In reply to Trina (msg # 77):

"Happy to provide an escort."

He says little else, possibly having a better idea of what he is getting into than most.

OOC: the Razortooth would need a bit of fuel but it can get to the Island of the three sisters.

Trina: Mary, Yeeng and Iman discuss who you will be with tonight. Yeeng ends up winning the negotiation. Smiling happily she kisses you aggressively and then whispers into your ear.


Teruo: The Razortooth look a lot like an American Torpedo Boat. It's Heavily armed with four heavy machinegun turrets multiple autocannon and the Torpedoes. It looks like it could make the trip quickly.

Thorralun: The princess has you stand outside her tent while she packs up her stuff.

In reply to Island Spirit (msg # 79):

Do we know about the fuel issue? Marine Diesel Fuel (MDF), I assume?

Mary is pleased with this arrangement and smiles, "You clearly know your way about ships Terou.. aye the Razortooth runs on MDF... was negotiating with the Eno-Ur locals fur jus that when that pretty ma.. er pleasure craft o' yur Princess' made landfall ere.  But if I think things go the way we all can see is best fur us all... if your Princess can convince er people back on the 'Three Sisters'... as your Princess travels about tha' Razortooth will be with her as close Escort hunting Pirates...!  Profit all around.. and if your any good with a machinegun battery Nest... we might have a gunner's position open for a solider like you!"

She casts her gaze over the those assembled and heartily declares, "Well then..ladds and lasses.. let's get this on the seas... a successful parley is a cause fur rejoicing.  Let's get back to sea!"

Mary casts a rather lascivious look Trina's way and as she leaves catches Yeeng by the arm to whisper something to her that actually makes her snort in a held in laugh as they all file out to board the ships...

RAZORTOOTH

TL7, ‘Hybrid’ 78’ Higgins HSSC & Båtservice Verft PTF Nasty-Class = ST/HP: 194, Hnd/SR: -1/3, HT: 11x, Mv: 1/22, LWt: 80.4,
Load: 10, SM: +7, Occ: 18A, DR: 5, Fuel Range: 1,210, Price: $10.500M, Loc: S4X, Draft: 8.7;
* [1] Additional passengers can be carried as “cargo”: 8
- Description:  This mahogany-hulled craft has an open bridge. Below decks are a plotting room with radar display and charts,
a radio room, two quarter rooms for 14 ratings, an officers’ mess berthing four officers, a galley with stove and refrigerator,
two heads, and the engine room.
- Displacement: 57t;  Length: 78’ft;  Beam: 20’8”;  Draft: 8’7”
- Installed Power: 2x 2,313-kW diesel engines and 2x 28-kW auxiliary power units with 6,100-gal fuel tanks.
- Speed: 41 knots {47 mph ‘76km/h’
- Armament:
4 × 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes:
8x 450mm Torpedo ‘W110’ This steam-driven = Dam: 6dx485, Spd: 24, End: 92
* used primarily by motor boats [GURPS 3e Stats – WWII ‘Motor Pool’]

2x TL7 Oerlikon NOSL MK 4 MOD 0 60mm-Deck Cannon = Dam: 7d [3d] cr ex, Acc: 2, Ra: 100’min’/2,000, Wt: 140/3.2, RoF: 1,
Sh: 1(2i) [60rd Drum ea], ST: 27M, Bulk: -9, Rcl: 3, Price: $15,000, LC: 1;
* [1] No min range in direct fire
- Arcs: fwd {prt & Stbd of bridge}

4x TL6 Twin .50 Browning XM213-Turret Nests = Dam: 6dx2 pi+[x2], Acc: 5, Ra: 1,700/7,100, Wt: 65/35, RoF: 13!,
Sh: 100(5) [600rd ea], ST: 20M, Bulk: -8, RcL: 2, Price: $14,000, LC: 1
- Arcs: fwd-prt, aft-prt, fwd-stbd, aft-stbd

12 x Depth charges - 100-lb Depth Charge = Malf: Crit., Type: HEC, Dam: 6dx110
* It sinks at 3 yards per turn and can be armed to explode at 30’ to 300’.

