Kwatchi Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 (edited) Quote MCRA Result: Captured by Pontilan Brig. Finishes in King's Port Somewhere southeast of Terraversa Island: Captain Bishop yer Holiness Sir? Hrmmm. Yes, what is it now Cookie? I have another question about what happened. Well, what is it? Do ya think all the bad stuff dat happened to us... could it be because you lost dat lucky hat of yers? For the last time Cookie, my hat was not lucky. Was losing yer hat why you got older den? No Cookie. Hades is a wrathful deity who does not take the failure of his faithful lightly. My sudden (re) aging reflects what occurred, and I now must make amends to him. Captain, I'm thirsty. We have no water left Cookie. Captain, do you know where we are going? Yes Cookie. ... Captain, are we there yet? DAMN YER INSOLENT PRATTLE! Your Holiness, there is a ship bearing down on us from the east. It looks to be flying the colours of Charlatan Bay. Thank you Robin. It's about bloody time! Ahoy there! Who goes? His Holiness Captain-Bishop Meloche, Pirate Lord of Charlatan Bay, coming aboard! Welcome aboard the Peregrine your Holiness, sir. Thank you Mr. Moore. I see you had no problem taking possession of her from the Bastion shipyards. No problem at all sir. When you missed the rendez-vous, I circled around while Captain Nitoni took the Toucan on to home. It is sheer good fortune we found you out here. I do have a thousand questions though, if you'll permit. What of the fleet? All lost Mr. Moore to a single Mardierian brig. Mardierian?! But you were sailing under a Letter of Marque from Mardier! What in the blazes... That Letter of Marque was nothing more than a noose they gave us to slip over our own necks. We met them south of King's Port as agreed, and they acted as sweet as you would like, accepting our apologies for the Tarlo incident and what not. And no sooner than we set our sails, the brig turned on us and cut us to pieces like they were born to it. Captain's Amara's ship was reduced to kindling and we remaining few abandoned the Donatus after she was holed beyond reckoning. By Zeus' silver balls! What of the brig escort you had hired? Tucked tail and ran at the first sign of trouble. It was as if they forgot how to fight, though I suspect a hefty bribe to her captain may have had a hand in it. (And don't blashemy!) And those mercenary marines you had planned to take aboard? Did they not help in the defense of the Donatus? It seems there was an error in the wording of their contract forms and they never came aboard. It defies belief sir! That is does Mr. Moore. Some may call it fate or bad luck, but I perceive a thread running through these events and I intend to follow it to find who is holding the other end. I need to get back to Charlatan Bay with all haste; I will consult the Oracle in order to un-muddy these waters. You Captain Moore, will lead our punishment raid on Mardieran interests for me with whichever ships we can put to sea. For make no mistake, Mardier has declared war on us, and our response will be swift, harsh, and long remembered. Very good sir! We will make both you and Hades proud! I do have one further question however sir. Yes? What happened to your lucky hat? Edited September 12, 2017 by Kwatchi Quote
Kwatchi Posted January 3, 2017 Author Posted January 3, 2017 BTW, GulagUrag and I are looking for a third to do a predatory run versus Mardier this coming MRCA. PM me if interested. Quote
Elostirion Posted January 3, 2017 Posted January 3, 2017 1 hour ago, Kwatchi said: BTW, GulagUrag and I are looking for a third to do a predatory run versus Mardier this coming MRCA. PM me if interested. That sounds almost as good as your well-written story. Great MOC, great story, and great idea to go hunt some Mardierians! Quote
Tezclatipoca Posted January 4, 2017 Posted January 4, 2017 Great story ! And what a great way to turn this (strange) situation to a humourisical and profitable story ! I don't know if it's something planned, but IMO the next MRCA rules should have some extra rules and security controls to avoid such awkward situation being attacked by a Nation from which you have been assigned a Letter of Mark. Quote
blackdeathgr Posted January 5, 2017 Posted January 5, 2017 Great story, great angry face, great ship and that ...KaBLAM is surely turning into a BoBS meme...!!! Quote
Kwatchi Posted January 5, 2017 Author Posted January 5, 2017 Thanks for the comments all. 19 hours ago, Faladrin said: And what a great way to turn this (strange) situation to a humourisical and profitable story ! I don't know if it's something planned, but IMO the next MRCA rules should have some extra rules and security controls to avoid such awkward situation being attacked by a Nation from which you have been assigned a Letter of Mark. I probably should state for the record here that Bregir, Capt Genero, and I talked about the result after the fact and I give them all credit in the world for owning up to some mistakes that were made. But we should not lose sight of the fact that they stepped in to volunteer to get that MRCA completed and should be commended for it, and what occurred was mostly because it was their first experience with what can be a complicated system of multiple forms, etc.. I was offered to have the result overturned (in a "Bobby Ewing dream" kind of way if you get the reference) but after some thought I declined because of not wanting to set a precedent and it gave me & my brother material to continue our story-lines. It also got me out of my rut and inspired to build a new ship finally (the Donatus was pretty poor by the standards of this forum tbh) . So in the end what occurred ended up inspiring a couple of funny anecdotes and got two builders back at the table, and I take that as a positive. Quote
Tezclatipoca Posted January 6, 2017 Posted January 6, 2017 17 hours ago, Kwatchi said: But we should not lose sight of the fact that they stepped in to volunteer to get that MRCA completed and should be commended for it, and what occurred was mostly because it was their first experience with what can be a complicated system of multiple forms, etc.. So in the end what occurred ended up inspiring a couple of funny anecdotes and got two builders back at the table, and I take that as a positive. I was not thinking to blame anyone for that. I am just trying to underline a situation that could be difficult to handle when the MRCA's will be automatised. And it's great you and your brother took this opportunity to make positive stuff with that ! Quote
TitusV Posted January 6, 2017 Posted January 6, 2017 Indeed a very fine story, especially the opening dialogue But the ship is nice as well! Quote
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