forum "Bloodstained Gold" (Pirate Group RP) {Closed}

Started August 25, 2022 by @ScotchTapeWorm group

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The Captain paused, the door had opened while he was still chuckling, so he couldn't do the whole- "Oh! I didn't see you there." He sadly chucked that idea out the window, waving goodbye to it in his mind. He loved that line. Instead, the tiniest bit of a frown marred his brow, he didn't stand. While he was sitting and they were standing, Axel felt like he had the upper-hand in the conversation, and if he decided to stand, it would have to be at the right time.

He looked over both of them with his intense eyes. Violet colored and filled with greed and hunger, as he stared at them, he had the unsettling ability to make it look like the person had all of his attention, every gram of interest and focus narrowed in on one person, like they were the only thing in the word he could see. He waved a hand lazily, motioning at the elaborate cabin around him to hide his other hand making the motion that ordered the runes to dim a fraction, making the lighting even more dramatic. Silver-Tongue had showmanship, even if it was his only redeeming quality.

"Welcome! I hear you two have been making quite the fuss on.. My ship." He spoke with his customary hiss, on the s', a side effect of his serpentine blood and thinner tongue. He also put emphasis on words differently than other people, pressing down on 'my', like he was trying to expand it, to own more than what he was talking about.

"Sso. Care to explain yourselves?" He emphasized the hiss this time to sound more hostile, his gaze raking over the goblin, then the pretty man, where he hesitated. It.. It had the same eyes as the Siren, filled with hatred at him. Bronze-eyes that spoke of tearing him apart, of making him beg at his feet before taking Axel's life. The thing had managed to get legs. A slow smile crept onto his face, looking self-satisfied, near smug. Delightful.

(Lol, balance? There's none of that here XD It's all chaos, no order. The closest thing we have to order is Kavo, and he's still a pirate)

(A crabby pirate, thank you very much 😂)

Pyria scuttles right over to the desk and climbs on top of it, a clear sign of disrespect.

"You will let me join your crew." she growls, not leaving any room for argument. "Or I will blow everything within a nautical mile to the bottom of the ocean."

"And you will not harm that man any more than you have already." she adds.

Silver-Tongue clicked disapprovingly. He'd received far more strongly worded job offers from prospective pirates, he'd hired a woman once, who as her opening line had offered to slit his throat and water her family tree with his blood. Axel had liked her. Worked for the ship for over two years before he had to kill her. A shame that.

So the confidence was not off putting to the Captain from the goblin creatures words. It was the fact that it was standing on his desk, completely spoiling the power dynamic he was going for! What was the point of putting on a show if the audience didn't play along. Trying to keep his proverbial feathers unruffled, Axel looked up at the creature, weighing it, evaluating its uses. Obviously into explosives, likely where the smell of smoke came from. Tasting the air, with a quick intake of breath, the goblin smelled like gunpowder and fire, as well as singed hair.. The Captain wrinkled his nose, trying to wash the taste from his mouth.

Yet- He caught something else. The smell of the pretty man. A similar fishy scent, with the clothes not at all matching the scent of the body, tinged with the tang of blood. It confirmed his suspicions, it was the Siren. The fish had gone to land.

Back to the goblin, he narrowed his eyes to slits, then shrugged.

"Sure. You can join. Welcome aboard." The additional caveat was the one that bothered him. It was his ship, and his crew. In Axel's mind that was enough justification to do what he wished. The Siren was not part of his crew, therefore not a reflection of himself, which meant, through the series of increasingly difficult mental gymnastics, that the sea creature was free to be treated how the Captain liked.

The Captain contented himself with finally coming to the conclusion that he hadn't promised the goblin anything. Silver-Tongue, while a cheat, a liar, and overall professional scoundrel, he didn't break promises.. Just weaseled out of them.
"Have some of the crew show you around. And, feel free to keep what you took from my room, consider it a gift." In the confines of his quarter, the Captain had no naval accent, no exaggerated pirate speak. His voice was hissing and scratching, with a rumbling growl behind his words no matter his mood. It was lower than it was before, and had a bit of a land accent.
Hopefully that would appease the friend and it would leave without too many questions. If not, well- Alternative measures could be taken. Axel palmed a gold coin with one of his hands that was closer to his back, buffing it against the coat to make it gleam briefly. He offered it to the goblin, head tilted to the side, held out in a way that he could snatch his fingers back if the.. Thing.. Liked to bite.

