andres ♔ in the dark of day teach us love again

[silvermaid]

♬ new revolution - gin wigmore

WHO || Anastacia O'Keefe, Bambi Dalton, Frankie Matera, Helen Magnus, Alaric Saltzman, Alice Lincoln, Edain, Thoster Chatwyn, Hook, Adi Laskaris, Max Rast, Brantley River
WHAT || A team of Knights is tasked with providing transport off the Island for local Shadowkind
WHERE || Andres Isle
WHEN || September 19th, 2014
HOW || Actionspam

[ The two groups responsible for evacuation of Shadowkind travel to the island via stealth boat, which puts their arrival a little behind everyone else's.  They run aground not far from both the woods, and the harbor.   Edain grins out at the sleepy island, dressed in full armor, hand on the hilt of his sword.  Anastacia frowns as she watches the woods, however, clearly more on edge about what they have to do. ]

From here, everything looks so peaceful...

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[fixyourproblem]

[He gives Hook a quick glare before getting back on his feet.] Not good, of course. But at least, it seems someone here will get a good laugh when I die.

[icouldbe_bess]

Okay, boys, can we try to be less dramatic, please? [ still looking sick to her stomach, alice manages to look far more exasperated. ] This is one of those desperate times, desperate measures moments and considering that we're trying to keep the impending death in the if category and not the when, I'm sure we can all agree that sometimes we have to do shit we don't like in order to make that happen. What we think is irrelevant right now and petty bitching will get us no where. [ diplomacy 19, basically shh. ]

I'm going to get Thoster. Meet us at the end of the dock.

[ she puts a hand on anastacia's arm briefly before she turns and flounces out with a toss of her red hair. ah the bossiness of the youngest child used to getting what she wants. ]

[theshameofcain]

[Bambi watches her go with an "uhhhh" look and as soon as she's of and away to fetch their missing pirate, she blinks and sighs.] Gingers are so demanding.

[Right. Well. Let's do a thing then.]

[heavensend]

[ anastacia, meanwhile, looks a bit chagrined, and offers brantley a quiet apology, hanging back. ] I should have asked, I'm very sorry.

[fixyourproblem]

[Brantley turns his attention to Anastacia, responding to her apologies.] Oh... Don't worry about it. You couldn't have known. It is normal and actually very nice of you to think quick and help people. Besides, I am actually grateful a charming lady like you would help me. [He smiles again without any contempt this time and he even adds a bit of a charm. No one told him not to flirt while in a mission. (Charm 15)]

[silvermaid]

[ nat 20 will save, sorry brantley i guess she just lOVES HER HUSBANDO VERY MUCH, but she is nothing if not polite, and just smiles back obliviously. hooray.

off they go down the harbor, to meet up with thoster, their pirate bro. ] We'll need to keep an eye out for any locals brought our way, and get them onto the boats immediately. If something attacks, it's a priority to keep those people safe.

[unhand]

Should we go out to rendezvous with the others? I'd wager they could use the back-up.

[oftheband]

We've got to protect the boats, mate. That's why we're here. Anything comes this way - we make sure it doesn't interrupt our route. But we can't go galloping off to play hero.

[theshameofcain]

Oh good. Because I was doing a great job of keeping my boat from running away. Excellent boat guard. That's me. Bambi Dalton, professional boatsitter.

[THE BODY PARTS HAVE HER ANXIOUS OKAY. She's just trailing along close to mama Helen like whhhy.]

[ex_ric243]

[Alaric has totally been with team Gossip Girl the whole time ok. He's just been silently judging y'all's lives up until now can anyone blame him. But he ... still doesn't really have anything to add to this conversation that hasn't already been said (or barfed up wow), so this is me just kind of checking in like yes he's still alive and present sorry I suck.]

[oftheband]

Any response from Thoster? Tell him to get his arse out here. We've trouble already. [ he nods behind the shack at movement from the trees. ]

[bluffcheck]

[Alice must have fetched her pirate mentor. Either that or if you think hard enough, a bard just appears.]

What? Think I'd let you have all the fun?

