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1. 

   Tadeusz
   Member

   OOC: I'm going to need to crack open the rulebook for this. Suffice for the moment that you have been protected.

   Within a couple minutes your group is able to beat the fire to exhaustion, helped by Ron using his climber's axe to rip out a table sized chunk of flaming wood and toss it over the side as you take over his part of beating the fire down, and do it better because your weapon is better than his shirt. Your leather coat is touched by soot, and hot, and smells of smoke, but seems undamaged other than that.

   Once done, Bahdur looks seriously at you.

   "I swore an oath to the Great Khan, the thirty-seventh of his line since the Great Genghis conquered Asia and Europe, and twenty-ninth since his descendant conquered Africa, that I would keep the Peace of the Great Khan. Justice, prosperity, the arts, teh sciences, hospitals, freedom of religion....they all flourished under this."

   He pulls out his working knife.

   "This is my Oath, I am a Mongol, and I will enforce the Peace. It seems to me that this Stephanie is a Peacebreaker."

   Tue Oct 19 2010 2:04 pm #
2. 

   Nikolaj
   Member

   Awesome. Anyway, that's what my character believes happens. It could totally be something else happening, right? It could be like flaming Cherubs, which in hindsight is actually the pillar of fire. It's not Himself, but the part under His throne (See Ezechiël). Or it can be a fragment of that.

   I look Bahdur in the eye. "Alright, but does your oath tell you that you have to kill for it?" I don't wait for a response and head up. Every second counts.

   Tue Oct 19 2010 9:11 pm #
3. 

   Tadeusz
   Member

   You run up the staircase, and you hear a Bawhooommmm. Fearful, you come up to the second level, and look into the sail storage room.

   Both females are covered in smoke, and unconscious.

   Bahdur puts his knife up.

   "To answer your question, Niko, I have never killed anyone before, nor am I eager to start now, but I fear we must with Stephanie."

   Rose comes bolting into the room, gun out, and when she sees the two unconcious, she just starts laughing.

   Tue Oct 19 2010 10:19 pm #
4. 

   Nikolaj
   Member

   I look to his knife, then to him, then to her and back to him. "Maybe she can change?", I try. "We have rope from the climbing set we discovered. We can tie her up and keep her safe and fed like that?"

   I'm not looking forward to making a prisoner, but if it can keep her alive, I would be willing.

   Tue Oct 19 2010 10:25 pm #
5. 

   Tadeusz
   Member

   You and Rose tie her up. It seems she was a Girl Camper, and had to learn the Twelve Important Knots to achieve the rank of Top Camper.

   Yasmin wakes up, and approves the notion of keeping Stephanie tied up, but suggests that Stephanie be given more modest clothing.

   Stephanie wakes up and begins to curse, to scream, to plead....

   Thu Oct 21 2010 2:48 am #
6. 

   Nikolaj
   Member

   I look at Stephanie. I let her rant. Once she is finished with that I tell her what happened.

   "You can be glad that you are tied up, you know.", I tell her calmly. As she starts ranting again I just hold up my hand and look at her. "If I had not suggested that, you would have had a knife through your hart. I just saved your life.

   "Now, as you can understand, we thought it particularly dangerous to just leave you untied after what you just did. You acted very out of place. In your anger you nearly burned down this ship. You had no reason to be angry either. I was not forcing you anything. We were just having a conversation.

   "I don't really know how to deal with this, but have been trained to work with kids. You act like one, but with the power to endanger us all. Consider this a severe form of time-out. Once you are calmed down, and I need to be convinced that you are calmed down, I will let you loose again. If you promise to behave like an adult human being.

   "We will now be going to open more crates since we need to find water. Unless there is a problem, I will come back after we opened ten of them. I will then see whether I am convinced that you will behave."

   I thank Rose and will ask her to teach me doing knots after we found some water. I will have suggested making sure the hands are tied firmly, since that's what she seems to be using to create fire and summon whatever kind of creature that was. I think it was something demonic.

   I will tell Yasmin that this is a first step. One step at the time. In time we can discuss clothing, now let's just see whether she can stop the impulse of hurting/killing people.

   Check out the crates for water, juice, lemonades ...
   We do ten or until a crate or it's contents pose a danger to us.

   Thu Oct 21 2010 8:02 am #
7. 

   Tadeusz
   Member

   "Just kill me then." She says after you tell her how you saved her life. "And who wanted to kill me? I'll need to even the score later."

   She gives you a cruel smile.

   "I was attempting to straighten you out, and you frightened me, so of course, I struck out." It takes a second to parse that, but you realize she's claiming to have been teaching you by torturing you with the green sparkling wires of light she tossed at you first.

