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Daniel
(Link to Biography)
The crew of Prosperity secured two jobs in the Kor'Sel'Koo city of Baelsk.
The first job is to ship a cargo hold's worth of Earth-imported sculptures from a warehouse on Aemmu to a gallery on Baelsk. While machines can load the Prosperity's cargo hold, the gallery has a lot of other, more delicate pieces and cannot handle the space of loading machines. Instead, Prosperity's crew will need to act as careful movers to arrange the pieces in the gallery to the patron's specifications. Unfortunately, the patron is very particular, so this will take some days. All mates and combat positions (close combat, gunner) will need to participate for a week.
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The second mission in Baelsk involves less physical labor. A second patron wants to create a galactic streaming service featuring programs downloaded off of Netflix, Hulu, and other services. They want experienced Earth visitors like the crew from Prosperity to watch the content and categorize it by genre and content. While there is some guesswork and technology that could assist in the process, the patron wants to have very accurate tagging. There was a lot of content downloaded, so this will take a lot of time.
Some samples of the streaming categories that they are looking for are by whether the color grading is cool or warm, if there is a cat featured anywhere in the film, and how many minutes long the film is. There are other categories, as well, including the genre of the film and whether or not it is animated.
Everyone outside of mates combat positions will take a turn at watching in addition to their usual jobs from the start. The mates and combat positions will take shifts watching after their week of moving items around the gallery is complete.
Baelsk happens to be the home (separately) of two friends of the crew: C'tau Vuker, and former crew member Daniel Eansworth. Another former crew member, Stella Sarasvati, also promised to visit from Twarvu. Daniel will be visiting frequently and doing some work on the ship's garden. Stella just wants to visit. C'tau is particularly fond of Ali and Sky, and wants to invite the whole Prosperity crew to her fashion show that is upcoming.
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The city of Baelsk is a thriving and fun city on Kor'Sel'Koo. With a rich culture and quirky mix of architectural styles, it is a favorite city of the cosmopolitan sort. The city featured art galleries, fashion houses, museums, cinemas showing highbrow and lowbrow works by both galactic and Earth artists, and theaters.
Baelsk is mainly populated by Ly'Daesun, but has a significant minority of Erkuss and a small but visible amount of Vanniree. In contrast to much of the galaxy, ground floor residences are the most expensive because of the many Ly'Daesun that preferr being close to the ground. The second most expensive residences are penthouses that featured rooftop gardens. More affordable apartments and condos exist on the middle floors of buildings. Most of the older buildings are not particularly tall due to the Ly'Daesun early settlers preferring to be close to the ground floor, but there are architecturally marvelous newer skyscrapers that dot the landscape to house people and businesses. It is relatively common for buildings to have private residences on the first floor and stairs on the exterior of the building. Those stairs lead up to the directly second floor where the shop or business is. So the homes are on floor one and the businesses are on floor two in a lot of those shorter buildings.
The city sits 300 miles southeast of Twarvu on a beautiful peninsula. While the city is considered very pretty, its layout was not planned out when first settled. Baelsk is pedestrian-friendly and can largely be navigated on foot or by bus, but the paths can take some interesting directions.
Baelsk's weather is beautiful year-round with very mild winters (it never gets cold enough to snow), pretty springs with lots of blooms, and relatively hot summers.
Here are some interesting amenities sites to visit in Baelsk:
Fine Art Regional Transit (FART): Named by a city official who thought they were very funny, the city operates buses which are free for Baelsk residents and low cost for visitors. The bus drivers wear uniforms designed by local fashion designers, and the buses display prints of local artists' work on the ceiling and exteriors.
The Dining Arcade: Since the city is largely populated by Ly'Daesun, there are not very many restaurants throughout Baelsk. You can always find somewhere serviceable to eat nearby, but it's not usually anything impressive. In The Dining Arcade, yummy and/or restaurants catering to the residents and visitors who need to eat abound. Basket Bowl is the most popular fast casual restaurant, and it serves healthy but yummy grain bowls. The most popular fancy restaurant is called Argumentative, and it is in the style of a high class steakhouse.
