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It's not, in retrospect, all that surprising that Roger can speak Rendorish. The surprising part is how incredibly similar Rendorish is to an obscure dialect of Arabic with several words taken from Inuit...
None of the other Terrans can understand a word of it. Before the cops can say a word (likely complaining about his accent) the tear gas grenades go off - there's a fair amount of choking and coughing, but they're in no position to stop anyone from rushing aboard the ship, or even to shoot at anyone who tries.
Felix leads the others on board and tries to talk the sailors into joining them. The sailors take one look at what's happening to the policemen on the dock, and clearly decide they're not being paid enough for this - as one, they rush to the side of the ship and dive into the water, leaving the Terrans and Knights unopposed on the deck of the ship.
No-one quite notices Sephrenia, Talen and Piper rushing up the gangplank with everyone else, but somehow they're on the deck as well, so one presumes that they must have rushed up when one was not looking.
Insofar as getting down below goes - well, the hatches are closed, but do not appear to be locked.
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Post Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:21 am |
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"I doubt whatever is below will allow us the time to do that," Felix says. "It's you're call if you don't want to go, though."
Felix turns to Sir Sparhawk.
"I'll get the ship moving again so we can get out of here. If you're facing Martel I'll join you after I've gotten us out to sea. Unless you want me down there now. Your call."
Felix looks over the damage to the ship and, together with Theresa and anyone willing to help, starts putting the rigging back together to restore the sail.
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Post Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 6:57 am |
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"He's not going anywhere." Sir Sparhawk recovers his sword, still embedded in the mast of the ship where he had thrown it earlier. "Nate, was it? You say you know something about what's down in there? How much detail do you think you can go into? Kalten, Berit, put something heavy over all the other hatches. Let's get ready to go in through this hatch as soon as we know what we're up against down there."
A couple of the other Knights, having sliced through the ropes holding the ship in place, move back to start putting heavy objects on all the hatches except the one Sir Sparhawk is standing over.
A chilly wind starts to pick up. Piper frowns at it.
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Post Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:28 pm |
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It's tough to recall. The memory is.... slippery, is the best way I can describe it. I remember climbing aboard the ship after I convinced some of Martel's hirelings to tell me which one was his. I was going to search for more information and plant explosives to scuttle the ship. I remember I entered the Captain's cabin to look for the ship's logs or a manifest. Something that would show where the ship had been, but instead I found that, Thing. It gets really fuzzy now, but I remember it was bipedal, humanoid, but it seemed to be made out of fire. I remember it spoke to me and I spoke back, but I can't remember any of the conversation. It touched my arm and told me to do something, and it's like I was suddenly a passenger inside my own body. I remember fighting against it's control, and using a pain as a focus. I wonder....."
Nate rolls up his sleeve to reveal a hand-shaped burn on his arm.
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 12:26 am |
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There's a sharp hiss of indrawn breath from Lady Sephrenia.
"A Damork!" she says. "Everybody off this ship, now!"
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Post Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2018 9:53 am |
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"Made of fire, you say?" Felix says. "Cryo bomb to freeze the inside, then scuttle it?"
If no one stops him, Felix will blast a hole in the top of the ship with his shotgun, then throw in every last explosive he's carrying (keeping some stun grenades for the guards to get away). He'll then make a break for it with everyone else.
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 4:32 am |
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"Felix, given your current state of exhaustion, I think it would be wise to follow Lady Sephrenia's advice.." Roger puts his hand on Felix's shoulder and trys to get him to leave the hold the hell alone.
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 12:25 pm |
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Felix sighs. It's true that he's been running on high speed for a while.
"I suppose it's fine if we just blow the ship. Can you look for an alternate means of escape while I ready the explosives?"
Felix hands a couple of stun grenades to someone with a good throwing arm.
"For keeping the police off us. Non lethal."
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:31 pm |
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Roger nods and goes to look for alternate routes.
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 6:07 pm |
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"I don't know where exactly they wound up, but I don't have the explosives that I boarded the ship with anymore, but I do still have this."
Nate pulls a detonator out of his pocket and hands it to Felix.
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Post Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2018 8:13 pm |
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Arkady picks up one of the poles and hands it to Felix. "Tie them to this and put it under the hull. It will be making a bigger hole and staying away from the fire demon." Looks around: "Piper, I think we should be going." With that he debarks and starts looking for alternate transportation.
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Post Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:04 am |
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Just across the dock from Martel's ship lies a second ship. It's in one piece, and all the rigging is in place, but that one piece is not exactly a wonderfully clean piece.
Still, the sails are (more or less) set, and the ship seems shipshape at first glance. The only person visible on deck is a man in Rendorish clothing, who is sitting and smoking a pipe which... doesn't exactly smell like tobacco.
He waves his pipe at the knights and Terrans as they approach, and addresses them in Rendorish.
"Hey, dudes. Duuuuuuudes. Dudes. This, this, thississa ship o' peace, right. No, like, no, no violence is allowed to touch it, right? No, nooooooooooooooo violence. No violence. No violence. We cool, dudes?"
Arkady: Mysteries: +4 Roll: +2 Total: +6
As the group approaches this ship, Arkady catches a smell in the breeze - not the smell from this captain's pipe, but something foul, terrible, rotting. He glances up - just in time to watch clouds pour into the sky out of nowhere, a vast spreading wound of black in the sky, lightning crackling and bursting from cloud to cloud.
It doesn't take Einstein to conclude that this is absolutely not natural weather. But Arkady can feel more than the unnaturalness of the weather - he can get a sense of the utter depravity of whatever is behind this unnatural phenomenon. And the depravity is, indeed, utter.
More to the point, despite the fact that Piper is piping away, the expression on her face suggests that she can't do anything to stop this - or at least not directly. (What she is doing is not at all obvious).
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Post Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:02 am |
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Taking out his (thankfully waterproof) bible and looking up an appropriate text, Arkady observes "Friends, that storm is the work of something truly Evil. Lady, is the thing in that ship capable of this?"
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Post Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:47 am |
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Sephrenia puts a hand to the cover of Arkady's bible, closing it. "The storm is the work of the Damork," she says. "It's ludicrously powerful but it's stupid. We are being -" she glances at Piper for a moment - "hidden from it for the moment. But it can aim that storm, and if you attract its attention -"
She pauses a moment, glancing at the spreading wound of black in the sky.
"How many bolts of lightning do you think you can take?"
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Post Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2018 11:53 am |
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"Is the creature immortal? Because I don't think anything can survive what I'm about to do to this ship," Felix says. "No need to even go inside it."
Felix continues setting up explosives as he talks, including using the rod Arkady had given him to place some explosives under the water.
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