Post by sawg138 on Jul 5, 2013 20:20:31 GMT -5
[15:41] taus.solace: Phere would wander over to Lery after camp had finished being set up.
[15:45] taus.solace: "I would like to. go for a short walk, if you would come as well." *she smiles, brushing her hand gently over his arm*
[15:47] Misfit: He smiles "of course"
[15:53] taus.solace: *she guides him a little ways away* "It seems I do my best thinking on the ride, but talking comes easier on a stroll."
[15:56] Misfit: "It is easier than talking from horseback, and I get to touch you"
[16:08] taus.solace: *she guides him a little ways away* "It seems I do my best thinking on the ride, but talking comes easier on a stroll."
[16:08] taus.solace: *she slips her hand into his, but is quiet for a little while as they continue walking*
[16:09] Misfit: Oh, I got those. It ate my reply
[16:09] Misfit: "It is easier than talking from horseback, and I get to touch you"
[16:13] taus.solace: "I feel the same. I once thought I did not need the touch of another, that I was company enough. But.. that holds true no longer."
[16:18] Misfit: He nods. "it is exhilirating, the way I feel around you. It's like nothing I've felt before"
[16:26] taus.solace: *she smiles* "I imagine there are many things you have experienced.. more so than I have. You told me some of your past, but I wonder, if I could ask that you share some more. So many of our talks have been to calm my own worries. I have not given much chance for you to speak further on you."
[16:30] Misfit: "Ah, my past. I am from a poor village in Jamaca. I took on with a pirate captain as his cabin boy.... He was pleased enough with me I became a full member of his crew. We were... a most unpleasant crew, raiding coastal villages and merchant vessels. We were sailing to Splynn with a load of children for the market when the Revenge caught us. We never stood a chance, so I gathered the children and kept them safe. The Captain took me in. That was... nearly twenty years ago. i was barely more than a child"
[16:36] taus.solace: *she nods, a question forming in her expression, but she seems to hesitate to put it into words*
[16:37] Misfit: "Speak your mind, please"
[16:47] Misfit: He smiles reassuringly
[16:53] taus.solace: "You say it has been twenty years, and that you were so young.. Would you do things different, if you could?"
[16:56] Misfit: "I... do not know. We were poor, piracy was the only way to gain welath, power, respect. I was too young to fight the world like you ask. Our village was a stop for raiders more than merchants. Had I not sailed, I'd have been another poor fisherman or dead"
[17:04] taus.solace: *she shakes her head slightly* "That is not.. entirely what I meant.. I suppose I mean.. when you.. I suppose it was your captain, and not you.. with the children.." *starts to fumble over her words* "That is.. part of your past, not something you would go back to?"
[17:12] Misfit: "Oh. I am done as a slaver. At first i just did it to save my own skin. But after serving on the Revenge, I learned a different way. Sure, we still looted and pillaged, but only against other pirates or the Splugorth. Only targets who harm others"
[17:18] taus.solace: *she leans lightly against him* "After I had shared my background, and Anna's reaction to some of the parts, I could not imagine that it would still be a part of you. But I.. wanted to be certain."
[17:20] Misfit: He wraps an arm around her. "No, I can't ever go back to that"
[17:23] taus.solace: "smiles, then pauses thoughtfully for a moment.* "And what became of those children?"
[17:24] Misfit: "Anna funded an orphanage in Tortuga. She's notorious enough nobody messed with it. Many of her crew grew up in that orphanage"
[17:33] taus.solace: *slips an arm gently around his waist*
[17:36] Misfit: "She was always different. It was on the Revenge I fell in love with the sea"
[17:37] taus.solace: "You did not have a love of the sea before?"
[17:39] Misfit: "Not as much. Not since I was a little boy, skipping stones on the shore. Maybe I did rediscover that love, but life under my first captain... it was not a good life"
[17:42] taus.solace: "But serving with Anna.. it was different. A different sort of life."
[17:43] Misfit: He nods. "it was hard. Ships always have work to be done, plus battles, trading for supplies, supporting the orphanage...Making port...." and he trails off, looking away momentarily
[17:47] taus.solace: at his gaze wandering off, she frowns with concern. She asks gently: "Is... there something wrong?"
[17:48] Misfit: He coughs. "No, I just... I have a child in half the towns we've made port in"
[17:56] taus.solace: She asks softly, as if uncertain whether she should inquire further, "and the.." *hesitates* "are you....do you...go back?"
