DoubleDozenSeasACUS2010
From IMiA
Ambrose: "I require the waters of my homeland." "Would pure water do?" "To moisten my skin, yes, to breath, no." Sponge him down to help relieve him.
"Beat to quarters!" Green spectral ship-of-line sighted in the distance. Not cool. Almost Aurora fast. We try to run before it. Adain tries to slow it down. It gets greener. Edmund thinks its an Amber ship. O'Donovan doesn't think it's after us. HMS Audacious, maybe? Green magic around it is aging it and its crew.
Jerica boards, protected by two of Jack's flags. He raids cabin. O'Donovan swings out on a rope and grabs a jumping Jerica. Jack's crew pulls them back in. We've pulled several of the ship's crew members from the water as well.
Captain Jack has decided to run us right up the giant water spout at the center of the maelstrom. All of those on deck are on safety lines. Very load crackling sound from below-decks. Jerica checks it out, finds large blackened circle with a destroyed trump in the center of it. Admiral Caine. Jerica thinks it smells like magic.
And then they're in the bad magic energy vortex thing. Spectral figures in the maelstrom. They are dragging down the ship. O'Donovan decides to attempt to lure them into the mizzenmast and then chop it off the ship. Jack gives Kolvir a flag and he can fight back against the ghosts. Jerica attempts as well, but while her blade does not affect the ghosts, theirs do affect her.
O'Donovan summons the ghosts to the mizzenmast. He hears Baron 'Sric's voice: "You are too far from home." He chops off the mast. He has a bad feeling about this. Makes his way forward to Kolvir and Jerica.
Another ship flying through the sky, about to hit us. A strangely familiar acid cloud spell hits the other ship just before it hits the forward shield Ever put up and there is a ships shattering noise. Large chunks of the Aurora are shearing away.
Ambrose is cackling manically. Seems like a bad thing.
Aurora turns inside out, then breaks the surface. Rocky expanse of an island ahead. Wyverns circle it. The sky is insane. Bone-jarring impact as the Aurora grounds itself. O'Donovan feels really bad.
Ambrose whistles for a wyvern to come to the ship. Jerica heads forward. O'Donovan chases. "Knock him out!" Jerica stabs the Admiral, who bursts into flames. "Incoming!" we hear. Ambrose (?) says "The Pattern has cracked, the serpent will destroy!" O'Donovan attempts to keep Jerica from being crushed by the falling wyvern.
We wake up in a nicely furnished apartment with no exits. Cassius is there, Ambrose appears shortly. Ambrose last saw us when he tried to trump Oberon. "The magical energies hereabout run contrary to my understandings."
Baron 'Sric's voice again: "You are too far from home." "I got the message, thank you. How do we get home?" 'Sric seems put out by this.
Ambrose questioning Jerica as to her parentage. "Max Feldane is my father." Jerica is complaining that her hand hurts. Apparently Oberon summon the Jewel of Judgment from the palm of her hand when we tried to rescue him.
Cassius starts "As they brought me here..." Jack and Jerica together, "Who they?" "Two, maybe three I saw people loosely, perked up when I mentioned Caine, then took me on a very odd walk to get here. The apartment seems to have grown since you arrived."
Kolvir walks through the wall and disappears.
Ambrose convinces Jerica to try cut himself. As soon as he does so, we hear a voice from Jerica's palm saying "Hurry! Free me!" It is Oberon. Cassius kneels before him, Ever says "Where are you?" "Follow the blood. Free yourselves and then follow the blood."
Kolvir returns with a Lord Wexin (or something like that). Ambrose says "Take him!" Kolvir throws away Wexin's whip -- Wexin appears to be a shapeshifter -- Ever throws a cheese knife at Wexin, Jerica throws a chairleg dipped in her blood. The chairleg misses, but the entire room shudders when it hits the floor.
Jack cracks the whip, yells "Stop!" Cassius attempts to calm everyone as well. Jerica goes for the door, O'Donovan follows. When she touches the door, the entire room shudders. "You're disturbing the environment!" Jerica, O'Donovan, and Ambrose break out of the room. Weird crap. They are passing through Shadow veils.
