The Storm
Dramatis Personae:
Winry Steamgear, the Rock Gnome Alchemist Artificer
"Critical" Bumbersnoot, Winry's Dachshund Mechanimal Construct
Mara Quinn, the Water Genasi Werewolf Sea Sorceress
Steve, Quinn's Octopus familiar
Oskar Heartforge, the Shield Dwarf Werewolf Priest of Moradin
Jak Foostus, the Minotaur Monk
Carmina, the Human Woman-at-arms
Amara, the Human Noble
Sylvia, the Human Handmaiden
Gil, the Human Farm Boy
Carmina, the Human Woman-at-arms
Amara, the Human Noble
Sylvia, the Human Handmaiden
Gil, the Human Farm Boy
NOTE: Things will be mostly from Winry's perspective, anything in italics is from a third party view, since the artificer can't be everywhere at once.
***** Tarsakh 28, 1489 DR (The Year of the Warrior Princess), Luskan
Before heading to our ship in the morning, we decided to hit the shops really quick. I grabbed a ton of brass, bronze, and copper for an experiment I had in mind- I think I may be able to create a healing potion for Bumbersnoot, using the metals he's made of and the magic I use to repair him. It was expensive, but hella worth it.
Quinn decided she needed a bigger bag of holding for Steve, and beat me to the only shop that had one. I was annoyed at first, but it turns out she had a bag of devouring instead. Steve got sucked into it, and she got sucked in right after, but Jak pulled her out. Quinn frantically turned the bag inside out, sending a mini wave splashing out, right in the middle of the street. Much to her relief, the octopus hadn't been sucked into the bag yet. Quinn tossed it onto the street and Oskar whacked it with his hammer.
A bit after that, we headed to the ship and set sail for Waterdeep. Quinn bunked with the crew, and the rest of us bunked together in a state room. My hammer of warning didn't go off in the middle of the night, but at the time that it was supposed to go off, we heard commotion in another part of the ship- Wave had still gone off. Oskar confronted Quinn, but she had no idea what about her would be doing it. Wave was quiet after that night, he didn't raise alarm again during our journey.
***** Greengrass Holiday, Sea of Swords
Quinn started having nightmares, and wasn't getting any rest while she slept- she ended up spending the entire day asleep. I wonder if whatever was setting our weapons of warning off was what was doing it to her.
***** Mirtul 1, Sea of Swords
A heavy rain began to fall today, it looked like a storm was starting up. Quinn's nightmares persisted.
***** Mirtul 2, Sea of Swords
The storm got worse today, and two crewmen actually went overboard. Oskar spotted a storm giant playing in the distance, but it didn't come near us, thankfully.
I finished my experiment on making a healing potion for Bumbersnoot! Now I have a way of healing my baby during battle!
***** Mirtul, 3, Sea of Swords
Oskar said that the storm giant seemed closer to us today, as the storm raged on. But it never engaged us, thankfully.
Jak was itching to punch things, he'd gone too long without killing anything. Weston, the ship's mage, let Jak kill his familiar, which made Jak happy, even though it didn't curve his lust for violence.
***** Mirtul 4, Sea of Swords
The storm intensified, it was nearly a hurricane now. I couldn't even work on my projects, with as rocky as it was. It was also colder now, it had been a humid storm up until now.
Quinn was a mess. She hadn't gotten a decent night's sleep in several days now. Oskar gave her a dose of drow sleep poison to knock her out and prevent her from dreaming. That kinda backfired. She ended up practically comatose, and didn't wake up at all today.
***** Mirtul 5, Sea of Swords
The storm was a full blown hurricane today.
Oskar managed to clear up Quinn's nightmares, and she finally got some sleep. She awoke at the right time too.
We were sailing in the rocky waters, when suddenly the water calmed completely. The storm was gone, the sky was clear, and there was no movement of the water or wind. There was a fog swirling around the ship, and one of the crew called out that he could see another ship in the distance. That didn't fucking sound good.
Oskar and Jak decided to go investigate, Jak swam and Oskar flew. We could hear splashes around us, but we couldn't see what they were doing, or make out any real details of the ship. When the ships finally got close enough for us to see what was on them, we discovered the ships were full of undead; there were two ships, moving to flank us.
A voice rang out as the ships moved into position that if we them the "fish sticker" and the crew, they'd consider letting us live. I had a feeling Wave was the fish sticker they were referring to- that stupid trident has brought us nothing but trouble.
Oskar dropped a fuckton of skeletons on one of the ships right away, and I blew up the hag on the other ship with NATAS' charged plasma shot. Quinn was dropped instantly by another hag. Then a vampire grabbed me, and though Bumbersnoot tried to yank him off of me, it didn't work. The vampire quickly drained me and I slipped into unconsciousness.
