Completed How Many Lunatics Does It Take to Man a Boat?

A recap of Reign and Daniel's misadventures aboard the Queen.

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How Many Lunatics Does It Take to Man a Boat?

Postby Reign on June 13th, 2013, 8:06 pm

Summer the 2nd, 513 AV

Drinking in the familiar salty air, Reign surveyed her old home from the musty deck. It hadn’t changed much, old buildings, the ports, foul outlines of sailors, all just visible from within the thin line of fog that embraced the sky and clung to the air. Misgivings filled her as she felt the little boat inch itself closer to the shore, her knuckles a bone white from clutching the splintery deck with a desperate force. In truth she feared the city, and the dark secrets she had abandoned in it. Though she had long outlived any tolerance of the appalling stench of vomit that haunted and drifted about the boat like a disease. The Queen was a disgusting boat in general, nothing more than nails and rotting wood. She had long lived past her prime; Reign often lay in wake, fearful that the boat may plunge into the sea at any moment. Her crew members were a shady lot as well, requesting only 70 gold mizas for Reign and her brother’s passage into the city. The men spent their waking hours discussing old stories of women they had wronged or people they had cheated. They were such a revolting group of men, inside and out, that Reign felt no remorse from murdering them. She felt no guilt having Daniel toss their tattooed bodies overboard.

Pulling a shard of a mirror from the folds of her ink black cloak, Reign studied her reflection in the glass. Her face would be pleasant enough if it wasn’t for the gnarly purple and blue bruise she sported around her left eye. I don’t see the usual trick working out in your favor anytime soon my love. Groaning in frustration Reign tossed the purloined mirror shard overboard. She was dearly regretting her attempt, some nights ago, to seduce the caption of the Queen. To Reign’s misfortune he was a paranoid man, and although he was drunker than a bee who had sipped too much honey, he saw straight through her filth and slugged her right dab in the center of her eye. He died that night, there was nowhere for him to run/hide, no one to call to for help. In one night the Queen was hers; she would never admit it aloud but she owed most of the victory to Daniel.

Sunlight peeking out from the clouds, Reign sighed, turning and stumbling towards the side of the boat. “Daniel!” she called, opening a hatch to reveal row after row of shining bottles. “Daniel!” It was a grand collection of rum, whiskey, and wine. She was quite proud of it, for Reign never journeyed anywhere without alcohol nearby. Personally she loathed the taste of the stuff, but an excess of drink made her job much easier. Plus, it kept Aether quiet… Climbing down into the dark haven, Reign cracked her knuckles. She had to keep Cloak sedated; Cloak was a fellow passenger, a man so drunk that she knew practically nothing about him other than his name… and that he enjoyed drinking. Though there was something about him that made her uncertain of cutting short his life, he had given her a look the first night, as she sized up the crew, that made her believe killing him would evolve into an ordeal. An ordeal she might have not emerged from. Daniel, also had protested her killing the man. Rattling the bottles, she realized with a start that all of them but one were empty. Knocking them over in disgust, the girl stalked back out into the sun, clutching the one bottle of whiskey as if it were a bar of gold. Serves you right not killing that drunk.
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Postby Daniel Lantern on June 13th, 2013, 9:44 pm

While Daniel was quite busied in his watching of the seagulls, the cries of his sister took precedence. He bounded across the deck, tripping only once before grabbing a conveniently hanging rope to haul his tall frame upright again. He had been getting better at it though, the walking. When Reign had him drop all the smelly men into the water, he had almost fallen overboard more times than he cared to remember. Not that he remembered much of anything these days. Soon enough, he was already next to her, towering more than a head over the small girl.

"Yes Reign?" He asked. She had always been so nice to him so he tried his best to never miss an opportunity to return the favor.


-What do you want.- Came the suddenly low rumbling voice of Aether from him. Aether always surprised Daniel when he decided to give his comments on the matter. Still, he had been quieter today and it was nice to hear him out loud for a change.
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Postby Reign on June 13th, 2013, 10:38 pm

At first glance Daniel was intimidating; the towering and muscular figure managed to stick out in any crowd. Most were scared of him, until they saw his face. That happy, innocent looking face of his; which was always glowing brightly (even in the midst of the foulest of places.) They were quite a contrast, Daniel huge and joyous, Reign, on the other hand, was small and sullen. It had been a long time since she had “discovered” her long lost “brother;” but even still, the sight of that loon running towards her gave her goose-bumps. “Daniel,” putting an arm around her brother’s waist (he was simply too ridiculously tall for Reign to reach her little arm around his shoulder without her straining something.) “what happened to all of my booze?” Pouting as if she were three, Reign sunk to the ground. Stealing that alcohol had been the greatest heist she had ever accomplished. It had taken days of careful planning, and casing of the establishment. Though just imagining look on the innkeepers face when he opened his cellar and finding it was empty was priceless.

Popping open the last bottle, Reign took a deep swig, gagging on the hard liquor. She was almost to hell… Almost… Never once did she offer Daniel any explanation for why she had to come back to the city, or why she had left in the first place. “Daniel, my eye hurts, be a dear and fetch your dear sister a-“ suddenly the boat lurched forward, sprawling Reign across the deck. It felt almost like the Queen had hit something…

“WAIT! WHO IS MANNING THE BOAT!”
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Postby Daniel Lantern on June 13th, 2013, 11:59 pm

"I am silly!" He looked down at her as if she had asked if the sky was blue. Reign was a little odd in that she talked to people Daniel couldn't and to the walls and other things. He just assumed the question was her being strange.

