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« Thread Started on Jan 14, 2007, 6:41pm » | |
The sea is an open place, as open as the grasslands of any untouched paradise. And in the sea you have two types: the travellers, which might be anyone who is a denizen of the plains who eats things along the way and doesn’t bother people too much …
Or you have the scavengers.
Pirates are considered scavengers, as they pick up the treasure remains of what the sea claims in human tollage and the wreaks of ships, or somethings they make their own wreaks by attacking any ship that has some sort of disadvantage to them.
Those that merely pick off things are usually suspected of the more sinister habit of ‘obtaining’ items and therefore slain with the same bloodthirsty lot. But such creatures are usually rare as one cannot wait around for a wreak to happen you understand, and of course are not going to dive into shark infested waters for the few scraps of gold that they might or might not reach before the said sharks eat them.
But there are people like that, and just because you didn’t ask which one the pirate partook in before you slit his throat and hung him up to dry doesn’t mean that you haven’t met one or ever will. The more serious and professional (or sometimes lazy) take care to cover their tracks and makes themselves not look like pirates in any sense, shape or form.
There are the little legends in these sorts of pirates are there are of course the legandary other pirates. But more people would have heard of Blue-boot Cannonson (who only personally spilled the blood of nobles and always coated his boots in the spilt elixer for good luck) or the more notorious Wildfire Jones (infamous for setting his enemies boats on fire after of course disabling the ship and tying the crew tight so they had no option but to burn to death before the ship took them down to their watery graves)
Amoungst ‘good’ pirates was a Briden Virtue. Captain, of course, he taking the sail and command of one of the most ghostly ships known to sea-faring man, The Sea of Souls. Of course, no-one has ever really said out loud as such, but those on board (picked up for a stop or two while passing a port) always disembark slightly earlier than planned or with great haste once they reach their destination, and they tend to be slightly quiet about the ship, remembering how it seemed to be … well, alive. Watching them, the ghostly sirens carved upon the body of the ship watching them, smirking, the whole wood uttering an eerie melody during cold misty nights while the sea churned softly underneath it. All ships made that note, but none of them sang with it. Within the belly of the ship there were the mermaids, perhaps symbolising the sheer fact that the belly was like the bottom of the sea where the mermaids lived, their kindly smiling faces seeming to try and make up for the fright of the siren sisters. Still, no-one liked the experience very much …
He had apparently taken command of the ship after ‘taking’ it from a very drunken old admiral that he happened to be talking to one night. He made off with the ship, and the ship seemed to instantly take a liking to it’s new drunken, womanising Captain, sailing like a contented little boat under his single command. Ever since then she has been through the worst of the storms, the bloodiest of battles, and been a potential snack for many a sea-beast, but never has she sunk. There is a rumour that she will never ever sink without Briden, and her Captian has to be mortally wounded and ready to go to his grave before she will go down …
Of course no-one has ever asked Briden if the ship was alive per say. Those that have tried to steer conversation (he was apparently a great talker and loved to tell stories) towards such an enquiry always receive either diversions, more drink or else blank looks as he says time and time again that the ship is his as if it were the most obvious thing in the world and that that answered everything when clearly it did not. Most gave up asking after that point …
The Captain himself was an odd figure. His stories were wide and various, and if all accounts were true then he had lead a most intriquing life. Receiving a brand for piracy or theft or drunkeness (or essentially being him) from every Port known to civilised man or beast. He speaks all languages, he knows the sea and has a past as mysterious as one can have. He had apparently been hit on the head with a cannonball on the very first ship he was on, wiping clean his memory of his earlier life like a wave smooths out a shore. The only thing he remembers is a very annoying woman called Chica to whom he was engaged, and who had slept with the Captains best friend a few weeks before the appointed ‘wedding’. Having dropped a vase (a present, if he remembered correctly) on his head in annoyance since he had once again forgotten his key and came home drunk, asking to be let it, he simply got fed up and went onto the nearest ship. One hit to the head and he couldn’t remember who he was or where he came from. But he remembered his name and that was good enough for him, ever since then a beaming sunny feathered odd creature staggering about the world in his quest for riches, beautiful ladies and lots of drink. And plenty of people to talk to.
People speak of him but never see him, and as such, he could be at your doorstep without you knowing it. Right now he was face-down in the deck of the Sea of Souls snoring gently as he slept off the effects of last nights drinking. He had put out posters the day before asking for a crew if anyone was interested. He didn’t expect to get much response, but that of course wouldn’t bother him.