   "Sure I promise." She grins innocently at you, but it doesn't reach her eyes. "Now let me out, or I swear you will regret this insult for a very long time!"

   =========

   You open the first box. Something very fast, and metallic leaps for the ceiling, hits it, and scuttles away across the ceiling toward the door. You get the impression of a circular shape and many legs.

   Thu Oct 21 2010 4:04 pm #
8. 

   Nikolaj
   Member

   I do not react to her any more. Ignoring is a technique that works with kids. Let's see how she does with less to no attention. I go to the boxes and open that box. The thing jumps out.

   "Oh, great ... What's that?", I ask myself. "Ah well, it seems to run away, so it's probably as harmless as a rat or a bug or something.", I think.

   How do the others react to it?

   Thu Oct 21 2010 7:32 pm #
9. 

   Tadeusz
   Member

   Everyone jumps back behind boxes, and draws their weapons. When nothing happens, and its gone, they all chuckle, or at least take a deep breath.

   And now for the next crate...

   Inside is a small stand and a black, crystalline dagger. It keens an eerie song.

   Sat Oct 23 2010 12:44 am #
10. 

    Nikolaj
    Member

    Safety-alarm tingling! This dagger looks possessed! I slowly and silently put the lid back on the box. To the next one.

    Sat Oct 23 2010 6:43 am #
11. 

    Tadeusz
    Member

    You start to close the box, and after a slight move, you find you can't move your fingers, or arms. The song is getting louder, and you feel your legs tingling.

    Rose topples over.

    Bahdur shouts.

    "Sonic neural interference." He seems to want to get closer, but he's afraid to do so as well.

    Sun Oct 24 2010 12:06 am #
12. 

    Nikolaj
    Member

    I do the only thing I know to.

    "Jesus protect me!", I pray in a whisper.

    "Bahdur, what is Sonic Neutral interference?"

    Sun Oct 24 2010 7:22 am #
13. 

    Tadeusz
    Member

    OOC: Success for 1@1.

    You feel tingles rush through your arms, and you regain some motion.

    "Some sounds affect the human body. Infrasonic sounds can cause feelings of dread in humans. Others can have unusual effects. My people found that certain sounds could disable the nervous system of a person temporarily. We used it as a riot control weapon on rare occasions." He pauses. "I'm worried if I get too close I'll be nailed too. The closer one is, the more effect by an exponential scale. But its getting louder, and perhaps it will fill the whole ship." Bahdur says. He's clearly suffering from indecision.

    Tue Oct 26 2010 3:16 am #
14. 

    Nikolaj
    Member

    "Right. ... Right. Alright, let's uh, let's throw it overboard then. Who wants to try?"

    We move quickly.

    "Maybe this is what killed the crew?", I mused, seeing as the all died where they sat. I think about how sad af a death that must have been, very cruel, starving while the food sits right in front of you.

    ooc: That was interesting!

    Tue Oct 26 2010 8:27 am #
15. 

    Tadeusz
    Member

    You and Bahdur and Ron tote it to the stairs, and Bahdur hits the ground, not moving. Ron falls back too, but tries to get up, his face straining. You feel tingles all over your body as the sound penetrates through the crate. Ron gives it a solid push as you lift it up the stairs, and then he sprawls flat again.

    You get it to the top deck, and Rose comes charging in, and she just topples over as she thrashes on the deck. The sound has gotten louder, and you find your arms twitching, and your fingers not moving although your arms do.

    The railing is ten feet away.

    The noise raises again....

    Tue Oct 26 2010 7:20 pm #
16. 

    Nikolaj
    Member

    Jesus protect me, Jesus protect me, Jesus protect me. I keep repeating it until finally I shout it out loud and try to throw the crate over the railing. I let out some screams, grunts and laughs of victory. (I get in touch with my inner caveman.)

    "Thank you Jesus!", I finally say.

    If I'm able, I'm going to check the others. "A strange day today. A very strange day indeed. What's the point of this anyway?", I think to myself.

    Tue Oct 26 2010 7:25 pm #
17. 

    Tadeusz
    Member

    You feel better, and then you get hit hard as the noise rachets up right as you lift it almost to the edge. It slips out of your fingers, and the crate crashes down to the deck, and the dagger spills out of the open crate. Now much louder, you feel a very disturbing sensation....your heart stops...then your central nervous system shuts down...verse out...

    ======================

    Next world...

    Thu Oct 28 2010 1:47 am #
18. 

    Nikolaj
    Member

    drat!

    And the adventures continue here: http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/nikolaj-in-naunzaug?replies=2#post-28836

    Thu Oct 28 2010 8:10 am #

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