[All hands on deck. Tis another day at sea. The wind seems to be picking up just fine even without Virgil's help and billowing out the sails nicely. It's been almost a week's time since leaving Forthswith, and the two girls from there are trying their best to earn their keep.] [Enzo seems to be letting Marla do most of the work, so he's currently taking a nap below decks. Naiya's...somewhere around. But no one's really going to look for her anyways. Everyone's busy doing their duty (Cecilia's got a nice mop and bucket) and the rest of you are doing what have you. Unless you're the Pirates who don't do anything. Then you'll tell me, you don't do anything.] [Session Start!] * Shan feels like driving today, so she's at the wheel. * Virgil is reading, and on deck! * Nasira is making sure the rigging is tight. Not that she knows much about it, but knots that are about to fall apart would be a good thing to notice! [Nasira's pretty darn sure the knots are tight. Cecilia almost bumps into her with the mop while she's checking.] * Nasira laughs a little and steps out of the way. "Watch it, Kid." Oops! Sorry. It's just this ship's so big! [Note: As far as ships actually go, this ship's pretty tiny.] * Nasira grins. "If the ship were that big, you wouldn't be running into me." * Cecilia looks thoughtful at that. "I guess that's true." [She looks around. "Have you all been on many boats?" [Meanwhile, while everyone's busy with what they're doing, they notice Filis is in the crow's nest as usual, but Marla isn't there to be found. At least it's a small boat.] * Nasira double checks a knot. "Not really." (Hello Enzo! We're on the boat!) ( Still sittin' around with Marla? ) (It's a week later.) (Also, get into #socks) * Shan certainly does notice the lack of Marla, and frowns at it. [Cecilia looks up to Virgil interested.] * Virgil looks over his book and adjusts his glasses. "Yes?" * Nasira notices the frown and looks over to Shan. Knots are boring, anyway. "What's up, Boss?" * Enzo checks other knots. No they're not! Does anyone know where our other wayward traveller is? Below deck? It's not like she could swim home. [All those who made it hear a sharp scream below deck.] * Shan takes action! She rushes below deck to find the source. [Cecilia seems to be happily doing her deck swabbing, humming a tune.] [Filis looks down at that and frowns. "Is something the matter?" * Enzo frowns and runs down, following Shan. * Virgil blinks and snaps a bookmark into his book, snapping it closed. He follows the others below deck. * Nasira blinks. "What's going- hey! No running places without me!" * Nasira runs after them. [As you head down, you hear Filis yell something like "Wait! Who's going to steer the ship?" The scream, however, came from the hold.] Oh christ. Shan, can you get up and man the helm? (Wait, is christ a good word for that? Do we have another one we use? Like space jesus?) ( I was going to say.) (Swear on "Cheese Is Rice." ) (Fiona!) I think this is a little more important! (For you, anyway.) (s/christ/fiona) (Hahahahaha, ooh... Okay, if you say so.) Oh, fine, I'll take care of it then. * Virgil heads back up and mans the helm. (Fiona works.) (Hard for the money.) [Virgil gets back to notice Filis coming down the rigging quickly and going for the wheel. Seems she's going to get it. Of course, Virgil can still stick around to take charge if he wants. She seems to be grumbling some unladylike things though.] If you're going to take the wheel, why're you yelling? Sheesh. * Virgil heads back down. (Because she was up in the crows nest when everyone else just split? ;P) [Anyhow, everyone heads below deck to the door of the hold. There's another scream from behind the door.] * Nasira doesn't get there first! There are people in the way. * Shan does! She opens the door, falling into a fighting stance. * Enzo piles in after Shan. * Virgil watches the beaters get ready to beat something to a pulp that probably isn't anything too dangerous. [Marla's in the hold. She's flat against the wall and looks positively terrified. There doesn't seem to actually be anyone else IN the hold though.] [Enzo cocks his head and looks around a lot.] * Shan relaxes. "What are you doing here?" [Enzo hears a squeak.] * Enzo blinks. "A mouse?" * Enzo follows the squeaky noise. [Marla points in the direction of the cargo. "R-rats. We have rats aboard!"] Oh. Lots? [Other people start hearing squeaks too.] [Marla just nods curtly.] * Nasira blinks, then looks around. "More stowaways. Figure we can get them to mop the deck, too?" Well, that sucks. * Shan rubs her head. "Rather just toss them overboard." [Enzo finds the little squeaker. It seems to be munching its way into one of the grain sacks in the food stores.] * Enzo sneaks up on it. Could you guys get rid of those things BEFORE they eat all the food? Geeze, how did we get rats anyways? It's not like this ship is