Character Name Type Player Sex Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ..Arawn...........Druid...John.Haight........Ma..Alfar/Backup Navigator ..Dorhak..........Warrior.Kevin.Newark.......Ma..Captain/Leader/Dwarf ..Fremea..........Sidh....Tobie.Bonahoom.....Fe..Faerry/Archer/Magician ..Ix..............Shaman..Rachelle.Gauthier..Fe..Human ..Kiet............Acrobat.David.Sanders......Me..Human/Magician ..Maelorna........Dancer..Don.Kerr...........Fe..Human/Seductress ..Mournath........Sailor..Gibert.Isla........Ma..Human/Navigator ..Pyandalgor......Hunter..Panthera...........Ma..Human ..Raddok..........Miner...Bess Hadley........Ma..Human ..Unali...........Ninja...Wout.Broere........Fe..Human/Dagger Maiden ..Z'leyra.........Healer..Alex Koponen.......Fe..Human/Shaman/1st Mate ..Barbasa.........Warror..Npc................Ma..Dwarf/Outcast ..Brutto..........Sailor..Npc................Ma..Sailor #1 ..Finn............Sailor..Npc................Ma..Sailor #2 ..Ardrackle.......Sailor..Npc................Ma..Sailor #3 ..Zepp............Sailor..Npc................Ma..Sailor #4 Corona..........Eagle...Npc................Ma..Companion to Z'leyra .Zol.Zim.........Wolf....Npc................Ma..Zehani Wolf/Ix's Friend Game Web Site - http:/nrgcomputers.com/pbem/ Public posts/actions to pnpgm@list.powersandperils.org (mailing list) Private emails (not public actions) to pnpgm@comcast.net Game Update #39 sequence (file #374) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Admin Notes: None. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Recap] From Raddok: [Re: Actions] Apris 10, ~ 2:26 p.m. Raddok has had too much, & not nearly enough, time.... GM: Ack. From Mournath: [Re: Action] Mournath will keep firing his bow while the giant is at range, then swap to spear and shield when the giant makes contact with the ship. Again, using the items around him to gain cover where appropriate. GM: Ack. ------------------------------------------------------------- [New Stuff] [Apris 10th, 1636TH] [Time: 2:26:13 pm] [Turn 2: Phase 1] Arawn builds energy for another spell. Z'leyra also in her trance builds the first steps of her spell to end the whole situation. Corona dives and sweeps down to attack the giant once again but this time his blasts go wild and he misses. Fremea from behind the giant fires right at his back hitting doing 2 points of fire damage on the tough hide. Mournath fires and hits the giant's chest but his tough hide just makes the arrow bounce off into the ocean. Pyan fires again his own bow but the arrow also bounces off his chest into the ocean. Arawn casts a energy shield upon himself. Mae can feel the hairs on her arm prickle at the static discharge from the shimmering energy gray shield. Kiet grits his teeth just out of range the giant is now. The giant rushes forward and ends up only 4 feet from the ship. With his left hand he reaches out and grabs Finn off the deck and quickly places him inside the net on his left hip. To ensure Finn can't escape the bashes the human squarely with his fist by knocking his breath out. With his right hand the giant roars and picks a random targets and selects Z'leyra. The trident shoots out straight for her. Being in a trance and not prepared the hit is solid on her left side. She screams in pain as she takes 31 points of damage. She is thrown 5 feet backwards away from her current position bleeding out. Zol Zim is loyal to Ix but when he sees Z'leyra stabs and probably killed he leaps forward and runs for the giant. Z'leyra on her back watches the sky drift by. What the heck just happened. Her drum and staff seem to be missing somewhere. Did she drop them? She then feels the pain and glances down at the huge hole in her chest. That's not good. Not good at all. She tries to breath but the breath is just not there. At least she can spot Corona flying high and proud. Unali with the gear hooked to her belt and shoulder rushes for the giant. She uses the anchor rope as a way to gain balance and leaps at the giant. She lands on his left arm. With a half second before the giant react she jumps up to his left shoulder and stabs the giant in the neck. She strikes with both her magical daggers. The first one hits doing 10 points. The second one she activates her Power Strike enhanced ability on the dagger and does 10 points of damage with her blade and 25 with the power strike. The giant roars in anger. Arawn sees Z'leyra hit. She seems to be moving still but looks almost dead. He was going to cast a new spell but Z'leyra may need help before then. Arawn moves quickly toward Z'leyra Mae watches as Arawn runs toward the nasty giant and wonders if the elves are all mad. Mournath drops his bow and grabs his spear ready to strike as soon as he can. Raddok has had too much, & not nearly enough, time to plan what he might do that would have any effectiveness against such a gigantic creature. Why, he thinks, if it gets much closer, just falling forward could cause it to be able to strike the ship! Or cause a crashing wave, which might be almost as dangerous, as close as he & the other ship members are getting to the stern rails. How long are it's arms? If he falls forward with his arms outreaching he could grab the ship nearly any moment! Raddok resolutely prepares for the worst & tries to banish that thought away. He feels no special coordination with the other fighters & feels that Arawn must have cast his war-enhancement spell at those who are at the moment the most useful, that is, the mages and the flyers (especially those that might be both), and Raddok prays to any god listening