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[VermilionSkies]

'What is this thing made out of?!"

Paste this abomination with a Fate Point.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

HP-27/35
FP-2/6
Attack 14
Defense 14
Armor 5(6)
   Manslayer:
Fighting humans is a lot different than fighting monsters. You're good at the first one. +2 when fighting humans and human like creatures, and you may attack multiple humans in one attack at a lowered penalty (so that you may strike 2 at -1, or 3 at -2). You understand humans better than monsters. When rolling to track, communicate with, or otherwise deal with humans you receive a +2 bonus.
   Hiding Among Us:
You are always looking out for signs that other people are going to attack you and your comrades. If someone is secretly hostile to you, you will notice. If someone is hiding in the bushes waiting to steal your kill, you will notice. If someone is secretly a monster in human skin...you will notice. Automatically detect if someone is your enemy, penalty to being ambushed by humans, automatically detect non-human monsters pretending to be humans.
   Pacify:
Take -1 to aim at a human target's weapon. If successful, the target will be disarmed and the weapon will take damage from the attack. Weapons have hitpoints depending on their quality, and will give penalties to attack if sufficiently damaged. Monster weapons can be targeted for a penalty based off their size starting at -2. If a monster weapon is hit, the monster takes damage as normal and receives a penalty to attack with the weapon based on the damage done. If the damage is a large enough portion of its health, the part will instead be severed and thus unusable.

[Maximum Spin]

'What is this thing made out of?!"

Paste this abomination with a Fate Point.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

HP-27/35
FP-2/6
Attack 14
Defense 14
Armor 5(6)
   Manslayer:
Fighting humans is a lot different than fighting monsters. You're good at the first one. +2 when fighting humans and human like creatures, and you may attack multiple humans in one attack at a lowered penalty (so that you may strike 2 at -1, or 3 at -2). You understand humans better than monsters. When rolling to track, communicate with, or otherwise deal with humans you receive a +2 bonus.
   Hiding Among Us:
You are always looking out for signs that other people are going to attack you and your comrades. If someone is secretly hostile to you, you will notice. If someone is hiding in the bushes waiting to steal your kill, you will notice. If someone is secretly a monster in human skin...you will notice. Automatically detect if someone is your enemy, penalty to being ambushed by humans, automatically detect non-human monsters pretending to be humans.
   Pacify:
Take -1 to aim at a human target's weapon. If successful, the target will be disarmed and the weapon will take damage from the attack. Weapons have hitpoints depending on their quality, and will give penalties to attack if sufficiently damaged. Monster weapons can be targeted for a penalty based off their size starting at -2. If a monster weapon is hit, the monster takes damage as normal and receives a penalty to attack with the weapon based on the damage done. If the damage is a large enough portion of its health, the part will instead be severed and thus unusable.

If this doesn't work, walk up to it and poke it in the eye with a spear.

[Stirk]

'What is this thing made out of?!"

Paste this abomination with a Fate Point.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

HP-27/35
FP-2/6
Attack 14
Defense 14
Armor 5(6)
   Manslayer:
Fighting humans is a lot different than fighting monsters. You're good at the first one. +2 when fighting humans and human like creatures, and you may attack multiple humans in one attack at a lowered penalty (so that you may strike 2 at -1, or 3 at -2). You understand humans better than monsters. When rolling to track, communicate with, or otherwise deal with humans you receive a +2 bonus.
   Hiding Among Us:
You are always looking out for signs that other people are going to attack you and your comrades. If someone is secretly hostile to you, you will notice. If someone is hiding in the bushes waiting to steal your kill, you will notice. If someone is secretly a monster in human skin...you will notice. Automatically detect if someone is your enemy, penalty to being ambushed by humans, automatically detect non-human monsters pretending to be humans.
   Pacify:
Take -1 to aim at a human target's weapon. If successful, the target will be disarmed and the weapon will take damage from the attack. Weapons have hitpoints depending on their quality, and will give penalties to attack if sufficiently damaged. Monster weapons can be targeted for a penalty based off their size starting at -2. If a monster weapon is hit, the monster takes damage as normal and receives a penalty to attack with the weapon based on the damage done. If the damage is a large enough portion of its health, the part will instead be severed and thus unusable.

