MLPFEMTORPG -- Purple Pipers play their tune

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>Cloud 5/5 (5/5)
>Alder 5/5 (5/5)
>Cutlass 5/5 (5/5)
>Rin 2/5 (7/5)
>Cerulean 4/6 (8/6)

Last time on Pirates...

https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/30017959/#30018935

The Beesting departed from Windy Island, bound for the Ribcage so that the party could find the Crimson King and get him to break off the curse over the Misties and the Gusties, before the fated time of their fight. But, when they originally landed on the island, Bee Holder estimated that they would need 10 days to reach the Ribcage's outermost layer, leaving them with only 6 days to hunt the Crimson King.

However, that problem was quickly being solved. Badly. A few hours after setting sail, a purple-haired mare floated up out of the sea, playing a mysterious tune on a brass flute. Infuriated that the Beesting's crew did not like her song, she began playing a different one which summoned great winds. The Beesting was propelled forward at rocket speeds, with the Purple Piper floating alongside her.

And to make matters worse, they are on a collision course with what appears to be two ships battling on the horizon...

>>30154317
You fail to land your spell.

>>30154413
You trip and bang your head as you wobble toward the dor but soon you stumble down to where the cannons are held.

>cannons get +2 to attacking but have Recharge 1 as you reload

>>30154391
>>30154413
>>30154444
As Rin and Cerulean try to attack the purple piper, she turns her flute and whistles a shrieking high note at the two of them.
>Rin loses 5 Hits, Cerulean loses 4

The impact knocks the two off the Piper, but before Cerulean can plunge into the water, Alder catches her and throws her back onto the Piper. "Oh dear, that was a good catch!" the piper exclaims. "...Oh dear, she's coming right at me!" she shouts once Cerulean lands on her.

>Alder and Rin start to fall behind and will need to roll again to keep up. These are instant actions, and they can be made in a separate post. If the instant rolls succeed then they can attack this turn. If they fail they can use the normal action to try again if desired.

>>30154375
You are finally woken up after your nap, full of frightening, feverish dreams. It turned out the crew hadn't gotten rid of all the sabotaged fruit like they'd thought, and you came down with a sudden case of food poisoning. The bitter taste of antidote lingers on your lips, but at least you no longer feel as woozy as you did when you left the island. Only, the ship's rocking and horrifying speed shake you out of bed and toss you against the wall.

>(2/3)

Those who are on the ship's deck can see something growing on the horizon: Two big silhouettes, nearly overlapping, vaguely in the shapes of ships. A little smoke trails from the silhouettes and periodically, small pieces fly off of them. It appears to be a pair of ships that are engaging in battle. And, the Beesting is hurtling straight toward them at an alarmingly fast pace.

The Piper smugly stops playing for a moment to wipe spittle off her lips with a dainty handkerchief. "Hmm. All the music puns that come to mind are too cliche for something like this," the Piper muses. "In terms that a gaggle of scraggly, unwashed pirates might understand: You are all fornicated."

"I wish..." Kling Klang says wistfully.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50rAUIIt8uw

>>30154476
"Augh! This wench be a pain in me scales!!" Rin shouts angrily.

>Instant action
[1d10]

>>30154472

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Cutlass groans and rubs her head, but realizes she's standing at the cannons.

"Haha!" she cackles with delight. "Take this you disgusting creature!"

>>30154494
>>30154476
After catching back up, Rin attempts slicing up the siren once more if she sees her head poke out of the water.

>Dual Strikes
[1d10]
[1d10]

>Slice n' Dice
[1d10]

>>30154501

[1d10+2] to actually fire the canon

>>30154476
"Come on..."
Cloud mumbles as he holds tight to the ship's railing, keeping himself steady for a good sight lock onto the siren. His eyes glow orange as he tries again, hoping his magic can hit the mark this time.
>Wax/Wane [Shrink Siren] [1d10]

>>30154476
"N-No! We need to help the rest! We must hurry!" The griffon squawks, trying his hardest to keep up and return to the ship and land
>[1d10] Flight

>>30154476
As Cerulean lands, she grins and her tail waves around in the air.
"So you gonna slow the ship down or am I gonna have to beat you down until you do?"
Before an answer is giving, Cerulean seems to pick for her as her tail slaps down on the siren.

>Slam, dc -1, +1, crits 8+
[1d10+1]

>>30154476
"What in tarnation is goin' on out here?!" Steve says as he enters the deck.
Spotting the siren, "Well what the heck are y'all doin messing about with this ghost thing and not endin it already?"

