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Luceti Mods ([personal profile] lucetimods) wrote in [community profile] lucetilogs2012-04-17 10:49 am

MISSION #5 - Cargo Run

Who: Trafalgar Law (2nd Officer), Sanji (Cook), Azusa Miura (Cook's Mate), Adele Blanc (Doctor), The Hulk, Daisy, Anakin Skywalker, Asbel Lhant, Buffy Summers (Marines), Arsene Lupin III, Selphie Tilmitt, James Norrington, Mikage Celestine, Rogue, Nami, and Kurt Wagner (Sailors)
What: MISSION # 5 - Cargo Run
When: April 17th to April 21st
Where: Open Seas
Summary: A group of Luceti volunteers join a crew upon a massive ship headed out to sea, into cultist-infested waters.


It may have been nine in the morning when the group of Luceti volunteers were transported out through the tunnels, but at the shipyards the time difference meant that it was nearly midday already. A meek member of the Malnosso lower management led them along the docks, avoiding and scolding people as they got in his way, as he tried to go over the same details already present in the mission description. He was a rather pathetic looking little purple man with drooping ears, a hairless head, and webbed fingers. He apologized for his slipping over words. He explained it was difficult thinking straight in sunlight. Whenever he would stop to try and think, he'd look up to see The Hulk, shrink away a bit, and then hobble on quicker to the ship.

He was visibly relieved when he found Specialist Davis didn't look too busy, allowing him to pass off the Luceti volunteers and allowing him to get on his way. He's a new face to this particular group, but not to Luceti in general, having worked with them previously on the incident with the third floor. This odd looking group doesn't seem to have him looking too impressed. Especially when he looks at the ones who don't even seem to be fighters. But he directs his attention to Trafalgar with a few short words: "You. We'll talk once we're on board. You get your people settled for now."

With that, he and a group of other MSF Soldiers went to board the ship. The Tyr's Revenge was far larger than the ship than the one on the draft over half a year ago. It was a sailing ship, but despite its antiquated look, there was a central cooling tower in the center of the ship, which it derived its steam power. Where it used this thrust was not immediately obvious without a look at the back of the ship. (They would find out later that it was enough to propel the boat in a calm and was simple enough to avoid being blocked by Shifting, but was not as effective as a good strong wind.) Despite being crewed at around five hundred men and women, it was at least spacious enough for the crew to put in pairs. As a second officer, Trafalgar was afforded his own cabin, but the rest were sorted away into small rooms with two sets of hammocks on each side. The Luceti volunteers were kept together and it gave them some privacy, though each were pre-assigned rooms and the Malnosso didn't seem too picky about who ended up with who.

They had about an hour to get comfortable. In an hour, they'd be casting off.

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Okay, time for your notes. First off, you will be able to interact with Specialist Davis for the mission. He won't be very talkative (unless you're his second officer), but he might answer some basic questions. He'll be around during the fighting too. Although he prefers to use firearms (think something like a P90), he'll demonstrate super strength and advanced reflexes (think Spider-Man) in battle. Some of the other MSF Soldiers will display some slight superhuman ability like him, but the vast majority of them are normally powered highly trained soldiers. For the most part, they won't talk to people from the enclosures much and prefer to keep to themselves. In general their only duty is security, so they won't be doing much in running the ship unless absolutely necessary. There will be about one hundred and fifty men and women. Most will be human, but there may be a few deviations among them (like odd skin colors, weird hair colors, eye pigmentations, pointy ears, and so on). Although a good number of them will use guns, some out of them will be using melee weapons like swords and spears. All of them will have some secondary weapon in case of a Shift that jams their guns.

The people from Luceti, along with the volunteers, will be doing the day to day work of the ship. The volunteers will be as they are described in the Nitpicker's Guide. For the most part, they're not nearly as skilled at fighting as the people from Luceti or the Security Forces, so when attacks come, they'll defend themselves but not be very good at it. Most of them will be human, with a few variations. Very, very few of them will exhibit any special abilities. In general they'll be friendly enough, though some from different enclosures may be more jaded and bitter. There will definitely be talks of escape and mutiny among some of them, whereas others will be more cooperative or too fearful of attempting a mutiny.

You can use the volunteers and security as NPCs for whatever purpose you like! That means you can give them names and maybe a bit of a personality (that's consistent with the above) and let them get killed or need help or what have you during battles with cultists. There are also droids to be found in parts of the ship below decks. They will more or less remain stationary, but they will intervene if people poke their noses in the wrong place. Or try to mutiny.

The captain of the ship won't be seen much, but she's an older lady (late fifties) that is relatively plain and unassuming in appearance. She won't talk to the volunteers and will relay any orders through Specialist Davis, but the people from Luceti may see her about the ship to see how things are going. Most of the time she will be in the captain's quarters doing paperwork. She'll look seasick for the entire voyage. Her name is Mrs. Eugenia Fruthers, Manager 2nd Class.

