[Our crew finds itself on the high seas. The cool, calm air. The blue sky. The whistling breeze. Okay, so the air is cold and wet, the sky is grey, and the breeze howling with a background of thunder, but who's counting these things?] * Virgil is driving the boat! [After a narrow encounter with getting iced, and taking down two of the ships, some folly allowed the lead ship to board! And the Vithril, while the captain seems to be a good sport about the chase, don't seem none too pleased about it. So they decided to board.] [So far, Nasira and Shan (mostly) have been doing their best to repel the boarders, while Lucas served cover fire and Virgil drove the boat, but the battle has only just begun. Enzo was knocked out by an earlier high cannon ball and Naiya was simply stunned into watching the impending doom which awaited them. Since we last left, the captain went to get his "blade" along with his pet, (con.)] [while the old young twins of Shihra and Shakra board your boat. The ships are in close quarters now, and out of most of the major sea obstacles (maybe) so far.] [Session ahoy!] ( Session? I thought you were writing a novella :o ) * Naiya is near the cannon! With Lucas! * Lucas is also near the cannon, but he's not using it since it's rather fixed firing aft, so he's picking off riflemen with a pistol. * Enzo is below decks. Unconscious. In the dark. * Virgil is driving! * Shan is fighting! * Nasira just downed a couple of mooks! They didn't need those innards, anyway. [Order: Nasira, Shihra, Captain, Enzo, Shakra, Swordsman, Virgil, Musketeers x3, Naiya, Shan.] * Enzo muzzily wakes up. "Guh?" [Nasira's turn!] [The swordsman is still closest to Nasira. Two of the musketeers are in the middle of reloading, one is prepped to fire.] [Shakra is also nearby Nasira, but further away than the swordsman. Shihra's inbetween Shan and Nasira.] * Khalil is now known as Rowyn (Is anyone coming *towards* me?)\ [The swordsman is and just attacked. So did Shakra, from midjump.] * Rowyn has quit IRC (Ping timeout ) * Rowyn has joined #seekers * ChanServ sets mode: +o Rowyn [The swordsman takes the blade to the gut and falters with an extra crispy wound. He doesn't look like he's getting back up.] (Um... I didn't pose that I attacked him, but all right.) ( Nasira's just that fast. ) * Nasira slashed him just then. The wound was HER FAULT. She's probably not sorry, given she's grinning and going right over the fallen swordsman, knife shifted to slash Shakra across the chest. * Lucas makes a mental note to never, ever, under any circumstanses, piss of the mad woman. ( "Don't make the mad woman mad! Er.... wait..." ) [Nasira's knife slash is straight and true but Shakra interposes his sickle chain in just a way to deflect it. "Nice try." He's grinning again. Oh dear.] [Meanwhile, Shihra takes a defensive stance for a moment, when the captain of the ship yells across, "Forget about them. Concentrate on getting her first." Shihra nods and rushes towards the door below decks, almost insanely fast.] [Enzo's turn.] * Enzo gets to his feet and shakes his head, clearing it. He then realizes where he is and dashes toward the door to the topdeck to get back in the action. [Enzo blocks the door, causing Shihra to come to a halt. He's frowning and sets into a defensive stance.] * Enzo skids to a stop, 'cause it's better than crashing into him. "Hi there! Again!" He draws his weird-shaped knife and seems to concentrate on something. ( [A big turkey sandwich appears in front of Enzo] ) ( Gosh, I'm starving. ) [Mist comes out of Enzo's blades, but his aim seems a little off.] [Meanwhile, a female voice comes from the other ship, deep and throaty. "Captain Leon. Your blade." In her hands, she is carrying a long sharp double- bladed axe with a black handle. She, herself is wearing a long white and black sleeveless gown and has back-length black hair, in addition to a few assorted bits of gem jewelry.] [Leon takes the axe and inspects it for a moment. "Excellent." He puts it behind his back and prepares to board himself.] [Back on your ship, Shakra tries to swing his sickle at Nasira, which she needs to defend.] * Nasira