Reeling back, almost stumbling even with her large and long tail supporting her, Tai could just barely hold onto her shield as the bolt dug deep into her left shoulder. Taken completely aback by the sahuagin's use of crossbows the mermaid brings up her blade and quickly cuts off the greater part of the shaft lodged firmly in her shoulder, while re-evaluating the situation the lot of them have found themselves in. Holding back and protecting the deck of the ship wouldn't work, with the damn sharkpeople clearly boasting superior ranged capabilities, so really, it was just one thing to do.<br/><br/>Thus Taizee bit back the pain, called out, "I'll be r-right back!" then slithered southwards to dive off the ship and head directly for the sahuagin below her, not the one that actually hit her. She was already woozy from the pain, and didn't want to put herself in the line of fire of even more of these damn things!<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;">Mechanics: Taizee slithers 15 feet southwards on the deck, then jumps 10 feet into the water, which gets her within reach of the bottom left enemy.<br/>I mixed up my 5e and pathfinder rules for underwater combat, so if swords are allowed to be wielded as either slashing or piercing, it would be 16 to hit (forgot to add the +1 from the bardic performance), or 14 to hit if any sword other than short swords, even one handed swords are only slashing <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/732649">https://orokos.com/roll/732649</a><!-- m --><br/>If it does successfully connect with the sahuagin, that is beefy 17 piercing damage if you can use a blade for stabbing, and a decent 8 if not and it still hit <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://orokos.com/roll/732651">https://orokos.com/roll/732651</a><!-- m --><br/><br/>Third edit. Apparently these rules only apply to creatures not native to water, so now I am even more confused.<br/><br/>OOC: Correct me if I am wrong, but we are doing all encounters initiative-less, right? So if anyone could heal Tai, they could do so by just intercepting her movement somewhere along the path, or would we still need to time our turns correctly to dish out healing/buffs? I am not asking for anyone to heal the fish (though it would be appreciated) I just want to know how things work for the future.</div></div></div>