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MLP - Age of Exploration (D&D 5e Custom System)

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Avedon Avedon Cyan Hide Cyan Hide GeneralTyrus GeneralTyrus Dumbledoof Dumbledoof Noivian Noivian
As Wind prayed to the Goddess of War for strength, the sky above them darkened as clouds started to blot out the sunlight. Soon enough it was completely overcast, though no rain came forth. It seems that Wind's prayer had been answered! Across from her was the enemy ship, and the cannons. Each cannon was manned by four unicorns who were busy trying to reload the things, but only one succeeded! He didn't even see Wind.

Instead the cannon blasted across at their their ship, tearing another hole in it. The ship was taking in water fast, and had been blasted quite a bit already before the heroes had arrived. If the ship sunk, they would likely have no choice but to take over the enemies ship... or drown.

Already some of their crewmates were working on fixing the ship, but with the constant bombardment of attacks they weren't getting anywhere. Most of the crew weren't skilled enough to try defending themselves and repairing the ship at the same time.

ALL PLAYERS: You may take your action to repair the ship for 2d10 damage.

Meanwhile Applebloom, Aurelion, Rose and Val were busy with this massive griffon. As Applebloom stepped in and struck him, the griffon couldn't even defend against her and looked rather hurt by her efforts. As she stepped away he responded by stabbing at her twice with his spear, although only one of his hits actually got through her defense.

APPLEBLOOM: Hit with a 17, for 12 damage.

Suddenly a hand made of hellfire grabbed him. Despite his physical prowess, the hand was simply too strong for him and he couldn't escape it. Luckily it left his hands free and he managed to get a stab on Rose as she stepped away... only to miss!

Knowing that he was basically done for, the griffon snarled and struggled helplessly against the infernal hand. "Cowards! This is how you fight?!" he shouted at them. He really did see this as cowardly... and so did Rose. Unfortunately for him, Rose hated griffons and she took this opportunity to unload two revolver shots right into him. One of the shots missed, but her other shot split into two beams and both hit him. The griffon cried out again. Even Rose felt kind of bad about how unfair this was...

That's when the griffons eyes settled on Aurelion. "We're all from Equestria, child. That doesn't make you an Equestrian. A bunch of honorless curs!"

It was at this point that Rose... actually looked over at Aurelion. "... Don't attack him, Aurelion. We can stoop to that level, but you cannot. Keep some of your honor."


  • HP: 38/124
    AC: 16


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Rose Stats
Hit Points: 36/36
Armor Class: 17
Grit: 3/3

+1 Revolver: 4/6
Regular Revolver: 6/6
Blunderbuss: 0/1

Action Surge: 1/1

Trick Shot: Available
Duplicating Shot: 2 rounds

Statuses: None
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver
Aurelion was just confused now! Honorless curs!? Apparently he didn't even remotely realize who she was, not that she expected anything, but this was stupid. They were on the same side, yet they were being attacked! These ponies and griffons were completely confused, thinking that they were all pirates!

"No, no, no! Come on, guys!" She yelled again. "Rose, please—look at what we're fighting! It's the same thing your guns are made from, you know, what Starstreak made? That stuff she makes for the ponies that are fighting to protect us?" Aurelion had to hope she was getting through to somebody here. Rose was the only other one who knew anything about this. "Pirates wouldn't just have these things, right? It doesn't make sense! Doesn't that look at least a little weird to you?"

When another cannon blast rocked the boat, she was becoming increasingly agitated. But since they were being fired upon, she left that fight entirely and went to go try and help fix the ship, despite being under fire.

15 damage repaired.
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver
Valentine hadn't the slightest flicker of guilt...and that didn't even have to do with this being close to the most successfully evil action she had managed since getting to the mortal realm...but even then it still didn't manage to be wrong. Drawing weapons was not a deed for making idle threats or playing at inflating ego through honor. It was a promise, one that you were willing to kill and willing to die. This man would have run through and killed his friend, and his kind had already nearly taken the life of her allies. The laser-blast had certainly nearly taken all their heads off in their sleep which was far less a chance for a fight than this griffon had done.

"....what this is cheating? I'm so sorry Mr. Griffon!!!"

She was still gullible as a bag of puppies! At least momentarily!