Steve charges out recklessly at the siren out of sheer grogginess and confusion

>Slam, Crits 8+ [1d10+1]

>>30154560
Alder hurriedly fishes out a large flask and hurls it at Cerulean, shouting "H-Here! Inhale this!" as he lands back on the ship
>Natural Remedy: [1d10]

>>30154610
>Jumping out at the siren [1d10]

>>30154505
The Purple Piper uses her brass flute to deflect your sword strikes, and behind each clash you feel a terrifying physical might. She feints, then kicks you in the chin. You barely cling on to her purple hair, but are skidding against the water.
>Rin 0/4

The Piper raises a hindleg to kick you off... (you will fall off and take severe damage if you do not recover from helplessness this turn)

>>30154572
Holding her flute in one hoof, the Piper punches your tailfin as you swing it at her. Although you feel monstrous strength behind her hit, her eyes bulge, and her muscles visibly strain under the force of your hit. "What the!? Wh-where are you from? How the hell am I..."

The Piper nearly stumbles backward, but shoves you off before she does.
>Cerulean 2/6

>>30154509
The Piper flinches as the cannonball hurtles toward her, and raises up her flute at the last second to keep it from being hit. The ball hits her square in the chest, but with a flex of her stomach, she knocks it back into the water. Several crewmates shout in despair. "What's that hair made of!?" one asks.

The ship noticeably slows down for a few seconds as the Piper's song is interrupted, but once she begins playing again, it returns to its hyper-speed.

>>30154536
Seeing your eyes glow, the Piper plays a cruel high-pitched wail on her flute, deafening you for a few moments.
>Cloud unable to use magic next turn [Silenced]
>Cloud 4/5

>>30154615
The flask falls into the ocean.

>>30154610
You land on the Piper's flowing dress-mane, which is now as long as a carpet as it floats over the ocean, next to Cerulean. While the Piper plays her flute, she is unable to defend herself against your strike. But, she hardly flinches, and her mane is as tough as steel.


The Piper starts to play more rapidly. A black aura floats out of the end of her flute, and swings toward Cerulean. [1d10+3]

>You're heading toward the ships fighting on the horizon so rapidly that you will crash into them in three turns

>>30154654
"COME ON, KICK ME IN THE FACE AND MAKE ME BLEED!" Rin shouts, her bloodlust rising as she feels the pain. She attempts to recover just so she can hurt the Piper back.

>Recovery
[1d10]

>>30154654
"D-Don't you dare!" he squawks, taking a shot at the siren's flute again!
>Shortbow: [1d10]

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>>30154654
"I'm from the ocean, obviously! And I said to stop making our ship move fast! NOW!"
She gets into the water long enough for her to speed back upwards and breach the surface to launch up and clamp her jaws down on the main body of the siren.

>Great weapon attack
[1d10+1]

>>30154654

"Well..." Cutlass says with admiration as the Piper shakes off the canonball. "That sure is one impressive exercise regimen she has. I'd like a body like that."

>reloading cannonball

>>30154654
"Oh look at you so tough and whatnot! back where ahm from we'd eat sissies like you for breakfast if there were any left over from the night before! NOS TE OCCIDAM! TIBI SEPELITE!"

>Word of Power [1d10]

>>30154670
The Piper kicks you many times in the face, and you gain a copious nosebleed. But, you remain in the game, push her off you and pull yourself back up.
>Rin 7/4

>>30154682
You and many other crew members lose your balance as the ship is temporarily knocked airborne from a small wave. You trip and smack your head against the wooden railing.
>Alder 0/4

>>30154737
You reload your cannon just as more of the crew work their way downstairs. The unicorn mare that yanked Cloud off to the side nearly falls on top of you, then gets up. You feel like she just gave you a dirty glare.

>>30154741
>>30154715
As Cerulean chomps down on the Piper, the black aura becomes a long-nailed hand, and grips the shark by the midsection, nearly choking her as it throttles her body. Her song weakens slightly as Cerulean's teeth restrict her airflow, but the ship does not slow down any. The black hand tries to yank Cerulean off of the Piper, elbowing HHS in the face multiple times as it struggles with Cerulean.
>Cerulean 0/5
>HHs 6/6

The crew tries to fire their cannons at the Piper. [1d10+2] [1d10+2]
The Piper tries to yank Cerulean off of her [1d10+3]

>Bee Holder cackles in amusement as the Beesting hurtles toward the fighting ships, which are quickly growing closer. Those on the deck see small purple shapes floating around those ships as well. 2 Turns left.

>>30154779
Cerulean tries to keep her grip strong on the siren, shaking her head around as if trying to tear into her.
"Ah shed shtop zhe shihp!"

>Recover from helpless/holding on
>If this counts as a water terrain, DC 4 to recover due to Earthly Affinity
[1d10]

>>30154779
Rin stands tall, flexing as she relishes in pain. "Now I have every excuse to gut ye and see what ye taste like!" Rin says, attempting to strike fear into the piper.

>Fluff Intimidate: FLEX
[1d10+3]

After her attempts at giving bad vibes, Rin tries to leave a deep gouge.