The others told me bits and pieces of what happened during the fight after that:
The ship's crew began dropping slowly, one by one. Bumbersnoot ran around our ship, taking out undead as he went, and trying to get me to Oskar. Bumbersnoot spent a lot of the fight with the girls, helping them take out the undead that approached them.
As the fight raged on, a much larger ship arrived which Oskar said was an ice giant great ship, and it looked like it had been sunk... it was full of fucking undead giants. In a few moments, they grappled our ship.
Quinn had been revived at some point during the fight, and she was charmed by a vampire to give it Wave. The giant ship managed to knock over our mast somehow, and it fell on Quinn, dropping her again. Weston tried to create a current for us to get away, but with no mast or wind, and being grappled by the enormous ship, it didn't work as well as he'd hoped. Weston kept at it though, hoping it would work and free us before we all died.
Jak had gotten in the water, and found himself swarmed by vampiranhas- vampire piranhas. I thought they were fucking with me when they told me that, but Jak insisted he was quite serious. An explosion on one of the smaller ships broke us free of that one, but we were still grappled by the big one. The skeletons were approaching quickly- so the group decided to go below deck to get some cover and bottle neck the invaders on the stairs. They heard some gears and whooshing- it sounded like they'd taken our entire ship on board of the giant ship.
Oskar revived me just before a red mist began seeping down into the hold where we were. The rest of the group who was still alive began falling unconscious from the red mist. Within seconds everyone except Oskar, Jak, Bumbersnoot, and I were down. I helped us find some secret compartments to stash our people in, and just as we were finishing, I succumbed to the mist.
Oskar began throwing insults out at their unseen foes, and his mouth filled with blood- he couldn't speak for one minute. Jak was grappled by drenched hair, so all three of them attacked the woman who the hair was attached to. Critical Bumbersnoot took a big chunk out of the woman, and Oskar and Jak got some good hits in as well.
The hag peeled off half of Jak's face, and it floated to her, attaching itself to her face. It now looked like there were two Jaks. Oskar and Bumbersnoot went for her again- the mechanimal was confused about who to attack, so he followed Oskar's lead. The hag did something that made fluids begin leaking from everyone- including Bumbersnoot; so Bumbersnoot tripped her.
The scuffle continued for a few more seconds, with Jak going down, then Bumbersnoot, and finally Oskar.
***** Sometime later...
I came to in my small clothes, in a large cell with everyone, apparently none of the crew or group were dead. We were all shackled to the walls, and Bumbersnoot was inactive in a heap in the corner of the cell.
We could hear someone shouting in dwarvish that Whelm was his, and he wanted to torture Oskar until he told him where it was. That didn't sound fucking good.
Before heading to our ship in the morning, we decided to hit the shops really quick. I grabbed a ton of brass, bronze, and copper for an experiment I had in mind- I think I may be able to create a healing potion for Bumbersnoot, using the metals he's made of and the magic I use to repair him. It was expensive, but hella worth it.
Quinn decided she needed a bigger bag of holding for Steve, and beat me to the only shop that had one. I was annoyed at first, but it turns out she had a bag of devouring instead. Steve got sucked into it, and she got sucked in right after, but Jak pulled her out. Quinn frantically turned the bag inside out, sending a mini wave splashing out, right in the middle of the street. Much to her relief, the octopus hadn't been sucked into the bag yet. Quinn tossed it onto the street and Oskar whacked it with his hammer.
A bit after that, we headed to the ship and set sail for Waterdeep. Quinn bunked with the crew, and the rest of us bunked together in a state room. My hammer of warning didn't go off in the middle of the night, but at the time that it was supposed to go off, we heard commotion in another part of the ship- Wave had still gone off. Oskar confronted Quinn, but she had no idea what about her would be doing it. Wave was quiet after that night, he didn't raise alarm again during our journey.
***** Greengrass Holiday, Sea of Swords
Quinn started having nightmares, and wasn't getting any rest while she slept- she ended up spending the entire day asleep. I wonder if whatever was setting our weapons of warning off was what was doing it to her.
***** Mirtul 1, Sea of Swords
A heavy rain began to fall today, it looked like a storm was starting up. Quinn's nightmares persisted.
***** Mirtul 2, Sea of Swords
The storm got worse today, and two crewmen actually went overboard. Oskar spotted a storm giant playing in the distance, but it didn't come near us, thankfully.
I finished my experiment on making a healing potion for Bumbersnoot! Now I have a way of healing my baby during battle!
