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So, here's the deal. I need some help stealing something from Alerar. And since there's only two things worth stealing in Alerar and I already have a gun, it's easy to assume we'd be stealing an airship. I plan to possibly start a sort of a PG in the foreseeable future and I plan to use the airship as portable HQ (far from original, I know, but screw it) because we'll need to be on the move. But that's irrelevant right now. What matters is that I need a couple of people willing to aid Letho in liberating an airship from Alerar. This particular airship will be sort of unique, lighter and smaller than usual, relying mostly on magic for mobility instead of steam and stuff, but more on that will be explained in the quest itself. Suffice to say, it will be well guarded, not completely finished yet and we'll need to kick some ass to get it and get away from the pursuit with our skin (and airship) intact.
Now, the basic outline I see happening is this. We can't just waltz in and bust some heads and take the ship. Instead, we'll present ourselves as envoys from Salvar, interested in purchasing a bunch of stuff from Alerar. I'm talking going in high profile, tossing some cash around, acting like proper government officials. I think that the papers and the money could be supplied by Raiaera, and in return for the cover story, we need to steal the blueprints for the said airship for them as well as the airship for ourselves. Suffice to say, it's going to take some ingenuity to pull it off without causing total mayhem and I need help with that.
I need two people to help me with this. This is not a Blitz as I'm admittedly a bit tired of the pace from the last three. However, I do expect activity at the level of post every 2-3 days at least. I don't want this to drag on and since we might have quite a lot to do, I need this to move on a steady pace. If you can handle posting every couple of days, feel free to register. Any questions or suggestions, post them here as well.
Captain on the Wind
09-15-11, 02:55 PM
That is EXACTLY what I had in mind. Of course there's only room for one captain on a ship and it's in my name after all :D But seriously, I'm totally down for this if I can get away with one too, I had my eyes on an airship ever since I started this site, and this seems like the perfect opportunity to do just that, or at least get my foot in the door to getting my own down the line.
Duffy has already gained footwork towards progress in Alerar with Cyrus a while back, though we didn't get to finish the follow up where he actually acquired the designs.
If you're interested, and willing, I'd be very keen to get involved with this.
Silence Sei
09-15-11, 03:28 PM
Looking for an antagonist?
The Barbarian
09-15-11, 03:34 PM
Looking for an antagonist?
Oh Sei. You always make a great antagonist. I remember when you took out a certain tower oh so long ago and had a coffin dragged with you for a certain reason lol.
Either way, this sounds like an interesting idea and this character has the charisma to play the part of a bodyguard for said "envoys" and be the muscle that might be needed.
I guess my first question is, what does Letho intend to do with the airship? I mean, what would he tell our characters to get them involved in stealing something so heavily guarded?
Silence Sei
09-15-11, 03:55 PM
Oh Sei. You always make a great antagonist. I remember when you took out a certain tower oh so long ago and had a coffin dragged with you for a certain reason lol.
Ah those days when I directly ripped off of Dynasty Warriors characters.....
Smaller than usual airship, but would still require a crew of sorts, yes? Even a skeleton one to keep it running?
Guessing Letho would just hit buttons until it worked? xD
All kidding aside, I might like to play... competition of sorts. Not for the actual airship, but for the blueprints.
I'll do it, if you want me. I've wanted to steal an airship for a long time now, but my partner and I just hadn't gotten around to it yet.
I guess my first question is, what does Letho intend to do with the airship? I mean, what would he tell our characters to get them involved in stealing something so heavily guarded?There would be money. I reckon the elves of Raiaera will be willing to dish out huge wads of the shiny stuff for the blueprints and Letho might throw in a little bit extra on the side. And then there's the pleasure of his company. Because he's just fun kind of guy. If by fun you consider blood and guts and dismemberment. :P
Smaller than usual airship, but would still require a crew of sorts, yes? Even a skeleton one to keep it running?