- Gear: 2x 2,313-kW diesel engines and 2x 28-kW auxiliary power units with 6,100-gal fuel tanks.
It mounts two 40-mile range radios, a 6,000-mile range radio, a 50-mile range surface search radar,
and a sonar depth finder.
It is equipped with two Elliot self-inflating life rafts, a 9’ fiberglass dinghy (on the engine deck) with oars, and two
life rings with 60-yard lines.
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Trina seems a little confused by what Yeeng whispers to her {clearly she has no idea what's in store for her}... but shrugs.

She will do some last minute wandering of the Eno-Ur village and do another quick search trying to find the young dark-skinned youth she had spent the evening previous with ... all to no avail.  Perhaps he was only visiting from another fishing village from another part of the isle, a pity ~ she wanted to at least learn his name.

Trina made her way back to the Princess' Tent to spy Thorrarlun out front and addressed him, "Thorrorlun, I think you've told me your are a skilled weaponsmith but have you any skill in goldsmithing?  I have a gemstone I want set into a naval piercing.. is that something you could craft ...given time, of course, not now?"

When everyone was ready to go Trina informed the Princess she would be aboard the Razortooth with Mary and her crew for the journey back to the 'Three Sister's Isle' and she could easily come back to her ship at sea if needed just catching the wind and gliding over with her magic if she needed to consult with her if she would just mirror signal to the Razortooth her request.

Retrieving several a bamboo shuuts before coming back to the Razortooth, thinking some arts and crafts materials were needed, Trina asked the members of Mary's crew if they could or would allow her to have some of their modern clothing to try on as she has nothing like the fashions they wore?

Soon with much giggling and exhibitionism... eventually Trina settled on a few pairs of short short cut-off jeans, a few actual anime' and metal band T-shirts and a few sets of clean modern sports bras and panties ~ underwear.  The fabric and softness of the form fitting undergarments pleased Trina to no end.  She preferred her soft leather boots but the combat boots she wore were much more durable and practical.. and slowly they were forming to her feet.

But this is when it was noticed by all the crew.. Trina had somehow acquired a tattoo... one that was certainly not there yesterday!  Trina related going out into the woods with the island native and returning to the village with spend the night..er with the Razortooth crew.  No one noticed it then.. when she got dressed this morning none were their to take notice but upon undressing to try the new clothing from the crew.. it was quite obvious... something had changed.. magically... as her back was bannered with an brightly color ornate rampant Phoenix...!



Which when Trina cast her detect magic spell to discern the nature.. the ornate colorful tattoo moved and changed to become decorated with writhing flames depicted upon her flesh.. a very magical effect indeed!

Mary, Tiffany, Yeeng all gaped in amazement at the beautiful display of very Chinese-like animated tattoo upon the flesh of the lovely half-elven fire wizard's back!

Trina did recall for Mary and crew fragments of the strange Dream she had last night that she'd meet the Island Spirit, and it had "Tested" her.. and named her the 'Phoenix' to replace Magnus 'The Phoenix'.. she had thought it just a wilde dream of drunkin revels...?

Yeeng, being of Chinese Ethnicity, couldn't wait to drag Trina into her cabin snagging a bamboo switch in the process... much to the laughter of Mary and all as they got the Razortooth ready to sail with refuel operations...
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Trina your rather sudden gaining of a tattoo has taken the crews interest. You are very carefully walked around the village and to an area north of the lake. You find yourself in front of a Marae. a stone floored, peaked roof building covered in intricate carvings. As you stand in front of it a woman steps out. She is bent with time and her hair has gone grey. Still the swirling tattoos are visible all over her face. She beckons Trina inside. Inside Trina finds herself tested by the tribes spiritual leaders and questioned about who she is and what she has been doing. Eventually it's agreed that the Gods and Spirits have chosen Trina for something...What she has been chosen for is not exactly clear yet. They also make very clear that being given the spirits favor will have consequences.

