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= JungleBook log 2, part b (pre-prelude) =

This is where things start to roll.
*back to /Preplan2a.
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<[[Ikselam]]> So, Captain X was thinking what a nice day at sea it was.

* [[Domino]] listens intently, proud to be a part of this noble, non-island-vaporizing tradition!

<[[Ikselam]]> He thought to himself, "My name is not actually Captain X, it is really...."

<BigPat> About that

<BigPat> Is there any historical parallel for naming in the part of the world we come from?

<[[Ikselam]]> Pretty much anything non-European.

<[[Ikselam]]> People in the West -seem- to mainly have common-word names, like Swan or Quicksilver Falcon or Ebon Siaka.

<[[Ikselam]]> (With a siaka being an ill-tempered whale shark.)

<[[dissolvegirl]]> There's a lot of adjective-nouning going on in the books and stuff.

<[[Domino]]> Jengo Fett. Your name should be Jengo Fett.

<[[Ikselam]]> Jenga fett.

* [[Domino]] laughs.

<[[Ikselam]]> Raised and trained in the fabled tipping towers of jenga.

<[[Ikselam]]> So you could conceivably be Captain Devil Ray or something.

<[[Ikselam]]> And no one would think twice about it.

<BigPat> hmmmm

<[[Domino]]> Huh. Zombie Ray....

<BigPat> How's about Captain Qara Vachir?

<[[Ikselam]]> Sure.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Death Zombie would be a good name.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Or Qara Vachir.

<[[Ikselam]]> ...for a Deathlord.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> That was going to be my next suggestion.

<BigPat> It's roughly mongolian for black thunderbolt

<[[dissolvegirl]]> For a name, I mean; not that Pat play a Deathlord.

<[[Ikselam]]> Better than Dowager of the Irreverent Vulgate in Unrent Veils, anyway.

<[[Ikselam]]> Alright. Mongolia is more like the Southeastern Scavenger Lands, but this is a land of limitless opportunity!

<BigPat> I like to travel

<BigPat> hence the ship

<[[Ikselam]]> Right.

<[[Ikselam]]> Geez, I have been listening to Queens of the Stone Age on repeat for the past like 5 hours.

<[[Domino]]> Whereas I never got much into travel. Hence the island.

<[[Ikselam]]> I should... fix that...

<[[Ikselam]]> Ah.

<BigPat> why stay in one place and rob people when you can sail the world and rob people!

<[[Ikselam]]> So, if you are a swashbuckling corsair, you probably prey on Realm shipping. That's pretty much the thing to do in the West.

<[[Ikselam]]> Attack Realm ships and demand their precious cargo; if anyone on deck starts glowing in a color-coded elemental aura, run.

<[[Ikselam]]> (Alternately, check through spyglass to see if anyone on deck is wearing ornate jade armor and/or packing a daiklave [=buster sword] before even thinking about boarding.)

<BigPat> that's an even better idea!

<[[Ikselam]]> One day not too long ago, Captain Vachir attacked a Realm ship and took all its precious cargo!

<[[Ikselam]]> Who should happen to have been on this ship but...

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Chejop Kejak?

<[[Ikselam]]> No, silly, you!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> OH!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> ME.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Okay.

<BigPat> We're loaded with booty, now off to some little-known island chain to celebrate in an appropriately piratey manner!

<[[Ikselam]]> This is all leading up to the treasure-chest thing.

<[[Ikselam]]> Which I still haven't figured out, but I'm sure if we put our heads together we can come up with something!

<BigPat> Maybe she was already chained to the chest in some magically unremovable fashion

<BigPat> which is why I had to take her along

<[[Ikselam]]> Handcuffed to a treasure chest?

<[[dissolvegirl]]> So Vaschir kidnapped me?

<[[dissolvegirl]]> This could be fun.

<[[Domino]]> Did Mr. Qara happen to have any mutinous crew members?

<BigPat> I was thinking more it was shackled to her torso or something, but handcuffs work

<[[Domino]]> Locked around her chest like a turtle's shell!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> "Oh, thank God you came along! They were going to sacrifice me for good sailing." "Really? Huh, sounds like a plan." *sploosh*

<[[Ikselam]]> Your ship could have been just sitting there waiting to be robbed because they were getting ready to toss you overboard to appease an angry ocean god you'd angered.

<BigPat> Hmm, ever since we brought her on board that chest she's attached to has been emitting vaguely sulphrous smells and we're all having nightmarish visions. Over the side you go!

