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Post by The Goddess Alexia on Mar 23, 2006 18:00:37 GMT -5
*Trippy stood at the mast of her ebony ship the Insomnia. It's silver sials cracking against as they sailed thought the clear sky blue sky. Her sister's were missing and her wings of rites would not work until they were safely at home. She went down into the cabin occupied by her first mate.*
"James. I want my sisters back NOW! Get me to port and get me a possible crew!"
"Aye captian Che!"
*Trippy's fist flew out and connected withthe grown man's nose.*
"I may be seventeen, but I am still you captian,a dn I am not Che! I am Sage. Wether we look alike means nothing, you shuold know the differenct between all four of us by now, even if you were Che's first mate."
"I plead your pardons Mistress! I am just so used to Chelsea and the Intelligence."
"Well your favored Intelligence was highjacked along with youre percious Cpatian Che,a dn our other sister, Thyme and Van. I want them back!. As oldest of the Quads, I am honorably forced to go and get them, though if I had my way I'd only bring Van back, I can't use my wings unless all of them are sfe at home. -__ I hate the gods sometimes. NOW PULL INTO PORT AND FIND ME A CREW!"
"Aye aye!"
*James fled the cabin fearful of the girl's temper. He gave orders tot he crew to dock in the port not far from their current location.
Trippy stormed to her cabin. She had chestnut brown hair that was rish and dark and reach just to her hips, just like her sisters. Also like them, her eyes were deep purple,a dn her skin so fare and pale, you would think they hadn't spent their lives on ships. Her hair returned from red to brown, and her eys from black to purple. During sudden mood swings...or at will her hair and eyes changed color, like ehr sisters. Trippy smirked. The only things that really seperated her from her sisters was her temper, and the fact that since she was the oldest, she inherited the wings of rite....which she couldn't use until her siblings were home safe. *
"I'll blow up the Intelligence when this is all over!"
*She roared for the too small crew to hear as she stormed from the cabin as they docked. She jumped from the rail to the dock and stormed towards teh twon as her five man crew lowered teh gang plank, and secured the Ebony Insomnia. She knew they would have a crew for her to pick out when she returned or they'd have hell to pay. Trippy went to the tavern for some good food, and ale.*
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Post by nightmaredragon on May 1, 2006 16:35:33 GMT -5
*in a old town bar keira heard two guys talking about joing crew or this big ship keira was interested in this with a black cap and the hood over here head she watch the two men leave she turns back to the bar takes another drink and see a fat guy set next to her talking some other person with his money bag out idiot see got a a sly smile on her face i am not a thief but he should know bettershe took it and open it set one gold coin on the bar and took one last drink and walk out of the bar she found those two that where in the bar keira loves adventure she follow them making suer she far behind to still fallow but not be see they went to a big ebony ship with other people who want to be apart of this crew she went on board quitly *
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on May 2, 2006 0:59:24 GMT -5
*Trippy finished the steak she had ordered at high end tavern. She downed her beer, and ordered another one to go. She finished her drink as she reached the Insomnia, and tossed it in a near by trash can.
Reboarding her beautiful ship, she looked at the sorry scrubs of landsmen and women she saw looking for adventure on the high seas. A few men gave some shouts when they saw her.*
"hey baybee! Whats a cute little ting like you doing, trying to get on a ship's crew?"
"yeah honey. Shouldn't you be one of the women waiting here, bck home for her sailor?"
*Several men added that they'd be willing to be her sailor. She smirked inwardly, knowing that they didn't know that being her sailors were why they were here to begin with.
She stood on teh side of the roup and waited for James to address the company.*
"Alright, you all are here because you want a job on the Ebony Insomnia. Well thats not up to me. I'm jsut the first mate. Our captian Trippy, will be making the decisions. So i give the deck over to our captian." James said.