Note: The volunteers are sorted randomly, so it's up to you players to figure out how you want to work that out! The Malnosso aren't too picky if a man and woman end up sharing the same quarters. (How shameless!)

Here's a run down for events on the ship over the voyage

17th - Cast off, strong wind, heading east. A fair weather day perfect for sailing.
18th - Open seas with a fair wind and cloudy skies. A land mass can be briefly seen to the north. An island of some sort.
19th - Open seas with a fair wind, darker skies. The cultists make their first attack run. About mid day, four flying ships. The Malnosso use no cannons, but prefer to immediately fly en masse once in range. However, it is necessary to bring these ships down, as the cultists are fond of going kamikaze with them. Each of the four ships carries about one hundred cultists each.
20th - Open seas with powerful wind and stormy weather. Another raid will occur early in the morning, while most of the crew is still asleep. Three more cultist ships will attack and some of the cultists will make it below decks. Mid way through the battle, the ruckus will attract a monstrous kraken from the depths. The crew will be forced to fight off the remaining cultists while a great tentacled hell beast attempts to drag the Tyr's Revenge to the depths.
21st - The last day of the voyage will see the ship needing repairs after the attacks. About half of the crew will have been lost thanks to the cultists and the kraken and they will finally make port (in the same place as the ocean draft.) In the evening, the volunteers will be returned to their respective enclosures.



You can use this post for questions and plotting!
fleurdesel: left, smile, smirk, flirty (Think but don't talk)

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-04-26 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
And yet it still surprises those I know when they see it. I'm not that cold in person, am I?

[Casual conversation, something mindless while the rest of her focuses on work. Bruising, swelling, but it didn't seem dislocated. He said he could move his fingers, she didn't see any sign of internal bleeding but something was torn, crushed, or over-strained. The question was what.

Adele frowns to herself and eases the rest of his shirt off, the cut fabric hanging off his shoulder giving with a quick tug to tear the last of it. Slim, bare, and she can't help but check the rest of him over for bruising. She absolutely wasn't comparing his current frame to Red's. At all.]
redjacketthief: (imitatingtheloungeking2)

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-26 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Lupin's scarring pattern was different from Red's, as she would well know from their times spent in the hot springs and at the pool. Bullet scars on both shoulders, a nasty scar on his abdomen with a match on his back from a wound that nearly killed him. Cagliostro. It was a crazy gig.

Besides the shoulder, he was more than a little whacked around. It was just soreness that could be handled with a general painkiller later on, he knew. It wasn't his main concern.

He eyes he curiously, but without jest.]



...do you want my honest opinion?
Edited 2012-04-26 01:32 (UTC)
fleurdesel: right, smirk, smile, serious (Not certain just yet)

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-04-26 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Shoulder aside, moderate bruising. It could be treated later. Now that she has a clear view of his condition she turns, flicking through the items she'd grabbed for her tray and plucks up a syringe. Morphine. She probably can't treat his shoulder at the moment, but she can make it hurt less... but his collarbone looked. Off. Hm.]

...I would not have asked if I did not want to know Lupin.
redjacketthief: @ starkxravingxmad (attention-- keen observation)

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-26 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[He doesn't like the look of that syringe.]

...just an fyi, Nami helped me a bit all ready. That...looks a little excessive.

[It wasn't an attempt at deflecting from answering her question. Really.]
fleurdesel: left, sad, serious, angry (and if I don't want to talk about it?)

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-04-26 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Morphine and an anti-inflammatory Lupin.

[She rests a hand against his chest, thumb placed lightly just on top of his collarbone. Feeling her way across without applying too much pressure. With all the bruising? She had to do this by hand.]

And I will have to take that as a yes.
redjacketthief: (he'll be just fine)

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-26 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Even a gentle pressure uncomfortable. Everything about it is uncomfortable. But, even an explanation of what the injection was, he didn't like it. He winces, equal parts her hands and her words.]

...it's a tough first impression you make, Dellie.
fleurdesel: left, sad, smile, serious (I just don't know)

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-04-26 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm somewhat accustomed to it Lupin.

[At the wince her other hand darts in, quick and careful, for a small injection of morphine just along the joint. It was ever so subtly out of place, his clavicle. Somewhat healed was not entirely cured.]

The ligament here is...strained. If not ruptured entirely.
redjacketthief: @ starkxravingxmad (attention-- keen observation)

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-26 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
[There was a pinch as the needle entered, but it didn't add to the overall discomfort. He heaves a breathe, reminding himself that this was standard procedure, that there were no police around to arrest him for his own stupidity, that this was normal. The life of a career criminal, while fun, is anything but glamorous.]

I all ready told you, Nami helped. She did a something with the something--not the thing that makes Grune's fingernails glow, but like what Daisy can do.