"...Heeeey. ....Wait this isn't unfair! You're just being a sore-loser because you lost! I overpowered you and we outfought and out smarted you! Big sore-loser! Go hang out over there in the losers corner!"
She had a point...he certainly seemed the type that was just complaining and decrying method to avoid admitting the fact he'd been beaten. Afterall, him attacking a lone mare that looked a fraction as enduring and strong as he was was hardly "fair" either.

She squints her eyes, staring through the storm and the battle.
"You even made the baby shapeshifting horse run off and cry! You're going to tell them sorry later..."
She was sacrificing her Arcane Hand to keep him grappled, hardly able to fight with it anymore but it'd just be a risk she'd accept. Especially since she knew she was likely going to spend the rest of her enegy...but she was on a high of winning a battle and knew she couldn't back away now. Not when so many people were fighting with their lives on the line and her friends were all moping about the wanton violence or whatnot. Like the griffon, mortals were not suicidal. They would risk their lives, carried forward by adrenaline. Take away their weapons, make the odds far closer and more dire, and they were more likely to back away from each other than stay engaged...She probably couldn't break them all, but she'd at least put a dent in the cannons.


That'd be a smart way of looking at things but really she just wanted to prove that her gun was cooler than those big cannons.

"You got big guns but lets see who's bigger! I am Valentine d'vaal Dampierre! The woman who will rule all of Hell some day! I'll be seeing you there as my future subjects!"

She grinned, flashing her batty fangs and using her greatest spell. She held onto it during the crash of the airship, she had withheld it even when she nearly died, but pure chance was all that was keeping those cannons from sending their ship deep bellow the water. She couldn't destroy them on her own, not yet. Even her strongest spells were not that mighty, but she could start them and for once...she had something greater than spells, and the enemy crew were not just going to sit back and let her keep throwing spells at them. She had friends and allies. And she knew she could rely on them. That was a first. She had to prove they could do the same to her now and that she was not just some blundering low-level fiend! She was absolutely just a low-level blundering fiend, but friendship is about believing each other's lies and delusions!

"I...Wish..."
She closed her eyes and muttered a hellborn prayer.
"I Wish...these torches of stolen equestrian-fire, will face the heat and be reduced to ashes by a far more netherly flame! Hellfire!"
She pointed her pistol rise at the cannons as her eyes burned with the same dark-flame she conjured in great pillars down from the sky. One after another striking into the cannons!

Action: Epic Spell: Wish
Spell Copied: Flamestrike

Cannon 1: 19

Cannon 2: 19

Cannon 3 : 28

Cannon 4: 22

She made "pew" sounds at the cannons with her revolver, miming taking shots at them before spinning her gun like she always saw Rose do. She didn't keep it loaded naturally, that might have hurt someone!
"....please-don't-let-them-murder-me!"

HP: 28
Shield: 18
AC: 13
SP: 3/6
 
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Dreamweaver Dreamweaver


Now feeling comfortably protected and empowered to assault the cannons, Wind whistler readies an arrow and let loose, imbuing it with psychic power for extra damage, and let loose into one of the canons. Looking back to see how badly the ship was damaged, she also saw Applebloom fighting with a very tough looking Griffin. She whistled a little tune that cut through the sounds of battle to make it to her ally's ears, before turning back to the cannons. One of them was down, but there were still four left.


Attack Action: Shortbow on Cannon 1- 24 to hit
Damage - 22 (9+5 from Avatar of War+ 8 from psychic blades)

Bonus Action: Blessing of Might on Applebloom (+2 to hit, +4 Damage for 10 rounds)


HP: 22 (10 temp)
AC: 17 (16 for 5 rounds)
Spell Points: 3
Bardic Inspiration: 3
Cittern Charges: 8

Avatar of War: 3 rounds
 
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Dreamweaver Dreamweaver Cyan Hide Cyan Hide

Applebloom was a little bit overwhelmed with everything going on right now. Suddenly, just all hell was breaking loose. Fire was raining from the skies, fighting was happening, and she couldn't help but feel bad about the fight with the Gryphon. She glared at him, feeling a surge of power in her thanks to Windy. Still, this was a fight to finish. She'd glare at the large Gryphon, and leap at him again, swinging out with her hooves. She could hardly feel the stab wound she'd received, just needing to weaken him down.

