Savage Tide: ECL 10 Aconitum Bane: The Grappler: Entry 5

So the problem... dealing with that spell caster on the boat controlling the flesh bags! I was busy pinning one down and trying to rip it apart while I had two other ones focusing its attacks on me!. The other members of the group were fighting one of them and our mages took off in the air after the boat and the spell caster.

I was able to rip one apart and tackle another one to the ground and rip it apart in short time. Thankfully my anarchistic days of breaking things allowed me to pinpoint a few weaknesses in the flesh golems. As I was able to rip apart the second one, the other members were able to dismantle the third one.... it left one more to go.

I looked at the other members and judged weather they could take out the last one without my help. The other members around were looking in rough shape, and our mage was out of sight. I couldn't wait any longer deciding what to do, so I shape changed into a hunting bat and took off for my prey at full flight. When I landed on the boat I immediately shifted back into my favored raptor form and tried to take out the pirates on the boat. I could see the snakelike spell caster but the other pirates kept getting in my way.

One after another I kept trying to claw at them, but something about being on a boat made me not fight to my full potential. I ended up hurting myself more than they were hurting me it felt like! I reached out to bite one of them and they quickly slammed into me knocking me off the boat. However, I made sure to take him with me too. He meet a Davy Jones shortly after we landed in the water.

I changed forms back into the bat to get back to the boat and after the spell caster. Just as I started to fly up out of the water I could see the other pirate with his bow waiting for me to break the surface of the water. I couldn't wait and had to take the shot. But just as I started to emerge from the water, with a thunderous crash, the body of the pirate was slammed into the water by the full speed dive of the griffon. That pirate didn't even see it coming.

As I lifted myself out of the water into the air, I could see the multiple images of the spell caster trying to attack our mage who too had multiple images swirling around him.  It looked like a mirror match. The griffon was able to swing back around and only managed to swing at the false images, allowing me to pinpoint the true image of the spell caster. I immediately scooped up the spell caster in my talons and held his body motionless. The caster was so desperate to escape my death lock that it launched fireballs from his wand on himself to catch me in the blast. I flew back to the rock and landed and started ripping out the gullet of the snake caster. His body laid there motionless.

Next thing form nearby, a scream I once heard... it was Lavinia. We rushed over to her manner where a demonic looking figure stood in front of her. We stood for as if time stood still as she drew her sword to strike him, but then she stopped motionless. His gaze pierced her and she just dropped to her knees. I was furious and dove down at him trying to grab him. He evaded a few of my attempts until I finally grabbed his tail and wrapped my wings around him holding him. He struggled around shouting. It almost seemed like his words were in my head demanding me to let him go, but I would not have any of his trickery. The ranger in the group tried to put some arrows into him, but looked like they did little damage. The griffon was able to try and his attacks did little.

I was able to then pin him to the ground so he couldn't move. Every so often I could hear his words in my head, then he suddenly shouted to the griffon to defend him?! The griffon started trying to attack me now! He must have fallen to his charms. Lavinia then snapped out of it and with a fit of rage was able to put her rapier deep into his flesh. She started to fill him holes, one attack after another. The ranger caught on and drew her sword and charge at him as the party mage enlarged her in size like he did for me at the start of the fight. He weapon was bouncing off him, but she was still dealing him some wounds. I blessed her weapon, allowing it to strike deep into his demonic flesh. With all the wounds to him, his life left this realm for another.

Lavinia explained that that figure used to be her brother, who died to her when here parents died. With the pirate ship scuttled and their leader dead, the chaos came to an end. 41 people of the town lost their lives defending the town, and Lavinia was able to put her brother's body to rest. So there are a few loose ends we need to do, like get our ship back, that I think will keep the group occupied until the town is stabilized. Until then, I'm going for a bath.