Questions for the shitty captain. any question that is a repeat of previous ones, I am specifically asking for more details, or for who to ask for more details.
Genesis will not be getting on this guy's ship until we have an understanding, so no auto moving him with the group.
Edit: Borrowing the hammer pendant from Grey. He's agreed.
"So monsters you know nothing about appear with the storms and kill your crews and sink your ships and your plan is to sail out into the storm with a bunch of volunteers and get killed and sunk, and you expect no backtalk from us, eh? I don't like that situation at all, and will be remaining on ground until we have a better grasp of what's happening here.
Now, some questions:
1) what kind of hammer are we talking about? claw? ball peen? double headed? Is the hammer described as moving or stationary? how big? Wwhat proportion between the head and the handle?
You say the hammer is mentioned as rising in the fog. has it been seen clear of the fog at all? if so, what color, what material?
2) what more can you tell us about rods of bounty - origin, shape, function? If you know nothing or only a little, where can we get that information?
3) When did the fishing start to become noticeably better? When did the losses begin to occur? have they occurred at a set rate since then, or grown in frequency and power? Waxed and waned wiht a rhythm? if the last, what rhythm? are the events all tied to storms, or does the fish catch occur at all times?
4) What events happened within a month prior to the start of the boon and bane you have been experiencing? anything out of the ordinary? Did you have any migrants from the farms come through port, go to sea, and get lost with a ship?
5) Do you expect to set sail immediately for war? are we not to have an opportunity to scout the danger first?
Name: Genesis
Description: Classic 80s action hero looks, kinda quiet. think Kurt Russel from the movie Soldier (only probably less mute)
Nature: Pureblood
Status: Allowed to live
HP: 10
Inventory: Robe, gloves, needle (currently contains Maintain Velocity(4)), Ceramic bread loaf. Hammer pendant of missile resistance and freezing when wet.
Fate Points: 3
Red Grey
Orange Bob
Yellow Speaker
Green Flameo
Blue Debby
Indigo Luta
Violet Tess
1) "Some part of it, maybe head or limb, is shaped like a "T". They always see it side on like that, looming up above the deck. Size I can't tell ye, the fish in a sailor's tale is always growing. And Like I told the others, I get different tales depending on the man who returns. Some say squid tentacles, others giant crab claw, another said gray blue flesh covered in suckers and coral. One said white armored hide like an insect's. Some repeats in their reports but nothing concrete. If I had to guess, its either some sort of group of beasts or some sort of chimeric thing resembling many others. "
2)"Nothing really. Never seen one. Just know they're metal rods that they embed in fields inland. Make the plants grow bigger or something akin to that. It isn't my specialty."
3) "Catch grew better maybe 6 months ago, first attack is harder to say. We already hunt great beasts of the sea so the loss of a ship isn't unheard of. But the first we noticed was when three smaller ships vanished. A few survivors washed up days later and told us about the Hammer. Since then most have attributed any loss to it. We've had 7 more we know were connected though. The first three were lost about 4 months ago. 3 months ago the boss forbade anyone from going out into the storm so we've not had an attack since then...least until last week. We lost another ship on a foggy day, this time closer to the bay. We could hear it go down from here. Crushed by the sound of it. No survivors."
4)He thinks a while. "Well, let me reckon the times a bit. But the boss might be a better one to ask. He's always around town while I spend most my days at sea."
5)"We're sailing out with the goal of killing the beast, but I ain't no fool. I've hunted leviathan before. We're not charging headlong in. We've got boats for scouting, hot air balloon for long range sighting, the works."
Alright, take some ROCK FRAGMENTS and make a GAR MONSTER. Seeking to make a giant fish as big as possible. I’d like to have some way to communicate with it, maybe a whistle it can pick up on?. If there’s no way to remotely communicate, tell it to start hunting the monster, then send it on its way. In any case, I’ll toss it in the water.
Edit- obviously I’m not going to drop a giant fish on the city. I’ll either go to somewhere with clear water, or I’ll just collect the fragments and wait until I’m at a place that’s clear.
You know what? I’ll just make a ROC out of a ROCK instead.
Name: Luta
Description: A short pale hairless woman
Nature: Anagramist
Status: A little scuffed
HP: 10
Inventory:
Robe
Needle
Gloves
Grass Lad (has saber)
Chibi Grassassin
Grass sabers (3)
Fate Points: 0
Linked:
Genesis
[3]
Your spell produces....a stone chicken. Not even a living one, just a stone chicken statue. Well...ok.
