kairaku
Apprentice Douchebag
Posts: 60
Preferred Game Systems: Dragon Warriors, Mech Warrior, Shadowrun, Skulls & Crossbones, Twilight 2000, Aliens RPG, Werewolf and Mage
Currently Running: Dragon Warriors
Favorite Species of Monkey: Golden Snub-nosed Monkey
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EP 8
Feb 3, 2018 1:10:49 GMT -8
Post by kairaku on Feb 3, 2018 1:10:49 GMT -8
What the hell?? A lashing doesn't deal lethal damage? Since when? Here is a reasonable article on what happens to the body when lashed. Any number of sailors and soldiers were lashed to death throughout history. Admittedly they were likely to receive far more than the 20 lashes Sida received.
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EP 8
Feb 4, 2018 5:55:59 GMT -8
Post by akavidar on Feb 4, 2018 5:55:59 GMT -8
Let us rather say, Elliot had no intention of Sida's lashing being lethal.
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EP 8
Feb 6, 2018 12:31:23 GMT -8
Post by weaselcreature on Feb 6, 2018 12:31:23 GMT -8
I do want to say, though, that I love that gina took the whole superstitious route and was willing to step up and offer the punishment in order to appease that fickle lady the Sea. Nice bit of RP there!
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EP 8
Feb 10, 2018 18:14:50 GMT -8
Post by gina on Feb 10, 2018 18:14:50 GMT -8
I do want to say, though, that I love that gina took the whole superstitious route and was willing to step up and offer the punishment in order to appease that fickle lady the Sea. Nice bit of RP there! Thank you, weaselcreature ! That means quite a lot, sir! <3 I added this bit to Zaida's bio: “Everything was dark for a long while after they got killed. Not just because I was on this filthy ship with a bunch of hard men. Not just because I was a child an’ didn’t have my own room any more or people to look after me or a family. But because Valerio was a fuckin’ incompetent. And a sadist. An’ not ‘cause he was a pirate, because he was a bad pirate.
But then she came, Cap’n. Jeanne. She was just a year older ‘n me, but she was so strong.
An’ it was as if the darkness had naught power any more. She made it all better. Jeanne could calm any squall or rage in me. She ‘ad this sweetness, an' she would hold me, stroke my hair an’ sing quietly, jus’ to me. She knew all sorts o’ songs, mostly French, sometimes English or Dutch or Italian. Over the years, she helped make me strong, helped me endure, and even more ‘n that.
I loved her, Cap’ n. More than anything in this world.
Valerio treated her like shit. She cooked and scrubbed and did whatever nasty deed needed doin’. ‘E treated her worse ‘n me. I had some use to him ‘cause of the star gazin’. She was just a thing. And once he kenned or thought as much, ‘bout her an’ me, she was worse ‘n a thing. He could cause pain to me by hurtin’ her.
That all ended the day my Elliot came. It was both my freedom an’ the death o’ me.
Elliot got me out o’ my chains, and as we went to free Jeanne, Valerio came in an’ grabbed her, an’ I saw the point of his dagger diggin’ into her flesh. I know I screamed somethin’ at him. I don’t even remember what. Elliot lunged for him, but he just laughed and stuck that dagger into Jeanne’s ribs. The look on her face, Cap’n... Her eyes. It was like she was spendin’ her last seconds ‘ere to tell me it’d be a’right.
An' though it was her heart was cut open, in that instant the bastard ‘ad took it an’ stuck it right in my chest.
An’ it’s still there. Ever’ day.
I carry it in me, an' it’s slashed a’ twain an’ mangled an’ it don’t work right n' more... An’ it hurts, so much. But I can’t let go o’ it. It’s the only piece of 'er that I’ve still got. But some days, the pain, it’s unbearable, sir.
An’ that day, I drank an’ drank ‘til I was rid o’ it.
But I know that don't matter, I jus' thought you should know. I let you down, Cap’n. An’ I let the crew down. I was derelict in my duty an’ the crew needs t’ know. Maybe it’s my fault the sea’s becalmed an’ we’ve found ourselves in th’ doldrums.
I need to pay ‘em back if I can. An’ then maybe She’ll give us back the wind.”cc: Bill Roper @joeynestra
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kairaku
Apprentice Douchebag
Posts: 60
Preferred Game Systems: Dragon Warriors, Mech Warrior, Shadowrun, Skulls & Crossbones, Twilight 2000, Aliens RPG, Werewolf and Mage
Currently Running: Dragon Warriors
Favorite Species of Monkey: Golden Snub-nosed Monkey
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EP 8
Feb 17, 2018 12:39:06 GMT -8
Post by kairaku on Feb 17, 2018 12:39:06 GMT -8
A very poignant soliloquy Gina. Made me feel all "awwwww shit! Someone's gotta put our little broke back together"
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Caroline
Initiate Douchebag
Posts: 27
Preferred Game Systems: I can't make up my mind
Currently Playing: Star Wars Edge of the Empire, D&D 5E
Currently Running: Fate, and working on an occasional Masks game
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EP 8
Feb 24, 2018 10:27:02 GMT -8
Post by Caroline on Feb 24, 2018 10:27:02 GMT -8
I liked the way JiB handled the lashing for Zaida, becasue most people who died from a lashing either got a lot more than twenty lashes or more often it was infection that set in later not the actual lashing that killed a person.
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EP 8
Apr 10, 2018 15:42:20 GMT -8
Post by gina on Apr 10, 2018 15:42:20 GMT -8
A very poignant soliloquy Gina. Made me feel all "awwwww shit! Someone's gotta put our little broke back together" Aww, thank you. <3
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