Teruo: as the boat is almost packed Mary and a machinegun packing crew member take Trina away from the boat. it is explained that there is "girl stuff" going on and not to worry. Things calm down and the crew goes back to packing. As the boat gets ready to make sail a messenger appears. Two ships have been spotted offshore coming from the direction of Pirate Bay. One of the ships has been identified as a pirate vessel known for raiding villages for supplies and slaves. With the Alarm raised the locals prepare for battle. The men of the village gather together while the women, children and elderly gather their possessions and prepare to flee. The men of the village leave their firearms behind and head to the beach. While out of small arms range they perform a Haka in view of the ships. they then head back inland. Once back at their village they arm up and prepare for battle. The Princess and Roi-tan discuss strategy for the upcoming battle. The princess asks Terou's opinion. So far the plan is to lure the pirates inland where they will encounter prepared defenses. While the pirates are hunting the islanders the Lizard men will be swimming out to disable or capture the two ships and then signal the islanders.

In reply to Island Spirit (msg # 83):

Does Teruo get to see the tattoo? He would be suitably impressed, and a little concerned with the Yakuza implications if he did...

Teruo would be happy to help with the expected attack, and agrees that getting the crew inland, where trenches can be used to pin the attackers down, while a second force swings around behind them to stop them returning to their boats, and the maritime force assails the ships.

What sort of ships are they using?
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Trina is a little embarrassed at the sudden appearance of the large magical tattoo upon her skin... not out of modesty but out of the reaction everyone makes of it! But she will smile warmly at Teruo and coyly turn to lift her Metallica T-shirt she got from one of the pirate women and show her Tattooed back to Teruo regarding his reaction over her shoulder with a light giggle.

She will relate she had a dream of meeting the Island Spirit.. after.. a  intimate encounter with a young island youth last night, a youth no one can identify from her description... as the island natives were mostly Polynesian in ethnicity when Trina distinctly describes a handsome Africans youth.  She looked for him last night waking in the Jungle and spent the night with the Pirate crew.. and none of them noticed the Tattoo last night.  But when she rose to dress this morning the Tattoo had appeared this morning.  In fact she had not even noticed it until she asked the Pirate Crew for some more modern clothing and was changing .. They brought it to her attention!

But Teruo is not disappointed the tattoo is Quite bright ornate and added even more beauty to the lovely half-elven woman. As his gaze lingers.. emotions of desire stir within the young woman's heart and the tattoo magically moves in reaction to her speeding heart beat.. or was it just a trick of light as the shapely woman shifts her stance ~ the twin dimples at the small of her shapely hind, a teasing peek of her breasts at her side, and her long fragrant sunny golden-reddish hair stirring at her shoulders even though held by a hand in a pony-tail to not obscure his view certainly catching his attention?  Its possible.. but does Terou believe his eyes for the image certainly moved across her skin he is certain.

With the news spreading of the arrival of two pirate vessels... Trina is stirred to action getting herself armored and armed in her Tactical 'Assault' Vest, Level III Trauma Plates, fine chain mail shirt, and Ballistic Helmet  hefting her wooden shield upon her back. Clad for battle she armed herself with her enchanted broadsword ~ QUADRAMORTE, her sheathed shortsword, small knife, Battle Rifle ~ FN-FAL, and sidearm in a tactical holster a Glock 17.. it is clear she plans to be ready and at the thick of the battle!

The lovely half-elven warrior maiden Fire Wizard is ... an exotic beauty clad for war.  This Angel was ready to END some Pirate Careers...
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Mary is... astounded at how seemingly so newly acquainted she is with the Half-elven 'enchantress' that her crew has clearly taken a fondness to.. as she continues to reveal more and more the nature of just how magical she really is!

She smiles at Yeeng's almost hungry desire to get Trina alone... Trina's sudden tattoo are very much like a Yakuza marker... but what Mary knows of the innocent Trina.. she knows she would have no dealing with such criminal cut-throats.

Mary occupies herself preparing the Razortooth to escort the Princess' cruiser Yacht back to the isle of Three Sisters when the Islander report the approach of two clearly pirate ships!

Mary is quick to take advantage of the beach distraction of the isle natives to immediately leave dock with the Razortooth to move the Pirate hunting ship up the coast around the Eno-Ur isle to hide the Razortooth so as not to spook the Pirates into being more cautious in their approach and ready the ship for battle.

