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Jun 3, 2025 1:06 am

Jun 3, 2025 1:06 am

It's near sunset in mid-July, making Sunset Hills Beach, California almost as hot as the beach-goers. People begin packing up for the day: returning rented parasols and deck chairs, shaking sandy towels, emptying ice-cold water from coolers onto the sand. The air smells of salt, suntan lotion, hot plastic, and sweat. The day has been eventful, like most every day, but nothing...out of the ordinary. The veterans of Sunset Hills Lifeguards know what most civilians and the rookie lifeguards don't: that off the shores of their perfect beach-side city lies the underwater resting places of various Elder and Outer Gods whose dreams and proximity warp reality and summon forth nightmare horrors. Not to mention the residents of the sunken city of R'lyeh. But luckily nothing like that has reared its head today...yet.

But that still leaves the mundane trifles that lifeguards deal with every day. Which means its time for a...

FLASHBACK MONTAGE

OOC:

Everyone introduce your character and one mundane problem they had to deal with during the day. Bonus points if it involves a colorful city regular like the Cantankerous Ice-Cream Vendor or the Perverted Beach Chair Rental Employee or the Optimistic and Charismatic Beachcomber.

Jun 3, 2025 3:29 pm

Jun 3, 2025 3:29 pm

Zara Ortega treated her stretch of beachfront with all the earnestness of a rookie cop on patrol, as if she were still a rookie cop of the SHPD. She had aced all the tests, both the pen-and-paper ones as well as the physical fitness qualifiers, with flying colours. But for some reason the psych and med evaluations turned up inconclusive, not once, not twice, but three times in a row. We'll put you on the reserve list, they politely told her. In other words, that career path was on hold.

Still, a stint with the Sunset Hills Lifeguards was equally fulfilling to deal with threats mundane and esoteric. Why just this morning she had to break up a bunch of high schoolers who gave class a miss to hang out at the beach, at the favourite hangout spot in front of Eye Scream. It wasn't cutting class that was the issue, it was the fact that they were scrawling arcane sigils in the sand from one of the necronomicon volumes one of them had 'borrowed' from the library. They managed to cover nearly fifty feet of beach with a pattern that would do crop circles proud with eldritch symbols, their idea of a prank, before Zara brought out the sandboni to rake it all away before it could get wet from the seatide. No telling what would've happened if the waves touched it.

The boys, thus defeated, scattered quickly with jeers and catcalls. Perhaps a phone call to the Sunset Hills High School principal was in order.

OOC:

Literate High School Beach Jocks!

Last edited June 3, 2025 3:30 pm

Jun 3, 2025 6:09 pm

Jun 3, 2025 6:09 pm

It began, as too many of Andreva's days did, with her trying to pass as normal while doing her lifeguard job.

The sun was too bright, the noise too loud, and the sand everywhere. She had wandered over to the Eye Scream, jonesing for a triple berry, cherry ripple, chocolate splash cone. The cantankerous ice-cream guy, as always, was already on edge.

"You want what flavor?" he growled, scooping with more aggression than necessary. "I ain't got no 'Chthonic Ripple."

"I said cherry ripple," Andreva replied coolly. She accepted the cone, then promptly dropped it into the sand after a beach ball grazed her elbow. She froze. She stared down at the desecrated scoop. "... It landed in a perfect spiral," she whispered. And it had. The fallen ice cream had hit the sand and spread in an unnatural arc, almost forming a nautilus curve. Her breath caught. She scanned the beach, no signs of intrusion. Not yet. But those boys and their sand art...

Glad Zara cleaned up that mess...

"You gonna pay for that one too, or just stand there like a weirdo?" the man snapped.

Andreva blinked. "Did you feel the vibration when it landed? No? Hm."

Then she nodded, as if confirming something to herself, and stalked off to where she’d buried a waterproof recorder last week to track tidal whisper fluctuations. For a story. Definitely just a story.

Later, she would describe the day as "uneasy, with latent potential," which her editor would replace with "mild, breezy."

Her gills itched beneath her cap. That whole incident was a bad omen. The sea was stirring. She could feel it. And nobody listened.

Jun 4, 2025 2:19 am

Jun 4, 2025 2:19 am

"You're a fucking weirdo, you think I'm wearing that? No hats!" He crumpled the hat after Siegfried Mannheim turned his back.

He pulled from his back pocket and opened the letter he'd gotten, and plopped the stylized weiner hat farther back on his head. A kid came up to the booth. "Welcome to Hotdog, um..."

Quote:

... accepted your request to transfer your lifeguard certification from Salt Lake City Seaway...

"uh Salty Dog, no relish, extra, um..."

"Hey jerkface I said a Chicago dog with jalapenos! What's your damage?"

"Hey fuck you, fart butt. Siegfried I quit!"

He clapped his hands together. Oh yeah, time to roll it thick in beach boobs. He was sure the stories about the crazy stuff was all California bullshit.

He smeared suntan lotion on fat-woman-in-the-wheelchair's back. She had a name but he couldn't remember, some kind of Italian nonsense. This was the worst job on the beach.

"Okay Mrs. Musserati-"

"Musetti."

"Right, Musetti. I want you to stay out of the sun. You know that all the men by the pier want to see you, but they'll come to you when they're ready. You're worth it. So stay under the umbrella."

Yeah, giggle it up, lard butt, and hope they don't roll you back into the sea.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 4, 2025 4:29 am

Jun 4, 2025 4:29 am

"You're turning us down?! You're turning the full-ride scholarship down?!"

Jaklyn Fisher, known better to her friends and the general public on the beach as Jak, had nodded at not one Dean of Medicine when they'd said that, but three -- from three different top shelf Med Schools.

"I am. I've made my decision. Nothing can touch Sunset Hills, Dean. I'll be saving lives every day -- every single day. I'll be fighting off sharks. Honing my Heimlich and CPR skills. ATVing on the beach. Jetskiing on the water. Diving, swimming, snokeling, surfing, wave-boarding, water-poloing. Working on my tan. Apprehending old Nazis from their sub when it finally surfaces. Eating fish tacos. All while looking like this... and in a bikini. Yeah, Dean, I've made my choice. Or did I? Sometimes I think Sunset Hills Beach chose me."

It had been a rough day so far.

Andreva had lost her ice cream. Zara had broken up a gang of beach cultists, and Bobby? He was on whale oil duty. Not his finest moment.

Fisher was currently speeding along on her ATV, blasting through the edge of the surf. Standing in the saddle and looking foine, she left deep tracks in the wet sand that lasted until a few waves reshaped them. And that was when she spotted her target. Some little Niedermeyer had made a big-ass sand castle. Multiple turrets and baileys... walkways, huge walls, a moat, a draw bridge and a besieging army.

Giants were striding towards that scene. Giants who had every intention of kicking the shit out of that poor kid's creation. It was Bloompy and Pud, the two unlikeable teenaged boys Jak had had run-ins with before. They were lewd, crass bullies, snapping bikini straps, spitting in people's food, farting in snoozing sunbather's faces, letting the air out of diving tanks, whizzing into picnic baskets while families frolicked in the water.

Jak opened the throttle on her quadrunner as she tried to head the boys off at the pass. She shouted to people in the way, "Watch out, Sunset Hills Beach Patrol! I have a castle to save!"

OOC:

Will she make it in time?!

Jun 4, 2025 5:09 am

Jun 4, 2025 5:09 am

Cassie thought about her days as a cruise ship doctor often. It had been such a perfect life! Meeting new people from all over the world, always a day away from being able to relax on a beach, good pay. But after the accident everything had changed for the worse and she couldn't step foot onto a gangplank without being crippled with fear.

Her one solace was that she could still be on the beach with hardly any symptoms, even if she couldn't go out on the water or even swim anymore. Thankfully, the Sunset Hills Lifeguards needed doctors and there was enough to do along the beachfront and back at HQ that she stayed busy.

That morning had been busy catching up on paperwork at HQ followed by a spicy chicken salad from Yumwich Burgers for lunch. While finishing her diet cola on the walk back, she had spied the well-built, lantern-jawed Ray Stang combing the beach with his high dollar metal detector. When she went over to chat, he showed her the strange medallion that he'd found washed up on the beach.

She felt bad having to confiscate it, especially once Ray started gushing about how great it would look with his puka shell necklace. But beach policy was clear that all ancient artifacts found were property of the city. She suspected city hall funneled them to the university for god knows what purpose, but she supposed that was better than it falling into the wrong hands.

Leaving the dejected Ray alone with his sad puppy dog eyes, Cassie headed back to HQ to start the paperwork on the medallion. The inventory count of lifeguard medical supplies she originally planned to do would have to wait until tomorrow.

