Sparks and the odd wood chip fly as Gyuuto hits spoon, further battering Cap'n Akimbold's already weakened defenses, but as a testament to his focus, commitment, and sheer will, he remains standing (if breathing heavily and somewhat scorched). Backlit by the rain of glimmering particles before they sizzle and go out in the rising waters, Akimbold hops back onto the Ramenooze, his landing no longer as steady as before. The action briefly stops as Santokumaru asks how the kobolds knew. It's a long stare from several directions. The Ramenooze goes to check why the little kobold on it is being so wobbly.
"...There... there is a giant swirl of clouds over the human castle. And Haxenspargilis yelled for the humans to get the Stew of Tiamat. We heard it from here." The surrounding kobolds nod twice in unison as Akimbold narrows his eyes in inquisitive suspicion. He wants to continue, but Vesper files a complaint and seeks to deliver it with proper fisticuffs. And it would have hit, were it nod for the accidentally meddling Ramenooze, which blobbed some of its mass (and face) upwards to quizzically look at Akimbold ("Pwih?").
This just so happened to intercept Vesper's rain of punches with the back of the ooze's... momentary head-equivalent (?), as it also happened to lean to the sides just in time to happen to be in the way of the elven butler seeking to slip around the accidental guardian. The ooze wobbles a lot, but seems to have taken little note of the punches, the nature of the creature dissipating much of the blunt attacks' force.
On the upside, the hanging kobold near Vesper tried to do better this time around, once again winding up to fan slap the butler, only to hit nothing but air as Vesper jumps to assault Akimbold. The little scaled creature ends up spinning around its own axis multiple times uncontrollably, switching rotation direction multiple times before it more or less stops again, dizzy swirls in its eyes.
Tourna uses the opportunity to climb up one of the ropes the Krew is hanging from, the Krew either too dazed or too busy snacking to care. Up above, the non-Krew audience observes the spectacle, and Tourna does score some nuts and marshmallows, the bunch just munching for a while. Until the Stewbot just starts spinning with a spoon and extreme prejudice! Snacks fly, startled yips are heard, a few kobolds getting bonked on the noggin before one of them kicks Tourna back off the bridge. The little golem collides with the head of one of the hanging Kobold Krewmen, bounces off, hits another hanging kobold with its spoon on the snoot, before finally crash-landing back in the bowl-boat.
Up above, a kobold has to be held back as it reaches for its marshmallows that fell down into the swirling waters far below, wide streams of tears gushing from its eyes. But it is too late, the snacks are lost due to the actions of the dastardly stewbot. The kobold will never recover from this tragedy. Until its buddies share some of their snacks. What was the kobold upset about again?
Amidst the distracting shenanigans, Akimbold starts again. "Ahem. So the dragon wants the Stew of Tiamat, and then you show up! Coincidence?!" Akimbold holds his stubby thumb and index fingers in the rough shape of a checkmark beneath its snout, once again critically examining the group of opponents from the shade of his crumpled fedora. He takes another swingy swing at Santokumaru, but the Steak Knife Swordman's defenses seem more and more insurmountable by the tarnished and charred spoon, almost falling into the hot waters too because of how wobbly the Krew's ropes are.
Eleanora chimes up and Akimbold points the crooked, blackened spoon at her. "AHA! You admit it! You are Haxenspargilis' servants out to attack us! HAVE AT YOU!" And he throws his spoon at the priestess. Sadly, the increasingly less aerodynamic form of the mangled spoon makes its flight path very, very wobbly, sailing past Eleanora.
One of the Krew actually sees it coming towards it, quickly stuffing all of its snacks in its mouth before hastily catching the spoon. A muffled "phew", wiping sweat off its brow (it's also awfully hot hanging over steadily rising Ramena water), it throws the spoon back to the Cap'n, who catches it with something approaching panache. The Krewmember earns a thumbs up and feels incredibly proud of itself. Anoter Krewmember starts swinging and doing aerial swimming motions in hopes of moving faster, until it has enough speed to pat the Krewmember of the minute on the back.
Serving 4
Initiative:
- Chefs of the Round
- Kobold Krew
- Chefs of the Round
- Ramenooze
- Chefs of the Round
- Cap'n Akimbold
- Chefs of the Round
- Cap'n Akimbold
First enemy turn: Spurred on by earning a merit from the Cap'n, the Krew redoubles its efforts (for realsies this time), aiming to melee attack Tourna, the Destroyer of Snacks!
Second enemy turn: Since the party seems to want to play (that appears to be its interpretation of what Vesper just did), it excitedly floats over to Vesper, winding up an accidental melee attack!
Third enemy turn: The enemies have revealed their true colors! Akimbold shall smite them, starting with a melee attack against Eleanora!
Fourth enemy turn: And he has not forgotten the assault by the elven butler, who shall get the taste of another ranged attack aimed at the head! This has nothing to do with ignoring the defenses of the Swordsman! Not at all! Lies and slander!
Clocks:
Goal Clock: Rope Budget Cuts ✅✅✅✅✅✅
Serving 3 resolution
Santokumaru attacks Cap'n Akimbold, and hits his Fire weakness for 32 fire damage!
The Ramenooze uses the Guard action and covers Cap'n Akimbold.
Vesper can't melee attack Cap'n Akimbold due to being covered, so the attack is aimed at the Ramenooze instead. Vesper hits for 7 physical damage due to the Ramenooze Guarding (but it also has a Physical resistance anyway)! Vesper regains the ability to use the Spell action.
The Kobold Krew attacks Vesper with Fan Slap!, melee, targeting Def, but misses.
Tourna attacks the Kobold Krew with a critical hit for 12 physical damage! The Opportunity is used for Scanning the Ramenooze, revealing a Poison vulnerability!
Cap'n Akimbold attacks Santokumaru with Swinging Spoon, melee, targeting Def, but misses.
Eleanora uses the Inventory action to use 3 IP for an Elixir, restoring 50 MP!
Cap'n Akimbold attacks Eleanora with Spoonerang, ranged, targeting Def, but misses.