Shipwrecked! Quest: The Sunken Ship

[jagadaishio]

Maria takes her dagger between her teeth and begins making dives with Ovias and Zavulon, untying what she can on the sails before her air runs out, cutting what she can't, trying to ruin as little rope as possible. She keeps this cycle up, pausing to float at the surface occasionally to catch her breath again, until the sails are released or something else requires her attention.

[storyteller]

The three of you manage to rescue the sails. Some of them have been torn in the wreck, but it's nothing you can't fix with sewing needle and thread.

Ovias didn't find anything else of value in the dining room.

Eric goes to room 11. The drawers in this room contain dozens of stacks of paper documents, but soaked in sea water, they are completely illegible now. You find nothing interesting here.

Ben searches the three rooms marked with number 10. In one of the rooms, Ben finds the body of a passenger in a bed. Apparently he was asleep when the fire started and he suffocated by inhaling smoke.

You find the following items:

• Sack of potatoes
• Rusty dagger
• 35 sp in a leather pouch
• Small steel mirror
• 1 lb. of soap
• Waterskin
• Sewing needle
• Spool of thread
• Brass horn

[Grey_Wolf_c]

The three of you manage to rescue the sails. Some of them have been torn in the wreck, but it's nothing you can't fix with sewing needle and thread.

Ovias "Grey" Greybeard - Dwarven mason, smith and engineer journeyman

Ovias thanks Maria for her help with the sails and leaves her to folding them and squeezing water out of them so they fit in the boat. Assuming they still have space for more junk, Ovias suggests to Zavulon to finish their examination of the main deck by going to the passenger's bedroom at the front of the ship (6). As before, Ovias will first take 10 (representing a general combing of the room) (for 10+2) and then will trust luck to find things in strange places (roll: search - (1d20+2)[11])

Two questions:
1) is the captain's daughter still unaccounted for? Or is it one of the beach bodies/living NPCs/dead people in the ship?
2) Has the other team noticed if the hatch to the hold in the lower deck is open or closed?

[storyteller]

In room 6, Ovias finds the following items:

• Small barrel of ale
• 2 bedrolls
• case of 10 crossbow bolts
• silver necklace

Nelle's body has not been found nor have you seen her alive after the shipwreck. It is uncertain what happened to her. The same goes for the first mate.

[jagadaishio]

Maria rolls up all of the sails and then tilts them over the side of the small boat, allowing the water to run out of the (waxed? oiled?) canvas. After finishing this, she dives back down, dagger between her teeth, looking for anything lashed to the outer deck which she could take back up. She doesn't go into any rooms or below decks because of how short her air supply is.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

In room 6, Ovias finds the following items:

• Small barrel of ale
• 2 bedrolls
• case of 10 crossbow bolts
• silver necklace

Nelle's body has not been found nor have you seen her alive after the shipwreck. It is uncertain what happened to her. The same goes for the first mate.

To keep this moving forward, Ovias surfaces with the loot and then goes down to room (8) in his next dive. I am assuming that Zavulon follows me, ((and that Shademan will publish his search throws later)). Whilst at the boat, he suggests Maria to tie the boat to the central mast so she needn't worry about it drifting away while we're all underwater, and that she concentrates on ropes, that there should be plenty of around the main deck.

Room 8 is a little further in than what he's been searching so far, but I believe he has plenty of air: 1 round to the staircase opening in the main deck, another to get above the hatch (is it open?) and a third to get through the door - plenty of time to search (10+2) and then search randomly, as usual (roll: search - (1d20+2)[19]

[Shademan]

ooc: 1D20+1 = [18]+1 = 19 search.
allright! potatoes! if we can make them grow on the island we can get a steady income of booze!

IC: Zavulon silently follows Ovias and assist him.

[Zombie pixe]

((oooooh, never guess whos gona volanteer to grow and produce them... ))

I help Zavulon take up the other stuff, and when i surface i tell everyone:

there is nothing in the other room i searched.

shall we do the cargo hold?