Bonus Action used: Rising Sun Kick

Action used: Attack (Gladiator Gryphon)
To hit: 27 (18 + 7 + 2)
Damage: 19 (8 + 7 + 4)
Fire Damage: 1

1 Ki Point Spent: Patient Defense

Applebloom moved away, not wanting to kill the Gryphon, but to at least cripple him so he couldn't find. She was very much expecting a retaliation, and honed in her senses, getting ready to dodge whatever he'd try to do. She wasn't in the mood to be as weak as she had been after the air ship. That had been plain awful. Already, she could feel herself growing tired, feeling her stab wound now.

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Applebloom
HP: 23/35
AC: 16
 
Avedon Avedon Cyan Hide Cyan Hide GeneralTyrus GeneralTyrus Dumbledoof Dumbledoof Noivian Noivian
Rose had to shield her eyes as fire engulfed the sky and blasted down onto the enemy cannons. She could see pirates rolling out of the way as pillars of fire struck their cannons, threatening to engulf them as well. She then saw Wind fire an arrow that seemed laced with some kind of energy, which sunk deeply into the cannons leg and threatened to topple the thing over.

Yet even after all of that... the cannons were still functioning. The enemy crew continued to work on getting the cannons ready to fire, and unfortunately this time two of them were ready to fire! One of the cannons blasted a hole in their ship right where Aurelion had been working, ruining her work and sprinkling her with shards of wood!
AURELION: Make a DC 12 Dexterity save, taking 8 damage on a failure or 4 on a success!

The next cannon... turned towards Valentine. Rose saw it happening, and tried her best to leap in front of it! As the cannon fired, the beam instead hit Rose and propelled her back into Valentine, who had to deal with Rose's flying body but not the actual impact of the beam itself.

VALENTINE: Make a DC 14 Dexterity save, taking 10 damage on failed save or 5 on a successful one from Rose's body hitting you!

Rose looked... remarkably uninjured. She had a few scrapes and bruises, but you'd expect somepony who just got hit by an energy cannon to look a little worse. She just shrugged it off and grunted before leveling her revolver at Cannon #1. She blew it apart without much effort at all, and pointed her second revolver at Canon #2! This one actually survived the first shot and her second shot tore through it. Her next shot against Cannon #3 deflected away harmlessly and Rose shouted up at Wind, "Focus on the third one!"

Unfortunately for Wind... it wasn't that easy. She had two pegasi flying up at her, who were intent on stopping her from assaulting the cannons! Both of them were wielding maces, and as they approached her they flanked and began battering her with their maces! Unfortunately for Wind, it seemed like they knew what they were doing.
WIND: One hit with a 21 and two hits with a 23. First attack did 7 damage, second attack did 3 damage and third attack did 3 damage.

Applebloom... had other problems. The griffon was still struggling against the hand, but he didn't look like he was giving up on the fight yet. "Get on your knees, and you will be spared! You should listen to the child." the griffon directed at Applebloom, while struggling against the infernal hand to no avail. Rose was obviously expecting Applebloom to handle it, as she was focusing on the cannons now.


  • HP: 19/124
    AC: 16


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Rose Stats
Hit Points: 20/36
Armor Class: 17
Grit: 3/3

+1 Revolver: 2/6
Regular Revolver: 5/6
Blunderbuss: 0/1

Action Surge: 1/1

Trick Shot: Available
Duplicating Shot: 1 round

Statuses: None
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver


Wind barely had time to register the thread and made no effort to move. Her only action was to keep her aim steady but refrain from firing until after the enemies had attacked her and they wouldn't cause her to miss. The attacks both hurt. Luckily, her storm shield shocked the first thug to attack her. She took the shot, landing a bullseye on the cannon Rose has pointed out to her and taking it out of commission for good.

With one less cannon to worry about, she turned her attention to the more immediate threat; the ponies who were attacking her. With a sharp, painful whistle, she conjured just enough fire magic to singe Thug 1 in retribution for hurting her, before calling out to Rose. "I shall continue to disable the canons! Please cover me!" she cried, gesturing to Thug 1, before turning her attention back to the cannons.



