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On Da High Seaz (Pirates MT)

Toops
17-12-2008, 14:31
(OOC: Link to OOC thread: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=576460, got enough players for now, hopefully though I'll be reusing this character)

The baby blue sky was reflected upon the calm deep seas, putting contrast on the dingy rusted metal of the desecrated Oil Tanker, old Cyrillic letters poked out from under crudely welded upon sheets of "Armour" The whole ship was so large that vast areas had gone without modification by the grungey Goblin crew, however, a large hand painted name was spread over the tip of the Bow, it seemed to yell "BLACK MEAD"

Crashing through the level sea was the tiny jug, its contents emptied, of the favoured Goblin alcohol, Gumwheat Cider, its responsible owner swept his scarlet red overcoat sleeve over his drooling lips, unlike the petulant four foot tall Goblins which rushed about his feet this Goblin seemed taller and more respectable, lacking the obvious mental deficiancies of a normal greenskin, he wore an array of human clothes including a trademark red overcoat and stereotypical tricorn Naval Hat, the bear of its original owner scrawled over with a crude skull image.

"Kappin!" A thuggish looking Goblin yelled from atop a large smoking spire, "Dis Humie thin' is beppin'!" He yelled and pointed at the looted radar console, Abscham, the Kappin, had suspected the usefulness of the machine, he knew what it was, but he had it installed by Humie slaves, and even they complained that it wouldn't work.

"Wazzit say!" Abscham shouted back to the Hobgoblin, "Iz der a big green bloob movin' tah-wards da zenter?"

The Hobgoblin took a moment to re-evaluate the screen, "Yah kappin! Wosizzit?" He yelled back, not even taking the time to look at the Kappin.

"Isiz lootz!" Abschams eyes began to beam, "Getaz Torkpedoes ready!" He yelled at one meek group of Goblins, they scattered, pulling out long narrow staffs and attaching large grape like heads to them, "Boyz! Getz ready fur some fightinz!!!" The next few minutes on deck were frantic as Torkpedoes were passed around and tossed into what looked like giant mortars, each of the Rokkits took off with a cloud of choking black smoke and a rush of fire.

Abscham pulled out the dented and bent 'Umiescope, he could see the target listing on the horizon, some of the many launched mortars had hit the lone vessel and it was now busily smoking, "Oy!" Abscham yelled, below the walls of the Black Mead there was resting a group of three Goblin Frigates, they were tiny vessels, but no less packed to the brim with gunz, they were small enough to have lashed themselves to the Black Mead for protection and food, "Ya Kowadzly Friggit Boyz! Getz yah Goblin buttz intah gear! Wez gotz inboun' lootinz tah do!"

The Frigate quickly pulled off from the large Oil Tanker, it was followed soon by two others, they made their way slowly towards the stricken cargo vessel, which was now limping away from the incoming flotilla, "Skug it!" Abscham yelled as the vessel dissapeared from sight again, "Bring us closah againz!" He shouted to the idling Helmsman, "Boyz! Getz de Torkpedoes ready an' 'ave em all pinned down!"

The Frigates, being much faster than the Black Mead, were catching on the cargo ship, close enough to bring their long guns to bear, they didn't want to sink the ship, just give them enough of a scare to slow down or falter, "No Torkpedoes, just Gumwheat Bombz fuh dis!" The Goblin Commander yelled over to his bretheren, Instead of attaching the grinning head of the Torkpedo the Grotz began affixing what looked like golden rum barrels, they were thrown into the mortars like before, only instead of exploding on impact, the Gumwheat Bombz detonated above the ship in a magnificent fireball, some close enough to the enemy deck to provoke the yells of "'Umie pain!"

"Kappin!" The Hobgoblin tossed a small handheld device down to the Kappin, "Iz da humies, dey wanna talk surrendah!" Abscham smiled.

"Attention unknown Pirate fleet, we will surrender our cargo if you ensure the safe release of my vessel and crew!" The radio transmitted.

