Jun 10, 2025 8:04 pm
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Just pretend my post took place tomorrow. Lol.Yacht Shock!
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Jun 10, 2025 8:21 pm
Following Bobby’s lead, and trying her best to not get grossed out by the man’s belly hair (that crawled into his speedo) or his comment about the party, Jak maneuvers the boat towards the rear of the burning vessel, where a ladder presents itself…
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Just let me know if a roll is required…
Jun 10, 2025 11:21 pm
Cassie sees Andreva throw her a look and she falters. Was she making the same mistakes as before? But this was different, the fire was in the bridge not the engine room and the deck was covered in party leftovers rather than human waste. Things could still turn out for the better. She could save everyone this time.
Considering the survivors' story, it was clear at least some of them were a danger and needed to be restrained. She turned to Bobby. "I'll probably regret asking, but any chance you have several pairs of handcuffs? Or at least can tie a restraint out of a thong?"
Considering the survivors' story, it was clear at least some of them were a danger and needed to be restrained. She turned to Bobby. "I'll probably regret asking, but any chance you have several pairs of handcuffs? Or at least can tie a restraint out of a thong?"
Jun 11, 2025 1:41 am
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I guess yachts mostly have stairs rather than ladders lol. So let's pretend I send stairs instead. Shows my knowledge of boats come from ones under 40 feet! Here's a rough example of what it looks like.
Jak parks the boat at the stern and ties off on one of the yacht's gold-plated cleats. The steep stairs lead to the back of the boat. Straight ahead in the captain's cockpit room is where the fire burns, black smoke pouring out through the open door. Around the deck are wooden lounge chairs, scattered pillows, dustings of suspicious white powder. There's also a hot tub between the stern and the captain's cabin. And someone in the hot tub! A cloaked figure rises from the water, blood-colored robe dripping water. Several more robed figures appear from behind deck chairs or around the central cabin. There are five in all. Each one wields a sharp sacrificial kris!
Jun 11, 2025 1:23 pm
"That's way out of our league!" Zara might've been trained as a cop, but there was no way the five of them ought to be dealing with five persons armed with knives. Where was the coast guard when you needed them? "Back, back! We need to put some distance between them and us." She glanced at the fire extinguishers they were hauling out of their rescue boat, thinking that in the worst case she would spray these assailants as cover.
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Assuming we brought extinguishers? Otherwise we're fighting with floats and first-aid kits.Last edited June 12, 2025 1:30 am
Jun 11, 2025 2:44 pm
"Right. I don't see us overpowering knife-wielding cultists, let alone cuffing them."
What a story! What a headline!
Nautical Knife-Wielding Cult Found on Yacht. Sacrificed Passengers Feared Dead!
Following Zara's eyes, she nods. "How about a coordinated attack? Spray them all at the same time. Maybe the chemicals will smother them." To the other she cries, "Grab one each!"
But would that even work? Did that one robed figure come up from under the hot tub water? Andreva had read about these cults on the boards, but you never really knew what to believe. Her friend Jill, her only friend, was a huge conspiracy theorist, and some of that had influenced Andreva's thinking.
What a story! What a headline!
Nautical Knife-Wielding Cult Found on Yacht. Sacrificed Passengers Feared Dead!
Following Zara's eyes, she nods. "How about a coordinated attack? Spray them all at the same time. Maybe the chemicals will smother them." To the other she cries, "Grab one each!"
But would that even work? Did that one robed figure come up from under the hot tub water? Andreva had read about these cults on the boards, but you never really knew what to believe. Her friend Jill, her only friend, was a huge conspiracy theorist, and some of that had influenced Andreva's thinking.
Jun 11, 2025 5:59 pm
Bobby laughs and hefts one of the extinguishers they brought. He nods, and says, "Flame retardment foam in the eye is no sexy fun-time. Okay, maybe once."
When they're ready, he'll lead the charge up the stairs. His mind is partially on how Jak was giving him the once over; chicks dig a manly rug of chest hair, it's true.
When they're ready, he'll lead the charge up the stairs. His mind is partially on how Jak was giving him the once over; chicks dig a manly rug of chest hair, it's true.
Jun 11, 2025 10:12 pm
Jaklyn narrows her eyes at the knife-wielding lunatics. Cultists! Again!
"Be careful, everyone," she calls out to the brave group preparing to rush the robed figures. "They have knives! And I have an idea! Spray them, then fall back if they come at you, draw them to the rear of the ship, to the stairs! Then get clear!"