Guessing Letho would just hit buttons until it worked? xD
All kidding aside, I might like to play... competition of sorts. Not for the actual airship, but for the blueprints.That is a very good question. I was thinking that with the design I have in mind for getting this thing off the ground, it wouldn't take a whole lot of work. It's supposed to be experimental and all high-techy for its time and whatnot. No sails and shit, so it doesn't take that much of a crew. Hell, Jack Sparrow did it on his own. I'm sure we'll be able to handle it. Especially since, while undercover, we are bound to get some insight on how the thing actually works.
At any rate, I'll keep this thing open until tomorrow and make my decision.
Elrundir
09-15-11, 05:51 PM
Gah. This is totally the sort of thing I'd want in on. I'm just not sure it's feasible for me right now. >< DRAT AND DAMN.
Rayse Valentino
09-15-11, 06:50 PM
I'm expressing interest. I can fit virtually any role here.
Relt PeltFelter
09-15-11, 08:36 PM
Let me throw my hat into the ring. Reunion!
(say hello to the grandparents)
Alright, after some consideration I've decided to go with Duffy (because he certainly seems like the kind of a guy that can put up a good disguise), Atzar (because how can you have an adventure without a mage) and Relt (because frankly I'm dying to see how she does in a situation where she needs to pretend to be somebody else). The rest of you, I sincerely thank you for applying, and hopefully we'll work together some other time.
Now, I'll have the thread up tomorrow. Here's what I was thinking about the intros. I was thinking that in your intros, your character would be doing whatever the hell they are very good at (like Duffy can be doing a show of some sort and Atzar can be blowing someone up with fire and Relt can... bitch at someone, I don't know). At any rate, once your characters finish doing what they're doing, Letho approaches you with an offer you can refuse, but you won't. I hope that makes sense. I think that way we can effectively introduce all the characters and their recruitment for the job. Just run with anything you like in your intros and just have Letho appear at the end with his proposal, saying he could use someone with your skills or something like that. I'll leave it completely up to you.
Silence Sei
09-17-11, 11:30 AM
So thats a no on an Alerar antagonist? :(
Thanks Letho, I am very excited about this :).
The International
09-17-11, 01:40 PM
This is awesome, guys. I love Alerar and I love Airships (Yea, I capitalized Airships. Wanna fight about it?) I'll be keeping up with this thread with enthusiasm.
Relt PeltFelter
09-17-11, 01:42 PM
Hooooooo, awesome. Gonna be fun.
The thread is up! (http://www.althanas.com/world/showthread.php?23526-Where-Eagles-Dare&p=190816#post190816) A day late, I know, and maybe a bit rough around the edges, but I'll polish it up later. Now post away. As I said, just run with whatever you want and have Letho offer you a job at the end (bunny away as needed so it can be done in a single post). If you're wondering why Letho would choose you three, he would choose Duffy because of his reputation in Scara Brae, Atzar because he witnessed his power in the Cell and needs a mage, and Relt because frankly he thinks she might be crazy enough to tag along. Also, and this will come in play later, Relt is good with technology apparently, so I plan to make her drive the airship. Hey, she's the only one out of the four of us who knows how to drive a car. How much more complicated can an airship be? ;)
Looks good Letho.
I assume at the end of the post you appear, so that in your reply you teleport us to where we need to be?
I was thinking more along the lines that Letho gives you all time and place where we all rendezvous and iron out the details. Like, possibly a port in Corone somewhere from which we'll leave for Alerar.
Ah okay, that works for me too - just wanted to make sure we're on the same level.
I should have my post up sometime this evening, inspiration is a fickle thing (but it's brought to you this evening by the arrival of Cherry Pepsi Max in the U.K and a generous helping of Family Guy).
This looks good. I'll think on this a bit and post up sometime shortly after Duffy has his own done, I'd imagine.
Looking forward to it.
I might even press F7 for this! :eek:
One self indulgent opening post as promised. Sincere apologies for the length, but I got a groove on and I don't oft spend 3 hours on one post - so consider me in awe of the people I'm working with to proof read and tweak so much!
