Season 4 Episode 01 - Misadventure on the High Storms The team guns out of Blood Crescent on the Luxury Yacht. Instead of setting course for FriendFell to investigate the reenergiz3ed Magic Circle near completion, Our Heroes decide to engage the pirate-Droaam duel happening south of Blood Crescent. By the time the team catches up to the skirmish, the Droaam Merc Cruiser has set the squidship ablaze, wreaking havoc on the crew. Feng nat one's a balista olt fired at the pirates... wiinstead wrecking one of the catapults on the aft deck of the spidership. Gang nat Ones his navigation, promptly ramming the port deck and legs, locking the yacht to the metal and crystal framed spider. words were exchanged... harsh language between Gang and the Merc Team Diplomat... This is a well-scarred Scro veteren in worn, oiled leather armor, and rune-covered pancho strapped over his shoulders. His left hand is encased in an oversized obsidian gauntlet that seems to swallow the light around it. A weapon clipped belt holds at his hip a wicked short sword of dark laced metal sheathed alongside a dagger with a stormgem very similar to the one on gang's hip Gang has the better of the exchange, tossing ludicrous offense that the spider ship would have gotten in the way of their boarding maneuver against the pirates being chased around the deck by dangerously large armored wolf spiders. The Scro Sniper loses cool and trains his sniperrifle on feng to back the hero down... from here things get messy. Gang punches Oiled Leather in the face while Chuck drops a cloudkill on deck.; One forcecage later and the sniper is over before he can even fire a shot. Oiled Leather sidestteps and shoves Gang into the cloudkill with incredible force. Mahewa stirs up the winds while Feng dashes onto the pirate ship to start clearing deck of the pirates they planned to attack without concern to chuck and gang initiating combat on the mercs they wanted to earn favor with. 3 more Scro Mercs on deck. One is a gnarled shaman in chitin armor and barding directing the spiders like a herdsman would guide sheepdog to coral the pirates towards their doom a few of the dog-sized spders take to liking Feng's flesh, but the barbarian bats them aside and starts mopping deck with manblood, unconcerned with the shaman beastmaster-- still focused on the common goal of punishing the pirates. The two remaining Scro are female halforcs, one in dark half-plate with a wand on her hip that proceeds for the next minute and a half hurling spellfire at the team on and inside the yacht. Armored BattleMage The final Scro is unarmored in tight fitting spidersilk fabrics stained with blood in spiral patterns who has a short-range teleport and a hella fast flurry of blows that got her in the back ranks among Chuck and mahewa below deck after a few spell exhchanges between the armored bitch. Oiled Leather chases gang back onto the yacht while Chuck's cloudkill drifted down-deck to where the sniper was forcecaged, sucking magic damage per round until Chuck has his concentration broken and the cloud disipitates. On the Yacht deck, Oiled Leather power-slams the fuck out of the only weaopn on the yacht-- the forward-sitting balista. one hit and he tosses it down-deck past gang's nimble dodge. that power glove thing is interesting... so when gang feints into reach he ungloves the Scro-- --BOOM-- Massive necrotic bomb going off as he wags his arm around screaming it seems to be a persistent effect as the pulsing energy around him turns the upper forecastle into powder Mahewa banishes that shit for 10 rounds... "no thanks" the glove is made of the same material as the Necro-core drive... so hard to say what that guy has going on, but they leave the glove with the water elemental on the yacht and jump boat in the end. spider-shaman makes one of the spiders fucking huge and it's all trundling around the decks tearing up the flooring trying to eat some heroes chuck gets dropped 4 times during the fight... if mahewa wasn't blowing heal spells, that magic hat would have come in real handy... but clerics do what they do and the wizard keeps chucking spells around until Feng finishes up the pirates and jumps decks ... right into a fail and starts the feather fall of shame. Meanwhile, Gang likes stealing and is damn good at it.. fetches himself that nasty looking wand off the Scro BatttleMage and pops off a round of dark energy in the Scro merc's direction, missing his mark. so the team plays spell volley up and down the stairs for a bit while fending off the silk ninja blinking and bopping the team aorund the lavish interiors of the yacht Feng Rages and tports in to land inside by the toilet spiders-- the team running by and jumping out the ship, leaving all this behind and so the four take a dive away from the scro towards the buoy'ed pirates below.. There's about 30 of those pirates below. boy they look pissed. 5 minutes spent in game now level 15 acquired: 1 BattleMage wand