prologue ♔ everybody scream your heart out

[ironsides]

WHO || Sean, Dovan, Anastacia, Faith, Fred Jr., Lan
WHAT || Sean's on a boat
WHERE || Off the coast of Australia
WHEN || May 28 [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam

Sean's foray through the fog lands ends with the earth seeming to lurch beneath him. Hope he gets his sea legs quickly (and doesn't his sea sickness Fort save)... because it wouldn't take long for him to realize he was standing on the deck of a large wooden boat. Wooden hardly implies rickety, however, as this boat looks masterfully constructed, even lined with what appears to be gold in all the inlaid designs...

But he won't have very long to ruminate on the craftmanship of the place, before a deep gruff voice shouts: "Stowaway!"

The call is echoed from stern to prow, and from out of the rigging and cabins and from down below crawl a number of very short men with thick torsos and long arms, all heavily muscled and decked out in impressive heavy armor. Almost all of them sport impressively braided beards and mustachios, and a suspicious look in their eyes.

Comments

[imgonnadie]

[Sean's head snaps up, a slow grin making it's way across his face. He glances around, finds the main mast and looks up, eyes skating over the crows nest right to the royal mast. There is a moment when his quickly forming idea sounds like it will end in his bruised and broken demise, but his expression hardens with determination.]

Wings I've got. [Without explanation, he heads to the main mast and starts to steadily ascend the huge wooden pole. (Climb 16)]

[ironsides]

What does he think he's doin'? [ several of them look up to watch but the dwarf yells at them to get back to manning the ship, as he turns it towards the other one ]

[imgonnadie]

[His suit is ripped. He knows this, knows it is going to leave him listing worse than a sinking ship. He doesn't care, just keeps climbing, trying to figure out a way to compensate for it -- which he does, as he scrambles on to the top of the mast. It's a tiny beam, comparatively, and he's going to need to get to the edge to jump off... FOR SOME REASON THIS IS DEJA VU HE DOESN'T ENJOY.

Taking a deep breath, he crosses himself quickly and straightens up before running straight across the beam. (Balance 17) At the edge he jumps and for a second, he hovers in the air like a professional diver. Then his arms snap out and, almost before he starts to fall, he screams and the particular tone keeps him in a steady descent. (Concentration 19) His ripped wing pushes him into a spiral, corrected by the angle he jumped at, (Jump 16, Wisdom 23) so he heads almost directly for the Good Ship Lollipop in a wide curve.

...if only his landing was at all as awesome as his flight. It's not. In any way. (Tumble... 4) His landing is basically the floor forcibly stopping him like a wooden crash mat. (Damage 5) Ow! That is going to leave so many marks and it knocks the air out of his lungs so he can't even warn them about the pirates...

Well he does manage something, but it sounds like a flock of dying camels so it probably doesn't help.]

[moonheart]

[ cannonball - the breeders

when his eyes finally flicker open again and his head stops spinning, he'd find himself staring at the point of a sword inches from his nose. and pointing it at him is a petite blonde girl dressed just like this, tie tied at a jaunty pirate-like angle. her green-blue eyes flash with wicked amusement as she exclaims: ] Avast you scalawag! Friend or foe? [ the fact that she's... half smiling as if she's having the time of her life while in the background her shipmate are attacking boarding pirates is probably pretty telling about what kind of girl she is. ]

[imgonnadie]

Friend, I hope. Especially since I must be in heaven. [Aw yeah he really opened with that, loopy smile sliding across his face as he reaches up to rub his head.]

[moonheart]

Considering we're fighting pirates? Gotta agree with you. [ did i mention she has the most adorable little irish accent? cuz she do. she reaches a hand down. ] Nice landing, by the way.

[imgonnadie]

Thanks. [He takes her hand and shoves himself to his feet. He's already planning their wedding. He should probably ask her name first though.] I think I should get points for style... and broken bones.

[...why did he even fly/fall over here in the first place? Oh right... they were being attacked. Which they seem to have noticed, right, good.] You're not gonna start attacking the Brightfists, right?