Abscham squeezed the trigger, "Nah, dasiz no fun!" He yelled in boorish Goblin slang, "Wezis gonna take yah vessel and all iz kontenz or wez gonna send yah to da bottom!" He grinned visciously.

"But!" The human objected, "You'll have not gained anything if you sink us!" He cried in desperation.

"Yah butz wat we looz in loot, wez make up for in all da dedz 'Umies!" The radio fell silent, Abscham knew that Humies would have to discuss this proposal.

The human sighed, he whispered, "What if you let just me go?" The human asked, Abscham was a little taken aback, Humans usually interested themselves in the group pack mentality, this was a very Goblin trait that the Human had shared, Abscham knew in the same circumstance he would do the same.

"Yeh, wez gotz a deal!" The radio line went dead, "Stop da gunz!" Abscham yelled, "Boyz! Wez gonna eatz tonight!" There was a cheer from over the deck as the guns fell silent again.
[NS]Kagetora
17-12-2008, 18:31
The Kataki flew over the waves. It was originally a small gunship, but the pirates had remodeled it to suit their needs.
"Hey captain, there are a bunch of ships off to starboard!" yelled the pilot.
The captain turned around. He had short black hair, and his left was sealed shut with a long gash that seemed like it came from a knife fight.
"Good. We're running short on water. Deploy the jetskis."

5 jetskis, which had been altered to hold 5 people each, were released from their moorings, and a bunch of people sailed off, their assault rifles ready.
Tolvan
18-12-2008, 00:42
Tolvanic Merchant Convoy Echo Five-Two

The convoy was a rather small one by any standards, just five freighters under the care of the Type 65 frigate HMS Dovershire (FFG-309).

The frigates powerful APAR radar suite had been tracking every ship in the local area for hours, but nothing stood out to the techs manning the consoles deep within the ship's CIC. Ironically it was a sharp eyed lookout who spotted the pirates and not the multimillion pound radars.

A yound Petty Officer from San Iglesias caught a glimpse of somthing moving quickly through the water off the port bow. He lifted the powerful 10x binoculars to have a closer look, only to see what appeared to be several personal watercraft approaching the convoy at high speed.

Within seconds of his report the XO, currently standing OOD watch, was out on the bridge and barking orders into a handset.

The Dovershire's Mk. 48 127mm gun quickly turned to bear on the approaching craft and a moment later the gun spoke as a single powerful round was sent flying. This was only a warning shot and as such the round was aimed for a spot about fifty meters ahead of the jet skis.
[NS]Kagetora
18-12-2008, 00:49
The jetskis all wheeled away to the sides in order to avoid any more incoming fire.

Over a small handheld radio, one of the people aboard the jetskis called for fire support from the Kataki.

After the quick call, and while the jetskis were making complicated maneuvers in a seemingly random pattern, the Kataki's pair of 79mm cannons swiveled around toward the convoy and fired a pair of high explosive shells.
Toops
18-12-2008, 01:30
"Kappin!" The Hobgoblin was leaping and pointing excitedly at the Radar screen, "Many shipz!" He yelled, "Waaagh wunz!" Abscham stared at the Hobgoblin and smiled.

"'Elmsmen! Drop da Friggitz an' bring us tah firing range!" The Helmsman saluted, taking the final swig of his Gumwheat and tossing the empty vessel into the waters, "Weaponz! Getz dem Torkpedos loaded up and ready tah fire!"

The small Grotz thrust the explosive warheads into their upright firing positions, "Good!" Abscham grinned, "Take aim, an' FIRE!" The deck was scattered in flame and smoke again, as the rocket shot out into the skies towards the target, "Getz da Friggitz in!" He yelled overboard at the crude warships.

The Hobgoblin roared, Abscham looked up at the spire, he had a crude Umiescope held to his eyes and was pointing at the horizon, "Deyz firing!" He squinted, "On some 'Umies."

