November
11, 2016 @ 7:00-11:00 P.M.
<<WARNING
SPOILERS FOR 50 FATHOMS! >>
Day
47
Place:
Kuwayway
Time:
Afternoon
Weather:
Clear
The
group decided to head to the fortress to try and harvest lumber from the fort
to fix the H.M.S. Selerity. They left Stumpy Pete, Lorlo, and Rosetta
behind to watch the prisoner, Goodwin.
As
they got closer to the fort the land turned to a thick bog about knee high.
After slogging through the muck, they made it to the fortress. The group had
brought the privateer's cutlasses and knives. They used them to attack the
fort, ruining the weapons, but prying out lumber and timber from the fort.
Joseph and Louis then examined the wood and placed it into two piles, rotted
garbage and still salvageable wood.
[I
did this as a dramatic task and watched in bemusement as they used the Fighting
skill to fight the fort (for the five successes needed) and then used the
Repair skill from Joseph and Louis to vet the wood making sure it was still
good rather than rotted. The trip there and the actual process though meant
they had their lumber and timber ready to transport as night fell...]
Day
47
Place: Kuwayway, Old Fort
Time: Night
Weather:
Light
Fog
Just
as they were ready to leave as night fell, strange skeletal zombies emerged
from the bog behind them with the rotting faces of Ugaks. At first, only
Horventerous, Unk, and Natsu Nara saw them.
[I counted the swampland as somewhat difficult terrain -2 pace when moving rather than each inch = 2 pace as per RAW. Unk's Necrophobia triggered his fear and he panicked.]
The horrific creatures moved towards the group with haphazard motions from shattered pelvises and femurs covered with a thin membrane of rotting flesh moving at impossible angles for living creatures. The bog slowed them a bit and they were only able to reach out their cracked shoulders and arm bones at a few people. Most of them missed, but one arm swipe hit Louis in the back and "he" fell into the bog.
Horventerous sent a screaming water bolt at one of the abominations and its jaw opened wide as if in mocking laughter--as if mere water could harm one from the bog.
[Andrew
rolled a water bolt damage of 3 on three dice.]
Natsu Nara sent an earth cannonball at one of the horrors. It bounced off its ribs, cracking them, but the horror kept coming anyway.
Red
Pirate Roberts and her men turned around and saw the monsters, but they stood
their ground.
The
skeletal creatures walked to the fort walls, climbing them easily with sticky
bony limbs, and extended their limbs downward cracking them into noose shapes.
The nooses closed around Senor Miguel, Red Pirate Roberts, Smithers, and Louis.
Louis gasped as "he" got up from nearly drowning by falling in the
bog to a skeletal noose around her neck. "He" panicked but there was
nowhere to go.
[Louis
suddenly woke up as she was being choked, narrowly avoiding a finishing move
death from a Flesh Wound play by Andrew.]
Unk
overcame his fear and returned to fight the fiends. He used his hook to tear
out one of the fiend's ribs and slashed with his long sword through the sternum
up to the neck of a second fiend. The fiend's fell back into the bog as a pile
of bones with a rotted Ugak's head on top whose eyes went from open black voids
to half closed from decayed eyelids slumping.
Red
Pirate Roberts drew her crossbow and tried to fire it at one of her captors, but
the quarrel nicked the rib cage and bounced off, the quarrel lost somewhere in
the bog.
Joseph
tried to use his nicked dagger to stab one of the fiends, but it went into the
rib cage and nicked two ribs without further harming the fiend.
John
Smith drew his spear and used it to stab the sternum of the fiend that Joseph
hit and it crumbled into a pile of bones.
Miguel,
Smithers, and Louis struggled with the nooses around their necks and started
suffocating.
Horventerous drew his bone sword and used it to smash the femur of the mocking fiend and its femur shattered in half followed by the falling down of the rest of the fiend.
[Andrew
did something like 42 damage to the fiend.]
Natsu
Nara drew his short sword and stabbed one of the fiends in the shoulder blade.
The shoulder bone separated in half and the fiend fell into the bog.
With
their nooses around the necks of victims, most of the fiends walked further up
the wall to choke them from above beyond the reach of most of the group. A second
noose was placed around Red Pirate Roberts and Smithers. Red Pirate Roberts
wasn't affected but Miguel, Smithers, and Louis were near death--turning purple
from lack of air.
Unk jumped up to swing at the skeletal fiend holding Louis and used his hook to shatter the noose. Louis dropped into the bog and choked as "he" gasped for air. Unk then turned the corner of the fort and saw three of the crew choking with Smither's near his final gasp.
Red
Pirate Roberts broke the choke holds and used her grappling gun to escape.