Jun 4, 2025 3:04 pm

Jun 4, 2025 3:04 pm

OOC:

Since it's a flashback Jak can make it or not as you see fit. But if you want to roll, it'll be a difficulty 4 with 2 dice.

Jun 4, 2025 11:24 pm

Jun 4, 2025 11:24 pm

Near the end of the day, near the end of your shift. The orange sun sits on the horizon, turning the sky the colors of bruised sherbet: pinks and oranges in the west with blues and purples in the east. You all sit in the control tower finishing up your last minute tasks. There are accident forms to fill out, gear to wipe down and stow away, and of course the end-of-shift meeting. But before you can finish said tasks, you notice a bright point of orange light a few hundred yards out on the water. the light flickers and dances. Then a cloud of dark black smoke rises. A boat on fire! And from this distance a pretty large one at that. A yacht on fire!

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 5, 2025 1:47 am

Jun 5, 2025 1:47 am

Fisher had managed to save the castle in the nick of time, but the feeling of accomplishment was fleeting. A boat fire! Right at quitting time!

"You all seeing what I'm seeing?" the lifeguard asks, her blue eyes fixed on the orange spark and the smoke. She's wearing her suit and an orange bomber jacket, looking good as she cocks an eyebrow.

"Looks like one more save before we're all off the clock..."

OOC:

GM: Can I ask for a little transparency on the composition of the dice pool? What Stat did you peg the action as, etc.?

Fellow Lifeguards: Since Jak has a vehicle angle (the ATV), happy to have her pilot our boat unless someone else wants the helm...

Last edited June 5, 2025 1:52 am

Rolls

Castle Saving! (Challenge Difficulty 4) - (2d6)

(61) = 7

Jun 5, 2025 2:46 pm

Jun 5, 2025 2:46 pm

Zara was stowing away the rescue floats in their appointed racks, already dried out from when she spritzed them with water earlier to rinse off the day's grime, when her sixth sense made her cock her head out towards sea. Telltale orange glow! And not from the setting sun on the horizon.

"Ping the coast guard!" They had them on speeddial naturally: the coast guard dealt with maritime situations such as ship accidents and vessel mishaps, but they would always be slower that the lifeguards, whose job focussed on saving lives. In two bounds, her lithe legs carried her to where the rest were; this emergency might need all of them!

Jun 5, 2025 2:54 pm

Jun 5, 2025 2:54 pm

OOC:

Sure! Speed was the most important factor so it was an Agile test. You got 1 die for your ATV perk added to the base 1 die.

Jun 5, 2025 3:23 pm

Jun 5, 2025 3:23 pm

Bobby frowns. "Damn, I was going to get ready for a hot date with a ... model, yeah. A redhead, too. Hey, do we get overtime?" He's already stuffing his kit back together, and getting ready to run for the beach.

At Zara's call he grabs the emergency radio, looking at the channel markings. He's used radios but not this one. "Coast guard this is Sunset Hills, um, Lifeguard. Boat on fire, two hundred yards from shore. Repeat boat on fire, big one. We're responding but we don't have a water boat. Over. To put out the fire. Over, really this time." Fuck!

"Grab some fire extinguishers!"

Jun 5, 2025 7:34 pm

Jun 5, 2025 7:34 pm

Andreeva can't stand Bobby. Fankly she thinks he's full of shit and doesn't believe a word out of his mouth, but she has the good sense to know that working together is the key to a successful result and that included saving lives. Zara, she wished she could be like her, but Jaklyn, whom she refused to call Jak, not so much. I mean, how the hell did she even move with those bazoongas in the way? Really, she looked like she belonged sliding up and down a pole in the questionable stripper bar downtown. Cassie, she liked. More importantly, Andreva was intrigued by the doctor's odd behavior. What had happened to make her fear the water?

Then came the bright orange light. Since she had no social life to speak of, she lived for the excitement of these random events. The icing on the cake was another dramatic story for her editor. She had to eat so ...

Grabbing a fire extinguisher, she followed the others.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 5, 2025 7:58 pm

Jun 5, 2025 7:58 pm

OOC:

Did a bitch just stripper shame another bitch!? Oh my word…

Jun 5, 2025 10:28 pm

Jun 5, 2025 10:28 pm

OOC:

Claws out! Meowww

Jun 6, 2025 3:05 am

Jun 6, 2025 3:05 am

OOC:

Oooh team drama! 🍿

As Bobby called in the yacht fire to the Coast Guard, Cassie stood at the control tower window, transfixed by the orange glow and billowing smoke as her mind was pulled back to the cruise ship. And the accident.

It had started with an engine fire too. And it had ended with the ship drifting for days, awash in bodily fluids as the medical center (her medical center) filled with the sick and infirm. Strange how the smell of salt and sand had been a comfort afterwards, even as the ocean itself now filled her with dread.

"I.... um, right. I'll get everything ready to receive any injured that you guys rescue," she stammered. She wished she could remember how many Valium were left in the bottle in her locker. She had a feeling she'd need to refill her prescription after the night was over.

Last edited June 6, 2025 3:06 am

Andreva Steele *wishes* she was built like this

Jun 6, 2025 6:00 am

Jun 6, 2025 6:00 am

Andreva Steele *wishes* she was built like this

"They're thirty minutes out, at least," Jak says when the topic of calling the coast guard comes up. She knows it's the right thing to do--just as she knows that boat will likely be burned to the waterline by the time the coasties get there.

The woman moves to grab a fire extinguisher at the same time Steele does; the two women almost collide, and Andreva barely manages to avoid face-planting in that magnificent, domineering cleavage. Apologizing with a look before she grabs a cannister, Fisher throws Holland a glance when stammers a bit.

"You're coming, Cassie! We need you out there! Come on!"

Rushing down the stairs in needless slow motion, giving the audience a show, Fisher races for their boat, which she intends to fire up right away!

Jun 6, 2025 11:37 am

Jun 6, 2025 11:37 am

The boat is quite impressive. It's a 30-foot speedboat in garish red and yellow with double motors in the back, "SUNSET HILLS LIFEGUARD" is stenciled in black along the sides. The cockpit is in the rear and seats two people, leaving plenty of space in the front for holding survivors. Two large holds lie under the deck that contain most essential gear and first-aid kits. Padded seats, three on a side, also run along the interior bow of the speedboat. Everyone piles in, Jak behind the wheel. She pushes forward the throttle and the boat leaps underneath you, slicing through the waves. Thankfully the water isn't too choppy today, and Jak's chest only bounces an immodest amount.

A few minutes out from shore and you can see the yacht is a good 80-footer, white, and sleek. Black smoke billows from the bridge, turning the red setting son hazy and bloated in the wavering air. But before you can reach it, you see three dark shapes floating in the water. As you approach, they raise hands and start waving. Three people overboard!

"Help!" one cries out! Water washes into their mouth and they choke on the salty fluid.

Jun 6, 2025 1:58 pm

Jun 6, 2025 1:58 pm

Bobby isn't the most athletic of the bunch but they practiced this once during his training / onboarding. He'd theoretically performed the maneuver in Salt Lake City, too, but that was from a paddle boat. From this high octane speedboat, it was a nightmare.

As Jak roared into the vicinity, he tossed his medkit onto the seats, grabbed a float, and prepared to dive in - while the boat was moving. What madness was this?

He froze. Unwilling to go first, he grabbed his calf. "Cramp!"

Jun 6, 2025 2:44 pm

Jun 6, 2025 2:44 pm

Zara hung off the rails of the gunwale as Jak throttled them at speed towards the burning yacht, even though there were seats aplenty. It gave her the sensation of wakesurfing without the back tow, if one imagined the side hull as her wakeboard. Andri and Jak were yammering on about something something floatation devices, but the sea spray made it harder for Zara to hear exactly what they were saying, although her vision was perfectly clear thanks to her water-repellant spectacles; she could never bring herself to wear diving goggles except as a hairband accessory.

As they neared the yacht in trouble, Zara could see survivors in the water. Up top, Bobby made as if he was ready to dive in. No way she was going to let him beat her to it! With an arm fully extended to trail the water surface with her fingertips, she arched diagonally forward and launched herself at an angle from their own speedboat even as Jak slowed the engine down.

[ +- ] Dive!

Jun 6, 2025 8:59 pm

Jun 6, 2025 8:59 pm

OOC:

Haha, I just noticed Harigan's avatar caption.

OOC:

Great pic, BZ!

