Avatar of LadyTabris
  • Last Seen: 3 yrs ago
  • Joined: 8 yrs ago
  • Posts: 160 (0.05 / day)
  • VMs: 0
  • Username history
    1. LadyTabris 8 yrs ago
  • Latest 10 profile visitors:

Status

User has no status, yet

Bio

User has no bio, yet

Most Recent Posts

Kerris hung back a bit as other crew members filed off the ship as she was in no hurry to leave the swaying deck. It was where she felt most comfortable. However, soon she knew she had to leave, as she had to meet the Captain, and she wanted to make a stop as well. The group would need to head out soon, so she grabbed her own bag of supplies for a trek across land; it had been some time since she had done that.

The red-haired woman balanced across the plank easily, and felt almost as home melting into the hustle and bustle of the port city as she did on board a ship. She had never been to this town in particular before, but it was generally easy to find a place to restock her shore bag.

Such a place stood out to her after not too long of searching. It was a simple shop a few streets away from the water, simply called “Jack’s General Store.” The building was rather simple, like most of the town, and especially compared to some of the sights Kerris had seen in her day. Most houses were wood and stone with very little décor, though many places had a bit of coloured paint and gardens. The general store had troughs out front where a couple of horses were tied off, and the wood was all painted a dark green. It looked welcoming. She approached the door and pushed it open, triggering a little bell.

“Hello there!” A man, presumably Jack, greeted her upon her entry. He was clean looking, but simple. His hair was graying and he had a bushy beard.

“Good morning,” Kerris replied. A few other customers were browsing his shelves, of which there weren’t many. They held simple tools and other items of that sort; no weapons, nor anything of fancy quality. Mostly sturdy, handy things to have around. Behind Jack’s counter, there were other items, such as grain for horses and dried meat, cheeses, and breads for people. She approached Jack and asked, “could I get a bag of the pork and a loaf of bread?”

“Of course!” the jolly man agreed, and turned to grab the requested items from behind himself. “That’ll be two pieces.”

Kerris smiled and paid the kind man. She packed the food into her bag after taking out a piece of meat to snack on and headed back out into town. With that errand over, she started heading for the edge of town to meet Amia.

She arrived at the beginning of a sandy road, where few people were travelling. It seemed like not many came to this town except by water. She was the first to arrive, so she set up camp on a rock near the road where others could see her and began to wait for the rest to finish their business.




As Amia made her way through the crowds on the dock, she thought she spotted a woman similar in description to what Avoir had told her. With no other way to be sure, the Captain made her way over to the woman, and as she approached, noticed that she had been seen, making her more sure this was Kossara. When she finally reached the other woman, she offered her hand. “I’m Captain Amia. Are you Kossara?”
I will do one after Canada Day weekend is over. I hope itll be a busy weekend @MiddleEarthRoze

edit: thats this weekend lol
Totally understandable.
@Sputnik@POOHEAD189@Sabotage@SuperNova9000@BurningCold@ihinka@LordofthePies@CaptainCaptcha

For whoever is still hanging around, I'll move this forwards tomorrow/or if you want to post anything cold I'll give you a chance to do that for a day or two but yeah i gotta move it forwards this weekend 100%

Sorry guys, I started a new job and got kind of out of the mindset for all this but I'll keep it up as long as I've got a few people around

@Sabotage was working on something so hopefully that'll be up soon, then i can worry about chasing people
Update

I posted, we've landed in Arrylia. You guys can post whenever, now, we're just preparing to set off on the journey. You guys can group up, or go to shops or whatever you want in the little town, but the plan is to leave the city on foot in my next post so keep that in mind
@Sabotage@Sputnik@SuperNova9000@POOHEAD189@ihinka

and I haven't heard much from @LordofthePies@CaptainCaptcha and @BurningCold if you guys want to let me know where you're at or just if you're still working on something or going to start now i've posted, that's fine, I just want to hear back
As the crew got the ship moving, Amia prepared herself at the helm. In moments, the ship had lurched to life. A strong with pushed the sails, moving the ship steadily forwards towards their destination. The Valencia crept into the narrow channel without issue.

“Kerris, are we on track?” Amia called. The weathermage called back her affirmative from the ship’s bow.
The ship sailed through the thin channel at an astounding pace, the branches on the trees hanging out close enough that the crew members would be able to reach out and touch one if they tried; however, that would hurt, as they were rushing forwards at a fast pace, accelerated by winds and magic.

At the mouth of the channel an island sat, one which the crew was on track to hit – or at least, it appeared that way. Amia, in a practiced fashion, turned the wheel two notches to the right and Kerris focused herself on the waves beneath them. The crew held tight to keep the ship’s sails in place, and the ship made a near-ninety degree turn to the right, sailing smoothly past the island and into the open ocean.

“All right everyone, we did it,” Amia called out. “Now, let’s get moving.”


The journey to Arrylia took about a week and a half. The natural current was on their side when travelling this path, so it was smooth sailing right through to the end. The captain spent most of her time up on the helm, even when she wasn’t really steering. She enjoyed being up there in the fresh air, and it also was a good vantage point to survey her crew from.