[18:11] taus.solace: "to visit.. your children... their mothers.. "
[18:13] Misfit: "I'd visit when we make port and sent money at other times" He frowns. "But it's not like any of them expected me to stay"
[18:19] taus.solace: *she nods, and asks with a hint of a smile* "So I need not worry about sharing you.. with any other besides the sea?"
[18:20] Misfit: "No. While they're mostly good women, none of them have made me feel like you do"
[18:26] taus.solace: *she smiles wider, tightening her arm lightly around his waist*
[18:31] taus.solace: "Even if you did have another, I do not think it would change the way I feel while around you. I have been prepared to accept one mate.. the one chosen to ensure the next generation. But since I am now free to choose, everything I have known about such things is no longer relevant. If you would have different rules, I can accept them."
[18:36] Misfit: "Well, a few of them would enjoy a tryst with you, but most prefer men. I'm not looking for a bunch like the Captain" he frowns "I was willing to share when I thought you would marry from your clan. That still stands"
[19:34] Misfit: "Well, a few of them would enjoy a tryst with you, but most prefer men. I'm not looking for a bunch like the Captain" he frowns "I was willing to share when I thought you would marry from your clan. That still stands"
[19:39] taus.solace: *she shakes her head, gently yet firmly* "As I have said, I will say again. I will not marry one within my clan. Not while I have a life, a possible future, with you.. After you are gone, perhaps not even then. The life they would have for me, with the mate of their choosing, it is no life after this one I have discovered."
[19:40] Misfit: "I know, but I would rather share than not have you at all"
[19:48] taus.solace: *she turns and kisses him briefly on the lips* "I will not be looking for another, not anytime soon. I am happy to have this time, these feelings, to share with you. I cannot imagine falling under the spell of another, until you are with me no more."
[19:49] Misfit: He returns the kill "Please, do so. I am already older than you and have a shorter life. Remember me fondly, but find happiness again"
[19:56] taus.solace: *she nods* "I intend to, but I do not expect I will find it within my people. Perhaps, I may be surprised, that the one presented to me would be caring.. But no, all the same, I cannot see how can I love one who would have me for one reason alone.."
[19:59] Misfit: He places a finger to her lips "No, not with your people. Don't worry about them. But should you wish another, I would rather share than lose you, no matter who the other is"
[20:07] taus.solace: *she smiles softly, nodding* "And I will share you if that is what you want, for I do not wish to lose you. At the least, no sooner than I must.."
[20:10] Misfit: He nods and tightens his hug. He's pretty strong for a squishy
[20:12] taus.solace: And she tightens her hug in turn, but is careful to remember that he IS a squishy
[20:12] Misfit: Hehehe
[20:12] Misfit: He holds the hug for some time before relaxing it and telling you of his life aboard the Revenge
[20:17] taus.solace: she lets him talk with few (if any) interruptions this time, letting him share as much as he wants
[20:32] Misfit: He speaks for some time. You gather discipline was light for a bunch of pirates. You also note he mentions ports across the globe, though they principally operated around the Caribbean
[20:34] taus.solace: and she probably does not have much idea as to the specific locations he mentions
[20:35] Misfit: Probably, but he elaborates if pressed
[20:37] taus.solace: unless he happens to have a map with him, she may mention that when they can look at a map, he could point them out to her. But for now, generalities is enough, though if he goes into some of the local's customes she may show some interest
[20:39] Misfit: He describes a lot of the local color
[20:45] Misfit: He also tells you about Anna's issues with Kryang, how she fled alone to draw off pursuit, the crew decided to get a ship to follow Anna while the Revenge, with Ousmane impersonating Anna would draw Kryang away. Aguirre tracked her to Juarez, then to another dimension. Upon her return, they lured Kryang into a trap and killed him, which is where he joined the party because of his grenade launcher
[20:52] taus.solace: was that what was going on just before Phere joined? She had been recruited to help find Aguirre
[20:53] Misfit: other adventures ensued and Aguirre was lost in the vampire attack
[20:55] taus.solace: thats right, it was the vamp attack,
[20:55] Misfit: Yep
[20:59] taus.solace: slightly off-topic question, i just compared their heights.. he's 58, she's 6'2. Would she have to stoop a bit to lean on his shoulder, or is she more resting her head on his head?