takes a step and bends backwards, the blade missing her chest by a hairsbreath. "Watch it, kid," she says with a grin. "I just got these clothes." Never mind that they're soaked with saltwater. [Virgil!] * Virgil drives the boat! Um... Anything else I gotta do? Oh! And cheers! [The musketeer who's ready to fire fires his shot at Lucas (since he's shooting at them) and misses by a mile.] [Lucas!] * Lucas takes a break from reloading to shoot one of that rifflemans companions, then he gets back too it. [The musketeer takes the shot in the chest and falls to the deck. Two more left, alternating shots.] [Naiya!] [Still Naiya.] * Naiya blinks, suddenly realizing something. She suddenly takes off at a run, clanking the whole while. [Naiya doesn't manage to run Shihra over. She does manage to get over there though.] [Shan!] * Shan adopts one of her silly poses, with one leg up and bent, one hand held up and bent, the other straight and at an angle. "Nasira, follow my lead!" * Naiya stops at the door, blinking at Enzo and Shihra, then pauses. "Excuse me." And seeing no response, just tries to get through! Unsuccessfully. :( * Nasira laughs, loosening her sword arm and taking a step to the side, hopefully keeping Shakra's eyes on her and away from Shan. "Sure thing, boss." * Lucas is slightly worried about getting left with Shakra, but hopefully he'll tag along with the other crazy people. [Top of the round. Nasira's turn.] * Nasira leans her sword down and left, crosswise with curved edge towards Shakra, and keeps her knife behind her as Shan takes one light step forward and springs into the air. As Shan twists so her lightning-sheathed right foot is aimed firmly for the small of Shakra's back, Nasira darts forward, the edge turning a gorgeous molten orange. [Shakra tries to duck low but is just a bit too slow. The slash glows across his chest and pushes him back into the momentum of Shan's foot. He grimaces for a moment and falls down, moments later leaving the chain to clatter to the decks. He doesn't seem to be dead, per se, but his breathing is shallow and he's unconscious.] (Darn it, Rowyn, I asked you to hold for me to finish. ^^;) (Sorry!) (;_;) (Can I? I have to make Shan look more badass. ;P) (And before you told me to speed up combats!) (Yes! Finish!) (I'm typing for TWO PEOPLE here.) * Nasira pulls her sword upwards, slicing Shakra from belly to neck as she shifts to the right to end next to him. Immediately after, Shan's foot slams into the kid with an alarming clap of thunder, and lightning explodes all around him. She springs off him, flipping to her feet and facing his back, just as Nasira turns from Shakra's left to accomodate her blind spot. (There, NOW you can have that descrip.) (Yes.) [Shihra yells. "Shakra!" He immediately forgets his mission of going down below decks and grits his teeth as he rushes Shan (since she's closer), sheathing his blade. He stops a few meters away from Nasira and quick-draws his blade, leaving the ringing loud enough for all to hear and warping the air in front of her.] * Shan sommersaults off Shakra, turning it into a backflip and dodging away from the attack. She lands in a crouched stance, arms outstretched. "Remember, you brought this on yourselves." * Nasira turns her attention to Shihra. "You wanna end up like your brother, kid?" she asks as she flicks blood off her saif. "We can take you and then some." ( *points at the captain* And then him. :( ) [Leon frowns as well and slides along the upper ropes to land on the deck, taking the axe in his right hand and drawing his finger along the blade, as if to test it but drawing blood from his finger. "Indeed. This is proving a bit more of a challenge than anticipated." He lets the blood fall along the axe and then hefts it off to the side, eying Nasira, Shan, and the others. "Come on then."] [Enzo] * Enzo glances at Naiya and rolls his eyes. "Yell if you can't handle it. Might help if you blocked the door though." He eyes Naiya's armor, shakes his head, and continues on deck. * Nasira turns slowly, looking to the captain. The smile is gone, and something akin to hatred flashes in her one good