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<Homebrew> The Port on the Aster Sea
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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 4392773" data-attributes="member: 3887"><p>A ne'er do well:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Deacon of Crook Street is the crime boss who runs the Stagger. He's in love with the adventuress Ingenue Santos and wants her for his bride. People assume this is so he can use her airship for piracy, particularly to rob the Great Train, though this may not be the case.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The Deacon gets his nickname from the Stolen God, who is rumored to be stashed in a basement somewhere in the Swagger, or lashed to a barge hidden off the coast. Some folks assume the Deacon has unresolved verb-tense issues and that he's actually a deacon of the God of Stealing. This is, of course, wrong. The Deacon stole a god. From where and from whom is a matter of intense speculation among criminals and theologians.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's entirely possible that the Deacon is looking to sell the god. Again, to whom is a matter of some speculation. Perhaps he's interested in Ingenue Santos because of her proposed expedition deep into the Interior.</li> </ul><p></p><p>And pirates!</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">To put things bluntly, the Crimson Orb is a beholder pirate. He wears a patch over his central eye because his gaze is like "a spiteful blast from a canon in Hell". He is not only captain of his ship, the Balor, but it's chief armament. The Orb only removes the patch in battle, where he's raised above the mast on a covered platform like some ocular cannon, or lashed to the prow as if he were his own baleful masthead, shooting deadly rays as a prelude to ramming.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">He is also known as the "Mad Eye of the Aster".</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">For a time in the port it was in vogue to use magic to reanimate the corpse of your recently deceased child, in lieu of preserving their image using more conventional means such as portraiture or photography. The children looked as they once did, if more pale, and had the personalities and memories that they did in life, but they were still very much Dead. And unaging. They got to watch their loved one grow old and die, while they continued to endure. Forever. It made them bitter, and twisted, and they found that only those like themselves could really understand.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">About 100 years ago, they quietly boarded a ship in the dead of night, slaughtered the crew, and set sail in what was now The Memento Mori. They've done well for themselves. They're small, but much stronger and more experienced than they appear....</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Captain Roux is the master of the Shifting Rose, a trireme that plies the seas near the Port. His crew is composed entirely of skin-changers and shape-shifters, all of whom have been somehow recovered from the sea over the years. It's been a matter of luck each time, as the Rose happens to be in the right place to find the were-rat who was thrown overboard, or the doppleganger who was the sole survivor of a shipwreck.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Roux claims that a goddess lives in his cabin, and it is She who guides him to his crewmen and She who keeps the ship afloat upon the Aster when the Rose ventures that far from the Port. There is, he says, a connection between the ever-changing ocean and those who can change their own shape, and since She is a goddess of the sea, well...she protects her own.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The goddesses name is Luna and her domain is the Sea of the Moon, which she keeps inside herself.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Captain Roux has the rest of the crew blindfolded when the Rose sails upon her waters, so as to keep Her secrets. To outside observers, it seems the Rose simply vanishes when she enters the Sea of Moon, only to reappear somewhere else upon the Aster.</li> </ul> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Roux's secret is that he is a learned man, and he suspects there is some connection between the sea inside the goddess and the Interior.</li> </ul></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 4392773, member: 3887"] A ne'er do well: [list]The Deacon of Crook Street is the crime boss who runs the Stagger. He's in love with the adventuress Ingenue Santos and wants her for his bride. People assume this is so he can use her airship for piracy, particularly to rob the Great Train, though this may not be the case.[/list] [list]The Deacon gets his nickname from the Stolen God, who is rumored to be stashed in a basement somewhere in the Swagger, or lashed to a barge hidden off the coast. Some folks assume the Deacon has unresolved verb-tense issues and that he's actually a deacon of the God of Stealing. This is, of course, wrong. The Deacon stole a god. From where and from whom is a matter of intense speculation among criminals and theologians.[/list] [list]It's entirely possible that the Deacon is looking to sell the god. Again, to whom is a matter of some speculation. Perhaps he's interested in Ingenue Santos because of her proposed expedition deep into the Interior.[/list] And pirates! [list]To put things bluntly, the Crimson Orb is a beholder pirate. He wears a patch over his central eye because his gaze is like "a spiteful blast from a canon in Hell". He is not only captain of his ship, the Balor, but it's chief armament. The Orb only removes the patch in battle, where he's raised above the mast on a covered platform like some ocular cannon, or lashed to the prow as if he were his own baleful masthead, shooting deadly rays as a prelude to ramming.[/list] [list]He is also known as the "Mad Eye of the Aster".[/list] [list]For a time in the port it was in vogue to use magic to reanimate the corpse of your recently deceased child, in lieu of preserving their image using more conventional means such as portraiture or photography. The children looked as they once did, if more pale, and had the personalities and memories that they did in life, but they were still very much Dead. And unaging. They got to watch their loved one grow old and die, while they continued to endure. Forever. It made them bitter, and twisted, and they found that only those like themselves could really understand.[/list] [list]About 100 years ago, they quietly boarded a ship in the dead of night, slaughtered the crew, and set sail in what was now The Memento Mori. They've done well for themselves. They're small, but much stronger and more experienced than they appear....[/list] [list]Captain Roux is the master of the Shifting Rose, a trireme that plies the seas near the Port. His crew is composed entirely of skin-changers and shape-shifters, all of whom have been somehow recovered from the sea over the years. It's been a matter of luck each time, as the Rose happens to be in the right place to find the were-rat who was thrown overboard, or the doppleganger who was the sole survivor of a shipwreck.[/list] [list]Roux claims that a goddess lives in his cabin, and it is She who guides him to his crewmen and She who keeps the ship afloat upon the Aster when the Rose ventures that far from the Port. There is, he says, a connection between the ever-changing ocean and those who can change their own shape, and since She is a goddess of the sea, well...she protects her own.[/list] [list]The goddesses name is Luna and her domain is the Sea of the Moon, which she keeps inside herself.[/list] [list]Captain Roux has the rest of the crew blindfolded when the Rose sails upon her waters, so as to keep Her secrets. To outside observers, it seems the Rose simply vanishes when she enters the Sea of Moon, only to reappear somewhere else upon the Aster.[/list] [list]Roux's secret is that he is a learned man, and he suspects there is some connection between the sea inside the goddess and the Interior.[/list] [/QUOTE]
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