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Offline Exploits - Part 3 -- Written by BlueFlames
Our DM had gotten up at 5:00am this morning, so tonight's session was just an hour or so. We also didn't want it to run too long, since two of the players couldn't make it tonight. We still managed two encounters, rolled into one.
The day went by without much event, so we chose who would go on watch at what times over the night. I took second watch, and the other rogue took third (NPCs or PCs being NPC'd assisted and covered first watch). Nothing happened in first or second watches, so I was soundly asleep when someone on-deck made a listen check to hear something moving near the port and starboard sides of the ship.
The rogue went over to the guard rail and pulled out his heavy crossbow to take a look (or shot) around. Before he could do much with the crossbow, a scrag broke the surface, and climbed the side of the ship right next to the rogue. Lana (female NPC bard; I'm slowly learning names) ran for the stairs and screamed her lungs out waking everyone up. In real life, I'm a heavy sleeper. Torgaash rolled a natural one on his listen check to wake up, so in that regard, we share a trait. The rest of the party didn't have much of a problem with the DC 0 check... Torgaash is the only one with ranks in listen. Something's very wrong here.
Bitching aside, everyone got to the deck about a round ahead of me, since I just woke up, grabbed my rapier and ran. Unfortunately, as I came out from below deck, I was the nearest thing one of the scrags saw, and it walked over to lay into me. It hit me for eleven damage, putting me at ten remaining hit points. On my next turn, I decided that combat favors the bold, and roguery favors cowards. I boldly swung my rapier for a miss and took a move action away...and got hit on the attack of opportunity for another nine damage. Around this point, the DM has us roll spot checks, which fail.
With one HP left, and a sea troll that seems to have taken a liking to me, melee combat isn't a great idea. My composite longbow was sitting below decks... Well... There's always that pouch with five vials of Alchemist's Fire that my employer gave me before embarking... Torgaash is by no means dumb, but something had to be done to distract the troll, so he lobbed a vial, damned be the consequences. It was right about this time that a boulder crashed through the deck and a tree flew past, splashing somewhere over the starboard side. It's kind of hard to chant, "Least-of-my-worries," under your breath after seeing a freakin' tree sail past like the mother of all crossbow bolts.
Fortunately for us, the captain of the ship we're on is a decent spell caster, and tossed an Incendiary Cloud out on top of the ship that was shooting at us (and which we failed to spot last time). More fortunately for us, this ship is a pretty badass warship, with heavy ballistas that tip over the edges and shoot flaming bolts.
In the same round, the burning scrag started running for the edge of the ship, my bow magically (and instantly) materialized in my hands, and everyone in the party started rolling critical hits. This is the difference between a player getting tired and a DM getting tired. Oh well... I'm not going to argue with the eight-hundred XP from the trolls and for defending the ship.
Of course, I'll have to explain the Alchemist's Fire away now that everyone's seen me use it. I've already got my cover-story for that though... See, Torgaash has been going to bed early since this journey started. This was in order to time his waking up roughly with the shift between the night watch and day watch, which can be somewhat hectic in the crew quarters of a large vessel. I just happened to nick some stuff while weary sailors' heads were turned.
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Offline Exploits - Part 3 -- Written by BlueFlames
Our DM had gotten up at 5:00am this morning, so tonight's session was just an hour or so. We also didn't want it to run too long, since two of the players couldn't make it tonight. We still managed two encounters, rolled into one.
The day went by without much event, so we chose who would go on watch at what times over the night. I took second watch, and the other rogue took third (NPCs or PCs being NPC'd assisted and covered first watch). Nothing happened in first or second watches, so I was soundly asleep when someone on-deck made a listen check to hear something moving near the port and starboard sides of the ship.
The rogue went over to the guard rail and pulled out his heavy crossbow to take a look (or shot) around. Before he could do much with the crossbow, a scrag broke the surface, and climbed the side of the ship right next to the rogue. Lana (female NPC bard; I'm slowly learning names) ran for the stairs and screamed her lungs out waking everyone up. In real life, I'm a heavy sleeper. Torgaash rolled a natural one on his listen check to wake up, so in that regard, we share a trait. The rest of the party didn't have much of a problem with the DC 0 check... Torgaash is the only one with ranks in listen. Something's very wrong here.
Bitching aside, everyone got to the deck about a round ahead of me, since I just woke up, grabbed my rapier and ran. Unfortunately, as I came out from below deck, I was the nearest thing one of the scrags saw, and it walked over to lay into me. It hit me for eleven damage, putting me at ten remaining hit points. On my next turn, I decided that combat favors the bold, and roguery favors cowards. I boldly swung my rapier for a miss and took a move action away...and got hit on the attack of opportunity for another nine damage. Around this point, the DM has us roll spot checks, which fail.
With one HP left, and a sea troll that seems to have taken a liking to me, melee combat isn't a great idea. My composite longbow was sitting below decks... Well... There's always that pouch with five vials of Alchemist's Fire that my employer gave me before embarking... Torgaash is by no means dumb, but something had to be done to distract the troll, so he lobbed a vial, damned be the consequences. It was right about this time that a boulder crashed through the deck and a tree flew past, splashing somewhere over the starboard side. It's kind of hard to chant, "Least-of-my-worries," under your breath after seeing a freakin' tree sail past like the mother of all crossbow bolts.
Fortunately for us, the captain of the ship we're on is a decent spell caster, and tossed an Incendiary Cloud out on top of the ship that was shooting at us (and which we failed to spot last time). More fortunately for us, this ship is a pretty badass warship, with heavy ballistas that tip over the edges and shoot flaming bolts.
In the same round, the burning scrag started running for the edge of the ship, my bow magically (and instantly) materialized in my hands, and everyone in the party started rolling critical hits. This is the difference between a player getting tired and a DM getting tired. Oh well... I'm not going to argue with the eight-hundred XP from the trolls and for defending the ship.
Of course, I'll have to explain the Alchemist's Fire away now that everyone's seen me use it. I've already got my cover-story for that though... See, Torgaash has been going to bed early since this journey started. This was in order to time his waking up roughly with the shift between the night watch and day watch, which can be somewhat hectic in the crew quarters of a large vessel. I just happened to nick some stuff while weary sailors' heads were turned.
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