"Oh my. That looks bad," Andreva says, stating the obvious. Having done plenty of diving and swimming, almost from the cradle, she grabs a life preserver and dives right in, ready to save some lives.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 6, 2025 10:01 pm

Jun 6, 2025 10:01 pm

After Zara dives into the water like a pro, going after the closer flounderer, Jak wrenches the wheel of the powerboat and cuts towards the other two victims bobbing in the water. The vibration of the twin massive outboards plays havoc with the woman’s body, in the best way possible.

"Bobby!" she yells over the engine and the wind and the salt spray, "You’re up next! Go go go!"

OOC:

Is there an ‘aid’ or help mechanic? Jak’s trying to help the other lifeguards, just like she’s trying to "help" Steele by showing her just what a lifeguard is supposed to look like.

And thanks for making the water not too choppy and potentially giving Jak a black eye, Nezz!

Jun 6, 2025 10:43 pm

Jun 6, 2025 10:43 pm

OOC:

There is a "help another hero" action, but it requires spending 1 luck and you get to reduce an ally's difficulty by 1. Speaking of difficulty, rescuing will be a 5. Throwing a life preserver would be Agility, swimming and helping them onto the boat would be Brawny, using some other solution would be Crafty.

Jun 6, 2025 11:57 pm

Jun 6, 2025 11:57 pm

Bobby groans and leaps into the water, faking a sore leg. He's not afraid, not exactly, well, not entirely, but the fire is oh so hot.

He hits the water like a duck into a hottub: he knows what to do but he doesn't really belong.

Rolls

Rescue difficulty 5 - (1d6)

(1) = 1

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 7, 2025 12:09 am

Jun 7, 2025 12:09 am

OOC:

I'll spend a Luck! How often does it recharge?

Jun 7, 2025 1:39 am

Jun 7, 2025 1:39 am

A sleek sploosh slid Zara into the water just around the first rescuee as she bobbed back up. At least their head was still above the water. "Grab hold!" She swung the float in front of them while at the same time taking a textbook position behind them to assist them towards their speedboat.

OOC:

Some Brawny swimming for two dice.

Last edited June 7, 2025 1:40 am

Rolls

Brawny - (2d6)

(15) = 6

Jun 7, 2025 2:19 am

Jun 7, 2025 2:19 am

After getting on the rescue boat, Cassie had quickly retreated to the hold below decks. She had tried to distract herself by double and triple checking the first aid kits and gear. Finally, the pills were taking effect as her headache eased and her heartbeat slowed to a normal rhythm.

As she felt Jak slowing down the speedboat, Cassie knew it was go time. With a few deep breaths, she grabbed a first aid kit and started climbing up onto the deck. "Ok its go time Cassie. Get over yourself and focus. These people need you," she said to herself as she reached the top of the stairs.

Up on deck, she rushed to the railing nearest the flaming yacht, ready to help with hauling survivors on board and beginning triage.

Jun 7, 2025 12:52 pm

Jun 7, 2025 12:52 pm

Harrigan says:

OOC:

I'll spend a Luck! How often does it recharge?

OOC:

You recharge it yourself by using your Quirk to make a challenge more difficult for yourself.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 7, 2025 2:18 pm

Jun 7, 2025 2:18 pm

OOC:

Ah right! Cool, appreciate the reminder.

Spending one Luck to reduce Bobby's difficulty. If I can spend another to have him stop wearing Speedos, I might do that too.

Jun 7, 2025 3:41 pm

Jun 7, 2025 3:41 pm

Harrigan says:

OOC:

If I can spend another to have him stop wearing Speedos, I might do that too.

OOC:

Then you'll see his real floatation device!

Jun 7, 2025 3:45 pm

Jun 7, 2025 3:45 pm

OOC:

Yikes! Be careful what you wish for, Jak!

Jun 7, 2025 8:36 pm

Jun 7, 2025 8:36 pm

"Hey Jaklyn! You're a little too close. Back off a little!"

Andreva sees that Zara has things under control with her rescue victim, so she makes her way to the other one in need of rescue, frowning at both Jaklyn and Bobby as she effortlessly cuts through the water like a knife.

"There's nothing wrong with you, Bobby," she shouts in passing. "Your legs are fine. Don't be such a chicken!"

Secretly she hopes there is more to the fire than meets the eye. Something not quite mundane.

"Here!" she calls out, pushing the float to the survivor, who she'd like to keep that way."Can you hold onto it? I'll be right behind you."

OOC:

Yeah brawny isn't my main stat so I should have rolled 1d6. Just pick the best result. Lol

Last edited June 7, 2025 8:38 pm

Rolls

Brawny - (2d6)

(62) = 8

Jun 8, 2025 3:05 pm

Jun 8, 2025 3:05 pm

Together you pull out two women and a man. The women look like models or escorts maybe, young and beautiful with skimpy bathing suits that would make parents cover their kid's eyes. The man is middle-aged and is wearing a captain's uniform. He has a gash in his forehead and is currently unconscious. The women are hysterical and talking over each other saying things like "He set fire to the boat!", "You have to save the others!", and "I thought they were going to kill us!".

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 8, 2025 5:12 pm

Jun 8, 2025 5:12 pm

Fisher has the boat idling as the other lifeguards come aboard with shaken hot girls and the unconscious dude, but the moment she hears that there are others she hits the throttle and moves the speedboat towards the flaming yacht. Ideally towards a non-fiery part of the vessel where they can climb aboard and look for other survivors...

"No, you back off," she says quietly, under her breath.

Last edited June 8, 2025 5:14 pm

Jun 8, 2025 11:17 pm

Jun 8, 2025 11:17 pm

As the survivors come aboard, Cassie falls back on her training to handle the crisis. All those hours practicing triage during her residency at UC Miskatonic were paying off again.

"Ok, we're going to get your friends off the yacht." She takes a pen light and uses the light to check the survivors' pupils. "So the captain here was the one who set fire to the boat? Is that how he tried to kill you? Or was he trying to stop someone else who wanted to kill you?"

Turning to Jak she says "Sounds like a case of unfathomable knowledge induced mania. We need to get to that boat and make sure there isn't a harpoon wielding maniac still on the loose!" Jak may be 20 years out from crippling back pain, but Cassie trusted her in a crisis. Zara and Andreva amazed her with their grace under fire and willingness to confront danger. And Bobby... Well, every team needed a Bobby. Even though Cassie woke up everyday half expecting to see his name in the Sunset Beach Chronicle police blotter.

Jun 9, 2025 12:24 pm

Jun 9, 2025 12:24 pm

Both women nod, but its hard to tell which question they are responding to! One babbles, "He was trying to sacrifice us! The captain and some others. They were wearing robes!" The other says, "He's got hostages! Some guy and a chick, I think they work for him. There were others but we jumped as soon as we started being attacked!"

As Jak pulls the boat closer, she can see the fire is limited to the bridge. The wide top deck shows signs of a recent party. There are streamers and Christmas lights strung among the railings and handholds, some discarded bikinis and swim trunks drape over chair backs and boat rails, and wild music thumps from somewhere below decks. There are scattered beach chairs, half-empty wine bottles in cup holders. It looks like a wild party, interrupted. The smell of oily smoke and burnt coconut suntan lotion tickles your nose.

Jun 9, 2025 12:57 pm

Jun 9, 2025 12:57 pm

Zara permitted herself a moment to appreciate the fine form of the woman she had just saved when she embraced her to safety; she needed to work on her own abs more for that beach perfect bod-- before the panicked chattering snapped her back to reality. She was glad Cassie had the trained presence of mind to calm the survivors with her assuring words. "Sacrificial bonfire gone wrong?" She craned to see if there were any other people on the top deck of the ship.

OOC:

We can see only the bridge and the top deck at this point? And no one's standing around at either location?

Jun 9, 2025 3:31 pm

Jun 9, 2025 3:31 pm

"Hold up Cassie," Andreva says, subtly nodding a no in her direction. The girl was going a bit far in her questioning, which wasn't her role in the first place.

Unfathomable knowledge induced mania. What even was that?

"Um, who belongs to those empty bikinis and swimming trunks over there? Anyone below decks?"

Jun 9, 2025 4:01 pm

Jun 9, 2025 4:01 pm

Bobby sees that Cassie has the survivors well in hand, and briefly helps her with a quick triage of them for any life threatening or serious injuries.

As they tell their quick overview of what happens, he bounces up to Jak. "There, we can get in there, the fuel tanks are there so keep clear of those." His breath is quick from the exciting plunge, and he forgets about his 'cramp'. Those women were hot as fuck "Bet that was quite the party," he drawls lasciviously.

Rolls

Crafty roll for picking out the best place for them to enter - (2d6)

(42) = 6

Jun 10, 2025 5:25 am

Jun 10, 2025 5:25 am

OOC:

Yeah the yacht is higher than your boat so you can't see much over the sides of the boat yet, just the railings and tops of chairs and such. You don't see anyone...yet...