[21:00] Misfit: Either way, but she would have to stoop
[15:45] taus.solace: "I would like to. go for a short walk, if you would come as well." *she smiles, brushing her hand gently over his arm*
[15:47] Misfit: He smiles "of course"
[15:53] taus.solace: *she guides him a little ways away* "It seems I do my best thinking on the ride, but talking comes easier on a stroll."
[15:56] Misfit: "It is easier than talking from horseback, and I get to touch you"
[16:08] taus.solace: *she guides him a little ways away* "It seems I do my best thinking on the ride, but talking comes easier on a stroll."
[16:08] taus.solace: *she slips her hand into his, but is quiet for a little while as they continue walking*
[16:09] Misfit: Oh, I got those. It ate my reply
[16:09] Misfit: "It is easier than talking from horseback, and I get to touch you"
[16:13] taus.solace: "I feel the same. I once thought I did not need the touch of another, that I was company enough. But.. that holds true no longer."
[16:18] Misfit: He nods. "it is exhilirating, the way I feel around you. It's like nothing I've felt before"
[16:26] taus.solace: *she smiles* "I imagine there are many things you have experienced.. more so than I have. You told me some of your past, but I wonder, if I could ask that you share some more. So many of our talks have been to calm my own worries. I have not given much chance for you to speak further on you."
[16:30] Misfit: "Ah, my past. I am from a poor village in Jamaca. I took on with a pirate captain as his cabin boy.... He was pleased enough with me I became a full member of his crew. We were... a most unpleasant crew, raiding coastal villages and merchant vessels. We were sailing to Splynn with a load of children for the market when the Revenge caught us. We never stood a chance, so I gathered the children and kept them safe. The Captain took me in. That was... nearly twenty years ago. i was barely more than a child"
[16:36] taus.solace: *she nods, a question forming in her expression, but she seems to hesitate to put it into words*
[16:37] Misfit: "Speak your mind, please"
[16:47] Misfit: He smiles reassuringly
[16:53] taus.solace: "You say it has been twenty years, and that you were so young.. Would you do things different, if you could?"
[16:56] Misfit: "I... do not know. We were poor, piracy was the only way to gain welath, power, respect. I was too young to fight the world like you ask. Our village was a stop for raiders more than merchants. Had I not sailed, I'd have been another poor fisherman or dead"
[17:04] taus.solace: *she shakes her head slightly* "That is not.. entirely what I meant.. I suppose I mean.. when you.. I suppose it was your captain, and not you.. with the children.." *starts to fumble over her words* "That is.. part of your past, not something you would go back to?"
[17:12] Misfit: "Oh. I am done as a slaver. At first i just did it to save my own skin. But after serving on the Revenge, I learned a different way. Sure, we still looted and pillaged, but only against other pirates or the Splugorth. Only targets who harm others"
[17:18] taus.solace: *she leans lightly against him* "After I had shared my background, and Anna's reaction to some of the parts, I could not imagine that it would still be a part of you. But I.. wanted to be certain."
[17:20] Misfit: He wraps an arm around her. "No, I can't ever go back to that"
[17:23] taus.solace: "smiles, then pauses thoughtfully for a moment.* "And what became of those children?"
[17:24] Misfit: "Anna funded an orphanage in Tortuga. She's notorious enough nobody messed with it. Many of her crew grew up in that orphanage"
[17:33] taus.solace: *slips an arm gently around his waist*
[17:36] Misfit: "She was always different. It was on the Revenge I fell in love with the sea"
[17:37] taus.solace: "You did not have a love of the sea before?"
[17:39] Misfit: "Not as much. Not since I was a little boy, skipping stones on the shore. Maybe I did rediscover that love, but life under my first captain... it was not a good life"
[17:42] taus.solace: "But serving with Anna.. it was different. A different sort of life."
[17:43] Misfit: He nods. "it was hard. Ships always have work to be done, plus battles, trading for supplies, supporting the orphanage...Making port...." and he trails off, looking away momentarily
[17:47] taus.solace: at his gaze wandering off, she frowns with concern. She asks gently: "Is... there something wrong?"
[17:48] Misfit: He coughs. "No, I just... I have a child in half the towns we've made port in"
[17:56] taus.solace: She asks softly, as if uncertain whether she should inquire further, "and the.." *hesitates* "are you....do you...go back?"