>Rupture
[1d10]

>Slice n' Dice
[1d10]

>>30154779
Alder squawks awkwardly, and struggles to get back on all fours
>Recovery: [1d10]

>>30154779

Without looking at the cannon, Cutlass lights it. "You got a problem?" she says angrily to the mare, glaring back at her.

[1d10+2] for cannon fire

>>30154779
After recovering from his beating, Steve realizes what he needs to do to stop his enemy.

Hit her, but even harder!

Charging as best he can on the mare hair dress, "Now ya done it, now a really gone and done it ya 2-bit joke of a musician!"

>Slam, Crit 8+ [1d10+1]

>>30154799
The black hand manages to wrench you off, but before it can hurl you up into the sky, you wriggle out of its grasp and plunge back onto the flowing purple mane.
>Cerulean 8/5

>>30154831
You unsteadily roll onto your side, before failing to get back up again as your limbs spill out underneath you.

>>30154809
The Piper pauses as you flex, though her reaction seems to be more of being flabbergasted rather than intimidated.

Your sword barely dents her mane-dress. "I'm not interested in you or the knight anymore. What *I* want to know is why that one's got so much power in her strikes. Nothing about that is natural. She feels like something that belongs in Tartarus, but if that were the case, she would probably be trying to get OUT of the Ribcage, not IN. I assume that's why you're here, right?"

>>30154835
>>30154839
As the cannonballs hurtle toward the Piper, she reaches out, grabs HHS, and uses him to block the incoming cannonballs. But, Cutlass's cannonball hits the Piper square in the stomach, and the mane-dress is ripped to shreds, causing her to double over in pain. "Damn it all!"

The unicorn mare snorts, not gracing Cutlass with a response. Her horn lights up, and the shadows of all the crewmates separate themselves from their hosts' bodies, and follow the mare as she heads back upstairs.

The Piper, on the other hand, is not so composed. Her eyes lock with Cutlass's. "YOU!"

Then, she hurls HHS at Cutlass at rocket speed. [1d10+3]
>HHS 3/6
>Not counted as helpless, but due to being thrown, can only attempt to guard himself and soften the impact of hitting the ship.

(1/2)

>For all
As the party assaults the Purple Piper, the ship slows down significantly, but you've come so close to the other ships that you're still going to crash in one turn.

You see that two ships are circling around each other, furiously exchanging cannonfire and bullets. One ship is a fancy one, painted all pastel pink and blue. It even has a large candy shop on the back, similar in appearance to the Sugarcube Corner in Ponyville. The other ship is a bold, gold-and-blue ship with many intricate decorations on the sides, ruined by the fighting.

You also see a collection of smaller ships surrounding the two main ships. Although they appear to be lifeboats, it seems like they are waiting for the fight with the other two ships to finish. Two Purple Pipers, identical to yours, float at the edge of the fight between the ships, playing battle music.

"The wheel, the wheel! For Celestia's sake someone get up here and help us with the wheel!" Bent Scales shouts. You see her and the other three first mates struggling with the Beesting's ship-wheel. They're trying to turn it to the left to steer the Beesting away from the other ships.

>Alder can make his helplessness recovery as an instant action and if he gets back up he can try to help them with the wheel

>>30154938

"Don't you just walk away from me!" Cutlass shouts at the unicorn as it leaves. She runs after her, inadvertently dodging HHS thrown at her.

[1d10] for dodge/movement

As she does, she hears the shout for help from the helm. She quickly turns around and starts to turn the helm with her telekinesis. [1d10]

>>30154944
"Ha-hey! Look out feller!"
Steve throws his hooves out in front of him and locks them, bracing for a landing.

>Emergency Landing [1d10]

>>30154938
>>30154944
With the ship finally slowing down, Cerulean slaps the water with her tail and looks over to the ship. With her request met, she runs/swims through the mane-filled water and back top the ship, looking to slam her entire body full speed into the ship to try and quickly steer it to the left.

>Steer the ship via fullbody Slam
>same bonuses as before
[1d10+1]

>>30154938
Rin glares deeply into Piper's eyes. "I want to bathe in the blood of a Loa god. The Crimson King is me target!" She shouts, not afraid of hiding her intentions.

Rin is forced to look back to where Bent Scales is, glaring back at Piper for a moment to warn her. "Don't ye try to stop us! Or you'll be my victim before the demon!" She warns, deciding to help her shipmates out over splashing herself with blood for once.

>Helping out
[1d10]

>>30154938
>>30154944
Alder cries out in pain, before trying to pull himself back up again!
[1d10]

>>30155004
>Recovery: [1d10]

>>30154654
Cloud lets go of the railing to hold his hooves to his ears.
"Aagh! Again with that noise! I'm breaking that flute first thing once we're done with you!"