Attack Action: Shortbow on Cannon 3- 26 to hit
Damage - 19

Bonus Action: Scorch on Thug 1 - 12 to hit
Damage: - 4

Reaction: Weak Point - Rose has advantage on attack rolls against Thug 1

Storm Shield: 10 Lightning Damage to Thug 1



HP: 19
AC: 17 (16 for 4 rounds)
Spell Points: 2
Bardic Inspiration: 3
Cittern Charges: 8

Avatar of War: 2 rounds
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver

Valentine's eyes were filled with the red-glow of the hell-fires that rose from the ship, the flames contorting into strange shapes even against the wind. Her reminiscing of home was quickly interrupted as she spotted black shapes flying as fast as their wings could carry them from towards the ship!
"AHHH!"
She crouched down onto her knees with her hooves over her head, curled up and shaking! here it came....after a few moments passed she opened her eyes and had noticed they had flown towards Wind! They didn't notice her!....wait how come they didn't notice her, she had done a cool speech and just set half their ship on fire!

She got up angrily and shook her hoof into the sky!
"Notice me you jerks! I'm a devil! I did good at being bad this time and everything!"
She ground her teeth and fangs together as her ears heard the crack of Rose's pistol shooting. She rolled her eyes. What weak pew-pews. Her smug smile slowly and tentatively returned as she gave her own pistol a spin.

"Pff...poser. That's now how you make pew-pew sounds....NBGAH!!!"
She was knocked out of her thoughts by Rose's fat ass hurtling through the air into her back and knocking her flat out onto the floor. Her legs kicked and her butt tried to bounce Rose off to little avail before she slumped down and gave up with a little frustrated sob at the earth-pony pinning her down!
"Rose you jeeerk..."
Her hoof tightened on her pistol and she threw it onto the dock in frustration. She instantly regretted it and held out to it with tears in her eyes as it bounced off the wood and straight towards Applebloom!
"APPLEBLOOM! MY GUN!"
She said as if calling out to having thrown it to her to help with the aerial enemies.

Applebloom: Make a DC 12 Dexterity Check to catch the pistol.

Valentine turned her eyes to the cannon muttering to herself.
"Oh that's it, if I can't have guns no one can..."

Valentine would make the molten slag and burning ruins of the first three cannons shift momentarily, the hell-fires around them wrapping their forms in the vague-shape of a gunslinging pony as they aimed at the fourth cannon and shot blasts of molten shrapnel, super-heated and practically melting as it flew through the air to impale and scatter the fourth cannon before each of the constructs toppled over, too unstable to have done any more with the last of the hellfire on them fading off into the night.


Action: Scorcing Ray (All on Cannon 4)
Ray 1: Roll 16 / Miss
Ray 2: Roll 24 / Damage 9 Fire
Ray 3: Roll 21 / Damage 10 Fire


Dexterity Save: Failed

HP: 28
Shield: 8
AC: 13
SP: 2/6
 
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Applebloom, having done what she had wanted to do, looking around, noticing the chaos that was currently occuring. She'd look up, watching as Windy was beset by two would be attackers, and she'd growl, wanting to help, but unable to. She'd look to Val, noticing her get the stuffing knocked out of her by Rose's flying blody, her eyes widening a bit at the sight. She watched as the pistol tumbled and slid towards her, and leapt out, snatching it up with ease.

Dex Check: 24 (18 + 6)

She snatched it up with ease, and looked up again, before aiming at one of the thugs. She was really glad Rose had taught her some of the basics in firearms! She'd pull the trigger after having lined up her shot, the gun firing loudly.

Action used: Attack (Thug 1)
Hit: 17 (13 + 4)
Damage: 9!

Applebloom watched as the laser got the pony in the side, and grinned, cheering silently to herself, before looking around, hoping that she wouldn't get hit by one of those damn cannons!

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Applebloom
HP: 23/35
AC: 16
 
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Apparently nobody wanted to listen to her. She couldn't exactly just let her group die, so... Aurelion didn't have much of a choice. It was either don't help them and risk everybody's lives, or help them and try to end this as quickly as possible. Hopefully her mother wouldn't be too angry at her for breaking her stuff...

Dexterity Save: 6 (4, +2)

That train of thought was quickly derailed by one of the laser cannons being aimed at her and blasting away. She flinched, bracing... but it hit Rose instead! Blinking in surprise, that didn't last for very long, because a piece of debris was heading right for her face! She barely reacted to it, a large chunk of wood smacking her right in the noggin. Aurelion cried out and put her hooves up to her head, gritting her teeth. That hurt!

