Journal of Rollo Lavius 3

Entry #491 - Things Turn Nasty

(G491 03/09/2022 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM), KT, AD) HOM12

[The adventurers Griffolk Ethyn the Dragon-Shaman, Corhim Sparkledingle the Gnome Wizard and Fangornio the Barbarian are on a mission to follow Baroness Partick and have been onboard the galleon known as the Dementor for several weeks now.
Recently they have just come to blows with the Baroness's silent servant - a hulking brute called Mr Nice. This fight had just been interrupted.]

DAY 37 (day 26 of the voyage) cont ...

Baroness Partick stood in the corridor, waiting for an answer, or at least to see what they did next. While everyone hesitated Mr Nice stood up and shut the door.

'Cease this nonsense immediately!' said the Baroness.
'It was just a tickle fight,' piped up Sparkledingle.
'Nonsense?' asked Griffolk. 'There seems to be a lot more than nonsense going on, on this boat at the moment.'
The Baroness stepped forward to get a good look at him.
'If you want to do this now, then we can, otherwise, go back to your cabin,' she said in a low threatening voice.
This was enough for Fangornio and Sparkledingle who both then went to their rooms. Griffolk stood firm, blocking the corridor.
'You seem unconcerned about what is going on,' he said. 'As if you have insider
knowledge.'
She silently pushed past him and entered her cabin.
Griffolk was now alone in the corridor so he too went to his room.

Sparkledingle couldn't sit still for long though and decided to go and raid the surgeon's room one more time. There were dozens of potions in the room, half were unlabeled and the other half were all written on in cryptic spidery lettering.
He brought some to Cookie next door to get her opinion.
'I wouldn't trust any of them', she said. 'He mixed them with alcohol and all sorts of things.'

Meanwhile Griffolk also eventually left his cabin and went on deck. He watched as the Baronesses men silently worked the ship. He decided to test their capabilities by throwing apples at them.
Ah yes, the old apple toss technique. You may be wondering now if Griffolk hadn't been at the surgeon's potions, but it worked well enough. One of the men caught an apple and dropped it over the side while another was hit in the chest and let it roll away.
According to the apple toss technique then, these men were neither lightning fast or stupidly slow. They reacted to tossed apples as would normal men.

They were now only two or three days away from Calimport.

DAY 38 (day 27 of the voyage)

After some discussion in the morning the three heroes decided to take serious action. Without consulting any of the crew or the other passengers they went up on to the deck and attacked the Baroness's men.

Griffolk and Fangornio tried to grab and throw one over board who was at the rail, but he was too agile and managed to scramble around for quite a long time before they finally ditched him.

This gave the other men time to arrive on deck and they drew their daggers and joined the melee. Sparkledingle found himself menaced by two of them and was cut twice as he cowered behind a barrel.

The other two eventually came to protect him and he passed potions to Fangornio when he was bleeding from several cuts. Either through panic, or a desire to experiment, Sparkledingle passed over potions at random. While neither were healing potions there not harmful. One turned out to be Protection from Evil and the other was Aid.

In the final phase of the combat Sparkledingle used a Launch Item spell on Kenneth (a strange long spikey object that he prized above all other possessions) but it missed its target and flew out into the sea.

Crestfallen, all Sparkledingle could do was watch at it hit the water with a splash and sunk into the depths of the Shining Sea.