Kavo nodded slowly as the Captain nonchalantly accepted the goblin's offer of joining the ship. He was impressed with Silver-tongue's restraint.

For a man who could have just put a bullet between the goblin's eyes and been done with it, he'd shown remarkable mercy in allowing the critter to mouth off to him, and now allowing it to leave.

Kavo stepped slightly out of the door frame, allowing the goblin space to exit. The Captain was even offering the charming creature money, despite the fact that he knew full well, if the goblin didn't move, Kavo was fully ready to just scoop it up by the scruff of its neck and move it himself.

Pyria tilts her head, considering the coin. She may not be the brightest, but in order to work with explosives you needed a certain attention to detail.

"Yous didn't agree to the terms I set with the man." she says, pulling out a strange looking chemical.

The Captain rolled his eyes, pocketing the coin. He stared hard at the goblin.

"And you didn't ask to be on my crew. But I'll accept your terms. Now.. Get off my desk." While it would have been nicer if the goblin hadn't noticed, this was still workable. The thing had only said that 'he' couldn't hurt the man any more than he already had. The Captain was okay with that. Besides 'hurt' was such a broad term, there was more wiggle room than Axel could have ever asked for.

His feral smile returned, and he nodded slightly at Kavo.

"Kavo! Escort our new… friend out. Their time for haggling is over."

Kavo moved, pincering the goblin around its waist and closing the other pincer around the hand holding the chemical. He lifted the goblin off the desk and carried it away, out the door and up onto the deck, where he set her down. "Maybe don't threaten the Captain."

"I will do what I want, crabman." Pyria hisses.

"And as for touching me again, don't." she adds, brushing herself off.

Kavo smirked to himself as he turned to go back down. "I'm sure you will. And Ill keep my grubby pincers to myself as long as you keep your grubby paws to yourself." He headed back to the Captain's cabin below deck, deciding that the goblin wasn't his problem. If they burned the ship down, they could deal with the aftermath without him trying to mitigate things.
He stayed outside the cabin door this time, waiting to see if he'd be needed. He rather doubted it, but.
You never knew on the Deceit.

When Kavo's grip adjusted to Orion's pant line his eyes widen and he raises his eyebrows "slow down handsome. At least take me to dinner first" Orion says to him, putting his hands up as if he were being held at gunpoint.
"I will say, I've never been flirted with this….rough," he says with a shrug, trying his best to fight the urge to yank away from the giant crab man. "Oh, we should come up with a safe word! You know, before things get too rough" he says with a wink, knowing there was no use in trying to fight him after seeing that he was basically immortal from his giant, razor-sharp claws, and his brute strength to his impenetrable armor-like skin.
Now that his loved ones weren't being ripped to shreds and he wasn't focused on trying to escape at the moment, Orion's true personality was shining almost as bright as the moon above them. He was quick, witty, flirty, and most of all, sassy as hell. And he thought he was the shit lemme tell ya.

When they are all brought to the captain's quarters, Orion's muscles tense but he keeps his cool, not wanting to show any more weakness than he already had.
(I'm going to assume Kavo still has a hold of him. I couldn't find when he let go of him either. I tried to find out but I couldn't seem to find anything that specified. I'm sorry if I missed it though.)
Stumbling into the room, his body still being held on a tight leash by Kavo's hands by his pants. His eyes stray from Kavo to the goblin as it disrespectfully jumps on the desk in front of the captain, asking to be a part of the crew.
Wait… a part of the crew?? Who would want to be a part of this wretched crew? For the gold? For the title? Or so even more morally twisted and sick pirates can come together and create more havoc, chaos, and suffering.
Orion is surprised, to say the least when the goblin mentions him in the deal, not expecting it. He lets his dark lips curl into a smirk and he looks to Kavo, nudging his side with his elbow "as least someone loves me here"
you tell him, miss goblin-thing he thinks to himself smugly
Though when the captain starts to speak up again, his face turns serious and his eyes soften into a glare. He couldn't stand looking at the serpent, let alone talking to him. How could he after what he's done?
Kavo at least tore his friends up quickly, his intention only to kill and end life. Axel on the other hand loved to watch the suffering. He thrived off of the suffering, pain, and grief of others. It sickened Orion, to say the least.
But even now he holds his ground. Looking him in his snake-like eyes as he speaks. As those gross words slither off of that tongue like water off a duck's back.
"i don't know about yall, but everything's going pretty smoothly on my end," he says, looking around at everyone. "I've got a hunk of a crustacean flirting with me, a goblin on my side, a cute girl for company and an audience with the captain." he replies "though, you look much-much worse up close. Thought I should let you know that. Might wanna do something with your uh- everything"
When Kavo lets go of Orion and grabs a hold of the goblin, he was tempted to reach toward the creature but he decides against it. He wanted to help her to return the favor but figured he would try to do so another time.

