Grand Line Adventures IC - Part 2

Now knowing what to expect this time, Tortoise leapt in front of the party bomb, mouth wide open, and attempted to catch as much of the food as possible as it exploded forth (but still ended up making a bit of a mess).  He gobbled up the food that fell near him and licked off any that got on him.

"Thanks!  Ah need'd tha' aft'r all tha ex'rcise tha' Tusken was givin' me!"

"Ooh!  Ah'm comin' with ya, Shall'w!"

He hopped in the boat Shallow was preparing and shrunk into tortoise form to make room for anypony else who was going (or, for later, the loot!)

"I will stay here and 'entertain' Tusken." Carat says while everypony else hops into the boat that Shallow is preparing. "Hey Tusken, now that you have won 'Mine Popper,' would like another game to play? This one is called 'Marine's Lullaby,' and the goal is to get those marines over there to stay in one place as long as you can, and you get bonus points if you manage to get them all to fall asleep! How about it?"

Torque made his way to the Jolly Boat, taking the other two incindiary bombs and munching on a waffle. "Let's show these Marines what we can do, shall we?"

Party Roll: 7

Wordlessly, but now holding a plate of waffles (none were sure where he got the plate), Sixty-Two also stepped into the boat. After he did so, his font mysteriously turned back to normal as he murmured out "This is likely a trap. It was too easy," before taking a waffle bite.

"Yeah, let's go have some fun..." Boomer comments with an evil smile.

Copper Rose wrote:"I will stay here and 'entertain' Tusken." Carat says while everypony else hops into the boat that Shallow is preparing. "Hey Tusken, now that you have won 'Mine Popper,' would like another game to play? This one is called 'Marine's Lullaby,' and the goal is to get those marines over there to stay in one place as long as you can, and you get bonus points if you manage to get them all to fall asleep! How about it?"

Tusken no wanna play your girly game! The ghost then enters into a temper tantrum attempting to tear up the sails and smash up what ever is on deck.
(Coral may attempt to stop him)

The jolly boat quickly manages to reach the entrapped gunboat. The only thing left on the ship is an iron chest too heavy to be carried swiftly.

"Well, dat's not suspicious at all!  Or maybe it be too clunky to run wit'. Let's stay on da' side of caution eitha' way.", Shallow states, eying the chest curiously, a bit wiser from his last 'blinding' surprise.

Perception:

Suddenly a blue sea pony shoots out of the water, wrapped in a yellow magical glow. "Don't worry, I'll stop him!"

Carat glares at the floating sea pony. "You do not belong in this campaign. You do not even belong on this forum!" She goes on her front hooves and kicks Coral with all the force her giant body is capable of, attempting to kick the sea pony back to her own campaign.
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What actually happens...

"Wow! Tusken, calm down! Hey, you know that game you were playing with Tortoise earlier, 'Pony Crush?' How much fun do you think it would be with more than one pony playing with you? I think all those Marines over there would just love to play with you. If you want, I can play with you as well, but it is only an offer."

Zarhon wrote:"Well, dat's not suspicious at all!  Or maybe it be too clunky to run wit'. Let's stay on da' side of caution eitha' way.", Shallow states, eying the chest curiously, a bit wiser from his last 'blinding' surprise.

Perception:

Shallow can tell that it contains something that isn't magical but nothing more than that.

Copper Rose wrote:
"Wow! Tusken, calm down! Hey, you know that game you were playing with Tortoise earlier, 'Pony Crush?' How much fun do you think it would be with more than one pony playing with you? I think all those Marines over there would just love to play with you. If you want, I can play with you as well, but it is only an offer."
Persuasion: 15(roll) +13(skill) - 3(narcolepsy) + 1(IP) = 26

The giant ghost stares at you for a long moment before barking out "NO!" and proceeding with tearing the sails.

"Let me have a crack at it." Torque examines the chest, and tries to open it. "Sturdy, designed for security rather than mobility. Possibly trapped, if not a trap in and of itself."

Rolling Mechanics to unlock, disarm traps, etc....19 (1d20) + 12 + 3 (EF) + 1 (IP) = 34

Torque manages to unlock the chest and disarm the obvious explosive trap that would have detonated once the chest was opened. However Torque fails to notice a mechanism, that activated as soon as he deactivated the first trap, which releases a could of toxins.

(everyone on the jolly boat can attempt an endurance check (or what ever you can justify) to not breath in the toxins.)

Shallow quickly tries to hold his breath, covering his snout and mouth with another rag from his pouch, just as he did back at the acidic bog. He gives a few other to his comrades, before seeing if he can try to deal with this 'cloud' like he did the storms along the trip.

Spoiler:

Still in tortoise form, Tortoise was unable to get out of the way of the toxic gas.  In fact, he gasped in surprise,  inhaling a large quantity of the stuff.  So much for his tough shell- it couldn't keep EVERYTHING out...  He'd have to rely on his own internal toughness now...

"HACK WH'ZEE KOFF P'PHEW!"

...And Tortoise coughed out the portion of the cloud he had inhaled in its entirety.  

Spoiler:

Torque quickly grabbed one of Shallow's rags to cover his mouth and tried to hold on as the toxins dispersed.

