[META - Ru] Hunting Pirates

[ChaosTheories]

There were so many lions wandering around at this point that Moth found himself diving back into the sand to avoid being seen. A grassy ledge hanging above a soft bed of sand made a perfect place for him to hide. There the bright stocking'd lion crouched, hopefully out of sight, to fret over his every worsening appearance.

"Oh this is ridiculous. Am I missing something?" He said to the air as he took a peek over the ledge. He noticed males and females alike dotting the landscape, many in small groups and immersed in private conversations of some kind. He also spotted another group of lions that he couldn't quite place. Maybe they were a ship that had newly returned from an outing. Oh, that would explain why everyone would be out, too! Perhaps they were important lions, or had found a particularly nice treasure.

Huh, if that was the case, wouldn't he have heard something about by now? His imagination could just be running wild again. Damn fruit... Though it wouldn't hurt to ask someone, he supposed. There were sure enough faces about that he could talk to!

Oh yeah, he had meant to walk to the Caverns as well. Moth got to his paws and shook himself off as best as he could. He still wasn't happy about his appearance, but there were other things on his mind now.  

[Rainhowl]

Nefarian wandered. He told the viking pirate that he was going to go to the cavern, yet... Not yet. Something seemed wrong, though he had no idea of what and he felt plagued by unease. The voice was strangely silent and he found himself wishing, yet again, that the En Gedi lands had been taken and that he was ruling there, in the stead of his own father, but wishing for things that had passed was little to no help.

His inky black ears swiveled and his head turned as a familiar scent caught his nose. The male that had him join in the first place was out and about. He'd not seen him much, not with Blackbeard having a slew of cublets to care for, but he was there now and a devilish grin slid across Nefarian's maw. He altered his own course to collide with the formidable lion, one of the very, very, very few mortal lions he held any sort of respect for. The scent of cubs caused a stirring in him, a want to have his own offspring, even if he had no desire to actually care for them. Memory of a certain, blue lioness also came to him as his mind wandered and he couldn't help but to wonder... But now was not the time for that.

"Greetings, Blackbeard."  

[Myrsky Syntynyt]

Dear gods, my apologies. Life happened. And it's going to happen again tomorrow and Friday, but I hope I can get this back on track after that.

In the meantime!

exclaim Stormborn exclaim
The viking intruders have, for the most part, managed to act or bluff their way past any lion who might suspect them of not belonging, with a few exceptions. Be wary, Stormborn, of Tamu and Teech.

Ru has flopped onto the sand and beckoned his band close, hissing at them to act concerned or surprised by his "fall." Once they've gathered around he informs them that at this point they have a choice of directions they can take. They can either continue along the shore or they can head inland.

Have your character say something along the lines of "let's get you home," if you want to head inland. Otherwise have them laugh like Ru's said something stupid to continue along the shore a bit longer.

exclaim Pirates exclaim
Do another check with 1d6 following the same guidelines as before to see how your character reacts to this cluster of lions on the beach.

If your character has already noticed them with a roll of 5 or 6, you might want to consider heading over to check things out. Or not. If it seems like something your character might do, roll 1d4 and if the number is odd the character will investigate. Otherwise they won't.

 

[Izzy Makani]

Andranis

Crud I got distracted and forgot. sweatdrop Here comes their reply to him.

Jasiri grinned as she was pulled closer. The way he had grabbed at them made her believe he hadn't believed that they were both real. It was rather amusing to her but his story was not. She turned her head towards the beach and rolled her eyes. The drunken idiot really expected them to believe that bull. She'd expected something a little more believable. However once her eyes focused on the beach what she saw disturbed her. On the beach was a fairly large cluster of lions but something was certainly wrong with them. She was sure they weren't members of the pride because she didn't recognize anyone in the group at all.

She had completely ignored her sister and the pirate holding her to him until now. She whirled her head about and prodded Imara with a paw. "Imara! Do you see them out there on the beach? Do you know any of them? Something is up. I don't recognize any of them at all." She told her sister in complete alarm.

Imara had actually paid attention to the male after his story. Her eyes widened and she made an "oooo" sound as though she was in awe. Mostly she was just appeasing the male, she didn't trully believe his story either but she wanted to see where the male would go from that story. "That's amazing! What did you do with the tiny elephants? Did you eat them?" She asked.

She hadn't paid her sisters actions any attention that is until she poked her with a paw and pointed out the the cluster of lions. "I see them." She replied and did her best to focus on their markings. She didn't recognize them either. "That is creepy. I don't recognize them either. They could be intruders..."  