Aurelion turned her head to the sky when two pegasi flew overhead and went right for Wind Whistler! Nobody was allowed to hurt that Pegasus, even if her voice was really annoying sometimes! She put her hoof up into the air, fire coming to life from her hooves, and building up into a ball of flame, which she chucked at the pony! Take that, hoe! The explosion as it landed rocked out, turning their friend into Equestria Fried Pegasus™.

Aurelion Sol's AttackAttack on Thug #2: To-hit
Fireball: 19 (16, +3)

Attack on Thug #2: Damage
Fireball: 26 (5, 4, 5, 6, 6), Thug #1 is also damaged by the explosion. DC 13 Dexterity saving throw.

Total: 26 damage

Aurelion Sol's StatsHP: 27/35
AC: 16

Spell Points: 2/5
Wildshape Charges: 2/2

Buffs
N/A
 
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Avedon Avedon Cyan Hide Cyan Hide GeneralTyrus GeneralTyrus Dumbledoof Dumbledoof
The gladiator griffon continued to be restrained by the damn hand. So he decided rather than try to fight his way out, he would just attack it! He only managed to hit it once, though his powerful strike sent cracks throughout the hands structure.
VALENTINE: Arcane Hand hit with a 22, for 12 damage.

Wind's assault totally destroyed one of the cannons, and the thug who she scorched fell away as the fire and lightning surged through him. The fourth cannon melted under Valentine's assault. That left only one cannon still operational, and it didn't look like it would be working any time soon!

The two thugs on Wind kept attacking her, despite the odds not looking good for them. Splitting up would be an even worse idea! With them working together, each and every attack that they made actually landed this time.
WIND: Hit with a 20, 22, 22 and 18. Damaged for 5 on the first attack, and 4 on the other three attacks.

Things weren't looking good for Wind, and Rose was suddenly stuck with a tough decision. Attack the cannon, or save her teammate...?

She winced as a ball of flame from Aurelion engulfed the thugs, incinerating one of them and really badly burning the other. Rose winced as the pegasus burned and quickly finished him off with a well placed shot. Except she missed. So she used her bonus action to shoot again, and actually hit this time! That pegasus fell from the sky with a hole in its head. Seeing that the gladiator griffon was intent on escaping, Rose carefully aimed at him and pulled the trigger. She put a bit of her own magic into that shot and blew the griffons head apart.

Right after that, a new enemy made itself known. From out of the Captains cabin strode an earth pony who was nearly as large as Applebloom herself. What was even more interesting was the fact that he carried with him a very familiar sword...
Devotion.png
The earth pony quite literally jumped from his boat to theirs, and as one of their crew members moved to intercept him, he swung Devotion at them. That legendary blade cut clean through their allies neck and he dropped to the ground, dead.

The earth pony then pointed the blade, at Valentine. She was a devil after all. Knowing that this was Lucian's weapon, in the hooves of a pirate, Valentine would know one strike from such a blade may kill her. It was an Archangels blade after all, not something to be taken lightly. "Stand down." he said calmly.

It was then that their own captain joined the fray, and immediately dove towards the new enemy wielding the holy blade. She dove right at him and tried slashing at him twice with her rapier, but missed every attack. In return the enemy captain raised Devotion up, and brought it crashing down on his enemy, digging right through her defense and into her shoulder, before stabbing cleaning through her wrist on the second attack. She wasn't looking so good...

He turned to them again. "Stand. Down."


  • HP: 41/77
    AC: 17


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Rose Stats
Hit Points: 20/36
Armor Class: 17
Grit: 2/3

+1 Revolver: 2/6
Regular Revolver: 5/6
Blunderbuss: 0/1

Action Surge: 1/1

Trick Shot: Available
Duplicating Shot: Available

Statuses: None
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver

Despite taking heavy damage, Wind was glad that all but one of the canons was now taken out, and the ponies that had been attacking her had been dealt with. Wind was about to deal with the last canon, when a stallion who was likely the captain of the other boat emerged, and boarded their own. Exchanging some blows with their captain, he then told them to stand down. Finally! A chance for a ceasefire before any more loss of life could occur.

She shakily flew back to the boat, and played a tune on her cittern imbued with magic, that would try to hold him in place and stop him from attacking their captain, and also used some of her magic to heal herself slightly. She When she made it on to the deck, this worn, badly hurt pony who looked nothing like a pirate put her hoof out to him, and a hoof out to her friends. "Wait! If he wants us to stand down, he might want to talk, and we can resolve this without any more bloodshed! First of all, why are you trying to sink this ship? You don't seem like pirates."