Danube Theater: A well-known 1,500 seat theater on the North End.
The North End is named after the West End theaters in the UK, and is so named because it is in the northern part of the peninsula close to the coast. The major theaters purposefully all moved to be near each other around 50 years ago, so most of the theaters here are relatively new. The North End area also features a variety of business headquarters, homes and shops.
Pretty Park: A beautiful park with opulent but sustainable fountains and plants. It marks the border between the North End and Fashion Square
C: C'tau Vuker's fashion studio that she opened recently which she is trying to make much more popular. C'tau is planning on having a fashion show in the near future in her studio.
Fashion Square: A variety of bespoke and manufactured clothing shops and galleries sit here. Additionally, there are two fabric factories that have storefronts. There are seasonal fashion shows on occasion. Great for avant-garde and practical shoppers alike!
Gallery Prime: An art gallery where our crew has a job. There is a lot of modern sculpture art, paintings, and sketches. The owner despises showing and selling anything too realistic.
Silessanuh Beach: Beautiful waves, the Sylessanuh Beach Cafe serving smoothies and acai-style bowls, and ocean waves for great surfing.
The soccer (or football, if you prefer) tournament is over! For some, the mood is celebratory. For others, they are left to lick their (figurative) wounds. The players, spectators, and friends all gather at The Camelo for a post-soccer gathering. Team one is victorious, and the fan-favorite Team three unfortunately came in last place.
The Camelo is a fun pub for trivia, but it also happens to have features of a sports bar. On many of the TVs, recordings of various sports play. Some of the sports are familiar Earth ones (soccer, football, lacrosse, badminton, skiing etc.) but another, more mysterious galactic sport plays on some of the screens. It's like if tennis players had to keep the tennis ball in the air while darting around the court and fending off attackers. If you ask Madame what this strange sport played by various vanniree is, she shrugs and mumbles something about back in the day not getting asked questions. Luckily, Muffy knows that the mysterious sport is called Thurgfolot, and that it is an obscure sport even among her species. She has no idea why it's so popular here.
Bar food is featured here, including what's found at a bar/pub: potato skins, pot pies, something that looks and tastes like chicken fingers, french fries, sliders, pretzels, and more. They also have a variety of vegan Jell-o style shots for some reason in a variety of flavors: green tangerine, tangelo, kumquat, and cherry.
The Camelo features a virtual sports simulator room, extreme darts (the darts are just really big), a modest collection of 7 pinball machines of various Earth properties, and a purple pool table.
And yes... there is pub trivia! Many of the questions this time are ones that were made up by our own Prosperity crew. Participants can team up and answer questions using the pub's tablets. The tablets display the question, and teams have 64 seconds to answer. It's a test run of trivia in the bar, so there aren't any prizes, but it will be fun!
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It's Honesty Weekend!!!
From now until Sunday, January 24 is when you can send anonymous questions to other characters which the player can answer! There is no requirement to answer all of the questions in your inbox. I know it’s a bit of a long message, but please read if you’re going to participate!!
Honesty Hour is meant to be fun and spark character development, but does not count toward activity. Please be sure to prioritize doing your replies - especially this close to the end of the month. If you want to participate but need time to write replies first, feel free to ask questions this weekend and save your honesty hour answers for early February!
Please like this post if you plan on participating. If you plan to participate, please take the time to send at least one question to each player participating. Questions can be sent by 1/24. Questions can be answered until 2/7.
Example: Player A sends some questions on January 24 and some more on January 25 to the other characters. Player B answers one of the questions on January 25, and answers the rest of their questions on February 2!
IMPORTANT: The other characters cannot see the responses. This is an opportunity for character development and fun that the other players get to read.
Additionally, your characters must tell what they believe to be the truth somewhere in their response. They can leave out information, but they can’t lie unless a) they don’t know any better or b) there is clarification of what their actual meaning is using strikethroughs.