[Annchen]

Halvdan did his best to fit in, and so far he'd managed ok. Sort of. Ok, so he hadn't said a thing, but he hadn't started a fight with any Pirates either. Stealth was the game, but there were too many stinking pirates around for his liking. They looked at him funny too. The grey-maned reaver had no clue how to deal with nosy Pirates without beating them up.

"Err... Arr!" he said, without much conviction, "Better get you home. Arr... Matey!"

((I just wanted to see how good/bad Halvdan is at this))  

[Princess_Feylin]

Ru winced at Halvdan's attempt to sound piratical. Evidently none of the time the older reaver had spent in the rogue lands had been spent around pirates, which was certainly for the best overall, but at the same time unfortunate for this particular outing.

Then he began to babble, since he had ostensibly fallen down drunk. As always happened when he tried to sound like a pirate or when he pretended to be drunk, he acquired something resembling a Scottish accent. "Y'knoo there was this girl once. Had wings like a fookin' voolture. But the best... well!"

He wasn't really much of an actor. Accents were one thing, but knowing what to say in the accent was another. And pirate was just hard for him. It rubbed him the wrong way all over. His sisters had been murdered by pirates.  

[Buffy_the_Bloody]

Teech, better known in the lands as Blackbeard, was growing more than suspicious, the closer he got. The crowd of lions around the beach wasn't abnormal. But he knew most of the pride, and being the Pirate King's son, his was familiar with most everyone. Not that he really mingled with them, but he had seen most of them around.

The closer he stepped, the more he realized these were all strangers. He arched an eyebrow, wondering if that might be where Joya was waiting for him. If anything, this was worth investigating, just to check on her.

"Avast!" He called out, red eyes looking at the group that were conversing and laughing on the beach.

"I've never seen the likes of you b'fore." He said. "Tell me your names." He demanded. He was a big male, and he had a lot of muscle to back up his words if he should need to.

"Now."  

[Rainhowl]

"Go back to your den, Flou."

Tamu's voice was more authoritative than the cub was used to, which startled her in to being rather dimur. The spotty cub's maw hung open in protest, but she said nothing.

"Now. We'll hunt for treasure later, but this is important. Be quick about it and don't talk to no one, okay?" He shooed Catfish's bold daughter away, in the direction of the dens. He moved in the other direction, heading nearer to Teech, who obviously had the same suspicions as himself.

"Ya'll don't act like no pirates I e're seen 'round here." He voiced, finally, a bit of a tremble to his words, although he did his best to seem big and brave. If they were gonna fight, he'd fight as hard as he could, albeit he was still only a youngster.

Nefarian's words fell on deaf ears as Teech moved away to confront the lot on the beach. Odd. Then again, he didn't know all the lions in the pride, but they didn't seem to be doing anything particularly unusual. For a moment, he entertained the notion of following the male... But he decided to wait and see what happened, first. He'd be down shortly.  

[Princess_Feylin]

"Yer too drunk to stand," Galning told Ru. "Y'oughter get home."

He nudged one of his companions and looked pointedly toward the pair of lions coming toward them. One of them looked familiar. The other one looked dangerous. Not like Dangerous For a Pirate, but Dangerous. Generally pirates were ranked lower on Galning's scale of what was dangerous, but the black lion with red eyes struck him as someone he didn't want to cross.

"We're new!" he exclaimed, lurching into Blackbeard's personal space as one of his eyes began to twitch. "Heard this was the pride to join for wenches and mead. Ale! Whatever you lot call it!"

He forced a grin and conjured up a belch that was still faintly vomit scented from heaving his guts up earlier. "Sorry. Ate something nasty earlier. Won't be doing that again."

The roll is to see how well he does at fooling Blackbeard and Tamu.  

[Princess_Feylin]

Joya was still looking for her brother, but now she was beginning to become annoyed. He had passed Late and was now into Very Late territory. It didn't matter to her that there might have been some reason for him to be late, like his cubs or something. She wasn't foolish enough to believe that he cared about the things enough to let them deter him from getting where he was supposed to be.

"Teech!" she roared.

She didn't often roar, but when she did, her voice was magnificently resonant. At least as long as she restricted herself to single-syllable words, roared one at a time. More complicated than that and some of the effect was lost.

"Teech!"  

[Andranis]

(Double roll moment! The first is for Pili, the other is for Munyu trying to bluff his way past Teech *Edit* Horribly done, Munyu lol )

"Nah, lass, they poked me in the eyes and ran off with their weird sea turtle. Never saw 'em again..." He licked his lips, then looked over to the lions on the beach. Well, that was a curious bunch... He'd barely noticed them before now, but nothing looked amiss to the horribly drunk lion. Regardless... He hobbled a bit in their direction. "Perhaps some investigation...? To satisfy the worries of two lovely lasses such as yerselves..." He turned to look behind him. "What do ye think, Jakk?"

