The melee continues...
The Bow
Oren's opponent strikes with its spear, but the tough dwarf knocks it from the fishfolk's hands with his axe. He's unable to stop the dagger from cutting him across the forehead, though. "Ha! Let's see how tough you are with just your wee dagger!" Oren taunts, swinging his axe. The sahuagin hastily dodges, but seems undeterred.
It uses its dagger to deflect the female dwarf's attack, holding its ground against both opponents. However, it's unable to avoid the arrow that comes flying up from the main mast, sinking into its shoulder. It hisses in pain, but keeps on fighting. Oren cuts into him again, but even this does not slow the creature down too much.
The Port Side
Andar appears torn between helping the screaming elf and the clearly outclassed female dwarf sailor. When he sees Jocelyn going to help her companion, he makes his decision to help the dwarf, slicing into her opponent with his cutlass deeply.
Despite Octhanus' blessing, Jocelyn has had no luck at all today. And where was Noah? She hadn't seen her mentor since breakfast and now he was nowhere to be found. She calls upon her goddess' healing magic, and tries to reach out to touch Areilon in the madness of the melee, but the elf ducks to avoid another blow and accidentally evades the cleric's healing touch, as well. The glow on Jocelyn's hand flicker and fades away.
A pair of glowing missiles fly down from the sterncastle and strike the elf's opponent, staggering it. Ignoring her wounds, Areilon takes advantage of the moment of weakness and strikes again, stabbing her opponent with her sabre and ending its life.
Andar moves to finish off his opponent, but the creature angrily knocks the blade from his hands, which clatters to the deck.
The Starboard Side
Dalaim continues whacking at the chieftain with his staff, knocking another scale loose. Meanwhile, Ouragana assaults it again with a cantrip, causing it to be momentarily distracted. So focused on the chieftain, she completely ignores the lieutenant as it grabs the poor gnome sailor and tosses her into the ocean to be devoured by its comrades. It then throws its dagger at the mage, cutting into her deeply. Hefting its spear, it grins evilly at Ouragana as it prepares to charge.
"Don't worry, I got him!" calls out the quartermaster, taking aim at the lieutenant. However, his bowstring snaps suddenly, preventing him from offering any further fire support. "Uh-oh!" he says.
The chieftain, its balance thrown off by the loud sound in its ears, exchanges blows with Val. Again, though, they seem evenly matched and neither can seem to pierce the other's defenses.
The Stern
The captain strikes at the last sahuagin in the area, killing it. He then turns to the sorceress and halfling. "You, grab your crossbow and fire from here," he orders the halfling.
"Captain, I'm out of spells," the sorceress states.
"Then use your damned wand," he counters.
"I was saving that for emergencies."
"What the devil do you call this then? A godsdamned
minor inconvenience?!" the captain bellows.
Realizing she couldn't argue with that, the sorceress pulls out a small wooden wand and turns her attention to the melee throughout the rest of the ship. Hearing the elf shouting for help, she points her wand and utters the command word, unleashing a pair of magical missiles that both strike the sahuagin. This weakens it enough to allow the elf to finish her opponent off.
"Stern's clear again!" the captain shouts out. "How many left?"
The halfling up on the mast calls out, "Four on deck, five in the water. But the ones in the water are distracted with a feeding frenzy!"
"Take down the chieftain!" the captain orders. "That'll take the fight out of the rest of 'em!"
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Initiative
Areilon (1d10+4): 14
Jocelyn (1d10+5): 9
Val (1d10+7): 15
Ouragana (
1d10+2): 11
Oren (
1d10+7): 10
Grey (N/A)
Dalaim (
1d10+4): 9
Captain Boffi (
1d10+5): 6
Storm Sorceress (
1d10+3): 7
Quartermaster (
1d10+4): 10
Andar (
1d10+5): 7
Sailor 02 (
1d10+5): 15
Sailor 04 (
1d10+5): 13
Sailor 06 (
1d10+5): 15
Sailor 08 (
1d10+5): 6
Sahuagin 10 (
1d10+6): 13
Sahuagin 12 (
1d10+6): 14
Sahuagin 15 (
1d10+6): 8
Lieutenant 01 (
1d10+6): 10
Lieutenant 02 (
1d10+6): 13
Chieftain (
1d10+7): 15
Round 4!