that Arawn's spell has been effective. He is glad that reinforcements have arrived at the stern rails & that the seamen seem as eager to fight as everyone else, and can aid in protecting the wheelman. At the giant gets closer, Raddok he himself cannot damage the giant very much, although he can contribute to damage already done - but he has now reconsidered his strategy (which had been only to attack as best he could). Now he feels that Mournath & Z'leyra, now just to his right, might need his shield more than his mace in order to continue their plans, and he moves in front of them to protect them as best he can, shield raised and ready on his left arm, with mace held in his right, but ready to reinforce his hold on the shield if needed. Unless someone orders him otherwise, he's as ready as he can be, and he's listening for advice from those now behind him. Raddok sees Z'leyra fall and rushes to her side. He stands over her. If the giant tries to try to attack her again he'll use his shield to at least protect her. Brutto and Zepp both attack the giant's arm before it moves away but his arm is so massive it moves up too high and they miss their attacks. Dorhak charges the giant as it stands at the railing. He is wondering why the mad woman with the daggers Unali is on the thing! He swings his mace but the ship and the giant are bobbing back and forth too much and he misses. Barbosa however does hit the giant in the chest doing 4 more points with his mace at the damaged creature. [Apris 10th, 1636TH] [Time: 2:26:16 pm] [Turn 2: Phase 2] Kiet yells to Unali to be aware and raises his fists and shoots two of his rings right at the giant at point blank range. The first hit does 34 points of fire damage and the second does 35 points of damage. The first ring is enough to kill him. The giant roars in pain as his tunic and body explodes in flame. The giant begins to teeter toward the front right and hits the railing at that section of ship and begins to slide down the side of the ship. Part of that railing is destroyed by the sheer weight. Unali hearing Kiet's warning and seeing flames erupt all around her places both daggers in her belt and pulls the grappling hook she grabbed from the locker. She places it deep inside the tough hide color of the tunic of the giant and jumps left. As the giant is falling she slams with the help of the rope attached to hook into the giant's left hip taking a couple points of damage. But the damage doesn't stop her. She rappels over to the net on the giant's hip and grabs for it just as the giant hits the water on his right side. Unali holds her breath as water slams all around her. As she grapples for the net to open it the giant slowly sinks below the waves. Unali is now 20 feet below the wave and she opens the net to grab the unconscious Finn. She being a skilled swimmer releases the rope of the hook and jets up to the surface of the water tying to carry Finn with her. Brutto, Zepp, Barbosa and Dorhak yell and lower ropes. Fremea dives with her bow now on her back and helps keep Finn above the water as she hovers. Barbosa then rappels down the rope being probably the strongest of the humans and Unali places Finn around his back. With help from Fremea holding Finn to his back the others pull the two up. At the same time Z'leyra watches as Corona dives toward her. That's nice she thinks. But she still can't seem to breath. Then she notices that pointy eared Druid over her. Blocking her view of the beautiful white eagle. She frowns and sees blackness. As Arawn bends over Z'leyra he realizes the damage is immense. Probably a hole in her lung. But then he notices a odd thing. The energy shield seems to have stopped the bleeding? Is that an effect of the shield or her heart stopping? Actions? Comments? Next Update...Friday/Saturday... GM: Ok. This is bad. :< There are 14 random targets the giant could've rolled. With #1 being top of the roster and so forth. I sadly rolled for Finn and for Z'leyra. First for his net attack with his hand on Finn (if it was his trident Finn would've been dead by now). Then for the trident and it was bad for Z. Only thing that saved her is being a pc. :) Sorry Alex! Was purely random! Don't kill me! At least the giant is dead now. So that's a bit of a good thing eh? I'll get with Arawn on how he plans to help Z'leyra as this could be a fatal mission now for her. I can do next update either Friday or Saturday. I hope we don't lose Finn and Z as Finn is still in danger himself. A note on the Unali/Hook thing. I actually had this whole scene planned. I was going to attack do damage then rappels using the hook down his back. Then do more damage as the giant would react and try to squash Unali. Thus the hook thing. So that WAS planned. But this actually works out as Unali can save Finn. If there had been no hook and no rappels Finn might've been lost under the waves. So it worked out but I was planning on this whole swashbuckling style acrobatics. :) Since Unali is a acrobat as well she has the skills do what she did. All this in 20 seconds of time or so. Wow. :< GM: Language Necklace Use: Roll W+EM or less Buff: +Em Mar 24th, +W Mar 29th Character Date Learning Notes Raddok Mar 26th Marentian Success Pyan Mar 29th Eagle from Corona Fail Pyan Mar 30th Eagle from Corona Success Kiet Apr 3rd Bhamotin Success Unali Apr 4th Bhamotin from Kiet Success Fremea Apr 5th Bhamotin from Kiet Success GM: Watch Assignments: First ( 7-10pm) - Dorhak, Raddok, Ix Second (10- 1am) - Arawn, Mae, Pyan Third ( 1- 4am) - Fremea, Z'leyra, Mournath Fourth ( 4- 7am) - Unali, Kiet, Barbosa