>>30154944
With his ears held down and trying to block out the ringing stinging them, Cloud looks at the approaching cannon fight they're about to crash into.
"There's more of them?"
He questions seeing more sirens for the other boats. Cloud gives a look back at the wheel as the crew struggles to turn them in time, but at the speed they're going it might not be quick enough.
He looks down at the boat, eyes glowing and him trying to block out all the extra noise while hoping he can pull this off before that siren tries another note.
>Wax/Wane [Grow Ship] [1d10]

>>30154975
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>>30154986
>>30155011
>>30155047
HHS flies through the starboard wall of the ship, showering everyone in the immediate vicinity with debris and chunks of wood. Both he and Cutlass are severely injured, but the former manages to remain standing despite her terrible wounds.
>HHS 0/4
>Cutlass 4/4

Rin and Cerulean dive off the Purple Piper's flowing mane and grab onto the ship. Between the impact of their jumps, Cutlass' magic and the four first mates steering the wheel, the Beesting barely manages to avoid crashing right into the middle of the conflict between the two ships. The leftover momentum from the Piper's song lingers for a while, and the Beesting flies forward for a few seconds despite the sudden change in course.

But, just as you get past the other two ships, and the lifeboats, the Beesting comes to a full halt, sending everyone toppling forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EMR7ZfZzR4

"CHAHAHAHAHA! Ah-ah-ah, whar d'ya think yar goin', lasses?" a booming Scottish voice taunts from below. In the water, at the helm of the ship, you see a large green kelpie stallion: A full-on horse with flowing red hair and gloriously wild sideburns. His upper body alone is four times as large as a regular stallion's, and three times as wide. You can't see the bottom half of his body. He's holding the Beesting in place with a single hoof. "Why don't ya stay awhale and get to see the conclusion of this fight? The Fruitflies have brought you the best seat in the house! CHAHAHAHA!"

The smaller lifeboats start to surround the Beesting. The crew are still dazed from the sudden stop, and walk about woozily.

>>30155004
The unicorn mare that was harassing Cloud earlier helps you back up.

>>30155085

Cutlass gets up, looks around, and dusts herself off. She trots to the side of the boat and rests her forelegs on the railing, resting her head on her hooves. "Looks like a good fight to me," she comments sincerely. "If you just wanted us to watch a fight, you didn't need to throw us around. It was unnecessarily rude."

>>30155085
Rin attempts to slip into the shadows, preparing for the next potential slaughter. "Things only be getting more and more exciting..." She whispers to herself.

>Stealth: roll if needed
[1d10]

>>30155085
Cerulean remains in the ocean, circling the Beesting as well as she keeps her eyes and dorsal fin above he surface of the water. She seems to be keeping an eye on the lifeboats, but is otherwise content with just swimming at the moment.
"And who are you, big guy? You're not going to do stuff to the ship too, are you," she asks and looks over at the siren she was fighting earlier before resuming swimming.

>>30155085
"Aw heck guys I ain't feelin' too wells about now," Steve groans coughing in the wreck of where he landed. "I oughta be juuuust fine though," unsteadily attempting to rise to his hooves.

>Recovery [1d10]

>>30155085
Alder accepts the help with an embarassed hang of his head, giving them a thankful little warble before srumbling over to Steve "H-Here... l-let me try and help, Mister Steve."
>Natural Remedy: [1d10]

>>30155085
Cloud rolls forward, flung from the sudden stop and rams into the railing, his head poking between the bars of it.
"Oohhh, can I get off the ride?"
He groans in a daze as his body collapses and he just lays on the deck with his head hanging off over the side.

He pokes his hooves around the railing as the ghostly horse booms over the ship, holding his ears again.
"Let me guess, you're with those flying fluters?"
He grumbles in a woozy tone.

>>30155105
>>30155137
>>30155117
>>30155174
"Ach, nae, I'm not with the purple pipers. In fact, one of them tried tha same tricks on us, but I sunk her back to tha bottom of tha sea, mahself. In fact, you're gonna have to do the ta yours, if you don't want to be sunk yaself! She's still comin' after ya!"

The kelpie points back at the Purple Piper who was harassing the Beesting. She's still flying straight at you, face full of fury. "She's no small feat to kill! I doubt ya'll be able ta do it. But, if you hand over half your treasure to us, we'll do it for ya! What do you say?"

"Normally that'd have to be approved by the Captain," Kling-Klang says. "But, she's a little--"

Capt. Bee Holder loudly vomits over the railing on the port side of the ship.

"Quick, how much treasure do you all have?" Cane Shuga whispers. "If the Piper keeps this up, she'll wreck our ship after we just finished fixing it! Maybe we can trick this guy into believing we have less treasure than we really do. But you'd all probably have to give up a lot of what you've been paid."

"And besides," Sickly Sweet adds. "We could just go raid those ships and take their treasure afterward," he says, pointing to the two ships locked in combat.

The mooks reluctantly talk about the idea among themselves.

