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Keratia: Blade Maiden’s Exploits

Caeda felt troubled that her gauntlet would lead her towards such a place. She has heard brief stories of the Majadan Empire, but felt that they were just complaints and exaggerations of their disapproval of the empire. To think that these things were fact. But perhaps Caeda simply did not want to believe such a place truly exist.

"I see, thank you for all this information, especially with the empire. I heard of the empire being militant to that extent. To think that such a place would be so extreme, especially to enslave the smaller races or keep your business with them so brief to avoid being extorted." Caeda waved as she departed and made her way to the cabin to gain some extra sleep before her night watch began.

Keratia: Blade Maiden’s Exploits

Out of curiosity, do you have a map of Keratia?

Keratia: Blade Maiden’s Exploits

"I suppose that is a fair trade, especially since you will most likely have to do repairs after their attack. If these things are smart may, they may try and stealth their way near the ship at night and begin their attack. Luckly with my heritage, I posses dark vision. So if you need me to replace one of your watch or need additional eyes at night, let me know. For now I'll take an early rest in my cabin to prepare for the night shift. But if we have an encounter during the day, wake me up." Caeda stood there for a few seconds until she gave the reminder "You still didn't answer my question about your thoughts on the Majadan Empire. Unless you know someone else on board who may know more about the continent?".

Keratia: Blade Maiden’s Exploits

So I don't want to just roll a dice assuming what the skill check is without you asking me to roll for the specific skill. But if the skill check seems simple enough to assume, would you be okay if I made the roll?

I ask because I was just going to roll a History check to see how much of the Majadan Empire that Caeda knows about.

Keratia: Blade Maiden’s Exploits

Splendid, news of the arrival to the Majadan Empire excited her, but tried to keep her composure serious and formal, especially after hearing the opportunity of coin. Having some extra coin would be great if her journey continues inland and doing the job reminded her life back in Bayrest as a city guard. That and assisting in this job would probably be the most interesting thing she would come across since she left home. Back in Bayrest she would typically deal with petty bandits and thieves. These things she mentions, sahuagins, Caeda has heard stories of such things, but felt they were comparable to the typical orcs, goblins or ogres. The only difference being that the usually reside in bodies of water.

With such trivial monsters and the extra coins that could help with her travel expenses, she nodded to Azure's offer "These things called sahuagins, if they do plan to damage the ship and remain in the water, then they will be perfect live targets for me to blast. I'll just try and relax on the deck until you or someone request my assistance. But for the monetary reward, how much exactly is this offer?" Caeda awaited her answer, and after that would follow with another question. "Another question, if you do not mind and have the time. But what can you tell me of this Majadan Empire? The continent itself I am also not familiar with, but it would probably be best if I started asking somewhere specific first."

Keratia: Blade Maiden’s Exploits

Thanks for the answers!!!

Also who would Caeda be sparing with since she would ask anyone nearby if they were willing to volunteer? Would it be random crew members or someone you mentioned in your above post? Since she doesn't always spar, it would likely be just 1 to 3 people that she would go back to request another sparing match.

Keratia: Blade Maiden’s Exploits

As usual the captain appears to be busy as usual, but it's for tbe best seeing as majority of the crew on board seems to be carrying his orders as they are given. But wanting some answers decided to look for Azure who she finds herself always finding instead to have these questions answered. "First mate Azure, part of me has been wanting to ask Captain Ashbrand this question, but he always seems busy. So I have decided to come to you and ask, how much longer do we have until we arrive into a port in the Majadan Empire?"

Keratia: Blade Maiden’s Exploits

Yes for the OOC and thank you for the new thread for this adventure!!!

Since Caeda has been on The Sea Wolf for some time now, are there any names or anything else of the crew that she would be aware of?

Keratia: Blade Maiden’s Exploits

This morning when Caeda woke up, she decided to try relaxing and think back about the past months before and while she board The Sea Wolf. Before leaving her home city of Bayrest, she tried to follow this direction that her gauntlet pulled her towards, only to find the end of the city and the same pull still being present. Once she departed from her estate, she could feel a surge of optimism with each step as she followed the direction that father's gauntlet was pulling her towards. Never has she ventured this far from Bayrest and started to feel nervous as she felt stagnant with path being outside the city. But she would quickly shake off this feeling as she tried to focus. Deciding to view a map to get an idea of where the gauntlet may be pulling her, she would notice the first obstacle being the seas, and then after that being the Majadan Empire, which she was not familiar about.

Now feeling ready to leave with this knowledge, she prepared herself for the travel. She informed the captain of the guards of her travel and hopes to find any clue of her father's disappearance. After the captain gave their permission, Caeda prepared her things, informed her servants of her travel, and politely order them to maintain the Bryberos's estate house until she returned. She would then find a ship that she could board, this eventually being The Sea Wolf.

The beginning weeks on board, she would have her usual routinely training, one on the morning and another in the evening. Mainly using her main hand, being right, for her rapier, still not feeling comfortable enough to use her left which possessed the gauntlet. Most of the rime she would keep to herself, but would some time ask a crew member to volunteer to join her in a sparing match, thing being something she greatly appreciated having as these made training more interesting than swiping the air. She would find some fun educating these few of her fighting style and commenting on her a crew member's skill with a blade. But as training went by, she felt her swings were different and odd than the standard she was used to, but for the better, this was something that she especially noticed when sparing. One of these oddity became very noticeable during a sparing match when the gauntlet fired a blast of dark colored energy with ripples of white light fading in and out of it, this just narrowly hitting her sparing partner. Caeda profusely apologized for the unexpected attack and the following days found herself able to shoot this blast and decided to train herself controlling this blast by shooting into the sea and open sky.

Outside her personal hardship, there were times that crew members found themselves getting sick and she would quarantine herself in her cabin to avoid such illness until she heard that those crew members were better. It was during these moments that she would try talking to those who passed her room and would eventually her the story of The Green Tide and the ship current course to the Majadan Empire.

Then recently during one of her training in the evening when it was getting dark, she would felt the magic of the gauntlet resonate its strange energy. As she reached a free hand to feel it, shadowy blade would emerge and startled her as she thought her eldritch blast was going to exploded her had.

After thinking her time on The Sea Wolf and how her father's gauntlet has been behaving since then she decided to leave her cabin to find the captain to ask how much longer their journey on the seas will be? She was enjoying this travel on the sea as it provided her time to train, understand the gauntlet, and still move eastward at the same time. Knowing that such training won't happen once she reached land and she wanted to ask the captain how much time they had until they reached the Majadan Empire.

Wanna run a Solo Shot

@Lucius Cypher
Oops, sorry about this, you should be able to see it now.

Are there be anything else that I should be aware about? Also since this is a world that you created, is there a city as mentioned in Caeda's backstory that could probably fit that description? I tried leaving it general enough to probably fit it somewhere if you had a place.