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Post by Caitlin Cockfoster on Nov 19, 2013 19:59:49 GMT
Fulke jr. couldn't help but overhear, he was standing right there... He shook his head and whistled out loud.
"Pardon the intrusion miss, but that's really the pirates part you're describing there. Thieves are meant to be sneaky and fast. If you're going to steal something you need to be those two things, if you're there for the fight you need to see miss Cait about getting you a sword." He shook his head and mumbled something about teamwork as he excused himself from the ladies conversation.
She sat her glass down next to the decanter and leaned back. This was nice... like falling into a vat of marshmallow fluff. Calm, muffled, the rest of the world blocked out by the closed door to his cabin, and here they were safe inside. Safe from reality, safe from their own complicated lives. Safe from duty. Safe from context. Just. Safe. --Caitlin
"First up, you only need to kill on a job if you're either a complete screw up, or something's gone horribly wrong." said Ikuze. "Otherwise how're you gonna be able to steal from them again?" she asked the woman. "And besides... I'm a city girl. We're made for running and escapes. One little strum of Heavy here," said the thief with a grin as she patted her instrument with care, "and those "hardened killers" will be dancing to my tune." The girl shook her head at the man. "Nah, sword'll just weigh me down. Too noisy as well... although... if you're offering toys to share... got any knuckle-dusters lying around?" asked Ikuze.
She returned her attention to Rava. "Still ain't said what it is we're meant to be stealing. How big is it? How much is there that we're taking? Some kinda jewel? Heirloom thing? Need to know if I'm gonna need a bag or if my pouch's alright." she said tapping the pouch on her belt.
Last Edit: Nov 19, 2013 20:32:30 GMT by Ikuze Storm
Rava 1st looked over to the boy to answers "swords maybe strong but not as good as Daggers since swords have range , dagger have movement and its not like a big wooden thing" then she she turns to the Girl "and i what it could be out of 5 things but 2 out of the 5 maybe hard to get since they move around the world and one is honor, so we maybe going after a Huge vault of Goods and gold, 2 super honed artifact Daggers of a Bandit king" she keeps playing with her dagger "and the guys who are the owner are Bandits , thefts of a kind that use both brute force and stealth to get what they want , nothing like you seen before"
"So, we're after a pair of really old daggers. Got it." said Ikuze. "Not a problem. Just wait for the bandits to go to sleep, slip into the camp, take the daggers from their sleeping bodies, slip back out and easy as that. Don't think we'll be hitting this huge vault of yours though since its just the two of us going in. Probably tag it though if the rest of the boat want's to play later on though once we've got the daggers out." shrugged the thief.
The girl smirked at the older woman. "You really got to loosen up. Death, death, death, kill, kill, kill. Sounding more like an assassin than a thief here Rava. The pirates here may get your drift, but they ain't the ones going down there with ye. That'd be me. And I'm a thief. And I promise you, I doubt your bandit buddies have met a thief like me."
" yes , yes they have , and it ended badly , the bard kinda ended up being made into the fort's scarecrow , these guys are organized. they have shifts both at night and day , they are well armed with weapons and they are mixed so you may stop a few with music , but some have immunity to things i don't even know. we may able to sneak in but , that's what am trying to say , if one is alerted we are as much as dead unless we kill them 1st" she puts away her dagger as she keep eye contact" the most anyone can do is try to fight them from a far or kill them with clean kills by sneaking up on them since they don't think 2 times about who they are , if your a girl , you valuable and baby fodder unless your too young or old which then they will kill you. i seen this happen before."
she looks to the side for a second " so hopefully can hold yourself since this may get messy"
Wow... this one's a real piece of work. thought Ikuze to herself. "I don't think their taste in music will apply here. Nobodies immune to what I've got up my sleeves... if I had any sleeves." she said with a slight chuckle. "Then we'd best not alert one them eh? Don't feel like using up all I got just to get past any sentries." said Ikuze before she turned around to head back down the corridor. "Since you know so much about these camps, draw up a map of the most likely set-up they'd have and where the guys with the daggers might be at." said the thief as she started to head in the direction of the bridge, since she had no clue at all about where a map-room on this pile of floating wood and metal would be. "I ain't going in blind."
Last Edit: Nov 19, 2013 21:50:27 GMT by Ikuze Storm
Rava got up "sure well here the thing , if i think i know where we are going then the fort we be going to will have 4 levels , 2 underground, counting the vault level , i only been on the top side since i was young at them time and its was big to remember " as she looks around for some paper " you would have any paper on you?"
The thief led the way to the bridge and immediately started to rummage around for some paper before she felt a tap on her shoulder. She looked up and one of the crew was giving her a look. "Not what it looks like." was her immediate response, putting her hands up instinctively to show they were empty. "Trying to find some paper to draw up a map for the heist." she explained rather quickly so the crewman didn't decide to boot them out of the room. He went to a drawer in the room and produced a sheet of paper and some leads, handing them to the azure maned girl. "Thanks." said Ikuze who offered them to Rava.
