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[Dusty]

(Ok kids, time for a real captain to show you how it's done. No want to be good guy or flirty girl here. Just a face you best learn to fear.)

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“A cesspit of violence and debauchery cleverly disguised as a cesspit of violence and debauchery. That is the Kraken and her crew in a nutshell.” –unknown Pirate hunter.

Name: His nick name is “Dusty S Hooves” His real name is Snjókoma er risastór what comes out to be Snowfall; the giant.

Gender: Male

Age: Older stallion. He is not one to say his age, but he is not out of his prime yet!

Species: A Unicorn mule with giant blood in him.

Random Fact: His dad was a donkey and his mum was a half giant unicorn.

Looks: Snowfall is very big, even for a pony from the north. He towers over others from his home. His fur is snow white, but he is so dirty his fur is more of a beige colour, and his eyes are ice blue. His left ear has a big bite in it, and there is a large cut over his left eye. He has a bull nose ring, and five earrings on his right ear.

Cutie Mark: His Cutie Mark is weird as most never associate it with him as it’s two train tracks crossed to make an X. This stands for his love of treasure and the fact that his life of crime started with trains, not airships.

Personality: A drunkard with a great sense of humor that is good-nature and generous. He is optimistic, determined, cunning and reckless too. Dusty is dependable, and will risk his life for those he cares about. He does have some faults though: an amazing stubbornness, and a “they’ll-never-catch-me” attitude, which results in his carelessness in avoiding capture. He will push his luck to its limits and has trusted the wrong people before.

You’re Ship: The Kraken. A marauder class ship from the cold wastelands of the north. It is used for raiding towns and other ships. What she lacks in looks she makes up for in fire power and outlasting others. She is armed with ten harpoon cannons that can fire harpoons to grab hold of other ships or flaming bolts to burn a ship down. To give her more ranged fire power she has two long barrel 240mm Howitzers on her top deck.

Rank: Chieftain (AKA: captain.)

Weapons/Fighting style: Celtic style with heavy use of his size and his large rune war Axe “mountain crusher” that’s runes blue energy field explodes with a thunderous crack upon impact, more often than not smashing through armor, and leaving a smoking hole that crackles with blue sparks. The power unleashed on impact is such that only a pony as huge as Dusty can use it safely.

Lifelong dream or general goal: To be the most well known, feared, loved, hated, awe inspiring Outlaw/Raider/ Pirate to EVER live.

History: Hailing from the north, Snowfall was born colourblind, and was later found to have Aquaphobia. Never knowing his true mother and father, he was raised by the mule outlaw known as Belle Star. Snowfall was just a foal when he and Belle moved to the deep north, where he then lived out most of his life. Due to living in the harsh arctic wasteland, he is used to moving and working in very cold weather. When Belle Star viewed him as ‘being of age’ she took Dusty on his first crime, a train hijacking. This was only the start for Snowfall.

Belle Star and her gang went on to hijack more trains and wagons. For years this went on as Snowfall grew, and Snowfall got the nickname Dusty thanks to his dirty fur that looked less like snow and more likes dust, a name that holds on to this day. But as Belle Star got older she passed more of her gang on to Snowfall, before long he was the leader of the White Walkers and this is when his name started to get known.

To prove himself as one of the best outlaws that ever lived, he hijacked an airship. He renamed her “Kraken” and got to work remaking her. The next time she took to the air she was a new ship. He named it a marauder class ship; this name came to be what all junky raider/ Pirate ships from the north are named. At this time she was not as big as she well get later, being just a small ship.

The young days of his ship were full of much learning for him and his gang as they got used to battles in the sky and the tactics needed to wage battles ship to ship. In this time they got very fond of boarding ships as most ship crews were vary weak in close quarters combat, but he and his crew excelled at it. This led to their ship over time growing to be specifically aimed at boarding other ships.

As the years passed his ship had more added to her and she got bigger and bigger. After three years she was nothing like the tiny ship that started it all. Armed to her teeth with weapons like a warship, she became a real monster of the sky and more and more stories left the north of a large airship that seemed all but unstoppable to the trade ships she hunted. By now Dusty had a large crew to work his ship as more and more outlaws, thieves and beggars flocked to him from the cold and unforgiving north lands.

After five years Dusty’s eyes fell down south with lust for gold and fame. With a crew ready to set the south ablaze and cheering from towns that gave him crew and gear he took to the sky and made his way down to this new land to reap its fresh stock of cargo and trade ships. The Kraken was coming… And she was hungry with a cut-throat crew and a blood-thirsty captain at her helm.

