Battle of Maldon II

[Narrator]

From a time portal in Maldon's harbor, two ships emerged, and quickly began to be involved in a pitched battle for landing rights.

One was a classic Viking longship--a long, thin, narrow thing with a large cloth sail and a boatload of Viking warriors on it.

The other was a Pirate ship of the line, as would normally be found in the Carribean in the 1600s, with the filthiest scallewags you ever did see on it.

The pirate ship opened up fire with it's cannons on the waterfront shopping center of Maldon.

[Kayla Turnbull]

"Well, that's not fair.. Do Vikings even have ship cannons?"

Kayla made a face as she floated towards the ships from the wharf.

[Nailah Weaver]

Nailah comes in flying above the buildings to investigate the other time bubbles as per Tosh's request when things suddenly pop into existence. Her eyes go wide, especially when the ship opens fire.

Spotting a figure floating in the air she goes into a dive to get within shouting distance of Kayla. "Hey! You got a plan for dealing with this?"

[Kayla Turnbull]

"Take out the guns, and wait for the Royal Navy to show up was the general idea.."

She swooped low, aiming to keep out of the firing angles of the pirate ship.

[Nailah Weaver]

"Okay! But I think that one's trying to land. Or dock or whatever." she shouts, circling back around in a wide arc around Kayla and pointing at the Vikings.

[Kayla Turnbull]

Kayla began counting off the Vikings on deck, pointing quickly from one to the next.

"I can probably keep them from reaching the wharf, but but I can't deal with both ships at once!"

[Nailah Weaver]

I want to take out the cannons. How can I stop the Viking ship? How can I protect the harbor from the cannons?

As she's flying Nailah kept asking her power for ways to deal with things but only comes up with throbs of headache. But when she asks how to best help Kayla with the situation she suddenly finds a path again. "Ooh! You do that. I got something!" Her whole body-language seems to change as she suddenly moves with much more sense of purpose through the air towards the pirate ship, diving down and flying only a couple feet above the water. Her approach takes her right into the cannon-fire, dodging and swerving around cannonballs as if she knew where they were going to be before they're even fired.

[Kayla Turnbull]

Kayla veered toward the Vikings, gaining speed as she neared the longship.

With a loud thump she landed near the stern, holding fast for the few moments needed to cast her net. After a few seconds, she had tapped into the mental potential of every single human on board.

As several tough Vikings swooned with lightheadness, she focused on the large rudder, attempting to use her boosted Tk power to jam it in one direction, and send it in circles.

[Carlos Vasquez]

Carlos, having been alerted via his comm, was the next to arrive on the scene.

"What on Earth?" he said, diving out of the way as a cannonball shot through the air.

[Narrator]

Kayla was sloooowly turning the rudder. Success!

The boat was headed for shore. Success!

That means Vikings might be able to get out and start pillaging. Suc...suc...success?

[Nailah Weaver]

Meanwhile Nailah is aiming to land on the pirate ship. Or more specifically, is trying to kick a pirate in the back as she does it to topple and land on top of him.

[Kayla Turnbull]

gah, Push right to go left, left to go right. Boats are stupid...

Kayla shifted the rudder again, aiming to keep the Viking ship going in circles and most definitely not heading to shore.

[Narrator]

A few vikings had reached shore before Kayla managed to get the boat away, and Carlos had to face off with them.

A couple of the large, burly vikings attempted to tackle and take down Kayla before she could do more damage.

Meanwhile, Nailah managed to kick a pirate over as she landed. Good! ANd now she was surrounded by pirates. Bad!

[Kayla Turnbull]

"Oh no. You don't touch me. I touch you!"

Kayla let loose with a couple TK jabs, powered by the entire Viking crew.

[Narrator]

She sent her opponents flying backward! There was much swearing, and the Vikings were backing up.

A few, however, started tossing spears her way.

[Kayla Turnbull]

Kayla easily deflected the spears, sending the hem into the waters of Maldon bay.

"Don't make me hurt you, boys."

[Nailah Weaver]

Nailah ducks down and pulls the pirate's sword free, bringing it around to face the ones surrounding her. "No chance we could negotiate, is there? Right. I figured." She really doesn't know how to wield a sword properly, but thankfully her power is still letting her go on auto-pilot and she swings the blade at the nearest pirate to make him back off so she can make her way towards the door leading under deck.

[Sean Hall]

Sean was little late to the party but really hadn't been prepared for a viking warship or pirates. However, what's a bit of time traveling craziness to a mage and he adapted as quickly as he could.

"Cavalry has arrived," Sean said before preparing a spell. Brilliant red circles full of runes appeared around his hands. The magic coalesced into a ball of fire, which he launched at the pirate ship seeing as it had well, cannons. <"Fires of Faltline.">

[Narrator]

KAYLA
The Vikings were flustered--who WAS this lady?

Deciding that she couldn't fight them ALL off, they tried a massive charge towards her.

NAILAH
Nailah's power wasn't a perfect replacement for years of training with cutlasses, but it was better than nothing, and she made her way to the door under the deck, sword-fighting and swash-buckling her way past a few of the pirates.

"Arrr! Ye be a feisty minx, but ye aren't getting off this boat alive, landlubber."

SEAN
And now the sails were on fire. THAT seemed like a problem for the pirates.

A cannonball was launched in his general direction.

[Sean Hall]

Sean wasn't about to go dodging cannon balls and instead channeled energy into the runes carved into the overlapping plates on his arm. The cannon ball exploded against an invisible sphere of energy and several of the rune covered plates cracked violently.