If her team does this and clambers back aboard the power boat, Jak will gun the engine and shove the yacht hard as the bastards come down the steps, hopefully knocking the nut-balls into the water!
"Be careful, everyone," she calls out to the brave group preparing to rush the robed figures. "They have knives! And I have an idea! Spray them, then fall back if they come at you, draw them to the rear of the ship, to the stairs! Then get clear!"
If her team does this and clambers back aboard the power boat, Jak will gun the engine and shove the yacht hard as the bastards come down the steps, hopefully knocking the nut-balls into the water!
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Mmmmmm, chest hair. And belly hair. Back hair… etc.Last edited June 11, 2025 10:13 pm
Jun 11, 2025 11:15 pm
Upon hearing Jaklyn's wise words, Andreva can't help but call back, "Ya think?"
So it is true what they say about blond haired bimbos.
So it is true what they say about blond haired bimbos.
Jun 12, 2025 1:34 am
"If we trying to outmanoeuvre them we have the advantage. We're in Lycra Xtra®, they've got sopping wet robes." Zara got her nozzle ready and pointed to create as slick and as blinding a foam as she could spray while intending to sidestep their charge to get past them.
Last edited June 12, 2025 1:35 am
Jun 12, 2025 2:17 am
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You can have anything reasonable on board. You probably have a flare gun, harpoon, anchor, ropes, life preservers, those solid plastic backboards to carry people on, knives, needles, etc. Agility tests will be difficulty 4, Brawny and Crafty are 5.Jun 12, 2025 2:45 pm
Running only on adrenaline, Cassie grabs a fire extinguisher and leaps into the yacht. Rather than trying to hurt the robed cultists, she focuses on getting foam in their eyes and leading them to the back steps. Her time as a cruise ship doctor has gotten her used to dodging drunk, handsy passengers and it serves her well here.
Although the floor of the yacht is strewn with party mess, Cassie's eye for detail helps her know when to step over a broken glass or tangled banana hammock.
Tried to get Medic involved, but if you think it's a stretch, I rolled that die separately.
Although the floor of the yacht is strewn with party mess, Cassie's eye for detail helps her know when to step over a broken glass or tangled banana hammock.
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Rolling Agility and using Luck with Looker to reduce difficulty to 3.Tried to get Medic involved, but if you think it's a stretch, I rolled that die separately.
Rolls
Base Die plus Agile - (2d6)
(41) = 5
Medic Die - (1d6)
(4) = 4
Jun 13, 2025 1:53 am
"Wait do we still have that harpoon from the time when Bobby thought it'd be fun to wakeboard by latching on to passing jetskis?" Zara quickly scrambled to fish out a compressed CO2 one-hand harpoon from storage in lieu of an extinguisher. She watched the emergence of the cultists to see if she could predict what they might do next, out voodoo their voodoo so to speak, ready to defend herself and the rest of her team from their attacks. Maybe if she knocked the lead cultist (for her assumed the one emerging from the pool was indeed one) back into the pool with a decisive shot to the leg, or pinned them down in similar fashion, the rest of the spooky ones would back off or turn tail.
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Multiple successes! Edit my post to suggest some possibilties.Last edited June 13, 2025 4:20 am
Rolls
Brawny - (2d6)
(61) = 7
Psychic Premonitions - (1d6)
(6) = 6
Jun 13, 2025 3:10 am
Expertly station-keeping, keeping the power boat at the back of the yacht despite the motion in the ocean, Jak waits for her moment… when one or more cultists are perched precariously, she puts the bow of the boat right on the back of the other vessel and guns the engines quickly, trying to knock the weirdos into the water!
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I now wish we had gone for some other roles!Rolls
Crafty! - (1d6, 1d6)
1d6 : (6) = 6
1d6 : (3) = 3
Jun 13, 2025 9:51 pm
Bobby is also scrambling into the yacht, the fire extinguisher at the ready. "You're surrounded, best run and swim before you burn up. We won't hurt you!" He's not sure that made sense but swims the fire extinguisher at the head of the first one.
Rolls
Attack - (1d6)
(3) = 3
Jun 13, 2025 10:16 pm
"A harpoon and extinguishers might do it. We could push them overboard too except they might be able to breathe underwater."
Clambering up the ladder as best she could, she takes a deep breath and gets ready to spray.
Clambering up the ladder as best she could, she takes a deep breath and gets ready to spray.