I'll edit as we go as usual, looking forwards :)
Alright, my post is up. It's not perfect, but it's 4:45 AM and I'm tired as fuck - I can tinker tomorrow. Let me know if there are any inconsistencies or if you want me to change anything.
Folks, those posts are great, but there's just one thing I'd like you to fix. There shouldn't be that much of a hurry to get on with the plan. So instead of making the rendezvous tomorrow, I think it would be more realistic if Letho told you to meet him in two weeks time. Keep in mind that you three might be (and probably are) on very different locations and he has to get to all of you. I doubt he can do it in a day. Besides, making it tomorrow just sounds like we're not planning ahead all that much, and with a mission such as this one, that just wouldn't do.
Fair enough. I kinda had it in my head that Letho had recruited Duffy ahead of time on Scara Brae, brought him to Radasanth and left him with the boat while Letho himself went for Atzar. Probably didn't translate that to the paper well.
But your point stands. I'll make your edits.
I'll amend my post sometime this evening/tomorrow - need to work out how to go about makingLetho's use of the play's main line still as witty as it is without ruining it :p
I made the edits you requested. I still want to tinker with the post, but I can do that as we go.
Just to let you guys know, I'll be away from home until Monday and it's unlikely I'll be able to post while I'm away. I will have the post up first thing when I come home, as I'll clearly have enough time to work it out in my head. Sorry for the delay, and so early in the game. :(
It's all good; I'm not going anywhere. Enjoy your weekend, if it's that kind of 'away'.
If it's not, why arn't there more redheads involved?!
Alrighty, I'm back a day late, but back nonetheless. Once again, sorry for the wait and thanks for your patience.
The post is up. Let me know if anything about your characters needs fixing. There was quite a lot of dialogue, and I probably messed up somewhere, so let me know. Anyways, pick one of the dudes Letho mentioned and do a little stabby action. :)
If you remember my initial plan, I wanted to make us envoys from Salvar, but I changed that to the Corone-based Coalition. Why? Pretty simple really. I don't think any of us actually speak Salvarian, and that would be quite a giveaway for our disguise. So I switched it to something that won't screw us over at the very beginning.
Or not.
I'm sick. Spent most of the day sleeping. I'll try to post tomorrow night... Depends on how I end up feeling.
Apologies for the delay.
It's all good, man. If Relt wants, he can post in the meantime, but it's no rush. Take your time.
Relt PeltFelter
10-03-11, 01:46 AM
I may post, if Atzar's cool with it. Of course I still have my own thread what needs postery, not to mention the Serenti, so I'm in no rush. Either way works for me.
Quick question, probably should have asked it before now: should I go ahead and axe my guy in this post, or should this take more than one to complete? Was leaning toward the former, but not so much that I wanted to make the assumption and end up being wrong.
In either case, I'm getting better - enough so I can think and type, at any rate - so I'll finish this post up tomorrow as soon as I see your answer. Again, I'm sorry for the delay.
Run with whatever you feel is best. I would prefer if you killed the guy/girl in your next post for the sake of pacing. Because if each of the three of you posted agreeing to eliminate one of them, then took another round of posting to actually do it, I fear it would drag the whole thing out needlessly, especially since there's four of us. But if you have something else in mind, it's all good. I'm not rushing this thing.
I was going for two posts to do it otherwise you'd have to read through a wadge of text approaching the thickness of Sei's skull.
This would be too much for one sitting I fear.
It works both ways really. You posted agreeing, Atzar will post killing his guy, Relt will post killing his guy or girl, I'll post killing mine and then you'll get to kill yours in the next round and Atzar can take us to the morning and the body dumping. :P
Relt PeltFelter
10-06-11, 02:53 AM
Okay, I am also glad to get that clarification. Atzar, I'll post after you. I was gonna post first, but then, you know, life stuff. This way maintains the ordering anyway, so hooray.
