With all the adrenaline rushing to her head and aching pain in her shoulder clouding her mind, Taizee suddenly found herself on the starboard side of the ship, when she could have sworn she was attempting to dive off the port side. Oh well, combat always descended into a confusing mess, what did it matter that she was apparently going tunnel-visioned already? At least she ended up receiving some well-placed healing from one or possibly more of her allies during the flurry of motion. She'd have to inquire later of whom she had to thank for it.<br/><br/>Wrenching her blade from the chest cavity of the deceased sahuagin, the armored mermaid just barely frees her weapon to counterattack her enemies closing in, sending out a jab to meet all three of her attackers, but only one strike connected with it's mark in the underwater exchange of blows, digging deeply into the flesh of the sahuagin that came around the back of the ship.<br/><br/>And then, after meeting the offence aimed at her it was time for the merfolk to reply in kind. In between sways of her tail to keep herself afloat, Tai driver her powerful tail into the side of the sahuagin already reeling from a deep wound to the chest, and unceremoniously smacks them into the side of the ship, likely with enough force for the crew below deck to hear the loud, crunching thud even through the chatter and panic that likely suffused the hold. Meanwhile her long blade trails out again, digging into the neck of what could have been her third sharkperson kill, had she just managed to dig it in a little further and likely sever the bastard's spine. Already breathing heavily in the semi-bloodied water, Taizee would emit a series of little bubbles as she took a step back towards the crushed sahuagin, intent to keep herself from being completely surrounded yet again.<br/><br/><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;">Taizee has the feat Combat Reflexes, and with her 10 feet of reach she got a attack of opportunity on all three sahuagin as they approached her, moving from a square she was already threatening to reach her. From left to right, the attack versus sahuagin #1 likely missed with a natural one: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/735938">https://orokos.com/roll/735938</a><!-- m -->, the attack versus sahuagin #2 likely missed as well with a natural 2: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/735939">https://orokos.com/roll/735939</a><!-- m -->, but the third attack of opportunity against the rightmost sahuagin on starboard side hit with a 19: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/735940">https://orokos.com/roll/735940</a><!-- m --> for a good 14 points of damage: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/735941">https://orokos.com/roll/735941</a><!-- m --><br/><br/>After the attacks of opportunity Taizee took a full attack action, using her greatsword as her primary attack and tailslap as secondary, the tailslap aiming to finish off the sahuagin to her right, if it wasn't dead already, which likely would hit with a 19 to hit: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/735942">https://orokos.com/roll/735942</a><!-- m --> and would likely finish the thing of with 10 damage: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/735943">https://orokos.com/roll/735943</a><!-- m -->, even if creatures native to water, like for example sharks with their teeth that deal slashing damage take the -2 to hit and only do half damage, since their weapons aren't piercing. It would be helpful for me at least if you could give a ruling of whether natural attacks from a ocean creature would take these penalties Zephyr!<br/><br/>Then came Tai's primary attack with her greatsword, which almost crit with a 19 of the first roll: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/735944">https://orokos.com/roll/735944</a><!-- m -->, but likely didn't confirm with the second: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/735945">https://orokos.com/roll/735945</a><!-- m -->, dishing out another 9 points of damage: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/735946">https://orokos.com/roll/735946</a><!-- m --> to sahuagin #2, the one above Taizee. After that, the mer took a five-foot-step over to the right, to the other side of the 'ladder'.</div></div></div>