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| Action Id: 2755 | Crisis: | Participants: Domonico, Calypso, Jasher, Santi and Dora | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: Sept. 26, 2018, 2:16 a.m. | Public: True | GM: Apostate |
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Silver: 280000 Military Resources: 1158 Action Points: 250 |
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Action by Domonico
Pirate Hunting with the Malvici
Action by Santi
Assisting with marine/boarding situations on the Great Malvici Pirate Hunt
Action by Dora
Dora has been asked by her cousin to join him in hunting pirates. Dora isn't the most experienced fighter, but finding things. Ah, now that is where she excels.
With a fierce grin on her face she can be found at the helm, or the map, or the prow of the ship. Always her eyes are ahead as she finds targets among the southern waters.
Action by Calypso
Calypso is not directly involved, but will be inputting heavily. She owns this fleet, for the most part, and they should not be pursuing and retreating forces under her own orders above all else. Take prisoners from the captured ships for interrogation. In this effort, she is putting 250,000 silver into upgrading the armor, weapons, and training of the fleet before it leaves harbor. This includes the ships going out with Thrax, to benefit from these donations. They can keep them.
Action by Jasher
It's time. As promised, Jasher's brought himself and three vessels carrying battle-ready sailors to aid the Malvicis in their great pirate hunt. While no doubt there will be blood spilled, the prince is also looking to capture some of the pirates for the Malvicis to wring information from like damp towels. The watchword here is caution: Jasher is careful to try not to overextend his reach, and to sail relatively near Domonico's ships so that he can fall back for assistance--or offer assistance himself--in a moment's notice in the event of an ambush. He also assigns lookouts on his ships to keep an eye and report anything unusual, and that means /anything/ whether it's bloodwater or a bread box.
Result
It's really uncanny how well they are able to track the pirates. Most of the sailors from House Malvici assume that Lady Dora Malvici is some sort of spymaster, with advanced information on where some of the spies have been harboring, as she helps direct their forces towards the southwestern Lycene coast where the Empyrean Trade Route has been hardest hit. Sure enough, in those waters, a merchant galley is being pursued by two longships flying black serpent flags... which promptly turn to flee through the shallows at the sign of the Compact flags, hoping they can't be pursued
Lord Domonico expertly guides the galleys in pursuit, stunning his sailors with how well he manages to lead his three ships through the treacherous shallows with ease. Then Jasher's ships show from the other direction coming in a pincer, and the pirates have no choice but to be brought to battle.
Lord Santi leads the boarding action, and the fight is short but brutal, with the outnumbered pirates being quickly overwhelmed under the Malvici and Thrax onslaught. The Malvici ship Shrike takes significant damage in one of the ramming actions, but aside from that, they are able to claim two prizes.
With the massive funding supplied by Calypso, it's remarkable what they are able to discover. The pirates they were able to run down were members of the Undrowned Sons, and had been recently raiding in the employ of a red haired pirated queen operating out of Port Defiance. At least four other sell-sail or piratical groups were doing the same, but none were on the initial wave of pirates that hit Empyrean shipping in a coordinated way and immediately stopped. Near as the Undrowned Sons have heard it from rumors in Port Defiance, it was a sellsword group that was trying to stir up trouble with local lords, who then decided to turn a blind eye because they felt the Empyrean Trade Route was a threat to their autonomy, as a result of some extremely misleading propaganda that was spread against it. The Undrowned Sons and others just started rading since if the locals weren't going to patrol their own waters, it was too good an opportunity to pass up.
After several other patrols and running down other pirates that tell similar tales, piratical activity dies down for now in Lycene waters, having heard that Malvici patrolled areas are just too dangerous to trifle with.