Post by Rigel Larrat on Jun 1, 2020 12:43:58 GMT -8
Name: River Raiding Party Type: Episode Requestee: Condor Difficulty: 1 Significance: 2 Objective: Kidnap the master skimmer builder. Sub-Objective: Secure the plans to the new Wave Skimmers, projected to give the 61st Marine Branch dominance on the Dulan Rivers. Plot: Rigel, acting under Jukebox's orders, must orchestrate a kidnapping attempt that looks detached from the Underworld. His goal is to secure the plans for the Wave Skimmers, new boats meant to more quickly navigate the rivers of Dulan. The designer of these boats has promised to give their design exclusively to the 61st Marine Branch, which Jukebox wants to prevent at all costs, without making it obvious that he was the one behind the kidnapping. Wishlist: +Trait Points +NPC Coins Cast: PC: Rigel Larrat
Type: INPC Rank: D Name: La "Lord La" Baris. Underworld Alias: "Jukebox" Age: 26 Gender: Male Race: Human Height: 5'11" Weight: 140 lbs. Appearance:
Personality: Lord La is a results-oriented man with a keen sense for value and pragmatism. What something or someone can provide for him is where his values begin and end. He holds great stock in contracts and little promise in loyalty. To him, information is the greatest power one can wield in the tumultuous seas. Though he can appear laid back and laissez-faire about matters, this is just a front he poses. In truth, he's a very stressed man, often overthinking things and mentally exploring many different avenues and choices. This is also why he appreciates information so much, as it helps to alleviate his stress and worry. The more he can know about something and the more he can uncover about them, the less worry they bring him.
La has no hesitations about killing or hurting anybody in the way of his goals. He seeks his own happiness and will go a great ways to ensure that he gets that. By accumulating a net of safety through political power and allies, and surrounding himself in material pleasures, La is sure that he'll bring himself safety. He's also a very proud man, seeking out expensive foods and fine-looking company to better his outward image. Aspirations: Lord La wants to become the most powerful Underworld broker in the Four Blues.
Home Island: Targe Island
Faction: Underworld - Lips Background: La Baris was a poor young man in the South Blue before joining a gang of mercenaries, invited as a result of his cunning, ruthless nature. After first getting close to the Underworld system, he became completely infatuated. The Underworld didn't fight for high minded ideals or collective goals. Its members had each banded together to seek their own fortune and satisfaction. La wanted to be a part of that system and carve out his own piece of desperate happiness, regardless of the incidental cost to others. He quickly left the fighting side of the business, not eager to risk his own neck. Instead, he set up shop on the contentious Dulan Island with a very small group of spies. While their presence was initially thorny towards the BBG, their information network proved more valuable than the bounties on their heads. In a back alley deal, Lord La found protection for his information houses, safehouses and brothels known as Bird Houses on the island. His business has flourished under the protection of the island's rulers, and Lord La has become a popular success story among Underworld brokers. Relations: Underworld - 80 Barroso Bounty Guild - 70 Bounty: 10,000,000 Beli
Items: D-Rank Pearl Cutlass. Job: Underworld Broker Traits: Swordsmanship, Cooking Proficiency Attributes: S&P: 5,000 E&D: 5,000 S&A: 4,000 P&W: 5,000 S&W: 3,000 DF: 0 Encounter Price: 2 Condition(s): Must have something worthwhile to give him. Recruitment Price: 5
Type: INPC Rank: E Name: Meyye Cheihine Age: 16 Gender: Female Race: Human Height: 5'8" Weight: 111 lbs. Appearance:
Personality: Meyye is a sarcastic and easily annoyed person. She's cold and scathing in her words, often trying to put distance between herself and whomever she's with. She hates her job at the Bird Houses, but fears the Underworld too deeply to ever actively vocalize that. She holds and espouses a philosophy called "the current of the world," which she feels dictates the lives of all people. According to her, way back when, the first sentient life made the first real decision. Everybody after that has been a mere subject to the whim of that decision, caught up in the ripple that became an overpowering wave. People who fight back against the current that dictates their life are swept up and destroyed by its power. This thinking helps her to cope with the harsh reality of her life, even if she secretly hopes it not to be true. Aspirations: To break the current of the world.