[Cainiam]

(Hey there, guys. First of Slash's mysterious crew here, and the Captain. My cohorts will be joining me shortly, all aboard the Languid Sophisticate.)

Name: Tarnished Gold

Gender: Male

Age: Old Stallion

Species: Earth Pony

Looks: Tarnished Gold is a tall and well built pony despite his age. He tries his best to appear a gentlepony despite his rather battered appearance. A number of scars on his body show some particularly nasty battles, but he covers them in a white shirt with ruffles and an ornate purple jacket. His right eye is actually a glass eye, and if you look closely you can make out a scar across his eye lid, although he covers it in powder. A number of his teeth are fake but almost indiscernible. His mane is kept short and combed down, as is his tail, which are both bleached pale white, leading to a strong contrast with his coat which was once white, but has now greyed.

The one flaw in his appearance that he can’t fix is his missing leg. A rather messy hit with a cannonball back when he was a helmspony cost him the lower half of his rear right leg, which was quickly replaced by the then ship Doctor Handsaw who botched the job. Tarnished Gold does now have a piece of brass where his lower leg would be, but it’s not fully functional and Gold has trouble standing on his hind legs. To help with that he always carries around a cane.

Personality: Gold is all about finery and manners. A gentlepony in every way, that is, until he gets angry. He will offer those he does battle with a chance, no matter their creed or colour, and if they refuse, he will do all in his power to destroy them. Anypony that gets on his bad side is lucky to live to regret it. There are no second chances. He is fair with his crew as long as they don’t abuse his leniency. Tarnished Gold is getting old however, he can feel it in his bones, his stub has a tendency to bleed around the brass. Without special tonics brewed by Patches, he wouldn’t get through the day-to-day. Whenever he feels a moment of weakness, he tries to overcompensate by acting strong, which does little to help.

Cutie Mark: A Canterlotian Crest with a bloody sword run through it.

Random Fact: Tarnished Gold loves rats. He may deny it to the grave for the sake of his Noblepony appearance, but growing up in the slums he had a lot of rat friends.

Your Ship: The Languid Sophisticate, a small airship staffed by four ponies. This small brass reinforced wooden ship is built around a large metal helium tank. The ship features a flight deck at the top of the tank, while storage and everything else run around the top half of it. Four propellers sit at the back of the airship, two flanking the balloon on each side. The flight deck features four large bore clockwork cannons with speed loaders and full mobility. When manned they can fire in a full 360 degree area, allowing for exceptional coverage and increased accuracy. It also features two large high-pressure steam guns that fire burning hot gases at short range, making them devastating in boarding actions for both attack and defence.

The ship is largely automated, with sails, anchor, and propellers all mechanised to be manipulated from the helm where the Captain can normally be found. The cannons are also able to be fired from the helm, but aiming must be done manually. As long as the mechanisms are intact, the cannons will automatically reload. The main features of the ship are the armoury, doctor’s office and workshop, as well as each pony having their own living quarters as well as the captain’s own rather lavish one. The lowest deck of the ship is entirely devoted to storage.

Rank: Captain

Weapons/Fighting style: Tarnished Gold has a sword hidden in the cane he uses to walk. The rapier is made of star metal from a fallen asteroid, and has been known to break inferior blades. He can’t swing it with as much strength as he used to, but still uses it as his duelling weapon. His cane also triples as a clockwork rifle once the blade is removed. It can only hold one shot at a time, but the extremely long barrel gives unparalleled accuracy thanks to rifling, and the shot carries a special payload of combustive gases to set any foe or object it hits alight if it’s flammable enough.

Lifelong dream or general goal: Tarnished Gold wants to be a noblepony in paper. Due to his status as a wanted criminal, that is proving near impossible despite his petitions to the Princess. He still believes if he accrues enough gold, he’ll be able to do it eventually, even though it’s been made abundantly clear that isn’t the case.

History: Born as the illegitimate son of a noblepony who wanted nothing to do with him, Tarnished Gold has always wanted to live the high life of the Canterlot elite, his birthright. He spent his young life trying to learn etiquette and prove himself as smart as the upper class, despite his common upbringing. He spent ages working on his accent, and trying to eke out a living with a single mother in the slums. When he was sixteen he went to visit his father, hoping that he’d be impressed with what he had learnt and accept him into the family. However that wasn’t what happened.

