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Landfall.

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Gisela O'Cuinn
player, 55 posts
Sun 11 Mar 2018
at 04:56
  • msg #144

Landfall

In reply to Jack White (msg # 143):

"She's going to be okay, Quentin," Gisela says with a relieved grin.  "It's temporary, Q.  Isla will be fine.  Just give her a little bit of time.  Until then, just remember enough about it that you can rib her for it later."
AJ Rourke
GM, 57 posts
"..I Will Cut You..."
"You feeling lucky Punk?"
Sun 11 Mar 2018
at 17:43
  • msg #145

Landfall

In reply to Gisela O'Cuinn (msg # 144):

AJ was beset by well meaning people...and we all know what a road paved in good intentions leads to.

AJ was thankfully not running full tilt because of the saddle and trying to line up with the monster stalking away from them. If she had there was no chance they could have caught her. Alameth did have to run full out though to get  in front of her, the King had to as well to catch her up from behind.

Unfortunately, Chances directed misfortune did not have to catch up to her. It just Happened...roots popping up where they had not been a moment before and everyone in AJ's vicinity suffering its effects.   AJ started to try to go around the Giant Blacksmith, tripped... threw the saddle in his face while trying to get her balance, hit the outstretched tree trunk sized arm like a clothes line while still at a jog and went sailing up ass over tea kettle.   She landed on her back in the grass.

She never go to see much of the sky however as it suddenly was blotted out by the shadow of King Arthur's crotch.  The King had been chasing on her heels and gotten tripped then clotheslined by Alameths OTHER arm.   But the larger slower man had only managed half a back flip not a full one and landed atop AJ in a 69 position, his face in her crotch, his crotch on her face, and both of them too disoriented to know what happened right away.
Alani
player, 37 posts
Sun 11 Mar 2018
at 23:43
  • msg #146

Landfall

In reply to AJ Rourke (msg # 145):

"On that note, I think we should be shown to our rooms now before peoples unmentionables start showing. Kronk get the bags" she says to her large minion.
Her Majesty
GM, 29 posts
Wed 14 Mar 2018
at 00:44
  • msg #147

Landfall

Arthur got up stammering like a buffoon. "I'm TERRIBLY sorry, milady! That was... NOT my intent!" He was smiling through his placation, despite his red face. Suddenly his look shifted. "NOT that you aren't a very attractive woman. I just.... BLAISE! THE CARRIAGE!"

Blaise sighed and pinched his nose. "Yes, sire," he monotoned. With a wave of his hand, a fog began to roil out of the forest, obscuring the road. It built into a thick cloud and lingered as the hollow sound of hoofbeats grew closer through the obscurement. Then, out of it, came a line of covered carriages drawn by black horses with glowing red eyes.

(The carriages are two-seater hansoms. Three can fit in if you wanna get cozy. Time to get a bit of RP one on one in if you want!)
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:02, Wed 14 Mar 2018.
Eva LeJume
NPC, 7 posts
Wed 14 Mar 2018
at 00:57
  • msg #148

Landfall

Eva poked Gi in the back. "Hey. Ride with me. We need to talk. You too, bunny boy." She gestured to Jack.
Gisela O'Cuinn
player, 56 posts
Wed 14 Mar 2018
at 02:00
  • msg #149

Landfall

In reply to Eva LeJume (msg # 148):

"Of course," Gisela said, given that Eva had taken the time with her during the ride on the ship.  Besides, AJ would probably be busy with either Chance or Wolf when she finished having her moment.  A little separation might be a good idea, too, given that Gi was slightly annoyed that AJ had put everyone at risk.  It was weird, though, to go from being a perpetual loser loner to having someone request to sit with her.  She follows Eva to the first carriage and climbs in.
Quinten Heart
player, 44 posts
Wed 14 Mar 2018
at 02:13
  • msg #150

Landfall

Q scowled hard at the display of moronic ineptitude by all parties involved... and finally snap.  "By the love of the Axe," he growled loudly through clenched teeth before suddenly setting Isla firmly into the ground in standing position.  "I have had enough of this fresh hell," he continued as did so.