-Daniel, you're down here talking to Reign,- Dark rumbled to him. It took only a moment before it clicked in Daniel's mind. Unfortunately that was too long and a horrid scraping noise rang out as the boat started to inch forward, straining against the obstacle in it's way.

"That doesn't sound very good." Scrambling up across the deck, Daniel pulled the corresponding ropes he'd saw the sailor use before Aether and them had a fight a couple nights ago. Upon being rewarded only with more of the unnerving grating sound, he rushed up to the wheel, yelling "Don't worry sis! I'll fix it!"
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Postby Reign on June 16th, 2013, 2:15 pm


Cursing, Reign rose shakily to her feet. Her legs as useful as the strawberry jam the old chef used to make for Reign and her sister. Somehow Daniel was alright, running about the boat like a chicken with its head cut off. Clutching the side of the boat, Reign pulled/dragged herself to the hull, peering overboard into the deep blue waters below. "You've got to be kidding me!" The lurch that Reign had felt was the sound of the Queen slamming into a rock. Woody splinters jutted out of the boat like lances; and water seeped into the large hole the black, seaweed encrusted rock had tore on the side of the boat. Groaning, the boat tilted forward, Reign only saved from tumbling into the dark waters by the desperate way she had previously been clutching to sides for balance. There would have be a certain sense of irony if she had plummeted to her death mere miles off the shore of her hell. Although, she had always dreamed of her death being more of a dramatic scene, with a long speech and a dying wish; yes, drowning was not ideal.

Reign sprinted (as well as fell on her face several times) towards Daniel, waving her arms in the air, "Daniel! We've got to get off of this piece of junk!" Tugging on his wrist, she loosened the tiny lifeboat she had previously discovered among the storage items at the bottom of the boat. The gods must like her after all! She had almost not brought the tiny, pathetic lifeboat up to the deck. Even though it had been tossed around by their crash, luckily the excuse for wood had not fallen overboard. Adrenaline pumping, Reign heaved the boat up and dropped it into the ocean, "leave that drunk Cloak. It's better he dreams with the fish and not us." She hissed at her brother, climbing up to the side of the boat, using a rope for balance. With a prayer to any God that would listen, Reign made a desperate jump out into the waters.
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Postby Daniel Lantern on June 18th, 2013, 11:17 pm

Daniel, while clumsy at times, was not incompetent. He dashed down to the deck and jumped feet first into the boat. The buoyancy of it softened his fall but the displaced water managed to soak Reign just as she came back up for air. Daniel wasted no time hoisting the sputtering and choking girl into the small boat and handing her the oars. He pushed them away from the now-useless ship with a solid kick and braced himself for the journey to shore.

"Well that was fun!" He shouted over the rancor caused by the ship grinding against the rock. Daniels stay in Zeltiva had yet to even begin and was already off to a bumpy start accompanied by an optimistic attitude.
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Postby Reign on June 19th, 2013, 5:34 pm

The malicious sea was quite more of a distance from the deck than Reign had anticipated, the water felt like a rock wall when she hit it, temporarily knocking her out of breath. Choking and splashing like a fool. Reign kicked out in the water desperately, her drenched and heavy cloak tugging her little self towards the bottom of the unwelcome ocean floor. No, No, drowning not ideal. Lunging upwards, Reign, with one short burst of strength, snapped her head above the water, gasping for air. To her misfortune she did so at the exact moment her brother tossed his ridiculously large body down from the boat; the small wave of water that ensued engulfing her and filling her lungs with salty sea water.

In one sweep grab, Daniel fished Reign from the water, placing her back into the tiny boat. Soaked to the bone, Reign spluttered out water, the salt searing her throat. Laying her head at the bottom of the life boat to calm herself, the thief realized that the wood smelt of curdled milk. Queasy, she vomited out the alcohol and measly breakfast she had consumed. With the back of her hand Reign wiped her mouth as she sat up; the smell was now close to unbearable thanks to her. Shivering, Reign accepted the oars that she had stored in the lifeboat, and watched her brother push them away from the sinking Queen. It was a pity really; Reign could have made good money from selling that dingy, floating, pile of wood and nails…

"Well that was fun!” Daniel cried, happily. Stupid optimistic bastard! Reign thought with a glare, viewing that they were at least a few miles from off the shore.
“My booze and my boat” Reign grumbled, pumping her twig like arms angrily. Well, what an introduction to hell.
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Postby Cloud on July 27th, 2013, 10:15 pm

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Greetings! It seems we have a few things we need to note before we can proceed with a grade in this. The first to notice is the fact you've written the ship's all killed off, Captain included, when this was in fact highly unnecessary to begin with. You have to consider the odds that exist, an entire ships crew against two people? That takes quite the skill to pull off there, skills that your characters unfornuately lack.
I must also mention that you would need a Storyteller's permissiom to attempt murdering this crew, and even with permission you two still have no sailing skills to make up for the loss of men to sail the ship. This solution can be very easily fixed of course, all that I request is that you edit your posts to where the crew still lived so they may dock you to safety. From then on please consider playing at your skill levels, and pm me when the changes have been made. Then we can see about replacing this intervention with a grade. :)

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