It works! The abomination is now thoroughly pasted. Which is coincidentally resembles yet another type of food. It would take an expert scholar to even make a guess at what species this creature once was.

'What is this thing made out of?!"

Paste this abomination with a Fate Point.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

HP-27/35
FP-2/6
Attack 14
Defense 14
Armor 5(6)
   Manslayer:
Fighting humans is a lot different than fighting monsters. You're good at the first one. +2 when fighting humans and human like creatures, and you may attack multiple humans in one attack at a lowered penalty (so that you may strike 2 at -1, or 3 at -2). You understand humans better than monsters. When rolling to track, communicate with, or otherwise deal with humans you receive a +2 bonus.
   Hiding Among Us:
You are always looking out for signs that other people are going to attack you and your comrades. If someone is secretly hostile to you, you will notice. If someone is hiding in the bushes waiting to steal your kill, you will notice. If someone is secretly a monster in human skin...you will notice. Automatically detect if someone is your enemy, penalty to being ambushed by humans, automatically detect non-human monsters pretending to be humans.
   Pacify:
Take -1 to aim at a human target's weapon. If successful, the target will be disarmed and the weapon will take damage from the attack. Weapons have hitpoints depending on their quality, and will give penalties to attack if sufficiently damaged. Monster weapons can be targeted for a penalty based off their size starting at -2. If a monster weapon is hit, the monster takes damage as normal and receives a penalty to attack with the weapon based on the damage done. If the damage is a large enough portion of its health, the part will instead be severed and thus unusable.

If this doesn't work, walk up to it and poke it in the eye with a spear.

Nothing left in the fish paste resembles an "eye" anymore, so you should probably poke something less pasty.

[Maximum Spin]

There should be four more sharks then, right? Try to spear all of them. Don't let any of the food get away!

[Stirk]

There should be four more sharks then, right? Try to spear all of them. Don't let any of the food get away!

You manage to spear none of them. In fact, some of the swarm has escaped with bits of Sinker in their mouth, so you have no less food than before.

There are indeed 4 sharks left!

[Weirdsound]

Landon and Chubs continue their monstercidal rampage! If they even notice that they haven't hit anything, they don't show it.

Spend another Fate Point, attack 2 sharks each.

[Supernerd]

Aku attacks 2 Wolf Sharks.

[Stirk]

Landon and Chubs continue their monstercidal rampage! If they even notice that they haven't hit anything, they don't show it.

Spend another Fate Point, attack 2 sharks each.

Chubb's takes advantage of the fact that he is an aquatic animal to follow his prey into the water. It isn't immediately clear to those on the ship what is happening below the surface, but soon two Wolf Shark corpses are floating in a pool of their own blood. Landon on the ship meanwhile lazily chases the few remaining Wolf Sharks around the deck. He doesn't manage to catch any, but makes a spirited effort that no doubt lowers the Wolf Shark's Moral (if they have such a thing)

There are now 2 Wolf Sharks left.

Aku attacks 2 Wolf Sharks.

Aku moves to finish off the remaining sharks - but they seem to be even more wary of the giant wrestler than the sailor and actively retreat whenever you draw near. Much of the swarm is now gone, those left are attempting to either steal away bits of the Sinker or take bites out of the wounded while avoiding anyone who looks like they can fight.

Of course it is a different story when they're in their element. Below the ways Chubbs is rammed into the boat, taking 1 damage!

It is now Init 3, everyone gets to move.

[Weirdsound]

Landon concludes his 'rampage' and leans over the ship's rail with a grin. "Oi! Quit playing with yer food and finish the buggers off!"

Chubs attacks both remaining sharks.

[VermilionSkies]

Assuming he doesn't get them, take a swing at the two remaining.