>>30155137
As one of the lifeboats pulls up, a very dirty pirate with a cape made of sewn-together garbage rows close and offers you an apple.

"Ahm Deelzang, of the Fruitflies. Ah answer to none other than the Plague himself," the Kelpie says.

>>30155117
You become invisible. The small lifeboats have surrounded the Beesting.

>>30155145
>>30155155
Alder heads downstairs and helps up HHS.
>HHS 9/5

>>30155174

"Don't have your sea legs?" Cutlass says to Cloud with a condescending grin.

>>30155190
>Correction: HHS 9/6

>>30155190

Cutlass looks from the Kelpie to the Purple Piper then to the captain. Her mind works quickly.

Then, she shrugs. "Do what you all want. I'm not handing over any treasure. I'M not a member of this crew."

She trots over to the captain as he vomits overboard. "But, if I WAS, I'd fight for your captain!" she says, giving him some pats on the back. "Don't besmirch his... good... name by going to some other... thing... for help now!"

As she pats him on the back, she feels around to see if he has the map on him.
>Master Thief [1d10]

>>30155190
Rin leaps out of the shadows, blades full of intent to slice deep into the Piper and grab all of her attention again. When she gets close enough, the piper can see a second pair of translucent eyelids covering her eyes to block the blood from her vision. "I told ye I'd kill you first." She growls.

>Wenches & Mead: (+2 bonus) Can use this power to steal something from an object. [Steal Iron (including blood)]
[1d10+2]

Slice n' Dice - The Teeth of Cain: Dual; Inflict the Bleed status effect on targets, with duration lasting Roll-5 turns.
[1d10]

>>30155197
"I have plenty of sea legs, they just don't handle well when some fish starts using magic music to throw your ship all around."
Cloud grumbles as he pulls himself up off the floor.

>>30155190
"Sorry, I don't have anything right now. You'll have to ask the others here."
Cloud says up to the giant.

He walks to the other side of the ship, looking out at the Purple Piper as she flies straight towards them. Cloud stretches his hooves and gives his neck a crack.
"Alright, let's change this up a bit."
His eyes glow again as he looks down into the ocean this time, trying to tangle up this pest.
>Earthen Grasp [Seaweed] [1d10]

>>30155190
Cerulean sees the fruit, recognizing it as food and swims closer just below the surface. Getting closer, she raises her head like a very mellow breach and gently takes the apple, proceeding to eat it core and all.
"I'm Cerulean, thanks for the food," she greats happily as she gets to the final few chomps of apple.
"Can't say I've ever heard of the Fruitflies or this Plague thing, but if you're offering food, then you can't be all that bad."

>>30155155
"huff, oof!....ha, HAHA! Yeah! I feel powerful again, who do I gots to thank for this miracle!? Was it you little bird? Oh thank the heavens above and land below for that feller!"

Healed and energized, Steve runs up to the upper decks and spots the squabbling crew members.

>>30155190

"Hey chumheads! Listen up! We are not gonna be givin nun of this here ships treasure away on account of some magic flute ghost, ya'hear!? Now I'm gonna be captain of this ship from here on out seein' as our prior manahgmayent got us into this mayess since I done said so! We are gonna carry on with this here fight and anyun who wants tah do otherwise is welcome to face the watery consequayance that entails! Y'all comprehend?!"

>>30155190
>>30155351
Alder smiles a little bit and gives Steve a happy little bob, before humming a little and biting his lip "H-Hrm... I-I do not know how well this will work, but I will try again." He says, before taking another shot
>Shortbow: [1d10]

>>30155251
>Bee Holder is a yellow mare with a puffy black mane btw

Bee Holder pushes you aside with a drunken ramble, and staggers away. You caught a glimpse of the map sticking out of her coat's inner pocket. But, you have no idea what kind of trap or other security it may have.

>>30155332
"Aye," Deelzang nods. "We never leave home without barrelfuls of fruit, and every time we raid a ship, we leave the survivors with plenty of it."

>>30155351
The crew glares at you in suspicion. But, the air starts to tingle as Stone Cold Classic's magic takes over. "Ah approve this change in leeadershiiiii... ugh," Bee Holder says, putting her captain's hat on HHS's head.

"Uh, I guess we're not giving him any of our gold then. Fuck, this gonna hurt..." Sickly Sweet says.

>>30155279
>>30155278
>>30155392
Rin's power causes the Purple Piper's body to shrivel up. But a grin comes to her face; her teeth elongate and sharpen, and her eyes grow disgustingly colorful and wide, much like a squid's. "Wrong move, dragon," she says, voice slurring and bubbling as though underwater.

https://youtu.be/gQ5gtInauiI

The Piper's body dissolves into blood which drops into the ocean. Her body becomes one of nothing but scraggly, metallic hair, and whips at Rin in sharp strands. [1d10+3] [1d10+3] [1d10+3]

"Idiot!" Cane Shuga shouts. "That's it, that's your fight, not ours!"
"Fuckin' pansy, out the way!" Bent Scales shouts, shoving Cane aside. She breathes icy breath at the hair. [1d10+2]
The mooks scatter.

