(...oh, that's what you meant, Ula.  Yeah, they're a mite too far down.  I'll let you take two turns to make up for it.  Netjak, natural attacks from an ocean creature do not take that penalty.  Also, Gothaman, could you put your roll numbers in the post, please?)<br/><br/>Taizee's flurry of attacks missed the first two times.  But the third and fourth are the charm.  The third sahuagin barely even sees his death coming before he falls limp.  The second sahuagin is hunched over from the pain, but he manages to carefully swim over to Taizee's side and get a swing in.  He misses.  The other...does not.<br/><br/>Boy does he not.  He gets his trident deep into her chest, just missing her heart, but puncturing a lung.  Taizee has gone from mostly healthy to almost passed out in one moment.  Help looks like a good idea<br/><br/>On the other side of the ship, the boarding sahuagin manages to duck to the side of Lang's grasp.  This gives him a bit of cover, and the bolt from the bard skips right past Lang and Scathatch's feet.  In a moment of cosmic sympathy, the sahuagin commander's next bolt almost pierces his underling's head.  Startled, his next attack goes wide, sliding across the deck before quickly getting roped back in.<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;">The sahuagin take a five-foot step each.  Taizee takes 16 damage.  And I should let everyone know the sahuagin rolled a 20 twice in a row.  See: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/738951">http://orokos.com/roll/738951</a><!-- m --> and <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://orokos.com/roll/738953">http://orokos.com/roll/738953</a><!-- m --> .  I'm so sorry.</div></div></div>