The pale lion's ears went back as he watched the male with the fire-tipped tail leave. He really didn't like him... So much screaming in his head... He'd have to ask his mother when he got home. Which first they'd need to SURVIVE... His attention was on a black and white lion, questioning them. Oh balls... "Ah, aye, just... Taking our comrade home..." He gave Ru a bit of a shove. "Off with ye, let's get home, now..." Name, name... He couldn't give his REAL name, could he? "I... Be... Yan." Didn't pirates have other names? "But yee can call me Salty." Oh, he hoped that worked... "We're all rather new, ye see... That's pro'ly why ye don't know us... Yet. A stranger is only a friend ye haven't met yet." Talking like this was really sour on the tongue...

He flicked an ear, noticing a dark lion in the trees flanked by a pair of white lionesses. Something about that lion... He couldn't put his claw on it, but there was something about that lion...

Pili, too, was getting a strange feeling. As he waited for Jakk's opinion on the matter of investigating, he noticed a white lion amid the strange group. Not an unusual sight, as it was, with so many lions around to begin with, but there was just something about that lion... And he couldn't put his claw on it.  

[Conrad The Mighty]

No matter what the larger than average, lean, bright red lion thought of the pirates, the fact that his Captain was making demands that were not being met was enough. His mane was poorly groomed and his facial expression was stoic, solid as a rock. Intimidation wasn't his game, but one of the good things about pirates is that they're known to quickly band together to protect something they value, such as their land or lives. This was the duty of being on a crew, as a pirate in these lands.

As if walking in a line of his ancestors and the attention of all the pride, Target casually marched to Teech's left hind side with nothing to say. More like a trained solider awaiting orders than an individual party, or as Mekka preferred to think about it, as a piece of a singular entity waiting for judgement.

His milky lavender eyes had been worn with time in the hot sun, this actually gave his eyes a chance to truely settle on the creatures in question. They pierced through the deceit of the impostors, there was no way these were real pirates! 'Why would such a big group of newbies such as myself gather together?'

Several thoughts that flitted through his mind as he waited for the answers of the 'pirates', more asserting his facial expression's transformation into a poker face. If they were spooked, they would surely skatter like cockroaches and cause more harm than they may have intended.  

[Chimerical Beast]

"Oy, mate! Y'really drunk. Best we head home, now..." Inyoni hoped Ru would forgive the informality. She didn't dare call him 'captain' here.

Inyoni didn't like this. Not even a little bit. It was clear that a few of these pirates were a bit sharper than was good for them.

New. She really hoped these ale-addled curs bought that. She really didn't like the way two of the males were looking at Ru's band. It was the sort of look that would make her mad, if she were back home. Now... Now it just made her nervous.

((Roll to see how Inyoni does...))
((Aaand Inyoni makes a bad pirate))  

[Buffy_the_Bloody]

Sorry about the delay on my end! First post is Teech. Next will be Jakk.]


Had Teech not have been so focused on finding his sister, he may have noticed that Nefarion had spoken to him. But he simply was distracted, and he was getting a really dark feeling when it came to the lions that were staring back at him. Did he leave these strangers alone to answer to his sister's snarl? He really didn't want to see her at all if her temper was as riled as he was thinking it sounded.

"I be watchin' you. Don't let me catch you straying from your group." He answered to the lion that had belched. He frowned, disgusted even for a pirate. He wasn't even sure he believed their story. In fact, he was quite sure they weren't who they said they were. But he had bigger fish to fry at the moment.

He was always looking for a reason to hurt someone. This one would make quite a subject if he got too far away from the band of crewmates he was hanging around.

Then he responded to his sister's call, roaring loudly for her as well.
"I'm coming!" He growled, his own tone deep.

He cast one more look at the band of strangers, before making way to his sister.  

[Buffy_the_Bloody]

Jakk had already been staring at the strangers that had gathered on the beach. He heard Pili say his name, and he turned his head, clearing his throat.

"What? Yes. Aye." He said, nodding his head, not really paying attention to what had been asked. Something was off about them, and usually as drunk as he was, he'd be easy to fool. But they smelled weird, and he had a nose for smells..

Then he turned attention back to Pili, bowing his head to the ladies. "Pili, Ol'chap. Let's go explorin'." He said, grinning a little. He was always good with foiling plans, and he had a feeling, there was a plan going down right now.

"Excuse us, doves." He said to the twins, before turning and heading towards the group.