Home Island: Dulan Island
Faction: Underworld Background: Meyye was born into crushing debt left behind from her parents. She's lived her life to pay back what they owed, working a broad swath of odd jobs from a young age. Even as a child, she was rather serious, and was trained to believe in the "current of the world" a force that pushes and pulls people along their lives. Meyye has never tried to escape this current. She goes with the flow of what seems most natural in her life. In an effort to hurry along the repayment of her debt, she found work with Lord La in the Bird Houses at the age of 13. She'd anticipated life as a spy or information gatherer, but was instead forced into a life as a prostitute for extremely unsavory clientele. Her parents tried to fight against this decision, but were punished harshly for their insubordination. The family was separated across the Four Blues. Meyye merely accepted her role in the world's current, taking her new, harrowing lifestyle with no push back. At the age of 16, she's still sixteen million beli away from buying her freedom from the Underworld. Relations: Lord La - 70 Underworld - 70 Bounty: N/A
Type: INPC Rank: D Name: Trick Saccharine Age: 25 Gender: Male Race: Human Height: 6'4" Weight: 183 lbs. Appearance:
Personality: Trick is a dispassionate and aloof marine. He's not a great believer in justice, vengeance or civility, as most marines might be. People with a great passion or a great drive typically only irritate him or drive him away. The only caveat to this are orders from his superior, Cadence Khouri, to which he is very obedient. Trick will typically employ other marines to pretend to be him in official meetings just so he won't have to attend them. Though he's talented with a blade, he doesn't have much of any pride there either. Though he wishes to find something that sparks his passion, nothing has really succeeded as of yet. Generally, he's quite depressed, which makes him an unpopular marine figure. He will get defensive about his father, but usually not worked up, just mopey over the subject matter. Similarly, though he does wish to retain his status as a marine, he's not very keen on getting promoted or accruing status in the job. Aspirations: To find a new passion in life.
Home Island: Utek Island
Faction: Marine Background: Trick was raised by a famous marine captain in the South Blue, literally raised on his ship as a chore boy from as early as he could walk. He was passionate about he and his father's life of justice, and from a young age showed talent as a fighter and arbiter of justice. His sense of duty was continually shaped by what he saw as a child on the ship, and he was let into the Marines exceptionally early. Before completely finishing his training, however, Trick watched his father die in the line of duty. He sacrificed himself to fight a crew of dangerous pirates and was killed as a result. Despite all the man's hard work, nothing had really changed in the grand sense. The understanding completely disillusioned Trick. He chose to continue as a marine out of a sense of obligation, but had lost all passion for it. Though his martial skill has led to him getting promoted time and time again, his lackadaisical attitude and negativity also leads to him getting demoted. That strange personality eventually led him to the strange 61st Marine Branch, where he's mostly enjoyed a more calm life of peacekeeping. Relations: Cadence Khouri - 75 Bounty: N/A
Type: INPC Rank: E Name: Murray G. Soden Age: 12 Gender: Male Race: Human Height: 4'8" Weight: 80 lbs. Appearance:
Personality: Murray is a very happy and social child with a prodigious mind for building ships. He's more passionate about lovingly repairing, restoring and remodeling boats and skimmers, but is perfectly capable of designing and crafting new ones as well. He thinks most people are weird for not being able to hear the inner voices of ships when they're trying to communicate, as opposed to him being the weird one when he's talking to inanimate objects. Murray hates ships created for violence and fighting, because the anger and grief of their voices scares him so deeply. For this reason, he usually isn't told what a new ship he's designing will be used for. Someday, he dreams of traveling the world on a trustworthy ship, endeavoring to hear the inner voices of every boat in the world. Murray imagines that collection of voices will give way to the perfect design. Aspirations: To speak with every ship in the world.
Home Island: Dulan Island Faction: Pay Mud Company Background: Murray was a genius child that was born with a sense of attachment to the water. His family were part of a small tribe of fishermen that sailed between the different cities of Dulan, selling their hauls to the markets. He always felt much more comfortable on the sea than on the land, even as a baby only stopping his bawling when he was on a boat in the water. When he was old enough to help catch fish, he worked hard, but couldn't help but notice the "voices" of ships, even on the small river skimmers. Murray even thought himself able to speak to boats and communicate with them. He was able to change and remodel his family's skimmer to hold more fish and move quicker through the water. When the new model was seen by a member of the Pay Mud Company, they demanded to find the designer of the skimmer. Noah was quickly hired and trained to work in New Friro at the age of 10. Since then, he's swiftly risen through the ranks as a secret genius of the company, producing many new developments for the people of Dulan, and getting his family out of poverty with his money. Relations: N/A Bounty: N/A
