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Samiira
The flint strikes, and the long pistol rumbles in your hand — smoke billowing from the barrel.

The lieutenant stumbles against the doorway, one hand scrambling futilely for the handle for support. His legs buckle and he falls upon his rear, staring up at you in pain and bewilderment. "Ma déesse," the Powder Keg manages, clutching his chest. He glances down, where a plume of red is spilling down his rain-mottled shirt.

"You bitch! You... you kill me. You fucking..."

He coughs forcefully, against his will. His rapid breathing is labored as he sits there, against the open door, unable to take his bulging eyes away from yours.
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Samiira calmly tucks the pistol into her belt as the Powder Keg falls to the floor. Her face morphs back into her own, as she slowly draws her sword, gently placing its tip to the man's chest, over his heart.

"You deserve worse than a quick death," she says, ignoring his dying words as she applies pressure to her blade, sinking it deep into his chest.
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Samiira Ka’Grappan

Female Changeling Executioner 3
Languages: Grystok , Kurnish
Age: 36
Height: 5' 7"
Weight: 140 lbs.

Speed: 6
Initiative: +6
Passive Perception: 16
Passive Insight: 13
Senses: Normal Vision

AC: 18 (19 when dual wielding)
Fort: 15
Reflex: 16 (17 when dual wielding)
Will: 14
HP: 17/32
Bloodied: 16
Surge Value: 8
Surges left: 6/7
Action Points: 0

MBA (Rapier):+10 vs AC, 1d8+5 damage
MBA (Dagger):+10 vs AC, 1d4+5 damage
MBA (Garrote):+9 vs AC, 1d4+5 damage
RBA (Dagger): +10 vs AC, 1d4+5 damage

Resistances: None.

Vulnerabilities: None.

Saves: None.

Active Effects: None.

Powers:

Changeling Disguise
Garrote Strangle
Poisoned Dagger
Quick Lunge
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Second Wind [X]
Sohei Flurry [X]
Changeling Trick [X]
Assassin’s Strike [X]
Cloak of Shades [X]
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Consumables:

-MUST BE PREPARED ON LONG REST-
Bloodroot Poison (heroic tier) [X]
-OR-
Carrion Crawler Brain Juice (heroic tier) [_]

Important Features:
Shapechanger: I have the shapechanger quality.

Attack Finesse (Executioner): Once per turn I can deal 1d8 extra damage with a weapon attack using a one-handed weapon, garrote, blowgun or shortbow.

Quick Swap: Once per turn I can draw or stow a weapon as a free action and then draw another weapon.

Death Attack: When I hit an enemy with a melee or a ranged attack that deals damage, I can choose to reduce the enemy to 0 hit points automatically if it has 10 hit points or fewer after the damage is dealt.

Poison Use: I know the recipes for two 1st-level assassin poisons. During an extended rest I can prepare 1 vial. I must know the recipe and have a poisoner’s kit. The vial contains a single use of the poison, which expires if it isn’t used before the start of my next extended rest. An item can benefit from the effects of only one assassin poison at a time. Only I can use my assassin poisons, and I am immune to the effects of the ones I create.

Two-Weapon Defense: +1 AC and Reflex while wielding a weapon in each hand.

Nimble Blade: +1 to attacks with light blades when I have CA.

Cunning Stalker: Gain CA against enemies with no other adjacent creatures.

Light Blade Expertise: +1 to damage rolls with light blade weapon attacks with CA.

Unarmored Agility: +2 feat bonus to AC when wearing cloth armor or no armor.
Known Assassin Poison Recipes
Bloodroot Poison (heroic tier)
Power (Poison) ✦ Consumable (Minor Action)
You apply the poison to your melee weapon or one piece of your ammunition. During this encounter, the next creature you hit with a weapon attack using the poisoned item takes 6 extra poison damage, and it is dazed (save ends).
Power (Poison) ✦ Consumable (Minor Action)
You pour the poison into a drink or onto a plate of food. The first creature to consume the food or drink within the next hour is dazed until the end of its next extended rest.

