Exalted Champloo - Episode 2 - "Like Spinning Plates"

On the Island of the Black Blood Raiders

The barbarous raiders drag their fresh prey across the beach and into the ruins of their abode. Perhaps at one time it was a grand city or fortress of the First Age, or perhaps the Shogunate; but now it was just the personal abode of the self proclaimed goddess, Ebon Maw of Infinite Agony. She was old beyond reckoning at least by these barbarous people, her children and warriors.

She reclines on her throne of stone stained red with blood and the skulls of her conquests. She was vicious, violent, and raw like her totem spirit, the black shark of the Southern Seas. She barely stifles a yawn as her children drag the fresh offerings before her. It was time to be a goddess as she stood at her full height a statuesque woman of dark skin and long white hair worn in braids, adorned with shark teeth. Her eyes were like those of a predator, and her gaze was not one that was held easily by mortals. She wore silver armor that was fluid on her muscled frame, stronger then the finest steel yet as light as silk. Her dark skin was adorned with silvery tattoos and runes, and her very presence brimmed with essence.

She glanced down at the offerings brought before her, they were tools of that civilized world, a place grown fat and corrupt on bloated corpse of the usurpers and their precious Realm. If they so insist on dragging Creation down into the bowels of Malfeas with their decadence then it would be her place to feast on the succulent castoffs that came her way until her horde was strong enough to bring the Realm crashing down, scourging it from existence…

But first she would need to eat…
 

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Tokiwong said:
Amber moves away from the resting captain and looks out over the sea. The young sailor does his best to follow the barbarians, leading away from the shore into the blue Southern Sea.

In the distance an island starts to come into view.

Snow frowns as they approach the island, "It looks like it is almost show time," she kneels down beside Amber, "When we get to the island, I wish you to hide until we return to the ship, do you understand?" she asks the wyld touched girl in a slow clear tone.

She rises and walks back to where Alamar is working on the barbarian, "Can he speak?"
 

Aenion said:
Snow frowns as they approach the island, "It looks like it is almost show time," she kneels down beside Amber, "When we get to the island, I wish you to hide until we return to the ship, do you understand?" she asks the wyld touched girl in a slow clear tone.

She rises and walks back to where Alamar is working on the barbarian, "Can he speak?"

He raises an eyebrow, wondering what is up, "I was just about done. Can't do a proper job, but he'll survive."

He seems calmer than earlier, though you notice he did take the time to grab his lance and is keeping it close to hand.
 

KentArnold said:
He raises an eyebrow, wondering what is up, "I was just about done. Can't do a proper job, but he'll survive."

He seems calmer than earlier, though you notice he did take the time to grab his lance and is keeping it close to hand.
The barbarian grimaces looking at his captors with eyes filled with hatred, it speaks in a rough semblance of the Southern tongue, "You will die... demons... DIE!"
 

Tokiwong said:
The barbarian grimaces looking at his captors with eyes filled with hatred, it speaks in a rough semblance of the Southern tongue, "You will die... demons... DIE!"

He sighed a bit, "It seems he's awake enough to interrogate. Just try not to break him. I can only do so much with the material I have at hand."

He moved back, and carefully picked up his lance, holding in such a way to imply he'd gladly cut the man's throat if he tried anything funny.
 

KentArnold said:
He sighed a bit, "It seems he's awake enough to interrogate. Just try not to break him. I can only do so much with the material I have at hand."

He moved back, and carefully picked up his lance, holding in such a way to imply he'd gladly cut the man's throat if he tried anything funny.

"That's all I need," Snow smiled sweetly at the barbarian, the smile fading quickly and the look in her soft, dark eyes turning ice cold, "Then please do tell me about your godess, that we may find our deaths with honor," she addressed the barbarian sarcastically in Realm accented Flametongue, pressing her foot down on the freshly bandaged knee.
 

Aenion said:
"That's all I need," Snow smiled sweetly at the barbarian, the smile fading quickly and the look in her soft, dark eyes turning ice cold, "Then please do tell me about your godess, that we may find our deaths with honor," she addressed the barbarian sarcastically in Realm accented Flametongue, pressing her foot down on the freshly bandaged knee.
The barbarian growls, “She is the Mistress of the seas and we are her children! She is the Black Finned Maw, and nothing escapes her hunt! She feasts on the sacred flesh, sanctifying it for the grand feast! From the flesh of man we gather strength for the hunt!”

The ebon-skinned raider grimaces in pain, “If you wish to kill me then do it, you cowards!”
 

"Very well." Temari answers the raiders request for death by stabbing an arrow through his eye and into his brain, hopefully fufilling his wish. "Do you actually believe she'll stay on the ship?" the night caste archer asked Dancing Snow curiously, as if her action had been a totally normal thing to do.
 



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