"Ah warned ya!" Deelzang shouts up from above. "Mah offer still stands!"

>>30155409

Cutlass grins. As the chaos begins, she leans against the railing, pretending to watch the fight. She telekinetically pulls the map out of Bee Holder's pocket.

[1d10] to pull it out without anyone noticing amid the chaos

>>30155409
Cloud looks down at the scene between the Piper and Rin with disgust from the ship.
"Eck, just what is that thing"

"Great, looks like we're not getting out of this anytime soon." Cloud sighs, "Might as well prepare for when she gets up here."
Cloud's eyes low orange again, focusing his magic on himself this time to give him some extra support.
>Wax/Wane [Grow Self] [1d10]

>>30155409
Rin charges forward, ready to take the blows as she attempts to slice apart the Piper with a flurry of blade strikes.

>Dual
[1d10]
[1d10]

>Slice n' Dice
[1d10]

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>>30155409
"That's actually pretty nice of you. Sorry if me and my kind have eaten any of them you've helped," she says with a sheepish laugh.

At the sounds of combat breaking out, Cerulean slaps the water with her tail again.
"Well it was nice talking with you Deelzang, but I have to go help them fight this thing again. Maybe we can talk more later, okay?"
She gives a wave before diving down under the water once more and swims to the combat.

Just like before, Cerulean picks up speed and breaches the surface once again. Getting a whiff of blood in the water, Cerulean gets more vicious in her attack as she snaps wildly in the air before trying to connect with the Purple Piper.

>Great weapon attack
[1d10+1]

>>30155409
"Oh boy, I warned ye and ye still wanna run, you'll gitch yours soon enough! As for you sea beast, we'll see how well you face against the forces of wisdom themself!"

>Jump at hair [1d10]
>Slam, crit 8+ [1d10+1]

>>30155409
"I-I would be willing to share the treasure... I-I do not know what to make of this monstrosity!" he warbles out, before trying to take a shot at one of the strands going for Rin
>Shortbow: [1d10]

>>30155459
As your magic touches the corner of the map, a large, ghostly silhouette of a bee, with big angry eyes, manifests behind Bee Holder. The former captain does not acknowledge this, and drudges back to her cabin in exhaustion. The large bee gives you the stink eye as it follows her.

>>30155471
>>30155519
Rin cuts up much of the hair, but her own skin is shredded dreadfully by the hair's onslaughts, and falls with deep injuries.
>Rin 0/3, Bleeding for 1 hit for 3 turns

Bent's ice breath freezes one big column of hair, keeping it from acting this turn. But, the other two don't let up their assault on Rin. [1d10+3] [1d10+3]

Bent tries to freeze one of the others. [1d10+2]
Some mooks head downstairs to where the cannons are.

>>30155625
Your arrow shreds a hole through one of the hair columns, but more hair quickly grows to fill in the hole.

>>30155535
"Tell ya the truth, Ah tend to eat 'em too when nopony's lookin'," Deelzang confides with a dirty snicker.

As you launch out of the water, one strand of hair slaps you down onto the deck of the ship with an ugly snap, leaving a large gash in your back.
>Cerulean 3/5

>>30155552
One of the columns of hair grabs you and squeezes you like a chew toy.
>HHS 3/6

>>30155637
Cerulean just stands back up and shakes herself off a bit, baring her teeth at the strand that hit her. She then plunges back into the water and goes after said strand to give it a slap of her own.

>Slam...you know the drill
[1d10+1]

>>30155637
Rin may delight in pain, however death isn't going to stop her yet. She fights back the very nature of her body wanting to escape this onslought of pain she's bringing upon it, pushing herself to get back up.

>Recover
[1d10]

>>30155637
Cloud's ears flick back and forth, lifting a hoof to rub them.
"What did that flute do to me?"

He looks at the mess building in the water, trying to focus his magic again.
>Wax/Wane [Grow Self] [1d10]

"Can't just jump down there, ca't get out of the water too well now. Hope this can get something to help out."
He focuses his magic down into the water, trying to animate some kelp to get some ocean assistance.
>Earthen Grasp [Instant, Conjure Minion] [1d10]

>>30155637

Cutlass does an angry "Tch," as her attempt is foiled.

She turns to Deelzang. "Hey, big guy," she says in a friendly tone. "What's going on with the two ships over there?"

