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The Skies have no Limit
Piemanlives:
--Selogorod--
The crew called into port for a rest before continuing on towards Vyshtorg, stopping at an inn they ordered food and figured they'd do an odd job or two to gain some extra crowns. Eventually everyone gathered back at the inn to grab a meal before they departed, the sun was slowly coming over the horizon and it was time for them to leave, Alex pulled aside their newest crew member for a little chat.
Alex
"You'll be serving on my ship for the foreseeable future, so, what can you do exactly?"
He stared over at Amelia, who was sitting on the other side of the table drinking a coffee. She looked back at him, took another sip of coffee, and placed it on the table.
Amelia
"I'm not entirely sure I understand the question.
Alex
"I'm fairly certain I clearly stated why I need to know this."
Amelia
"Well..."
She took another sip of coffee, around them meals were being shared and conversations struck up. A few guildsman walked in and took a seat at the bar, talking about some recent news, from the looks of their clothing they were fairly high in the echelons of guild society. Amelia snapped her finger in front of his face, gaining her attention, he turned his head.
Alex
"Yes? Did I miss something?"
Amelia
"I thought of something I can do."
Alex
"And that would be?"
Amelia
"Well, does having good eye sight count?"
Alex
"Well that would depend, what does that bottle say?"
He pointed to a bottle halfway across the inn. She stared at it for few seconds before speaking.
Amelia
"Gronder...Northhost? Hoaus?...Special Ale."
Alex stood, walked over, looked at the bottle and called back to her.
Alex
"NorthHaufman, well, I guess that's close enough."
He reached into his satchel and tossed one of his spare spyglasses.
Alex
"For now you'll work as a lookout, safest thing I can have you do for the moment, though you will need to talk to Phillip about the basics of engineering, rule 1 aboard this ship, you have to be able to fix things in a pinch."
Amelia
"Isn't that just smacking something with a hammer?"
Alex
"Why yes, yes it is, only when you have no choice."
They joined the rest of the crew at the table.
Dahlia
"So Captain, what exactly do we do when we reach Vyshtorg?"
Richard
"I assume we link up with the others and figure out what's going on."
Alex
"Probably won't be that simple, we have no idea exactly how the Yeshans are planning on well... you know."
Reagan pulled up a chair and set a plate of waffles on the table.
Phillip
"Sadly he's right, we have no idea about how we're going to do this, I doubt any of us have any contacts in the city, and considering how large this is, letting on that we know about this probably is the best way for us to find ourselves shot. So Reagan, any bright ideas?"
Reagan
"Simple, Yesha is sending a diplomatic envoy, due to arrive sometime in a few days."
Richard
"And you know this how?"
She pointed to the group of guildsman at the bar.
Reagan
"They're talking about it, apparently Yesha is attempting to "Reach out" Skies Above know how this'll turn out."
Alex
"That means we should get moving then, everyone finished with their meals?"
A round of agreement went around the table, throwing their payment on the table, they rushed back to their ship and took to the skies once more.
Gryphos:
--Griffinheart--
Gareth
"Aye aye."
He puts down the radio and takes the helm from Hector.
Hector
"So what's happening?"
Gareth
"I'm honestly not entirely sure, but lets see what happens."
Lyre calls over from the bow.
Lyre
"Slipping past Merchant borders, brings back memories, doesn't it?!"
Gareth waves to her.
Gareth
"That it does."
He turns to Hector.
Gareth
"You're Arashi, right?"
Hector
"Serenity Bay."
Gareth
"People really need to start telling me this stuff."
Captain Lockheart:
--Cathedral--
Captain Oakenshield: " Excuse me miss. "
Woman: " Good afternoon sir. How may i help you? "
Captain Oakenshield: "I wish to inquire about a patient you have under your care.."
Hospital Secretary: " Well sir. I can fetch the records for today, if you give me a moment. *ehem* please, have a seat"
The secretary gestures towards a row of seats. Outside the sun was High in the sky, over Cathedral. Oakensheild had arrived in Cathedral a day earlier. After deducing that after the Ambush. He would find Lockheart in the nearest City. He had checked most places and asked most people. But to no success, till' the penny dropped in his head that Lockheart may be in the Hospital..
Secretary: " Here we are sir..."
She opens the record book.
Secretary: " And whom would i be looking for?"
Oakenshield: " A Chaladonian... Erm, Tall, Brown hair... Name is Lockheart.. erm.. Julius i think."
The secretary checks the logs of patients in and out for today. Then shakes her head.
Oakenshield: " Nope, no one by that name here?"
Secretary: "Afraid no-"
Her eyes light up as she glances back a few pages.
Secretary: " There was such a man here... 3 days ago."
Oakenshield curled his fingers into a fist and slammed it into the desk, and mouthed a silent curse.
Secretary: " Anything else you require sir?"
Oakenshield was about to leave when.
Oakenshield: "Actually yes, do you have any inclination to his current whereabouts?"
The Secretary nodded and headed back into a room behind the desk to re-appear after a few minutes.
Secretary: " Yes, there was a telegram here.. He left it, will you be needing it?"
Oakenshield: " Yes, thank you."
He reached out for it, but the secretary snatched it back.
Secretary: " And who might you be?, i cant give out personal pieces like this..."
Oakenshield: " His... Employer...."