eye. "I've got this one." * Shan nods to Nasira. * Enzo tries his knife at Shihra again. [It again fails to work.] * Enzo mutters under his breath. [The woman on the other ship frowns and starts muttering an incantation. The air around Nasira and Shan's feet shimmers with a lime green mist. Moments later, there's a creaking sound. Acro rolls for both of you.] 2d8-6 ( erm ) [Shan manages to dive out of the way, but Nasira is stuck as the wood of the deck rots beneath her feet. The planks give way under her weight and she goes crashing into the hold below.] [Virgil.] * Virgil drives the boat! [The musketeer that's ready to fire turns his shot towards Shan. And misses.] [Lucas.] * Lucas picks off that musketeers last friend and then looks at the mage. "I'm realy going to have to ask you not to do that again. Repairs are quite expensive." * Enzo grumbles. "Tell me about it." No kidding. [Musketeer falls! Next!] [Naiya.] * Naiya asks again, nicely. "Excuse me, Shihra, Enzo, could I get through?" ( We are NOT IN THE DOOR ANY MORE.) (Both left.) ( Nevermind! ) (Seeing your brother fall to the twin doom of Nasira and Shan kinda does that.) * Naiya goes THROUGH THE DOOR! And then to find Filis, and the stowaways. (And the rest of my men!) [Shan!] * Naiya pauses, and closes the door behind her. <_< >_> * Shan picks up Shakra. "So, is girl so important that you don't mind if I fry this child's brain?" [Leon frowns, but stands still. "He knew the consequences when he signed aboard." Shihra looks a little more unsure at Shan. "You wouldn't..."] * Shan smirks. "Try me, kid. You want to start a war? You'd better be prepared to deal with the consequences." She definitely would. She's a government official. She really would do it. [Nasira's turn!] Lucas, keep an eye on that magician. If she starts chanting, let me know. * Nasira curses profusely in Caladeem - something about the captain's ancestors having sex with monkeys, goats, and any other manner of beasts - as she flips to her feet and dashes for the deck, dirt and rotted splinters clinging to her hair and clothes. * Lucas glances up from reloading. "Yes, ma'am." * Nasira bursts onto the deck, and she looks *furious*. Wind whips around her as she pulls her right arm back, hurling her saif at the captain. It whips through the air, the currents of wind around it creating a small torrent with the rain. [The wind whips around the blade and sends it sailing into the captain and right through his neck! Which decapitates him! And...he turns all red into a pile of blood. The blood sloshes onto the deck and he reappears a few meters away, frowning. "Interesting trick." Shihra isn't doing anything but Leon rushes Nasira and swings his axe.] ...this could get pretty inconvenient. * Nasira snarls, absolutely *furious*, but she has the presence of mind to step aside and deflect the axe with her knife, even as her saif returns. She catches it with her hilt. "I've got more than enough tricks to kill you." (by the hilt) It's true. (Also, -absolutely furious, because I forgot I had used it for the previous pose. Carry on!) [Leon grins as the blades clash. "That's the spirit." He hops back a little into fighting position.] (You can't go wrong with ferocity.) (Unless it's fearocity.) [Vithra (the mage if you didn't catch her name earlier) frowns and starts chanting another spell. Leon's armor seems to thicking slightly.] ( What a creative name. ) (Oh wait.) (Enzo before that! Sorry.) (I am Vithra, MAGESS OF VITHRIL!) (At least she's not Mithra.) * Enzo looks back and forth between reconstituted Captain and not-moving kid and moves a little closer to the kid, in case he doesn't listen to Shan. [Virgil! Does he react?] * Lucas lets Shan know that Vitha is casting and such. * Virgil starts chanting. This mage needs some scarin', yo. [The musketeer holds his fire. He seems concerned about the stand-off too.] [Naiya's turn in the other channel.] * Lucas lost his turn in there somewhere, but since he's just keeping his gun on the mage it doesn't actualy matter. [Lucas!] (You and Naiya have the same init.) ( He rolled first though.) (Right. Well, I'm running both since