<[[Ikselam]]> Naturally, you'd want to downplay this to the pirate captain.

<[[Ikselam]]> But he might figure it out when the lookout yells "Kraken, dead astern!"

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Right. I am SO TOTALLY a damsel in distress.

<[[Ikselam]]> Only in the prelude.

<BigPat> Ah crap, not the Kraken again. I told you carrying all that kraken bait was a bad ida!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> I know, silly.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> "Actually, they chained me to a chest of kraken-bait."

<[[Domino]]> Great, send the god-angering lady to the island full of human-hating gods.

<[[Ikselam]]> And your knight in shining armor tossed you over the side because you weren't pretty enough to risk a kraken for.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> "I mean.. CRAP! I knew I shouldn't have broken that pact with an Eclipse!"

<BigPat> I'm hard pressed to think of anyone pretty enough to risk fighting a kraken, actually, so it's nothing personal/.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> :D

<[[Ikselam]]> This is the point where she makes up a story about being a runaway Dynast.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> "Oh, I am SO REMEMBERING this the next time a Kraken wants you!"

<[[Ikselam]]> "Arr, cap'n, this chest be mighty heavy! What say we cut off the wench's leg and keep the treasarrrrrrr?"

<[[Ikselam]]> And this is the exact point where Elizabeth's character learned to hate pirates.

<[[Domino]]> No wonder she hates pirates.

<[[Domino]]> Hey!

<[[Ikselam]]> Speaking of, what's her name?

<BigPat> You know, scurvy first mate, that wouldn't be such a bad idea if she hadn't just spontaneously let slip that she's a runaway Dynast. Once I'm done laughing at so transparent a falsehood, then we can cut off her limbs

<[[Ikselam]]> "Yarr! The angry tentacle god be gainin' on us!"

<BigPat> Oh crap, chuck her over the side and lay on full sail!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Umm.. I've been trying to come up with something ridiculously, stupidly flowery, long, and hopefully difficult to pronounce which can be shortened into something cute.

<[[Ikselam]]> Well, is she still a Realmie?

<[[dissolvegirl]]> I was thinking Ana, but everything I came up with sounded to Euro-nonsense for the Realm. Like Ananoriala.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Yes.

<[[Ikselam]]> All you need to do for that is come up with the cute name first, then slap on random c-v pairs to either end and get a name.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> I'm tryin'!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Hey.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> She could say Ana was short for something new every time.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Outstanding.

<[[Ikselam]]> Sounds good.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Anyway, yes. Her name is Ana, for all intents and purposes.

<[[Ikselam]]> So we have Ana, Oma(bwa), and Vaschir.

<[[Ikselam]]> Splash! Ana goes over the side!

<[[Ikselam]]> Boom! The angry squid-god's tentacles smash the ship!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> "Fuckers. Some day I'm SO becoming a ninja."

<[[Ikselam]]> Aieeee! Pirates go flying to their deaths!

<BigPat> I can't help but notice the angry sea deity is still closing on my ship, with that certain "devour! crush!" gleam in his eye

<[[Domino]]> Splurt! Vachir cuts off tentacles left and right!

<[[Domino]]> Swish! Ana wriggles!

<BigPat> Must...save...plunder!

<[[Ikselam]]> Sploosh! Vaschir sees treasure falling out of his ship's hold as water simultaneously rushes in!

<[[Domino]]> Wiz-owwwww! Ana and Vachir turn glowy!

<[[Ikselam]]> Oh no, there goes that precious orichalcum artifact he plundered from the stupid ship!

<BigPat> it's a good thing I can hold my breath for ten minutes, 'cause I'm going in!

<[[Ikselam]]> Crunch crunch! Kraken-god devours pirates.

<[[Domino]]> Rumble! Pirates give kraken-god heartburn!

<[[Ikselam]]> Tentacles bigger than the animatronic squid in 20000 Leagues flail through the water!

<BigPat> they're full of mongolian spiciness

<BigPat> wow, how amazingly well rendered!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Roger has higher fps than most STs.

<[[Ikselam]]> Captain Vaschir swims through the water, which is becoming increasingly murky with blood and chum.

<[[Domino]]> This is why he's so poor: FX budget.

<[[Ikselam]]> I had a Mage game with an FX budget, once.

<[[Ikselam]]> $5 for glowsticks.

<BigPat> if only there was some way to decrease the animation budget!

* [[Ikselam]] folds hands in front of mouth.