BdrLineAzn:
Chang-ning
--Zhao Manor--
After being dropped off at the doorstep in front of her family's manor, Ny-Lee opens one of the grand doors and enters. Exhausted from the trip and her meeting with the Tiger of the following plot, she walks up the stairs to her and Roland's room.
Back downstairs, Huan walks out of one of the halls and sees his sister going up the stairs. he starts to wave to her.
(Huan)
"Hey sis... Oh alright. Glad to see you back and all."
As he finishes his sentence, Ny-Lee enters and closes the door behind her with a noticeable bang. Confused, he walks towards the dining hall to find his father. As Huan enters, he sees both his parents enjoying a morning meal together.
Coming up to them, Huan takes a seat across the table from his mother.
(Shen)
"Hey there son. So who was at the door?"
(Huan)
"It was Ny. By the way she went to her room, she seemed pretty tired."
Both parents exchanged knowing looks and turn back to their youngest son.
(Liu)
"Huan dear, why don't you come help me look through what your brother bought for us from Cathedral."
Shrugging, he stands up with his mother and exits the room.
(Huan)
"Alright then, but you may want to send some back. I know you don't want to hear anymore about the kidnapping, but there maybe some bullet holes here and there from the gun fight that took placed"
Seeing that his wife has his son distracted, Shen stands from his place at the table and walks towards the front of the manor to the stairs. Quickly taking the steps by twos, he arrives to his daughter and son-in-laws room. Shen then knocks.
(Ny-Lee)
"Who is it? Roland dear, if it is you, I have a bad headache. And no offence I don't want to see anyone right now.
(Shen)
"Not your husband, it is your father. From the sound of your voice I take it the Tiger talked to you?"
Steps can be heard from the other side of the door as Ny-Lee opens it.
(Ny-Lee)
"Sorry dad. But Zardis was right."
(Shen)
"Then it is all true, he and the Deer are in this. I must talked to Xi now."
(Ny-Lee)
"The Emperor? He doesn't know yet?"
(Shen)
"Not yet, we already plan to meet with one another. Hmm, when are you scheduled to leave."
(Ny-Lee)
"4 PM today."
(Shen)
"Nine hours then, hmm."
(Ny-Lee)
"Also, I persuaded him to let me take my crew and ships."
(Shen)
"Alright then, brief them of what you of what's happening. I'll go and talk to the Emperor about this."
(Ny-Lee)
"How about Azn?"
(Shen)
"Try to contact him, but make sure to have a secure line. We don't need anyone to figure out that we know."
(Ny-Lee)
"On it."
(Shen)
"Good, I'm going now to see if Xi is available. And Ny dear, got some more rest, handle things when you are ready."
Giving a nod, Shen kisses the head of his daughter and briskly goes down the stairs. Talking to one of his servants, he ask them to call the Emperor to let him know that he is on his way to meet him. Outside, his car is pulled up to the driveway where Shen gets in to the driver side and goes off to the Imperial Palace.
Little does he know, 30 yards be hind him, another car tails him, while a small team survey the Zhao Manor.
Piemanlives:
--Vyshtorg--
Richard
"So how are we going to get in without attracting attention?"
Alex
"Our traders permits should keep us inconspicuous for a time, sadly that means we'll be known by our real names while we're here."
Richard
"I guess we could do worse, we should probably pop into customs after we land this tub."
Alex
"I'll have you know this is our tub."
He turned and spoke to Phillip who had his hands full coordinating with the ground crews.
Alex
"How long till we've landed?"
Phillip
"Give or take 30 minutes cap, a lot of ships are docking or taking off as we speak. So we're to wait here until our spot in the queue has opened."
Alex
"Roger, keep us posted."
Richard got out a set of papers from below deck and handed them to Alex.
Richard
"Here's our vessels registration and our proof of ownership, one of several copies, you know, for a guy who hates paperwork you sure love extra copies."
Alex shrugged.
Alex
"For something important like this it's always important to have multiple copies stashed elsewhere, on different persons, and on board the ship, never know when someone may try to steal the ship."
Richard
"Don't remind me..."
Reagan
"Wait, what happened?"
Alex
"Oh nothing."
Richard
"Oh it was something alright."
Phillip
"Captain, incoming tugs."
Alex
"Well it appears we're docking."
Two guides came up along either side of them, vessels recognizing their authority moved out of the way as they guided them down towards the busy harbor below. As they flew closer, dockworkers could be seen clustering on the nearest pier, finally reaching a sufficient altitude, ropes were thrown across as they guided them closer to the pier before securing the vessel in place. Reynold and Travis drew out the boarding ramp and stepped onto the docks, Alex, along with Richard followed suit. The rest of the crew was left onboard as they wondered what they should be doing, Phillip spoke up as Alex signaled to him from across the pier.
Phillip
"Alright, we need to find some lodging while we're here, Reagan, can you and Preston take care of that?"
Reagan
"Sure, anything specific?"
Phillip
"Nothing especially trashy but not exactly overdone, I'll leave you to it."
Reagan
"Alright, come along Corporal."
Preston
"Uh, alright."
The two of them made their way off the ship, Amelia fidgited in the corner a little bit, keeping her set of tools close at hand, Lorena and Dahlia shrugged.
Lorena
"We'll go and take a look around the city, we'll meet you at whatever inn Preston finds."
Phillip
"Just be careful ok?"
Dahlia
"We will!"
The two of them waved back as they left the ship. Phillip looked to Amelia and sighed.
Phillip
"Alright, lets teach you how to jury rig an engine in the middle of combat."
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