Event #10: WHO RULES THE SEAS LOG

[vivalamods]

Event #10: WHO RULES THE SEAS LOG

The Corsairs disperse to complete their work across the Eternal Ocean, the whole of the organization is buzzing with activity. The scholars are hard at work on drawings and the engineers on the initial fabrication of the weapons. The Flotsam fleet is rather thin as ships are criss-crossing the ocean ferrying Corsairs to areas to complete their important work.

MISSIONS

A Mine Reborn: The captured mine on Hesaeth has remained silent since the Corsairs collapsed it on the Imperial heads during the defense of Flotsam. With the additional expert manpower from Vindess, however, the Corsairs are prepared to breathe life back into it, making it operational once more.
Priority: Semi-Optional, at least one log for securing metal must be completed.
Recommended roles: Gatherers
Challenges: The cave-in the Corsairs caused was quite extreme, so re-excavating the mine will be dangerous and difficult work.
Extra: If both A Mine Reborn and Salvaged Steel are completed, the Gambit “Surplus Steel” will become available for the following mission.

Salvaged Steel: The battlefield that was once the mining town of Vindess is mostly quiet now, with Imperials cleaning the area with the intent to move in new citizens and servants to work the mines. While this is occurring, the gear and equipment from the fallen soldiers is still available for the pickings, so long as a crew of Corsairs is daring enough to do so.
Priority: Semi-Optional, at least one log for securing metal must be completed.
Recommended roles: Infiltrators
Log Leader: This log is eligible for a Log Leader, if one is chosen we will message the leader additional details.
Challenges: Stealing the equipment under the noses of the Imperials will be difficult, exceptional stealth and logistics will be required.
Extra: If both A Mine Reborn and Salvaged Steel are completed, the Gambit “Surplus Steel” will become available for the following mission.

Gunpowder Raid: Synthesizing gunpowder in the Eternal Ocean is difficult. There are a few sources of sulfur, most notably some of the volcanic areas of Hesaeth, but by and large the Corsairs get by on Imperial supplies. With the immense amount of powder these new weapons will require, the current stores are not enough to sustain both it and the standard Corsair operations, so more must be stolen. The Corsairs are targeting an Imperial Supply Run to Elysium.
Priority: Semi-Optional, at least one log for securing gunpowder must be completed.
Recommended Roles: Combatants
Log Leader: This log is eligible for a Log Leader, if one is chosen we will message the leader additional details.
Challenges: Corsairs will need to capture, but not sink the Imperial escort ships so they can steal their resources.
Extra: If both Gunpowder Raid and Sulfur Hunt are completed, the Gambit “Surplus Powder” will become available for the following mission.

Sulfur Hunt: The Corsairs will need to make their way into Imperial territory near one of the active Hesaeth labor camps and steal their sulfur supplies.
Priority: Semi-Optional, at least one log for securing gunpowder must be completed.
Recommended Roles: Infiltrators and Gatherers
Log Leader: This log is eligible for a Log Leader, if one is chosen we will message the leader additional details.
Challenges: The Corsairs will need to sneak past both guards and miners both in order to obtain the sulfur, as well as find a way to remove the large barrels without attracting attention.
Extra: If both Gunpowder Raid and Sulfur Hunt are completed, the Gambit “Surplus Powder” will become available for the following mission.

Archipelago Sweep: The Fallen Isles must be swept of hostile Imperials so the new weaponry may be set up. This must occur with precision on an exact date in order to secure the islands for the Corsairs before the Imperials can muster the legions.
Priority: Critical
Recommended Roles: Combatants
Log Leader: This log is eligible for a Log Leader, if one is chosen we will message the leader additional details.
Challenges: This attack will require a coordinated sweep from a bulk of the Corsair combat ships, airships, and armors. It will be a large-scale engagement the likes of which the Corsairs have never undertaken before.

Turncoat Nobility: The Fallen Isles house many nobles who are at least somewhat sympathetic to the Corsairs or otherwise firm in their preference to live far removed from the Empire. These nobles might be turned to the cause.
Priority: Optional
Recommended Roles: Negotiators
Log Leader: This log is eligible for a Log Leader, if one is chosen we will message the leader additional details.
Challenges: The nobility in the Fallen Isles are a diverse bunch and while some are sympathetic to the Corsairs, some are not. The Corsairs will need to carefully negotiate in order to ensure success, and prevent an early warning to the other Isle residents that the attack is coming.


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Re: VILLAIN FIGHT

[theriflespiral]

"danger, danger," chirped the automatic call, followed by a real voice. "This is the Sea Stirrer to anyone in Flotsam Command, code black."

