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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6461860" data-attributes="member: 20323">The gathered crowd laughs a bit at Katarina putting forward Hugo Van Haan as a viable competitor against Gvido. Pound for pound, Gvido has Hugo outmatched. After all, the dwarves of the Netherlands are not known for strength of arms like the dying breed of Spanish mountain dwarves. But when it comes to wit? If they could have eyes to see such a things as clearly as one sees bulging muscle, it would seem Gvido the one who is outmatched.  [MENTION=6777934]Maldavos[/MENTION] [OOC]You are up! Go for it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />[/OOC][SBLOCK=Katarina]Katarina eyes the eight mercenary compatriots of Gvido Berzins. They have the hardened look of other pirates Katarina has sailed with, a cut above the usual sailors and lacking the usual gruesome injuries of other old salts their age. Either this means they are good at fighting or they've had very few fights where real injury was at risk. Judging by their well maintained cutlasses and pistols, Katarina would put her money on the former.[/SBLOCK][SBLOCK=Caillou]Young Samuel Sawyer murmurs a faint prayer as he approaches the house on the hill overlooking Nassau. The lad has jogged most of the way and is out of breath, visible to Caillou thru the windows of the ramshackle structure. If he had known it was this house, the abode of the Tengu King, the Creole woman was sending him to, Young Sawyer would have asked for more. Still, a silver in the hand is worth two in the bush. During the day the structure is only a bit foreboding, but at night with a storm brewing off the bay it is downright ominous. Creeping forward, alert to signs of skulls on pikes, gruesome traps, or man-eating zombies, Young Sawyer knocks on the door nervously, repeating the message. "Message, 'sah. Steeleyes says she's bringin' a crew, so be ready." Usually he'd wait for an answer and the hope of a tip, but the aura around the Tengu King is too much for the lad. When he hears a creak of a door, he takes off running.[/SBLOCK][SBLOCK=Barrington]A bit of salt or mud and a bandage improvised from the pirate's shirt are sufficient to keep him from bleeding out to the gunshot to his gut. When Barrington rolls the pirate to his side, a groan escapes from the man's lips suggesting he won't be unconscious for long. Besides the two cutlasses, Barrington finds the pistol dropped by the pirate. The pirate's coin purse contains only some shot and powder, and a tiny silver icon of an unusual looking beetle-insect.His hand upon Polly's shoulder seems to reassure Polly, whose shoulders slump and she releases her white-knuckle grip of her holdout pistol. She gives Barrington a reflexive embrace, and he can feel how rattled the encounter left her. Releasing him, a bit embarassed, Polly smiles at Barrington's compliment, "Ai, me pa gave it to me, to keep the debtors at bay. I've only ever fired it as a warning shot a'fore... I've never seen a man fight like you, James...not even a scratch upon ye..." Polly's eyes are wide as she follows Barrington like a lost puppy as he searches the pirate. "What did they want? Money?"[OOC]Treasure: 2 scimitars, 1 pistol, powder and shot (11), silver icon of an insect. A Nature check might identify what sort of insect the silver icon represents, and a follow up History check might discern what or who that insect is meant to represent.[/OOC][/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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