Never a lull - Part One

Bog's barnacles...Look at all those ships. Enough to make the natives of this place all kinds of nervous. The Beast is in the lead at present, and a diamond formation of close to a hundred vessels are carving their way across the top of the ocean and heading for a node to take them out of this Golden Circle, and into another. It wouldn't be a stretch to say this could easily be mistaken as an invasion fleet rather than a well-protected convoy
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Martime dreams - Part Two

Once everyone is seated on the carpet, there's an embarrassing pause while Ruby tries to remember the magical words to get it going. She rumbles a few under her breath, convinced they're wrong, and hand-in-hand with that.. nadda. It's when she takes in a lungful of air to start to curse the fabulously hot land it originates, that it rises from the decking and very slowly is passed by the ship (it not being a stationary object in mid-air).
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Right Whales, Wrong Route - Part One

The fleet of ships that's doing a lumbering tour of the Golden Circle seas is hard to miss if one happens to be in the area. Each realm that the flotilla visits, Captain Incarnate is hiring on extra vessels to either feed the fleet, provide an escort, or haul tonnage to some ulimate destination out in far shadow. Almost a hundred vessels make up the conglomeration now. It's a bit like a floating community now. Armed ships, provision ships, three massive Arks...there's even rumoured to be a ship devoted to acting like some sort of restaurant...and a dubious one labeled a 'tart' ship of ill repute seeing as sailors will be at sea for a good long stretch. While some come and go when their contract is fulfilled and money exchanged, a core assemblage continues to make sail in the same direction as the lead ship: The Beast.
Ahead of the diamond formation is the Beast, and the whole formation can only go as fast as the slowest vessel while they carve through the waves. At their current speed, it's not hard to overtake the fleet if one has swift fins or a sail.
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Right Whales, Wrong Route - Part Two

A predatory smile crosses Chase's face, "I'd fake trouble on the Beast, let the rest of the fleet sail on...when the interceptor gets close..." he draws a finger across his throat. "We make an example for the next that tries to give us a problem."

Nadia looks off in in the distance, to where the sound is coming from. "So is this one of the common problems that you keep running into?" She tilts her head slightly and looks over towards Chase. "Do you know who it is?"
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