Chapter 1: After the Storm

[Longman]

I'll wrap this up and move on. You are now all asleep. Somme consensus has been reached that you are staying in the jungle and going to the village tomorrow, to help Teruk rescue his father and deal with the threat that is troubling them.

Very late at night, it is Sonja's watch. And something rather nasty happens. This character has a strong hatred of pirates and have never liked the presence of Saracen, the pirate escort. While he lies sleeping, she and her war-dog Jericho both approach him suddenly, and with murderous intent.

Saracen, you take only 7 hit points of damage in the first instance, largely because your banded mail protects you. (Yep, I decided you were sleeping in it). Then, you lose the initiative as you are waking up, and are attacked again immediately. You take another 10 hit points and the wardog now has a hold of you and isn't letting go til you make a save vs Death Ray.

EDIT: You have taken 25 hit points in total. You take 8 earlier from the spear. You have 6 left. I remind you that as soon as you reach 0 hit points you are dead. This is hard core rules, no optional death rules given.

Saracen, it is now your action. Your bird is not present, as you sent if off to view the beach many hours ago and were expecting it to reunite with you in the desert. You still have all your regular 2nd level spells, but I count you have cast 3 of your 4 magic missile spells today, and haven't quite had enough sleep to have relearned for tomorrow. You are still lying down, and there is a very large and vicious wardog on you...

You can try to cast, or you can shake the dog off. That's pretty much it. You can't really move or do much else until the dog is off you.

(During the first of these rounds, everyone else woke up. During the 2nd round, everyone else got up and worked out what was happening.

When Saracen is finished with round 2, we can go to round 3 with initiative. I'll give him a day or so.)

[SerGavin]

Maju! Yuan! Help please! Saracen attempts to wrestle the dog off of himself, cursing psychotic honorless Persians and their little dogs too.

(DM edit...sorry SerG, I forgot you had already taken 8hp from the spear, earlier - to which you retaliated. You have taken 25 and only have 6 remaining! If you reach 0 you die! Pretty bad for you.)

[Longman]

Saracen, your save vs Death Ray is a 4. Sorry. You cannot get the dog off you. You are still pinned to the ground at the end of round 2.

Round 3. Initiative is important here:

Teruk: 6
Jericho the Dog: 5
Saracen Sea Elf Pirate: 4
Maju Mage: 4
Sonja the Pirate-Hating Ranger: 3
Yuan Cheng: 3
Jaali: 3

Teruk, you get to act first. You do not have weapons to hand as they were taken from you when you surrendered, but you could get a spear in a round, unless anyone stops you. Bear in mind a few things:

First, Saracen is clearly of a race you call the Zarh, or Zarra. They are semi-aquatic elves with some magic powers. They are a periodic menace on the shores of the island, and there are stories that they sometimes charm dinosaurs to attack villages. Most are pretty feral, wear rags, and only know their own strange language. This one (Saracen) appears to have the same outlandish clothes as all the other newcomers, and he can speak to them very well, so maybe he is of a much higher order of the Zarh race. But he's definitely a Zarh, and you wouldn't trust him at all. They're a murderous bunch - he killed two of your men.

The other conscious villager, Farak, appears to have been awake the whole time, and is not doing anything to stop the attempted murder. He is just sitting there with a dagger he has gotten somehow, nursing the wound in his arm, that Sonja bandaged for him earlier.

Everyone else, please role-play this however you would like.

PS - the monk's magic sword pipes up and says:

EXCELLENT! EXCELLENT!

[Woe]

"Now's our chance! First was his slaughter while taking the Ark-Ari, and tonight with the locals when they were holding back. He kills the weak and defenseless, and calls it fun. Murderous (swings at the Saracen) damn (swings again) butcher."


Um... what was the name of our ship again? The Hollow Log?

DM edit - the Ark-ari was the ship's name. It's an Arabic trading ship, that was leaving Fark Athay heading to Salaya. A lot of the crew are are Arabic and Indic, and so are the piraates who mutinied / attacked you. The Hollow Log is the name of the game log.

[mTeasdale]

Jaali is thinking about the fact that the so called honorable ranger is attacking people during their sleep...

Jaali will try to sneak silently behind Sonja and backstab her with his dagger.

He will then say : "Sonja ? What are you doing ? I was sure it was some robbers attacking us."

(Jaali actually want to backstab her right now, but want to be sure he doesn't get killed too if things go bad for Saracen)

[Woe]

Jerrico wil continue to maul the pirate. As for Sonja, let's see what happens in round four.

[quozl]

Yuan-Cheng leaps into action (literally!) and will disarm Sonja.

[SerGavin]

I kill the weak and defenceless! What on earth do you think you're doing? Maybe you'd like to stop for a second and consider what you're saying!

[MevlyTM]

OOC: Longman, do you want us to post an action up front, or can we wait to see what happens before we select an action for our PC? (Since you've given an initiative order, and mentioned that it's important). Personally, I'd like to wait to see what happens before I declare Maju's action, but not at the expense of being able to perform the action itself.

[Woe]

"Upholding the Emperor's laws. You slaughter for pleasure then claim distress? Fie, pirate, you are a wanted man across the Empire for your crimes."