Have to work on making those last longer.

"That's gonna leave a bloody mark," Sean coughed.

Sean directed his energy into another spell. Another series of runes swirled around his hands as he tried something else to keep the pirates cannons aimed at him rather than the neighborhood around him.

<"Spears of the Seraphim"> Sean chanted as reality groaned. Lightning crackled from his hands and condensed into several spears floating above his head. They then launched towards the cannons on the pirate ship. He hoped to ignite the gunpowder the gunners were using to reload the cannons or at least make for some very unhappy and shocked sailors.

[Nailah Weaver]

"Oh yeah? You don't know who you're dealing with. I'm the... dreaded Sky-Pirate Silver Lioness Weaver!" she taunts back. "Stand in my way and it'll be the last thing you do! This town's under my protection!" she jabs the pirate talking to her.

[Narrator]

"Arr, this port be ours now, lassie," the pirates threatened, trying to surround her.

The pirates manning the cannons were sent flying by the lightning, and yet more fires were started on deck. Nothing had exploded yet, though.

[Nailah Weaver]

"Then you leave me no choice!" she grins and rushes at the pirates, going into a slide just before she runs into their weapons, twisting herself around to slip between their legs. Without looking she blindly sticks her foot out to catch a distorted floorboard at just the right angle with her claws to use her momentum to hop upright again behind the pirates and grab a big barrel to topple. Unfortunately it turns out to be heavier than she can casually tip over and for a moment she just awkwardly grins before grabbing it with both hands to try and topple the barrel full of gun powder again.

[Narrator]

The pirates scattered a bit as Nailah slid through them, and had to jump back more as the heavy barrel thunked onto the ground, rolling juuuust in view of the people on the docks...

[Nailah Weaver]

Meanwhile Nailah is making a mad dash for one of the portholes.

[Kayla Turnbull]

"Fighting can be so tiring, don't you think? In fact, you are getting so sleepy..."

Kayla flexed her telepathic muscles, aiming to make as many of them unconscious as possible.

[Narrator]

Indeed, the Vikings were beginning to groggy, staggering as they approached Kayla...

[Kayla Turnbull]

She smirked in response, pushing any who got close backwards.

[Narrator]

This worked for a while, but there was a BUNCH of them. If she stayed put, they ~would~ eventually overwhelm her.

[Sean Hall]

The pirates scattered a bit as Nailah slid through them, and had to jump back more as the heavy barrel thunked onto the ground, rolling juuuust in view of the people on the docks...

Sean sees the barrel, which was what he'd been looking for earlier. He readied another fireball then launched it at the rolling barrel of gunpowder.

[Kayla Turnbull]

This worked for a while, but there was a BUNCH of them. If she stayed put, they ~would~ eventually overwhelm her.

Until that time arrived, Kayla was going to have a little fun. She began implanting suggestions in the nearby Vikings that their compatriots were traitors and attacking them, aiming to get the, fighting amongst themselves for a while.

[Narrator]

This worked for a while, but there was a BUNCH of them. If she stayed put, they ~would~ eventually overwhelm her.

Until that time arrived, Kayla was going to have a little fun. She began implanting suggestions in the nearby Vikings that their compatriots were traitors and attacking them, aiming to get the, fighting amongst themselves for a while.

She couldn't control them ALL, and she was tackled by two or three vikings.

[Narrator]

The pirates scattered a bit as Nailah slid through them, and had to jump back more as the heavy barrel thunked onto the ground, rolling juuuust in view of the people on the docks...

Sean sees the barrel, which was what he'd been looking for earlier. He readied another fireball then launched it at the rolling barrel of gunpowder.

Sean's fireball hit Nailah's barrel.

The resulting explosion was QUITE satisfying.

[Nailah Weaver]

Nailah narrowly manages to clear the porthole before part of the ship explodes, sending her flying on the shockwave. Unfortunately that's not very conductive to actual flying and she's thrown into the water of the harbor, ever so slightly skidding off the surface once before crashing into the waves.

[Sean Hall]

The moment of satisfaction at seeing the pirate ship go up in a ball of flame was drowned out by seeing Nailah hit the water (also a bit of guilt from not waiting to make sure the boat was clear of team members) and Kayla getting overwhelmed by vikings.

<"Ascension of Aeolus"> Sean said casting a minor levitation spell on Nailah. Figuring at the very least Nailah was probably the most in danger (or maybe he was feeling a bit guilty about the whole affair).


He then turned and cast the same minor spell on the vikings hoping that forcing a few to float a few feet above the ground would help Kayla out.

[Kayla Turnbull]

Kayla brought up a TK field, and drawing upon the power available to her to fly up and out of the crowd, focusing on keeping the rudder jammed, and keeping the boat from shore.

[Nailah Weaver]

Sean's spell keeps Nailah from sinking into the waves after crashlanding into the harbor, lifting her limp form out of the water.

[Narrator]

Kayla brought up a TK field, and drawing upon the power available to her to fly up and out of the crowd, focusing on keeping the rudder jammed, and keeping the boat from shore.

Kalyla was successful! She could join the others on the docks--the two ships were clearly floundering now.

[Sean Hall]

Sean "pulls" Nailah towards him on the shore, so he can try to see if something is wrong with, aside from the whole appearing to be unconscious thing, her.

[Nailah Weaver]

Nailah groans faintly as she makes landfall. She tries to sit up and hold her head in one hand.