*He moved aside, and Trippy stepped forward. She had a hard @$$ look on her face. She wasn't going to take any crap. She wasn't in a good mood, not being able to fly. She kinda wanted them to suffer.*
"Alright you sorry slabs. i'm only going to sy this once. I am the jugde, the jury, and the executioner on this ship. the Insomnia is mine. for all of you who do not know. i am princess Sage briar of Corrigon. My sister were kidnapped, and if i don't get them back I can't use my wings. that is the only reason any of us are here. DO you under stand. Thoes of you whoar e looking for adventures on teh high seas can find it on your own time, becasue when you are on duty, you're on MY time and no one elses. Understood?
Now I need cooks. and I preferr women for that one. But if any of yu lot are interested in that step over here to the right. thats right. Keep in mind I'm only taking three cooks,a dn I do like to cook myself. The rest I will simply be random shipmates. People to crew and man my Insomnia. her crew was with the Intelligence when both it, them and my sisters were taken, and I was training in the Intelligence's new crew. So don't worry about knowing nothing. Short of James and three others, everyone on board is virtually as in experienced as you.
Now I'm telling you now. each and every one of you, yes cooks included, had damn well better be able to at lest swing a sword or some form of a weapon, or know magic that can save your arse, because I'm telling you now, you will be in battle. i guarentee if. becasue they won't give up my crew, sisters or the Intelligence without a fight. I'll be training you and honing your skills while we sail, but I'll not waste my time with peple who have never held a weapon before. Of course for who select to be cooks, this will be alot less strice. but for everyone else, its iron tight.
If you don't like it, get the hell off of my ship right now, becasue I don't want you."
*Only two people left, younger girls who were only tehre because their boyfriends talked them into showing up.*
"Right. You'll go with james. Thoes who want to be a cook, follow me to the galleys."
*She said soething to James and lead the way to the kitchens.*
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Post by nightmaredragon on May 3, 2006 8:06:23 GMT -5
*keira watch the people who wanted to be cookes fallow the Captian Trippy, she was a good cook from want she makes for her selve but she nverr cook for others but she stayed up on deck watch the men talk it out with each other on what going on and what going to happen 'she said that she need here sister to use her wings that fine'*
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on May 4, 2006 0:28:00 GMT -5
*Two hours later, Trippy stood in front of her new crew. She had a sword master, an archery captian. A head cook and two under cooks whome she planned on terrizing a lot becasue she loved to cook herself.
Her crew was big, which was jsut as well because as the oldest of her siblings, her ship was the biggest out of the "Four Sisters" as the girl's ships, The Ebony Insomnia, The Ivory Intelligence, the Ruby Insight, and the Indigo Invocation. Belonging in order to herself, Che, Thyme, and Van, Van's being smallest. The Insomnia manned 130 men easy, and had room for 150, puls ten more passengers, and make every person quite comfortable. The ship was huge, but it was fast. Created by magick, the ship rested maybe a foot under the surface of the water, whereas a normal, smaller ship would sit far lower. He sister's which hadn't been created by the same man as her's was sat lower, allowing her's to be the biggest and fastest of the lot.
As she showed her new crew around the Insomnia she noted that besides the three femals cooks she selected, there were only two other females. Both recruited fo be under the comand of the sword/combat master. They would mostly be fighters, but of cousre they'd have their own duties too. She'd prolly make them scullery just so she didn't have to deal with derogitory remarks from the rest of the crew. She'd have to bunk them together as well. The cooks had quaters in the kitchns area, theses two would bunk down the hall form her own master cabin, she decided.
After the grand tour she sent the new crew telling them to say good bye to loved ones, and to pack for a lonf, hard trip. They left port in two days, and anyone not on board was left behind. She also pointed out that though she pays crew redicously well, she only paid a fourth of it right away. She'd pay them the rest when they returned to port. She told them it was a service guarentee, and they'd get their first quater when they set sail.