Name: Greed
Description: looks mostly like a normal human with pale skin, but he has ruby red hair and eyes. his hair and eyes also give off a slight, shimmering glow.
Nature: elemental-light
Status: mostly invisible.
HP: 10/10
Needle links:speaker
Inventory: magic needle weapon With sunburst, shredded cloak, cake.
Fate Points: 1
Ask the captain for command over the weapons systems and a sword.
“Sir, if you don’t mind, could I have a weapon, like a sword maybe? And while on the topic of weapons it seems like a good idea for me to take control of the weapons systems so you can focus on steering.”
"No."
Grey offers his feather shaped saber to Greed.
"Here, you can have my sword. It's magic you know."
While Genesis is being difficult, Grey gets rid of the spell in his needle and puts in a new one, Maintain the condition of everyone aboard this ship.
Grey tosses his pendant to Genesis too.
Name:Grey
Description: A hairless pink colored man with lacking facial features, little more than a pair of eyes, two holes for a nose, and a line for a mouth.
Nature: Verbomancer (Maintain)
Status: Wearing a protective pendant
HP: 10
Inventory: Purple robe, white gloves, giant needle imbued with Maintain the current number of duplicate objects in this area(5), magic feather shaped saber, hammer pendant
Fate Points: 3
Red Genesis
Orange Debby
Yellow Bob
Violet Youare
Blue Tess
(Unconfirmed)
Indigo Luta
Green Lambent Flame
[2]
Nah.
Also "Maintain condition" could very easily mean "Freeze everyone in place". Be careful.
"If we're gonna be fighting in a storm will we be given flares or flare guns to aid in seeing what's going on, also will we get the rifles and axes before the fight or during?"
Ask the questions, and look around and see if there happens to be any useful items sitting around for me to take.
Name: Debby
Description: Looks like a regular human woman but with the head of a deer.
Nature: All-Tounges
Status: No longer flopping around a freaking out.
HP: 10
Inventory:
purple robe
white gloves
big ass needle
Sword
Elizabeth Audrey Foxington, the living fox doll
Fate Points: 2
"If I can avoid fighting it in the storm then I will. With luck we'll be able to lure it out into calmer seas; its gotten more brazen lately so its not an impossible task. If we are forced to fight in the storm, we have magnesium flares and floodlights. Also luminous shells: hollow metal bombs filled with glowing material. Should coat the beast itself and make it more visible."
[2]
Is a rock useful?
"it does make sense to split into two groups, hunters to go with the ship, and investigators to try to discover what happened to cause all this, I guess. I don't like the way Genesis is antagonizing the good captain here, But I think I'll go with him and help him look into what might have happened here."
statement of intent, also, I'm paying close attention to the sensations I'm feeling from my air-wings, for example their sense of touch and what it feels like when the wind blows or if they brush someone next to me. I am attempting to keep them still so they don't disturb the others around me.
Name: Terissa / Tess
Description: a passive but brave teenage girl with purple hair and brown eyes, she has a hint of protrusions on her shoulderblades like the beginnings of wings, and a thin lizardlike tail, but nothing useful at this time.
Nature: Chameleon
Status: miniwings replaced by moderate-size wings made of air.
HP: 10
Inventory: Purple robe with red eye symbol on the back, white gloves with red eye symbol on their palm, 4-foot long iron needle.
Fate Points: 0
violet= Genesis
blue= Grey
The air wings don't have strong sensations. They're not dead objects, but they're not finger tips either. Like a foot thats gone mostly numb, you feel their extent and movement mostly through how it effects your "normal" body.
"You'll thank me when the 'good' captain here sails his ship into a maelstrom and sinks it with all hands ... except ours.
Or if he actually listens and we can go with reasonable preparations and roles, and not just as an afterthought - a tool to be tossed into the sea to no purpose.
I bet our all tongues (even Speaker) could help by getting information from the waves and winds. At least we'd be forewarned a little."
(Bear in mind the mundane know little or nothing of what Homunculi can do. Also bear in mind you might not be the only group of homunculi...there's a reason you bear a specific mark.)
((The captain isn’t going to respond to the speaker?))
Not if its not bolded I'm not. Mostly because chances of me even noticing it are slim.
((There. I bonded it (or at least I tried to, the result is a little wonky).))
((Ok. This time it should be fixed properly. I changed it so that only The Speaker’s individual responses (and his “action”) are bolded.))
Funny as all that is, the Captain is going to look at that load of nonsense and just ignore you. He's probably gonna assume you didn't get formed quite right.
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