The problem was, there were people who would be interested in seeing the poster. People that Briden had pissed off one way or another on or since his last visit here, and a poster (with questionable stains on it since it had been posted outside a tavern on the scruffy side of the docks) was on its way to the Govener of this particular Port in this particular Land.
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« Reply #1 on Jan 18, 2007, 2:38am » | |
(I wanna play a girl, but still no pairing XD she's not interested)
A woman half-disguised in shadows watched the messenger carrying said poster dash by, almost stumbling into a puddle. She shook her head and stepped out into the street, sticking chocolate skinned hands into her brown leather trousers. A practical jerkin of the same material covered her top half alongside small boots on the bottom of her feet. Across her back was strapped a stave covered in bright yellow paintings.
All fo this contrasted odly with the bright blue tattoos covering almost any visible portion of skin, and obviously that which was underneath. Luckily they went along with the cropped black hair, as black simply oes with anything. it was rare to spot a woman with such short hair, only two inches at the mostwith slightly longer locks at the front. Her ears were lined with a number of golden hoops ranging in size.
To put it bluntly, she stood out.
Walking with a brisk confident stride that stressed a no-nonsense attitude she headed for the docks and the scent of cooking fish. Also where the taverns and good ale waslocated.
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« Reply #2 on Jan 19, 2007, 1:43am » | |
"I don't believe this ..." The man said, lookign at the poster with some distaste. He wasn't holding it himself, of course, he couldn't get his perfumed hands soiled with that horrible filthy piece of parchment, "He is looking for recruits? In MY Port?! Have you told the Commadore about this?" He demanded of the soldier who had found the poster
He jumped slightly, "Y-yes, Govener, he has been informed, he said that he was on his way"
There was a voice in the Tavern, a loud, happy voice that was currently flirting with the barmaid, as well as trying to get some business
"Y'see, ah need some wh'lesale ..." Grinning, a golden grin that you felt rather than saw, it took a while for anyone to see the figure that held had such a weird accent ...
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« Reply #3 on Jan 19, 2007, 3:33am » | |
Sparkling buttons, crisp pressed cloth and a straight-laced attitude preceeded the Commodore. Making men stand to attention at the sight of his confident march. A white gloved hand lifted and rapped smartly at the door.
She shoved open the door roughly, stalking past the drunks to he bar. ignoring everything she leant on the bar and spoke one word, "Beer."
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« Reply #4 on Jan 19, 2007, 5:42pm » | |
"Enter" The Governer said in something that was half-command, half-permission. The man inside looked like a positive high fashion statement to those that were using to seeing such dress but of course to the lower orders that actually did the work and kept a port running he'd look like a powered, puffed, ruffled portly nightmare. Grey curls, a wig of course, tumbled from his hair, masking the greasy faded blonde whisps still clinging to his skull underneath. His wrinkles hidden or at least partly filled in with white greasepaint, powered over to make it appear inconspicious and of course his breath sweetened by cloves. He paced behind his desk slightly with the offending poster on the desk.
Once the Commodore entered, he wasted no time. He sat at his desk which was made of solid mahogany wood in a creaking chestnut leather chair, straining slightly under his round weight, and looked at the man
"This may interest you" He said. He hadn't even greeted him with a hello and acknowledged his name and rank. This was surely serious, "This ... may interest you deeply" Looking at the poster as a cue for the other to take a look himself
The barman looked at her with that sort of evaulating look that said he was judging wither it was worth the effort serving her or just killing her. Apparently she was worth serving, as a tall chipped thick glass of the heady brew was put in front of her with a grunt from a man that was basically all beard, tattoos and an eyepatch
There was someone odd at the bar. He wasn't the usual stinking seaman, or the normal port worker in for a relaxing lunchtime drink before being pulled back to the docks. He was slender for a start, and he didn't stink of fish at all. HE smelt of that clean salty scent of the sea, definately a sailor.
Or captain. He wore a brown top hat with three peacock feathers sticking out of the hatband, a long brown coat that more or less masked the crisp white shirt and rich ruby red waistcoat, the waistcoat patterened with swirling gold threads. On his belt was the usual sword, but also a number of pistols. He was wise wearing a long coat to at least conceal those in a bar like this ...
He was a good looking man, with dark gold hair and he seemed to have a golden grin as well, as though his four eyeteeth were made of the precious substance. Behind him three feathers, obviously a tail, curled behind him and moved rather like three snakes, the middle one being longer than the other two
Usual. And he looked familar in a sea-tale sort of way ...
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