[Shademan]

zavulon unloaded the last of the stuff. the human suggested to loot the cargo hold. "yeah. lets." Zavulon growled.

[Zombie pixe]

i go down and search the first room in the cargohold (sorry, i cant remember the number, its the one that has the stairs in it )

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(1d20+1)[5]

((so sorry guys, it seems eric really cannot search ANYTHING ))

[Shademan]

zavulon searches then: Roll(1d20)+1:
16,+1
Total:17

[jagadaishio]

Maria ties off the boat to the main mast while she's under and turns her efforts back to freeing up things from the main deck. This includes barrels, loose boards, and loose nails.

She also takes 10 on a search for the main deck to find anything (11) and makes a less general search with the following roll:
Deck - (1d20+1)[5]

I assume she has time to dive and surface more than once while the others are searching the ship.

[storyteller]

Ovias and Zavulon search room 8. They find the following items:

• bucket
• soap (2 lb.)
• mops, brushes, etc.
• bottle of rum

You enter the cargo hold. It's very dark in there because there's no light source (humans cannot see beyond 5 feet). Moreover, the water is blackened by the soot from the burnt wood (each square has concealment, miss chance 20%). You notice three charred bodies here... the sailors that went to put out the fire...

(Those who can see in the dark:) You notice something moving in the cargo hold... swimming towards you...

OOC: You may still leave. If you decide to stay, roll Initiative.

[TwoCents]

Roostin

Roostin occupied himself with helping haul stuff into the boat and stow it safely, using his knowledge of boat operations to keep from swamping the vessel. When Maria began to recover the sails, he dove with her, trying to salvage the sails and ropes as whole as possible. He had stripped down to his pants, leaving his shoes and shirt in the boat. He had his sailor's work knife in a belt sheath, but was otherwise unarmed, although his spear was in the boat.

He made a sort of "raft" by tying together all of the floating salvage in a clump to be towed back to the beach, thereby leaving more room in the boat for the heavier (especially metal) items.

Further, he used one of the pieces of rope to rig a safety line for the divers. Roostin tied one end off at the surface (either at the boat itself or from a spar if one breached the surface). He dove down through the hatchways to run the line down to the decks as each one was searched. This way there would be a rope available to help guide anyone out quickly.

When the others mentioned they planned on entering the cargo hold next, Roostin spoke up, "Ah he'ped stow the dang cargo; maybe Ah can recover it faster; it's dang deep there." Taking another piece of rope to add to his safety line, he followed the others down.

OOC: I know I have missed a bit of this, but he would go into the hold with the others; he's spent a lot of time in there moving cargo in the dark.

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If he's there:
Initiative (d20+0)[8]

[Zombie pixe]

Initiative (1d20)[10]

i draw my Morningstar

[storyteller]

It takes 3 full-round actions to get down to the cargo hold (4 for Ovias). Since each full-round action (or standard action) takes 2 rounds of air, you'll have 16 rounds left. Remember that in combat you cannot take 10 on swim checks. Everyone else who wants to stay and fight, roll Init.

[sickler]

Ben

Initaitive: (1d20)[9]

[Shademan]

1d20-1 = [19]-1 = 18
zavulon draws his dagger.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Initiative - (1d20-1)[17]

OOC: I'm not sure that the two/three humans *can* roll initiative - they don't see the danger. In fact, Ovias reaction, had he not seen Zavulon get ready for battle, would've been to get everyone up a deck where they can see. Once Zavulon is commited, though, Ovias stays to help.

Also, to go down to the lowest deck, Ovias would've used one of the stones he brought with him, cutting down the time needed to get there, at least by a turn.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

OOC: (Sorry for the double post - not sure I should edit a post with such a good throw) Going back to what I said about initiative, it is funny that the two dark-viewing people have rolled high, and the humans have rolled low. Regardless of the ruling, it seems that they *are* going to be surprised, even after they notice Zavulon drawing a dagger and Ovias assuming battle stance.

