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

Started August 25, 2022 by @ScotchTapeWorm group

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The Captain watched the chaos around him with the proud air of a father watching his children run around, screaming in a Walmart, knocking over shelves and generally making friends of themselves. Pyria jumped straight into the water, prompting an eye-brow raise. He was feeling unusually patient today, and was waiting for the boat to be lowered, not at all because he didn't want to ruin his coat.
Definitely.

Inez joined him in the boat, which wasn't too surprising the girl had a taste for adventure. A few others joined, muscles for the oars, and the Captain sat on a half rotted bench, squinting at the shore. His head barely turned as Inez gave a hurried apology and jumped in the water after the goblin, swimming to the beach. Though one of the rowers made a yelp as the rapier that flew through the air, the man ducked just in time for the sword to scratch the man next to him. The anger made them row faster.

It took Axel a minute to realize what Pyria was after, it wasn't until the creature made it to the winged person, and tackled. The pirate sat bolt upright, watching in horror as she tried to tug their wings off. The dingy wasn't at the shore yet, and the Captain clenched his fists, setting his jaw firmly. The winged person didn't take kindly to being mugged of their fancy metal appendages and screamed, flinging the goblin off and fleeing into the woods.

The raft made a gentle landing on the sand, bumping against the shore.The waves pulled at it, trying to bring the wood back to the ocean, trying to pull the raft back into the water. The Captain got out, boots hitting sand, with one hand he unholstered Greed, inspecting the shine, then the furry flash of Pyria taking off after the stranded man. He felt pissed. As both creatures disappeared into the dense jungle, the thrumming of the hunt began to build, a slow drum pounding in time with his heart.

The goblin had gone too far, Axel had wanted the winged person alive, unharmed for the moment, safely tucked away on his ship. And instead he had to search for both of them. Fiddling with Greed, he imagined putting a bullet straight through both of their eyes, a a slow sigh escaping his lips. The Captain waved the men on the oars to stay and he headed off into the jungle, hissing a low sound, eyes narrowed to slits. He still hadn't forgiven Pyria for her little stunt with the explosives, the goblin seemed much more of a liability than an asset, but pests were terribly hard to kill.

The green of the plants around him, the damp humidity of the air, still not free of the salt that sprayed in from the ocean. Axel tasted the air, his tongue flicking out for a second, his eyes narrowed further and he found his trail.

The Captain watched the chaos around him with the proud air of a father watching his children run around, screaming in a Walmart, knocking over shelves and generally making friends of themselves. Pyria jumped straight into the water, prompting an eye-brow raise. He was feeling unusually patient today, and was waiting for the boat to be lowered, not at all because he didn't want to ruin his coat.
Definitely.

(this entire chunk of text is so funny aaaa im in classss)

Once Inez had reached shallow water, she waded through the as fast as one could- that being annoyingly slow. Pyria tackled the poor man, who frantically ran off, sending her into the sand. "PY-" The goblin had already taken off after the metal-winged man, scurrying into the trees. Inez met land and immediately sprinted after the two as well.
The forest was lush with plants and greenery, but the aesthetic value of the place was less of a blessing and more of a challenge. Not one that Inez wasn't willing to take, of course. Quickly maneuvering through flora and over dips in the path, trying to reach the explosive creature as fast and as rapidly as possible, she took a quick lunge for Pyria.

Pyria's ears perk up, then she jumps into the trees, chasing after Juan that way, not bothering to slow her pace one bit.

"Pyria says no!" she calls back.

Kavo watched from the high point of the poop deck, squinting against the sunlight reflecting off the water.
Would the goblin tear off his wings like a kid with a fly?
Would Inez manage to stop the chaos even as her sword caused more?
Would Marooned Man turn out to be some winged monstrosity?
Would Axel Silver-tongue just shoot them all and dance on their graves?

All this and more, when we come back!

Juan continued to run, using all the strength in his body to move move run away they’ll take your wings again and you already lost them the first time RUN!

Eventually he found himself by a cove facing the other islands, but the weird evil thing kept trying to chase him and didn’t seem to be letting up. Maybe he could just kill it and use it for his supper, it didn’t seem all that intelligent after all. He found a rock in the sand sharp enough to cut through skin-the island was full of them around the shoreline-and held it close, waiting for the creature to near, to dare trying to take away his precious contraptions.

Pyria stops at the treeline, chittering at Juan.

"I just want shinies on your back! How much for them if I can't take them off of you by force?"

Inez caught herself as Pyria escaped her almost-grasp. She considered scaling a tree as well, just to show that she could, but realized it might take too long. She instead chose to spring back up and continue running alongside, until she looked up and acknowledged Juan. It was a facial expression she recognized; If Inez was intelligent on two subjects, it was swordsmanship and body language. It was the look of someone crazed and frightened, like an injured, long-suffering animal. She went silent until the goblin made her proposition.
"Pyria-" She exhaled, then turned to Juan. "Sorry." She considered assuring him with something, like 'She won't actually maim you,' But Inez wasn't quite sure of this herself.

Juan stepped back a little, further away from the gross monster. “No! No shinies! You don’t get to have them!” he shouted, looking half about ready to faint and the other half ready to burst into tears. “No, no, no!” then he really did burst into tears, sinking to his knees on the cool sand under the shade of the trees. He looked vulnerable, childlike even. He looked sad. Juan didn’t know what was going on, or how he’d gotten here… how did he get here? Who was that? Why were they breaching his exile? And why did everything hurt? Maria would have known how to fix this… no, no! She doesn’t matter anymore! Not when she betrayed us! Juan shook his head, slumping some. He was cold, and tired, and bare to the world. How had he gotten on this island anyways? What was going on? And with that, he’d forgotten everything. All he could recall was that he’d been running…

Pyria blinks.

She didn't know how to deal with tears, hers or other people's.

She drops onto Inez's shoulders lightly.