My post is up at long last. The meat is there, but I think I need to add some more spices tomorrow - lacking a solid description of the setting.
Let me know if you think I should edit anything else.
Relt PeltFelter
10-07-11, 06:00 PM
All posted up, dudes. Let me know if I have made any grievous missteps regarding either the layout of the bar or people's whereabouts or whatever.
I just spent a fair bit of time today editing my posts. I didn't change anything important to the story, of course, but I rewrote some things. Made a lot of changes to the dialogue in the first post, and scrapped and redid half of the second post.
Let me know if they read better than they did. Hopefully they do.
Post up tomorrow, folks, no fooling. And those who didn't do their homework get a slap on the wrist, homework being killing people. ;)
I left him tied to a bed, gagged, and naked.
He might die if he's not found, and I got new boots so thieving is practically murder...:p
You forget these are slippery folk, these Coalition bastards. As can be seen in my post. ;) If you three have any objections or suggestions, as always do feel free to post them. Adjustments can always be made and each of you knows best how your character would react to something.
So yeah, I figure we need to deal with covering our tracks now. So my idea is that Letho gives Duffy a bit of a talking too (he won't be angry, won't yell, but he will be firm and explain that they could face a shooting squad instead of a welcoming committee if a word got out that they weren't who they claimed they were) in Duffy's next post. He'll most likely have the lad killed by the time you got up. Then Atzar can suggest and proceed to set the entire building on fire. Not exactly clean, but fire should leave little trace. Then Relt can take us to the boat and set us on our way.
Sounds ok? Also, keep in mind that these little plans I lay out in OOC are just suggestions. If at any point you feel like running with something else, never hesitate to do so. I always like to have a plan of sorts, but I'm never dead set on them and changes can always be made. But I do find it that it helps the flow of the story if there is some outline to follow. Because that way nobody is usually left with nothing to do in their post, so there's no need for fillers that really just detract from the story, if you know what I mean.
Actually Letho, I think this way works out better both for our characters (though obviously I speak for Duffy and Duffy alone here) and for our over all story. It'll give us all a transition, a shock, a character twist, as well as make us out to be fish out of water being lead by a tyrant (in so much as Letho is a tyrant of respect).
I'll be happy to go with this hands down.
Obviously, Letho doesn't know Duffy's immortal, so you can at least smash his face up a bit :p.
Post will be up either late tonight or tomorrow. Apologies for the wait... the last week has been hectic for me.
It's up, but only sort of done - I need some help with the dialogue. I don't really know what your characters would say in objection to the plan of setting the inn on fire - or even if they would object at all, given Letho's recent ass-chewing of Duffy. It would go in between the dashed lines in my post. I poked at it for awhile without much progress before deciding that it would make more sense to move on with the rest of the post and come back to it later.
Can you help me out with this?
Relt PeltFelter
10-26-11, 03:38 AM
I'm sure we can all work somethin' out, yeah. We should all hop on that abandoned-ass chat room sometime, or fiddle about with AIMs and stuff.
I'll try to hop on AIM later today. I do have an idea regarding what Letho will do. He'll warn Atzar not to make the fire spread too rapidly (obviously), then proceed to say the money he was going to pay you for the job would go to the innkeeper as compensation. And he'd make it rather clear that it was mostly Duffy's fault that they've lost the money here (sorry, Duffman :P). I reckon he also might ask what Relt planned to do with her little bundle. If she's reluctant to kill the girl, maybe Atzar could further explain the predicament by saying that maybe killing her now is better than letting her burn alive.
Just some ideas off the top of my head for the dialogue.
I'm not in it for the money, feel free to take my share (I can sing gold into existence if we're short :p).
...(I can sing gold into existence if we're short :p).Now, if only you could do that on the other side of the screen. ;)
That's a pretty good idea. It's worth noting that Atzar would be pretty agitated if you decided to cut his payment for circumstances that he'd view as no fault of his own.