Ovias will, as soon as it is his turn, gaining strong foothold on the ground, walking forward slightly so as to draw attention to himself and taking total defence for his first turn, for a total of AC 15. Within the limits of the total defence, Ovias does all he can to attract the attention of the attack to himself. If he's bull rushed, he will have +4 to the check since he is carrying enough weight to stand firm, even underwater. And no, he does not draw any weapon, since he is carrying none.

OOC: I will wait to know what we're fighting before planning out more turns. I've no idea how PbP battles happen, but may I suggest we just all say what our actions will be (with plenty of "ifs") and then storyteller can do all the rolling in one go for several turn?.

OOC: Also, we never explored the kitchen. We've better not forget before leaving. The Lower Deck, too. Assuming we live to surface.

[Shademan]

if i can: Zavulon quickly gives Grey the rapier.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

if i can: Zavulon quickly gives Grey the rapier.

Even if he can, Ovias waves it away. He'd rather have his hands free, and he wouldn't know how to use a rapier anyway.

OOC: Trust me here, I have planned ahead, somewhat. Weapons would be of little use for my strategy in this fight. Assuming I'm not dead at the end of round 1, of course.

OOC: Oh, also, remember everyone that you must *thrust* or else you have -2 to hit and damage gets halved while underwater (link). Not sure how that applies to the morningstar, but spears and daggers* are fine (so long as you don't try to throw them)

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf

* Daggers you choose thrusting or slashing. Morningstars are both piercing and bludgeoning at the same time - you cannot choose.

[storyteller]

The creature: Init 6.

The creature is of medium size and it seems to be a swift swimmer. You think you can see... tentacles... If you decide to attack on your turn, also remember to roll d% for concealment (20%) and check out the underwater combat rules to see how ranged weapons and melee weapons work underwater. The creature has total concealment (50%) against the humans unless they're adjacent to the creature.

[Shademan]

Zavulon swims 5feet to the side, so that the entrance is open. hopefully the creature is more scared than they and will try to escape. nevertheless, he steadies in case of a assault.

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Taking Zavulon's cue, Ovias also moves away slightly from the entrance, making sure to push the humans back too, but staying close enough to Zavulon in case he is the one attacked. He tries to place himself as a more attractive target than the unarmoured Zavulon, and takes the defensive battle stance all dwarves know almost by instinct.

Actions: full round total defence, going up to AC 15

[TwoCents]

Roostin

Roostin noticed* Ovias and Zavulon backing out of the hold. He quickly* finished lashing the safety line to a handy lantern hook by the door of the hold, and looked around the murk for a weapon more useful than his belt knife, but failed* to see anything. The sailor wasted a split second wishing he had brought his spear down from the boat, or at least found a useful substitute, but decided to just back out of the way and see what happened in the next few moments. Roostin knew he wasn't going to abandon his mates, but perhaps racing to the surface for a useful weapon would be the right choice.

*From a dice rolling thread:

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Edit: Apparently, if you quote the die rolls, you can't get the actual rolls. Well, the links are good, and I've manually input the numbers.

Spot the monster:
[roll0] 18

Hear the commotion:
[roll1] 19

Tie the rope:
[roll0] 15

Find a spear:
[roll1] 7

[jagadaishio]

Assuming that Maria finds nothing of value lashed to the main deck, as I assume the lack of any lists implies, she returns to the boat but dives again if the others don't surface in 30-45 seconds to see if they're trapped under a piece of rubble or detritus.

[Zombie pixe]

((the moringstar is the perfect simple weapon ))

i make the same move, but opposite side to Ovias and Zavulon.

Ready action: Thrust moringstar if charged

[sickler]

Ben wonders to himself why everyone is swimming around strangely.

OOC:
Init order
Zavulon, Ovias, Eric, Ben, Roostin, Squid

[storyteller]

The creature attacks Zavulon! It's a squid and it's flailing its arms at Zavulon, trying to grab him. It looks very aggressive. Attack roll vs. touch AC - Hit! Concealment 20% - hit! Opposed grapple check - Success! The squid is now grappling Zavulon. It bites and deals 4 points of damage.

Act in init order.