He followed behind her, politeness letting him eat the eye candy, and grinned at her request. "We had the two ships we pulled in with, and another we had picked up during the day to get to the spot. We anchored, put out a watch, and went to sleep.<br/><br/>I was in the second ship, the Dragon's Kneecaps, and came out at the roar of one of the tide water dragons. They can make a surprising amount of noise when they put their minds to it. Any way, came out, and noted the salvaged ship was firmly aflame, and five strangers on board the deck, and another six were on the Promise. Most were normal looking sailors, if a bit more seasoned, but one was this massive brute with two spiked gauntlets. The barbarian, drow, and halfling were on the Promise, and I and the dhampir were on the Dragon. They had doused both decks liberally with oil, but the tidewaters had used a water blast to put out their lanterns, and then altered the crews. I didn't see any of the other officers, so I decided to deal with the five on the Dragon.<br/><br/>A scorching ray put down one, and let the other four know I was active, but before they could move forward, Captain X, the dhampir, blew another's head open with his rifle. Over on the Promise, the drow came out of the captain's quarters, and then vanished, using invisibility, as the halfling charged the five sailors. The brute was moving to where the drow had been, but as he moved forward, the barbarian attacked him from behind, having been invisible thanks to the drow. He got two good hacks in, as X and I dropped another two sailors on the dragon, but couldn't stop the last one from lighting the deck with a piece of flint. The entire middle of the ship was aflame almost instantly, as X and I moved to chase the last sailor.<br/><br/>Back on the Promise, the brute turned around and literally ripped the barbarian in half with two punches, but went down as the halfling, mounted on his dog, charged. His two swords flashed, and he landed behind the brute, both sides of the brute's throat open and he was collapsing. As we turned to the sailors, thinking that the brute was the captain, a lightning bolt from near the port of the Promise blasted the halfling, the bolt flinging both him and his dog over the side of the ship into the ocean away from me.<br/><br/>Captain X and I both dove for cover, him using a summon spell to bring his undead skeleton trio into play, and I put another scorching ray into another sailor, bringing the total enemy sailors down to three, the halfling having taken three down before charging the brute. The drow reappeared, casting faerie fire on the sorceress captain of the Thresher, and then vanished again, but the sorceress had seen her disappear, and guessed where she was. Another lightning bolt slash out, charring her, and also hitting the oil spilled on the Promise, under two of the sailors. They both jumped off the side of the ship, as I sought cover near where the drow had died.<br/><br/>Captain X's skeletons ripped the last enemy sailor apart, and then started toward the sorceress, who either didn't see X, or didn't think he was threat, and she put a scorching ray into two of them, dropping them instantly. The drow hadn't died instantly from the lightning bolt, but cast darkness on herself, plunging me, the drow, and the sorceress into darkness so thick I could taste it. I used ghost sound to draw the sorceress forward, trying to find the drow to put a healing charge into her, but couldn't find her in the gloom. I heard the sorceress scream a couple times, more in outrage than pain, likely as the remaining skeleton started clawing her, and I tossed a speculative scorching ray in her direction, and was rewarded with a louder, more pain filled scream.<br/><br/>X finished had apparently finished reloading his rifle, and shot it, but I didn't hear anything from the sorceress, so I assume he missed. Another clatter of a destroyed skeleton, and then the darkness vanished as the drow finally expired. I started to put a scorching ray into her, but X used a spell to silence her and began draining her life, but she responded with a scorching ray using a metamagic rod, and he dropped, two holes burned through his chest. I stood and put a ray into her chest, and her flight spell gave out, but she wasn't dead yet, and tried to lightning bolt me. I had expected it, and dove into the captain's cabin, as the enemy sailors climbed back up, but she apparently mistook them for some of ours, and put a scorching ray into them. I put a trio of magic missiles into her, and ducked back into the cabin as the sorceress threw yet another lightning, apparently her last one, blasting a sizable chunk out of the wall. I leaned out, and fired the last attack, another scorching ray, but this one caught her full in her head, and she dropped.<br/><br/>At that point, a quick check showed that about two thirds of the sailors I had started with were dead from all the spells going off, but all of her crew was as well, so I ordered the survivors to grab everything from both ships they could, and abandon ship to the Thresher."