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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 1492950" data-attributes="member: 961">Chapter 4 - Part 5After several minutes the crew was assembled on the deck, although Dais and Captain Celeste were the last two to arrive and both looked a little disheveled.  Captain Celeste shouted to Hon, “What do you see?”“I see a single ship, Captain, it looks deserted, just drifting on the waves, I can’t make out much more then that in this blasted moonlight!” Hon shouted back.“Hmm, pull up alongside Gus, a drifting ship may have some extra loot to lace our pockets with,” the saltblood captain grinned.“There could be people alive on that ship as well, that may need help,” Dais added.Thane nodded, “There could be, but it looks like all life has abandoned this ship.  Perhaps we should not be so hasty to loot this ghost ship.”“I am the Captain and I say we board it, lets not have me repeat myself,” Captain Celeste commanded, “Gus, you stay here.  Rat and Hon follow his lead, the rest of you come with me.”The party gathered as the ship came into view, scrawled in Common on the side of the ship was the name, ‘Brinewolf’.  Dais glanced to Captain Celeste, “Brinewolf?”“Never heard of it, mate, but from the looks of it, looks like a mighty raucous occurred on this ship,” she gestured to the tattered sails and the state of disarray on the deck.Lain paused for a moment, “I hear movement.”  She drew the scimitar she had claimed from the assassin and raised it to the ready.“As do I,” Osan whispered, while Thane simply nodded in agreement.  The door to the bottom hold of the Brinewolf burst open as raving hooting sailors rushed towards Captain Celeste and her crew.  The saltblood captain shouted loudly, “Aye mates time to earn yer keep!”  The first of the crazed sailors leapt onto the Radical Dream only to meet the flashing blade of Lain as she tried to skewer the madman.  Her strike went wide, as her eyes met the crazed bloodshot eyes of the frenzied man.  Thane was quick to react by chanting quickly and invoking the divine strength of Alharra, adding her blessing to his companion’s resolve and prowess.Dais though had better luck then Lain as he met a charging sailor with his shield and then cut the man down with a vicious strike from his longsword.  The sailor stumbled back in a gurgling scream, falling on his back.  Osan once again invoked the infernal gifts in his blood and wrapped his body in a protective field of arcane force.  He then drew his nunchaku and spun it skillfully as he ducked a clumsy rapier jab.Captain Celeste hung back and intoned a soft slow song, with her rich sultry voice.  Her voice though was laced with arcane power; she finished the note by tossing a pinch of sand into the air.  The warrior facing Lain and three of his fellows succumbed to the enchanting tones of the song and collapsed into enchanted sleep.Lain smirked, “Interesting trick…” she intoned as she parried another frenzied sailor with her scimitar.Thane scowled, as he drew his heavy mace and waded into the melee, raising his shield, but his obvious lack of martial training was showing as he clumsily missed his target.  The sailor scowled and stabbed his blade into Thane’s thigh with a gleeful crazed toothless grin.Thane shouted as he watched a whirling blade take the head of the crazed sailor.  He glanced over his shoulder to see Dais spinning about looking for more attackers.  The lowlander used his shield to great effect protecting himself from harm as two of the sailors tried to overwhelm the young soldier.  Spinning like a crimson whirlwind, Osan crashed into the sailor on Dais’ right, delivering a powerful stunning blow with his ebon handled nunchaku.Lain maneuvered to Dais’ left bearing a nasty slash on her cheek, and chopped the other sailor down with a fierce strike into his vitals.  He collapsed in a spray of blood.  While Captain Celeste knocked an arrow to her shortbow and put the final standing sailor out of his misery.Dais lowered his blade, and immediately turned to Lain, “Your hurt.”“I will live, Thane, after your done healing yourself, could you find it in your divine wisdom to heal me?” Lain smirked as blood dribbled down her face.“My pleasure,” Thane replied as he finished sealing the wound in his leg, “just a moment.”Dais glanced and saw Captain Celeste preparing to ram her rapier through the neck of a sleeping sailor.  Horrified he flashed his blade quickly and knocked her blade aside off the mark.“What are you doing?” Captain Celeste hissed.“I can’t let you do that Ayala,” Dais replied keeping his blade raised, “they are no longer a threat, we need to tie them up and turn them over to the Ebernath guard upon our arrival.  I am sure villains such as this must be wanted by someone.  But I won’t let you just execute them in cold blood.”Ayala fumed, “I told you call me Captain Celeste in public, first mate,” she narrowed her eyes but did not wish to cross swords with the larger and much more skilled lowlander soldier.  “Fine, Rat tie these cretins up tight, and its your head if one of them escapes!” she shrieked loudly, never taking her eyes off Dais.Dais lowered his blade, “I am sorry Captain, but we can’t lower ourselves to their level, lest we become them.”Lain smirked, her hand clenched tight around her scimitar, waiting to see if the saltblood would give her a reason to cut her down.  She sighed somewhat disappointed at how quickly it had diffused, but she knew she would have to keep an eye on the saltblood captain, for Dais’ sake.  The boy was a fool, and had just made an enemy without even realizing it.Ayala lessened her anger and a smile formed across her lips, “Now that that is settled, we can set to looting the ship…”“Captain, I see another light on the waters, and this be no ship!  My eyes must be playing tricks with me captain, but it looks like a glowing man walking on the waters of the sea!” Hon shouted down to the gathered crew.</blockquote>

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