Bobby can see the easiest place to dock is at the stern of the boat. Its the lowest portion and has a ladder up to the top deck.

Jun 10, 2025 8:04 pm

Jun 10, 2025 8:04 pm

OOC:

Just pretend my post took place tomorrow. Lol.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 10, 2025 8:21 pm

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…

OOC:

Just let me know if a roll is required…

Jun 10, 2025 11:21 pm

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?"

Jun 11, 2025 1:41 am

Jun 11, 2025 1:41 am

OOC:

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.

https://i.imgur.com/N3dMule.jpeg

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

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.

OOC:

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

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.

Jun 11, 2025 5:59 pm

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.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 11, 2025 10:12 pm

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!

OOC:

Mmmmmm, chest hair. And belly hair. Back hair… etc.

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Jun 11, 2025 11:15 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.

Jun 12, 2025 1:34 am

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.

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Jun 12, 2025 2:17 am

Jun 12, 2025 2:17 am

OOC:

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

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.

OOC:

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

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.

OOC:

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

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 13, 2025 3:10 am

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!

OOC:

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

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

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.

OOC:

Oh nuts!

Last edited June 13, 2025 10:17 pm

Rolls

Crafty (5) - (2d6)

(31) = 4

Jun 14, 2025 10:22 am

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.

OOC:

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

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.

OOC:

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

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 14, 2025 8:07 pm

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!

OOC:

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

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

Jun 16, 2025 11:44 pm

Jun 16, 2025 11:44 pm

With the harpoon fired, and still two cultists on their feet, Zara took a wide swing at one of them, using the speargun body as if it were a long club. She aimed to see if she could knock them either into the pool or off the railings, still convinced their soppy robes were a liability compared to the cut of her sleek outfit.

Rolls

Brawny - (2d6)

(61) = 7

Jun 16, 2025 11:56 pm

Jun 16, 2025 11:56 pm

"Dammit!" Andreva cries as she thumps loudly on the deck. "You'll do what?" Andreva asks Booby with shake of her head as she recovers from her fall and makes a beeline for the spear stuck in the hot tub cultists foot.

"That's me going low. YOU go high, Bobby." Taking the spear, she swings it around toward the other cultist that none of the team is targeting and tries to ram it into him.

Rolls

Crafty - (2d6)

(34) = 7

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 17, 2025 1:07 am

Jun 17, 2025 1:07 am

OOC:

I support calling Bobby ‘Booby’ for the rest of the game.

Just saying.

Jun 17, 2025 1:20 am

Jun 17, 2025 1:20 am

OOC:

Freudian slip? 😉

Jun 17, 2025 3:23 pm

Jun 17, 2025 3:23 pm

Bobby intends to set-up Andreva but instead winds up tackling the cultist himself. The cultist trips over a pool noodle and cracks his head on the gunwale. Lights out for one more cultist.

In the lifeguard boat, Jaklyn attempts some self defense moves. Sadly she misjudges the weight and momentum of her bouncing bazongas and it throws her off balance enough for the cultist to push her off balance. Jak tumbles over the pilot's chair and bangs the funny bone of her dominant hand, making it go numb from elbow to fingertips.

Cassie leaps on the cultist she's engaged with, a bulky man with luckily throbbing veins. She injects her sleepy juice into a prominent one and he quickly slips into silent sleep.

Zara wields the speargun like a baseball bat and cracks a solid hit against the hooded cultist's temple. He staggers slightly but shakes his head and stalks toward her, arm outreached to snatch the gun from her hands!

OOC:

Cassie got multiple successes so her target is out of the fight. Jaks loses 1 Grit in her tussle with a cultist. Zara removes 1 token from her enemy and he has one remaining. Zara make a roll to avoid getting your weapon snatched away! Agility or Brawn, whichever is better for you.

Jun 17, 2025 5:09 pm

Jun 17, 2025 5:09 pm

OOC:

What about poor nerdy Andreva? 😃

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 17, 2025 5:25 pm

Jun 17, 2025 5:25 pm

OOC:

And are we up for a round of actions? Also, I’m detecting some prejudice against full-bodied women!

Jun 18, 2025 1:51 am

Jun 18, 2025 1:51 am

OOC:

Prejudice? Is that the word? Does the definition include lip smacking admiration?

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 18, 2025 2:46 am

Jun 18, 2025 2:46 am

OOC:

You know, Bobby, you're allllll right.

Jun 18, 2025 10:43 am

Jun 18, 2025 10:43 am

OOC:

Oh sorry, since Bobby and you acted together I put you together. You didn't get any successes but with Bobby's success you took out that cultist. Yep you're all back up!

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 18, 2025 6:53 pm

Jun 18, 2025 6:53 pm

"Ow!" Jak says as she lands hard and whacks her funny bone. When the symphony of jiggling stops, she swears when she sees the cultist loom over her. Sitting on her butt, the woman winces as she puts her hands behind her and tries to rapidly crab-walk away from the man — leading him towards the many-spoked ship’s wheel… which she suddenly lurches at, trying to spin that wheel and catch the man right in the nads with a violently spinning handle!

OOC:

Surely this is brainy!

Rolls

Brainy I say! - (2d6)

(15) = 6

Jun 18, 2025 7:41 pm

Jun 18, 2025 7:41 pm

Who do I help?!

Andreva goes to Zara's aid and lunges at the cultist with her new weapon she barely knows how to use, but she's seen it on TV! She weaves left. She weaves right, craftily, trying to attract the cultist's attention away from Zara (is this heroic?), then strikes!

OOC:

If I'm stretching it with the crafty rolls, feel free to remove a die.

Rolls

Crafty Spear Attack - (2d6)

(16) = 7

Jun 19, 2025 1:02 pm

Jun 19, 2025 1:02 pm

"Where's the damn coastguard when you need them?" Zara privately made a note to give Bradley Hammell a piece of her mind when they arrived. Lieutenant 'Mad Cad' Brad was a fine piece of action of the Cali Coastguard who could give Bobby a run for his money. If only he looked past Zara's spectacles and into her bright brown eyes he'd see that she had the hots for ... Youch! She lost her grip on the harpoon barrel as the cultist she clubbed shook off the momentary distraction and made a lunge for her.

From the corner of her eye she could see Andreva dodging forward to lend her a hand. Just as the cultist yanked the gun out of her hand, Zara used his momentum against him, suddenly releasing her hold such that he tipped forward, enough for her to muay thai knee him in the nads!

OOC:

Zara lost the weapon! Rolled for next round with the groin move!

Last edited June 19, 2025 1:07 pm

Rolls

Brawny - (2d6)

(33) = 6

Brawny (next round) - (2d6)

(52) = 7

Jun 19, 2025 4:03 pm

Jun 19, 2025 4:03 pm

Seeing Jak facing down a cultist alone on the patrol boat, Cassie grabs an empty champagne bottle off a nearby table and throws it at the robed figure's head. The bottle spins end over end as it arcs through the air.

Last edited June 19, 2025 4:03 pm

Rolls

Base plus agile - (2d6)

(54) = 9

Jun 19, 2025 4:06 pm

Jun 19, 2025 4:06 pm

Bobby sees women have things well in hand and winces at their hijinx. They fight dirty! Rrrrrrrawr!

He grabs the fire extinguisher and moves toward the fire, seeing if he can find a way to stop the boat from burning to the waterline.

Rolls

Crafty - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (2) = 2

1d6 : (4) = 4

Jun 20, 2025 1:06 pm

Jun 20, 2025 1:06 pm

Andreva and Zars work together to confuse the cultist long enough for Zara to obliterate his gonads with an explosive knee that sends him to the floor in unbelievable pain.

Over on the lifeguard boat, Jak is likewise assaulting a cultist's reproductive organs. For some unknown reason, perhaps that only Jak known, the modern speedboat for Sunset Hills Lifeguards has an old-timey spoke-style steering wheel. One of the spokes catches the man in the family jewels and he falls to his knees clutching what are most likely now shattered jewels. To add injury to injury, Cassie lobs a thick champaign bottle at the cultist's head. It connects with a solid clonk and he goes down into dreamland.

Bobby, seeing these others taking care of the aggressors, uses his extinguisher for its intended purpose and begins dousing the fire. It only takes a few moments to slather the control room with a thick layer of foam that extinguished the fire.