"Flotsam Command to Sea Stirrer, location and nature?"

"It's-- it's a witch, she's transforming, we're..."

"Commodore, should we respond? We've a load of steel."

"Captain, you took me in for six months, and you cannot even answer that!?" Natalia near as roared and picked up the ship's wire. "Attention, all hands! Slip Penguin livery, run up Flotsam colors! Engine room, all ahead flank!"

"Engine room, all ahead flank," Eowyn called back.

"Penguin livery struck, ma'am."

"Flotsam Command, this is Mad Archer, responding to code black." Natalia watched the speedometer and the helm like a hawk.

"Mad Archer, this is Flotsam Command. Switch to channel 5 for response control."

"Flotsam Command, Mad Archer, clearing channel."

Natalia listened to the other ships reporting in. "All hands, general stations."

"Bridge, engine room, we are all ahead flank!"

"All ahead flank confirmed. Deploy luftfoils!" Natalia braced herself against the turbulence of sea-based takeoff.

Outside the ship, a half-dozen luftfoils on each side moved from inside the hull to outside, giving an impression of unfurling wings. This, then, was the project Grand Penguin!

The Mad Archer suddenly picked up speed as water resistance became air resistance, and Natalia braced perfectly against the helm, and laughed. Airborne! They were airborne! It worked! She rotated the luftfoils and raised the flaps. A little higher now, to keep from crashing into the waves. "Engine room, all ahead cruise."

"Cruise aye."

"Captain, i have to pilot, inform response, please."

Captain Bart Clinton got on the ENC. "Fleet Response this is Mad Archer, alt 500, ceiling 20,000, speed 95, vector 159 to intercept with Sea Stirrer, advise."

"-- Mad Archer, fleet response, repeat speed?"

"Fleet response, ninety-five knots."

"-- understood, Mad Archer. Proceed present course and altitude. ETA three minutes."

"Besides," Natalia says. "We promised to deliver to this detachment, yes? It's just a little hotter than we thought is all. Battle stations! Battle stations!"

"Fore castle, turret secure."

"Aft castle, turret secure."

"Port castle, all bays secure and readied."

"Starboard castle, all bays secure and loaded."

And now, all Natalia had to hope was that they were better shots than Russians were.

"Archer, fire for effect as soon as you have a solution."

"Fleet response, Archer, fire for effect, aye."

"Bridge, fore castle, i see the dragon."

"Fore castle, bridge, fire for effect!"

The Arcadia's ether cannons barked before the Archer's did, but her firing angle is wildly different. Hopefully that might pin down the dragon just a touch.

[straykitty]

"My my, a dragon. Whatever is a girl to do?"

Renne nimbly alights upon the deck of the Arcadia, a blue glow surrounding her as she gathers as much energy she can into a blue jewel. "Cestus Phantasm!"

The waters surge as an enormous whale of water and mirage suddenly emerges from the deep abyss and explodes from the water, launching its enormous body through the air and at Maleficent. The water and mirage ether make it seem a physical form, but should it impact it will explode in a burst of magic, dispelling any beneficial effects and draining the capabilities of its hapless target.

[testygirl]

Bereft of her own airship and any magic she can attack with at range, Aira can't just launch into the fray—she'd probably get picked off by canon fire before even landing a hit. She isn't landlocked, at least. After returning to her ransacked cattle, Maleficent may or may not have noticed that she's missing a certain magic carpet.

Flying this high is a bit nerve-wracking, even for someone who doesn't scare easily. Aira is floating well above both ships and the dragon. Briefly, her eyes are drawn to Renne's tiny figure down on the deck and her shock of purple hair. It's a funny feeling to worry for someone so tough and deadly, but she can't help herself. Then there's Nat's voice over the ENC, coordinating with the other craft.

They just have to win, and take this witch out for good. It's the only way she can think of to deal with Donnie's curse, too. Aira speaks into her own ENC with a low, determined voice.

"This is Shiratori. I'm up here on my..." She pauses, clicking her tongue. "Uh, I'm a small lone air unit with tons of maneuverability. Once there's an opening, I can hit her from her blind spot with my Noble Drill. I'll go for her wings and the back of her neck."

[allthepowersofhell]

Perhaps if Maleficent were not so utterly enraged, she would be impressed by the defence the Corsairs are mounting. It's almost as if they think they are a real army!

She focuses her attention first on the Arcadia and the Archer, the ships that dare to fire their canons upon her. Her wings - strangely very small, for a dragon of her size - beat as she rises into the air, and breaths out a vicious stream of burning green flames.

