Cove of the Piratical Bureaucrats, still.Sorry, exam malaise.
Another rain of arrows, naturally: 1
Only Captain Desmond is threatened. Perhaps paperclips don't actually make the best arrowheads. But the archers, again, have the range estimated (+2 to 1s).
"Oh Lord, this is going to sting. Someone get a rope up to the deck of that ship! The cat needs a way up!"
Are those the lines that the guys on shore fired and were climbing, or did the ship itself launch them this turn?
Captain Desmond locks the wheel, aiming for open seas, and gets under cover. I fire my crossbow in the general direction of the pirate ship and do a lot of hiding from massed arrows.
((We have two players whose actions are "think of something to do." Guys ... it is the GM's responsibility to give us challenges. It is not the GM's responsibility to solve those challenges for us.
Besids, he already mentioned the cannons a couple times.))
Nah, this is taking too long anyway. I need to speed things up.
Cover it is.
Archery: 3
Nope.
Dodge:
3+2=5
Even the arrow that managed to hit the ship passes harmlessly over the wheel.
((sorry, been away getting rained on))
Get a spare very long rope, tie it to a crossbow bolt, and shoot said bolt into the enemy ship. But! First tie an end to a cannon so the rope doesn't go loose.
"Aye aye sir. Rope it is sir... Possibly."
Bluff: 1-1
You tie yourself to a cannon. Damn fiddly non-Belgrafian Knottyers Guild Approved knots!
Erm... the massive ropes tied to their ship and stuck fast to yours might serve the same purpose...
That Bloody Cat was getting irritated. At this rate, his captain might get hurt! Not permissible.
That Bloody Cat stared at the enemy crew, then HISSED. The hiss of an ordinary cat might not have been frightening. But this one probably was.
Sadly, the crew can't hear you over the sound of Piratical Bureaucrat shanties. Stuff about impaling men on massive ring-binders... not bad, as human music goes.
Devan prepares to fight any boarders. With his deadly deadly cannon.
No boarders. Perhaps they gave up on that idea after the dismemberment incident?
To hell with this.
Read through the more... occult notes in the book to find a way to bail us out before we get skewered.
Well, you're attached to the enemy ship with a great deal of arrows and grapples attached to ropes... and will be under threat till you manage to un-attach the ropes somehow...
Tinkering: 5
Weirding:2
You flip through the book, mutter a few invocations from a black and inviting page. Your fingers catch fire briefly. Yowch. Better not try that again. While cursing and grabbing at your hand, you notice a page involving a way of making a giant pair of... well scissors, basically, from a pair of long sharp edges and some rope and easily obtained bits of wood.
Think of something so weird or so crazy that it just might work!
Group sing-along? Bad plan, actually. Devan would probably spoil it. Maybe you shouldn't invite him.
At this rate... well, the Gareth looks pretty captured, so no more pirates are going to come and help. The larger ship, while damaged, is faring okay... it probably won't be fully submerged even if it does sink.
Oh look. They're wheeling a ballista off the deck for some reason. And making a large hole in their own bow(thanks oz), level with your hold. This can't be good.