worst pirates ever

[commentboxtroll]

Date & Time: 7/12 - 7/14
Location: The Chinese Seas, 19th Century
Characters: Caesar, Gamora, Jericho, & Oz
Summary: The Initative needs a new device to be tested and Caesar needs some treasure stolen; both dilemmas can be solved by robbing a bunch of Chinese pirates!
Warnings: gamora kills a lot of things, the end.

The Chinese Seas, 19th Century. The objective is to obtain control of a merchant ship carrying iron ore, gun powder, and various spices that was historically lost to a particularly infamous pirate crew. It's recorded as their only ever win, and the ship itself never returned to port.

The goal is actually to be sent to the merchant ship a day or so before the pirate boarding, survive the pirate battle and get into the pirate hold, and to secure the Treasure of the Nine Kingdoms so that it never returns to Chinese hands. It is indeed gold-plated, and part of a smaller, more modest hoard of gold on board, along with various other goods, spices, and precious stones. There is also a gold plated chamberpot. (Go figure.)

Comments

[commentboxtroll]

If it can't be opened, it really doesn't matter where I stand.

[ He'll aim for you, Oz. He'll aim for you. ]

And luck has little to do with anything. It's all timing. Poor timing, considering the day...

[velveteened]

( wow that's rude. )

What do you mean?

[commentboxtroll]

Actually... Technically not today, but the day it is in our own time.

[ If one can call Exsilium's time one's own, but close enough. ]

Do birthdays count when you're time-travelling?

[velveteened]

( RECORD SCRATCH.wav )

It's your birthday?

[commentboxtroll]

Not in this when, no, but the static one, yes.

[velveteened]

( WHEVER MAN THE SPARKLE IS BEING TURNED IN YOUR DIRECTION )

Really? That's great, happy birthday!

( a friend's birthday!!!! how exciting. )

[commentboxtroll]

It's okay, I guess. [ All that sparkle. Oz, don't make him blind, man. Don't do it. ] I don't really do anything for them, so--

[ wait ]

Oh.

[ Except he was going to do something for it. Uh. ]

[velveteened]

( no he's going to get you a birthday present - only when they're, you know, back in exsilium and not on a merchant ship waiting on a pirate ship. he's about to ask what's making caesar pause, but stops to consider. )

Did you tell someone else about your birthday?

( and fail to mention being away for it? )

[commentboxtroll]

I did. I was supposed to have dinner with Collette tonight.

[ So much for that. ]

[velveteened]

( caesar you are an embarrassment )

And you didn't tell her you might be going on a mission soon...?

[commentboxtroll]

I knew there'd be a mission eventually, but this one sort of came up suddenly.

[ Also he forgot, but shh. ]

[velveteened]

So in other words: no, you didn't.

( judging you!!! )

[commentboxtroll]

No. I didn't...

[velveteened]

Well, hopefully we'll be back before she's had too much opportunity to worry.

[commentboxtroll]

Is missing a dinner even that much of a worry? For all she'll know, I slept through it!

[velveteened]

You, sleeping when you could be getting food you didn't have to make or buy?

[commentboxtroll]

It could happen!

[velveteened]

I guess anything's possible!

[commentboxtroll]

We need to focus on tomorrow, anyway. I don't need to add 'also I was taken unaware by pirates' to whatever it is I end up telling her.

[velveteened]

'I fought them off valiantly' makes a much better story, anyway.

[commentboxtroll]

I think you mean 'I had someone else fight them off valiantly'. No one would ever believe it if I said I was the one who did that.

[velveteened]

Well, like I said - anything's possible!

[commentboxtroll]

I'd rather only a predictable few anythings be possible, actually...