ooc Blood is thicker than water

[Supercape]

Im not entirely sure if initiative is needed at this moment....

 

1d20+10=19 Heck, I am going to roll with the drama as this is the big problem with the barnacles! 

 

Barnacle and Engine explosion!

 

This is a damage 10 area effect. DC 20 Reflex save to have a DC 20 Toughness, otherwise Toughness 25 save. Evasion counts as normal. 

 

If you need to make any type of save, the Barnacles hit you and will start to encrust on you, a contagious snare 5 effect (so Reflex 15 save)

 

then, the water starts pouring in...

 

HP to all for the horror,  GM fiat over time stop (due to spooky magic) and lives at stake!

 

 

 

Tsunami - 3 HP

Glamazon - 3 HP

Temperance - 4 HP 

Wave Eye - 1 HP

[Ari]

...That is pretty wrong a way for it to go. Sorry everybody!

[Supercape]

It was awesome!

[Brown Dynamite]

Reflex Save: 1d20+4 18 Good but not good enough or her low Reflex
 
Tou Save vs DC25: 1d20+10 16 Youch!
 
Reflex Save vs Barnacles: 1d20+4 11

Edited July 26, 2014 by HG Morrison

[Thevshi]

This is a little late (as you have already done so), but you know I am always down with overriding things for the purpose of plot.  Not like it really matters, everyone else has pretty much ignored what Time Stop does anyway (ie the damage to the ship caused by us).

 

Anyway, there is more than one way to stop the ship from sinking.

 

Tsunami's Reflex save: 15, no don't like that, so I will use a HP to reroll: much better with a 25.  She has evasion, so avoids the effects completely.

 

You ready for us to roll initiative so we can act?

 

 

[Ari]

DC20 Reflex save: 25.

DC20 Toughness save: 21.

EDIT: DC15 Reflex save to avoid the Barnacles:14. Entangled.

Edited July 30, 2014 by Arichamus

[trollthumper]

10 on the Reflex, which... I could do better. Hero Point.

Yeah, that works. And as I have Evasion, I completely avoid the effect.

[Supercape]

So for Reference:
 
Glamazon - 3 HP - Dazed, Bruised, Entangled. 
 
Tsunami - 2 HP - Unharmed
 
Tenmperance - 3 HP - Unharmed
 
Wave Eye - 1 HP - Unharmed, Entangled. 
 
 
 
As for initiative, no need as Captain Blood is not going to fight you. So really take it turn by turn in whatever order you please!
 
At the moment we have:
 
Sammy Smooth is completely encrusted in the contagious barnacles. 
Glamazon and Wave-Eye are entangled by the contagious barnacles
Cold Enviroinment (unlikely to matter)
Partial Visual Obscure from smoke
Ship with a big hole in it and wrecked engines...
 
Anyone with knowledge (phyiscal sciences) can make an estimate of how long the ship will take to sink but its a DC 20 hit. 
 

Blah Blah Blah....plot physics....blah blah blah....plot naval engineering
1 Round till engine room flooded
5 Rounds till water fills the bottom half (including entertainment hall)
10 Rounds till ship underwater
5 minutes till it hits the sea bed!

[Thevshi]

Tsunami will use her Create Object power to patch up the hole in the ship.

[Supercape]

Excellent! Can we have an opposed roll Power 10 (The pressure of the ocean) vs Create Object?

[Thevshi]

Tsunami's power check is a 32.

[Supercape]

The Power of the Ocean! 1d20+10=17

 

It holds...for now!

[trollthumper]

If Temperance goes next, then she will use Blast w/ Autofire to try and knock the barnacles off of everyone. If they're close enough to one another to use the Cone function on Autofire, I'll try to hit everyone; if not, I'll hit Sammy first.

24, 22, and... 9. Somehow, I doubt that 9 will hit Sammy's Snare, so let's see that the Blasts attack Wave-Eye and Glamazon's Snares. That way, there are more people to get Sammy free.

[Supercape]

THat will certainly hit the first two!

 

1d20+5=11, 1d20+5=24

 

Its a Damage 9 effect, so the save is 24. Wave=-Eye is totally free, and Glamazon still entangled. 

[Brown Dynamite]

Alrighty, Glamazon will just take a moment to try and free herself using her STR+Super STR which was +13 altogether.  Tou Save vs DC28 (Escape Attempt): 1d20+5 16 (Note in the link the end result is 39.  That's because I accidentally put down 1D20+28 instead of +5.  The result is still an 11 so no need to reroll unless you would like to roll for the snare yourself)

Edited August 1, 2014 by HG Morrison

[Supercape]

Yep, he is out!

[Ari]

Awesome. Now that he's free, Wave-Eye will Move Over to Sammy and break the barnacles keeping him down. Power Attack Roll: 16. That should do it. DC25 Toughness save for the Barnacles. After that, moving off with Sammy to find the next weak spot in the ship.

[Supercape]

For ease I am just gonna say the Barnacles are stripped off Sammy. 

 

At this point, where are y'all going?

[Ari]

As soon as I post, to the next-most likely place for Captain Blood to try his sinkery tricks(which in this case would be 'forward of the engine room'). And asking Temperance and Glamazon along, since Tsunami seems to have things pretty well in hand in the engine room.

[Supercape]

Well, I think you can all move faster than Captain Blood - although he  has insubstantial. 

 

 

He is movng out to the open sea, rather than the ship. So feel free to post moving to some part of the deck!

[Supercape]

Just a note: Off camera, as per Tsunamis suggestion, the passengers are assembling by the life boats and boarding. Not a quick process, of course, but happening!

 

I didnt quite fancy posting that off camera, but if any heroes go on deck or fly about, ofeel free to narrate this!

[Ari]

Switching to the Move Object Power in the Device Array, and enacting a Power Check: 36. That is opposed by the Crimson Whatever's Strength score

[Supercape]

The Black plunder has a STR of 55. I guess that, in terms of "bonus" is a + 9 Bonus (9 Ranks of Super Strength)

 

1d20+9=16

 

It is stopped!

 

So, at this juncture, Blood is beating a retreat and serving up curses! The air is filled with its Osbcure 8 (visual) power and is sailing off...

 

So, out of combat and I guess it is the beginning of wrap up for you folks, unless you have ideas to the contrary or fancy capturing the Black Plunder!

 

Thoughts and Ideas here? including, if you wish, future thread thoughts / lead ups, and I suppose an underwater HQ or team?

[Brown Dynamite]

Hm.  Clearly they'll want to go after the guy who sent Blood after the ship.  Though they thus far just have a name to go on.  So investigation an the like ~.  In a way this thread did already start up as part of the idea of forming an unofficial unnamed underwater team.  Glam could possibly use her affluence to help set up some sort of undersea safehouse so to speak.

[Ari]

Agreed, this Drowned Man sounds like an unfriendly customer, and worthy of further investigation.

I say we let Captain Blood and his crew get away for now. He's hardly their archnemesis and they certainly aren't his. Maybe if there's a thread with Siren for the crew a bigger confrontation would be merited, but as-is the first adventure is not place for such things. Be like blowing up the Death Star in the first act.

As for HQs, I'm leaving soon, so I can't really be part of that. I think an Atlantean watchtower near the coast, refurbished with the latest world-monitoring tech, might be radical.