Carrion Crawler Brain Juice (heroic tier)
Power (Poison) ✦ Consumable (Minor Action)
You apply the poison to your melee weapon or five pieces of your ammunition. Until the end of the encounter, whenever you hit a creature with a weapon attack using the poisoned item, the target takes 4 extra poison damage, and it is slowed until the end of your next turn.
Power (Poison) ✦ Consumable (Minor Action)
You apply the poison to a single handheld object. Within the next hour, the first creature other than you to hold or wear the object for more than 1 minute is immobilized until the end of its next extended rest.
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Samiira
Your blade slips between the man's ribs, and he groans weakly — a vein in his temple bulging with exertion. He coughs once, and then wheezes, blood bubbling through his airway. His lips move with strained effort but the sounds he is trying to make never reach air.

He writhes for a moment. Then, the man finally lays still.
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"The fight has ceased, but the storm still rages," Alerio says, eyeing the freed attempting to dry and warm themselves. "I believe it would be wise to rest and see to our own wounds as we wait the storm's own passing. If the fort is secure, we have been afforded some safety." It is not a night to lead these people to true safety.
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OOC
Josie will look for a way up to the top of the building that was housing the prisoners.
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With the man dead Samiira begins to check his pockets, and then the surrounding room aboard the ship, for anything useful or anything that might provide the Unfettered with actionable information for combating the remaining Powder Kegs in the future.
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Pohaku is looking around at the prisoners, double checking if they have any wounds that need tending to and he will ask “if there is anything else we can do let us know.” He says with his usual stoic, but compassionate tone

he then Looks towards Alerio “I do agree, resting, and tending to our own. Sounds like the best course I will go and check on Josie and Samiira. And filled them in on the The status of the prisoners and What not.”
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Samiira
Aside from the rifle the lieutenant had, you find a coarse key on a strand of twine wrapped around his neck. Strapped to his waist is a belt with spare ammunition and a firing kit for reloading the firearms.

Like many of the Powder Kegs, he wears rather well-made armor — a tightly-woven jack of plate beneath a long, brown coat treated with oil to be somewhat waterproof.

Make a Perception check for searching the rest of the caravel.
Josie
You look for a way to the top of the building housing the prisoners. Inside the enclosure is a wooden staircase that leads up toward the western battlements, which can easily get you there should you wish to continue.

As you enter the enclosure however, you come across the remnants of a bloody scene of broken Powder Kegs and several prisoners, dead and scattered in the mud. Inside the reclaimed gaol, you sight of a throng of survivors as well as Pohaku, Alerio, Brandys, and Hadrurus inside.
Pohaku
As you glance outside, you see the familiar form of Josie enter the enclosure. She peers inside the building, catching sight of you, Alerio, Hadrurus, and the rest of the survivors.
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This should prove useful, Samiira thinks, pocketing the firing kit and extra ammunition for her newly acquired pistol and the man's long gun, which she slings over her shoulder. This perhaps not, but I should hang on to it in case all the same, she thinks as she examines the key, before pulling it from the man's neck, breaking its string.

Ignoring the man's armour, although noting it for later should it prove to be of use, she sets about searching the ship.
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Perception: [1d20+6]=11+6=17
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Pohaku will nod towards Josie and continue to help the prisoners before and fill her in on the status of the prisoners 

"Josie good to see you, i assume the leader of this fort was taken care of? and how are you holding up injury wise?."

he asks with a tone of concern and curiosity
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"He fled," Josie says, frowning at her own words and her failure to capture the man. "There is a ship he went to. I am searching for anything that might help us sink it. A cannon, something flammable. Have you seen anything like that here?" she asks, as she gazes around at the bloody mess and the corpses. All these prisoners could have been freed if we had done better. They wouldn't be dead. Velasco wouldn't be dead. The anger she feels towards the remaining powder keg leader prevents what might otherwise be a breakdown in the moment, but the sight before her eats at her psyche all the same.

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Does she see any way up from here? If not, she will continue her search until/unless someone announces the leader's demise.
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Brandys sets about clearing space and setting up the space, laying out any still intact and clean bedding for the injured and weary, preparing and serving food for the hungry, and providing dry clothes.

He eyes the newcomer who speaks, Serran by his estimation, and nods along. We should find out exactly who they are first. he muses. "A sound idea. A question though, if you'll permit: your friend, the quiet one, good with blades, seemed to recognize me. Have you been by the--?"

He cuts off, his weary face brightening slightly upon catching sight of his friend in the doorway, standing to greet her. "Zhou Si! I have not seen such, perhaps they have something mounted on the walls? Or stockpiles of powder for their weapons?" He takes a step closer, asking: "Are these friends of yours?"
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"What of Samiira?" Alerio asks, eyebrow raised, upon Josie's return. "She was with you, was she not?" She couldn't have... No, she is skilled and careful, from what little I have learned of her. Perhaps scouting for munitions as well.

