[PS - as Jules has dumped most of his gear on the deck of the Swiftwind, no penalties on the swim check.]<br/><br/>[Mermaid 1] The sailor continues to eagerly return the mermaid’s sloppy kisses, and barely seems to notice as her lips casually slide around his head. His shoulders are halfway down her throat before he realises his danger, and his struggles set her full, bare breasts jiggling above his descending form, till only his kicking legs are visible, sticking out from lips curved in a smile of upmost enjoyment.<br/><br/>[Mermaid 3] As Jules begins to splutter and struggle, a sleek, beautiful shape slides up from beneath him, giggling as she pushes him back up to the surface, running smooth hands across his back as her arms hook beneath his, supporting him. “You’re welcome,” she laughs, as she begins to shower Jules with kisses, idly drawing his head away from the disturbing scene behind, as her sibling devours one of Jules’s shipmates. “We’ll have to think about how you can repay me,” she flirts, between nibbly kisses that work their way along Jules’s jawline, and up towards his ears...<br/><br/>[Mermaid 2] Viewing the merciless scene, the other sailor - Jang - turns and swims full-tilt for the<span style="font-style: italic">Swiftwind</span>... the wake of swift and beautiful form tracing arrowheads on the surface, as a mermaid hunts him down. From the deck, one of his shipmates casts a line, and his thick calloused hands close firmly about it as the mergirl erupts from the water, her maw gaping wide, lips wrapping tight about his legs, sucking and working their way towards his hips...<br/><br/>[Shawled Mermaid] The hypnotically pretty woman continues to coquette and flirt with the sailors erupting onto the deck, dashing to the Swiftwind’s portside - and it seems to be working. Despite the obvious danger, the Audairan twins Kamiel and Kemis seem all to eager to throw themselves into the water; so too the Brelish bruiser Saal, and his subtly sly friend Tars, the hard-face seawoman Aanna and aged and weathered Yelfish, the young half-elf Enilam, snatched up by motherly Baltia, and the equally innocent Breyten, fat Daen the cook, and Sarelo, nimble as a monkey, darting around Bokk to dive beneath the waves, even as Oarsen and Tak cling grimly to Jeng’s lifesaving rope as their shipmates go mad around them.<br/><br/>[Captain Toren] Reaching the Swiftwind’s elemental wheel, Captain Toren glimpses the mermaid - and manages to tear his eyes away, a rough slap dragging the attention of his first-mate, who’d been standing watch, back to the deck. “Eyes on the deck!” He roars - but it’s already too late for most of his sailors. But it is too late for most of his men - and the young second-mate, a pretty d’Lyrandar half-elven girl.<br/><br/>“Aanna!” She shrieks, as the weathered seawoman scrambles her way over the side of the ship, and dashes to her side… bringing her eyes full-gaze to the mermaid’s. With a splash, they go over the side together.<br/><br/>The first-mate makes to step away from the wheel - she was, if you recall correctly, his niece - but Toren wrenches him back. “The ship,” Toren snaps, “the ship before the man,” he snarls, though pain is written across his brow. “<span style="font-style: italic">Help me</span>,” he groans, as his mark glows and he wrestles with the Swiftwind’s elemental wheel. For a moment, it seems as if the bound elemental is going to resist, sloshing and churning within its binding-ring to little effect - but it heeds their command, and the Swiftwind lurches backwards, pulling Jang and his attached predator along as the galleon swings around, coiling itself to lunge forward and run the mermaid down…<br/><br/>[Mermaid 5] With casual brutality, a mermaid surfaces, draws back her arm - baring an impressive chest above the waves - and tosses a spear that arcs over Swiftwind’s deck, a fine, glimmering trail arcing behind it, and takes the first-mate through the meat of his thigh. Screaming, he collapses, losing his grip on Swiftwind’s wheel. With a powerful wrench she pulls the slack taut, preparing to tug him off the deck, as Toren watches helpless, unable to relinquish his own grip on the wheel, for fear of losing control of Swiftwind’s bound elemental...<br/><br/>[Crew review - One sailor has been swallowed. Eight of the sailors have been affected, and four have not. One of the affected has dived into the water, and five more who are on the cusp of doing so, the remaining two having been grappled by two of the unaffected. Two more are securing the rope that Jang is clinging to, as the mermaid attempts to gulp him down. The half-elven second-mate has been affected, but Captain Toren and the first-mate have resisted, and brought Swiftwind under control - but the first mate has been harpooned by a mermaid, who is preparing to wrench him off the deck.]