***** Mirtul, 3, Sea of Swords
Oskar said that the storm giant seemed closer to us today, as the storm raged on. But it never engaged us, thankfully.
Jak was itching to punch things, he'd gone too long without killing anything. Weston, the ship's mage, let Jak kill his familiar, which made Jak happy, even though it didn't curve his lust for violence.
***** Mirtul 4, Sea of Swords
The storm intensified, it was nearly a hurricane now. I couldn't even work on my projects, with as rocky as it was. It was also colder now, it had been a humid storm up until now.
Quinn was a mess. She hadn't gotten a decent night's sleep in several days now. Oskar gave her a dose of drow sleep poison to knock her out and prevent her from dreaming. That kinda backfired. She ended up practically comatose, and didn't wake up at all today.
***** Mirtul 5, Sea of Swords
The storm was a full blown hurricane today.
Oskar managed to clear up Quinn's nightmares, and she finally got some sleep. She awoke at the right time too.
We were sailing in the rocky waters, when suddenly the water calmed completely. The storm was gone, the sky was clear, and there was no movement of the water or wind. There was a fog swirling around the ship, and one of the crew called out that he could see another ship in the distance. That didn't fucking sound good.
Oskar and Jak decided to go investigate, Jak swam and Oskar flew. We could hear splashes around us, but we couldn't see what they were doing, or make out any real details of the ship. When the ships finally got close enough for us to see what was on them, we discovered the ships were full of undead; there were two ships, moving to flank us.
A voice rang out as the ships moved into position that if we them the "fish sticker" and the crew, they'd consider letting us live. I had a feeling Wave was the fish sticker they were referring to- that stupid trident has brought us nothing but trouble.
Oskar dropped a fuckton of skeletons on one of the ships right away, and I blew up the hag on the other ship with NATAS' charged plasma shot. Quinn was dropped instantly by another hag. Then a vampire grabbed me, and though Bumbersnoot tried to yank him off of me, it didn't work. The vampire quickly drained me and I slipped into unconsciousness.
The others told me bits and pieces of what happened during the fight after that:
The ship's crew began dropping slowly, one by one. Bumbersnoot ran around our ship, taking out undead as he went, and trying to get me to Oskar. Bumbersnoot spent a lot of the fight with the girls, helping them take out the undead that approached them.
As the fight raged on, a much larger ship arrived which Oskar said was an ice giant great ship, and it looked like it had been sunk... it was full of fucking undead giants. In a few moments, they grappled our ship.
Quinn had been revived at some point during the fight, and she was charmed by a vampire to give it Wave. The giant ship managed to knock over our mast somehow, and it fell on Quinn, dropping her again. Weston tried to create a current for us to get away, but with no mast or wind, and being grappled by the enormous ship, it didn't work as well as he'd hoped. Weston kept at it though, hoping it would work and free us before we all died.
Jak had gotten in the water, and found himself swarmed by vampiranhas- vampire piranhas. I thought they were fucking with me when they told me that, but Jak insisted he was quite serious. An explosion on one of the smaller ships broke us free of that one, but we were still grappled by the big one. The skeletons were approaching quickly- so the group decided to go below deck to get some cover and bottle neck the invaders on the stairs. They heard some gears and whooshing- it sounded like they'd taken our entire ship on board of the giant ship.
Oskar revived me just before a red mist began seeping down into the hold where we were. The rest of the group who was still alive began falling unconscious from the red mist. Within seconds everyone except Oskar, Jak, Bumbersnoot, and I were down. I helped us find some secret compartments to stash our people in, and just as we were finishing, I succumbed to the mist.
Oskar began throwing insults out at their unseen foes, and his mouth filled with blood- he couldn't speak for one minute. Jak was grappled by drenched hair, so all three of them attacked the woman who the hair was attached to. Critical Bumbersnoot took a big chunk out of the woman, and Oskar and Jak got some good hits in as well.
The hag peeled off half of Jak's face, and it floated to her, attaching itself to her face. It now looked like there were two Jaks. Oskar and Bumbersnoot went for her again- the mechanimal was confused about who to attack, so he followed Oskar's lead. The hag did something that made fluids begin leaking from everyone- including Bumbersnoot; so Bumbersnoot tripped her.
The scuffle continued for a few more seconds, with Jak going down, then Bumbersnoot, and finally Oskar.
***** Sometime later...
I came to in my small clothes, in a large cell with everyone, apparently none of the crew or group were dead. We were all shackled to the walls, and Bumbersnoot was inactive in a heap in the corner of the cell.
We could hear someone shouting in dwarvish that Whelm was his, and he wanted to torture Oskar until he told him where it was. That didn't sound fucking good.
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