Glaring down at the young woman he cupped his hand on the side of her face, ensuring she was looking directly at him as she giggled intensely.  His voice was hard, but not cruel.  "Isla look at me.  Hey! Look. At. Me." The command was clear and unyielding as the girl apparently tried to play cute with her eyes.  "You remember where you come from.  You wear the Patch.  You remember your suit.  You toss this nonsense off cause you're better than this," he ordered.

"And you! DOCK RAT!" Q hollowed towards AJ. "Are you really as pathetic as I've always thought?  Are you going to let some pathetic freak get the best of you?  I thought you at least a bit above the rabble of the mainland, but I guess I misjudged!" The challenge was clear in his voice as it echoed out.


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OOC: Leadership feat; Spending 2 Hero Points per Ophie to remove conditions

Isla
Minion, 10 posts
Q's Gangmember
Wed 14 Mar 2018
at 02:25
  • msg #151

Landfall

Whether it was loyalty or simply the overpowering effect of his will, Q's words seemed to cut through whatever effect was pressing on Isla's mind.  The young woman's eyes seemed to clear as her gaze focused on Q.  She shook her head for a moment before turning a shade closer to her hair.  "Shit..." she muttered as she she became engrossed with how fascinating the ground was.

"Sorry Q," she added after a moment.
Quinten Heart
player, 45 posts
Wed 14 Mar 2018
at 02:33
  • msg #152

Landfall

"It's fine," the young man stated firmly as he pulled the young woman beside him and places an arm on her shoulder.  "It's not like it was your job to make sure we weren't attacked the moment we stepped on land," he declared openly as he glared at Arthur's cronies.

"CK," he ordered as he looked as the young man.  "You and Ilsa together on that one," he demanded pointing to a carriage.  "No disappearing this time," he added a second later with a meaningful glare before pointing to his eyes and Isla a moment later. "Watch each other's back.  I'll be on the next carriage behind," he stated firmly.

Turning on he heel he smirked at the others still on the dock as he walked backwards.  "Which I'll keep to myself, unless someone wants to keep me company...," he smarmed as he pulled out a fresh smoke.
Jack White
player, 19 posts
White Rabbit, almost.
Gentleman of class.
Wed 14 Mar 2018
at 02:39
  • msg #153

Landfall

Jack looked concerned as Quentin manhandled the limp and giggling girl. He'd certainly never seen her in such a state, And a bubble of concern kept him within arm's reach, before attention was turned back towards the wayward pirate.  His furrowed brow seemed to relax for an instant, as he backed a few more steps away.

Only to be intercepted by a come-hither wave.

He eyed Eva with a flat expression, inscrutable, one whisker twitching. But as Gisela clambered into the carriage, he shrugged, with a sigh, sweeping up his luggage and climbing the step, deftly tucking his hat beneath his arm as he ducked into the door. He slumped into a seat with a sigh, looking across the carriage to the apparent sorceress.  "Well played, by the way. With the book and the poem. I'd resigned myself to an ignominious demise by some avenue before lunch, and the Jabberwocky is about as ignoble an end as one could imagine."
Gisela O'Cuinn
player, 57 posts
Wed 14 Mar 2018
at 03:27
  • msg #154

Landfall

In reply to Jack White (msg # 153):

"Thank you."  It wasn't a poem, but no need to draw further attention to her and her spell book.  Well, her mother's spell book.  "I am just glad it worked.  I did not want to be eaten by the Jaberwocky any more than you did."  She smiles at him, more reflex fake than happy.  "I, too, expect to come to some untimely demise, but I do not believe it will be random chance when it occurs."  She changes direction with her words.  "Do you have any idea what Eva would want to discuss with you?"
Jack White
player, 20 posts
White Rabbit, almost.
Gentleman of class.
Wed 14 Mar 2018
at 10:49
  • msg #155

Landfall

His head tilted just slightly, one of his ears a bit askance, as he glanced towards the door of the carriage. Her smile was returned, though perhaps a bit wry.  He was reluctant to show his teeth in polite company... and he instantly recognized her courtly manner. It was courteous to play along.

"If the events of the rest of this day has been any indication, I suspect she wants to hatch some conspiracy against the crown. Probably some Goldbergian plot involving stealing a ship, murdering someone, and turning something at least once widdershins as a signal to the fae."

