Rodetta was bracing herself as she saw the man run towards her after scraping by the crossbow, she was expeting him to bull rush her while injuring himself on the clatrops but he very cleverly cut his way down to the lower level of the ship with a small hole in front of her while  he waited for her. Rodetta had to fight every urge to jump down with him and engage him in tooth and nail combat but she knew he would have the pre emptive strike, and after being glanced once be his blade she was in no hurry to feel that pain again. 

Luckily her heated up body was storing some more fire energy and she decided to put some focus in her right hand after tucking her crossbow away and created a sphere of red magical energy about the size of a goldfish bowl. This took a bit of concentration but because she wasn't being immediately attacked she was able to pull it off. This was her explosive fireball ability, perfect for this situation. Peeking over the  edge of the hole in the deck she looked at the man and simply said.

[i][color=ed1c24]Catch.....[/color][/i]

And dropped the powerful fire bomb into the lower deck having it explode right where he was standing. The blast radius would be about 4 feet in every direction, with a  very powerful blast indeed, but the key difference was where the upper deck was soaked with rain and moisture, the lower deck was mostly dry and very flammable, the billowing smoke alone would choke a man to death. Rodetta took steps back after dropping the sphere and raise her shield in anticipation...


[b][i]BOOOOOOOOMMMM![/i][/b]