NoTW XIX: The Song of the Nightingale - Game Thread

[Renata]

Rowen, my brother!

Mother, Father, did I not tell you, Hippus do not belong on ships! Tali cannot speak to us out here, we are bereft. This is but an omen, this is but the beginning -- disaster is coming, and we are surely doomed! I blame the Lanun and the dwarves for this massacre. Who but a Lanun would know how to destroy a mast, or be so lacking in courage as to stoop to using poison? A pirate, that's who! We all know they only attack unarmed ships! And who but a dwarf would be so sneaky as to use a knife in the dark? The underground dwellers, hiding from the light. And I'm sure it was the Hammerfists' slut of a daughter who got my brother killed!

We Hippus are forthright; if we attack you, you will see us coming, and you will know exactly who is sending you to hell.

Come with me, parents; come with me, Silverriders. If Tali cannot reach us, we must reach Tali. We have no resource but our faith in such a time. If any among these pirates and skulkers be innocent, let them pray to their own gods for mercy: Tali will spare none of his!

Having worked himself into a bit of a state, the young man makes his way to the forecastle, glaring at everyone who crosses his path. Soon the silence of the ship is broken by the sounds of chanting and drumming, incomprehensible to all but the other Hippus on board. After a while his head pops up above the rail.

Let the wife have the amulet for all I care; it matters not to me!

The head disappears, and the chanting and drumming resume even louder than before.

 

[Love]

The plainsrider wife go to her son and console his grieve over his brother.

"However, do not jump to conclusions." The killer could be anyone.

<ooc: We should really let hitti play one day atleast >

And the voting hasnt started yet.

 

[Hitti-Litti]

Edit: öpöpöpöpöpö

 

[Renata]

<ooc: We should really let hitti play one day atleast >

And the voting hasnt started yet.

ooc: It hasn't? The morning post did say accusations in black, didn't it?

Edit: Ah, nevermind, I saw it. I'll go edit it out. Sorry for jumping the gun.

 

[Ekolite]

I blame the Lanun and the dwarves for this massacre. Who but a Lanun would know how to destroy a mast, or be so lacking in courage as to stoop to using poison? A pirate, that's who! We all know they only attack unarmed ships! And who but a dwarf would be so sneaky as to use a knife in the dark? The underground dwellers, hiding from the light!

How dare you! How dare you claim that it was a Lanun who killed my father! I knew it was a bad idea, taking landlubbers aboard this ship. I told him it would end in disaster, I told him there were other ways to make money, but he wouldn't listen. And now? And now you claim it was one of us that killed him!

You watch yourself, landlubber. You ain't making any friends here...

 

[Renata]

If you'd clean the salt out of your ears, you might notice I blamed the dwarves for killing your father, not your people. You folk, I just accused of being the kind of sneaky bastards who'd use poison.

I need no friends. I have Tali.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Bahh! Dirty horesmongers! We all know the hippus are mercenary! you lured us aboard these ships with the pirates, and plan to murder and rob us in our sleep!

Here's on Dwarf that won't go down that quickly!

 

[merciary]

*Merciary walks up behind his wife, who is hard at work trying to clean the rune off the deck to no avail.*

My dear, I don't think that's going to work. Good old hard work unfortunately isn't very effective against magic.

*Turning around*

Is there any priest or magic users on this ship, other than Renata, that might be able to dispel this magic. I have a hunch this might be what's moving the ship.

Aye, I agree this ship should go to Kol.7 as it has been passed down through generations so should it continue.