...Filials. Right.
fleurdesel: center, sad, serious (This isn't how it should be)

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-04-26 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Lupin's anxiety was a familiar one. She's seen many men with a similar set to their jaw and shoulder when she had to treat them. For his sake, she ignores it, though she leaves the rest of the injections until after the first takes effect.]

Magic. It probably kept the swelling down, and may have repaired a bulk of the damage to your clavicle, but the ligament is still strained. Probably halfway torn. You will need to keep your arm in a sling for the rest of the mission at the very least.
redjacketthief: @ starkxravingxmad (sigh)

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-26 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[The news is unwanted but not unexpected. Lupin sighs, resigned.]

At least it's only a couple more days if this thing doesn't bring us down. If we have more problems, I think I'm as good as dead.
fleurdesel: center, serious (tense)

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-04-26 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
It won't.

[Her voice is low. Certain. Even with the thrashing above and around them, they couldn't die like this. The entire ship could not go down. It was an oddly and fiercely optimistic thought for her.]
redjacketthief: @ narben (smirk-- challenge accepted)

[personal profile] redjacketthief 2012-04-26 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[So much for his attempts at realism when faced with certain death. He hadn't given up, but didn't want to discount the possibility of it either. He would smile if it weren't her delicately probing his injury with her fingers.

Instead, he settles for a verbal equivilant.]


...Right. We won't. That Kraken's just absurd.
fleurdesel: left, smile, smirk, flirty (Think but don't talk)

[personal profile] fleurdesel 2012-04-26 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[She gives it a moment more before making a few more small, shallow injections around the abused joint, sitting back once she's satisfied she's done all she could. For a sling she'd have to stand, there was bound to be one left in the cabinets, but. Her leg. Right.]

I promised we'd make it back in one piece. I gave my word, Lupin.
selphie_t: (bring it!)

[personal profile] selphie_t 2012-04-26 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Right!
selphie_t: (Look to the sky)

[personal profile] selphie_t 2012-04-26 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
I'll keep you in mind. Thanks, Nami.
selphie_t: (Is that so?)

[personal profile] selphie_t 2012-04-26 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah? How's he make it more interesting?
justicereigns: (Blue)

[personal profile] justicereigns 2012-04-26 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
You think they'll really have all those readily on hand?

[Despite nearly drowning, Smoker is starting to think he should go on these missions more often.]
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (ahehe)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2012-04-26 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
That's a lot of people to take care of. [Don't mind her; she's going to take the lid off this bottle and down half the contents.]

Oh, that's nice. [Blissful hydration.] How did things go after the fight? Were you guys attacked again?
mythmaker: (Ara Ara Redux)

[personal profile] mythmaker 2012-04-26 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[She's wishing she had brought a second water bottle right about now.]

We were attacked a few times, Nami...I'm not sure when we lost you, or how many times.
deathsdoctor: (Fight | your attack is denied!)

[personal profile] deathsdoctor 2012-04-26 05:39 am (UTC)(link)
[There's an flashing arc of silver as Law disposes of another cultist as Norrington snaps, surging forward as he does so.

An Elite could give anyone a hard time, some worse than others, and the one he meets in a clash of sparks and steel in the moment he reaches Norrington is the strongest he's ever met.

He is actually testing his physical strength. He can feel the wood splintering beneath his bootheels as they strain, taking each other's measure. This is an Elite's Elite. Maybe even a high ranking commander. Or the commander of the raid.

The other Elite is much weaker, he feels it, but there is something wily and cunning in her movements. A warrior that relies on supreme skill and wit, rather than brute force. A formidable opponent for anyone.

With a wicked, bloodthirsty smile and mad dog eyes that Law can see from the corner of his vision, the woman readies her blades and closes in on Norrington, intent for the kill.

Defend yourselves sailors. If you can.]
daisy023: (Understand)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-26 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
It's just hasn't happened to me in a long time. I'm more used to be on the same team as Spartans.

[Mentioned casually. It's common to have friends in danger, but it's not so much a worry as much as a task that it's simply a rule: Protect your teammates.]

A friend of mine knows too many of us in this mission, as well.
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (ahehe)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2012-04-26 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
{Best talent ever.] Good luck! Sanji-kun's used to cooking for scores of people; he'll help you out.
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (huh what?)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2012-04-26 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
I can imagine. I know a few like that myself.

...how's Keimi doing?
mikangirl: DEFAULT DEFAULT (who's the guy in the ballerina outfit?)

[personal profile] mikangirl 2012-04-26 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
The kraken attack. I managed to stick around until some idiot fell overboard. [Thumbing back at Smoker, whatever he's doing.]
daisy023: (Night)

[personal profile] daisy023 2012-04-26 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Keimi must have told Nami, Daisy comes to think.]

She's worried for all of us -- You, me, and Smoker. She knows we can handle ourselves, and I told it'd all be alright, but I'd rather not take unnecessary risks if we can help it... I think I'll return to her once wrap this up.

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