot I'm stuck to?"
event: 20
[Arrow vs reaver 1: 13 for 5 piercing damage]
Suddenly an arrow flies from somewhere aft of you, from one of your crewmates in another part of the ship that is still alive, hitting the reaver in the side! "Ow! That @#^& hurt!"
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Kiki adjusts to a point where none of her allies are in the way. She then takes her crossbow, loads a magically-charged iron ball, and fires it at one of the boarding reavers! "Get the hells off our ship!"
(Casting catapult at reaver #3 - succeed a DC 14 Dexterity save or take 15 bludgeoning damage. No damage on a successful save.)
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[Reaver 2 dex save: 11]
Radiant fire descends on the briefcase-carrying reaver, and it takes 5 damage!
[admin note: you can pre-roll the damage in your post if you want to; at a table I'd ask you to roll it but in the interest of play-by-post expediency I've rolled it]
event: 4
Another reaver swings down on a rope from the enemy mast, landing near Yaris! Where one would normally expect to find a head, this reaver instead has a large transparent bowl, through which you can see a brain floating in some kind of fluid. "Oh great, not this #^*$ guy," complains the tail-mouth.
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[original second attack roll above was a nat 20, extra critical damage: 2]
Yaris lands two solid blows on the reaver, putting a large crack in its fishbowl head. The fluid inside is draining quickly, and the pirate looks to be on his last legs.
8
There's no time to revel in dealing that much damage, though, as yet another reaver climbs over the railing on the other side of the bow! This one wears what is clearly a wedding dress, torn and stained with blood.
[Zap is next to act: there's a fresh enemy behind you, but some of the others have been hurt and maybe easier to take off the board; what will you do?]
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The amorphic Zap looks behind at them then looks forward and to the side. Their mask like face shifting around its body to look around without their head moving at all. At the same time Zap makes their way walking with pseudo pods of ooze that seem to form thin makeshift legs. A large trail of their mass falling behind them like a giant mane of hair flowing behind and dragging on the deck as they move closer to the fourth space pirate as they seem the most injured and works with Yaris to take that one down. The surface of Zap suddenly becoming covered with arcs of electricity as several tendrils of plasmic goo shoot out towards the fourth invader as Zap tries to wrap them in electrictified and pull them in-between themselves and Yaris.
Cast: Lightning Lure STR Save DC 14 or number 4 is pulled to Zap in-between them and yaris and the target take 2 lightning damage too.
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You stand on the deck of the spelljamming ship you've served together on for the last several months, Moonraider, even as explosions obliterate two of its masts and hurl a dozen of your fellow sailors into Wildspace! Distant stars and wheeling clouds of multicolored gas spin around you as the first pirate galleon slams into Moonraider's starboard side, and a gust of foul wind washes over you as the galleon's air envelope merges with your own. Seconds later, your vessel is boarded by astral reavers—humanoids possessed of strange features, waving cruel weapons, and unleashing blasts of magic.
Captain Sardax lies on the deck nearby, her body ruined by shrapnel. "Hold the top deck!" she snarls with her dying breath. "Grant them no quarter!"
[Everybody roll initiative!]
(On mobile right now, but I rolled a 16 in the game log.)
Kiki grits her teeth in anger at the fallen masts of the Moonraider as she readies her crossbow. "I'm gonna have to fix that, you jerks!"
*cool* Da"Kal thinks, *I was getting bored*
She unsheathes her short swords and prepares to do unto others.
Initiative 20
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
"I kill those ones then? Okay." Zap replied to the captain with an almost singsong voice. The plasmoid seems to take on an almost ominous form as the green celluloids inside their body begin to glow and electricity begins to crackle and spark across the surface of their ooze like body.
Initiative: 5
Icarus says in response "Aye Captain. We'll give 'em Hell". He pulls from his back this large Crossbow to fire at the first reaver that shows it face.
Init 12
D&D since 1984
Yaris pulls himself up from one knee, the collision having rocked him slightly. Spinning his quarterstaff in his hand he smiles, "Ha! No contest, we got this!"
Init 15
Yaris Hurley | Water Genasi Monk Lvl 1 | Karrion's Spelljammer Port
35
As you prepare for combat, two reavers land on the deck in front of you. The first is tall, thin and pale, wearing a black suit with a thin black tie and carrying a briefcase and a light crossbow. The second is mostly human-looking, but sports a long tail, at the end of which is a second mouth, which is constantly spitting insults and curses. "You call this pile of #%@^ a ship?"