Spoiler: Status (click to show/hide)

HP-27/35
FP-2/6
Attack 14
Defense 14
Armor 5(6)
   Manslayer:
Fighting humans is a lot different than fighting monsters. You're good at the first one. +2 when fighting humans and human like creatures, and you may attack multiple humans in one attack at a lowered penalty (so that you may strike 2 at -1, or 3 at -2). You understand humans better than monsters. When rolling to track, communicate with, or otherwise deal with humans you receive a +2 bonus.
   Hiding Among Us:
You are always looking out for signs that other people are going to attack you and your comrades. If someone is secretly hostile to you, you will notice. If someone is hiding in the bushes waiting to steal your kill, you will notice. If someone is secretly a monster in human skin...you will notice. Automatically detect if someone is your enemy, penalty to being ambushed by humans, automatically detect non-human monsters pretending to be humans.
   Pacify:
Take -1 to aim at a human target's weapon. If successful, the target will be disarmed and the weapon will take damage from the attack. Weapons have hitpoints depending on their quality, and will give penalties to attack if sufficiently damaged. Monster weapons can be targeted for a penalty based off their size starting at -2. If a monster weapon is hit, the monster takes damage as normal and receives a penalty to attack with the weapon based on the damage done. If the damage is a large enough portion of its health, the part will instead be severed and thus unusable.

[Supernerd]

Could you just set me up to auto-attack 1 Wolf Shark until the end of the combat?

[Stirk]

Landon concludes his 'rampage' and leans over the ship's rail with a grin. "Oi! Quit playing with yer food and finish the buggers off!"

Chubs attacks both remaining sharks.

Chubs hears the command and obeys. The water below betrays a fight beneath, water splashing across the surface with the occasional glimpse of fur or fin above the water line. In time Chubbs returns to the ship carrying most of a Shark with him, with a second lying in the ocean below.

What is left of the Wolf Shark swarm scatters into the sea. So long as a second sea monster doesn't get attracted by the commotion, you shouldn't have to worry about them again.

COMBAT FINISHED
******

As the Zephyr settles down from the fight, Hunters and sailors get to work. Without the ability to regenerate the Star Sinker's corpse is easy to chop into pieces, a fact the sailors took advantage of to remove the tentacles still held fast to the hull. While the sailors where busy getting the ship back into shape the hunters threw out nets (or occasionally jumped in the ocean themselves) to reclaim the remains of the Wolf Sharks.

One of the civilians from below ran up to inform everyone that the preacher has set up a makeshift hospital below deck along with the ship's doctor, and that any wounded should be brought to him for healing. Several sailors are dragged by their comrades to this medical facility.

Much of the ship is now covered with the broken corpses of Wolf Sharks put in a neat pile and chopped up bits of the Sea Sinker minced to fit whatever storage containers could be emptied.

Now for the hard part: Splitting the loot.

The chef/Hunter takes a bite of the Sea Sinker raw. She chews it around her mouth before spitting it into the sea. "Ain't much to work with here. Seems like a young one that didn't have all that long to collect mana. Bit bland an' poisonous too. Was hopin' I could get somethin that could regenerate ya."

Meanwhile the bearded hunter digs around in a barrel repurposed for holding Sinker guts. "Haha it just had the wind ripped out of its sails is all! If we can get some Mana back in it before sundown I bet we can get it growing again. It ain't all that tough but if I can beat out some regenerating armor I bet someone would appreciate it."

More interested in the Sharks than the Sinkers, the man in eastern armor is looking at their teeth. He pulls something from a pouch and performs a routine scratch test before shaking his head in disappointment. "As numerous as these creatures are we are going to get little mana from them. I suspect it would take ... three or four sharks to have enough to satisfy a starting Hunter. All together it may be worth something, but splitting it apart I suspect we will all come out of this with very little....

How are we to split it in any case?"

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OOC CORNER!

Congratulations on not dying immediately in your first battle! I knew you could do it! It is now time for Character Advancement Rules! Yay!

In short now that you killed a monster you get its parts. Rules of nature and all that. With these parts, you can:
-Eat them, eventually leading to Stat growth
-Use them to upgrade your equipment as long as their Quality is higher than your Equipment
-Use special properties of the Monster to give yourself a new Feat
-Sell it to buy new items

Now for the more detailed version!