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Oh nuts!Last edited June 13, 2025 10:17 pm
Rolls
Crafty (5) - (2d6)
(31) = 4
Jun 14, 2025 10:22 am
The crew are quick thinkers and have several plans going on. Cassie lets out a blast from her fire extinguisher, spraying the cultist in the face. She gives a muffled shout and staggers backward, hitting the railing and tumbling backward into the water. Splash.
Andreva and Bobby both try the fire extinguisher tactic as well but it seems the cultists have quickly caught on after Cassie's success and the pair of cultists turn around quickly so the extinguisher's blast merely coats the backs of their robes. Thankfully Jak takes advantage of the situation and rams the back of the yacht with the front of your lifeguard boat. The collision unbalances the two cultists and they tumble to the ground. Unfortunately it makes Andreva and Bobby tumble down too, their extinguishers flying from their hands.
Zara takes the more direct and violent approach by using the speargun. The hot tub cultist is shocked to find a spear suddenly appear in his foot, pinning him to the deck of the boat. A male voice screams as he drops his knife and attempts to pull out the spear. The pain seems to be too much and he passes out from the pain.
The final cultist leaps from the back of the deck and onto the boat with Jaks! The landing is not very graceful and his knife is dropped in the impact.
Andreva and Bobby both try the fire extinguisher tactic as well but it seems the cultists have quickly caught on after Cassie's success and the pair of cultists turn around quickly so the extinguisher's blast merely coats the backs of their robes. Thankfully Jak takes advantage of the situation and rams the back of the yacht with the front of your lifeguard boat. The collision unbalances the two cultists and they tumble to the ground. Unfortunately it makes Andreva and Bobby tumble down too, their extinguishers flying from their hands.
Zara takes the more direct and violent approach by using the speargun. The hot tub cultist is shocked to find a spear suddenly appear in his foot, pinning him to the deck of the boat. A male voice screams as he drops his knife and attempts to pull out the spear. The pain seems to be too much and he passes out from the pain.
The final cultist leaps from the back of the deck and onto the boat with Jaks! The landing is not very graceful and his knife is dropped in the impact.
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Each cultist has 2 effort tokens (basically HP), so take 2 successes to eliminate each one. Zara and Cassie each got two successes so their cultists are out of the fight. Jaks got one success so 1 effort token remains on her cultist. The last two cultists have both their tokens remaining.Jun 14, 2025 6:44 pm
Bobby feels the deck impact his back and the fire extinguisher roll away. He rolls with it, and bumps into Andreva, before scrambling to his feet. "I'll go low, you go high!" he explains and charges the cultist still on the yacht.
His real goal is to set them up so Andreva can do the hard work of taking them out.
His real goal is to set them up so Andreva can do the hard work of taking them out.
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Rolled two dice in case Crafty applies, otherwise ignore the second.Last edited June 14, 2025 6:45 pm
Rolls
Crafty - (1d6, 1d6)
1d6 : (4) = 4
1d6 : (5) = 5
Jun 14, 2025 8:07 pm
Jak swears like a sailor when the boats collide and she knocks not only cultists, but also Bobby and Andreva off their feet. The cartoonishly buxom woman has no time to apologize or berate though, because another robed fiend drops down onto the speedboat right in front of her!
Looking like she does, Fisher has long studied martial arts. Judo, Krav Maga, Capoeira, rhythmic gymnastics, American Ninja Warrior -- Jak has been to the orientation sessions of countless self-defense classes before deciding her grooming schedule wouldn't allow the commitment needed. She uses them now, those skills, leaving the controls and bounding to meet the interloper head-on!
Looking like she does, Fisher has long studied martial arts. Judo, Krav Maga, Capoeira, rhythmic gymnastics, American Ninja Warrior -- Jak has been to the orientation sessions of countless self-defense classes before deciding her grooming schedule wouldn't allow the commitment needed. She uses them now, those skills, leaving the controls and bounding to meet the interloper head-on!
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Result: 1. Seems about right.Last edited June 14, 2025 8:08 pm
Rolls
Karate CHOP! Judo THROW! Front KICK! (Agility!) - (1d6)
(1) = 1
Jun 16, 2025 11:27 pm
Pulling a hypodermic needle filled with 'sleepy juice' from her breast pocket, Cassie leaps onto one of the downed cultists. She aims for their neck, using her detailed eye for anatomy to find the right spot underneath the robes.
Rolls
Base, Agile, Medic - (3d6)
(444) = 12
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