[18:11] taus.solace: "to visit.. your children... their mothers.. "
[18:13] Misfit: "I'd visit when we make port and sent money at other times" He frowns. "But it's not like any of them expected me to stay"
[18:19] taus.solace: *she nods, and asks with a hint of a smile* "So I need not worry about sharing you.. with any other besides the sea?"
[18:20] Misfit: "No. While they're mostly good women, none of them have made me feel like you do"
[18:26] taus.solace: *she smiles wider, tightening her arm lightly around his waist*
[18:31] taus.solace: "Even if you did have another, I do not think it would change the way I feel while around you. I have been prepared to accept one mate.. the one chosen to ensure the next generation. But since I am now free to choose, everything I have known about such things is no longer relevant. If you would have different rules, I can accept them."
[18:36] Misfit: "Well, a few of them would enjoy a tryst with you, but most prefer men. I'm not looking for a bunch like the Captain" he frowns "I was willing to share when I thought you would marry from your clan. That still stands"
[19:34] Misfit: "Well, a few of them would enjoy a tryst with you, but most prefer men. I'm not looking for a bunch like the Captain" he frowns "I was willing to share when I thought you would marry from your clan. That still stands"
[19:39] taus.solace: *she shakes her head, gently yet firmly* "As I have said, I will say again. I will not marry one within my clan. Not while I have a life, a possible future, with you.. After you are gone, perhaps not even then. The life they would have for me, with the mate of their choosing, it is no life after this one I have discovered."
[19:40] Misfit: "I know, but I would rather share than not have you at all"
[19:48] taus.solace: *she turns and kisses him briefly on the lips* "I will not be looking for another, not anytime soon. I am happy to have this time, these feelings, to share with you. I cannot imagine falling under the spell of another, until you are with me no more."
[19:49] Misfit: He returns the kill "Please, do so. I am already older than you and have a shorter life. Remember me fondly, but find happiness again"
[19:56] taus.solace: *she nods* "I intend to, but I do not expect I will find it within my people. Perhaps, I may be surprised, that the one presented to me would be caring.. But no, all the same, I cannot see how can I love one who would have me for one reason alone.."
[19:59] Misfit: He places a finger to her lips "No, not with your people. Don't worry about them. But should you wish another, I would rather share than lose you, no matter who the other is"
[20:07] taus.solace: *she smiles softly, nodding* "And I will share you if that is what you want, for I do not wish to lose you. At the least, no sooner than I must.."
[20:10] Misfit: He nods and tightens his hug. He's pretty strong for a squishy
[20:12] taus.solace: And she tightens her hug in turn, but is careful to remember that he IS a squishy
[20:12] Misfit: Hehehe
[20:12] Misfit: He holds the hug for some time before relaxing it and telling you of his life aboard the Revenge
[20:17] taus.solace: she lets him talk with few (if any) interruptions this time, letting him share as much as he wants
[20:32] Misfit: He speaks for some time. You gather discipline was light for a bunch of pirates. You also note he mentions ports across the globe, though they principally operated around the Caribbean
[20:34] taus.solace: and she probably does not have much idea as to the specific locations he mentions
[20:35] Misfit: Probably, but he elaborates if pressed
[20:37] taus.solace: unless he happens to have a map with him, she may mention that when they can look at a map, he could point them out to her. But for now, generalities is enough, though if he goes into some of the local's customes she may show some interest
[20:39] Misfit: He describes a lot of the local color
[20:45] Misfit: He also tells you about Anna's issues with Kryang, how she fled alone to draw off pursuit, the crew decided to get a ship to follow Anna while the Revenge, with Ousmane impersonating Anna would draw Kryang away. Aguirre tracked her to Juarez, then to another dimension. Upon her return, they lured Kryang into a trap and killed him, which is where he joined the party because of his grenade launcher
[20:52] taus.solace: was that what was going on just before Phere joined? She had been recruited to help find Aguirre
[20:53] Misfit: other adventures ensued and Aguirre was lost in the vampire attack
[20:55] taus.solace: thats right, it was the vamp attack,
[20:55] Misfit: Yep
[20:59] taus.solace: slightly off-topic question, i just compared their heights.. he's 58, she's 6'2. Would she have to stoop a bit to lean on his shoulder, or is she more resting her head on his head?
[21:00] Misfit: Either way, but she would have to stoop
