WARNING: Gore.<div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Xarces blade bites deep into the cuts Alizome's already opened in its neck - and a geyser of blood sprays forth, coating elf and celestial in the sticky fluid. The creature's head turns, folding back on itself to look through beglittered eyes at you. It seems surprised, and whinnies softly as it sees your gorey forms. There's a snapping sound, as it tried to turn its head back, and finds itself unable to. Within its neck, you can see a severed cord of muscle flapping helplessly.</div></div></div>Then the creature slumps, helplessly, forward across the deck, air rattling from its body as it dies. It seems somehow smaller, and rather pathetic.<br/><br/>"Get it off!" Lion snaps, her order a bellow, frantically spinning the ship's wheel, trying everything to turn<span style="font-style: italic">Swiftwind's</span>bows into the oncoming wave. "Get it over the side before we're swamped!"<br/><br/>You alert to the fact that your danger is far from over. If<span style="font-style: italic">Swiftwind</span>must crest the wave with the elasmosaur's corpse weighing on her port side, she will likely roll, condemning you all to the cruel sea. {<span style="font-style: italic">Swiftwind</span>will begin her climb up the wave at the start of the next round. Only those who have not yet acted may act to remove, or otherwise negate, the effect of the elasmosaur's corpse}.<br/><br/>Toric follows some unheard order from Lion, and begins frantically pulling on a masthead rope, allowing his crossbow to fall into the sea. The sail begins to twist in a particular way, casting across the deck, catching the wind so the force of it helps to pull the<span style="font-style: italic">Swiftwind</span>around.<br/><br/>Ulrik throws all his strength against the still-twitching beast impaled upon his billhook, which he now uses for its intended purpose - the shifting of heavy, awkward cargoes. {D20 (4 +1), strength check fail}. But his sailor's muscles are old, and his strength barely moves the great sea monster.<br/><br/>Running damage total<br/>Creature 100, creature is dead!<br/>Alizome 10<br/>Xarces 22<br/>Acted Second Round: All<br/>Acted Third Round: Creature, Alizome, Xarces, Crew. Still to act Third Round: Aethon, Jules, Bellicious, Linda, Linda's Guards