He leaned back, running one gloved hand over his head, between his ears.  He seemed to freeze, holding still for a long moment. The silence in the carriage offered him solace, a moment of reprieve from the chaotic morass of rapidly unspooling emotions and imminent danger that had surrounded the crew since their  ill-fated embarkation. The moment of silence lingered, until it grew heavy. His brow twitched, and he glanced down at his watch, feeling the face click open and shut with mechanical precision.

"And what would she want to discuss with you?"
This message was last edited by the player at 16:32, Wed 14 Mar 2018.
Gisela O'Cuinn
player, 58 posts
Thu 15 Mar 2018
at 02:56
  • msg #156

Landfall

In reply to Jack White (msg # 155):

"I would certainly hope nothing of the sort.  She has the wrong girl if she thinks I'm of any use in a plan such as that."  She already had thrones she could claim, but no intentions of actually taking them.  She loosens some of her court demeanor as he allows the shift from her spell-casting.

"I have no idea of anything she'd want with me."  Not entirely true, but nothing that Eva would want to talk to her AND the rabbit about.  "Maybe she just wants to discuss the Jaberwocky.  You're from Wonderland, and I know some about it.  Perhaps that's what she seeks?"
Jack White
player, 21 posts
White Rabbit, almost.
Gentleman of class.
Thu 15 Mar 2018
at 03:54
  • msg #157

Landfall

"That doesn't preclude a cadre of fairy assassins."  His lip curled up into a smirk.  "It could just be she just wanted to pack her carriage with the relatively sane-but-unsavory.  An easy way to dodge the chronic drama that seems to have been going around.  If you're not interested in more occult theories."
AJ Rourke
GM, 58 posts
"..I Will Cut You..."
"You feeling lucky Punk?"
Thu 15 Mar 2018
at 16:43
  • msg #158

Landfall

In reply to Jack White (msg # 157):

<outside the cart>

As Arthur is removed and begins apologizing, complimenting and otherwise stuttering, AJ pops up with her sword out. She had a couple tears on her face, sniffled and was wild eyed like someone on a bad mushroom trip, "I don't care what you paid dad...I am not for sale. I will bite that shit off and cram it... oh no where did the pony go... I need it to get to mom."

She switches tracks like an out of control train and spins this way and that looking for Jabberwocky and tries to grab up the saddle while still holding her sword. It was a fumbling mess and she only succeeds in falling over again like a drunk. Sprawled over the Saddle trying to get herself untangled from the stirrups and reins, cussing at the grass for keeping her from mom, Q's snapped Dock Rat cuts through the crazy and yanks her back to the here and now.

This may or may not be a good thing because it involved her pulling the revolver she also wore and for a couple of seconds seriously considering shooting him. But that urge subsides and she wipes her cheeks and puts the pistol away, "I am not a Dockrat...and what the hell just happened.  Why do I taste expensive fabric and ...salt? And why does my head hurt so much... I haven't had anything to drink since we left!"

She seems to find that last bit to be the actual biggest problem in the list.
Chance
player, 38 posts
Rather be Lucky'n Good.
Just ahead of the Curve..
Fri 16 Mar 2018
at 00:50
  • msg #159

Landfall

Chance shakes his head at the whole scene.   The teen comments only to himself, "Yellow streak... and Letch.   Falling further and further down that Worthiness scale... And people complain about Dad.   Not sure who they're kiddin..."   At which point Chance helps AJ up, interposing himself between... Her, Q... and Arthur.   He says over one shoulder, with a certain amount of Acid, "You know... Your Highness that if this was to give an impression... The only one I'm gettin is that I've seen better run scams..."
Gisela O'Cuinn
player, 59 posts
Sat 17 Mar 2018
at 23:42
  • msg #160

Landfall

In reply to Jack White (msg # 157):

"Why are you so certain about the fairies?" Gisela asked, noting that he keeps mentioning them.  "And that may well be the answer, that she is seeking to prevent more insanity.  I think, however, she has a more ulterior motive.  I am just not so certain it has to do with overthrowing the kingdom just yet.  I guess we shall see, though," she states, looking out the carriage for their fellow Islander.
Alameth
player, 33 posts
Sun 18 Mar 2018
at 03:33
  • msg #161

Landfall

Alameth gets up and heads over to Alani and Kronk Jr.. He picks both of them up and places them gently in one of the carriages before his staff starts to glow and he proceeds to shrink down to approximately 2.5' tall before he gets in himself and places himself atop Alani's lap.

