Crossed Swords Plotting: Round 2 (For BloodSpine crew and Swords of Freedom)

[Rainshadow]

  That sounds like a good idea!  Though I don't know if Vannøyne would be a good choice to get captured.  He seems too careful for something like that.  Maybe Spera, Frost or Nevfae, possibly.  Not that they aren't careful, it just seems like those three are the most... I dunno... happy?  And happy characters tend to be more lax around baddies.  Then the baddies get 'em, so to speak. 

[Dannflower Reguba]

I kinda wish some RPers had been slaves aboard the Bloodspine. Oh I just hit one of my idea light bulbs!!! How about, in round three, *excited voice* some beast, maybe me, got captured and there was a fight to free them...swords of freedom.... Any way, thoughts?

That would be fun...  Just putting this out there, I could be the one to get captured. 

[Leatho Shellhound]

Glad you guys are liking and running with my idea! I know what you mean Rain, I just said that so people don't think I was shutting out my character for the victim.

[Romsca]

Should Navarre capture them? I can see my character as one who could be doing the capturing.

Edit: Maybe she can be a spy!! Like she fakes that she's been wounded or whatever so even the goodbeasts feel sorry for her even though she's really spying

[Rainshadow]

Should Navarre capture them? I can see my character as one who could be doing the capturing.

Edit: Maybe she can be a spy!! Like she fakes that she's been wounded or whatever so even the goodbeasts feel sorry for her even though she's really spying

  Haha, and I'm reading this going, "Hey, Spera would probably be the one to defend her when the others say stuff like, 'Oh no, it's a vermin, kill it!'  She'll be all 'No, no, they're injured, let's be friends with them!' and stuff.  Then, once Navarre gained Spera's trust (not hard ), Navarre captures Spera!"

[Romsca]

Sounds great!

[Ceteruler]

how would Navarre be faking injured?

[Romsca]

Maybe she won't. Maybe she'll just be faking sad and scared

[BloodGullet]

howdy all.  sorry I haven't posted in a while - had some serious things to deal with, but it seems I can get back to it now - anyway, I like the story so far and the way its been turning out.  here's a couple of ideas:

1 - to get the ship in the cove - both so they can be bombed by the ballistas and so they can launch and land a raiding party, we can have the anchor chain break and since the helm is lashed to port, the ship will spiral until someone (captain?) takes over and steers the ship there where we cut the ropes on the other sails and drop the forward anchor (smaller backup used while at port)  - just a thought

2 - one of the scenarios that I thought would be cool is to have Golfar and Skral have an epic sword battle on the main deck of the ship while it was under attack from the burning ballistas, with burning rigging falling all around, etc., as she discovers that he was the last of the crew of the Red Eagle that she was looking for.  I'm toying with the idea of her getting mortally or seriously wounded and falling overboard, maybe rescued by the woodlanders and healed, having a change of heart and helping them in their battle.

3 - also, (and this might happen in section 3) one of the classic plot twists is where the bad guys win the first battle, take over the stronghold of the good guys and then the good guys rally and win back their stronghold - I guess the caves in this case - ooh and/or the good guys have booby-trapped the place to cave-in or blow up somehow and then they escape just in time to see it all go up in flames with the bad guys in it (maybe I've seen too many movies    )

anyway, felt like I had to catch up here and throw it all out - like they say, throw it all against the wall and see what sticks  

edit: you can probably tell I've had a lot of time on my hands to think about this  

[Ceteruler]

Maybe she won't. Maybe she'll just be faking sad and scared

personally I'd find that hard to swallow. :p but whatever.

[Romsca]

Maybe she won't. Maybe she'll just be faking sad and scared

personally I'd find that hard to swallow. :p but whatever.

How come? Because she's a vermin? She's pretty young and doesn't have tattoos so I think she could at least fake that she's not a pirate. I think it might work

[BloodGullet]

Maybe she won't. Maybe she'll just be faking sad and scared

or faking an injury?

[Dannflower Reguba]

You've got one issue with this whole spy thing..... Me. Good luck keeping a LIVE vermin around within a mile of Xbalantie, you don't want to try something like that believe me. (she wears their skins for reason!) 

Besides, I thought we were trying to feasibly get one of the good beasts captured.

[Icefire]

I was just thinking the same thing, Dann. I find the whole vermin among us thing hard to swallow simply because there are so many of us who have either been hurt by vermin or who have lost loved ones to vermin. There is no way we would pity someone we've been planning to kill anyways.
HOWEVER, I think if one of the softer characters (SPERA  ) was captured, she could perhaps meet one of those vermin who could be swayed to the good side (for real...not faking since she'll have to convince her fellow Swords said person is loyal at some point). They could attempt escape or something. In the meantime, the Swords (Specifically Liv and perhaps Sora) are going nuts trying to come up with a plan to save said character (SPERA  ). Perhaps they're even torn, some believing it is pointless to save her while others don't care and still want to try. (Main reason I keep saying Spera? She has a fear of vermin. She'd have to get over that fear in order to make an ally, which I think would be an awesome side story.....personally...and there I go coming up with plots about other people again! )
One thing that must be considered in these plans, however, is time. Do we have the time (and post count) needed to develop this kind of a plot?

(BTW, Swords, we still need to make a decision on how we're going to play the council's final decision.)

Thoughts?

[BloodGullet]

I think Golfar could rescue Spera, after the epic sword battle with Skral of course as the ship is being battered, perhaps they both jump in the water and she swims her to shore, blah blah blah.  Spera could remind her of herself as a young stoat, or at least the kind of young beast she wanted to be, etc, etc.   anyway, Golfar could think she has accomplished her mission now no longer needs to be among the pirates, so that sets up some things like that.