Action: Hold Pony on Enemy Captain (disadvantage on the intelligence save DC = 14)

Bonus Action: Cure Wounds for 8 hp to Wind Whistler


HP: 10
AC: 17 (16 for 3 rounds)
Spell Points: 0
Bardic Inspiration: 3
Cittern Charges: 7

Avatar of War: 1 rounds
 
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Dreamweaver Dreamweaver

Applebloom was very happy that it seemed things were going well for them, and she'd take another look around. Then suddenly a massive pony jumped onto the ship, and she'd stare at them, startled, before spotting the sword on his back. Then was a slight pause in her brain, before it seemed to start back up, and she'd stare at the captain, before pointing at him, growling, "Why do you have that sword?!" She'd ask, glaring at him, "What happened to Lucian!?" She'd demand answers, though she made no move towards him, not wanting to really fight anymore.

She'd look at him, before looking at the others, grinding her teeth together. She wanted to know where Lucian was, and the fact that someone else had his sword did not bode well in her mind, and she was beginning to panic slightly. She'd look at Windy, nodding her head in agreement, "I don't want to fight right now..." She'd mumble quietly.

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Applebloom
HP: 23/35
AC: 16
 
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Valentine had given up her spell to set the Arcane Hand to the side after the griffon had seemingly surrendered, but as he attacked it, the demonic claws instincts crushed tighter around him. His armor began to give and bones underneath as well. Valentine's hooves clenched over her head as she felt the arcane pulse ricochet over to her mind! She angrily shot a bolt of raw magic towards the remaining cannon. She was angry enough she didn't even notice the other bound enemy!

"OWWW."
She spun around angrily
"Hey jerk-beak! I thought we had an agreement! Now I got no reason to believe what ANY of you say!"
She trotted over to him with a frown and gave him a series of angrily little chest baps with her hooves.


Action: Arcane Blast on Cannon 5
24 Hit (19+5)
Damage: 8 Magic

Bonus: Grasping Hand - Crush
Damage: 12 B damage (7 + 5)


Valentine
HP: 28
Shield: 14
AC: 13
SP: 2/6 (Charging)


Arcane Hand
HP: 2/14
AC: 20
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver
Aurelion didn't feel good about throwing that Fireball. In fact, none of this really felt right—it seemed... wrong. She only felt even worse by the fact that literally nobody was willing to listen to her apparently, or were too busy in a fight already to listen. This attack on their ship didn't sit right with her. The captain was probably going to have a mouthful to give her, if they lived for that long anyway.

... Well, that was, until the Captain was just smacked down really easily. With a very familiar sword. "Hey! That doesn't belong to you!" She called out almost immediately! "That's Lucian's sword!"

Devotion being in the claws of a griffon was extremely worrying. Hopefully Lucian was okay. Aurelion slowly filed close to Applebloom, frowning and staring at the enemy Captain. "Guys, I don't like where this is going..."

Aurelion Sol's StatsHP: 27/35
AC: 16

Spell Points: 2/5
Wildshape Charges: 2/2

Buffs
N/A
 
Avedon Avedon Cyan Hide Cyan Hide GeneralTyrus GeneralTyrus Dumbledoof Dumbledoof
The last remaining cannon rocked slightly as Valentine's arcane blast assaulted it, and the unicorns working on the cannon worked overtime to try and get it going! Unfortunately they failed. The cannon remained useless, but Rose wasn't about to wait and see the thing go active! She decided to fire a few shots at the cannon, but only one actually hit.

The cannon rocked back again as her shot landed and Rose turned to the party. "Can we please finish off the last cannon while the bad captain is paralyzed?!" She questioned quite angrily, pointing across the water at the enemy ship as she did so.

She was right about the enemy captain being paralyzed. He was totally frozen from Wind's Hold Pony spell... the only issue was that it also stopped the earth pony from speaking. It wouldn't be possibly to get questions out of the earth pony while he was held.

Their captain didn't really care. The mare turned to them with a frown. "I am not about to sit down for lunch and a date with this stallion just so you can all figure out who gets the sword! The sword is mine, and I'll take it from his corpse."

... She literally missed the enemy captain twice and looked absolutely embarrassed while doing so. It looked like the enemy captain was totally laughing internally, though he couldn't actually laugh while paralyzed.



