And off topic, I just made the univese for the gallery (Invalid Universe) I have to resume Blake´s story or else it wont fit on the page, I also put a little reference I made of Sarso yesterday and add a reference for the Black scythe, it still a concept art but I feel like I wont be doing many changes in the future…
(cooooool!! How long did they take?)
Blake took around one hour and a half, maybe two, Sarso took probably around three (I took a long pause after doing the lineart) and the concept for the ship, that specific one was an hour, and also, thanks :)
Oquori man: Hey! you! The shathian, Im assuming Ahir send you here! After all, Sarso is his little gloryfied bodyguard and oh my… A hetzelox… Im assuming he didn´t let her go alone…
Aru tries to be intimidation but everyone can clearly see how scare she is, Sarso is looking at you like he spects you to talk or do something.
(Sorry if im being annoying but I feel like I need to say some stuff to give an idea of how stuff are in this universe:
1- You are in the planet Ihenemme, the homeland of the Nemmenitah, you arrive around the time they celebrate the festival of the three moons where they align and cause something similar to an aurora borealis, at that time of the year the planet has lots of tourist meaning that there are going to be lots of guards everywhere, that´s means two things: you can go around and everybody will think you are there for the festival but if you do something weird you will alert the guards.
2- There are way more races that I didn´t mention mostly because it would be a lot and most of them aren´t fully fleshed out yet and it would probably be anoying to play as one of them.
3- I should maybe add this to the rules but I feel like I should also put it here, lets try to post daily at least one thing, I like what we got so far even if it has been just a few lines so lets just try to keep this alive, I know you probably are bussy and soon I will be going back to school, that´s why I said try.
Again, I apologise for being annoying and for the long post…)
(sorry I'm just trying to manage a ton of Rps right now :P What's Blake supposed to do though?)
(Is ok, I know I may sound angry or something but Im not, I was just saying that just in case something happened. as for what Blake is suppused to do, whatever you want, everything is going to develope based on the player´s choices so you can do whatever you want )
(ok :P you're fine)
Blake just nods warily.
Oquori man: Lets see… No body is around…
He aproaches to Blake and hands her a box of the size of her hand, the box is made of some weird black metal that looks similar to the data pad Aru has back in the ship, there are weird inscriptions in a language that you never seen before, those glow in a dim blue-ish tone.
Oquori man: Make sure this gets to the ship in one piece, maybe show it over to your friend right there (points at Aru), as for me, I gotta go, those stupid guards may be aproaching, and Sarso, tell your captain that Im no longer doing this, our debt is finally payed….
(I better introduce the part of the crew you´ll be encountering soon, also, I updated some stuff on the galery.)
Name: Raki´ja Nakoomah
Age: 263 (late twenties)
Race: Hasash
Gender: Female
Extra: Raki´ja´s people were allies of the Hetzalox empire, her father protecting a hetzelox of hight status, her mother died at giving birth and to show a little bit of gratitude, the man who so happend to be Aru´s uncle brought her to their family, years after that she became Aru´s bodyguard,the day the disaster that cause an almost extinction of the Hetzelox happened, she got Aru out of the planet and when she knew what happened in their homeland, she became a mother figure to Aru after that, Raki´ja started to look for some jobs, most of the time she was hired as a badly payed mercenary considering her background, one day she acepted a job from the captain of the Black scythe crew himself, it was related to some shady and dangerous business in the black market, getting the job done succesfully was enought for the captain, he told her that instead of money he would let her and Aru live on the ship and offered them protection, Raki´ja acepted and after a while she became what the crew calls "A private reaper", she still dont fully trust the captain but know is better than be frequently changing hause and getting badly payed jobs.
Intuition: 5
Strenght: 5
Close combat: 3
Cookin: 3
Aiming: 4
Name: Heres Darassa
Age: 2134 (early thirties)
Race: Eldemaerean
Gender: Female
Extra: Nobody knows why she joined the crew except for the captain,she is always complaining on how she used to be part of a rich family and she could still get in contact with her brother in order to get out but at the same time one can clearly see she enjoys it, Heres normally deals with people from the black market, what I mean by deals, it depends on the circumstances, she appears to be close to the captain, being the only one who has seen him without a mask, she can go from mean to sarcastic in less than a minute and would normally be the one who starts all the gossips, Heres tends to wander on the ship halls and spy on people, she is quite extravagant and wears gloves most of the time besides always carring a gun.
Stealth: 4
Aiming: 5
Intuition: 4
Charisma: 4
Memory: 3
Name: Meiji An
Age: 420 (21 years)
Race: Phenari
Gender: Male
Extra: Meiji may not be the smartest or the strongest but he is quite good at convince people to do what he wants, he doesn´t have any deep reason to be in the crew, he just sneaked into the ship and go unnoticed for a week, the original plan was to trown him out of the ship but he manage to convince Heres who obviously convinced the captain, when someone asks him why he did that, he just replies "I felt like it" and to this day everyone stills thinks he may be crazy or something. Meiji tends to be overly friendly with everyone in the crew even if they already tried to kill him while doing that, his job consist in two things, being the distraction or just being the one who convinces the guards or police that there is nothing weird in the ship, as for ramdom facts, the only things that may be interesting is that he likes to prank Sarso for no reason and the fact that he is bisexual.