Endurance:

"Tusken, stop! Please!" "If a... game... ishn't... zzzzzzzzzz"

Curunir wrote:Still in tortoise form, Tortoise was unable to get out of the way of the toxic gas.  In fact, he gasped in surprise,  inhaling a large quantity of the stuff.  So much for his tough shell- it couldn't keep EVERYTHING out...  He'd have to rely on his own internal toughness now...

"HACK WH'ZEE KOFF P'PHEW!"

...And Tortoise coughed out the portion of the cloud he had inhaled in its entirety.  

Spoiler:

Somehow Tortoise manages to suck in the entire cloud before coughing it out away from the others. However the effects on Tortoise are almost intimidate shaking his body with major convulsions.

(OOC if you had tried that without getting a crit you would have died. Right now you are just have to roll a d10 each time you make a check if you get lower than 5 your check gets divided by two if you roll a one on the 10 more stuff happens. Heal checks can find out how long you have to live, lessen the effects, and if it is absurdly high cure you)

Within the chest there is nothing but a single note. It reads as follows.
If you are reading this message you  smarter than the average pirate scum so then I congratulate you. The toxins that you invariably breathed in when you opened this chest are potent enough that a single breath is enough to kill the average pony with in a single hour. The only antidote within several days journey is in my possession. There for I offer you a choice you may surrender or you may die.

signed Kukris

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Copper Rose wrote:"Tusken, stop! Please!"  "If a... game... ishn't... zzzzzzzzzz"

With a look approaching concern but staying closer to confusion Tusken stops and floats over to Carar.
Then with out warning a large masked earth pony draped in a marine coat leaps onto the ship. Upon spotting the sleeping form of Carat he rushes over and with a grunt of effort he rather slowly throws Carat directly at the group on gunboat. Afterwards he manages to knock out and capture the ship's still sleeping captain. He leaves in the same way he came jumping in a single bound back to the base.

(Was going to let Carat to try and stop him but then she fell asleep... Everyone on the gunboat may try to dodge)

"Ah' Tortoise, yah' be a brave fool. Yah' likely be lucky yah' ain't dead already - at least fate didn't abandon yah' yet! Try tah' struggle against da' bad mojo, till' we figure out wat' be ailin' yah'.", Shallow encourages Tortoise, with a frown. "Everypony, looks like we've got ourselves a captain tah' go track - Wait a minute, wat' be going on our boat? Bloodclot, LOOK OUT!", he yells, before trying to leap out of the way of the giant pony projectile.

Athletics, Heal:

"Confound it all!" Torque said angrily as he looked over the note. "I should have known this was a trap. If I had only been a bit more careful when opening it." He looked over at Tortoise. "How are you feeling? Nauseous? Dizzy? Itchy? Dang it, if only I remembered more of Mother's poison catalog."

Heal Assist:

Wait a minute, wat' be going on our boat? Bloodclot, LOOK OUT!", he yells, before trying to leap out of the way of the giant pony projectile.

"Shallow, what are talking abouaaaAAAAAAAH!" Torque quickly tried to dodge the large body of the falling pony.

Acrobatics:

Tortoise smiled faintly at Shallow's encouragement "A'm no' sure if ya' shoul' call it brav'ry... really jus' bad refl'xes an' good luck.  Though suppos' I'da done tha same thing intent'nally if ah coulda."

He didn't mind admitting it was an accident, though he was glad it spared everypony else the experience.  

Tortoise then did his best to explain what the gas had done to his insides so that Torque and Shallow could possibly help him.

Spoiler:

"I think I may be able to find the..." Sixty-Two looked up. "Aw, fudgesicles."

Spoiler:

Zarhon wrote:

Athletics, Heal:

Lyntermas wrote:
"Shallow, what are talking abouaaaAAAAAAAH!" Torque quickly tried to dodge the large body of the falling pony.

Acrobatics:

AProcrastinatingWriter wrote:

Spoiler:

Curunir wrote:

sickness d10 roll:  9, okay.

Roll 5 + 13 Athletics + 1 IP = 19

1D20+10 => [ 4 ] +10 = 14

While somewhat miraculously no one actually hit by the still sleeping Carat the manner that she hits the boat knocks the vast majority of the crew into the water. Only Torque ,who managed to get away to the ice bridge, avoids taking a dip in the freezing water. The members of the crew that have eaten a Devil Fruit immediately fell all their strength leaving their bodies the moment they hit the water.
(Boomer and Torque may make rolls to save the drowning ponies.)

A few moments after landing Carat manages to wake up.

Sixty-Two, paralyzed, is freaking out.

Exactly what he is thinking is unprintable.

Boomer sighs not surprized at all that her huge body ended up getting unbalanced enough to fall into the water. But what really was annoying the bombermare was seeing that at least three of her devil fruit allies had fallen into the water with her. This is why I'll never take eat one of those things... They're totally not worth that major drawback... She goes to quickly save the Zebra and the Turtle-Pony... Part of her still not trusting the former Merine yet, and besides trying to save all three at once would likely just make her lose two of them. Or that's the cyrborg's line of logic as she moved.

swim check:

"So that's be wat it feels like.", Shallow thinks to himself, as he sinks below.

Carat stands up on the sinking(?) boat. "Wha...? OH BUCK!" She moves onto the ice bridge as quickly as she can, decreasing size to just below normal pony, to prevent breaking the ice. "Sorry, I can't really help you guys. I'll go after the crew!" Carat gallops off at a breakneck pace to keep track of the crew.