Example:
Question - Daphne, who on the ship would you marry if you had to pick?
Answer - I would not marry any of them. If you forced me to pick at gunpoint, I would pick Muffy, but it would be purely platonic.
PLOT DROP 46: PUB-LICITY
After dropping off the cargo hold's contents on Dolnoh, the crew headed to the planet of Aemmu in the city of Nackron.
Since the last time that the crew of Prosperity visited the planet, the government of Aemmu put in an application to join the Galactic Union. For now, it is still an outpost planet and outside of the jurisdiction of the Galactic Union's policing.
There has been some literal 'cleaning up' of the city of Nackron lately, with public waste bins and restrooms being propped up around. The city is still smuggler-oriented, but it cleans itself up nicely to not seem like a scummy place compared to the rest of the outpost planet.
As for the mission, the popular smuggler-friendly pub The Camelopardalis (called The Camelo for short) is establishing a galaxy-wide pub trivia contest. The pub's owner and founder, Madame (yes, that's her name), has talked up this pub trivia with all of her pub friends and business acquaintances. However, Madame is just one person who only knows so many things. A crew with an Earth expert and people with lots of different interests and experiences is perfect to write the vast number of questions needed for a multi-week quiz extravaganza.
Madame pays well, and offers occasional free drinks to the workers- mocktail and alcoholic are both available.
The Camelo is a pretty impressive pub, with franchised locations on a variety of different planets. Not all of the pubs participating in the trivia contest are Camelos, but it's good to know you can find them scattered about the galaxy.
Some of the coolest features of The Camelo include a virtual sports simulator room, extreme darts (the darts are just really big), a modest collection of 7 pinball machines of various Earth properties, and a purple pool table.
It's a great place to work for the time being.
Facts and links about Aemmu:
Things to do on Aemmu/ in Nackron: https://ageofpiracyrp.tumblr.com/post/697667625926475776/plot-drop-12-gamblers-delight-on-october-9th
First mention of Aemmu: https://ageofpiracyrp.tumblr.com/post/696063211407065088/plot-drop-11-the-great-escape-finally-finally
Naida Kal Zhet
Pronouns: She/her
Role: Therapist
Birth Year: 1993
Romantic and/or Sexual Preference: Bisexual
Species: Laykul
Home Planet: Molfaun
Faceclaim/Humanoid Appearance: Simone Ashley
True Appearance: Naida stands 4′11.5″ with thoughtful amber eyes. The Laykul’s body is covered in dense, curly, largely forest green fur that fades lighter at her stomach and joints. She takes care to make sure it is soft and silky.
Backstory:
TW: Genocide, brief mentions of parental abuse
When the empire of Soulf grew to take over the majority of competing empires across the planet, it was a major shift in the rhetoric Naida had grown up with. While the pre-Oglavia education regarding the various nations and empires was threaded with lies and self-aggrandizing national pride, school after the empress rose to power was filled with even more blatant propaganda. It felt like other nations were being plunged into ruin thanks to the Empress. ‘Soulf before all other nations’ became the only way of thinking anyone was allowed to subscribe to on all topics. Much of the community around Naida pledged their ties to the Empress, the majority claiming that The Empress knew what Soulf needed. The rest of the nations were not as “civilized” as Soulf, and they “needed to be eradicated,” as Naida had heard over and over since she was barely a teenager.
Naida was born to a set of conservative parents and a free-spirited older sister, Narelle. Growing up Naida was shielded from other ways of thinking by her parents, her teachers, and all adults around her. It was Narelle that hoarded their old geography and history books for them to both read by flashlight at night, that they would hide underneath their beds. Only for their parents to find out one evening and throw them out. Despite the forced cushion around their nation that refused to tell them of anything wrong, Naida felt that it was important to receive the best and most unbiased education she could, as she itched to get out of the bubble she was born and forced into. When she grew up she chose a relatively neutral career path: psychology. And despite her eccentric nature, Naida was good at reading people’s emotions, anticipating them, even preventing them. She could talk her parents down from yelling at her sister, or help her sister talk through anything she needed. Naida worked hard for years and managed to scrape by while she studied to earn her certifications.
