EliteCommander

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

"I gave her some instruction." Meesei chimed in. "Though I admit, the concept of having to teach someone to swim seemed strange to me at first. For Argonians, it is almost an instinct. Walking and swimming are learned just as easily. It seems inconvenient to me that you have to have to stay above the water most of the time. Gills, waterproof scales, and a strong tail make swimming much easier, to say the least."

Ahnasha gave a short grunt. "I wish I had waterproof fur. You wouldn't believe how long it takes to dry. Some Khajiit do not like to get in the water because of it, and I cannot say I blame them. It's worth it to me, though. Anyway, do you happen to know the owner of the bookstore, Earondil? We stopped by his store earlier, and he turned out to be a very kind individual. He overheard us talking about how we didn't have enough coin to buy one of the books I wanted, so he let us have two for the price of one. He said we reminded him of himself and his wife."

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After the lapse in activity, I'm glad it is moving along.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

"Yeah, yeah. You're still a city boy at heart, aren't ya' Janius? I guess we should start keeping everything nice and clean and proper for you. We could build you some furniture and make that skeleton over there into your servant. It'd be just like home, wouldn't it?" Lorag teased in a joking tone as he took his place in the pool. He wouldn't admit it verbally, but it was surprisingly relaxing, and he kind of regretted not using it before.

Ahnasha sat down near the pool's outlet next to Fendros. Before speaking up, she took a deep breath and submerged herself completely underwater and started to try to wash the blood from her fur. Her feast before ended up coating parts of her head, neck, chest, and hands in blood. It was more difficult to wash fur than skin, but after a few times dunking herself underwater, she washed at least most of it from her face. Once she settled down, she wrapped her arm around Fendros' shoulder and her tail around his waist.

Ariel was sitting to the left of Ahnasha and had taken her spot in the pool not long before Ahnasha was completely settled. Ahnasha gave her a smile. "See, told you it was relaxing. I can't believe you have never even gone swimming with others before. Do you not have many other friends in Vos? Or is swimming just not a common activity for them?"

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

It's alright. I just finished posting in another RP, so I'll respond now.

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Sharee looked out over the water, then up to how much the sun had shifted in the sky over the horizon. It had been roughly half an hour since the second group left, so it was about time for them to begin. "Speaking of the ship..." She began, turning around to face the rest of her group. "Alright everyone, this is it. We've given the others enough time to get into position. Now, it is time for us to strike. We're going to be coming up at the ship from below, so I hope you're ready to climb. Drink your potions and follow me. I'll go slow so you can keep up."

After waiting a moments for everyone to finish the potions, Sharee waded out into the water, then dove underneath its surface. One by one, each of her crew followed, with varying degrees of grace. Some of them were obviously not strong swimmers, so Sharee had to keep an annoyingly slow pace for her, but her potions would last more than long enough to account for their slow speed. They moved along the bottom of the harbor among the kelp which grew from underneath them. Such concealment was likely unnecessary, but Sharee reasoned that it could not hurt. As they moved along, she could see that the anchors she had sabotaged before, or at least the ones she could see, were still tied securely in place. Any ships which tried to pursue them would be in for a surprise if they tried to raise anchor.

Sharee led the group to the far side of the ship, away from the dock, in order to delay detection for a bit longer. She grabbed on to the closest piece of loose wood to the water and pulled herself up to the next solid spot. There were a few nets hanging on the side of the ship which would make it easier to climb, but Sharee avoided them so that she wouldn't get in the way of others who needed them more, as she was more than agile enough to climb up a more difficult path. Just as she was nearing the railing to the deck, she stopped, drew her cutlass, and held it in her teeth for a moment as she reached into her satchel for a vial of stamina poison. She popped off the cork and poured it over the blade before replacing the vial in her satchel and once again taking the blade in her hand. The poison would almost immediately begin to fatigue anyone she cut as long as some of it still remained on the blade, which would hopefully give her an advantage.

Most of the others were now on the side of the ship, waiting for her go, so Sharee took a deep breath, pulled herself up over the railing, and ran at the nearest sailor to her. It was an East Empire company guard, fully equipped in their usual light armor. He started to turn as soon as he heard Sharee's feet hit the deck, but did not recognize what was happening before it was too late. She thrust her cutlass forward and stabbed him through the chest with enough force to rip through his leather armor, ending him quickly. Withdrawing her blade from his body, she let him drop to the ground as she drew one of her curved daggers in her left hand, ready to move to the next target. Once the group on the docks noticed the fighting, they would hopefully rush to the loading ramp and guard it against any city guards who tried to make their way on board to help the sailors, and do prevent any sailors from escaping.

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I think I'll start it in my next one. Might take a bit

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"Yes, well, don't try to kiss my tail in the future, unless you're being literal. I might be okay with that." Sharee said with a chuckle, glancing to him to look him over. "As for confidence, I haven't gotten this far in life being 'confident' in others' performance. The only thing I am confident in is myself, and what I can do. I am confident that my plan is something that a moderately skilled crew should be able to pull off. I am confident in my ability to fight, to kill, and to lead. Anything else I fully expect can fail. If I were to give an estimate, I would say they are probably skilled enough, but confidence? That is another matter entirely. You want me to be confident in you? Prove that you're worth it. If you show that you are valuable, someone I can count on to fulfill their duties, I promise you that your pay will reflect that, among other benefits. I take care of those close to me, and when I give my word on something, I always follow through. I may lie, cheat, kill, and steal at all other times, but when I give my word, it is as good as law."

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As the second group left to get in their positions, Sharee stood by the shore, staring across the water at her prize. There seemed to be enough fighters in her group for the plan to work, she just hoped they were good at what they did. As much as she hated to admit it, she probably couldn't take the ship alone. The others would need to perform at least semi-decently for this to work.

After a few minutes, the Breton Kayal walked up behind her and proceeded to compliment her. She did not turn around, but instead kept her eyes on the ship, the ship that was soon to be hers. "How about you wait until we actually have the ship before you start kissing my tail. No sense celebrating on something that is right now just an idea. I'm pretty certain this plan will work, as long as enough of the crew stays alive to actually operate the thing afterwards. Still, it's always best to expect the worst. Now, we end up getting that thing out to sea, away from the harbor, then I'll show you how to have a real celebration. I don't care how tired I end up being, if you know my reputation, then you know that having a good time is a specialty of mine."

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Ahnasha yawned and stretched out her muscles. "Yeah, I think that would be a nice relaxing way to end the day." She commented before looking around at everyone else. "What about all of you? Care to join? Having a nice conversation in a hot spring is even better than one around a camp fire."

After a few moments of consideration, Meesei nodded and stood up. "Sure, I could join you. My entire body was aching from my wounds last time I made use of it, so getting in the spring now would probably be even better. Just make sure you two sit near the pool's outlet so the blood doesn't wash over the rest of us."

Lorag shrugged his shoulders. "Eh, why not? I guess sitting around in a pool doing nothing beats sitting by the fire doing nothing. I haven't got in that thing yet, so I might as well see what all the fuss is about."

As everyone was deciding what they wanted to do, Ahnasha gave Ariel a friendly, welcoming smile to extend the invitation to her as well. They were going to be working closely together and risking their lives tomorrow night, so she felt it couldn't hurt to get to know her a bit better.