<[[Domino]]> Well, if the animators die... wait that's been done.

<[[Ikselam]]> Will the shiny golden artifact sink and be lost in the murky depths forever!?

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Or at least until someone raises their stamina!?

<BigPat> all this chum is attracting a distressingly large number of sharks

<BigPat> I better make for land, or at least a large piece of what used to be my ship

<[[Ikselam]]> (Luckily it's stuck to a piece of wood, so it doesn't sink as fast as one would expect a hunk of dense metal to sink.)

<[[Ikselam]]> Meanwhile, bubbles flee toward the red-tinged light, far far above. Ana's ears pop as she plummets ever deeper!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Oh no!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> She wriggles and strains, attempting to get out!

<[[Ikselam]]> Some ways away, Captain Vaschir's hand grabs the precious booty! The buoyant wood piece pops off and bobbles up toward the surface. He is now holding a 100 pound weight. Shit!

<BigPat> dammit!

<BigPat> Why must you put me in these moral dillemas!

<[[Ikselam]]> Ana's chains give out muffled clanks as she thrashes about, but do not give way!

<[[Ikselam]]> Anyway, what IS his artifact, anyway?

<[[Ikselam]]> A big ol' golden sword?

<BigPat> I was thinking some ornate, jewel encrusted astrolabe-thingy

<[[Ikselam]]> Pay attention to whichever of those "anyways" seems better to you.

<[[Ikselam]]> Okay, ornate astrolabe thingy it is!

<[[Ikselam]]> Said to be able to...

<[[Ikselam]]> ...guide the way to First Age ruins!

<BigPat> find some legendary lost treasure fleet

<BigPat> or that

<[[Ikselam]]> Or possibly lost treasure fleets!

<[[Ikselam]]> The limp-wristed Realm archaeologist wasn't sure!

<[[Ikselam]]> And he was too busy begging for his life (while simultaneously urging you to take Ana and the treasure chained to her) to go into specifics!

<[[Ikselam]]> But it tingles when you touch it.

<[[Ikselam]]> And the tingle feels like... money!!

<[[Domino]]> That's a heavy astrolabe!

<BigPat> exactly!

<BigPat> It's made of uranium, which is part of why it tingles as well

<[[Ikselam]]> Ana is by now, pretty sure that the darkness closing in on the edges of her vision isn't just from her increasing depth.

<[[dissolvegirl]]> She strains against the shackles with ALL OF HER HEROIC MORTAL STRENGTH!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Both dots of it!

<[[Ikselam]]> Oh no, it takes a Strength + Athletics of 10 to break iron shackles!

<[[Ikselam]]> She's dooooooooooomed!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Until...

<BigPat> if only she hadn't blown her starting character points on social skills!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Pat: this is why it's an after-school special.

<[[Ikselam]]> With her last bit of breath, she sends an apropos comment bubbling up toward the surface!

<BigPat> hm, this air smells of pathos for some reason

<[[dissolvegirl]]> "*expletive deleted*"

<[[Ikselam]]> Darkness closes in!

<[[Ikselam]]> Then everything goes white!

<[[dissolvegirl]]> Ba na na!

<[[Ikselam]]> From where he is, struggling against the booty's weight, the captain sees a tremendous golden explosion light up the water!

<BigPat> as if my day wasn't bad enough already, someone's conducting nuclear testing in the area

<BigPat> goodbye remaining sperm count

<[[Ikselam]]> The kraken-god's writhing tentacles, clutching various bits and pieces of his ship, are silhouetted against it.

<[[Domino]]> You were never going to have kids anyway.

<[[Ikselam]]> The artifact is too heavy! It's pulling him down into the depths!

<BigPat> this was one of the two ways I always envisioned dying

<[[Ikselam]]> And wouldn't you just know it, his sleeve is caught on one of its baroque flanges.

<[[Ikselam]]> As his struggles intensify, the tingly feeling gets stronger!

<[[Ikselam]]> Suddenly the astrolabe weighs nothing at all!

<BigPat> yes!

<[[Ikselam]]> And the water around him is getting very bright.

<BigPat> take that, newtonian physics!

<[[Ikselam]]> He swims for the surface!

<[[Ikselam]]> He pops up above the ocean, filled with floating debris and limbs!

<[[Ikselam]]> (The ocean, not him)

<BigPat> well at least I'm intact and managed to hold onto this pricey-lookin' thing

<[[Ikselam]]> A tentacle the size of a good-sized date palm goes upside his head and he passes out.
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