She made a decent amount of money, enough to help herself and Narelle move out of her parents’ house and as far away from them as they could. In turn, not long after her sister found love with a man who convinced her that Soulf was doing good things for the nations. They had a huge fight, and Narelle left for good.
Naida was constantly exhausted and lonely, but she finally had her doctorate and therapist certifications. She found work at a clinic for a year or so, and in the meantime the Empire of Soulf began to receive more and more exposure to media and news from other planets. Each piece of information solidified Naida’s absolute distaste for imperialism and colonialism within Soulf, and she sought out any way to get off the planet. Unfortunately, there were little to no means for someone with her qualifications to do so. She made her bed in an occupation that was useless intergalactically, now she must lay in it.
It was in September of 2022 that she met Ali Clarke-Iz’an - then just Ali Iz’an - in a bakery. She’d been waiting for some cupcakes to give to one of her clients as a reward for hitting a personal milestone, Ali had been waiting for a salted caramel cake to eat with his family. Two forgotten orders later, and they were sitting in the shop for a good hour with nothing to do but chat with each other. She learned that Ali was a member of one of the crews docked on the planet temporarily, and word around the country was that it was against their will. “The Empress really handed it to a big bunch of pirates” was what the other Laykul told each other, and yet Ali looked perfectly chipper. Naida had confided what she did for a living, and to her surprise, Ali told her about their ship’s great need for a certified therapist.
That got the gears in her head turning. An opening for a therapist seemed like just the chance the Laykul needed to get off the cursed planet. She asked to speak with the captain about a job opportunity, couldn’t prepare herself for how pretty and unattainable that Captain was when she met her, and was luckily hired aboard the ship.
The last few years Naida has been more than grateful for Ali and for her job far away from Molfaun. It was true - the crew desperately needed therapy. It’s actually taking her up on the counseling that has been the real problem.
Why this character?: I thought she would be interesting. I think the crew needs a flesh-bodied therapist. I have a few ideas for different connections and I hope people aren’t too afraid of her.
Skills:
Can read emotions well, even can talk people down from high emotions. Great mediator/third party (though she really works as an overly-excited advocate for everyone)
As a laykul, she is an excellent swimmer. She’ll pass on swimming in chlorinated pools, though, because it’s bad for her fur.
Knows the names of all the muppets. Yes, all of them.
Played by Hope; 29, she/her; central time
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Velociraptor Dern "Tori" Olarity
Pronouns: She/her
Role: Gunner
Birth Year: 1999
Romantic and/or Sexual Preference: Pansexual
Species: Erkuss
Home Planet: Kraysha (hometown: Different City, Maeyr)
Faceclaim/Humanoid Appearance: Kang Hyewon
True Appearance: Tori has purple eyes.
Backstory:
[CW: Neglectful parenting, implied violence]
Maybe it was Tori’s inherited memories that shaped her into the person she was today, witnessing her dad cheat on her mom with his ex. Or maybe it was just the freedom that came with being the younger sibling—saved from having the weight of the world on her shoulders. Tori was always a bit of a wild card, after all.
For Tori, Trex was the only real constant in her life and more of a parent than either her actual parents ever were. Their dad left before she was even born, and their mom seemed to believe that parenting meant doing the bare minimum, but otherwise she let her kids be. It was Trex who fed her, got her ready for school, and helped her with her homework, and Tori repaid him by making raising her as difficult as possible.
At first, it was just innocent childish antics. Tori didn’t know how to settle; she was always restless and got bored too easily. She’d complain if Trex made the same dinner twice in a row, read under the covers after he put her to bed, and made messes around the home after he just cleaned up. It turned out that Trex would end up cleaning up her messes for her entire life.