"Well, we just need to grab the daggers. Once we're sure they ain't on the two topside levels, then we can have a mild panic about what we do next. Besides, need to get past the sentries first. What kinda patrols, any towers that kinda thing. Heck, the walls made of wood or stone?" asked the thief, trying to get as much info as she could, her mind already trying to figure out how the hell they were going to pull this off without fulfilling this woman's death fetish.
Rava started to draw up the 1st 2 top layers as she slowly explained " the outer walls are make with rock and have spikes sticking out of them to stop climbers from getting in , only people like me can climb them safely since there a method of climbing them , the patrols are are 3 men per post so they have eyes everywhere , there maybe more now as they maybe preparing for something. the inner layer has 2 parts the outside where the new bandits are trained and live and then the castle which the older ones live and train with more advanced styles of fighting, i have been only in these 2 area , from what i hear the lower levels are the elite's area , the throne room , the forge but that maybe not alive , not since the last blacksmith died , and the vault which is over seen by a vault counter who keep note of whats inside the vault" she also draws out a second area " also over here is the prison ... we may need to go there since there maybe some young woman being held there" she quickly drawn out a quick chart of what they do there "if we dont they will be force into having children and then killed since the bandits have a blood thing thay dont excpet anyone except family so think of that prison as a baby factory that we need to stop, "
"Thought you said this place was a camp, not a bloody fortress!" said Ikuze as she listened to the woman describe the place they were supposed to sneak inside and grab a pair of daggers from. "Whoa whoa... I don't like the idea of a baby factory any more than the next girl, but we're not there to be heroes. We're there to grab a pair of ancient lumps of metal, and then get the hell out." the thief said, making a mental note to add lunacy to this woman's list of traits, along with her death fetish.
She looked over the map again. "Spikes sticking out to stop climbers getting in? These guys are idiots. They built in a climbing system into their own defences with those things. Even the nobles with no brains in the city know that you want smooth walls. No footholds and all." she said with a grin. "For a bunch of supposedly rough and tough bandits, they sure don't have much brains." the girl chuckled.
She trailed her fingers over the map. "So, three guards at each of the patrols... and I'm gonna guess that its most likely these daggers of yours are in the inner layer with the castle yeah? Great..." muttered Ikuze before she looked around for one of the crew. "Hey buddy, don't suppose there's any chance we can just drop in from the air into this joint? And then make our way out once we've got the loot? Doubt they'd be looking for someone breaking out of their little fortress when they're too busy looking out the way."
Rava looked at her with the face of " she is way too optimistic for not knowing what she walking into" as she face palms herself " but them spikes have more to them the what you think, the reason why they are hard to climb is more the fact that some are fake and some are traps that fire out and stab out as well as being coated in blood and oil" hopefully this got to her that the men and woman they be facing are not second rates but bandits , people who are hardened and train to kill kings, take train and boats and destroy towns and villages just for gold. she finished the map " if you want to sneak in you need to hit them where they have to open the gates, for releasing the prisoners from the near by prison will open the gates for a window of opportunity , then when we are in the little camp of the fort if we kill the wall posts we will open a window for escape in case things go south , then well have to sneak or fight our way in until we reach the levels below which then if we can make it to the trap control rooms we can let the traps do there job of clearing the forts of it elite and open us a path to the vault door and the vault counter desk , from there let me talk my way to him, since this door will only open by his key and he is a kind old man forced to keep count for these bandits"
"there is no way to be fully a ghost here since eyes are everywhere"
"Alright first, I doubt the blood part." said the thief with a frown on her face. "Blood dries. Unless these psychos are constantly putting fresh blood on these spikes of yours, then I doubt the blood bit. And that's meant to scare me? As for oil... throw a torch at the damned wall. Oil burns. They want to stick that stuff on their defenses, then hell, let's just burn it." she said. "Sorry, but these lunatics are sounding more like a damned foreign army than a bunch of bandits. Bandits are blokes that hide out in forests and occasionally hold up people on the roads. Not make fortresses of absurd levels of death traps."
The thief looked over the map once more. "And please, through the front door? You just said how many patrols they do. The front door will be the most heavily guarded, no matter if its open or closed. You got a death wish or something lady?" asked Ikuze increduously. "And there's another problem. If we kill those guards there, what's to stop a patrol finding their corpses eh? Or someone noticing a patrols gone missing? You suggesting we go butchering every single person in our way? Just the two of us?" the azure maned thief asked. "Your story ain't holding up neither Rava. You said not a minute ago, that you didn't have a clue what was down below, and now you're coming up with directions and even a person to get into the vault?" she said suspiciously.
