Aurangh's Savage Tide IC: There's no Honor

[BelGareth]

Getting on board he nods to Tef and climbs over the ships gunwale and straightens out his jacket. looking up he frowns and scans he deck, but only seeing shadows and nothing, he scowls.

"Dammit, I didn't bring anything for light, any of you?" he whispers.

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Brannick the Bold M LN Human Suel Savant (dragon shaman)
Level 3, Init 3, HP 23/23, Speed 20
AC 18, Touch 13, Flat-footed 15
Fort 4, Ref 4, Will 3
Abilities Str 16, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 11, Wis 10, Cha 15
Condition None
Special: Suel Arcana aura: Senses (+1 Listen, Spot & Initiative)

[Rilem]

"This might help." Eli swings his pack lower and plucks a sunrod from it, rapping it against the hardwood club with a slight ring. He tries to peer around the crates, looking for anyone skulking about.

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[roll]1d20+2[/roll] botched the spot roll somehow, will try in doc

[BelGareth]

With the light on the deck, Brannick takes his namesake literally, and steps forward carefully to search the deck for anything...peculiar

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Brannick the Bold M LN Human Suel Savant (dragon shaman)
Level 3, Init 3, HP 23/23, Speed 20
AC 18, Touch 13, Flat-footed 15
Fort 4, Ref 4, Will 3
Abilities Str 16, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 11, Wis 10, Cha 15
Condition None
Special: Suel Arcana aura: Senses (+1 Listen, Spot & Initiative)

[Auranghzeb]

Brannick and Tefkros move around the main deck, the wood creaks under their steps, there's no other sound. The deck is empty, suspiciously empty, and there's a broken bottle of rum with rum still seeping through the wood into the deck below. The door of the captain's chamber under the aftcastle is locked and closed.

There are two ways down: through the stairs next to the aftcastle or climbing down the ropes in the hatch where the broken bottle drips ominously.

[BelGareth]

Having successfully sleuthed the top deck, Brannick grows a little bolder.

Returning to his compatriots, he nods to the two areas and whispers "Looks like a few ways down, stairs or the ropes? seems something happened here, not keen on meeting what dealt with the crew, but we gotta figure it out, for the Lady an all." he says finishing with a wide grin, eyeing the ropes as the safest way down.

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Brannick the Bold M LN Human Suel Savant (dragon shaman)
Level 3, Init 3, HP 23/23, Speed 20
AC 18, Touch 13, Flat-footed 15
Fort 4, Ref 4, Will 3
Abilities Str 16, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 11, Wis 10, Cha 15
Condition None
Special: Suel Arcana aura: Senses (+1 Listen, Spot & Initiative)

[DrK]

Aron

Aron had help back watching the others swarm over the ship. Not accustomed to violence he slowly advances as he watches Eli and Brannick cross the deck. A quick few paces down the pier and he vaults on the deck and scampers up after the others. Sneaking up he nods to his bodyguard, "Couldn't let you have all the fun eh? I'll follow you down my friends"

Looking about he is curious, "Strange there is no-one on deck eh?"

Spoiler: Stealth and perception

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Hide (1d20+9)[25] M.Silent (1d20+4)[24]
Spot [roll]120+5[/roll]

[Rilem]

Eli nods, uncertainly. He had expected an argument, certainly; a fight, possibly, once they got on board. Being greeted with eerie silence instead was a bit unnerving.

"Don't relish dangling from a rope down there; too much like a worm on a hook," he replies to Brannick. "Maybe the stairs?"

[BelGareth]

Brannick nods to Aron as he comes aboard "Hey boss, thought we lost you there" he says with a toothy grin. And then quickly follows it up "Ain't it?".

Looking down the hole he nods, "I agree mate, down the stairs it is" as he heads to lead the small sortie down into the bilges of the ship.

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Brannick the Bold M LN Human Suel Savant (dragon shaman)
Level 3, Init 3, HP 23/23, Speed 20
AC 18, Touch 13, Flat-footed 15
Fort 4, Ref 4, Will 3
Abilities Str 16, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 11, Wis 10, Cha 15
Condition None
Special: Suel Arcana aura: Senses (+1 Listen, Spot & Initiative)

[Auranghzeb]

As you descend the stairs, Brannick leading the group, you find yourselves in the first deck, the stairway bends and goes further down to another deck below. But you stand on the landing, a 10'x10' square with a double door right under the aftcastle and two walkways that follow the sides of the ship. Right in front of you there's cargo strapped and secured with nets and over it you see moonlight coming in through the hatch above. As your eyes shift to the light and you move towards the cargo, you see another hatch opening to the deck below and then next to it, one of the thugs you spoke before, inert and pale with his neck half cut by a cutlass. You can't see anything else in the darkness.

[DrK]

Aron looks at the corpse, pales slightly before stepping behind the bulk of Brannick. A muttered few words as he clutches a strange pieces of leather drawn from the pouch and there is a slight shimmer around him as a strange breastplate of force appears around his chest. "Seems wise to protect myself if there is trouble eh?" he'll mutter to the others.

Then he'll look about cautiously waiting for one of the others to lead off

Spoiler: OOC

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Cast Mage Armour

[Auranghzeb]

Spoiler: OoC For Aron only

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As you cast your spell and the armor made of force protects you, you feel in the eye of your mind as if someone was observing