 
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Samiira
You perform a careful but hasty sweep of the caravel, looking for anything of use in the moment or for the journey back.

The small chamber the lieutenant had retreated to appears to be the captain's quarters. Other than the pistol he had stowed here, there is little else of note save for a surprisingly comfortable-looking bed. In fact, you find that the majority of the vessel's rooms to be quite bare — most supplies or other items of value presumably taken to higher ground due to the thrashing seas. What remains are scant supplies in the hold, a closet full of tools for woodworking and mending, and a desk full of maps of various quality.

You notice that the lower hold has been segmented off to form a large, communal living space for what you assume to be prisoners. The Powder Kegs must have been hauling about a dozen of them here based on the arrangement of cots and chains. As you move through, something catches your eye — a carved message in the planks next to one of the cots. It is in scrawled in Serran, and while your understanding of the language has largely left you, you do remember some of the words, especially those of the Pantheon. Lis-beht eat these evil ones, it appears to read.
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In the enclosure you stand in, there is a wooden staircase along one of the walls that leads up to the battlements. These appear to wrap around to the south and north, and you believe much of the walls should be accessible from here.
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Samiira sighs, seeing the words carved into the hull of the ship, wondering how many people the vessel has carried into bondage.

At least there will be no more, she thinks, heading back up onto the deck, satisfied there is nothing else of use nor any remaining powder kegs aboard the caravel. She then begins making her way back up the stairs to rejoin the others.
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"Ah, Brandys," Josie responds, allowing the slightest hint of a smile to show on her face as her companion makes his presence known. It is good he is safe. "We just saw your better half not long ago, was surprised you weren't at the inn." At his question, she nods. "These are my companions with the Unfettered, yes. A mix of new recruits and older members." The last words remind her of Velasco and her eyes begin to moisten against her will. "Though one fewer veteran, now," she continues, wiping at her face with her sleeves. His body will have to wait a little while longer. We should bury him separately from the others.

Turning to Alerio, she says, "she ran after him onto the ship. If we can get high up, we might have a good vantage and can signal her from up here. If they've any cannons, we can sink it once she is back on shore. If not, well, then we need to regroup and pursue him before he tries to sail away."
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"I see," Alerio replies with a shallow nod. "I pray that she is whole and hale." This night has seen enough loss. The scout who promised low numbers is either a fool or a traitor. We shall find out which. "Let us make haste then, yes?" he asks Josie.
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Samiira
With the lieutenant dead and the ship secured for now, you make your way back up the treacherous steps toward the seafort. The rush of battle begins to fade, and you are soon reminded of your injuries and the exhaustion of the late hour.

You reach the top, taking the first right toward the enclosure. You find Josie returned, speaking to many others inside the reclaimed gaol. You count the faces of Pohaku, Alerio, Brandys, and Hadrurus, but not Velasco. There is a throng of other prisoners who look to be in various states of shock, having been treated with warm blankets and new clothing. Stew and bread has been doled out, likely from the Powder Keg's own stores.

As you approach, you hear Josie say: "If they've any cannons, we can sink it once she is back on shore. If not, well, then we need to regroup and pursue him before he tries to sail away."
 
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As Josie speaks, you catch the face of Samiira entering the enclosure and heading toward you.
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"You are safe," Alerio says as he spots Samiira's form approaching, relief washing over him. "What of the lieutenant?"

 
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"Dead," Samiira states.

"If there's no cannons, we should be able to burn it," she says joining the previous conversation. "There's little of use on the ship, but if anyone knows how to sail, I'm sure the cause could put it to use," she adds.

"Has anyone seen Velasco?" She asks, realising his absence. "Last I saw him, he was up on the roof above us."
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Pohaku will nod to Josie and take a deep breath

“Well it’s good to know that the Lieutenant is dead, good work I do feel saddened that we couldn’t save more people but our efforts will make sure that they’re deaths were not in vain or for nothing.”

He then has a look of shame for a moment as he looks to samiira

“I have sailed all my life my people are wayfarers of the sea and my ancestors before me have helped me so to speak navigate the open seas, as for your friend I have no idea but I’m sure he would have come to us by now I certainly would hope so.”
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