Charisma: 5
Hiding: 5
Stealth: 5
Intelligence: 2
Determination: 3
Blake: I'll tell him
Blake turns to Aru
Blake: What is this thing?
Aru´s eyes open wider and wider as she examines the cube, she cant belive it, she thought that thing was destroed with most of her people…
Aru: Na´tacaeda… Na´taca- Hemene axicah… daeda…
Aru seems to be saying something in what appears to be her native tounge, it sound like she is praying or saying something out of respect…
Aru: That… That thing you got, the memories of the empire… This cant be… My, my people, our leaders… they use to put everthing they know in this thing, all the tactics, politics, the rules…
Sarso just looks at Aru like he is saying "Dont start screaming" and she just takes a deep brath and hold the cube with both of her hands while looking at it…
Aru: This is called the Vaeda cube… thoe simbols are menexaeda, our old tounge, only people with a hight social status learn it, I didn´t end my lessons but for what I know, this says "The memories of the deseased emperors" our people used to save what I aldeary say on this… They have… "servants" that were basically an AI with all of this information… The moment the current emperor died they were destroyed and all they gathered was put into the cube and the cycle continued until… that day and now….
Sarso: How the fuck did he even get this.. Why would the captain even want this…
Aru: I dont know, but… please, this is one of the few thing left from my people, I swear, if he even tries to sell it…
Sarso: What? You cant even properly aim a gun and Im sure he know how to knock down Raki´ja…. That man always has a plan… We have to get back to the ship before someone notices us…
Your ship is hidden close an area filled with caves, in order to get there you have to go into a crowd filled with al the tourist who are there for the festival and the locals who are doing a pilgrimage, the security is extremely extrict so you have to hide the cube, (in this area you are encourage to use your skills, the chance of success depends on the amount of points you put on each one, you can also call other crewmembers)
Sarso: You better put on the creepiest grin you got, Blake…
Blake stares at the cube for a moment, then straightens and does her best to look menacing as they start to move through the crowd.
For a good moment nobody seems to be noticing you, and the ones who do instantly get off your way, you succesfully get trought the crowd but now a guard stops you and tells you that he needs to examinate you in order to get any further, Sarso asks why and the guard says it is part of the protocol, you cant let the guard see the cube so you gotta find a way to avoid that.
Nemmenitah guard: Miss, what is that you are hidding?
Blake: …A friend of mine wants me to deliver this to her, she's going to move her shop here for the celebration. She said it's a rare collector's item so I can't let you see it. Sorry. Bye.
Blake walks away quickly but casually.
Nemmenitah guard: In that case I need to talk with your friend because she has to report the item and…
Sarso: She said her friend is moving her shop here and as you can clearly see, she isn´t here, now Im sure your boss wouln´t like you spending time waiting for someone instead of doing something-
Nemmenitah guard: We expect respect from civilians sir, now, to avoid any problem with the people here I suggest you to sta calm and-
Aru tries to knock off the guard and fails miserably, but that gets her into trouble instead of you so that works as a distraction and luckily Aru wasn´t that dumb and called Raki´ja before doing that so now you have an angry mother in her way, that means yu and Sarso can scape an Aru would be fine when Raki´ja finds her so everyone would go back safe to the ship but will alert the autorities. (Sorry for the late resonse, I was bussy with some school stuff…)
(I though this was funny so…)
Aru: Come here we are near the caves and Im about to punch a guard!
Raki´ja: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING THERE?! WE WERE LOOKING FOR YOU! DO YOU EVEN REALIZE HOW WORRIED I WAS-
Aru: Please not now, Im going to need help, please come and help me we find something important and-
Raki´ja: IM GOING THERE RIGHT NOW! you are so grounded…
Aru: About that…
Raki´ja: DONT make excuses, you fucked up when you go outside the ship without permission and now you are doing the same… HOWCOMETHATYOUWANTTOATTACKAGUARDWHENYOUCANTEVENTROWAPUNCHWITHOUTFALLINGTOTHEGROUND do you realize how STUPID that is?!
