200 years ago Captain Bloodmoon and his magnificent ship, The Gray Ghost, were the terrors of the skies. He was a ruthless pirate that terrified the common people and other pirates alike. He thirsted for treasure, and desired it more than anything in the skies. One day a mysterious cyclone appeared beneath the clouds and The Gray Ghost was seen circling over the area, after that day however she was never seen in the skies again. Pirates talked, they had a theory that Captain Bloodmoon and his ship had been pulled down to the surface world, never to sail the skies again. There were also whispers that the Captain had left his treasure on the surface, protected from the greedy eyes of other pirates, as none would venture down to the surface unless they had a death wish.

200 years later whispers on the wind spoke of some black magic that Captain Bloodmoon had used to create a living map. One that lived and breathed, whose sole purpose was to keep the secret of the treasure hidden from everyone. They map was embodied by twins, one holding the secret of the skies and the other holding the secret of the surface deep within their minds. Word spread of their existence and Pirates sought to steal the twins away, every attempt failing in a spectacular fashion as if fate was protecting... waiting... watching. Would Captain Kristoph Verquise be the pirate to sever fate's hold on the twins and be the first pirate to lay eyes on Captain Bloodmoon's treasure in 200 years? Only time can tell.

Sorry for the wait on the opening post. I was having a hard time trying to figure out exactly what I wanted to do, but I think it's okay. Let me know if it's something you can't work with and I'll try to fix it.

Also even though I like the pirate setting for stories, I'm terrible at terminology so don't expect anything too fancy with boat terms or pirate terms unless I'm looking it up.

@Gypsy_Lady

It's all good~
I'm not the best at terminology either but I do occasionally check to see if I got something wrong. I hope that I gave you enough to reply to.

@Sunflower
It's more than enough to reply to. I do apologize about making you wait so long for my replies though. This week has been pretty hectic for me, but I will have a reply for you tomorrow. Also just so you're aware I'll be gone quite a bit this up coming weekend so replies will still be a bit slow for me. I'm sorry to start this rp at such a weird time for me, but I've been looking forward to it since we started really fleshing things out with the back story and the world.

It's all good. Irl stuff comes first~

@Gypsy_Lady

I'll post tonight. :)

@Sunflower

Sounds good. Post when you can, I'm pretty patient. :D

@Gypsy_Lady

Sorry about not replying yet. I can have a post up by Friday at the latest. :)

@Sunflower

Hey no worries. Get to it when you can, just please keep me updated if you can't get to it by Friday. Thank you for keeping me in the loop.

@Gypsy_Lady

Posted! It is a bit short for Emerson since I didn't know what you wanted to do. Also I brought in a few side characters~

@Sunflower

The reply for Emerson was fine, I was worried I didn't really give you much to work with. If that's the case let me know and I'm happy to adjust if need be. I know I tend to ramble and be overly descriptive sometimes, which I worry makes it hard to reply.
I don't have a problem with side characters as long as you don't. Actually that pirate that's chasing the Silver Arrow, I'd like him to play a part later on with something involving the twins. Whether it's kidnapping, or something else(sorry my brains a little fuzzy, I can't think of what else he could do atm). I'm kind of viewing Barley as Kristoph's main rival basically. So he's going to find out one way or another that the twins are in his possession. If you don't want to do something like that though that's cool. It was just something I was thinking about.
I'll get a reply up asap.

@Gypsy_Lady

I'm perfectly fine with side characters. I really love playing them so I always try to have as many as possible or develop a few main ones that tend to stick in the roleplay for a while. I was really hoping that Barley would continue to play a part in being a rival. :) I actually have an idea for the woman I mentioned that would tie in nicely with Barley if you'd like to hear it~

He could take the living map and he could try to kill the crew of the Silver Arrow (or strand Kristoph and Emerson on a small island.)

Also, I had an idea that between all of the floating continents there would be really small islands that aren't important enough to go on official maps. They'd be big enough for maybe a few trees but that's about it.

@Sunflower

Well I don't think I will take on too many major side characters, after all there's a whole crew to rp for as well. However I think I will end up doing at least a couple major side characters, Barley being one of them. I wouldn't mind tying in the woman with Barley somehow especially if you have an idea. I think that would be fun to add that kind of twist to the story.

I could see him stranding them on one of the small floating islands, I think that would be interesting, maybe he steals The Silver Arrow along with the map when he leaves the two stranded and they have to figure out a way to get to him.
If not stranding them on an island maybe he leaves them to die in an old pirates cave on one of the main continents, but basically out in the middle of nowhere.

@Sunflower

Sorry about the wall of text. I hope it's something you can work with though. I felt like I kind of had to get Kristoph's escape done all in one post, I just wasn't finding a good spot to stop at for him.

Also I hope you don't mind what I did with Zeva being interested in Buror. I kind of couldn't help myself, I thought it would make things interesting. I wasn't exactly sure what to do to advance things for the twins, so I thought that asking about getting to another continent would be okay. With Buror's ships going to other ports I thought there would be a chance that he would have one coming back to Eagleharbor within the week that would be heading to Orian possibly, or maybe he has one more heading that way but it wouldn't be leaving until later on.

I'm sorry I wasn't very useful with keeping the twins part moving.

So the idea with the woman was that due to jealousy she sells out the girls, although she gets it wrong but puts the pirates on the right path in finding them. I think that later she would become an informant for Barley because Buror would kick her to the side after learning what she did.

I like the idea of them being put into a cavern. Maybe they get enough stuff to use to repair one of the old ships there or they get something to trade for a ship to use.

I don't mind~ You should read some of my replies to older roleplays. They were text walls as well. X3 It is fine if Zeva's part is shorter. There's times where I can't post as much for one character so it's totally fine. The idea of Buror being a romantic interest is pretty good! It'll give us a chance to kind of show a bit more about the twins and where they grew up. As far as Buror's ships, there is one that is due to leave for Dorwine quite soon so this could give us enough of a reason for the twins to get onto a ship~

@Gypsy_Lady

Would you mind if I do a skip to when the Silver Arrow arrives in Eagleharbor?

@Sunflower
That's fine with me. I would have done it in my post but I was worried about moving things along too quickly without you being able to respond. Keep in mind though it would be later at night since they would have to sneak it so they don't draw attention to themselves. Most port patrols wouldn't let a pirate ship within the port boundaries.

@Gypsy_Lady

I'm slowly working on a post but hopefully it'll be up within the next few days~ I was actually planning that Buror would have taken the twins to dinner with his family since they are childhood friends and he hasn't seen them for a while. Would you be okay with this? Then after dinner the twins would sneak onto the ship.

No worries, get to it when you can. Right now I'm not too terribly busy with work so I have time to lurk on the site. Just so you know though, next week will be a little hectic for me so it might take me a bit of time to get my post up.

I don't have a problem with Buror doing that. The only problem being, and I was trying to work through it myself at this point after my last post, is why would the twins decide to get on the pirate ship? I would think that they decided to do this because Buror gave them some type of bad news, or maybe one or both of the twins just get's impatient and doesn't want to wait for his ship to dock. I wasn't sure if you had a thought on this or not or if you just wanted to wing it.

@Gypsy_Lady
I had a few ideas on just how they managed to get onto the ship and why. My first goes in line with bad news. Buror's captain would deny them since he believes that women are bad luck on ships. My second idea was a case of mistaken identity, well this can go with the first idea~ I'll likely end my post before they get on the ship though, so we can talk a bit more about it~