With the immediate threats dealt with, you all can hear the thumping music as well as a distant cry for help from below.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 20, 2025 5:47 pm

Jun 20, 2025 5:47 pm

OOC:

Teehee, was wondering if I was going to get called on the old-timey wheel. :)

"Who are these people?!" Jak exclaims loudly, checking her nails as the last of the cultists falls. The shapely woman is happy that the power boat’s steering wheel is in the shop, and the one they borrowed from The Black Plague party / pirate ship in the harbor has worked out well! That night with hot Captain Arrando (and first mate Pete, and second mate Larry, and hands Ted and Marcella) really paid off!

Grabbing a line, the bikini-wearing lifeguard bounds over to the now no-longer-burning boat and ties up to it so the speedboat won’t float away.

Jun 20, 2025 8:29 pm

Jun 20, 2025 8:29 pm

Andreva grimaces and thanks the sea gods for being a woman. "That had to hurt, Zara!"

But no time to dwell on crushed testicles.

"Hey guys? I hear music and someone in distress below deck. We'd better take a look. Might be the people who belonged to those abandoned bikinis. So they are probably naked," Andreva states matter-of-factly.

Last edited June 20, 2025 8:30 pm

Jun 21, 2025 3:46 pm

Jun 21, 2025 3:46 pm

Bobby puts down the fire extinguisher. "Expert mode, unlocked," he mutters. "I used to be a firefighter. The instincts never really go away."

After Andreva gives her assessment, he says, "Lets get to their rescuing then!"

With an eye to make sure the others are following, he heads toward the music.

Jun 22, 2025 12:36 am

Jun 22, 2025 12:36 am

"Jak and I come from the same school of self-defence when it comes to big boys," Zara smirked in reply to Andreva. She proceeded to search the cultists, pulling their hoods and robes off to look for clues, whether they recognised any of them, whether they can divested themselves of swimwear which they then left draped around the deck. Who were these people? Why pull a stunt like this so close to shore?

OOC:

Find anything of interest? Or of use?

Jun 22, 2025 12:34 pm

Jun 22, 2025 12:34 pm

Unhooding the cultists you don't see anyone you recognize. They seem to be upper-class judging by their well-groomed nature, healthy skin, manicured hands and feet, and lack of open sores or missing teeth. Each of them is indeed naked below their robes, dangly bits hanging free.

Below decks you reach an opulent tropical-themed dance floor where all the angles are wrong. Band posters shift when out of view, a disco ball reflects unrecognizable colors, and an old-timey record player spins a warped record that blares classic rock (backwards, of course) making your head swim even more. Another cry for help comes from behind a closed door on the far side of the dance floor.

OOC:

Everyone will need to make a Crafty 6 roll to reach the other side.

Jun 22, 2025 12:57 pm

Jun 22, 2025 12:57 pm

Cassie kneels down to examine some of the powder scattered across a bolted down table.

"Looks like they were getting high sniffing 'Dagon's dandruff'. My guess is some Hollywood types picked the wrong bay to party. I can call it in and check the dock records to see who owns the boat."

But she realizes she is trying to get off this yacht ASAP and instead steels her nerves. "After we rescue any other survivors of course." She grabs a discarded stiletto to use for self defense.

Down below decks, Cassie tries to focus on the visuals she knows are real to fight against the unsettling music and disorienting visuals. That was a real band on that poster wasn't it? And did she recognize that tune? If only it was playing correctly...

OOC:

Going to burn a luck to reduce difficulty to 5.

Last edited June 22, 2025 1:13 pm

Rolls

1 Base die - (1d6)

(2) = 2

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 22, 2025 1:14 pm

Jun 22, 2025 1:14 pm

Fist-bumping and then chest-bumping Zara when the other woman makes her comment, Jak fetches a gaff from the boat and proceeds below, following behind Booby and his little speedo. When she gets downstairs and the lights are going… and the warbly music’s playing…

Rolls

Crafty? Jak loves Crafty! - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (6) = 6

1d6 : (6) = 6

Jun 22, 2025 3:38 pm

Jun 22, 2025 3:38 pm

"Rock out with your cock out, yeah! Theme for our next staff party?"

He wants to use the fire extinguisher to try and bash open the door by knocking the handle off and if that fails as a battering ram. "Stand back," he starts, but sees Jak take a more cerebral attempt at the door.

Rolls

Crafty - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (4) = 4

1d6 : (2) = 2

Jun 22, 2025 7:45 pm

Jun 22, 2025 7:45 pm

"Seriously, Bobby?

Christ, men! Then she looks at Jaklyn. And women!

Down below, on hearing the music, she shouts, "Backwards music! The stuff of demons!"

Andreva grew up with a crazy grandma, except she wasn't so crazy. She knew things. Andreva knew things too; it was in her blood. Disoriented as she was, at least the music didn't contribute to that overall vertiginous feeling that the others were probably feeling.

Rolls

Crafty - (2d6)

(62) = 8

Jun 23, 2025 12:39 pm

Jun 23, 2025 12:39 pm

As they went below and entered the dance floor, Zara had the feeling that the music didn't sound right. The loud blaring they heard earlier was a funky beat, but the record player ... She instinctively tried to cover her ears, and reached for her pair of swimmer earplugs to stuff them into her earholes.

Last edited June 23, 2025 12:40 pm

Rolls

Crafty with Psychic Premonitions - (2d6)

(64) = 10

Jun 25, 2025 12:16 pm

Jun 25, 2025 12:16 pm

Jak, Andreva, and Zara steel their nerves or come up with some other method of reducing the effects of this reality-warping dancefloor. They reach the other side without problem.

The same can not be said for Bobby and Cassie. Bobby finds the warbly tune an earworm. There is something about it that makes him want to swing his hips and tap his toes. Why has no one else tried to play music backwards before? Maybe this could be a whole new genre!

Cassie however stops in her tracks as she sees a poster for her favorite band on the wall. Even more unbelievably, the figures in the poster start moving. They wink at Cassie and beckon her over. Then they jump out of the poster, growing to their normal sizes. "How's it going, Cassie? Still keeping in great shape I see. I know you're a huge fan of ours, but we don't want any lame-os supporting us. How about a dance off to see if you are truly the fan we deserve?"

OOC:

Bobby needs to make a Crafty 6 test or lose 1 grit and have the song stuck in his head the rest of the adventure. Cassie needs Crafty 5 to win the dance-off or lose 1 grit from disappointing her favorite band. I leave the details of the song and band up to you!

Rolls

Cassie effect - (1d6)

(6) = 6

Bobby effect - (1d6)

(5) = 5

Jun 25, 2025 3:41 pm

Jun 25, 2025 3:41 pm

Zara turned to see if anyone had succumbed to the nefarious backmasking (which reversed must have sounded like ladder to the underworld or some such). "Hey, snap out of it! Earplugs!" Perhaps the warning was too late! But was it too late to also try to destroy that evil turntable?

OOC:

If there's some help that can be offered to Bobby and Cassie, Zara will try it!

Jun 25, 2025 4:36 pm

Jun 25, 2025 4:36 pm

Bobby knows he should focus but when you have to boogie, (No!) you gotta do what you gotta do. He starts singing lightly, even though the backwards words are gibberish. Mostly gibberish. I can learn these!

OOC:

Marked off 1 Grit

Last edited June 25, 2025 4:38 pm

Rolls

Crafty - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (4) = 4

1d6 : (5) = 5

Jun 25, 2025 7:38 pm

Jun 25, 2025 7:38 pm

"Oh my GOD! It's the Snuggle Monsters! I went to your second and seventh final tours! I would absolutely LOVE to dance!"

Cassie decides to use the rhythmic gymnastics routine that she'd performed for the cruise ship talent show. The routine had already been choreographed to the Snuggle Monsters' hit song Lay Your Head on My Pillows so it would be perfect.

But as she launches into the graceful, frenetic motions, everything seems to slow down. The backward music sounds stretched and deeply resonating through the ship. Her body performs the lithe movements in aching beauty as disco ball reflections swim like lazy fish through the room.

OOC:

Going to activate SLO MO to recover a luck point so would be Crafty 6 roll.

+1 Luck, -1 Grit

Last edited June 25, 2025 7:38 pm

Rolls

Only Base Die - (1d6)

(2) = 2

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 27, 2025 6:51 am

Jun 27, 2025 6:51 am

OOC:

What's on the oher side of the room? A door? More Stairs?

Jun 27, 2025 9:21 am

Jun 27, 2025 9:21 am

OOC:

You can stop the record player to help out those mesmerized. Those who succeeded in making it across find a closed door leading deeper into the yacht.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 27, 2025 12:14 pm

Jun 27, 2025 12:14 pm

OOC:

There’s the detail I was looking for.

Dancing a bit herself, putting on a bit of a show, Jaklyn boogie-night’s over to the record player, does her best Travolta, then gently lifts the need back into its cradle. Then she has a thought. (It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen.)

