Aftereffects of Martin's visit (IC RP 5.23.2020 Dibbun Slavers TP)

BlisaMarshmellow · 2020-05-23 08:12:58 PM

Immediately after this log: http://forum.rwmuck.org/viewtopic.php?id=1640
In the following log, I had Oz's permission to spoof baby Oz a little since RL had sucked the player away.

SCENE: The slaver boat ship thing

LOG:
Kurgan was watching things on the ship and yawns as he looked at Wilson, " Sail repairs going well?" The other ferret nods " Well as can with a deadline"

Oz is in this sort of old box as it seems they didnt want him crawling off, he whimpers and looks around for anyone familar, no one is on here so he just cries more.

Kurgan goes to walk over to the badger cub and hmmphs, he smirks and picks him up to go check on the other dibbuns below deck " Lets check on the brats..shall we son?"

Isa has slept a lot. There was little else to do trapped in the ship but even her sleep was never peaceful. Currently she's awake but she hasn't moved. Curled up she could be mistaken for being asleep again except for the fact her eyes are open and glow slightly in the gloom, reflecting what little light they have.

Squirrelbabe has been asleep -- as has been said, there's not much else to do on here. But now she awakens, and her eyes snap open as she remembers every detail of her visit from Martin. Her gaze roams the floor, looking for loose nails, like she's done ever since they woke up on this vessel. As the ferret comes down the stairs, the squirrel stands and stretches, still looking for nails (or screws, screws would work, too), ready for a confrontation. At least the vixen isn't here right now.

Kurgan looks at the dibbuns " Ya brats awake, we are almost ready to get further along" He drops the badger cub into a cage and locks the cage as he walks closer to the other dibbuns." You brats are gonna get us a lot of coin from Gorax"

Isa's fur stands on end as she hears one of the vermin coming but she shrinks back, covering her head under her paws and trying to pretend she's asleep or maybe just not there in the hopes that she won't be noticed.

Squirrelbabe scowls at the ferret. "You mom gets gold fwom Gowax." She also keeps looking for nails. And look, she finds a couple! She stands on them, careful to not stab herself in the foot, and stares at the ferret, waiting to see what he does next.

Kurgan rolls his eyes, " You need to be quiet or I make you be quiet." He grins

Isa is quiet. She knows threats when she hears them and she's staying as quiet as possible. Some of the other dibbuns don't however handle being scared quite so well and so the whimpering actually gets louder for some of the.

Squirrelbabe curls all her toes, picking up the nails without it looking like that's what she's doing. "Oh, yeah? Well, you just a shtoopid meanie face! Matilda gonna come smack you bottim wif hew swowd and boil you inta soup!" The Ringleader also recognizes a threat when she hears it, but she also remembers Martin's message to be brave and stand up against the slavers, so she's going to do just that.

Kurgan chuckles " She is? Well..I will have to kill her hmmmm and anyonr else " He smiles coldly and kicks the cage where Oz is , " The cub here is my new son, he will learn hate and be trained to slay woodlanders, he will be my living weapon of doom, might even keep his name...shrew said it was Oz...hee hee...wouldnt that be nice..future 2nd in command of my future horde"

Isa cautiously peeks out of her paws as Squirrelbabe starts yelling at the ferret. She watches silently until Kurgan kicks the cage and calls Oz his son. There's something about a father mistreating their child which gets to her and he fur bristles. She shakes really badly as she slowly starts getting up, moving slowly and silently as she hopes Kurgan will be too focused on Squirrelbabe to pay attention to her.

Squirrelbabe pretends to trip and snags the nails and stuffs them down her shirt in a remarkably sneaky way. As Baby Oz starts crying, she stands and starts walking towards the ferret, teeth bared menacingly. "He no you son! His mommy is Muvvew Kwisha! Now you's be's nice or I'sa gonna wip you EYEBALLS out!!" She notices the kitten doing her sneaky thing, as well, and part of her wonders if this is the leadership Martin had in mind.