(im gonna post after orion if thats alright)

(sorry!)

"And you will not harm that man any more than you already have." Inez nodded in agreement, even if the man in the room could not see her. She wondered how Pyria knew about Orion, though. It was possible she had better hearing than most. The captain continued speaking to Pyria.

From outside the door, Inez listened to the stark contrast in conversations. Well, Kavo and the Siren were a bit one-sided. Less of a conversation. She held back hysterical laughter at the entire thing, maybe the exhaustion trying to step in. She knew this but decided to ignore it.
"…I don't know about yall, but…-" Inez considered coming in and screaming at him to shut up. He'd already seen how captain Silver-Tongue would react.
"Yous didn't agree to the terms I set with the man."
Kavo escorts Pyria outside.
Shit.
Inez slips into the room quickly, her weapon facing the ground so as not to look hostile. She tried to catch Orion's eye and indicate the severity of what he was doing. She didn't know if it whether or not stepping in was a mistake, but she rarely thought twice, and then wasn't one of those times. She saw the look in the Captain's eye and chose to stay. If he was distracted by her reappearance, maybe, at least some of the negative attention would be off Orion. So long as he didn't tempt him anymore. If you can't choose between loyalty and morals, why not disguise one with the other? "Captain, I'd like to apologize for-" There was a word for that, wasn't there? "My absence." That.
(sorry for the shorter reply)

("Miss goblin thing" XD nobody is sure what she even is exactly! Then again, she has rabbit ears, humanoid cat paws for front hands [opposable thumbs, obviously] and cat eyes, plus a kind've elongated face like a wolf's snout, and a sinouous tail reminiscient of a monkey's [the rest of her is basically a monkey's body as well]. It'd be a bit difficult to tell lol.)

Pyria chitters something rude in Goblin then bounds away, scaling the nets and sails to get to the crow's nest.

As the goblin thing was escorted out, the Captain's eyes slid back to Orion. The Siren had spoken, it seemed cocky, a gamble. It occurred to Axel that he'd been fairly merciful today, though maybe the chilled chunks of flesh disagreed. He stayed dead silent for a long, long moment. Taking in a shallow breath through his mouth, the tip of his tongue just barely poking out, he tasted the air again. The clothes smelled of blood, booze, and other bodies, so it was likely one of the hired help, someone nameless.. If they weren't dead already, they would be.
The smell of the creatures skin was unmistakable, the smell of the ocean in every pore and those bronze eyes that hated his very existence. It was thrilling. Maybe Axel was even a little bit flattered, all he had to do to get a permanent place in the Sirens mind was to murder and maim his whole family. It really wasn't too hard.

The Captain was still lounging in his chair, though he seemed on the cusp of rising, of doing.. something. When a young girl barreled through the door, which made the man's hands go to his guns, but they twitched away just as quickly as he recognized Inez.

"Captain, I'd like to apologize for-" A pause. "My absence." It genuinely took Silver-Tongue a whole 10 seconds to realize what Inez was talking about. He frowned slightly, looking taken off guard, momentarily speechless. The little cook was worried abut that?? Now?? The ridiculousness of it made Axel's lips curl upwards, and he looked like he was holding back a laugh.

"Inez, lass. You're new, I doubt you've got your sea-legs, much less a stomach for blood. I'm impressed you lasted as long as you did!" The Captain sounded.. Proud? He was different with his crew, these people were his. And the Captain liked to think he took care of his belongings. He liked Inez well enough, she was a good cook and she seemed loyal. Just a tad squeamish, and that could be remedied over time. The Captains eyes softened slightly, and he chuckled, shaking his head, his angry tension from before dispelled. He rested his chin on his fist, looking from Orion to Inez, shaking his head again.

"What am I to do with you two..? Hm?" He finally stood, and while he was in a cheerier mood, he never quite turned his back on either of them. Axel walked over to his drink cabinet, unstopping one bottle and sniffing it, before grimacing and grabbing something else. A clear bottle with a dark liquid in it, despite its unorthodox look and bottle, it was red wine. Silver-Tongue looked up, waving the bottle at the two.

"Anyone want anything?" A smile, showing teeth, and eyes ready for a game, rather than murder.