[moonheart]

The Whosits now? [ she looks at him like he's drunk, as lan charges by in full armor behind her, roaring as he brings a broadsword down to chop off the hands of a pirate climbing over the railing ]

[imgonnadie]

[He makes a really rugged and manly yelp at the hand choppage, before his arm stretches out to point at his boat.]

Killer dwarf pirates, really great beards. Brightfists. [They his peeps.]

[moonheart]

[ she follows his pointing with her eyes ] Oh, the dwarves! Wynn might've said their name but I kinda zoned... [ she flashes him a reassuring smile, and swats a piece of hair out of her face ] We're here to rescue them.

[imgonnadie]

Groovy. [Which is said completely devoid of irony and not skeevy at all like Charles okay.] That mean you're going to rescue me while you're at it?

[moonheart]

[ she laughs really gleefully at his word choice, and tosses him a wink ] Sure can. Sort of an equal opportunity rescuer. [ a few more have gotten on board and are sword fighting with fred jr. on the far end, and faith turns, and puts a hand to the side of her mouth yelling up: ] Better not be hogging all the fun, Fred!

[imgonnadie]

[Since his entire goal in life is to make other people happy, he is aces right now with this girl. Which is why he barely glances from her to... anyone else. Although he does ask: ] Should we help?

[moonheart]

Well duh. Do you need a sword?

[imgonnadie]

I... don't think I know how to use one. [He is completely unashamed to admit that, he doesn't want to sword one of the good guys in the face because he is inept and didn't tell her.]

[moonheart]

[ she looks amused and confused by the statement ] What do you fight with, then?

[imgonnadie]

I don't know, hasn't come up 'til right now. [He glances back at the destroyed boat...] I've got a mean whistle.

[moonheart]

[ and she brightens even more somehow ] That was you? Are you a maenad too?

[imgonnadie]

[Sean's expression is utterly bemused, comically so.] A what?

[moonheart]

A maenad! Psionic... sea people... [ she seems to struggle with the concept of explaining a race of people, so she just rolls her eyes and turns around. ] Like this. [ and as a few pirates make their way over the edge, she opens her mouth ridiculously wide, and a piercing, high pitched scream emits. she doesn't warn anyone. luckily it's... a ray effect so it's just annoying to anyone she doesn't have it directed at. the pirates go to cover their ears and lose their grip and fall off the side, and she turns a triumphant grin over her shoulder at sean

yep. MAYBE YOU REALLY ARE A MAENAD, SEAN. THEY ALL DO THAT. ]

[imgonnadie]

[Sean is going to marry this girl. He is going to marry her and they are going to have little Irish ginger babies and he will stay home with them so she can be a complete badass without trying all the time. If she wants.

He just gapes -- mouth open like his tongue is about to unfurl like a cartoon character as his eyes pop out of his skull like woo woo! After a second he picks his jaw off the deck.]

Maybe I am. [Which sort of sounds like I love you, idk. If she is a maenad, he wants to be a maenad. If she's a bird, he's a bird.]

[moonheart]

[ she looks ridiculously pleased with his response ] Well good! Cuz obviously that works too. Come on, there's not many of them left! [ and she tears away from him, raising her sword and shouting: ] To the last man!

[imgonnadie]

Or woman. [Sean adds helpfully. Gender equality, yo, Sean is down with equality and civil rights for all ya'll. And he sure does follow after her like a little lost puppy dog, though slightly slower because he... doesn't have a sword and I guess running into a sword fight unarmed, even for a girl, isn't exactly a thing he wants to do this fine day.]

[moonheart]

[ faith goes hacking into some pirates, and seems oblivious to the fact that another one is climbing up and over directly to their left... ]

[imgonnadie]

[Did the pirate not see Faith's awesomeness? Stupid pirate. Sean has... not got it covered -- he doesn't want to deafen his future probably not girlfriend, golly. Instead of screaming like a banshee (see what I did just there?), he moves forward and punches the pirate right in the face. (Attack 19)]