Kurgan laughs " Nice?.." He kicks a nearby vole dibbun and a hare dibbun " Thats nice to me...brat and he is my son now..mine"

Isa is terrified. She's shaking and the internal war saying hide and fight is making everything worse. She freezes as the dibbuns are kicked and she waits before sneaking the last little bit until she's behind Kurgan and...she doesn't know what to do. She's never attacked anyone before. She doesn't know what she's doing or why she's doing it she just feels like she should! She hesitates but after a few seconds crouches, gets ready and then pounce! She springs! Claws out and and teeth bared, headed towards his back...when she runs out of chain and it jerks violently, catching her by the neck. She might still reach him with the claws if she's lucky and she still tries to latch on to him.

Squirrelbabe scoots forward at the same time as the kitten. The vole and the hare whimper with pain and fear, and the Ringleader is about to pounce.....then, oh yeah, chain. Seeing it bring the cat up short, the squirrel makes a quick change of plan and goes to attack the ferret's ankle, scratching and biting and trying to get to skin! She can feel the collar start to pull on her neck, but Martin said be brave, and that's what she's trying to do.

Kurgan chuckles as the kitten misses and makes the mistake of getting closer to the squirrel, the squirrel manages to get hus ankle so he kicks out at her and glares " Ok...brat, your not get dinner tonight"

Isa is disappointed to not even reach with her claws but her mind is more on the ground as she heavily falls to the floor and coughs since the collar choked her. She starts getting back up again and snarls when he kicks at Squirrelbabe too and takes away the promise of food "Like y'need the extra food t'get any fatter" the words and a sharp angry hiss come out before she can even think about it.

Squirrelbabe can't really dodge the kick, and gets winded, but she does her best to hang on, scratching and trying to bite clear down to the bone. She may not succeed, but this will seriously hurt! The other Dibbuns are watching in terror, not sure what to do or what might come next.

Kurgan is smart and backs off " You brats need to behave,or could drown ya, that be fun..for me"

Isa stands nearly at the end of her chain and glares up at the ferret. For a second she squints as for the first time in her life thinks what would her father do. He was scary, he wouldn't be scared right now. Her father was a thief. They'd been stolen, same rules must apply. She smiles slightly, she found something familiar about all this, it helps "If y'drown us y'can't sell us...and y'have t'tell yer boss y'can't even control a bunch of dibbuns"

Squirrelbabe's parents were also thieves, although they tended to steal only from vermin. So once the kitten says her piece, that triggers a thought in the squirrel's mind. "Yeah, an' I suwe dummy Gowax wouldn't be 'appy wif yous!" She tries to reach him, but he's very much beyond her grasp for right now. "An' you wantsta feeds us so's we no weak when we gets thewe, shtoopid face!"

Kurgan growls and smirks " Both..no dinner. enjoy being hungry " With that he walks up above deck, kicks oz's cage cause he us grumpy and above deck he goes slamming and locking the trap door.

Isa has a satisfied smirk when the ferret growls and honestly she went without food plenty of times before coming to the abbey, she doesn't consider it a problem. She looks satisfied when he's leaving but the glare returns when he kicks the cage and she moves to get as close to the cage as she can once he's gone. She can't get that far with the chains but she tries "Is 'e alright?" she asks of the badger as Squirrelbabe might be close enough to see.

Baby Oz starts wailing again as his cage is kicked. Squirrelbabe manages to get pretty close to the cage. "Um, I fink so. But he scawed." She sits with her back to the cage and stuffs her tail into it, reasoning that since she finds her tail comforting when she's scared, maybe he will, too. And it turns out she's right. He quiets down some once he hugs her bushy tail. Some of the other Dibbuns whimper slightly. The Ringleader crosses her arms as she thinks. "...I founded nails," she informs the kitten. "I fink dey're might be enough to shawe. You know 'ow to pick locks?"