that big... * Virgil goes on mumbling to himself. I dunno. I think the food provided a great way for us to find them. * Nasira goes a-rat unting. [The little rat sniffs up at the air and goes scurrying away from Enzo. (hunting) * Enzo pouts and tries a half-hearted rat grab. * Shan rubs her head. "Well, I'm going to get back to the wheel." She leaves to do that. * Nasira crouches to get a look at the scurrying rat and glances around for more of them. "I feel almost sorry for these guys." I wonder how we didn't notice them before. * Nasira starts moving sacks of food so she can see behind them. "Didn't really look." * Enzo moves sacks on the end Nasira isn't moving them. "You'd think we'd've noticed, it's been a while..." Looks like you guys got this under control. I'm heading above decks again. Have fun. * Virgil walks up and rubs his head, pulling out his book. "Rats rats rats. Geeze, it can't be that hard to check for rats..."[Unfortunately, this book isn't a book on rats.] * Nasira snickers after Virgil leaves. "I love how he's saying it can't be hard to check for them, but he didn't find any." I heard that! * Enzo rolls his eyes at whiny Virgil. He must be jealous 'cause the rats ate all the cheese!" (-") Welll, simple enough. Next time we get supplies, Virgil gets to check for vermin. [Nasira also manages to find a small hole leading to another area of the ship as she moves the food sacks. Luckily the scurrying rat isn't heading there while Enzo's chasing it.] Yup. Hey, Virgil! If it's that easy, you check for rats next time! ( Enzo's not chasing it any more!) * Nasira peeks through this hole. [Oh. Well then, it's cowering because they're blocking his exit.] * Nasira uses her one good eye! It probably gets stabbed out. * Enzo peers over her shoulder. He's got a spare! [Knives do not fly out of the whole. There are about two rodents in there, though. Seems to lead to the powder room. And no, that's not a spot for the ladies to primp.] ( It's the spot for the men to do drugs. ) * Enzo , not being able to see through the hole on account of Nasira being there, looks around speculatively. "Looks like that'd probably lead to the powder storage." (whole -> hole) (And that's...yes, thank you, Ard.) (They don't fly out of the whole hole.) (Or, they don't fly out of the hole whole. Knifey shards!) * Nasira whistles. "Okay, I'm going to get the rats from the other end. You stay here if they run out this way." 9:12:45: (And two rodents that you can see. There shouldn't be an about there, because either there are or there aren't. :P) * Nasira waves cheerfully at the rats in the hole, then gets up and walks off. To the powder room! Uh, okay. D'you wanna kill 'em, or...? [It doesn't take long. Stealth roll for Nasira.] [Nasira chases the rats towards Enzo. Whether or not that's what she was intending to do is irrelevant.] * Nasira succeeds in her mission, and it didn't even involve pointy bits! * Enzo grabs a sack of potatoes while Nasira is going next door and unceremoniously dumps the spuds on the floor. He holds the sack's open end to the hole. [Enzo catches 2 rats in the sack with ease. Woo!] * Enzo closes the mouth of the sack. "D'you see any more over there?" * Nasira looks around. "Don't think so." Okay! * Enzo holds the rat sack in one hand and tries to find something to block the hole with with the other. * Nasira checks the powder room one more time before heading back to storage. [Nasira doesn't see any more at the moment.] [Enzo sees the rat he chased earlier. He thinks he sees a few more chewing through some crates in the corner.] 9:38:06:* Enzo takes a count. "...hmmm." * Enzo fumbles out his odd-shaped knife with his free hand and aims it at the rats. * Nasira comes walking in. "Hey, you got them!" Yup! [Enzo's mist misses the rats. But it sure does make them scurry for the door. Marla freaks and manages to stamp on one as they come past, but 5 of them get by.] Aw, darn! [They're going right towards Nasira though.] * Nasira crouches to catch them as they run for her. (Okay, so...) (I critfailed. (No result yet.) (Apparently, the upstairs connection went out entirely. And I'm not on here for long. ^^;) (Maybe you should end it. Now. ^^;) (So I'll do your result, then we'll pause, okay? Crappy timing, I know.) [Nasira grabs for the rats! Enzo is chasing the rats! Nasira manages to miss the rats entirely, which puts her offbalance enough to topple over on top of Enzo.] ( I said I wasn't chasing 'em, gosh darn it! >_<) (I thought you were! >_<) (YOU THOUGHT WRONG!) (Okay, Nasira topples on top of Marla instead then. She's right there. :P) (Oh, I forogt you lost your connection and probalby didn't get that. Yeah, he's just standin' there waiting for stun #2) (No, I didn't get that.) (So take out the chasing part and put in Marla instead of Enzo for the toppling.) [Until later. When the GM hopefully has a less crappy connection.]