Fortunately for her she could aim through the gate since they had torn it down
for lumber. She fired and attached the grappling gun to the top of the fort's
living area and pulled away from the two flotsam fiends near her. They struck
at her as she ran from melee and her crossbow was destroyed.
[Ellen played Relics and sacrificed her crossbow to avoid 21 damage (Incapacitation).]
Louis
got up and drew "his" spear. Joseph ran drawing his spear. John Smith
turned the corner and stabbed one of the fiends choking out Smithers and one of
the nooses on Smithers fell off as the fiend shattered into sticky bones that
tumbled down the wall before going into the bog. Smithers gurgled as the noose
had nearly finished its work. Miguel got out of his choke hold.
Horventerous
and Natsu Nara cast bolts but they hit the wall instead of the fiends.
Unk
jumped up and shattered the noose holding Smithers with his hook. Smithers was
finally released and he slumped down with his back on the wall. Unk moved to
get close to the fiends near Natsu Nara.
Horventerous
cast a water bolt on one of the fiends on the wall and it was crushed by the
water turning into a waterfall of cascading bones that splashed into the
marsh.
Natsu
Nara sent an earth cannonball that ricocheted off three of the fiends and the
fort wall, managing to shatter one of them.
Louis,
Miguel, and John Smith stabbed at one of the fiends with their spears but hit
the wall instead. Joseph stabbed at a different fiend with his spear but
missed. Smithers ran and moved around the corner of the fort away from the
fiends.
[With three wounds and two fatigue -2 movement for difficult ground, Smithers needed to run just to move 1 inch.]
Red Pirate Roberts reloaded her grapple gun. She tried to grapple to another location but missed hitting the ground in front of her.
[With three wounds and two fatigue -2 movement for difficult ground, Smithers needed to run just to move 1 inch.]
Red Pirate Roberts reloaded her grapple gun. She tried to grapple to another location but missed hitting the ground in front of her.
Natsu
Nara cast an earthen cannonball at the fiend next to her. It shattered its rib
cage and the rest of its limbs and head fell to the ground. Then she brought
out a rusty bulls-eye lantern and shined its light on the last fiend. The
skeletal fiend crumbled to dust in the light before the lantern's light
faded.
[This isn't by RAW, as the Flotsam Fiends aren't Weakness (Light), but it was a fun way to end the fight. Summer played the card Stashed Away for this effect.]
With
the fiends defeated, Horventerous cast succor on the fatigued characters and
gave his Bleeding Heart potion to Smithers to drink and heal one of his broken
ribs. The group grabbed their one and a half cargo hold worth of timber and
headed back to the ship.
Day
48-52
Place:
Kuwayway,
Beach
The
group turned over seven turtles for provisions as Joseph and Louis tried to
repair the extensive damage to the rudder of the H.M.S. Selerity. After
five days and using all the lumber they had gathered from the old fortress, the
H.M.S. Selerity's rudder and hull was repaired. The group gathered 28
provisions from the slaughter of the turtles as sharks were drawn from far away
to Kuwayway to the blood in the waters. Stumpy Pete made a deal with Red Pirate
Roberts for fifty-fifty on pieces of eight in the treasure if she helped him
get it and got him back to Azy Cay for his "retirement". Stumpy Pete
said they could keep anything else they found, he was only interested in jewels
to hide in his peg legs. With her handshake, he told her that the treasure was
on an island 70 miles north of Kuwayway.
[The
group literally did almost everything possible on Kuwayway which was kind of
cool (with the exception of beach combing).]
Day
53
Place: Stumpy Pete's
Treasure Island
Time:
Afternoon
Weather: Clear
Red
Pirate Roberts sailed the H.M.S Selerity with the chained The
Adrienne to Stumpy Pete's Treasure Island with high cliffs preventing
access to a plateau dotted with trees.
Unk
free climbed the high cliffs using his hands.
Red
Pirate Roberts used her grapple gun to attach her hook and rope and ride up
with Stumpy Pete. After ascending she removed the rope from the grapple gun and
left it there for Horventerous and eventually Rosetta to climb up.
Cutting
through a sweltering jungle, Horventerous fell behind as he got tired but cast
Succor on himself to keep going.
As
they got close to the ruined manor Stumpy Pete started wriggling his hands,
casting his eyes back and forth, and getting nervous. When Red Pirate
Roberts called him on it, he said, "Strange being back here is all.
Reminds me of my dead shipmates. Come on, the loot's in the ballroom. Let's get
it and go."
Red
Pirate Roberts questioned him further, "Dead shipmates?"
Stumpy
Pete explained, "Not everyone survived coming to this island. Some died
climbing the cliffs, others from heat stroke in the jungle. Plus all me mates
lost to me when Pierre LaGrange's corsair crashed from the storm near Perck as
we approached Shark's Bay. I'm the only one left of the nine crew and the
captain that buried the treasure in the first place and with one less leg than
last time."