She watched with growing approval and wonder at Trina as she clad herself in armor and weapons at the wonder of such a lovely and .. in her opinion innocent young woman was so ready and capable to enter battle... but only conflict would tell just how 'effective' she was.  There was however, NO doubting the Total lack of Any fear in the half-elven woman's poise as she ... almost happily, prepared to unleash hell on the Pirate attackers.  Mary ... almost felt sorry for the coming pirates.... the fae woman's fire magic being an unknown factor.

She will ask Teruo if he's skilled with a twin .50 Cal gun nest?  She explains her crew will have the Razortooth ready to pursue the pirates if the Lizardmen are unsuccessful in taking the ships.. the prize of getting two pirate ships intact should not be passed up after all!  She plans to set her crew up to support with flanking fire the island defenders... but she could use someone good with gunnery with her crew so split in numbers.  Mary plans to be on the Razortooth with a skeleton crew to cut off the Pirate island attackers should any be left to flee back to the ships.. she could use an extra gunner ready.
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In reply to Mary Reaver (msg # 86):

Teruo enjoyed Trina's tattoo immensely, and seeing it change, realized that it definitely could not be Yakuza, who used the permanent markings to identify members. Such a radical changing tattoo would never do for that! If Trina permitted, he would gently caress it as it moved...dreaming a little...

But that changed suddenly with the report. Back to reality in an instant, he already has his defensive gear on, and is not far from the weapons.

"I am not skilled with machine guns, but rather using a sniper rifle, with my sword as a backup. I can snipe from the Razortooth, though, at either the pirate ship or the pirates."

In reply to Teruo Nakamura (msg # 87):

Trina's pretty emerald eyes twinkle with delight at Teruo's request which she shyly ... allows.

Her skin is so very warm to the touch.. and the softness of her body is punctuated by the firm muscles beneath her smooth skin. She actually trembles slightly at his touch but the flush at her cheeks and smile denote she is definitely enjoying his touch.

Then Mary interrupts, "Okaaayyy Hot-pants, you need to get with helping the Crew!"

And turning on Teruo with a rather lascivious grin, "And you Romeo... this ain't no hentei show.. git!"
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In reply to Teruo Nakamura (msg # 87):

Mary ponders Terou's declared specialty and nods approvingly, "..Then I'd request you stay with Yeeng ... her 'gal' is a SVD Sniper rifle and she's going to be looking to pick off the Pirate leadership.. among the island Pirate force ~ help her."

Teruo:
the first of the two ships are a small cargo craft of roughly 180 feet in length. it seems to be used as a "mothership" for various smaller Boston whaler style craft. From the number of smaller boats you are looking at around a hundred pirates.

the second ship is an 80 foot landing craft. Rather than disgorge a large number of men onto the water it lumbers towards shore. When the bow drops the crew work to release a pair of vehicles. One of the vehicles has a mounted machinegun on the roof and the other has some sort of cannon on it.(A Tow Missile launcher for those more familiar with modern weapons.)

Yeeng for her part is an Oriental woman with a blonde Mohawk. Currently she is wearing tiger striped camouflage clothing and carrying a scoped rifle. Strapped to her backpack is a roll of camouflage materials, it seems to be made up of ragged earth tone strips of cloth.

"Nǐ hǎo" She greets him.

Trina smiled at Yeeng, as she greeted Teruo and commented, "..Be gentle with him."

Gathering her rifle and and gear she trotted off to join the tall lizard-men, being the shortest among them and in broken Lizard Man language lisped out, "I cover with gun. you swim to enemy boat."

The tall lizard folk bob their heads in understanding and she follows them as they leave to prepare to make their swim to the Pirate ship while the pirate raiders are engaged by the isle defenders.

Trina affixes her TL6 Detachable Baffle Suppressor, Rifle (TL6)... to her FN-FAL Battle Rifle as she trots after them...
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In reply to Trina (msg # 91):

Interrupted from Trina, Teruo responds to the odd mohawk."Nǐ hǎo", smiling, then adds.

"We will need some armour piercing rounds, or mortars. I have a grenade launcher, but I doubt it will work against those vehicles. Besides, it would be good to capture them..."