[necessaryevil]

Anybody doesn't want in on this fight, they'd better fall back. [ max raises his gun as three figures burst from the trees:

a large leopard has six colorful snakes, hissing and ready to strike, sprouting from its shoulders

followed by the sound of powerful black wings beating, as two large winged apes fly down from the branches above.

the lighter colored of the two apes swoops in towards ... bambi, oh lordy, charging her with his falchion blade (atk 21, dmg 11). max curses and shoots at it (atk 24; and a miss: dmg 11). ]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ alice should run away. she should. she is weak and delicate and full of breakable squishy bits and unskilled and disappearing is literally her niche. but she sees the ape attack bambi and no. fairy tale names stick together. she rushes forward and

tases the ape.

woo! (atk 20 total for a whole 2 electricity dmg + a fort save of 15+ or the ape will be paralyzed for a whole 1 round.) much helpful. a+ squire. and also, fuck your ginger judgment, bambi. fuck. it. ]

[theshameofcain]

[SAVED BY A GINGER. OH, THE IRONY.

Bambi screams as the ape bears down on her and she definitely doesn't look too good with her... whole 2 HP, but she manages to stagger to her feet and try to RUN LIKE FUCK... not exceptionally deer-like with her total dex of 12, but, you know, it's average running.]

[herebemonsters]

[ successfully tazed! with a failed fort save, the ape is too busy being jolted by electricity to act next round wooooo.

too bad his friend is still up and at 'em. and alice has made herself a fitting target for its attack, as it swoops down to stab her (atk 25, dmg 14). this is what helping people gets you. being run through with a sword by a giant flying monkey. blood blossoms from the wound, which is... probably enough to send her unconscious. ]

[daredtobelieve]

No! [Helen shouts as two of the young squires are struck by the creatures. Drawing her weapon quickly, she shoots for the ape that's attacked Alice, seeing as the other one appears to be stunned by the taser attack, attack 20 total, and thanks to penetration twice, she does 21 damage. What's up.]

[oftheband]

[ helen gets a hella good shot in on the ape, which is heavily bleeding, but the snake-covered panther lets out a growl, and then a strange cone of gas comes out on its exhale, and everyone but bambi, who booked it, must make a dc 15 fort save, or feel very very sleepy... max falls victim to this almost instantly, collapsing to the ground and dropping his gun. edain shrugs off the effect with ease, but scowls when he sees anastacia going down. ] Someone wake the damn cleric, or we'll all be in for it! [ he charges at the panther for a critical hit (atk 26; dmg 32), but it makes a nat 20 fort save vs massive damage. still, he jabbed his sword so deeply in its side that it looks like it's not going to need much more to take it down. ]

[unhand]

[With his fort save of 17, Hook's fine. He follows closely on Edain's heels and slams his hook down at the panther (atk 18, dmg 4 if it hits).]

[mining]

[ Hello Adi has totally also been here the whole time side-eyeing the bickering and then reacting accordingly (but not very quickly, apparently) to the sight of a trio of monsters. Fort save of 19 means he's unaffected, and while he could theoretically help with the healing, having Anastacia conscious still seems like a good idea.

He sheathes his sword, then steps over the unconscious Max and crouches down next to Anastacia. ]

Sorry.

[ Then he slaps her across the face. ?? No time to waste on half-assing this ok nice to meet you please wake up. ]

[thetokenaussie]

[Frankie uses those action points like a boss; 7, 8, makes a fort save of 17 to keep standing and teams up with Helen to try and make quick work of the not-stunned ape; Atk 19. 13 Penetration Dmg of it hits.]

[silvermaid]

[ that's all it takes to wake her tbh, while frankie makes a successful attack. huzzah! anastacia blinks and shakes her head against the heavy drowse, before realizing where she is, and shooting adi a grateful look. she casts a mass cure serious wounds spell on all knights who've been injured, restoring 30hp to them all. ]

[fixyourproblem]

[Brantley manages to resist the effect. There's no way he would fall asleep when someone or something in this case is cutting open his friends (fort 16).

Deciding that it is better to end the battle quickly than staying on defensive and prolonging the battle, Brantley joins in the attack team and delivers a punch to the panther (Atk 23, dmg 2). So helpful....]

[ex_ric243]

[Alaric is also unaffected by the gas (fortitude 22), and joins Helen by firing on the ape that isn't seizing up after being tazed (attack 21 & 15, damage 6 & 5 how the fuck do you people do so much damage with guns jfc).]

[icouldbe_bess]

[ the last thing alice remembers is being stabbed and pain and then she... is waking up on the dock with a yelp like what is even happening, did she just ride through the jellyfish forest, did she just die? she looks around but it's a little chaotic and all she really notices is max slumped nearby so she scoots over to him and maybe it's an a name thing, but her first thought to wake him up is to slap him roughly. ]

Wake up, come on!