The
group went to the ballroom and Stumpy removed a flagstone that revealed six
wooden chests. They found 6,900 pieces of eight worth of diamonds and rubies
that they split with Stumpy Pete, a pistol, a pair of slippers, a golden
triangle engraved with magical runes and glyphs on its sides, and a scroll illuminated with
magical script. Red Pirate Roberts opened the last chest and a disembodied voice
came from a mummified
head,
"My magic is yours to command, but only against the three
sisters."
This
freaked out Unk whose fear triggered an adrenaline surge and he attacked the
head! Red Pirate Roberts shut the chest and protected the head. Unk's hook hit
the chest and shattered it. Horventerous dived and saved the mummified head and
placed it in one of the remaining five wooden chests. Rather than examining the
chests, they decided to leave immediately. As they left the ruined manor, they
were confronted with a horrible sight, a massive undead monkape with its
rotting flesh falling off its still large frame.
Despite
this, Unk held his ground.
One massive sweep of the monstrosity's tree club hit Unk in the junk and he cried out in pain and immediately passed out while also wounding Horventerous.
[I
allowed Chessie to play Midget's character with her character downed in the
first round.]
Horventerous
drank a Potion of Speed and cast a screaming water bolt at the monstrosity's
ear but it seemed unaffected as water mixed with maggots dripped out of its
ear.
Red
Pirate Roberts and Stumpy Pete drew out pistols but the small explosions barely
seemed to even affect the monster.
The
monster grabbed a piece of the masonry and hurled it at Rosetta. It struck her
in the wings and she dropped into the forest, heavily wounded.
Rosetta
countered by loading her crossbow and firing it, but quarrel stuck to the
rotting chest of the beast. She retreated further into the forest.
Horventerous
tried taunting the monster but seemed to realize that the beast didn't care
about his words. He attempted three light water bolts but they simply hit its
chest and made more maggots and worms seep out of the beast.
Stumpy
Pete drew out his second pistol but missed and nearly killed Unk.
Red
Pirate Roberts slid underneath the beast and fired her second pistol at the
beast's junk crying out, "For my Unk!" But the undead creature
seemed to not care very much about the shot to his genitals.
"In
retrospect this might not be the best place to be."--Red Pirate Roberts
Horventerous
concentrated and started hurling heavy bolts at the beast. The beast roared in
pain as chunks of flesh slid off its body from the water assault. The beast
swung down with its tree at Horventerous but he dodged the attack.
Stumpy
Pete walked forward with his crutches and tried to stab the beast in the leg
with his cutlass but it seemed unaffected by the blade.
Red
Pirate Roberts reloaded her pistol.
Rosetta
reloaded her crossbow and fired but hit a tree instead as she kept moving
backwards into the forest.
Horventerous
concentrated a second time and cast two more heavy bolts, toppling the beast
over with the force of the last screaming water bolt.
Horventerous
gave his Potion of Restoration to Unk and he woke up. Horventerous used his
healing powers to restore wounds to himself, Unk, and Rosetta and then his
healing kit to suture the damage to Unk's junk. He couldn't mend Rosetta's wing
all the way but she confirmed she could still glide after climbing a tree and
drifting down.
[We
are going on hiatus with this quest for a while, till February probably, so
last 50 Fathoms for a bit as Ellen is going to have to work weekends during her
job's busy season. At least going out with a bang with them fighting unique
foes and a big bad boss monster. I allowed Ellen to roll 2d6 for advancement
for her sailors and ship carpenter and 1d6 for Stumpy Pete, but only Joseph
advanced. It was 2d6 because she missed the advancement roll at the end of last
session as she was very tired]
[End
of Session]
XP: 2 Seasoned, 3 Novice (This got Unk to Seasoned and Natsu Nara close).
Loot: 3,450 pieces of eight in diamonds and rubies, pistol, slippers, scroll, golden triangle, mummified head.
Pictures:
I used the green tablecloth for land this week on the tabletop. I used DramaScape's FREE Border Fort for the Old Fortress on Kuwayway. For the ruined manor on Treasure Island, I used DramaScape's PAY WHAT YOU WANT Abandoned Riad. I also used DramaScape's Grove of Hands map (for the forest part sticking out at the entrance of the riad).
Tri-folds
used are from the 50 Fathoms Figure Flat Pack by Pinnacle
Entertainment Group. The 50 Fathoms metal miniature is also from Pinnacle
Entertainment Group. Also a Heroclix figure from WizKids
is in here too for the Atani Rosetta. The figure for Unk is from Deadly
Missions Mercenaries by Grey Matter Games.
Pay
What You Want: Abandoned Riad
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