“There it is! Only a couple hours now.”

Anyone above decks would have been able to hear the shout from the lookout on duty. Kerris squatted up in the bird’s nest, pointing out straight ahead of the ship at the appearance of a distand land. It was a large continent and they were sailing right at the middle, so as they approached the land, the ocean on either side was absorbed by the green forests.

As estimated, the crew sailed the ship into the small port town of Afton. The ship’s pirate colours hidden away and replaced with Lybertayn merchant flags, it came as no surprise. The dock workers aided the crew in securing the ship and asked few questions, unlike if they had tried to dock at a larger town. Here, they were used to ships simply stopping for a few nights ashore, and Amia wanted to be sure they didn’t look too suspicious. They would hang for piracy, regardless of if they had actually captured any ships.

Before the boarding plank went out, Amia called a few crew members around her to give them instructions about their mission. As the smaller group gathered around her, she started to outline the plan.

“I have a contact here who is going to be meeting us here when we disembark: her name is Kossara. After that, we’ll need to get to Harravel Mountain, north-west of this town. She’s familiar with Arrylia, as I’m sure a few of you are, so that should help.” She sighed. “After we get to the mountain, I am not sure what we’ll face. What we’re looking for is supposed to be somewhere inside, but since no one has ever returned from entering, I have no idea what that will be. But, I am sure that those of us here are up for the challenge. So… let’s get travelling out of town. It should be an afternoon’s trek.”

After she finished giving her orders, she directed that people be allowed to disembark the vessel. A skeleton crew would remain at port, stay at inns, do business, and make sure the Valencia stayed safe, while the strongest group headed out in search of the crown.

Amia squinted at the hustle and bustle of people on the docks, trying to spot Avoir’s contact, Kossara. She wasn’t sure what the woman would look like, but assumed she would be able to find their group based on the name of the ship. She must be one of those people. The Captain stepped up onto the thin plank and led the way off of her ship, some of the crew heading off behind her at different speeds.
Okay so

@LordofthePies, @BurningCold and @CaptainCaptcha haven't posted since I did - if you guys want to throw a short post up before I move us onto land, now's your chance. I know not a whole lot's going on, I just wanted people to have a chance to post while we're on the ship. If you don't have a chance, that's fine, this section isn't important but I'll need you guys to post after we land or else, right

@Sputnik@SuperNova9000@POOHEAD189, you guys are good. 10/10,

Just letting you guys know that now that @Sabotage has posted, I'm going to move us on this weekend, so I'll post Sunday.

& @ihinka, I don't expect you to post till after my post Sunday, so no worries.
@ihinka Accepted!

My next IC post will cover the journey and arrival at Arrylia, but I'll give everyone a chance to post between now and then first.
@ihinka Awesome :)

okay so

1. They would still be officially at war, but it isn't a very active war, since Mar is a lot more focused on the Free Isle and they're mostly ignoring the Isle, which is happy to be ignored. though, Mar is still a threat they try and stay prepared for at all times.

2. I would say they're a sort of western - european type country along with most of arrylia and mar, and that chorn, endeny & kopan are more asia-based. Yeah, in Arrylia it would mostly be the four fluids ideas of medicine, leeches, and just starting more experimentation with herbs and such.
Chorn would be the most medicinally advanced of any country. Acupuncture, herbalism, more knowledge about stages of illness and diagnoses. the best of the best would learn the stuff here, yeah, but Endeny copies from them a lot, so it woudl be a close second.

3. If they were taken as slaves, it would likely have been from a Chartan raid, where you would get that type of environment. The samurai type people are from Endeny, where the issue is slavery is also legal. If they were to attack the ship, they would keep the slaves themselves. Possibly, she could escape and set herself adrift, only to be picked up by Endenic missionaries/monks? That would be my suggestion, but it could be merchants, or perhaps if an Endenic ship attacked them, she could have convinced them she was hired and not a slave, or perhaps the captain may be racist and feel pity for her because she was from Arrylia, not Charta, and a girl. I would suggest that maybe she made her way, was rescued by people from, or was dropped off at, the East Island monasteries where she could get the sort of training you want.

4. I think Cold has a good idea for that. Perhaps she is defending her home, if she set up shop in Chariot and wants to keep her life there. Perhaps she has a family living there now? Or even just friends she cares for and a lifestyle.
She may know Avoir personally and agree to help him defend the Free Isle. He may have asked her to go along with the crew as a healer to help them in their missions, which while sometimes will include combat will often have the option of diplomatic choices. (and sometimes you might not be fighting humans anyway).
I was thinking that when they land in Arrylia, she could be there to meet them. She could be Amia's contact through Avoir who wasn't in the Free Isles at the time of recruitment, but had agreed to help since she was already in Arrylia for whatever reason (on business, or perhaps: the destination isn't far from the Reflection Isles - she could have visited her mother or something.). Then she could proceed to join the party for the mission and choose to continue on the next ones.

© 2007-2024
BBCode Cheatsheet