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SULA’S SONG : Part 70 : A WATCHER BLINDED : A World of Sea tale (Work In Progress)
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SULA’S SONG : A WATCHER BLINDED
Part 70
by
De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)
158672 words presently written, WORK IN PROGRESS
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Captains Allison, Aril, Mogar and Hulden, along with their Battle Commandings, Danar and Daron were all studying the situation surrounding the construction raft.
It was Sarina, the Carlyle's Battle Commanding who pointed out, “We need to have a special sweep around the raft, Danar. Be as far out as you can and still see the target. If the Borens have another spy ship watching this raft, like the Petral was for the fleet, we need to either sink it or capture it.”
Around the table, heads were nodding agreement. “No sense in letting Karl know that we have his raft any sooner than absolutely necessary.”
Aril smiled grimly, “And when he does find out, we can make it as confusing for him as possible. Remember, we are still not actually part of the Corlis fleet at the present. Let's fly those Winternight fleet black banners.”
The others all looked at each other and nodded slowly, “Why not? A great notion, Aril.”
Captain Sile was striding the poop deck of Karl's Eye. In this choppy sea it was easier to move about a bit than it was to simply stand. His high lookout, in his bosun's chair on the tall whipstaff attached to the main mast, sent down a tallow-slate note. The loop of line bearing it also carried a fresh slate up to him.
The watch runner brought the slate with its puzzling message, “Small vessel approaching swiftly from east north east.”
Captain Sile shook his head at that. A small vessel coming swiftly from open sea and not the building raft that they were there to watch? It made little sense at all. Soon the regular lookouts had it, only thirty kilometers away. It had a bizarre sail plan, apparently, but high lookout was right! It was closing fast!
It made less sense the closer the strange craft got. Besides bearing crazy sails in masts like none seen before, it was flying a fleet banner that was simply a black flag with a line of white characters near the uphaul.
As it slashed its way into hailing drum range it arrogantly pounded out, “In the name of the Great Sea Dragons, surrender and return to Great Laws or be destroyed!”
Captain Sile snapped, “Catapults! Fire at that insolent boat!”
Aboard the Corlis Avenger, Danar watched the lances launched from Karl's Eye arch up high, for maximum range and splash harmlessly far short of them. To Behar, standing beside the drum, he called, “We have our answer! Load a rigging destroyer!”
Jims and Mahad leaped to load the proper round onto the loading ramp and slide it into place in the big already tensioned catapult! Danar swept the Corlis Avenger about to aim at Karl's Eye's broad side. She had been using only a pair of jibs and the mizzen gaff sail to basically hold her position relative to the raft that she had been watching.
As Cora and Kanahar gave Danar the range mark, he watched the aiming beads carefully. This choppy water was lifting the bow higher than usual, giving him a chance at a high rigging shot! His mallet slammed the release! While recoil drove both catapult and ship back at once, the rigging destroyer roared across the space between vessels, spinning madly!
It sailed high, almost to the mast tops, its wildly spinning heavy weights on their cables snagging and ripping away ordinary rigging and catching the vital mainbrace between the foremast and main, snapping it like a thread! Without its support, the force of the wind in the jibs began to bow the foremast toward the bow! With a slow crunching and snapping the mast crashed down alongside the bowsprit, crushing the forward catapult under it!
The crews of two of the remaining catapults were frantically sawing at the ghastly tangle of ropes and fallen ratlines to free their weapons!
Captain Sile watched the disaster happening up forward in disbelief! His mainyard and its big sail had broken under the force of the remaining rigging between it and the falling foremast! His catapulters were trying, but that deadly menace was staying far out of range!
Aboard the Corlis Avenger, the crew took a moment to cheer while Danar was working to bring them to a dead on stern shot. Jims and Mahad were heaving on their long winding levers to winch the catapult back to its lock. Danar gave them a thumbs up and called, “Hull breacher!”
As they wrestled the heavy round onto the loading ramp and pushed it into place, Mahad commented casually, “We sort of thought that you would want this. Rudder shot again, like the Petral?”
Danar nodded briefly, his eye glued to the sighting plate and aiming beads. Cora and Kanahar gave him his range mark. As the bobbing of the Avenger brought the right bead onto the target, his mallet slammed down!
The impact of the massive hull breacher hurled Captain Sile from his feet! As he hit the deck he heard the creaking and smashing of Strong Skin inside his ship as it failed! He was trying to get to his feet as the mizzen mast, broken below-decks, came crashing down, smashing him to the deck! The last thing that he heard, his ear to the deck, was the sound of a torrent of water rushing into his now sinking ship.
The Avenger waited nearby until the Karl's Eye plunged into the depths. They found nine survivors in the debris field of the wreck. As they had done before, the survivors were bound and placed under a net.
The Avenger finished her sweep and rejoined the attack group closing in on the unsuspecting building raft.
TO BE CONTINUED
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Romano's contact names for his brothers:
Italy: idiot macaroni fucker
Seborga: gen z macaroni fucker
DID YOU FORGET? IT'S SHELLS DAY!
Kissing the brick as we speak (don't duck)
(comments from the early access)
New part in 10 hours!
hey i am so Not Normal about this comic. Leah and Elliot make the best friends ever i LOVE them together, Penny's gentle conversation with Shane was gut-wrenching but necessary, and seeing Shane and Emily joking with each other is healing to the soul.
i love the romance of course, but seeing how you play with the other relationships with the main pair is really excellent. thanks for putting such care into showing all types of connections.
OMGG thank you I love all of them so damn much 🥹💛
They're such fun dolls to play with! It's so relaxing to have all this premade character available for use, I feel like it frees up brain space for me to really go all in on the banter! So glad you're enjoying it :))
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picks up the brick that was laying next to your limp body and blows on it
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Wait did it accidentally drop early?
Ye my new tablet is weird and publish drafts when I'm just trying to modify and save them 😭
Part 70 is live now, tho!
Shaking you by the shoulders
I love how you show that Shane cares!! He cares so much about being a good father to Jas! Even if he feels like he'll never be good enough
Just- akskcjcjgjr I love when people explore Shane's parenthood
HE CARES SO MUCH!!
Thank you 😭 I know we get very little of their relationship in the game but it's still very coherent and touching, I really wanted to do it justice
The next few episodes are really going to focus on that so I'm glad you're enjoying it!