When the new people left, she had dinner in her cabin and then went to bed, just wanting to escape into a world of deep, life devoide sleep, which she exactly did.*
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Post by nightmaredragon on May 4, 2006 8:08:09 GMT -5
*keira walk off the ship in to the woods when she got to here camp set she back up some of here items that she won't need she change into a simple white robe here cat ears straight up for hear any one who coming as she walk deeper in the woods to a hot spring even she half cat she loves taking baths in the spring ' two days that will be enough i hope their no perverted monks around'*
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on May 4, 2006 19:42:28 GMT -5
*Two days later she had her full crew on board the ship. As they set sails the men were shown their quaters, while Trippy took the only five other women.
The Head cook name Shea, and her underling Moria, and Lilly. They were, is respective order, 38, 21 and eight-teen. There were two cabins in next to the kitchens. She got the bigger of the two being head chef, Moria and Lilly would share the other.
After they were setteled She showed the other two their room, five doors down the hall form her own. As they walked to it she asked them...*
"So, what are your names?"
"I'm Keira." One said.
"My name is Gina." The other replied.
"Thats cool. So how old are you ladies?"
"Ninteen." Gina answered.
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Post by nightmaredragon on May 5, 2006 6:24:45 GMT -5
"seventeen"said keira as she fallow trippy to her room holding the two bags she brought "so how old are you"
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on May 5, 2006 8:10:03 GMT -5
"I'm seventeen as well. I'll be eighteen at the end of summer on August 16. Well here is your room."
*She took out a key, apparently from no where, and unlocked the door. Inside the room was made of the black wood ebony, like everything else on the Insomnia. It was a firly large room with two full sized beds faceing one another on the other side of the room. Beside the beds were night stands, and next to thoes, dressers, each peice of furniture facing its counter part across the room. There was a small square table with four chairs in the middle of the room. Two closets, a sitting area with two chairs and a sofa. A book case (full), the room was a mini-apartment without a kitchen. it even had a bathroom with a shower.
Gine marveled at it all.*
"This ship is like a floating hotel! And a really uber nice one at that. Can we say ritzy?"
*Sage laughed*
"Well i like my crew to be comfortable. Actually the inside of the ship is bigger than the outside."
*Keira looked at her.*
"How can that be?"
*Sage ran a hand lovingly along the door frame.*
"She was made with magick. I mena she is real ebony, but was build andput together by a very very skilled master craftsmen who specialized in carpentry and shipwright magick. Its a shame though. He had many enimies and was murdered just before starting work on the Intelligence. Insomnia was his final project, and he always said, I remember before he died, she was his materpiece. She was his most wonderful project."
*She came out of her reverance.*
"But anyways, here it is. There is a key on the table for each of you. I ahve the only other one, so if something goes missing here, come to me. You can re arrange how ever you like. It is all bloted down by a kind of magick that allows it to be re arranged, but never move, even during the worst of hurricanes. I've got a few other things to see to. I will see you ladies at dinner."
