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Author Topic: To free l'Olonnais, Le Saucy, and the gold! (Flashing Steel, solo)  (Read 787 times)

Offline H_E_H

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To free l'Olonnais, Le Saucy, and the gold!

On board their skiff, Baston Duchampe, Vivienne the Sea Fox, and Nicole Green non-chalantily navigate Ripple Town's canals, intent on completing their goals: 1. free their Captain François l'Olonnais and 2. unblock his gold-laden vessel, Le Saucy, and depart Ripple Town.


Captain François is confined to a small jail - a mop 'n bucket closet, really - and under close guard by the sadistic Mademoiselle Lefarge, wielding her whip and main-guache.


LeFarge's cohorts reside in the wharf office, drawing up documents to set sail with Le' Saucy and her golden load.
L-R: Iron Masque, Captain Louis, and Bald Ben


Meanwhile, Baston tries his best to act the innocent seaman, but the blurry eyes of a fishy bosun spot the notorious swashbucklers and he sounds his soused-slurred alarm


Vivienne, with a deep resentment for inebriated idiots, is more than thrilled to silence the sod. She begins her turn with a movement incorporating a leap.

Viv rolls two dice against her 3+ Quality, scoring a pair of marvelous sixes.  Her leap is not a difficult  maneuver, but she must roll three activation dice and at least achieving a '3' or better on one of them

Her simple stunt fails resoundlingly with a splash.  The Bosun erupts in liquored laughter.


Baston and Nicole progress onward, as if nothing has happened.
The harbour is audience to Baston's lilting, whistled melody as he browses the clouds above while passing off passive (he hopes)


Soaked to her skin, Viv somehow clambers up from Ripple Town's stewy stream and begins hailing hellbent horror upon all challengers.
Wharf boys alert to the action begin pelting Viv with slingshot harassment.
A montage of Viv's veracity of violence follows below.
She takes the fight through a boathouse and out onto its dock, alerting even more of Captain Louis's cronies to the cause:






1. Baston and Nicole dock at Ripple Town's jail. Nicole sets immediately to freeing her captain while Baston stands lookout.
2. Mademoiselle LeFarge, catches sight of  Nicole's jailbreak attempt and unleashes her whip. Baston leaps between the two
3. Fed up being on the receiving end of LeFarge's lash, Baston pulls his flintlock pistol and fires away. LeFarge is too quick and avoids the assault.
4. Captain François l'Olonnais is free just as Captain Louis arrives. The two Captains exchange bladed blows, but François comes out on top, knocking down Louis.


5. Lefarge, hearing the cries of her fallen commanding officer offers the whip to  l'Olonnais
6. Baston rounds the corner to see alleyway battle.
7. As Bald Ben arrives behind Lefarge, l'Olonnais - with Baston in line of sight - uses one of his activations to enact his Leader ability.  Granting his team an order to move together on his turn! l'Olonnais, Baston, and Nicole board the vessel.
8. Nicole navigates as Baston shoves off!


With stage one of the mission accomplishes, the trio decide on a route to reach Le Saucy. The Captain has had time (jail time) to plan an avenue of least disruption, but it will lead past the Wharf Office (which Iron Masque still occupies thanks to two failed attempts to activate), past a glorious golden fountain, along a short port, a leap onto Le Saucy and one more jump for whoever will move the ship that block's escape from Ripple Town's harbor.


Baston leaps from the boat to the first pier while Captain François l'Olonnais takes the second. Nicole continues the boat further along to aid Vivienne in her outnumbered battle.  Captain Louis, Lefarge, and Bald Ben sprint toward the wharf office.   
1. Baston and Bald Ben face engage in bladed combat. Ben proves too much for Baston and he falls to the pier. 
2. Captain Louis sees his opportunity. With two activations, Louis takes an Aimed Shot and finishes off Baston. 


1. Iron Masque finally activated rushes out of the wharf office intent on battling Vivienne, sees l'Olonnais and instead decides to take his shots out on the escaped captain.
2. Lefarge engages l'Olonnais in close combat, utilizing her main-gauche in hopes of disarming Captain.
3. l'Olonnais  is not having it and his powerful parry forces Lefarge back with a recoil.


1. l'Olonnais, furious with Iron Masque's potshots, engages the metal-helmed hooligan. l'Olonnais's powerful rapier sends Iron Masque reeling in Recoil. Iron Masque trips over the golden fountain and splashes in its brisk waters.
2. Vivienne, enraged with Baston's death, delivers her own killing blow to Iron Masque.
3. (CENSORED)
4. (CENSORED)


5. Vivienne sprints past Iron Masque's corpse, successfully leaping onto Le Saucy. It's Viv's second jump that goes horribly wrong again.  Viv once again visits Ripple Town's questionable waters. 
6. She's surrounded by Louis henchmen crew and surrenders after receiving several stiff whacks from them.
7. Captain Louis attempts shot at  l'Olonnais, but his pistols comes up short in range!
8. Lefarge charges through the gunsmoke and confronts  l'Olonnais.
"Are we all done now with this folly?"
Somewhere along the wharf, Nicole Green can be heard shouting amid the clanging of swords, "Never surrender, Captain!"
 l'Olonnais has a decision to make...




Offline Bloggard

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Re: To free l'Olonnais, Le Saucy, and the gold! (Flashing Steel, solo)
« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2021, 08:45:58 PM »
oh my - that's brilliant.

Proper looking game !!  :-*

squared-off corrugated cardboard, tins and biscuit boxes ... and ... you really don't need anything more. Fantastic.

 

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