Duty Session 24: The Ezzo Rescue

With the successful organization of a multi-ship fleet, it's going to take a long time to get everyone off of Ezzo Empire's island. It's not just a case of having to bring people off of the island, but also bringing enough food to make sure those that are there do not starve to death.

Wisteria
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    Upon seeing Mizuki returning and hearing her talk about going back out while eating fish, the albino girl Wisteria clacks her way over on her zeta sandals. "Hey! Want help? We're sure to get more folks out and hopefuly we'll find something along the way to help out with the cause." she announces brightly to the other were fang.

    She settles in and when the announcement that the anchor is stuck she heads over to grab the chain along with Mizuki starting to pull, and when she finds it a struggle she shifts, into the unlikely form of a were bunbun? She continues struggling even with the additional beast strength. Hopefuly there are enough backs to put into or the Undine can do something under the water to free this chunk of metal.
Jazuhanzu
Overworld - 13 - 0 - 0

Jazz had really wanted to get a move on at this, but in truth, she wasn't even close to being picked to be amongst the first wave. Rather, the black-clad Sea-Witch is awaiting ...

... the second /wave/. Get it? Wave?

In any event, she's aboard the ship, ready for them to set off, and then almost immediately there's a god damn problem, and she thinks of it as a god damn problem, too, if the stink-eye she's giving the anchor is any indication. She sighs heavily and approaches the side of the boat, looking down the chain lengths with obvious trepidation before she takes her coat off and lets it drop behind her. The fact that she's dressed like a maid probably earns a little snicker or two, but then, adventurers are prone to strange and extravagent garb aren't they?

"...moment of truth, I guess, eh?" she tells Mizuki.

And then she drops over the side of the ship with a 'sploosh!' before sinking like a stone down to the anchor.

One can see her shape flailing beneath the water there and then stilling. Did the undine actually DROWN?

No, she just paniced for a couple minutes until she blacked out and her gills did the rest on their own.

Coming back to life, gestures with her feather duster at the mired anchor, the earth itself seeming to retreat from where it's been dug in, as if the ocean floor is her's to command!

You know. She used an arte.
% Having done what she can do, the rest is going to be up to those who can physically haul it up and she kicks her legs to resurface, gasping as she breaks the surface and looks all the world like a miserable, drowned maid.

"SOMEONE GET ME A FRIGGING ROPE," she yells.
Gwen
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Gwen had come back and while her Father was now safe from Ezzo. Not from her mother who was still likely yelling at him or they had calmed down and needed some alone time. So here Gwen was on another tun to get more people out, however, things are not going well the very tall Fairy woman would move to get the anchor chain. She will grab hold of it and start to pull in a feat of strength she would never have been able to do before.

"PULL come on we can get this done!"

Gwen will direct one of the Lander crewmen to get Jaz a rope to lend her a hand.

"I hope we don't run into the raid boss or it's wake again..."
Wisteria
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    Wisteria helps pull Jazz up onto deck when the rope is played out. "Good job." she says with a smile, that ruins the Bun Bun look, her mouth is full of jagged razor teeth like a shark. She does join Mizuki in some fish, it seems she's also not vegitarian like a Bun Bun, but with those teeth is anyone really suprised?

    The white rabbit starts digging into her inventory when a sailor falls sick. "Right? I mean you'd think that we'd stocked these boats with everything." she says digging through her pouches. "UHmm... No.. that's mint... thing ginger would help?" she asks with confidence. "I'm going to have to make sure I pack medicine for boat trips in the future I think..." she sighs as she keeps searching for something that might help.
Gwen
Overworld - 13 - 0 - 0

Gwen is not sure what's up with the sailor and she curses there being no doctor along. She doesn't even have much in the way of healing right, but given all the corruption maybe he was exposed to something and she get the idea to use anchor howl and the burst of light related magic it genera might help with that's is her best guess here so she'll do the best she can with that. She needs to pick up healing spells again, as soon as she can.

"I'm not sure how much good this will do. I won't have any actual healing for several more levels."
Jazuhanzu
Overworld - 13 - 0 - 0

Jazuhanzu does not like Wisteria's teeth. At all. Not that close to her, especially.

She is soaking wet and unhappy. Just because she's used to being under the water doesn't mean her resistance to freezing is THAT good. She shudders, grabsh er coat, and wraps it around herself as the lander starts taking ill..

"oh, come on," she groans. She does consult with Wisteria, though, seeing that she has some medicine with her and the two of them agree to a different medicine than Wisteria was originally going to use.

It seems to alleviate the symptoms a bit. Gwen's healing makes her step back from her, though. "Oi! Shield Boss! Watch with the glow!"
Jazuhanzu
Overworld - 13 - 0 - 0

"...no."

Jazz is very simple on this as the ship is boarded by the mer-creatures.

"No, just no." % r
She splays her arms out on either side of her, fingers wiggling as she calls upon the magics.

