"No, but I wouldn't expect it to, unless you've heard something I haven't."

"I don't expect it but it'd just be a speed bump under the wrong circumstances and I think that's interesting."

"The main thing protecting us is that a 'draft' of high level adventurers is very nearly voluntary anyway. How would you enforce it? You could shame our families, pretty much, and it wouldn't shame our families much if people didn't feel like we'd done much wrong."

"That makes sense."

"Also the government is just."

"Yes of course. But if it weren't, it'd still have to act like it was sometimes, and this is one of them."

"In the theology-cum-econ classes they kept being all, it so happens that our government is just, but if you encounter something unjust be lawful at it anyway for your spiritual developmemt, but all the examples were so - tame."

"Adventuring involves confronting a lot more ethical dilemmas than most people ever run into."

"Yeah, but still - 'your dad won't let you out past dinnertime', that one's not much of a challenge if you're the sort of person bothering to attend a - well, maybe their dads made them show up to classes."

They escort the boat Sothisward. It should limp into port the following afternoon if it makes good time, which it might not, Make Whole or no Make Whole. Belmarniss goes to sleep on the carpet well before the sun goes down, that being the current wild flailing of her sleep schedule, and she's up before dawn.

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.