  • HP: 41/77
    AC: 17


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Rose Stats
Hit Points: 20/36
Armor Class: 17
Grit: 2/3

+1 Revolver: 0/6
Regular Revolver: 5/6
Blunderbuss: 0/1

Action Surge: 1/1

Trick Shot: Available
Duplicating Shot: Two rounds

Statuses: None
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver


Heeding Rose's words, Wind turned and fired an arrow at the last cannon, just as Luna's strengthening magic over her faded and left her. Luckily it's last little burst before flickering out was enough to steer her bolt true, and allow it to shut down the last cannon. With that threat taken care of, now they had a new problem to face. Her teammates were bringing up some logical points about this pirate.

"I....I don't feel right killing a Griffin who is basically our defenseless prisoner. Not when there's a chance we could talk this out. Sorry, everypony, I'm releasing my spell."

And with that, she released her cold on the Hold Pony spell, allowing the enemy captain to talk, or attack, as he saw fit. She laced her voice with bardic magic, that would hopefully make it more convincing, and would give him pause to consider attacking them a good idea.

"Now, please don't do anything reckless. Please, answer our questions. Why did you attack us? Where did you get that sword?


Action: Shortbow attack to Cannon 5 (with advantage, 20+6 = 26)
Damage - (2D10+5, 2D6) = (21+9) = 30

Bonus Action: Demoralizing Shout on Enemy Captain (Charisma Save DC=14 with disadvantage)


HP: 10
AC: 17 (16 for 2 rounds)
Spell Points: 0
Bardic Inspiration: 3
Cittern Charges: 7
 
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Valentine was pleased to note that the griffon gladiator seemed to have stopped struggling...likely because if he kept doing it he'd be crushed to death or immediately killed by Valentine on escaping. Still a jerk-beak. She turned to note everyone kind of gathered around the stallion wielding a familiar sword! Her eyes lit up!

"Oh nice! You know any mortal carting that around would have to be ridiculously brave! I mean I know several Demons and Devils that would hunt that down along with whoever is wielding it to the ends of the world and beyond to grab it as a trophy! Good on you captain! Too many ponies value their souls too highly with these sort of curses!"
She said walking over to nudge the "friendly" captain who wanted it.


Valentine
HP: 28
Shield: 14
AC: 13
SP: 3/6 +


Arcane Hand
HP: 2/14
AC: 20
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver
This was almost laughable if the current situation didn't kind of make that difficult. Watching their Captain just completely blunder attacking them again, and again, and again was priceless. Aurelion really couldn't bring herself to attack when they were messing up that spectacularly. So she sat down and just watched this unfold.

"You don't want to talk, but when a random stallion has our friend's weapon, we've got a couple questions." She used the term 'friend' loosely here, glancing sideways at Applebloom. They seemed a little more friendly with Lucian than everybody else. "So, um, it'd be cool to know where you got that. And why you're attacking us, 'cause... we're just trying to get to Saddle Arabia. Something about learning more of the culture. Princess's orders."

She shrugged. The filly seemed innocent enough.

Aurelion Sol's StatsHP: 27/35
AC: 16

Spell Points: 2/5
Wildshape Charges: 2/2

Buffs
N/A
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver

Applebloom would turn to face the captain of ship they were currently on, and snarled at her, "That sword doesn't belong to you either. And if you try to keep it, you'll be eating my hooves for breakfast." She'd growl, before looking to the Gryphon, trying to figure out just who he was by uniform alone. Maybe that would be a smart idea now, instead still attacking. They clearly saw the fight in the sky, if the Gryphon had Lucian's sword. She still could imagine how exactly the Gryphon would have gotten it.

"You! Mister Captain of the enemy ship. Where did you get that sword, I want to know, right now." She'd say firmly, stepping back a bit, not really wanting to get stabbed if he decided he still wanted to fight. She really wanted to know what was going on anyway. She was too conflicted about the fight now.

Action used: Repair ship.
Repaired: 15 (8 + 7)

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Applebloom
HP: 23/35
AC: 16
 
Avedon Avedon Cyan Hide Cyan Hide GeneralTyrus GeneralTyrus Dumbledoof Dumbledoof
Their own Captain was not liking any of this, and was particularly not liking how Applebloom addressed her. She turned on Applebloom at that threat and glared at her, before looking over the rest of the. "Need I remind you, that I am your Captain?! There will be no insubordination on my ship! I was kind enough to allow you all on board my ship and give you safe passage to Saddle Arabia. In returned, I asked for help dealing with a rival crew. So, DEAL WITH THEM!"

