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

[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)]

[moonheart]

[ faith casts a glance over her shoulder just in time to watch sean's punch land, and the pirate to lose most of his grip, suddenly swinging by one hand barely. ] Mash his fingers! [ :) ]

[imgonnadie]

Yes ma'am! [And he does so, slamming the heel of his hand down on the pirates fingers. (Attack 22)]

[nepotism]

[ with a yowl, the pirate lets go, and plummets below into the sea. there's a cry of 'fall back!' and more splashes as they start to jump off the deck, away from the volley of swords.

fred jr. stands at the top of the prow and yells: ] Let them run!

[imgonnadie]

[Now Sean is pretty okay with letting them run away, except there are a couple of problems with this plan, he thinks. A. they're in the ocean and their boat is nearly cracked in half and B. they're in the ocean and their boat is cracked in half. Which leads to the question:] Run where?

[Because if they head toward the Brightfists, Sean is pretty sure they're in for a slaughter. And he thinks slaughter is probably a bad thing. Just... possibly.]

[silvermaid]

[ it's a very tall, willowy blonde woman wielding a shortspear who answers his question - and with a spot check of 18+ sean might notice the passing resemblance to his lady love faith. ] Cut the life boats loose for them! We can't leave them to drown!

[imgonnadie]

[Sean notices nothing, and he's suddenly realizes he doesn't actually know Faith's name, so he has to wing it, holding out his hand toward her.] Hey siren, toss me your sword.

[moonheart]

I like the nickname. [ and she gives it a toss, hilt first towards him. time for a reflex save of 14+ to catch it. NOW IS A POOR TIME TO CRIT FAIL, SEAN ]

[imgonnadie]

[Sadly, he doesn't crit fail, but his save is far from enough (ref 8) so he grabs at the sword wildly and misses with some really stellar grace but at least he doesn't lose any limbs or fall overboard or fall overboard reaching for a lost limb. In fact he just stands there for a second looking at Faith with an expression of defeated acceptance -- he is a dumbass, please love him in spite of this character flaw -- before turning to scoop up the sword.]

Got it. [He says it with good humor at least, hefting the sword up and bringing it down on the ropes. Or. Well. He misses. (Attack 6) When he sucks, he sucks hard.] Just pretend this didn't just happen. [He tries again. And sucks less. (Attack 16) Seriously, someone put him out of his misery though.]

[moonheart]

[ faith chops away on the other side, and there's a loud splash below, the pirates scrambling to the boats and heading out towards open water. she moves besides sean, leaning over the railing with a wicked grin ] And stay away or there's more where that came from!

[imgonnadie]

[Sean looks over at her.]

I love you.

[moonheart]

[ faith turns towards him, having been pretty intent on yelling at the retreating pirates. ] What was that?

[imgonnadie]

[He holds out her sword.]

Here's your sword.

[Yeah, that is exactly what he said. Not. (Bluff 7)]

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[moonheart]

[ faith looks at him funny as she extends her hand to take it, as if she's about to call him out on his lie, when suddenly -- ]

[nepotism]

[ the tall dark-haired young guy saunters up and slaps sean on the back, interrupting them ] That your set of lungs I heard over here?

[imgonnadie]

That would indeed be me. I'm Sean, Sean Cassidy.

[ironsides]

Well, Sean Cassidy, seems we owe ye a debt of gratitude!

[imgonnadie]

[Sean shakes his head, jerks his hand back to the Brightfists.] I think we're even, really.

[silvermaid]

[ anastacia looks the way he's indicating, and regards him with interest ] How did you even get involved in all this?

[imgonnadie]

I landed on their boat... ship. Vessel... [Clearly he hasn't had much by way of a pirate education.] And then all this happened.