She shoves Hagan and Fazil awake. "Shh - don't wake up Mahdi, he doesn't have spells yet - is the starlight good enough you can see that rowboat -"

There is a little rowboat full of men approaching their adopted merchant vessel. It probably came from that other, larger ship.

They squint. "- yeah."

"I don't think it looks like a friendly rowboat - Fazil, how tapped out are you from yesterday -"

"I have ...some buffs, mostly."

"Well, you can turn them into heals, I guess. And hit people?"

"Yes."

"I might be able to get them all from here but we should probably confirm that they're baddies, first."

"You wanna wait and see if they're just sneaking onto the boat to surprise the sailors with tea and crumpets - okay yeah that's fair when you have arrows and not admonishing rays."

 "This isn't gonna admonish anybody, yeah. Got another Fly -"

"Yeah, I've been up, I'm prepped - you want it now? With Mahdi out we have to ration..."

Headshake. "Head over, get a closer look, lemme know if you need me."

"I've got one prepped. Plus my ring but that's for emergencies." She steers the carpet.

The pirates reach the ship and ready weapons and start climbing aboard.

"...I have a water breathing, if we drop among them I can get us and all of them on the one cast and we don't have to worry about knocking them into the water, but I'm best at range..."

"You'd have to touch them all, right? Feels a bit risky - inclined to start shooting, honestly -"

"I'll message their incompetent night watchman first, get some sailors up and on our side..." She does this.

He nods and draws his bow.

The night watchman starts yelling and the pirates speed up and Belmarniss starts raying people.

The pirates mostly go in for sharp melee options but some of them start shooting back. They don't seem to have a caster.

Then this shouldn't last long. A lucky shot catches his bow, though, and knocks it off the carpet. It's an expensive bow (impervious, adaptive, spell storing, distance, seeking). He jumps down to get it.

Belmarniss zaps people who get too close to him, and the sailors are pouring out from belowdecks now, but the pirates outclass the sailors by a bit. One breaks past the second mate to charge Hagan; Belmarniss's zap misses and by the time she has another ready, Hagan's dangling by his shirt off the edge of the ship, where he'll fall if his captor's shot at.

"- Hold Person."

The paralysis holds the pirate's hands clenched where they're holding Hagan over the water; the sailors pin down the last pirate in motion while the carpet swoops down to collect their ranger.

He lets go and tumbles onto her. Stands up and gets himself to a proper Osirian distance. "Thanks. That was neat."

She zaps the pirate with one of her crackly magic bolts when he attempts to slash at an approaching sailor. "Thanks, I'm pleased with myself! I would have been less pleased with myself if he'd lost his ability to brace against the railing and you'd both tumbled into the sea but there was time pressure. Fazil, looks safe to go stop them from bleeding out -"

He kicks peoples' weapons out of their hands and then heals them.

He can help with the tying-people-up. "Do we recognize any of these, I'm terrible at faces -"

"I suspect Mahdi will."

"Just between you and me," he says to the pirates, "Osirion's paying you for all this nonsense?"

"Off the record?" says a tied-up pirate earnestly. "Gosh, I wasn't going to say anything but now that you mention it, I hope you fall in a whirlpool and are devoured by mermaids."