Yeeng looks over at Teruo.

"I have Armor piercing, tracer, High explosive Incendiary and open tip match ammunition. I should have things covered."

Her Chinese is accented and it's using loan words that Teruo is unfamiliar with. She covers her blonde hair with a hat covered in tattered and stained fabric giving her head the outline of a bit of vegetation. She then heads towards the north side of the mouth of the river.

There you find the Lizard men watching the pirate vessels. They have been given several nets with floats attached. Inside the nets are several anchors with chains attached and air tanks. it seems that the islanders want to disable the ships so that they can be used latter.

Yeeng unrolls the rest of her Ghillie suit and puts it on. She then crawls to a small bit of scrub brush next to a bit of driftwood. If you were looking at it from the ocean you would not suspect that it could hide a human being.

"Range is three hundred and fifty meters and the wind is sixteen kilometers out of the west."

She then starts to relax and track targets.

The lizard men slip into the water via a group of rocks about half a mile from the ship. With the donated air tanks they will not come out of the water until it's time to take down one of the ships.

In reply to Island Spirit (msg # 93):

Teruo sets up the grenade launchers as well as grenades, checks his pistol is ready and loaded, checks his FN-FAL is loaded and MECAR rifle grenade loaded and fitted, before slinging it back on his back and preparing the Remington M24 is loaded and ready then he will set up, using natural vegetation borrowed in a well practiced , digging into the sand to create a natural hill that will provide defence as well as cover.

He will use binoculars initially to look over, identifying commanders and those operating the heavy weapons.

Trina will follow the Lizard men but as she does she will cast a Missile Shield spell first and then stealthily seek some ground cover  in the scrub bush at the edge of the beach...

19:44, Today: Trina rolled 7 using 3d6.  Casting Spell - Missile Shield [13-]. – 7 {SUCCESS!}

Expend: 5en from Familiar 'Kyrie'

19:46, Today: Trina rolled 7 using 3d6.  Trina - Stealth [12-]. – 7 {SUCCESS!}

Moving under cover of the brush Trina uses her own naturalist skills to seek a nicely concealing patch of bushes to conceal her presence...

19:55, Today: Trina rolled 8 using 3d6.  Naturalist - find a foliage 'blind' to hide behind [12-]. – 8 {SUCCESS!}

Finding a nice spot she goes flat on her belly aiming her FN-FAL Battle Rifle through the bush using her 4x Scope to monitor the Pirate cargo craft and the Lizard men's approach.

Kyrie sweeps in low behind her to settle to the ground to her side completely out of sight behind her and the bushes she is peeking through.

Satisfied with her spot.. Trina out of precaution will cast one more spell... a Resist Fire spell...

19:59, Today: Trina rolled 7 using 3d6.  Casting Spell - Resist Fire [13-]. – 7 {SUCCESS!}

Expend: 2en from Powerstone

Spell successfully cast she settles in to watch for any sign through her Rifle Scope the lizard men's approach is noticed by the Pirate crew still on ship... ready to pick them off one by one if necessary!

20:01, Today: Trina rolled 9 using 3d6.  Trina - Perception [13-]. – 9 {SUCCESS!}

"...and now the waiting game.", she muttered under her breath

Totals:
5en from 'Kyrie'
2en from Powerstone
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Captain Mary Reaver stood aboard the Razortooth... listening to the Radio chatter from the isle Natives and the Pirates... she'd left a hand-held or two with the crew she'd left on isle to help the defenders, with strict Orders not to put themselves at too much risk.  They would assist the isle natives... but they were not going to win the fight for them!

Mary was not going to have her girls shed their blood for strangers... no matter how nice a party they could threw!  The Razortooth's task was to be ready to move in to secure the Pirate ships once the Lizard men were aboard handling crew.  The lizard men were not sailors and didn't know squat about how to actually man a ship... but if they could catch the crew unawares.. when the Razortooth swooped in... even if under half crew Mary hoped to claim both pirate ships as prize vessels.

Still her task was not easy either... she had precious little crew with her and she needed to be able to secure two ships... if even one of them escaped... to return to pirate isle.. the next force to arrive would Certainly be too much to handle.