*And she left the girls to their own devices, heading off to check with her first mate on the rest of the crew.*
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Post by nightmaredragon on May 5, 2006 16:27:00 GMT -5
*keira went to the bed on the right throw her stuff on the floor and jump on the bed it was so comfortable she huge the pillow it smell it like rose*
" i can't remember the last time i can sleep in a bed" keira smile at Gina
*Gina was putting her stuff in her dresser she smile back and her eye look on top of keira head*
" are those really cat ears" Gina pointing at keira black cat-ears
keira looks up " ya they are it funny really sometimes i forget all about them and i even got a tail" *she jump off the bed and turn around to show Gina here long black tail the she jump back on the bed and set cross lagged*
"oh ya at first i thought you were someone play dress up" put the last of here close in the dresser and went and sat on the bed
"really ya i can see why people will think that pules it was a three for one deal" keira put her hair up and lay back down " that a neat choker "
keira put here hand on here neck" which one"
"the black one"
"ya it funny i don't know where i got but first time i notice it i took it off it like i back out when i can too Eda she like my godmother told me to not take it off that it"she sat up and went and put her staff away"ya after we get food do you what to play a card game but not poker"
"sure i going take a shower before dinner" Gina going to the bathroom"do you need to use to" "no i going take a nap to get a feel for a bed" jumping face first in the pillow
"one of these days you are going mess the pillow and hit you head"Gina smile
"go take you shower you smell and not like rose" keira waving her hand at Gina
* Gina just walk into the bathroom laughing*
*keira fell asleep to the sound of the hot water two hours past keira woke up refeshed she walk inthe bath room and wash her face then she got her brush and start to brush here hair*
*Gina was reading a book on her bed*
"Hay Gina would you want to come with me to the dinning room to get a good spot"keira gust finsh brushing her hair
Gina put here bookmark in it spot" ok"
*The both left the room and walk down the hall to the dinning room when they got here it was fall of all the crew they found a spot and sat down and eat the food was good they saw Trippy eat when gina and kiera got done the walk out back to the room*
"hay gina i meet you in the room i want toi see something ok"
"ok"as gina open the door and walk inside the room
*keira simle at her as she go in the room and started to walk down the wooding hall she went up the stares to the deck the bright peral moon light up the night with the stars next to the moon it was a clear night not a cloud in the sky and a little fog covering the sea that look like it will go on forever kiera sat in the middle of the deck*
"i miss the sun set oh will this view is worth it. it so calm and quit not at all like the woods" she looks at the moon the light from it reflect off her green eyes "the tree always block the moon's path"
*keira turns and walk back to her room when she got thier gina was sleeping ya that going be me it been a big day i go to bed after i draw this she jump on her bed and bend over the side to look under the bed and grap a sketch book and started to draw the seen that was on the deck*
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on May 20, 2006 22:43:23 GMT -5
*Trippy had been up in the crow's nest watcing everything. The moon, the sea, the ship. The Ebony Insomnia was nothing but a black shadow on the ocean, even with nearly full moon shining brightly on it.*
'How many times have I sat her, in this very spot, watching the moon? the sea? The peaceful silent world. The place where all bindings are erased for a time until one gets close to shore again.'
I can tell you how many. Too many
*Answered a small voice inside her.*
"I know."
*She answered herself aloud.*
'I do to everytime I know I'm heading into a battle that should be my fight, and puts my innocet crew in danger. Well, why should I feel responsibe for them? They were told what they were getting into. They decided to come anyways. No guilt on me at all.'
*There was a chuckel behind her, as she jumpped, nearly falling off the edge of the crows nest basket where she sat.*
"You sound like me now. Have I been a bad infleuence?"
*She turned around to see a tall blond, blue eyed woman sitting on the opposite edge of the basket. Trippy swung her feet over the edge so she faced in, and the woman, instead of out.*
"But I didn't say anything. How can I sound like you?"
*The woman tapped her temple, indicating she could read minds.*
"Oh yeah. I've forgotten."
*Trippy sighed*
"So what are you doing here?"
"I've come to see you of course. I bring news, too."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. Want it?"
"No, I want my wings back, but news from you can't be that good, so spill."
"First off, your parents returned home an hour after you left home. But as per usual, Insomnia is impossible to catch. The magick of the creator making it that way. lets jsut say your units wern't exactly happy abotu what happened, but they were even more pi$$ed when I got the joy of telling them what you did."
*Trippy smirked. She knew the blonde well anough to know that she really had found joy in tellign her parents bad news. Its jsut how she was. The girl continued.*
"They tried sending ships after you, but seeing as I wouldn't tell them where you had gone, until your Da was blue in the face from yelling, and I had started laughing, and he got even bluer because of my laughing, well by then it was way too late to catch you anyways."
*Here she pretened to be all innocent and helpful*
"And when helpfully I pointed out that even if they had sent ships after you right away, and in the right direction, they could have never had caught the Insomnia untill she reach the nearest port,a dn then docked for a few days, your fatherlost his temper so baddly he was as blue as the sky, and was choking on his words for a full ten minuets, before they calmed him down enough to get him to breathe."
