<span style="font-weight: bold">Shawl Mermaid</span><br/><br/>Wriggling and writhing her flavour all over your tongue, the shawl-mermaid manages to slip and slide her way out of Aethon’s throat - and no sooner than she does so, Adrastia’s spell strikes her. Her head whips round to meet the draconic-blooded woman’s gaze, her eyes thick with an angry, hateful lust [rolled 25, will saved. Both Adrastia and Aethon have to roll DC23 will saves to avoid being fascinated by the shawl-mermaid’s beauty. Shawl-mermaid uses action point]. Splashing herself clean of Aethon’s saliva, the shawl-mermaid raises her palm - and as she does so, the water to either side of the Swiftwind begins to rise (aiding the struggles of the mermaids to escape the black tentacle’s grip) until the vessel lies like a river-barge negotiating a narrow gulley between two cliffs of water.  [This spellcasting provokes attack of opportunity vs. AC 25 from Aethon. Concentration check 21, so he must do more than 7 damage to disrupt the spell…]<br/><br/>[If spell is not disrupted…]<br/><br/>With the rising water’s aid, two of the mermaids are able to escape from the black tentacles restraining them - leaving three of their weaker sisters behind, including one hampered by the sailor bulging her writhing belly.<br/><br/>Then the shawl-mermaid lets it go. The collapsing pillars of water wash the deck of the Swiftwind, making her bob like a cork, and endangering all those on the deck. Oarsen, Kamiel and Daen are washed instantly overboard. [Everyone on-deck must succeed at DC15 swim check or be washed overboard]. The water swirls and drains around Captain Toren, standing firm at the elemental wheel, as the power of his dragonmark fights to mitigate its effects - then the two mermaid escapees slam into him, trying to tackle him bodily off the deck… but whilst he’s knocked from the wheel, he’s able to retain the deck - leaving them, too, flapping and flailing on the deck as the water subsides and Swiftwind bobs wildly.<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">New Round!</span>