>>30155637
Alder screeches a little as Rin gets sashamied by the hair, and moreso as Steve gets wringed, fishing out another vial full of a murky green fluid and splashing it on dragon "I-I am sorry, Mister Steve! I-I must cute her bleeding!"
>Natural Remedy: [1d10]

>>30155669
The hair columns slice you from head to toe until you are drenched in your own blood.
>Rin 6/1, 2 turns left on Bleed
Sickly Sweet yanks you backward and splashes you with a fruity-smelling drink. "Might be the time to take a breather, Rin! You clearly never learned your own limits!"
>Non-critfail heal [1d10+2]

>>30155675
You grow to giant proportions and summon a large kelp tentacle from the bottom of the sea, like a kraken's.

>>30155661
As you smash one of the strands, it splits off from the others and chases after you, swinging viciously. [1d10+3]

The other grabs Bent Scales by the neck and slams her against the ground repeatedly. [1d10+3]

Bent is unable to act.

>>30155698
The thrashing of the hair-columns sends them smashing into you, keeping you from reaching Rin. But, you see the mooks have brought up one of the cannons to the deck. "You, you! Get over here!" one shouts at you, before diving for cover.
>Alder 3/4

>>30155681
You notice that the cannonfire has ceased between the ships, but the fighting has not. Despite the severe injuries on all the crew members of both ships, their fighting has only intensified. The pirates' weapons are dull stumps, and many are fighting with bits of wood and even just rocks or gold coins. The lifeboats circle around the ships, and the garbage-clothed Fruitfly pirates climb aboard the ships, carrying empty bags.

"Their deaths," Deelzang grins. "They did not meet the Pipers with healthy skepticism, nor did they take up mah offer of exterminatin' them. So they're bound to fight until nobody's standin'. When their opponents are dead, they'll fight their allies. When their allies are dead, they'll fight themselves. That's how easily this sea swallows lives. Buuut I'm a softie. I'll probably step in and save 'em eventually. Pipers taste good enough for it anyway."

>>30155740

"I could use a new ship..." Cutlass contemplates out loud as she watches them all fight each other.

"What would happen if I went ever there while that music was still playing?"

>>30155740
Cerulean reacts back by snapping wildly again, attacking the strands attacking her as well as the ones attacking Bent Scales.

>Cleave 2 Targets (if still only one target, then great weapon attack)
[1d10+1]

>>30155740
Cloud stretches his legs and flexes slightly as his magic finally takes root and let's him stand tall.
"Finally, big bat is back."
He brags to himself.

As the crew starts to bring up the cannons to the deck, Cloud reaches down into the ship to pull up another with ease, carrying it like a gun.
"Now let's deal with this piper."
Cloud points the cannon down at the swarm of hair, firing at the strange remnants of the piper.
>Cannon Shot [1d10+3]

The kelp-en tentacle rises up from the water and rushes to Bent Scales, grappling with the strands and trying to pull them off before it can do too much damage to her.
>Grapple and Peel [1d10]

>>30155740
Alder scrabbles over to the cannon, before trying his best to help firing it!
>>30155819
...after scrabbling out of the way of the now giant bat pony, with a mildly excited squawk
>Cannon: [1d10]

>>30155740
"I DON'T HAVE LIMITS! THE ONLY LIMIT IS DEATH!" She roars, leaping right back into action even as she seems to be on the brink of death, blood soaking her body.

>Wenches & Mead: Steal piper hair
[1d10+2]

>Slice n' Dice
[1d10]

>>30155760
"Ah dunno, but I wouldn't recommend tryin' it for a numba of reasons. Tha Piper's curse only grows stronger the longer it lasts. If ya wear certain spices around ya ears, you can ward it off, and before ya ask, yes Ah will sell yah some, thanks for askin', how much money do ya have? But moreover, notta good idea to pinch a ship that's been the site of such a bloodbath after this. It'll be too attractive to dark spirits and vengeful dreams. And from a lust for vengeance come the ugliest curses of all.

"Nat that I'll stop ya from tryin' of course. I'd help ya, even, but mah help don't come free."

>>30155781
>>30155819
>>30155864
>>30155871
>Rin 7/2
One of the hair columns manages to skewer Alder through the gut before he can get to it, leaving him badly injured.
>Alder 0/3
But, as the hair rises up to attack him again, the other party members and many of the mooks retaliate against the hair, destroying it entirely with gunfire, swords and cannon blasts. The hair drops into the water, defeated. But, the presence of the other Pipers at the other ships leaves you with the feeling that you have only inconvenienced whatever being these songstresses have come from...

"Ach. Nae bad. Bet I coulda done better though," Deelzang congratulates, snacking on some pineapples. "Ya want any fruit? Ain't free! But we got some."

>>30155887
Rin stands there, panting heavily as she wobbles a bit. "That'll... Show her..." She says, holding her head. "Yargh... I need a drink."

>>30155887
Cloud sets the cannon back down on deck with a sigh of relief as the hair falls and sinks away.
"Phew, glad that's over."
He says, climbing off the boat as his kelp-en tentacle curls and forms a nice seat for him to sit on so he doesn't strain the boat anymore with his new size after the rough trip it was put through.