He signs to her, "Hopefully we can actually get going now and stop with the madness."
This message was lightly edited by the player at 16:53, Sun 18 Mar 2018.
Jack White
player, 22 posts
White Rabbit, almost.
Gentleman of class.
Sun 18 Mar 2018
at 08:36
  • msg #162

Landfall

"Because involving fairies absolutely the most ridiculous way to expect to get anything even remotely productive done.  If they aren't toppling kingdoms over baby shower invitations, they're giving ten-year-olds the power of flight so they can fight pirates.  With swords.  While flying.  At age ten."  He leaned over to one side, his chin planted on one fist, looking nonplussed.  "She's already invited a Wonderlander, and a Rabbit, at that.  If it is some kind of scheme, She's either desperate, or the plan is probably, to use the most precise language, 'cockamamie.'"

His lip curled into an easy smirk, his eyes drooping lazily.  "I can easily see wanting to collaborate with a sorceress who can turn aside the Jabberwocky. Again... no mean feat. But the both of us?" He gave a small shrug. "If the plan isn't cockamamie, there must be a motive beyond utility practicality.  If there is a plan in the first place... which..." his forehead furrowed into a worried crease as he glanced out the window, then down at his watch again, clicking the cover open, watching the ticking second hand quiver across the face.  His sentence trailed off as he seemed to concentrate on the passing seconds with a degree of attention that the mere passage of time probably didn't warrant.

He shook himself out of the awkward pause, his eyes squeezing shut as he gave a little flick of his head, as if shaking off some kind of dazzling flash. "I'm sure she just got caught up in the dramatics," he reassured, catching the bobbled conversation before it hit the floor.  "Or working on her pitch. Suspecting we're about as skeptical as we actually are."
Alani
player, 38 posts
Sun 18 Mar 2018
at 16:52
  • msg #163

Landfall

In reply to Alameth (msg # 161):

Alani sighs "Yes that would be nice."
Shan Sang
NPC, 9 posts
Sun 25 Mar 2018
at 01:05
  • msg #164

Landfall

Shan puts an arm around Chance and gives him a nod. "Man to man, I can't say say that you are giving Arthur much of a run for his money." He shrugged and moved to a carriage. "Feel free to prove me wrong."

He waved to Q and smiled. "Don't worry champ. You'll get it next time."
Melissa Mim
NPC, 8 posts
Sun 25 Mar 2018
at 01:07
  • msg #165

Landfall

Missy was seemingly unfazed by the near brush with death. She was off near the bushes calling for the cat in a high pitched voice.

She looks at Nyxia and sighs with relief. "Oh good. I thought that naughty fuzzy had carried you off."
Her Majesty
GM, 30 posts
Sun 25 Mar 2018
at 01:13
  • msg #166

Landfall

All the island kids start loading up into the carriages. Arthur and Blaise get into the head coach. The executioner mounts up to drive the coach. They seem to be anxious to get back.

Javed hops into a coach with Phasma and one can't help but notice the side eye this gets him from Henrik. Morgan and Lola seem to be chatting and trying to decide on something. Morgan does wave at AJ. Lola says something and gestures to Q. Clearly they are discussing SOMETHING interesting.

(OOC: If you want to ride with an NPC, let me know and shoot me private message.)
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:14, Sun 25 Mar 2018.
Chance
player, 39 posts
Rather be Lucky'n Good.
Just ahead of the Curve..
Tue 27 Mar 2018
at 01:50
  • msg #167

Landfall

Chance laughs at Shan, and barks back at him, "Man?  Now that's a laugh... you're the deuce in the deck, at best... And I'm not the one claiming to be high and mighty, Sonny Jim.   If you think I'm trying to run for office, you are well and truly mistaken."    Sure, he'd never been in the gang scene with Q and his ilk, but that doesn't mean he particularly cottons to Shan either.

The man just breeds dislike.

At which point, Chance just finds himself a random carriage.   Because random is better.
AJ Rourke
GM, 59 posts
"..I Will Cut You..."
"You feeling lucky Punk?"
Wed 28 Mar 2018
at 20:55
  • msg #168

Landfall

In reply to Chance (msg # 167):

AJ calming down now and seeing that everything was back to normal, snarky and suspicious, decides to just follow Chance. Gi seemed to already be in a carriage after all.
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