Aboard the Star of Nostro

KCC, Bryson lashes out with a whip but it misses by a few inches. Gryff has more luck as the injured creature tries to take a bite of him and Gryff shoves his chain-wrapped fist in its mouth. The creature struggles to breathe and eventually chokes on Gryff's fist. Merilda and Eggo both attempt attacks but the shadows and jostling of the people around them make their attacks ineffective.

Len, On top of the desk is an ocean map showing several islands and coastlines. Longfoot recognizes the names of Alviz (your island home) as well as Lys (your destination). The desk drawer is unlocked. Joseph opens it and a needle shoots out of the keyhole! In the room next door, Joseph grabs a sharp kitchen knife (1d4 dmg) and begins stoking a fire. It will take a minute to get going. Meanwhile before Sandra can mount the stairs she gets an odd feeling of being watched. Turning around she sees three pigs have stood upright on hind legs, their beady eyes trained on her. She is being cornered against the railing. Down below, Baldwin performs as well as he acts! His hammer blow strikes true. He smashes the head of the creature which explodes like an overripe melon. It is dead instantly.

Harrigan, Up on deck Belamina grabs a sailor's sword (1d6 dmg). After she asks about the animals, she sees in horror as three pigs have stood upright on their hindlegs and are advancing on poor Sandra. On the ladder Dengus shouts down to Eugene as he climbs out of the hold and arrives on deck. Down below Eugene elbows the others with force and secures himself the first place in line to begin climbing the ladder.

ogion, Gerdich risks his life to follow after Elix and pull him from the creature's clutches and back towards the ladder. Both of them make it to the ladder and begin climbing. Christnar waits for everyone else to get on the ladder first. Cerdan climbs out onto the main deck just in time to see poor Sandra spontaneously combust in green hellfire and her charred skeleton fall overboard.

2 more creatures dead! Only 3 remain.

One of the three pigs charges at Sandra in an attempt to knock her overboard! The porcine menace hits Sandra so strongly she is incinerated in demonic green hellfire and burns so bright and hot it scorches the wood 3 feet all around her. Her blackened skeleton tumbles over the railing and into a watery grave.

Baldwin's heroic display of vicious slaughter on one of the creatures sent the three remaining ones scurrying for cover momentarily. Up on deck, the two other bipedal pigs who did not kill Sandra turn and begin advancing toward the cargo hatch where everyone is coming out of. One charges Cerdan who is standing at the top in an attempt to knock her back down the hole and into the hold. The other charges Dengus in an attempt to knock him overboard.

1 damage each to Dengus and Cerdan. DC 8 Reflex to avoid being knocked over the edge for Dengus. Cerdan would get one too but she's only got 1 HP which means she's unconscious. Need everyone on the ladder to make a DC 10 Reflex save to avoid being hit by Cerdan's falling body. That's Eugene, Elix, and Gerdich. A fail means you take 1 damage from, which is cumulative to how many people above you on the ladder failed. If anyone fails there's a chance it saves Cerdan from instant death.

"Come on, you old bag. We’ll die down here if we keep this up!" Bryson roars, trying to pull the man away. He looked about, and sees how few the remaining captives are.

"We need to go!"

"Bugger to that, lad. Lady Hovelsworth is still down here. Fighting for us, she is! Least we can do is fight for her. Come on, now! Let’s give it to them!" Gryff the Elder retorts, more of a royalist than dear Bryson.

Certainly not fighting for anyone but herself, Merilda draws back her blade from the failed attack and readies her defense. When the time is right, she prepares to strike out again. The ebb flow of battle. The proper order of melee combat. Studied, dignified…

"On three." she says, not looking at the lizard man beside her.

"One, two…" she readies her blade.

"Three…" Eggo snarls, jumping forward at the creature, in a frenzied manner totally at odds with the dignified poise of Lady Hovelsworth.

Together, they stab at the creatures about them!

Bryson lashes out and scores a solid hit on a retreating creature, severely wounding it. Merilda skewers one straight through its torso and pins its dead body to the deck.

1 more creature slain. 1 injured. 2 left alive.