"I heard you say you leave survivors with plenty. We survived that mess of hair and music, so I think we deserve some of that."
Cloud retorts as Deelzand says he'll sell some fruit.

>>30155887
Alder grips at his stomach and screeches in pain, collapsing overtop the cannon. He rolls on to his back and slides down to sit on the deck of the ship, tearing up a little as he tries to tend to his own wounds
>Recovery: [1d10]

>>30155887

"A new boat would need a new crew," she continues to contemplate out loud. However, as she does, the Piper is defeated.

"Oh. Well, how about that? Looks like this crew isn't dead yet after all." She turns to Deelzang. "Looks like I won't be needing to resort to anything too extreme yet. Be sure to check back, though. I'm sure we'll another opportunity will present itself soon."

>>30155915

"I'm surprised you can fight so well," Cutlass says mockingly. "I thought you just send others to fight for you."

>>30155887
Cerulean grabs some of the hair in her mouth and tears some off, thrashing and shaking it around in the water as she still seems to be pretty blood-frenzied. She manages to thrash her way onto the deck of the ship, eventually calming down with a mouthful of siren hair in her mouth.

Cerulean looks up to Deelzang, spitting some of the hair out, but many strands still hanging out of her mouth like spaghetti.
"So are those ones gonna come after us now? We're kinda in a rush and don't wanna be delayed cause of these singing calamaris."

>>30155931
Cerulean looks over and gives a drawn out whistle.
"Dang, you look like you just took a harpoon. You gonna be alright there?"

>>30155938
"What can I say, can't hold back all of this," Cloud says with a gesture over himself, "And she had it coming too after all that flute shrieking. Needed to give my ears a rest."

"And hey, now that I'm big that doesn't give you an excuse to stare."
He says, flashing a smirk.

>>30155915
"We give 'em that because we've already pillaged their gold, so if you'd like, just pour all ya got into a few barrels and ya can have all tha fruit ya like," Deelzang retorts.

>>30155931
You heal some of your more painful injuries.
>Alder 5/4

>>30155938
>>30155915
>>30155982
Chiu, whom Cutlass recognizes as the mare that gave her a dirty look during the cannon fight, climbs over to Cloud's shoulder by forming a bridge made of shadow. "You should have seen him the last time that a pirate crew tried to stop us. It was a goddamn massacre. Pretty easily replicated, were it not for his concern about our well-being."

>>30155962
"Probably not, they tend to wander off once they've ripped up the ship they were assigned to, I think you're good. That is, unless ya try to take our gold. Then y'll have to race us, and ain't nobody can beat the Fruitflies there!"

>paused, continue RPing

>>30155962
Alder finishes working on his own gut injury, wrapping it up shakily before looking up at Cerulean and clacking his beak "I-I believe so. I-I might just sit here for a little while, though. I-Is the beast dead?" he asks, tearing up a little more I-I apologize for my lack of contribution, Miss Cerulean. I-I wish I could have done more to help, b-but I-I think I just got in the way."

>>30155999
Cerulean grins, showing the siren's hair tangled up in her teeth.
"Yup! She was tough, though I have this weird feeling she was getting a bit scared towards the end."

"Hey, it's okay. I mean, I didn't notice...mostly cause I suddenly smelled blood...but still, I didn't notice. So you may as well pretend whatever happened didn't as far as I'm concerned."

>>30156027
Alder lets out a nervous warble, and gives Cerulean a shaky nod "I-I mean... I-I guess? How do you just p-pretend it didn't happen?" he asks, wiping at his eyes a little and looking back up at her

>>30156053
"Pretend what didn't happen," she asks curiously, then gives him a cheeky wink.

>>30156060
Alder struggles with it for a little bit, before sobbing a little, smiling shakily, and leaning up to hug Cerulean as well as he can manage "T-Thank you, Cerulean! I-I've always been nervous about f-failing other people, s-so t-this is... nice. T-Thank you."

>>30155982

"Right..." Cutlass says absent-mindedly as she glares at the mare on Cloud's shoulder.

She shakes her head suddenly. "N-not that I'm staring or anything!"

>>30156093
Cloud chuckles, flashing his fangs through a grin.
"Whatever you need to tell yourself."

>>30156089
"Hey, it's all good. I know not everyone can shake stuff like that off easily," she says as her tail gently hugs him back as to not accidentally aggravate his wound.
"So, you wanna fight those other two with me?" She has a grin, but her shoulders are shaking like she's trying to keep herself from laughing.

>>30156105
Alder sniffles a little bit and squeezes tighter, before pulling back a little and cocking his head to the side "Fight the other two?" he asks, looking her over curiously "U-Uhm... are you okay? I-I think I do not get the joke..."