Pokemon: Brass Version
Prologue: HMS Swellow
Prologue: HMS Swellow
Entrin has always stood as the forefront modern society. It’s vast empire stretching across the globe. Philitri is the jewel of it’s island colonies. The grueling two month trip there by sea tests even the hardiest of souls, but instead the university with all its ties has taken a more civil approach requiring only a short ride by coaches to the Donnol Airship port where you board the HMS Swellow and begin the much shorter week long flight. This would get the crew there in short time, and allow them to meet for the first time as team members.
The ship is somewhat large a sturdy ship made for delegates and other traveling people of authority. It seems the university has spared no expense on their crew. The center of the main deck is open and has furniture placed around nailed to the deck. The ship's crew keep to the upper level where the helm is, and can reach the bow by a raised gangway. The only other place the crew is seen is deep below in the cargo hold on the third floor or in the engine rooms on the fourth floor where men and pokemon work in blazing heat to maintain the boilers. The main rooms for passengers are on the same level as the captains on the second floor moving down. They are well decorated, but not overly so. They each provide a small taste of home even while miles upward. There are only four cabins for normal passengers forcing the six members of the group to double up in some places. Mrs. Evox bluntly refused to share a room before removing herself from the debate by locking her room shut. With the remaining five dice were thrown pairing Jasper, the engineer, and Vincent, the soldier, to one room while Robin, the naturalist, and Inaya, the doctor, were given the other to share leaving Nicolas the final room alone. The only other amenities on the ship are a parlor on the second floor as well with a small library, the galley on the third floor, and a room below the helm on the main deck that acts as a conservatory of sorts so you can view the skyline without having to be outside.
With it only midday and the airship well off into the sky the university crew is left to their own devices as to what they wish to do now.
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Jasper stepped into his cabin putting his backpack on a desk directly opposite the door, and the starring out the window just above it. He had never gotten to ride on an airship, and there was a strange feeling in him whenever he looked out the window to only see clear blue skies. Donnol mostly only had gray storm clouds hanging overhead, and if not those then the factory smoke stacks blocked the sun. He sighed scratching at his chin in reflection.
A lot of things were going to change. This was the first time Jasper has left Entrin, and suddenly five other people had been thrown into his life. He wasn’t sure of them yet, but from first glance he could tell the soldier he was rooming with had seen some shit. The lady doctor seemed interesting if not a bit cold. The naturalist seemed all too simple by the rest of the group.
‘Just a naturalist? Impossible.’ Jasper thought to himself, ‘We have a soldier, a doctor, an aristocrat, a university graduate, and a crackpot inventor. She must have more than just a degree.'
Jasper continued to ponder his thoughts going through the back pulling out his coach gun and whistling at its beauty. He shined up the barrel with his coat sleeve and looked down it at the floor. It was a thing of climatic beauty. The gun had been modified to direct the fire very well ever with scattering ammo and the solid bullets fire like it was a rifle. All part of Jasper’s design. He cracked it open the gun opening in the middle flinging an empty cartridge out and across the room.
“Damn, forgot to clean it. Oh well I have a week.” Jasper muttered looking down the gun before setting it aside.
Jasper scanned the room spotting a single bed, a dresser with a small clock on it, an armchair with footstool, and a sconce on the wall. Upon closer inspection Jasper noticed a glass bulb and wiring. The ship was wired for electricity and interesting trait. Jasper tapped a switch that turned the light on and then off. He stored the information for later so he could ask a crewman about it. For now though he checked the lock on his gun, and then holstered his other gun, a bladed revolver, on his hip. A sleek and deadly device using some designs imported from unova the revolver had class, style, and precision.
Sitting down at the desk the engineer began to write out some notes on intended projects for the week in the sky. Set next to him was the small wooden box he brought everywhere. Inside was an assortment of shiny brass and broken steel all of it scrap pieces and gears for tinkering. Hopefully there was enough of it to last through the trip. The last thing Jasper needed was to run out of excuses to excuse himself from conversation and the box always provided him something to do.