*Here she laughed*
"And I suppose you were laughing then."
"Yes."
*Trippy laughed*
"I'll bet that didn't help the calming process any."
"Probably not, but he really was choking ,adn it was my not letting him die that kept him alive. he should have been dead three minuets into it. Ha, well lets jsut say it almost started right back up when I told him that! HA!
Anways, the rest of the news. Your parents send their love and want you home not after your sisters. They say they are dissapointed that as oldest, heir, and temp. regint you jsut left like that. But they say since they can't exactlys end for you, whatever you do on your mission has their blessing. As long as it gets your sister's back.
Jason says he misses you, and though he is worried sick about you, and wants you home, he understands that you gotta do this, and so he's going to wait for you patiently. And if you don't return, he said...and I quote "I will search her out in the afterlife, and drag her sorry dead ass back into life myself! So THERE!"
*Trippy laughed at this, thinking it highly unlikely. Then she noticed the otehr girl was suddenly very serious.*
"I've also got some very very bad news."
"What?"
"Now, remember I couldn't do anything about this, okay. We defied the Future trinity two years ago when I allowed them to return, so they were "already dead' and thus out of any death predictions that might have happen..."
"WHAT HAPPENED?"
"...Thyme...and Van....they were killed again. I didn't know until Cerberus came to me with them this afternoon."
"What? How could you not know?!"
"I already told you. They were considered dead already. Their souls were still fifteen, never to age, they were just given bodies, and allowed to simulate life again. Their souls were dead thuogh, and so I know when living die, not when dead re-die."
*She shrugged*
"I'm sorry Trippy."
*Trippy was in shock. Van and Thyme, dead again. She had no choice. She had to save Che...and avenge her sisters. She accepted it once before, she would again.*
"I've got only one question. Can they return?"
"I rarely give second chances, and never a third one. I'm sorry, no I can't. Even if I let them, Juston is too much of a stick to, and he has to agree with it too."
"Okay...okay fine. Thank you for the information."
"No problem. I'll be back. I know what its like to have a sister die....a sister of the same birth for that matter."
"Thats right, Noa dissapeared, didn't she?"
"Dead..for the most part, though her essence never has been found."
"Oh, okay I see."
"Right. Well i've got some news to deliver to your units then. Keep on the path you've plotted, a storm will be by in a few days, you'll be tossed around for a week, end up way off course, but when the sun shine with not ONE cloud within three finger spans in any direction around it...go in the direction you are facing at the time, do not tarry or faulter. Sail for two more days. You'll get there then."
"Right, thanks alot Shawni."
"Not problem Trip. I'll be back."
*with that, she was suddenly gone,a dn Trippyw as alone in the crows nest. She looked at the deck, and the moon. Keira had gone inside two hours ago. She'd been taling to Shawni for only a few minuets.*
'I've been up here for hours. Its two am. I should get to bed.'
*She jumpped the nest, and landed 75 feet below catlike. easily, though not even a cat, or anything not of her blood could make a jump like that without taking in some kind of harm. She went to bed then, and despite her late night, was up at dawn, bright, and refreshed,a dn ready for the new day.*
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Post by zumi on May 31, 2006 0:02:29 GMT -5
A woman of about twenty-one clung to drift wood, her teeth clentched. She wore a fancy dress that clung to her as she drifted through the waters, cursing in ways that no refined lady should. Her brown hair was still gathered in a top knot, and her shoes and stockings somehow were still attacched.
Looking up ahead she saw a vessel coming towards her. From all looks of it, it was most likely a pirate ship. Her lip cruled slightly and she wished she was dressed normally, but she had to play the part of a refined lady on the ship that sank long ago.
Kicking off, she summonded her strength. Pirates or not, it was a chance to get the heck out of the water and possibly into something more comfortable and natural.