Isa relaxes a little as the badger babe is alright and she takes a step back to give herself a little more room on the chain. She rubs her neck, after the failed pounce everything hurt she just hadn't been feeling it while everything was going on. She pauses and stares at Squirrelbabe for a moment. She was being normal. She even said the word share. Who knew Squirrelbabe even knew what that meant! She's slightly cautious but in the face of a common enemy she's willing to believe the impossible. She starts to shake her head at the question but that hurt so she speaks instead "No...y'said y'could pick locks couldn't you?"

Squirrelbabe knows the meaning of a lot of things she doesn't do! She bites her lip. "Well, I /fink/ I know how. Buts even if I did, it be good if we /bof/ got fwee so we's cans helps evewybeast else escape fasterer." So logical! "Maybe you's cans figuwe it out." She looks at baby Oz and gets disgusted when she sees he's gumming her tail. But she wants him to not be sad, and Martin said to be nice to the other Dibbuns, so she's stuck with a slobbery tail. Yuck.

Isa finds this new helpful Squirrelbabe very weird and doesn't quite believe what she's hearing. It's like it must be some sort of trick, she just can't see it yet! Playing along because she can't see why not to she offers a paw out for one of the nails "Ok...y'show me wha' to do and we'll both figure it out together"

Squirrelbabe is unsure how she feels about being nice. She's only used to chaos and conflict that not being in a fight with someone feels kind of wrong to her. But Martin instructed her to be nice, and so she's going to try. Digging out her nails, she discovers she only has 3. "Um, I fink we bof need 2. Do you see anuvver 1 anywheres?" She frees her slimy tail from the badger and starts searching around, encouraging the other Dibbuns to also look. Most just hunker down in fear, but a couple look around where they're sitting.

Isa still feels like it's suspicious but she backs up, looking around the ground before she gets back to where she was sleeping and to a nail she'd been trying to dig out "I was tryin' t'get one out..." she uses her claws to scratch off a bit more wood but it had started to hurt them "...Y're bein' nice...it's different"

Squirrelbabe can't get quite close enough to the kitten to help her dig out the nail, but she definitely watches with interest. "....Mawtin da Warriow told me t'be nice an' helpful and on'y be mean to da baddies who took us from home. So's I's twyin' t'be nice an' do as he said." She says this all simply and without any of her old attitude, or anything that shows she's lying. She's telling nothing but the truth. Everyone can just take it or leave it.

Isa stopped to look at the squirrel and appears confused "The mouse on the carpet told y'to be nice? When?"

Squirrelbabe picks her nose because, well, Dibbuns. "Wight befow shtoopidhead fewwet came down hewe and put the baby in th' cage. I woked up and wemembewed." She pulls her tail around and inspects the damage done by the badger slobbering on her tail. "...babies aw gwoss," she decides, figuring stating a fact like that wasn't being mean.

Isa still looks confused. She didn't see a mouse before the ferret came down but if he was talking to her...she suddenly brightens up and grins "He's here then? He can get us out!" problem solved, Martin to rescue, job done. She grimaces at the soggy tail though and instinctively pulls her own tail behind her for protection "Ew, yeah" babies are indeed gross.

Squirrelbabe rolls her eyes. Being nice has suddenly gotten way harder. Taking a deep breath, she tries to explain things without insulting the kitten. "Mawtin is a ghost. 'E was in my dweam." She is trying to not call the cat stupid, she really is. Martin should be pleased! "I don't fink he'll get us out dat easy. But," and she straightens up and smiles, "'e said Muvvew Kwisha sent Matilda an' a bunch of ovver Warriows to save us! So we's gonna gets out soon."

Isa's ears go back and she frowns "Oh..." she kind of knows about ghosts but she isn't really sure how they work. Still the news that Matilda and co are on the way brightens her up a little "We gots t'be ready t'go when they get here then" she says before she focuses on the nail again and start clawing at it once more.

A door opens and down comes a shrew, her job tonight feed the csptives below.She sighs as she walks slowly, she is usually given so much time to be ba k, basicly or else, its Leigh.