His father disowned him again, and something in Tarnished Gold broke. He got angry, real angry, and lashed out, killing his wretched excuse for a father and earning himself a one way ticket to the gallows. However Gold wasn’t stupid, he didn’t stick around, he ran to the skydocks, found a ship and stowed away, unaware the ship he had hidden on was a pirate vessel. The captain found him, and rather than gutting him, saw something in the colt and gave him a job on his ship. There he worked his way up from a cabin boy, to the helmspony, to the First Mate, and then finally the Captain.

When Gold made Captain he had the ship renamed The Languid Sophisticate and a lot of the ship was automated, reducing the need for most of the crew. Yet Tarnished Gold never forgot his dreams of high society, now that he can afford to live like one, he does. Covering up his scarred self and presenting an impeccable gentlepony. Few compare him to the butcher he’s known as at first sight, but they’ve never seen him angry, because if they had they wouldn’t be able to see.

[Valencetiger]

...well played, Dusty. Well played. -claps-

[Dusty]

Ha, their you are cain. It will be fun shooting you out of the sky.

...well played, Dusty. Well played. -claps-

Why thank you~

[StarStorm]

Moondust's ship DOES have a weakness, since a pony can use dragon gems if they are mostly magic users, but we should take a quick vote on if that's over powered or not. I vote no, but I still want you scamps opinions.

Also, a ship made of gems is just a really cool idea, and I love her name. I say yes, but I can't yet guarantee that you won't need to change the ship.

Cain, this character is rocking!! I'm excited to see the rest of the crew, for sure ^^

[Valencetiger]

I vote that Starbuster's ship isn't overpowered I was just giving'em a hard time about it!

[Walker]

(I guess I'm second for Cainiam's crew? Resident doctor of The Languid Sophisticate, ready to set sail.)

Name: Patches

Gender: Female

Age: Young mare (17) but she acts much older.

Species: Unicorn

Looks: Patches is small, even for her age. Her mane and tail are long and light orange, meticulously combed to unusual straightness. Her mane falls to the left side, neatly over that eye and almost touches the ground, but in certain situations she will tie it up in a loose ponytail. Her coat is a deep blue colour. She usually wears a lab coat, except when completely off duty.

Personality: Patches is a calm, intelligent and social mare. She loves to chat with the members of her ship, but also loves to spend time alone in her medical bay cleaning. Patches has OCD when it comes to clean and order in her workplace. She is also feels like she has something to prove among her crew due to her age.

Despite her young age she shows some of the mental scars of being part of a crew. She is exceedingly paranoid of new ponies, and in general, constantly checking over her shoulder and re-checking her medical equipment.

Cutie Mark: St. John’s Cross

Random Fact: Patches is terrified of fully operational clockwork limbs.

Your Ship: The Languid Sophisticate (See Cainiam's post for full ship detail.)

Rank: Doctor

Weapons/Fighting style: Patches has a small clockwork revolver that she uses mostly for self defense, a large cutlass, and she has a sharp scalpel concealed in her lab coat, and her hair tie could be used as a garrotte.

Lifelong dream or general goal: Patches is simply on this ship to experience life, and have some fun. Plus it's a way to make a living.

History: To be explored in the RP

[TotalEcplise]

I'm voting not overpowered.

[WhiteSlash]

Name: Glesga Ferm

Gender: Male

Age: 25-30

Species: Earth Pony

Looks: Built like any strong, tough farmer would be. Tall, light brown coat with a dark musky brown mane with even darker streaks running through it. His mane is short and unkempt and his tail is similar just of an average length. His general appearance is rugged and stressed from years of rough work. Two ring piercings in his left ear and one bar throw his right eyebrow. He sports a worn white, but dirt stained pinstripe shirt. On top of this he has a rather generic brown waistcoat complete with pocket watch and tie. Hanging from his neck is a chain with large circular charm resembling a windmill tucked in behind the waistcoat. Kept firmly in his waistcoat pocket is a set of spectacles complete with all the additional sights and customizations ranging from help for acquiring targets at a distance to seeing through clouds.

A bandolier complete with pouches and two holsters hangs tightly around his body and allows for him to store both a pistol, rifle and assortment of tools and ammunition. Clipped onto his ear is an extending monocular that falls into place in front of his right eye and is fully compatible with his glasses. A strange strip of leather wraps around the sleeve of his left foreleg and also has an adjacent charm to remind him of his old life.