(lol)
Blake sidles away quietly, once she is out of the guard's sight she picks up the pace back to the ship
Sarso follows you and keeps looking back, probably worried about finding an angry Raki´ja and not about finding more guards, you return to the ship, at the moment you enter you find Heres just casually siting there, she looks at you like she knows what just happened and goes:
Heres: I will always be amused on how you guys get out of this… peculiar… situations… The captain already knows the whole issue with Aru, I mean, he has to, after all, we all know how loud Raki´ja can scream… You may want to personally give this "special delivery" to him, and Blake, before I forget, Gin has something for you, go talk to her when you are free…
(Sorry if I take too long on reading this, I kinda broke my own rule of daily posting something, just started school again…)
(And now is time to introduce more crew members)
Name: Gin Akiyama
Age: 27
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Extra: Born as Kiyoko Aoki, she used to be part of a gang, she go from the nerdy kid everyone bullied to the one shady woman who everyone is scared off, of course, she still has problems after years of bullyng and that made her an easy target in the gang so most of the time everyone gave her all sorts of bad and dangerous jobs nobody wanted besides being used half of the time, one time the leader thought it was a good idea to use her as bait for the members from a rival gang, one time she knew this Karasian man (who already was a member of the Black scythe) just hearing everything he told her made her realize the way she was being treated and one day decided to ran away and join the crew, she knew that could get her killed but the Black scythe already has quite a reputation, and just in case, she changed her name to Gin, as far as backstory goes, that all she shares, as an interesting fact, she endded up getting married with the Karasian man (they got along and really liked each other) and she is a polyglot, to this day Gin speaks chinese, korean, english, spanish (still learning), russian, german and a little bit of Okih (the language that most Karasians use), she still has some low self steem issues but has gotten better, Gin is actually the kind of person who is always laugthing while being nice and brutally honest as long as she´s comfortable around someone, otherwise, she just stands there and glares at that person…
Language: 5
Handiness: 3
Intelligence: 6
Speed: 2
Disguise: 4
Name: Kioro "Nemo" Hakem
Age: 345 (late twenties)
Race: Karasian
Gender: Male
Extra: The Karasians used to be in war with the Ahuoka (not playable race because I haven´t fully develope them), as on every war, some incredibly awful stuff were made, with Nemo being just an inocent teen who got kidnapped by a grupud of Ahukoa who where hoping to get something out of some poor kids who were related to hight rank soldiers, after realizing that he wasn´t going to tell them anything (mostly because he didn´t knew anything) they decided to drop the ones who they considered useless into a ramdom planet, hoping that they would die, Luckily for Nemo, he landed on Earth (Karasian can adapt to any body of water but need special equipment to walk on land), being just an unexperience teen in an unknown planet was bad enought but at least he could find an enviroment that was slightly similar to his homeplanet, at least until some ramdom fishers founded him and sell the poor guy to a freakshow, that where he spended the next 30 years, trapped in a thank, a bunch of people looking at him and trowing stuff at the poor guy, they even called him "Fishyface", of course, not everyone was so bad, some people even tught him basic english, good think that he manage to make a plan on how to scape, then spend a few months until for some "bussiness" reasons, the Black scythe (most crewmembers weren´t there yet) and somehow finded him, the captain took him out of pity (acording to what Heres says) but to be honest, having a job in a moraly cuestionable ship is better than being treated like trash, years later he became the one who looks for new recluts people, he did the same for Gin and ended getting along with her, they fell in love and got married (she is the one who started calling him Nemo), the poor guy still has some pretty bad days (I mean, being kidnapped, almost dying and technically being a slave… thas´s a lot), Nemo has learned to deal with all those stuff and for most of the time is just a really outgoing and slightly murderous fish dude who eats a lot (his backstory takes places around the 20´s and 50´s so yeah, most people have been around for a while, besides, Karasians turn into teens in about 10 human years so yeah…)
Handiness: 2
Swiming: 7
Charisma: 4
Speed: 4
Strenght: 3
(well that's a lot of characters XD)
Blake: When do I have free time?
Heres: Whenever you want sweetie, after all, when did our dear captain gave us a schedule?
(I know XD but I guess there have to be a good amount of crew members in such a large ship, the captain is the only one left thought… And now the gallery has the cube´s information updated)
(I love it :D)
Blake shrugs and goes to find Gin.
You can hear Gin´s voice at the repairing area, she´s apparently trying to say something but you cant understand what she´s saying, you enter the door and see Gin siting on top of a rectangular box, Nemo is siting next to her.
Gin: kaaaaaaaaa
Nemo: that´s not how you pronounced, it goes like KAaah, like on Karasian…
Gin: thas´s how it sounds to me and- BLAKE!
Gin grabs you by the arm and pulls you next to the box she was sitting on.
Gin: You see, that time we where on T´cantha… Remember the guy who sold us those guns? the ones that didn´t work and almost got us killed… I kept them in case I needed some of the parts, most of them have no use but I find this sniping rifle that actually was able to shoot something She opens the box and gives you a sniping rifle made of this dark gray material, the sbarrel was replaced by an stronger black metal as same with the scope, the grip and the recoil part where covered in this black rubber like maretial and it had your name written kanji.
Gin: I thought that having your name written or other language would make it look cool and most people probably wont know your name, I mean, most peope find kanji very hard to learn…
(:D)