Tori knew that Trex was up to something when he stopped taking her to work. Whenever he picked up odd jobs, like cleaning or walking someone’s belliballi, he usually brought Tori along with him, but then he suddenly stopped. He wasn’t around after school and didn’t come home until well into the night. For someone always so attentive to Tori’s needs, Trex absence was telling. Their neighborhood was known for their gang problem, a few of Tori’s classmates were roped into it, but she never suspected Trex would get involved.
When Tori was fed up with Trex being gone so often, she decided to follow him to see where he was going every day, and to her shock, she found him running errands for the local gang. At the time, she didn’t understand why she couldn’t join. The jobs seemed pretty harmless—sweeping storerooms and keeping lookout, but Trex absolutely refused to let her help. Her brother went as far to tell the rest of the members to turn Tori away if she ever asked for jobs. Being told no over and over again pissed Tori off, and she grew to resent Trex and his hypocritical rules. It made no sense to her when they would be so much better off if they were both making money for their family. So one day when Trex wasn’t working, Tori went to the gang and smooth-talked her way into finally getting a job. It was surprisingly easy to convince them, and they were willing to lie for her and to put her on a different schedule than Trex.
It felt a little like vindication when it was Tori’s turn to lie about her whereabouts and stay out suspiciously late. She told Trex she had a part-time job as a dish cleaner at a local restaurant or that she was spending the night at her friends’. Her brother seemed none the wiser, still believing that the gang stuck to their word and kept Tori away. The more she worked for the gang, the more she grew to genuinely like it. Not only was the money good, but she got to carry cool blasters and guns, which was more than she could say about a regular part-time job. When it was time for her to graduate, Tori knew she wanted to keep doing it instead of looking for a legitimate job, so she decided to come clean to Trex in the clearest way possible—by showing up to the same job as him with a blaster on her hip.
It would be safe to say that Trex wasn’t happy, and he tried to sever ties with their gang for good by moving them to a different part of Different City. What Trex didn’t seem to account for, though, was Tori was an adult now and could make her own decisions. Different City had their own local gang, The Returners, and Tori had enough experience under her belt for them to agree to let her join without any hesitation. Despite how much Trex disagreed with her choices, Tori thrived in that environment. It was high-stakes, high reward, and she never got bored with her assignments. The thought of working in an office made her want to crawl out of her own skin, so she continued to risk her safety and her relationship with her brother to work for The Returners.
In the end, Trex decided that he had enough of her antics and he moved to Rungung. Tori couldn’t help but feel betrayed, like he was giving up on her after he stood by her side her entire life. Despite her growing resentment and her secret hurt feelings, she still kept in touch with her brother. But without Trex around to keep her in check, Tori ended up getting deeper into illicit jobs with her gang and into more dangerous triads of Different City.
Tori’s lack of impulse control came to bite her in the ass in September 2025 when she got the bright idea to sell goods that she stole on behalf of The Returners to the highest bidder and collect the money for herself. However, the gang caught wind of her plan and intercepted her as she was meeting with her buyer, and they threatened not only her life, but Trex’s as well. With little time to get them to safety, Tori was lucky enough to find them jobs on the Prosperity. She called Trex and told him to leave his apartment as soon as possible, and sent him the coordinates of where to meet her. It all happened so fast that Tori didn’t have time to wrap her head around the consequences of her actions, but she knew The Returners would have a lot of trouble tracking them down while they were traveling through space. Her new job kind of fell into her lap, but becoming a pirate seemed just as good, if not better, as working for a gang. And, most importantly, Tori still got to carry a cool gun.
Skills:
Marksmanship - Tory has excellent shooting skills and hopes to one day be promoted to Master Gunner.
Close Combat - Through her gang, Tori learned how to hold her own during a fight. Since she was still young and scrawny when she first joined, it was important for her to learn how to defend herself.
Electromagnetism - Whenever possible, Tori uses her electromagnetic abilities to her advantage. She’s pretty well-versed in them, but she doesn’t have much patience to teach herself anything too advanced.
Played by Sarah; 33; she/her; eastern time
Tori Olarity
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