"I thought we were going in for a pair of ancient daggers which you said were on two people in this camp. Unless these people of yours live in the vault, we don't need to go anywhere near it. You sure you know what you're on about here lady and not just leading us on some wild goose chase? Or some kind of set-up to get at the Baroness? Sorry, but I ain't risking my neck on a robbery when the details aren't matching up." Ikuze said, glaring at the woman.
Last Edit: Nov 22, 2013 0:04:38 GMT by Ikuze Storm
Post by Caitlin Cockfoster on Nov 22, 2013 5:19:52 GMT
Fulke jr. had heard enough and he gave up his hiding place around the corner where he went to eavesdrop on the rest of the convo. He had so many conflicting ideas with all the things these two were bouncing back and forth. On the one hand Rava was deathly injured when she arrived here, and no matter how much of a sneak you were, you wouldn't go agreeing to that kind of personal risk just to trick someone. On the other hand... Ikuze was right and the things Rava was describing were nothing like the handiwork of a band of thieves... these were cut throat tactics that even the cut-throat pirates wouldn't indulge in. But perhaps there was a bigger picture. Perhaps there were NO bandits at all, and maybe Rava was really a member of Lodan's secret assassin's guild. Everyone said that the five guilds of Lodan had seen enough war for a while and no one would be stupid enough to start things up again anytime soon. But what if they were wrong? The last war started with the pirates and the assassins... what if the assassins sent in an agent of their own to get to the Queen of Rogues? What if this was all some kind of set up?
He quickened his pace and rushed back to his father. If Fulke Sr. thought there was any chance that jr.'s suspicions were correct then he'd pass them on to the mistress. He just hoped that there would be some kind of proof that he was wrong.
She sat her glass down next to the decanter and leaned back. This was nice... like falling into a vat of marshmallow fluff. Calm, muffled, the rest of the world blocked out by the closed door to his cabin, and here they were safe inside. Safe from reality, safe from their own complicated lives. Safe from duty. Safe from context. Just. Safe. --Caitlin
Rava face palmed herself again , this girl was not clearly hearing her and understanding "ok , 1st i am guessing all the directions for the lower levels since i only been on the top levels and this is what i heard , 2ed i did say there where in the Vault and i know the person who the Counter who has the key since he came up to the top levels from time to time to count the the younger Bandits things they stole, also i only been there 3 times in my life before since i was always travailing so am just Giving the knowledge of the fort that i was told and what i had been shown, and yes they keep the blood on the spikes up to the point that they apply it when they can as well as the oil " she stopped for a second to gather her thoughts "ok listen i know it sound odd and out of place but it true and i from what i have happened to me i didn't expect myself to end up on this mission and to be dead in a few day or sooner since i was cut open , my child taken from me and then I was abandoned in a city left to die with only for some reason your leader getting a note from the bandits as the bandit have some sort of sick way thinking you guys would have hunted me down for the bounty on my head or something along the lines like that??? but instead this is happening and now am taking this chance i been given heavy because this is the 1st time people have helped me even when i tried to steal something from them. " Rava sat back down to rest as belly started to hurt " i wish to be honorable to take the chance to rewrite some of the wrongs i have done .... and try and do some good , i know for sure i will never get my own child back or forget the horrible things i done but for his sake ........maybe doing this will slow down his rise to being the next bandit king ....... and maybe lead him back to me ....... " tears come from her eyes as she explained herself , opening her self up again to a person she didn't know unintentionally
below deck in the brigg a young boy climbs out of a box and looks around "am on , now i have to find her or who ever command this ship"
(Oc reveled , Mini bio coming soon)
Last Edit: Nov 22, 2013 19:58:13 GMT by Rava: edit for Rp story reasons
Ikuze raised an eyebrow at the woman's speech, walking over to her to try and place a hand on her shoulder. "So... let me see if I've got this right... These bandits of yours, they cut out your kid from your guts, and are gonna make him their king?" she asked. "And then they dumped you in Lodan, with a note about them?"
The thief considered the situation. "Yeah... this is still sounding like a trap. But you aren't the one setting it. You're the bait. Or your kid is to put it better. These bandit bastards figured that the Baroness wouldn't just let this go easy when she heard about your kid being ripped from your belly... This is a drat trap for her..." said the blue haired girl before looking around at the men and women on the brige.
"Oi! One of you lot find the boss. And tell her this got more complicated. Seems these Beetles are trying to close pincers around our Queenie. Least, that's the way it looks from here." she amended. Ikuze would let Caitlin call the final shot on if this was a trap or not... there was something the thief wanted to get cleared up first.
"So... Rava... This was never about some daggers was it? You really just want to grab your baby boy yeah?" Ikuze asked her. "Tell you what... whilst the pirates play with the bandits, I'll go pay his royal highness a visit and bring him to see mummy. Sound like a plan?" the doxy-child suggested, her mind already going through routes through the camps map to wherever it is that the baby would be held.
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