"Good, keep firin' an' move us intah da flank." The Black Mead had now finished its slow and wide turn and was moving towards the enemy vessel, firing the second salvo of Torkpedoes and loading the third, "Umie shipz!" Abscham had the 'Umie Kommz in his hands, "Dis is da Skum Pirate Abscham, yez in Goblin Lootin Watahz, all yah Kargo an' Krew are nah mine!"

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Over by the still smoking wreck of the Cargo Ship, the Friggitz had now moored up along side the Royal Carrier, with sharp Kutlessez drawn, the Kappin was holed up in the Bridge, too afraid to show his face to the Krew, "Sah!" A Goblin ran in, a Hobgoblin was stood slashing into air near the Kappin, causing him to cry with merciless despair.

"Goblin! Yah supposed tah be sekurin' da Krew!" The Hobgoblin waved his sword at the tiny beast.

"But sah!" The Goblin yelled, "Da Black Mead, iz gone off foightin'" The Hobgoblin smiled.

"Exellen' get Krakerlos tah hold down position 'ere, I gonna take da two Friggitz inner battle!" The Hobgoblin left the office quickly, smiling happily.

"But sah!" The Goblin yelled behind the Hobgoblin, "Krakerlos is a bloody nutjob!" The Goblin whimpered.
[NS]Kagetora
18-12-2008, 01:42
OOC: Whose ship is that supposed to be?
Toops
18-12-2008, 01:52
Kagetora;14313903']OOC: Whose ship is that supposed to be?

(OOC: shooting at Telros, I've not commented on your own presence cos you've not presented enough of a threat to consider :P

I was trying to write out my Kappin komming to your Kappin, but I couldn't distinguish between the two sides, apparently this problem rose up anyways, so I could have really included it...)
Tolvan
19-12-2008, 01:20
Tolvanic Merchant Convoy Echo Five-Two

Twin splashes erupted well short of the convoy as the pirates appeared to overestimated the range of their relatively light guns. The Dovershire didn't intend to make the same mistake. The big 127mm gun quickly reoriented to bear on the apparent pirate "mothership" and opened fire. The Mk. 48 spat out six rounds in less than fifteen seconds towards the atacking pirates.

Moments after the pirates opened fire, the seas off the frigate's starboard side erupted in massive geysers of spray as seemingly another pirate vessel opened fire with some sort of unguided rockets.

The frigate's Captain, who'd arrived on the bridge shortly after the warning shot was fired, turned to look for the new threat. The quick-thinking XO called down to CIC and within moments the frigates point defence systems went to full alert. If anymore of the rockets got too close the ship's two Mk.55 "Linbacker" CIWS would swat them from the sky.

The Captain faced his XO once again and began issuing orders, "Let's show ur visitors how we treat pirate scum in these waters shall we? Two '303s should be sufficient I would think." The XO nodded andw ent to work issuing the proper orders.

Less than thirty seconds after the second vessel had opened fire the Dovershire was masked in smoke as two AGM-303 "Reaper" anti-ship missiles sped off towards the attacking vessel at Mach 1.5, bringing a special delvery of 200 kilograms of high explosives each to the pirates.
[NS]Kagetora
19-12-2008, 01:29
All rounds and missles from the Tolvan ship impacted the Kataki, instantly sending it under.

In a busy Kagetorian port
The pirate lord, who had command over a fleet rivaling that of a small nation, sat in his personal hotel. Things had been going good recently. He had payed off all the right officials, and the government continued to ignore his actions.
A knock on the door.

One of Kami's several bodyguards, left the room, and returned in a few moments.
Reading it, Kami whispered a message to the bodyguard, who left the room.

In about half an hour, 3 ships had been dispatched to teach the feds a lesson.
Tolvan
19-12-2008, 01:31
OOC: I should clarify, only the 127mm rounds were fired at the Kataki, the AShMs were fired at the Goblin vessel, who I assume was firing at my convoy.
[NS]Kagetora
19-12-2008, 01:34
OOC: Regardless, I'm saying it hit my fuel tank or something, destroyin the Kataki