Mary needed a decisive victory here!  She had hopes for Trina.. if the brave lass didn't get herself killed with all that heroic non-sense, but she had a feeling the girl was as competent as she seemed.  She hoped it would be enough... once she received radio confirmation ... likely from Yeeng that the boat were being contested by the lizard men; Mary could steam the Razortooth into action with total surprise... and hopefully the dumb pirates would take the hint they were out-gunned at sea with the majority of their crew on land.

Waiting was the worse...

Teruo:As you watch the ship it becomes apparent that a man in some sort of green camouflage uniform and a pair of pistols in shoulder holsters. He's going around the ship gesturing and shouting orders. You can't tell what he's saying but it's directed towards a large object covered by a tarp in the back of the ship.

Trina: as you lay there you watch a number of men working about the Ship. It seems that their attention is focused on something covered in a tarp on the back end of the boat.

Both: As you watch the men work on unstrapping the tarped object you see a lizard man surface where you can see it's head but it's shielded from the boats crews. it raises it's hand as if to signal you. It then slaps the water right before it's fellow lizardmen swarm over the side of the Cargo ship. As they swarm over the side the tarp comes off the cargo revealing an artillery piece.Their initial spear volley is devastating with at least a half dozen crewmembers getting hit by spears.

In reply to Island Spirit (msg # 97):

Teruo will line up the leader as soon as he sees him. He takes his time, bracing and focusing all his attention on the attack. If he believes he has a 50/50 chance, he will gently squeeze the trigger when the lizards commence the attack...

Trina watches through her rifle scope ... understanding the Lizardman ambush being successful.  When the tarp was uncovered she did not recognize the machine revealed... but the barrel of a gun she did recognize.  She did not understand... but she certainly knew that her rifle had significantly more stopping power than her sidearm and she knew of cannons... which certainly had more firepower than the black powder firearms of her world, she could only conjecture that bigger guns than her rifle were possible with an even more scaled up stopping power!

She did not want to find out how much firepower a horse-sized gun could deliver!  Aiming her rifle and bracing she prepared to shoot anyone who seemed to be ready to aim and fire that large gun.  It was doubly more frustrating that she could not spot whoever was in charge giving orders or they would have been her first target.

Teruo: your target goes down in a manner that indicates that he's not getting back up. You have shot enough people to know that boneless sprawl to know that they are out of the fight. To punctuate the message there is a bloodstain behind where he was standing. Everyone on the ship is now puling out weapons.

Trina: you notice that the guy who was giving orders has fallen down. You now have several targets to choose from.

Trina shots the most armored pirate target available and keeps firing... She aimed, released her breath and squeezed the trigger...
Shooting a new target in her scope sight with each shot...

Shot:
RoF: 11 {Taking 4 shots} [Rcl 3 'total 12' {not exceeding her ST}]
FN-FAL Accuracy: +5
Scope: +1 to hit, +2 Accuracy
Guns {rifle} skill of 13-
Aiming: +3 hit {3sec}
Bracing: +1 hit
- Range 500yrds: -14 range penalty
Total: Guns 25- [-14] = 11-

02:32, Today: Trina rolled 9 using 3d6.  Trina Modified Gun {Rifle} [11-]. – 9
02:34, Today: Trina rolled 23 using 7d6.  Trina - FN FAL {Assault Rifle} [7d pi]. – 23

02:35, Today: Trina rolled 10 using 3d6.  Trina Modified Gun {Rifle} [11-]. – 10
02:37, Today: Trina rolled 24 using 7d6.  Trina - FN FAL {Assault Rifle} [7d pi]. – 24

02:35, Today: Trina rolled 12 using 3d6.  Trina Modified Gun {Rifle} [11-]. – 12 'Missed'

02:40, Today: Trina rolled 11 using 3d6.  Trina Modified Gun {Rifle} [11-]. – 11
02:41, Today: Trina rolled 29 using 7d6.  Trina - FN FAL {Assault Rifle} [7d pi]. – 29

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In reply to Trina (msg # 101):

Teruo watches for the next target...