unless Naiya comes out, it won't affect Lucas.) [Shan!] * Shan keeps Shakra in a full-nelson, her hands grabbing the side of his head. "Your comrades don't seem too concerned. Is that a Vithril trait, or is it merely your brother's winning personality?" {Holding} You'd best tell your magician not to cast another spell. [Top of the round. Nasira!] ( brb ) * Nasira shifts her weight slightly, running the edge of her saif against her knife as they both take on the molten glow. She's barely done when she dashes forward and for the captain's side, slicing with her saif's heated edge and then turning, cutting at the captain's back with a similarly deadly knife. [Leon hops back out of the way of the knife, causing it to draw a red line through the air. For someone so big, he's surprisingly nimble.] (Err, to the side then.) (Missed that she cut at his back. ^_^;) [Shihra glares at Shan. "Your side attacked the captain *first*! I would hardly call that honorable as well." He clenches his fist slightly but does nothing more. He does seem rather angry at Shan.] (Oh, Shihra is so losing this argument.) * Shan laughs aloud. "WHO attacked first?" (Your ships shot CANNONS at us first.) Wait, so cannons don't count/ That's kinda silly. (HELLO MCFLY. ANYBODY IN THERE.) (s///?) Do you normally attack when you have a hostage? You refused to give her over peacefully. We had to take her by force. (Shihra's logic fails.) [Leon rakes the axe through the air diagonally from left to right.] (Can I kill him through my OOC mind beams?) (No.) (What about mine?) (*killes with logic beams) (No.) ( Frown. ): ) I'm sorry you thought you'd be able to walk all over us. * Nasira smirks as she turns her arm up and now cold saif down, blocking the edge of Leon's axe with an angry clang, but there's absolutely no humor in it. She holds it there for a second before she pushes up and out, shoving it back. [Leon hmmphs. "It seems you know how to use that sword."] [Enzo!] ( No, I carry it around just because it looks pretty.) (She feels pretty. Oh so pretty.) ( But I DID stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.) And I don't hear you telling that mage to stop casting. * Enzo keeps ready, watching the scene. * Nasira spits at Leon as she brings her knife forward, parallel, and saif back and extended behind her. "I was taught by Mirza Saleh," she says, her Caladeem accent somehow becoming even more pronounced. "Do not forget it in the short time you have left." [Shihra clenches his fist tight, then slackens defeated. "She...won't cast on us. She is only trying to protect the captain..."] That's not what I said. [Vithra frowns. "Captain..." She glances at Shihra, Shakra, and Shan for a moment and lowers her hands.] [Virgil!] * Virgil holds his spell, small arcs of electricity and ozone coming from where he's standing as he looks around, now that the girl has stopped casting. He looks ready to blow a hole through someone if they move, though. [Lucas!] * Lucas moves! But, only to check on the status of the third ship since he's not confident enough to fire into melee and nobody else is doing anything. [Naiya!] * Virgil is now known as Syzix * Naiya steps back onto deck, opening the door, quietly. She's got shield and gun at the ready, and she quickly assesses the situation and takes root at the doorframe. [Shan!] * Shan doesn't change what she's doing. She's on a roll or something. [While everyone seems to be put at a standstill (well, except Nasira and Leon who are at each other's throats), the ship rocks suddenly. Out of the ocean surrounding the two ships rise four Lahkhor Eels screeching in sea serpenty fury. Apparently that one you fought may have had some family. Also apparently, they're not the Vithril's pets either because they seem to be starring wide-eyed at them too.] Aw, man! Not again! We can't jump on that many heads! [The other crew on the other ship goes into a fury of panic. Fortunately everyone on THIS ship (NPCs included) manage to stay upright. Except poor Virgil who falls on his butt.] * Naiya is speechless. She just STARES. And falls. (Add Naiya and change his to their butts. [Session end, yarr!]