The flames don't just burn; they dissolve all that they touch, like acid. A little effect that might remind Aira of the Duchess's ravens, in fact - but much, much more deadly. They burn the cannonballs into cinders, not one reaching the dragon.

...But there's a whale of water throwing itself at her. And this, it seems, Maleficent was not expecting.

She almost seems to double-take, before being forced to twist in mid-air in a manner rather more ungainly than Maleficent's usual movements. She manages to avoid the impact of the whale - but she can't keep up her assault of acidic fire while she does so. For a brief moment, the other ships have a repreive.

[straykitty]

Not about to give up any kind of advantage, Renne once again gathers tremendous Ether into her modified ENC, this time glowing brown with earth magic and black with gravity magic as she fuses the two.

"Meteoric Gravity!"

Several large stones materialize around Maleficent, and Renne draws on the power of gravity to hurl them at the dragon's wings.

[freearcadia]

Harlock cursed as the initial volley was dissolved by acrid fire as he quickly spun the wheel, directing the ship to move, refusing to be a sitting duck.

The dragon seemed just as surprised by the whale, but like Renne he was going to press the advantage, as the large stones materialized around the Dragon, the turrets whirled, rotating for another round of fire, "Five degrees to port, up by three..." He directed their aim, not at Maleficent herself, but the projected path that she would most likely take to avoid the strike against her wings.

"Fire!"

[theriflespiral]

"Bridge, fore castle, no effect."

"Incoming from port!"

Natalia pulled the starboard yoke and felt the Archer list and pull away from the fire. It was hard for her to see through the ship. Maybe if she had cameras? Ideas for later.

"charcoal, port side!" came the automated warning signal over the Archer's wire.

"Bridge, fire station, already on it."

She had to trust that everyone was doing their job, now. "Engine, bridge, starboard full!"

"Starboard full aye!"

"Castles, bridge, present starboard and find solution! All hands, coming about!"

Regardless of whether she was heard, she reversed the yokes. The Archer answered, readily-- perhaps too readily, a sickening lurch in her stomach as the list changed direction and she felt pressed hard into the floor, tacking quickly into the wind and presenting a side that was no longer scorched or hot to Maleficent.

"Bridge, aft castle, torpedoes have solution!"

Natalia looked to see Renne casting a high-power magic and hummed, calculating not just what Maleficent would do, but also everyone else. "Adjust upwards and wide of that cast and fire for effect."

There was a sudden THUMP behind her that almost felt like it might shake the ship, but the gunner merely said, "Torpedoes away. Loading."

"All guns, find solution and fire at will."

[testygirl]

The acid-like effect of the dragon fire does make Aira cringe, even while she observes it from a significant distance away. Still, she needs to do her part—clearly she doesn't actually have the luxury of waiting for the best moment to strike.

Renne's attacks are the most difficult to predict, and Aira knows that she's bound to keep them coming. Once the stones converge on Maleficent, Aira lowers her body flat to the magic carpet, and she clenches a sack of bomb flowers.

"Alright... top speed, let's go!"

She and the carpet shoot across the sky, still above the fray. They slow a bit only once Aira has a target, and she lobs three of the bomb flowers down at the dragon. Like Harlock, she tries to aim for Maleficent's assumed path, but it's almost impossible to be precise. Hopefully Link will still be proud even if she misses a time or two.

"Bombs away, bitch!"

[allthepowersofhell]

The dragon lets out an holy, furious screech at the concentrated fire; she is bombarded with stones, gunfire, and bombs.

But despite the bombardment, Maleficent is still a dragon. Her scales are tough, and reinforced with magic. She's taking hits, but it's not enough to take her down fully - not yet.

And now she's recovered from the unexpected whale assault. And she turns her hellish gaze towards the one to dared attack her in such a manner - and with a lash of her tail she flies straight towards Renne.

As she flies, she breaths out another stream of acidic green flames that draws a line across the ships below. They begin to burn and melt, as screens rise up into the air. And to Renne comes bearing down the full force of that assault.

[straykitty]

Renne was already on the move as soon as the dragon took wing, but even with her speed she knew it was a lost cause. Channeling as much ether as she could into her ENC, she holds out her scythe in front of her and starts encasing herself in as many etheric shards as she can, doing whatever she can to cushion herself from the incoming blow. When it does hit, the girl's body is sent flying into the deck of another ship from the force of the impact, blood spraying from her mouth on impact as she lays on her back amidst the debris. She's shaking, a bit, but at least for now she is unable to stand.