It looked like the battle was beginning to end, and their 'friendly' ship was starting to look not so friendly. As their Captain barked at them to deal with the threat, several crew members began to point weapons towards the party in a very unsure manner. They didn't want to fight, but if their Captain demanded it then they wouldn't really have a choice. But it was clear that they were almost all hesitating.

"Wait, wait!" The enemy Captain barked out. He was staring right at Aurelion, before glancing around at the rest of the group. "Forget the sword. Princesses orders? We are Royal Navy!"

That did kind of explain the cannons, but didn't explain the black flag...

Unfortunately, time was running out. "Deal with them, or be dealt with!" their Captain ordered, brandishing her spiked chain. At the very same time the enemy Captain brandished Devotion and stared at all of them. "Don't be traitors to the crown. Today is no day to die, friends."

In their heads, the group would actually hear Rose's voice. "Okay. Call me crazy, but I have an idea. If I just shoot the Captain, then the crew will be forced to follow us. They already look hesitant. And I kinda wanna try piracy."



  • HP: 41/77
    AC: 17


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Rose Stats
Hit Points: 20/36
Armor Class: 17
Grit: 2/3

+1 Revolver: 6/6
Regular Revolver: 6/6
Blunderbuss: 1/1

Action Surge: 1/1

Trick Shot: Available
Duplicating Shot: Two rounds

Statuses: None
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver

Applebloom would look at Rose, and looked around the ship. She wanted to know what was going on, and didn't really understand it all. The Captain of their ship seemed incredibly agitated. Applebloom would look to Rose, and nod her head at Rose's idea, silently agreeing as she looked around. Taking over the ship could be a good idea, and if the crew would follow them, maybe they could end this combat, and all be on their own way.

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Applebloom
HP: 23/35
AC: 16
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver
"I knew it!" Aurelion exclaimed almost immediately. Now she felt stupid for actually attacking them at all, even if it was to help Wind Whistler. She was not willing to roll over and surrender to the pirates. She was Equestria first and a pirate second. That was what this whole situation was to her; a means to an end, as well as this ship and the pirates. She'd rather they didn't have to die... but it didn't look like they would get much of a choice.

Her ears twitched slightly when Rose spoke, turning her head slightly to them, keeping her eyes on the others. "Let's do it." She whispered back to Rose, eyeing the Captain critically. "I'm not about to betray the Princesses for them. Ready when you are..."

This whole situation they were was fucked up. These pirates had agreed to take them to Saddle Arabia, and by pure coincidence, the Royal Navy had attacked during their voyage. Which left them with little choice but to betray their newly formed allies. She really didn't want to go around murdering, but between the pirates and the Princesses, the choice was obvious. She kind of lived in Canterlot so... you know. A slight green glow came from her hooves.

Aurelion Sol's StatsHP: 27/35
AC: 16

Spell Points: 2/5
Wildshape Charges: 2/2

Buffs
N/A
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver
Valentine glanced between the two before hearing Rose's suggestion to just shoot him and take his ship.
"That is better than all this standing around!"
She sweeps a wing before her, creating 5 points in a pentagram that each shine and build in power before lancing into the enemy captain

Action: Arcane Missile
18 Magic Damage (1,3,3,4,2 + 5)

Valentine
HP: 28
Shield: 13
AC: 13
SP: 2/6 -


Arcane Hand
HP: 2/14
AC: 20
 
Dreamweaver Dreamweaver Avedon Avedon


Wind caught Rose's eye and subtly nodded, even if she immediately noticed the glaring hole in Rose's message. She shuffled closer to Rose while the calm tension was still prevailing. And then Valentine attacked the Griffin that was holding Lucian's sword, and Wind sighed. What she feared would happen, had happened. Wind reached rose and huffed. "You should have been more specific with your message, Rose. Communication is key. Luckily they were flying Pirate Colours so we can make a good case with the Princesses that we didn't just commit deliberate treason. You go, we'll follow."


HP: 10
AC: 16 for 1 round
Spell Points: 0
Bardic Inspiration: 3
 
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