 

[Tyrs]

These rash words of youth will get us nowhere. That said, if any of you landclutching whelps calls the Lanun as underhanded dealers again, I'll see you thrown overboard. Let the captainship stay in the family. Kol.7 it is. Let him have his father's amulet as well, is seems like as good as any a mark of rank, lacking a proper hat.
OOC: Tali is male

 

[Brisingamen]

Peace, son. Accusing blindly...ah, we all know where that leads. But we must find the killer of my son. He was a promising horsecarer, and now to be plunged into the sea... What fate could be worse for us? I will not rest until the killer is found, and the death of my son revenged. As for the captain, 'tis a shame, and leaves us adrift in this accursed wetness. I say the son be the captain, who has been trained for this job since birth. I certainly wouldn't trust myself at the wheel of one of these contraptions. Give me a solid horse, and I will work wonders, but wood and water, Bah! And the poor widow shares my pain, and for that, she may receive her husband's amulet...

 

[Terrance888]

I hate the idea of a ship anyways. I groans seperated from the beloved stone by millions of miles of water!!! What I really want is firm land and a tanker of grog.

 

[Love]

Gandhi walks to his cabin to work what she's working with.

Now, since it isn't a such big thing I can reveal it.

Spoiler To make it more exciting :

It is weaving saddles.

 

[D'Artagnan59]

Bahh! Dirty horesmongers! We all know the hippus are mercenary! you lured us aboard these ships with the pirates, and plan to murder and rob us in our sleep!

Here's on Dwarf that won't go down that quickly!

OK. In order to survive and kill this saboteur, we must put all racial boundaries away. Let us think of each other as living being and living being, not Dwarf, Lanun, and Hippus. Though being on this ship sucks, we need to get on land alive. For our sake.

 

[Niklas]

The first mate looks totally stricken. It's hard to tell what has affected him most - the loss of his captain, his friends of the Riversnake crew, or the mast. Or perhaps the fact that the bloody ship keeps moving without a mast and without his hands on the wheel.

I... I don't... but... how...?

Clenching and unclenching his fists, he stands staring off into the distance, as if to see the scorched lands of the Infernals on the horizon. But no land appears there to his eyes, and he turns instead to the crowd on the deck.

We... we should do something, of course, I mean, we must do something. That the ship will go to Kol.7 is not in question, and I will continue to serve him as I did his father - or better... Better! Since I seem to have failed late Pinman... As for the amulet, it would be interesting to know its significance... but his widow Backwards Logic should of course keep it.

Now, I need two strong men to go with me to check the wheel. If only we could turn it around...

 

[Leeksoup]

((OOC: Wait, what? The sign-up thread said the game was full by the time I saw it, so I didn't even bother posting, but now you say that you were missing like five people from full. You, sir, are misleading.))

 

[Pinman]

((OOC- Leeksoup- I never said that the game was full. Cite a source. ))

I really must insist that I get a copy of your PMs in general. I'm enjoying myself immensely.

 

[Frozen In Ice]

What a tragedy! Who could have thought that so much could happen all in one day? The captain murdered, my daughter poisoned, the mast broken, and a whole family killed. This is almost too much to bear! And to top it all off, the ship is being mysteriously steered to the land of the Infernals! I can tell you that I will not be going to the land of the Infernals; no matter what it takes I will prevent the ship from getting there.

Anyway, I have no problem with Kol.7 inheriting his father's ship. Likewise, Pinman's wife, Backwards Logic can have the bloody amulet.

 

[D'Artagnan59]

Kol.7 shall be the captain, sirs. Hopefully, he'll not get us into Infernal Land.

And Backwards Logic to inherit the amulet.

 

[Tasslehoff]

The dwarven wife grumbles

"How insensible, questioning the right of the son to inherit his father's ship. Now, we dwarves have got it right, why yesserwedo with our mines. When the father dies, the son inherits. No nasty struggles, no deaths, no nothing. Hmmph."

And you, Renata, are a racist, evil... How dare you accuse us dwarves of knifing somebody! We're honest folk, we earn our keep honestly. Hmmph.

 

[mythmonster2]

Rowen, my brother! Why!? Who killed you? I swear, I shall avenge you! Let the Captains wife have the amulet, to remember the captain by. Also, yes, the captain's son should be captain, so as to his father probably wanted.