"To the sea with you lot! I am not having this, not today!" She then brings her hands together and claps them once, hard, as sea-weed bursts up in great vines from beside the ship, snatching mer-creatures up and violently ejecting them overboard and back into the waters once they came -- and doing so again and again as they try to reboard. "NOPE!" She yells. "NOOOOPE!"
Gwen
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Gwen hears a noise that makes her cringe, that flashes her back to a western made fantasy game that was cut down in it's prime by the pluto's kiss. While it's dead some things live like the hate of mermen of any sort. The look on Gwen's face is kinda scary and she just starts chanting air-based spells, sending many of mermen flying into the air and they crash back down on the deck so hard it is the end of them.

"YOUR WORLD DIED WITH THE KISS BE GONE!"

One though gets a full on armored boot to the head from Gwen.
Wisteria
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    On noticing 'suddenly fishfolk', the caerbannog grins showing all those sharklike teeth. "Now here's something I can really do." she says her sword clearing scabbard in a flash of steel. She's shuffle charging a large fish person when it throws a trident, a bare swish of her blade to tap the projectile to the side doesn't quite deflect it enough. However the weapon skips off a glowing nimbus that flicks into life just above the white rabbit's clothing with an uttered spell. A spark of magic sending the trident spinning back off into the sea. Then a slash, a pivot turn, with zanshin to spare as the merfolk winks out before she's off to slash again progressing through a small pack as the others decimate their own targets.
Wisteria
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    Sniffs "Really?" she says echoing Mizuki. The Bun woman moving in a rush, and learns a hard lesson... do not use a stomp intended to shake the ground hard enough to throw people about, when you are on a boat. One of her large bunny feet smashing through the deck and locking her foot in place, leaving the poison to spread for longer than it might, while she works to get her foot free and then charge down to assist in dispatching the blasted fishman.
Jazuhanzu
Overworld - 13 - 0 - 0

"...oh come *on*," groans Jazz.

She immediately focuses her energy on her magic, bringing down some air-power in the forms of gusts of wind which do help to disperse the horrible toxin fouling in the air. It won't do anything for those who've already gotten sick, but hey, it's keeping it from getting worse.

"... augh, ugh ugh god this smell."
Gwen
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Gwen calls out as they find they have a bloody merman on board. "I'll tend to the poison can someone disperse it and someone? Kill that damn MERMAN!" Gwen is not happy and is doing her best to help the stricken crewmembers from the poison but it's not going well and it shows? Gwen has a lot to learn about being what she is now. Shield boss is /angry/ she really doesn't seem to like fishmen at all.
Wisteria
Overworld - 13 - 0 - 0

    Wisteria has HAD IT nothing has gone right this whole stupid boat ride. She charges to landing, the white bun bun woman causing some confusion as people see fluff and white and cute. Then she's grimacing at them, and it's all sharks fangs and screaming. "Get yourselves under control! We are working as fast as we can and you can't just push to the front of the queue!" Terrifying an anxious, angry, and frightened crowd is NOT how one prevents a panic rush for the ship. The Onna-bugeisha ends up quite comically trampled by panicy Landers just wanting to get to safety.
Gwen
Overworld - 13 - 0 - 0

Gwen is just trying to move cargo in all this mess, it's bedlam it's madness she's not sure just what's going on here. She's just focusing on the loading and unloading for the moment. As things go they have Landers and adventures piling in, she will do what she can, to pack as many as they can in. She will help with just about everything she can and once things have finally settled down she will get this gleam in her eye as she looks at Jaz for a moment.

"You should come with me, I need to get your measurement so I can make some outfits for you and ... I have a project I will need your help on. Besides, you are quite adorable and I think you will enjoy it!"
Jazuhanzu
Overworld - 13 - 0 - 0

Bedlad and madness, something Jazz is clearly not accustomed to or comfortable with. She dun like it, not one bit, and she's miserable as her efforts to help deal with hte mess are ending in failure more often than not. Even her bubbles are just barely enough to keep people from trampling over each other in their mad dash for the boat.

"Ahhhh" she says.

When all is said and done, she whirls around to find Gwen has closed in on her, once things are a bit more settled, and then she finds herself caught off guard by Gwen. Her eyes get real big and she barely has a chance to say, "What??" before she finds herself grabbed by the wrists and dragged cheerfully off.

Gwen is cheerful.

She is mortified.
Wisteria
Overworld - 13 - 0 - 0

    A dejected looking Wisteria spends the trip back, trampled and dirty, just wishing for a bath more than anything. She isn't certain how they've managed to pull out a win but she'll take it. The woman sits at the bow of the boat, her long white ears flopping over, smoking from a long stemmed pipe and looking for all the world like a samurai who's been to the wars. When adventurers get too close she gives them a menacing smile full of those ragged shark teeth and returns to grumbling to herself and puffing on her long stemmed pipe, just hoping against hope nothing goes wrong on the way back, and that she can get clean.