Squirrelbabe nods in agreement with the kitten, glad she didn't argue. When Leigh enters, she looks longingly at the food as the other Dibbuns stand up, knowing what's going on. "Oh, yeah, we no getting food dis time," she whispers to the cat, looking a little dejected. "Maybe whens we gets out, we can go fishin'," which is a skill the Ringleader absolutely does not possess.

"Shhhh" goes the kitten as Squirrelbabe mentions them not getting food "They might not have told her" and Isa is not going to inform Leigh they shouldn't be getting food, she just waits her turn in case "...I think I can catch a fish"

Leigh overhears them and hands them each a bowl of stew and water " Kurgan can die a horrible painful death." More so when she sees Oz in the cage and she looks near tears. " Very painful death" She sits down. a glace to the trap door and the dibuns. " I am Leigh, a healer in the GUOSIM."

Squirrelbabe accepts her food. "Fanks! You a nice lady." She stuffs her nails back into her shirt for safekeeping and starts to eat. "Is he da fewwet? I scwatched his foot." Baby Oz is asleep right now. "I Squiwwelbabe, Wingleadew of da DAB! I'sa gonna be bwave and be means to da evil vewmins who tooked us 'cause Mawtin said to."

Isa perks up, happily surprised when she's given food regardless. She smiles at Leigh "Yeah, the ferret's mean, I don't like 'im" she starts eating right away and only remembers to introduce herself aft Squirrelbabe does "I'm Isa"

Leigh manages a small smile, she looks at Oz ." Babes sleep a lot at this age" She will have to tell the vermin to get him out. to feed him. " Kurgan is the ferret yes and he is dangerous. Hopefully friends are not too far away. I know Oswald will for sure be among them looking for us." She frowns " He might think me dead though "

The Dibbuns are all eating their food quietly, not wanting any of the bad guys to come down and yell at them. A ferret, the only vermin Dibbun in the entire group, sniffles in his soup. A few others are sniffling, but they seem less afraid now that a kind grown-up is down here. Squirrelbabe smiles up at the shrew. "Mawtin da Warriow said Matilda an' a bunch of othews aw comin' t' save us!" She doesn't understand the possible problems with telling others this while the kidnappers may be listening.

Isa's smile continues as she talks between mouthfuls "Yeah, they'll get here and rescue us...and y'can just prove him wrong about bein' dead and we'll all go back t'the abbey...and hopefully never get stolen again"

Leigh frowns, she looks up and back to them." shhhhh...keep that quiet." She knows of Martin the Warrior, " Lets hope its soon, in the mean time." She smiles, the first time in days, " We wait...now was anyone hurt during that storm." Stupid vermin to sail in it but least no one died. " And yes...home will be nice"

Squirrelbabe looks a little confused as she's told to not talk about what Martin told her. "But why we no talk?" She finishes her food as various Dibbuns show the shrew their bumps and bruises. The Ringleader stands and shows off her tummy, which has a bug bruise on it from where the evil ferret kicked her. "Kuwgan kicked me," she informs the adult simply. "It's an owie, but I was mad an' didn't cwy."

Isa doesn't question keeping secrets, she's fine with that. She points out the other dibbuns who got kicked as well "He kicked them too" she glances around the rest of the dibbuns "I don't know if anyone else got hurts...I'll check" and with that she wanders off to ask around for injuries.

Leigh nods,she could get in trouble but checks the dibbuns, not too much to do for bruises.She frowns at a yell" Kurgan needs his dinner slave!!" She frowns and looks at the squirrel, she isnt sure why but she goes to hug her, if she is able, before rushing up the steps.

Squirrelbabe is too surprised to fight the hug. She's so used to adults yelling at her for being bad that she honestly doesn't know what to think about hugs. So she gets a hug, which makes her feel better, which she thinks is weird. She pushes her confusion out of her mind, pulls out 2 of her nails, and starts trying to figure out how to pick locks. Her father really did show her once, but that was quite a while ago. She'll have to see if she can figure it out on her own...

~*END*~

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#1 2020-05-23 08:12:58 PM

Aftereffects of Martin's visit (IC RP 5.23.2020 Dibbun Slavers TP)

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