Was the turntable itself running backwards, or is this a record filled with backwards-sounding music? The woman checks the equipment and the record label.

Jun 27, 2025 2:01 pm

Jun 27, 2025 2:01 pm

Looking at the record, Jak sees it says "sretsnoM elggunS" on the center label. With the record stopped, the music dies as well. Cassie and Bobby snap out of their hallucinations and find themselves in the center of the disco dance floor.

Jun 27, 2025 4:49 pm

Jun 27, 2025 4:49 pm

Bobby gives one last hip thrust (for completion reasons) and then straightens himself.

Looking around at the others he says, "What's her name did say, The rhythm IS going to get you. Or something like that." He mumbles an apology for being distracted and grabs his fire extinguisher again.

Jun 27, 2025 6:54 pm

Jun 27, 2025 6:54 pm

Andreva wonders if her head will become stuck in an SMH infinite loop as she throws a shrug at Bobby.

Hes such a twerp.

Her judgmental phase over, she looks to the others. "Are we all okay now? That was a trip, but now it's over, and it's time to get back to business. There was that cry for help on the other side of this floor. Extinguishers and what have you at the ready!" she announces as she heads towards the door.

Jun 27, 2025 7:42 pm

Jun 27, 2025 7:42 pm

"Ungh. What... " Cassie shakes her head, trying to clear it of the strange music. But with the record off, it echoes to silence and she regains her senses. "Sorry, I just got carried away for a moment. I'm alright now. Let's go rescue that passenger!"

Jun 28, 2025 8:37 am

Jun 28, 2025 8:37 am

Opening the door reveals the master bedroom of the yacht. It is a tacky room of 80s design. A giant waterbed sits in the center against the far wall draped in zebra-print sheets and various other animal print throw pillows. Next to the bed are a man in beachwear and a woman in business casual clothes bound in nylon ship's rope. On top of the waterbed is washed up 80s superstar Eric Zahn! He's seen better days (or decades) as his body shows the soft roundness of excess, his long blonde hair is unkempt and mostly hidden under a sea captain's hat, and his handlebar mustache is several decades out of fashion. Zahn grips a large and ancient tome in both hands.

"Fools! You’re too late! Arise, my chthonian crustacean! Arise and obey!"

A giant lobster claw bursts from the waterbed in front of Zahn. A horrifying creature emerges, armored and highly annoyed. Water from the bed pours off its body as it extricates its large pincers and pointy legs the size of spears. The Rock Lobster attacks Zahn with one claw, knocking off his captain’s hat as he dodges backward. Then the eye stalks swivel in the direction to the struggling bound victims. It begins to advance!

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OOC:

The rock lobster has 10 effort tokens. It is difficulty 5 for any check, but crafty used to distract it reduces the next character's attempt to difficulty 4. There are more creative solutions as well but I'll leave you to figure them out :D

Jun 28, 2025 9:51 pm

Jun 28, 2025 9:51 pm

Bobby is still got music in his head, and had been trying to get out out but remembering other songs. One comes to him now. "(Ah-ah-ah-ah) Cock lobster!"

Bobby races forward, and sprays Cock Lobster in the creepy swizelstick eyes.

Rolls

Crafty to distract - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (3) = 3

1d6 : (5) = 5

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jun 29, 2025 5:55 am

Jun 29, 2025 5:55 am

Jak watches as the monster erupts from the water bed, snapping and scuttling and lobstering. An idea strikes her: despite the fire, the boat’s electrical system is still functional — the record player was proof enough of that. So, Fisher darts jigglingly to the side of the bedroom, where a lamp glows. Seizing it, she tries to throw it into the sloshing waterbed water that the monster has loosed!

OOC:

Crafty to Attack!

Rolls

Crafty Attack (Difficulty 4 due to Bobby’s distraction?) - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (4) = 4

1d6 : (2) = 2

Jun 29, 2025 9:41 am

Jun 29, 2025 9:41 am

"Eric Zahn?! The leading man that dominated the entire action-horror genre of the late 80s with box-office hits such as The Verminator 1 and 2, Beverly Hills Corpse, Bug Trouble in Little China, and its TV spin-off Miami Lice? "Put that book down!"

Zara had just spent the morning dispersing the sand that the juvies were making sigils of. This situation was more problematic, for the summons had already begun. Still, if she could drain the waterbed, it would mean the claw creature would not have a medium to emerge from. She headed to the side of the bed in the opposite direction of the two bound victims, to locate where the cap and plug was installed on the mattress. With as hard a yank as possible, Zara intended to 'uncork' it!

Rolls

Brawny - (2d6)

(65) = 11

Jun 29, 2025 3:10 pm

Jun 29, 2025 3:10 pm

"Wait! Stop! Zara! If that lamp Jak threw is in contact with the bed, you'll get fried!"

Andreva flings the fire extinguisher at the creepy lobster, not knowing what else to do and hoping Bobby or Jak succeed in injuring the crusty crustacean.

Rolls

Crafty TN 4 from the craziness going on - (2d6)

(36) = 9

Jun 30, 2025 12:04 pm

Jun 30, 2025 12:04 pm

"Yikes, that could fry us all if the water flooded the place!" She twisted her body away from the bed as Andreva shouted the warning, not wanting to electrocute everyone in the room if the lamp Jak threw were to land. Instead she pirouetted to make a lunge for Zahn, intending to body tackle him down in order to grab or at least dislodge the eldritch tome from his hands.

OOC:

Belay the previous post, but keeping that wonderful Brawny roll!

Last edited June 30, 2025 12:05 pm

Jun 30, 2025 1:14 pm

Jun 30, 2025 1:14 pm

As the chaos of the lobster creature's attack unfolded, Cassie focused on the two hostages tied up by the bed. She nimbly rushes over to them and begins untying the nylon rope, using her doctor's knowledge of knots to guide her hands.

"If we can rescue the hostages, we can let the Coast Guard and Deep Sea Animal Control handle Mr. Zahn and his... pet?"

Rolls

Base, Agile, Medic - (3d6)

(316) = 10

Jul 1, 2025 1:58 pm

Jul 1, 2025 1:58 pm

OOC:

Lol so many rolls, so little applied to dealing with the crustacean. Bobby's success reduces Jak's TN so she scores 1 success, Andreva scores 1 as well. Zara's rolling against Zahn which is tangentially related enough I'll count that as toward the creature as well. Cassie succeeds but doesn't reduce the amount of effort tokens of the monster. That leaves 7 effort tokens remaining.

Bobby sprays the giant crustacean in the eyes enough to momentarily blind it, giving Jak the opportunity to throw a lamp into the waterbed. The surge electricity races through the shelled abomination causing it to twitch and spasm. It doesn't last long however as the shock blows the fuse in the cabin causing all the lights to go out, plunging the room into darkness.

Andreva flings a fire extinguisher and hears a satisfying crunch as it lands on...something. Zara tackles Zahn and his eldritch tomb bounces from his hand as they both hit the carpeted floor hard. The book's final destination is unknown as the room goes dark. Luckily Cassie is already untying the two hostages as she loses most of her vision and her hands do the rest of the work, freeing the man and woman.

The only problem now is that there is a blinded angry crustacean wildly swinging its arms around in a confined cabin!

OOC:

I'll need Agile 5 rolls from everyone to avoid getting crab clawed! Technically lobster but I love alliteration and its a lovecraftian crustacean anyway lol.

Jul 1, 2025 2:28 pm

Jul 1, 2025 2:28 pm

OOC:

Crab Claws Come On!

"Gah!"

Last edited July 1, 2025 11:40 pm

Rolls

Agile 5 - (1d6)

(2) = 2

Jul 1, 2025 6:50 pm

Jul 1, 2025 6:50 pm

Bobby backpedals as the claws flail about. "I need an armored speedo to deal with this shit!"

Rolls

Agile - (1d6)

(4) = 4

Jul 1, 2025 8:34 pm

Jul 1, 2025 8:34 pm

"Get down!" Cassie yells to the freed survivors and dives to the ground in the dark room, trying to push them down in the process.

Rolls

Base, Agility vs 5 - (2d6)

(66) = 12

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jul 2, 2025 2:49 am

Jul 2, 2025 2:49 am

"Ow!" Jak shouts into the nearly complete darkness. Something pinched her--hard, and in a rude place! "Someone's asking for it!" she shouts, flailing at the shadows around her, crustacean and otherwise.

OOC:

Rolling Agile... shoot. I keep forgetting to use a Quirk and made it harder, earning back a Luck point.

Presume she loses a point of Grit, yes?