I'm getting the feeling that Atzar won't be a very popular member of this group. He WILL try to blame this all on Duffy and (to a lesser extent) Relt, and if he doesn't get his way he may just leave. Obviously that's not actually an option, so I'll have to work on this for awhile and see what comes out on the other end.
Would Letho blackmail him into sticking around? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that Letho has the authority to arrest criminals, and Atzar DID just murder somebody, albeit at Letho's instruction. If Letho played this card Atzar would likely back down - he'd recognize that nobody would trust his word over that of Letho - but at the same time I'm not sure if your character would risk creating this much bad blood within the team before the mission even really starts.
This post may end up being pretty long.
I don't think Letho would go as far to threaten Atzar. He's trying to build trust and discipline, not be a tyrant. Instead he would point out that with everything that has happened, questions will be asked, and that the wisest course of action would be to get as far away as possible as soon as possible. Proposed string of dialogue, to be inserted immediately after Atzar's last line, you guys can insert your own lines (I figure we might as well do it like this, since there's little chance we all manage to rendezvous on AIM :P):
1:Letho - "I have to agree with Atzar. Fire will take care of the bodies and the commotion would divert attention from us."
2:Possible Duffy line, objecting.
3:Letho - "Worry not about the barkeep, Mister Bracken. We shall compensate him for the damage appropriately. Out of our own pockets. Your wages just got halved due to this mess."
4:Duffy - doesn't care about money
5:Relt - possibly doesn't care as well, since she mentioned before that she has most of the money Letho gave her last time.
6:Atzar objects, saying he did his job
7:Letho - "And I did my job. Yet this expense will come out of my pocket as well. Let this be a lesson to all of you: we are a team, and if one of us fails to do his designated task, we all suffer."
8:Atzar possibly being stubborn about it, if not, skip the next line
9:Letho - "This is how it will be, Atzar. If you disapprove, you are free to leave. I would advise against it, though. After all this hubbub, the local authorities are bound to ask questions. And when they do, it would be wise to be as far from here as possible. As far as Alerar perhaps." Hopefully that dissuades Atzar from leaving.
10:Letho - "Now, onto the second order of business." Eyes turn to Relt and her pack.
11:Relt hesitates
12:Atzar or Duffy bring up the possibility of the victim dying a horrible burning death.
13:Possible scene: Relt pulls her knife, pauses, can't seem to go through with it, Letho grabs her hand and drives the knife through the sack, whispering: "It gets easier after the first one"
And then Atzar brings the house down.
I hope that can get things moving a bit. As always, just a suggestion, open to edits and stuff. I trust Atzar to fill in the little details and nuances as he sees fit in between the lines.
Needs more jokes about breasts.
Silence Sei
10-28-11, 08:07 AM
Duffy, that's the smartest thing you've ever said, ever :P
That sounds good. I appreciate the help - I can figure out the rest myself, I think.
So yeah. My fault for completely forgetting that I wasn't done with my last post. I'll finish it up soon. Letho tells me that you're all still on board with this, so let's get us an airship!
Triple post!
So my edits are up. I'm going to write a better transition from the dialogue to the last part, but that won't keep us from moving forward.
If you could read over the lines I gave your characters to let me know if they fit, I'd appreciate it. Aside from that, I believe Relt's up next? Looking forward to getting this going (again)!
Relt PeltFelter
02-23-12, 01:24 AM
Working on a post, which may need some heavy editing once it is posted, but we'll see. I can make no promises of punctuality at this time due to external obligations.
The fact that you logged in is good enough assurance for me, Relt.
Take your time - all good things come to those who wait.
No worries. I don't mind this thing moving slower as long as it's moving. :)
Relt PeltFelter
03-06-12, 03:02 AM
Posted, finally. Life stuff has calmed down a bit for a moment. It probably needs some heavy editing; I wasn't sure what the next leg of the story was, after so long. I also apologize if I didn't nail the tone of anyone else's character. Just say it in here or PM or IM me and I'll get the post up to code.
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