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on May 31, 2006 13:49:36 GMT -5
*Trippy was awoken near dawn by James.*
"Mistress, there was a man, er..a woman over board, just found. We brought her up. I though you should be told."
*Trippy sat up b!tching about wnating to sleep. She threw her covers back and stood streching. She wore loose and flowing pajama pants that were wither with pale green (the sahde actually called sage ironically) splashed here and there, in a random fashion. Her top was a cami that clung to her lean form, the same Sage green as what was on her pants.
She stumpped after James up the steps and out onto teh deck looking messy adn groggy and ready to murder the first suboardinate to say something to her. Then James suddenly stopped nad she slammed right into his back. Cursing, she steadied herself and stepped around James.
There in front of her stood a half drowned rat half woman type of creature. Or at elast that is what it loked like at first until she rubbed the sleep out of her eyes. The woman before her had brwon hair, and wore a fine, soaked, dress.*
'Great.' She thought. Nobility. Just what I needed. A prik who probably knows who I am and what I'm going to do, and probably agrees with my parents and will try to tell me to go home. Meh, I don't need this crap.'
*She studied teh woman over, fully awake now, but still pretending to be half asleep and thus letting things register slowly. Finally she yawned.*
"Get her some clothes from the storage room. I have a bunch of spare outfits that shuld fit her. Nothing in green though. Give her one of my siblings colors. Whats your name?"
*She stred at the woman. Something about her incredibly familliar, but the horizon was jsut barely orange and she couldn't see her face.*
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Post by zumi on May 31, 2006 20:31:13 GMT -5
The woman fixed her hazel eyes on Alexia. She knew she had encountered this woman from somewhere before, but she decided to keep that to herself. She could tell what Alexia was thinking. Keeping her posture proper, she smoothed out her soaked dress. "I am Leida Schwarwald," she made up a name, the same one she had been using on the ship. "I would like to thank you, madam for the clothes," she said in a respectful tone and curtsied as best she could, keeping up the pretense that she was indeed of nobility. No need bringing up the daggar strapped to her thigh. The loss of her schimitar saddened her though.
Someone soon reutrned with simple clothes. A long dark skirt and a worn but nice shirt that looked like something nobility could stomach. The woman resisted cringing at the skirt, but she smiled regardless in thanks. She could use the length of the skirt to hide her daggar after all. She thought about telling Alexia of it, but she didn't think now was the right time yet. Besides, something told her Alexia might know of its presence as is. She hoped that the woman understood that she would never use it against anyone on the ship unless provoked.
The hand showed her to an area to change where people couldn't watch, though she knew she was under watch. Once out of sight, she let a slight hunch appear in her shoulders and swung her arms in a few circles. She hated pretending to be nobility. It was always such a pain, but it at least gave her brain exercise. Quickly she changed and reappeared on the deck as fast as she could, her posture erect again and her air of possible royalty back up like a thick bank of fog.
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Post by The Goddess Alexia on May 31, 2006 22:06:44 GMT -5
OOC: Zumi, Alexia is only making random appearences here. Insomnia belongs to Sage Remember? lol
IC:
*Sage was yawning and streching when the woman lieing about being named Ledia returned. Being around a court full of people who always wanted to use people had made her masterful in the art of detecting a lie four miles away in the dark of night. She also knew this woman wouldn't be hurting them.*
"James, stop being rude! Someone get he a towel for the rest of her thats wet! Get two!"
*James barked out orders to someone who ran off instantly, soon returning with two towels for the woman. Sage studdied her for a time before speaking*
"You seem mroe comfortable." She said flatly. "It might be that you're in dry clothes, or was that dress really teribly uncomfortable? Becasue thats what it seems. I've been in uncomfortable dresses like that before, and I'm sure they're hell when wet. I'm guess you didn't like the dress much to begin with seeing as you havn't yet inquired whne it could be cleaned, or at least dry for you to wear again. Would I be correct in that assumption?"
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