Personality: Strong silent type. Not by choice but more so by nature. He never spoke much whilst working the fields or shipyards. He's confident in his skills but not in his personality though he won't back down from arguing a point. He's opinionated and strong, though you couldn't tell from his quiet exterior. Family values are extremely important to him and the same is said for matters involving friends. More often that not he is polite and to the point, but when pushed too far or faced with something that annoys him deeply he becomes a lot more erratic and is prone to making rash decisions in these lapses of a stable mindset.

Cutie Mark: Ferm's Cutie-mark is a circular cross hair with a bird in mid flight in the center of the circle. This relates back to his foal-hood and more specifically his first kill out hunting with his parents. Although the animal is a bird the actual kill much to the recipients of this stories amusements was a winged boar from one of the islands near his home.

Random Fact: He has an almost intimate knowledge of most ship types from his long days in the ship breaking yards, with the proper appliance of skills he could pose as a valuable engineer. He's also a crack shot having trained with air cannons to clear clouds and rifles to hunt back on the farm. He's a **** fine cook but he won't admit it.

Your Ship: The Languid Sophisticate, a small airship staffed by four ponies. This small brass reinforced wooden ship is built around a large metal helium tank. The ship features a flight deck at the top of the tank, while storage and everything else run around the top half of it. Four propellers sit at the back of the airship, two flanking the balloon on each side. The flight deck features four large bore clockwork cannons with speed loaders and full mobility. When manned they can fire in a full 360 degree area, allowing for exceptional coverage and increased accuracy. It also features two large high-pressure steam guns that fire burning hot gases at short range, making them devastating in boarding actions for both attack and defense.

The ship is largely automated, with sails, anchor, and propellers all mechanized to be manipulated from the helm where the Captain can normally be found. The cannons are also able to be fired from the helm, but aiming must be done manually. As long as the mechanisms are intact, the cannons will automatically reload. The main features of the ship are the armory, doctor’s office and workshop, as well as each pony having their own living quarters as well as the captain’s own rather lavish one. The lowest deck of the ship is entirely devoted to storage. He is most likely found in the armory polishing and cleaning weapons and or maintaining cannons. Inside his cabin is a mess of wires, metal, s**** and various other useless materials, though on a table under a bright light is a green potted plant thriving in this strange environment.

Rank: Chief Gunnery Officer and the ships cook.

Weapons/Fighting style: Whilst Ferm is a fairly good shot with a basic pistol he carries, his pride is his custom made weapon created from scavenged parts of zeppelins, airships and other craft. The rifle is long and made of mostly golden material with wooden inlays and vanishings. Near the butt of the rifle is a holder on either side for various types of ammuntion which can be loaded into the revolver mechanisim closer to the centre of the rifle. Each barrel of the cylinder will pop out and be loaded with a round rather than the full cylinder being removed. As the rifle expels a round steam shouts out both vertically and diagonally downwards from ports along the barrel to help with recoil reduction. The rifle has a scope that when several buttons similar to that found on a saxophone are pressed various different zooms will align closer the users eye. Though he boasts a practiced aim he isn't afraid to fight with his hooves, a knife or anything nearby.

Lifelong dream or general goal: Whilst he misses his past life in the ship breaking yards or on the fields, he now finds himself searching for a higher calling. Farm work was becoming easier as the steam modernization flew in and forced those not needed to step back and find work elsewhere and that led to him joining the ship breaking yards. He feels that the land was taken from him and now as he finds himself soaring through the clouds he feels safe in the idea that the sky can't be taken from him. The sky is his new home and he plans to make the best of it.

History: He grew up on the sky islands of Glascow a few miles off from Beakbreak. Glascow was prime farm land albeit high in the sky suspended by ballons and tethered to the ground. Noone was quite sure what the purpose of islands were but they have been their for almost forever. Empty up until recently, well empty all except from the strange winged wildlife on the islands. Cows, sheep, pigs, all with wings. He spent his younger years performing small tasks that eventually started to pile up and form large labourious tasks ranging from a whole day of ploughing fields to blasting away clouds with the air cannons present on their peasus-less corner of Glascow. A favorite past time of his was heading out into the fire fields (fields of plants that looked like wheat but with a strange firey essence to the tips that extinguised when uprooted) to hunt the rare and strange animals of the island. Later in his life he was forced to take off and leave the farm in the capeable hands of his family, now equipped with more advanced farming technology, to pursue a career elsewhere in the skies. This was shortlived though as he soon found himself grounded in Beakbreak surrounded by airships and ballons as he fixed battle scars and storm wounds.