Stat growth:
Eating mana-rich foods will result in your character gaining strength. As such eating powerful monsters will make you powerful in turn. Every 3 Encounters worth of Monsters you decide to eat, you will get a single stat point to spend on anything but Speed. Speed takes twice as much to increase. More powerful Encounters may count as multiple, to the point that a single boss monster could easily be worth a stat point on its own. Fortunately most Monster's edible parts are different than their functional parts, so you get this by default unless you decide to sell your share of meat or are otherwise unable to access it for plot reasons.

The Ship Sinker and Wolf Shark swarm count as one Encounter together.

Equipment Upgrade:
Your equipment all has a quality rating. If you fight something above the quality rating of your equipment you can use it to either make equipment of that quality or upgrade your equipment to that quality to taste. Most monsters only have a few parts that are truly usable for weapons and armor, as such there will be a limited number of parts available and the party may have to discuss who gets their equipment upgraded. "Alchemy" may be used to transfer mana from one object into another, which can result in items of higher quality. If you collect enough low quality parts they can have their mana combined into a higher quality part. In this case the Very Low quality shark corpses may be combined to make Low Quality equipment.

The Ship Sinker is of Low Quality. The Wolf Shark corpses are of Very Low quality. 3 Wolf Shark corpses may be combined to make a Low Quality shark corpse. There are 15 Wolf Shark corpses available. The Players get 1 Ship Sinker piece each.

New Feat:
Many Monsters, especially more powerful monsters, will have parts valued beyond their Mana worth. You can integrate these into your equipment in some way to give you a new Feat, such as taking a lightning-shooting creatures lightning-shooting part to make a weapon that shoots lightning or an armor that shocks anyone who touches it. Players suggest their own Feat based on the parts they are using. Two players may not use the same part to get a new Feat. A part that is used to make a New Feat can not be used to upgrade a weapon. Power of the feat is based on Quality, and as above new parts may be used to increase the Quality of these Feats over time.

Sell It:
Don't have any interesting idea for a new Feat? Instead of upgrading, you may instead find a merchant willing to buy the parts off of you and sell them for money. This is abstracted - for the most part you will be able to sell three "Objects" worth of monster bits for one "Purchase" of equivalent Quality. It is assumed that you can sell off less meaningful parts in town for daily living expenses, this action assumes you're selling off the meaningful parts too. The benefit of this is that instead of being limited by the creature's ability, you may choose any new feat that the GM approves of - not necessarily tied in with equipment either.

Hopefully this makes sense and isn't too broken. Currently each player has access to One Ship Sinker Piece (Low Quality) and three Very Low Quality Shark Corpses. For the first Encounter I will assume everyone got equal parts, but you may give either to other players if you want to. In future encounters there is likely to not be a 1-1 ratio of parts to players, in which case you will be able to agree IC and OOC about who gets what.

[Maximum Spin]

So I could, for example, use some sinkerflesh on my spearheads to make them grow like a cancer on contact with a foe, as a new feat, to add a new on-hit debuff?
What impact would that have on the resources available to the others?

[Stirk]

So I could, for example, use some sinkerflesh on my spearheads to make them grow like a cancer on contact with a foe, as a new feat, to add a new on-hit debuff?
What impact would that have on the resources available to the others?

Yes that is one option, though as it is Low Quality it will likely either be something you need to spend a Fate point to activate or for its success to be chance based until it is upgraded.

You currently have 5 Ship Sinker and 15 Wolf Shark parts available to the group, with the assumption that it will be spread evenly. If you spend your piece on a new feat you as a group will have 4 left.

[Weirdsound]

Landon scoops up Chubs once it hops back aboard the ship, and throws the blood-soaked otter across his shoulders like a scarf. "Who be a good remorseless killer? You are! Yes you are!"

The sailor slips his pet a good sized piece of shark meat to shut it up for a bit, gives it a scratch under the chin, and considers his share of the loot.

"Ya know, I was thinking of making sum new mandolin strings out o' the Starfish guts. Something to let me strum a nice regenerative chord. Fighting monsters with you lot was a damn good time, no? If any of ya would like to keep hunting with me once we reach tha new world, perhaps it would be in yer interests ta share some sinker star bits with me. I'll get cha back later, and if I get enough it will make the healing more powerful and consistent. Whatcha say? Twill be a win-win."