[It's Icarus's chance to act!]
Icarus hearing the insults target that invader and fires.
Crossbow: Attack: 8 Damage: 12
D&D since 1984
Icarus's shot goes wide! "That wouldn't hit the broad side of a galleon!"
event: 4
A third reaver jumps over from the enemy ship! This one has iridescent scales and glowing pink eyes.
[Da'Kal is up!]
*This...ship...she...is not....#%@^!"
Da"Kal goes into a Rage and charges the insulter (OOC: took a guess as to which one was it)! She tries to poke holes into him.
STab Attack: 7 Damage: 10
Stab! Attack: 9 Damage: 1
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale
Da'Kal charges but in her zeal to defend the ship's honour she fails to land a blow. "All those @%&* arms and you can't still touch this %*#$ idiot I'm stuck to?"
event: 20
[Arrow vs reaver 1: 13 for 5 piercing damage]
Suddenly an arrow flies from somewhere aft of you, from one of your crewmates in another part of the ship that is still alive, hitting the reaver in the side! "Ow! That @#^& hurt!"
[Kiki's turn!]
Kiki adjusts to a point where none of her allies are in the way. She then takes her crossbow, loads a magically-charged iron ball, and fires it at one of the boarding reavers! "Get the hells off our ship!"
(Casting catapult at reaver #3 - succeed a DC 14 Dexterity save or take 15 bludgeoning damage. No damage on a successful save.)
[Reaver 3 dex save: 20]
Kiki fires a high-velocity projectile, but the reaver nimbly dodges and the iron ball instead takes out a chunk of the ship's railing.
event: 18
[Arrow vs reaver 3: 16 for 5 piercing damage]
However, in dodging Kiki's attack, it moves right into the path of another arrow from somewhere on the sterncastle, taking a shot to the shoulder.
[Zoide 94J-0 is next to act]
[Reaver 2 dex save: 11]
Radiant fire descends on the briefcase-carrying reaver, and it takes 5 damage!
[admin note: you can pre-roll the damage in your post if you want to; at a table I'd ask you to roll it but in the interest of play-by-post expediency I've rolled it]
event: 4
Another reaver swings down on a rope from the enemy mast, landing near Yaris! Where one would normally expect to find a head, this reaver instead has a large transparent bowl, through which you can see a brain floating in some kind of fluid. "Oh great, not this #^*$ guy," complains the tail-mouth.
[Yaris's turn!]
Yaris noticing the 4th assailant doesn't like the position he is in and fears a flank. He moves towards him and swings his quartestaff in a wide arc.
Attack: 6 Dmg: 6
Twisting his body he uses the momentum to swing back around with his unarmed fist.
Bonus action attack: 14 Dmg:7
Yaris Hurley | Water Genasi Monk Lvl 1 | Karrion's Spelljammer Port
[original second attack roll above was a nat 20, extra critical damage: 2]
Yaris lands two solid blows on the reaver, putting a large crack in its fishbowl head. The fluid inside is draining quickly, and the pirate looks to be on his last legs.
8
There's no time to revel in dealing that much damage, though, as yet another reaver climbs over the railing on the other side of the bow! This one wears what is clearly a wedding dress, torn and stained with blood.
[Zap is next to act: there's a fresh enemy behind you, but some of the others have been hurt and maybe easier to take off the board; what will you do?]
The amorphic Zap looks behind at them then looks forward and to the side. Their mask like face shifting around its body to look around without their head moving at all. At the same time Zap makes their way walking with pseudo pods of ooze that seem to form thin makeshift legs. A large trail of their mass falling behind them like a giant mane of hair flowing behind and dragging on the deck as they move closer to the fourth space pirate as they seem the most injured and works with Yaris to take that one down. The surface of Zap suddenly becoming covered with arcs of electricity as several tendrils of plasmic goo shoot out towards the fourth invader as Zap tries to wrap them in electrictified and pull them in-between themselves and Yaris.
Cast: Lightning Lure STR Save DC 14 or number 4 is pulled to Zap in-between them and yaris and the target take 2 lightning damage too.