Last edited July 2, 2025 2:53 am

Rolls

Agile - (1d6)

(1) = 1

Jul 2, 2025 3:50 am

Jul 2, 2025 3:50 am

With the room in darkness Zara needed to fall back on that sixth sense of hers to tell if she was in danger. In this case she was flat out on the floor next to the pudgy Zahn. (Oh if only he was still in his hunky heyday, all tan and hirsute and six-pack) She grabbed the book and listened out for the sound of crushing claw coming her way.

OOC:

I offer lobster lovecraftingly lacerated as alliteration! Edit: ooh any bonus effects on multiple successes, both this and the previous?

Last edited July 2, 2025 3:53 am

Rolls

Agile with spidey sense - (2d6)

(66) = 12

Jul 2, 2025 3:58 am

Jul 2, 2025 3:58 am

OOC:

Yes, lose 1 grit on a fail. Ooh lets say a double success reduces the difficulty by 1 on your next action. Everyone is free to act.

Jul 2, 2025 4:06 am

Jul 2, 2025 4:06 am

With the electricity now shorted out, and the fact that Zara had last noted where the drainage plug to the waterbed was, it was now safer to pull the plug on the thrashing beast above her. She crawled on all fours to feel along the edge of the bed until she reached the cap, and gave it a solid yank to pry it open.

OOC:

Gonna claim Detective for noticing and remembering where the plug is. And using that bonus to reduce difficulty by 1.

Last edited July 2, 2025 4:07 am

Rolls

Brawny - (3d6)

(243) = 9

Jul 2, 2025 1:17 pm

Jul 2, 2025 1:17 pm

In a flash of memory, Cassie remembers seeing an aerosol bottle and zippo lighter on the nightstand. She tries to use her spatial awareness to locate them and make a budget flame thrower to roast the freaky lobstrosity. She rolls towards the night stand and reaches out...

Rolls

Base, Agility - (2d6)

(35) = 8

Jul 2, 2025 2:28 pm

Jul 2, 2025 2:28 pm

Grandma! I need you NOW! While she didn't necessarily want her background known, it was do or die.

"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!" Andreva commands, hoping the lobster will cease and maybe even run away with its claw between its legs.

Rolls

Crafty! - (2d6)

(26) = 8

Jul 3, 2025 1:39 am

Jul 3, 2025 1:39 am

Bobby feels the snapping claws to open his arm and he falls backward, before he grabs a bottle of champagne and attacks.

OOC:

He spend 1 luck to reduce the difficulty.

Rolls

Brawn - (1d6)

(5) = 5

Jul 7, 2025 1:51 pm

Jul 7, 2025 1:51 pm

OOC:

Sorry, thought I posted here several days ago! The crustacean is down to only 3 effort tokens remaining!

Zara begins draining the waterbed. It feels as if it is have some kind of effect to weaken the creature, making it more sluggish and less menacing, but still dangerous.

Cassie makes a flamethrower out of an aerosol can and a lighter. A bright jet of fire lights up the darkened room and burns one eye stalk to a crisp that smells like cooked crab meat.

Andreva calls out to her ancestor. The crab seems confused as her words fight with those Zahn had used to summon it. It snaps its pincers in futile confusion.

Bobby grabs a thick champaign bottle and smashed it against the creatures shell, cracking it open in a spot on its topside. Purple pulsating flesh lies under the orange-red carapace!

Just then the a crack in the hull breaks open and cold salty water begins leaking into the room! The boat is starting to sink! The crabstrosity attempts to extricate itself from the waterbed and block the exit.

OOC:

PCs are back up. Still difficulty 5 for everyone, show me what you got!

Jul 7, 2025 3:24 pm

Jul 7, 2025 3:24 pm

Bobby giggles nervously, suddenly thinking of a dumb joke he saw on TikTok.

Step 1: stick your dick in the hole in the hull. Step 2: drink the water in the boat. Step 3: pee out the water through the hole.

Unsure that's actually a workable solution, he looks for the fire extinguisher once more, and attempts to jam it into a claw to keep him from getting more grabby.

Rolls

crafty to hinder - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (5) = 5

1d6 : (5) = 5

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jul 8, 2025 10:31 pm

Jul 8, 2025 10:31 pm

Remembering her last disastrous meal at Red Lobster (when she agreed to go on a date with Bobby before realizing how much of a Bobby he actually was), a look of determination sets on Jak’s striking features as she darts forward, trying to grab—and snap—one of the monster’s eyestalks!

The scene slows as she bounds and bounces forward, switching to a super-slo-mo monster-cam view of the woman coming right at the beast, chest filling the camera shot.

OOC:

A Brawny move, trying to hurt the thing with her bare hands! BUT! Using the Slow Motion quirk to increase the difficulty to 6 and get a point of Grit back! (I think it’s Grit she gets back…)

Rolls

Brawny snapping of eyestalk! - (1d6)

(3) = 3

Jul 9, 2025 11:16 pm

Jul 9, 2025 11:16 pm

"No wait! Don't drain it! Ack, probably too late. The crab thing needs water! That's why it was in the bed. Stop the leak! If it needs to be plugged from the outside, I can do it!"

Andreva sees the crack, grabs some discarded clothing, and tries to plug the leak.

OOC:

Orrrr maybe not!

Last edited July 9, 2025 11:17 pm

Rolls

Crafty She Be! - (2d6)

(21) = 3

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jul 10, 2025 1:52 am

Jul 10, 2025 1:52 am

OOC:

Let me happily fix that for you:

Andreva sees the crack, grabs some discarded clothing, and trips and falls into the thing's maw. God! It's an awful scene as the monster chews her to bloody bits!

Jul 10, 2025 6:21 am

Jul 10, 2025 6:21 am

Cassie reaches out, looking for a weapon, and grabs a ceramic swordfish head that has fallen off a nearby wall. She lifts it by the 'gills' and launches it at the creepy crustacean.

Rolls

Base, Agile (for throwing) - (2d6)

(61) = 7

Jul 10, 2025 1:45 pm

Jul 10, 2025 1:45 pm

While the team have creative solutions, most of them fail to materialize as a several-hundred-pound demon-crustacean is more formidable than it already sounds. However Bobby and Cassie save the day. Bobby jams one of its claws with a fire extinguisher which it then crushes, exploding the tank and blasting apart its claw in the process. Meanwhile Cassie grabs a ceramic swordfish and manages to pierce the thin part of its shell just above its brain, skewering the thinking organ and turning it to Swiss cheese. The giant crustacean shudders and collapses heavily, whereupon it begins to bubble and decompose before your eyes! The smell of hot lobster meat and smoking seawater is overwhelming but not altogether unpleasant.

Eric Zahn cries out from his place in the corner of the room. He is on hands and knees, searching blindly for the book. "You will pay for that! Do you know how long I've been planning this? Next time it will be a colossal Deep One! Now where is that book?" He continues to feel around. The backup battery power kicks on and the interior lights begin to glow. The book is waterlogged and covered with extinguisher foam in the opposite corner.

OOC:

You have defeated the threat!

Jul 10, 2025 9:35 pm

Jul 10, 2025 9:35 pm

"A Deep One? Hah! That's a laugh." But Andreva secretly admired the Deep Ones from all the myths and stories passed down through generations of her family. She wanted to meet one, but at the same time was terrified by them.

"So whado we do with him?" she asks the group, pointing at the hysterical Zahn. "I suppose we could torture him to extract all this planning he claims to have done." She glares right at the man, wondering if her threat had any effect.

Last edited July 11, 2025 1:54 pm

Jul 11, 2025 1:07 pm

Jul 11, 2025 1:07 pm

BedzoneII says:

With the room in darkness Zara needed to fall back on that sixth sense of hers to tell if she was in danger. In this case she was flat out on the floor next to the pudgy Zahn. (Oh if only he was still in his hunky heyday, all tan and hirsute and six-pack) She grabbed the book and listened out for the sound of crushing claw coming her way.

"You mean this?" Zara had held on to the book, the source of their eldritch problem. There was no way she'd let it fall back into Zahn's hands again. "What are you up to Zahn? This isn't one of your movies."

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jul 11, 2025 7:17 pm

Jul 11, 2025 7:17 pm

Jak heads back topside to make sure the captives are okay, her boat is in one piece, her bikini is still meeting Comics Code Authority requirements, and to escape the whole Red Lobster Gone Wrong thing.

"Tie him up, gag him!" she says as she goes, confident the others can manage the weirdo cult leader.

Jul 11, 2025 10:02 pm

Jul 11, 2025 10:02 pm

Cassie grabs a pillow off the floor near the bed and yanks off the leopard print pillow case. Then she ties the wet cloth into a surgeon's knot around Zahn's wrists. "Answer the question unless you want to go down with this ship to sleep with your dark gods for eternity!"

