[center][h1][color=00a651][b][u]NERO KAYAKOS[/u][/b][/color][/h1][/center]

[u][i][b]Before Arrival at Maiden's Reach[/b][/i][/u]

Of course, the thing about Nero was that he was the genuinely sneaky one.  And so, when the prosthetic girl was just a bit distracted by having been given information to ponder over, he found a shadow to slip into and...disappeared.  No trace of him.  The magic gave him proper levels of stealth in darkness, and he'd head off once the girl had gone, chuckling to himself while in the shadows that concealed both sound and visual trace of him.  From there, he'd basically show up at the kitchen to make like a Ginsu World Class and then leave the rest of the actual cooking to the others as he went to his room and basically hit the sack.

Time passed...


[u][i][b]After Arrival at Maiden's Reach[/b][/i][/u]

...and on the second day-

[i]Bridge!  Now![/i]

[center][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vle_FQDE6gU[/youtube][/center]

-a gratuitous space battle happened?!  What the effing fuck?!  There was suppose to be increased security, a blockade!  Who the hell ordered the [i]war[/i] back in circulation?  Oh, there was gonna be hell to pay...  Then again, Nero DID want a little more action, as it had been peaceful...but dull around here.  Well, wasn't that one of the reasons for him voting the short route?  Uhh...maaaybe.  Anyway, the good news - or whatever you wanna call it - was that someone was duking it out with the Ascendancy here, which meant it was time to go get their hands dirty.  While Nero could do little more than magically give their ship cannons a bit of a boost while [i]here[/i], suggestions of sending him and a few others over to a ship were being made.

[color=00a651]"And that's my cue.  How do you want 'em done?  I was thinkin', given the circumstances, that quick-an'-dirty would do.  Too much mayhem right now to do it quietly on a ship at war."[/color]

The surprise here came in the form of Narvia revealing that she knew what the hell was going on before Ariel could call up a few ghosts.  Apparently, dear old dragon-pops had sent that encrypted message before to warn her about Berkeley's Butchers, a group of right bastards that she obviously had [i]history[/i] with, enough to want 'em dead.  Sounded good.  Even better was Flame cooking up a deception to get them close enough for Fin to portal them in and get the party started.  It was a [i]hella[/i]-good thing that Nero had geared up already.  However, that thought from before niggled at him now and he got Natasha's attention.

[color=00a651]"I can put a little pep in your ship cannons, buuut I think I gotta be around 'em to make the spell work.  Ya got any problems with that?  Won't take long, and then you get surprisingly-good guns...for a while."[/color]