Sailor 08 attacks Sahuagin 15 with her cutlass while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (
1d20+1): 3, miss.
Captain Boffi attacks Sahuagin 15 with his cutlass (+2) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (
1d20+3): 19, hit for (
1d6+3): 8 damage.
Sahuagin 15 dies.
Storm Sorceress discharges two magic missiles from her wand at Sahuagin 12 for (
2d4+2): 9 damage.
Andar moves 10 feet northwest and attacks Sahuagin 10 with his cutlass (+2) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (
1d20+3): 20, hit for (
1d6+5): 9 damage.
Sahuagin 15 is dead.
Jocelyn moves 15 feet south and casts
Cure Light Wounds and attempts to touch Areilon (AC 10) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (1d20+1): 6, miss.
Dalaim attacks the Sahuagin Chieftain with his quarterstaff while blessed by Octhanus (
1d20+1): 16, hit for (
1d6): 1 damage.
Quartermaster fires a sheaf arrow from his short bow (+1) at Lieutenant 01 while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (
1d20+2): 21, hit for (
1d8): 6 damage.
Lieutenant 01 attacks Oren in studded leather armor (-1) with its spear (
1d20-1): 0,
critical fumble! It drops the spear. It then attacks with its dagger (
1d20-1): 17, hit for (
1d4): 1 damage.
Oren attacks Lieutenant 02 with his battle axe (+1) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (
1d20+2): 12, miss.
Ouragana casts a sound cantrip on the Chieftain (
1d20): 8, pass.
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Chieftain saves vs. spell (
1d20): 13, fail.
Chieftain is distracted.
Sahuagin 10 attacks Andar with its spear (
1d20): 5, miss.
Sailor 04 attacks Sahuagin 10 with her cutlass while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (
1d20+1): 14, bare miss.
Lieutenant 02 attacks Sailor 06 with its spear (
1d20): 19, hit for (
1d6): 4 damage.
Sailor 06 dies. It then throws its dagger at Ouragana (
1d20): 17, hit for (
1d4): 2 damage.
Sahuagin 12 attacks Areilon with its spear (
1d20): 5, miss.
Areilon attacks Sahuagin 12 with her sabre (+2) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (1d20+3): 21, hit for (1d6+1): 6 damage.
Sahuagin 12 dies.
Sailor 02 attacks Lieutenant 01 with her cutlass while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (
1d20+1): 13, miss.
Sailor 06 is dead.
Chieftain attacks Val in hide armor (+2) with its trident (+1) while distracted by Ouragana's cantrip (-2) (
1d20+1): 12, bare miss.
Val attacks the Chieftain with her trident (+1) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (1d20+2): 9, miss.
Captain Boffi has no enemies in range.
Andar attacks Sahuagin 10 with his cutlass (+2) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (
1d20+3): 4,
critical fumble! Andar fumbles his cutlass.
Quartermaster fires a sheaf arrow from his short bow (+1) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) at Lieutenant 02 (
1d20+2): 3,
critical fumble! His bowstring snaps.
Oren attacks Lieutenant 02 with his battle axe (+1) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (
1d20+2): 15, hit for (
1d8+3): 6 damage.
Val attacks the Chieftain with her trident (+1) while blessed by Octhanus (+1) (1d20+2): 13, miss.
Grey bleeds out 1 HP.
(OOC: Man, I knew Andar's string of luck was just too good to last. One of three fumbles this round!
Horizon, unfortunately, that CLW spell has been lost. But she can try again next round without a roll, assuming Areilon stays put for a round.)