Jul 12, 2025 4:18 am

Jul 12, 2025 4:18 am

Bobby is covered in fire retardant foam from the exploded fire extinguisher and rubs sploobs of it off his cheeks. He eyes Zahn narrowly with one uncovered eye. "Coast Guard are on their way and everyone knows they specialize in neutralizing Deep Ones," he lies easily, "so no sense wasting bad magic. Besides, these girls mean business."

Jul 13, 2025 8:35 am

Jul 13, 2025 8:35 am

As you tie up Zahn and begin to interrogate him, he rants, "They wouldn't hire me anymore! These suits and bigwigs say I'm all washed up! Well I'll show them. The voice wants a sacrifice to gift me ideas and creativity. What have these rich bloodsuckers ever contributed to art? No one will even miss them! One studio executive is as good as another! Think how many directors you know! How many studio executives can you name? Yeah, that's what I thought. It's a small sacrifice! Let me go!"

Then you feel it in your bodies. The boat is beginning to move. A slight tug makes you wobble as you readjust for balance. The motion increases, and most alarmingly it is not in a straight direction. Peering out through the whole in the side of the yacht you can see you are starting to move in a circular motion. Then as the yacht begins a slow spin you see it: a whirl pool has opened up beneath the yacht! There's a larger jerk as the yacht is fully caught in the whirlpool's motion! The newly freed captives begin to panic!

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jul 13, 2025 2:29 pm

Jul 13, 2025 2:29 pm

Having headed back topside, Fisher is first to see the whirlpool, and the sight of it raises the fine blonde hairs on her arms. "Whoa whoa! Everyone!" she shouts below. "Let's go go go! Back to the boat, the water's looking ugly up here!"

Lurching to keep her feet as the attached vessels start to move, to spin, she helps the captives still on deck onto the lifeguard powerboat. Once they are aboard, she fires up the engine and leaves it at idle as she crawls over to where she's tied up to the larger boat. Once everyone is aboard, she'll cast off and return to the wheel of her boat.

OOC:

Let me know if rolls are needed for any of that.

Last edited July 13, 2025 2:29 pm

Jul 14, 2025 12:46 am

Jul 14, 2025 12:46 am

Bobby directs the passengers, trying to expedite the evacuation. "We have a lifeboat. Everyone get on board. Leave everything. No you, leave that, we must leave right now!"

Jul 14, 2025 2:33 am

Jul 14, 2025 2:33 am

"What does the coastguard do Bobby, that everyone knows? "Shaking her head yet again, Andreva says, "That's okay, I'll swim. What about Zahn?"

The girl seems to be the only one not nervous about the water rushing into the boat or the whirlpool sucking it in.

Jul 14, 2025 10:03 am

Jul 14, 2025 10:03 am

Harrigan says:

OOC:

Let me know if rolls are needed for any of that.

OOC:

Lol yeah I didn't expect quite so much activity in a single turn. There are further developments once you leave the interior.

Jak dashes from the yacht interior to the deck. What she sees sends tingles through her as she realizes this is no ordinary whirlpool. The whirlpool is created by a gravity vortex spinning like a tornado around the yacht. Floating in the air are all manner of boating equipment and miscellaneous items: loose life jackets, buouys, beer cans and champaign bottles, docking ropes writhing around like snakes, and, of course, lots of articles of discarded clothes that were strewn about the deck.

OOC:

It'll be a TN 5 Agility or Brawn to either dodge or push through the flying debris and make it to the boat. Crafty can also be 5 if you sell a creative use for it. No Grit loss on a failure, but it will cause a setback as you won't make it to the boat this round.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jul 14, 2025 4:17 pm

Jul 14, 2025 4:17 pm

"Okay, not good!" Jak says at the top of the stairs, witnessing the bizarre vortex that seems to be affecting much more than the water. Noting with a raised eyebrow the anti-gravity effects on her own body (this must be what it feels like to be built like a boy, or Andreva), she shouts back down the stairs.

"Double-time, guys! It’s getting weird up here!"

Then she plunges into the swirl of objects, trying to make her way to the boat…

OOC:

Sounds like Agile to me, but spending a Luck to lower the target to 4.

Last edited July 14, 2025 4:17 pm

Rolls

Agile! (TN 4) - (1d6)

(6) = 6

Jul 14, 2025 7:33 pm

Jul 14, 2025 7:33 pm

"It's a small sacrifice... when it is someone else's life that you are offering up!" Cassie says to Zahn in disgust as they follow Jak's jiggling form up the stairs.

Up on the deck, she halts a second as she sees the gravity anomaly. Then a beer can whizzes past her face and she snaps out of it. She does her best to duck and dodge the deluge of maritime debris and tiny pieces of micro-swimwear.

OOC:

I'll spend luck to make it a 4 difficulty also.

Rolls

Base, Agility - (2d6)

(24) = 6

Jul 14, 2025 10:40 pm

Jul 14, 2025 10:40 pm

The hostages nod their heads and follow the lifeguards from below deck. Their eyes are wide and panicked, clearly having seen some shit today that they will be telling their therapists (or empty liquor bottles) for years to come.

Jak and Cassie make it to the boat. Jak gets the engines fired up. The docking lines are stretched taut from the suction of water and anti-gravity as they're the only thing keeping the boats together.

OOC:

What are you doing with Zahn? He will refuse to come along of his own will.

Jul 15, 2025 2:04 am

Jul 15, 2025 2:04 am

Andreva offers a hand to Zahn. "You'll die here if you don't come with. It won't be pleasant. Save your corporate anger for another day."

She will wait to see if Zahn changes his mind, then head for the deck and swim underwater to the boat, avoiding the missiles.

Rolls

Deep Descendant Gills/Crafty - (2d6)

(63) = 9

Jul 15, 2025 7:12 am

Jul 15, 2025 7:12 am

OOC:

Zahn's hands are currently bound together. Andreva also realizes a tubby middle-aged director likely won't survive a swim through a whirlpool.

Jul 15, 2025 2:05 pm

Jul 15, 2025 2:05 pm

After the guests clear out she makes sure the unholy tome of badness is scooped up and grabs a pair of champagne bottles, shaking then vigorously. When the last one leaves, he dives and breaks the champagne necks, using the forcible pops to get extra momentum to the boat.

Rolls

Crafty - (1d6, 1d6)

1d6 : (1) = 1

1d6 : (6) = 6

Jul 18, 2025 2:13 am

Jul 18, 2025 2:13 am

Andreva looks at Zahn, reassesses the situation, and decides the man's a loser.

"Your watery funeral."

She makes her way up to the deck and dives into the water. Not needing to come up for air, she swims vigorously toward the boat.

OOC:

Already rolled but here's one in case.

Last edited July 18, 2025 2:13 am

Rolls

Agile - (1d6)

(4) = 4

Jul 18, 2025 1:15 pm

Jul 18, 2025 1:15 pm

"What the hell did you do Zahn?" The situation had turned critical, and everyone was scrambling to safety. "Did your spell go wrong?" Zara rifled through the eldritch tome she held in her hands, looking for clues as to what Zahn might have tried to cast which had backfired, to cause the whirlpool. Perhaps they could reverse or dispel the phenomenon.

OOC:

Sorry for the delay, was really offscreen for a while this time. Any chance the whirlpool is a result of magicks gone wrong? And Zara can attempt to figure out what it is and how to try to put a stop to that? Does the book give a clue (ie. help a die roll for this?)

Last edited July 18, 2025 1:16 pm

Jul 19, 2025 2:36 am

Jul 19, 2025 2:36 am

"You made it go wrong!" Zahn screams, spittle flying from his lips. "You interrupted the summoning! The sacrifices were not made! You don't cheat a god of its sacrifice, you bimbo! It will take it any way it can!" He begins laughing manically.

Meanwhile back at the boat, Bobby joins the group, arriving via champaign-bottle-jet-packs in fabulous style.

OOC:

Time is of the essence so I will say a quick flick through the book says the spell needs sacrifices and this manifestation is the result of no sacrifice being made. Someone has to pay for the summoned demon crustacean!

Jul 19, 2025 4:00 am

Jul 19, 2025 4:00 am

Cassie runs toward the side of the boat nearest the yacht and yells "Zara! Forget that pompous ass!" She unhooks a nearby life preserver, ready to help if needed.

Jaklyn (Jak) Fisher

Jul 19, 2025 6:19 am

Jul 19, 2025 6:19 am

"Ready on the lines!" Jak says, preparing to race away from the other boat and hopefully the vortex as soon as the others are aboard and the lines are cast off...

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