Game summary for October 11, 2012, Flight of the Phoenix Spelljammer campaign; present PCs included Amothar Skyblade (elf fighter/mage), Moto Patton (giff myrmidon), Orophin Calafalas (half-elf bard), Zorn Seregon (psionicist) along with Elaina of Ptah (cleric) and Safana bent Anwar (sorceress).
A few days after encountering the gnomes, an alert sounded as the Pisces slowed out of spelljamming speed. Closing rapidly were three goblin blade ships! During this shift, Zorn and Moto were sleeping and scrambled to get ready while the rest of the party braced for the attack. Elaina both blessed and prayed for the party, Safana turned invisible, and Orophin rallied the team with a rousing tale and drum beat.
The goblins aboard fired grapple chains affixed to ballista bolts to snare the Pisces and grapple. Then goblins swarmed the gunwales and flooded onto the ship. The team went to work immediately with Moto laying waste with his massive sword. Amothar tried to use chill touch and missed his target. Safana conjured a sand lion to maul some of the goblinoids. Elaina used spiritual hammer to drive back the onslaught. As the goblins died, more swarmed over from the tiny blade ships. Zorn tried, and failed, to levitate psionically while Safana blasted two goblins off the ship with lightning bolt.
Things were going fairly well when Orophin cast Melf’s minute meteors. He directed the first at a wooden portion of the goblin blade, which burst into flame. Amothar followed it with affect normal fire to double the size of the flames, realizing too late the ship was tethered by chain to their own wooden vessel! Orophin’s next shot went wide and caught their own ship ablaze! Moto scrambled to get to the chain but was hampered by the press of creatures. He picked up Captain Robilard and set him aside and swatted down some more goblins.
Watching the carnage, Zorn concentrated and blasted one goblin apart with project force. He later spun about and used control flames to animate the fire on the Pisces and “walk” it over onto the goblin blade and right down the hatch! Moments later, he animated the fire on the blade and sent it down after the first, closing the hatch behind it! At that moment, mighty Moto severed the grapple chain. Meanwhile, Amothar had an unfortunately mishap with chill touch and weakened himself. More misfortune struck as the sand lion tripped over its own paws and face-planted on deck.
Finally, the last of the goblins aboard were slain. The two remaining goblin blades sped off, and the team put the flames out on the third and recovered the vessel.