In Beackbreak he learned a vast amount of information regarding sky pirates and the ships they sailed in and this started to really pique is his interest. Slowly as he masted the forgery and various other works available he found himself asking around the docks to see if any crews were taking on new recruits. At the start of this endeavour though he faced little success with most crews stating they had no need for an overworked ex farmhand with a good eye. Although having been raised in the clouds he wasn't sky material, but this only fueled his new passion. Taking matters into his own hooves he started work on building his own ship though even with his skills passed on from the local Beakbreak workers he was incapable of doing so.

Ferm s****ped the idea and started on a new path. His new plan was to secure his place on a crew by using the talent he now neglected the most. His natural aim and skills with weapons. He took to the steam works and started crafting firearms for the local crews at discount prices and slightly more expensive prices for the visitors from afar. One day he found himself met by the crew of the The Languid Sophisticate, a strange bunch of ponies to find in the sky, or so he thought. He wasn't sure what it was but the idea of serving aboard a ship with only 3 crew members seemed fascinating and exciting to him and naturaly he jumped at the chance. His wares were layed out for prices starting at almost nothing and reaching not far above that. Essentially he bought his way onto the ship but as time passed he no longer feels guilty for doing such a thing.

Sometimes Ferm finds himself out on deck priming and checking the cannons he is reminded of the farm and the work he put into all of his endeavours there. Good honest work, and it was hard to, kept him fit, something that was hard to find in most jobs. These thoughts don't last long though and as soon as cannons start firing and cries of battle ring out he feels right at home soaring high and far above his real home.

[Cainiam]

The Crystalline Phoenix doesn't sound too overpowered to me. Defensively it's a beast, but with an attack like that I think it strikes the right compromise.

[Dusty]

Same! And being so Defensively on the side of spells makes it use less to a ship that has no use of spells.

[Valencetiger]

Same! And being so Defensively on the side of spells makes it use less to a ship that has no use of spells.

Just make sure you don't have any magical equipment or weaponry, because those won't work

[Dusty]

Just make sure you don't have any magical equipment or weaponry, because those won't work

So you got me on the rune axe! Not like he needs it with how big of a boy he is. Hooves hurt too.

[shyshy]

i vote not overpowered. man, this RP is growing quick. im not so sure i can keep up with who is who too well. suppose ill try my best in said endeavor. but when its RP time, you lot best expect Ambiance to flirt with everyone, as well as being the go-to guy. a neutral party, his crew is the helping lot as long as drachma/bits (whatever currency we are using) are provided.

"my crew (so far only me and starstorm[colour=#ff0000] :room for one more:[/colour]) will help both good and bad intentioned ponies as long as we see the pay fit, the task feasible, and the risk for the most part mitigated. be you sky bandits, pirates of all types, naval officers, military, beautiful ( ), or a pony (or whatever you are) of good intention, i bring aid in combat, love, a cheap trick or two, a drink, and navigation. im no deep down fighter, but always looking to fight, provided your cash is right." - Ambience

[Dusty]

Oh? Some one for pay? Well navigation is must use full to someone pony flying in new sky's. If Dusty ever meats him in a neutral port he may pay for some help learning the new winds and some hunting grounds. And points to ya if he can flirt on a pony like Dusty and not end up with a missing head. (Even if Dusty likes bucks)

[shyshy]

okay, voiced that list bit so you could get a better understanding of Ambiances voice (here i am click me if you wanna)

[shyshy]

Oh? Some one for pay? Well navigation is must use full to someone pony flying in new sky's. If Dusty ever meats him in a neutral port he may pay for some help learning the new winds and some hunting grounds. And points to ya if he can flirt on a pony like Dusty and not end up with a missing head. (Even if Dusty likes bucks)

hey man, ambiance knows boundaries...but not too well

[Dusty]

hey man, ambiance knows boundaries...but not too well

Ha, really Dusty may just give him a drink and a nod for being so brave as to try that on him. Must fear him too much thanks to how huge he is.

And Ambiances is British? Oh Lune you just got on the one way path to being a winner in my eyes.

[shyshy]

Ha, really Dusty may just give him a drink and a nod for being so brave as to try that on him. Must fear him too much thanks to how huge he is.

And Ambiances is British? Oh Lune you just got on the one way path to being a winner in my eyes.

i can usually do my accent much nicer but i been sick since thursday. it sounds better live. funny thing is my real voice is so southern american that you wouldnt be able to tell i could do such an accent.

but your OC is HUGE and that is marvelous

[Dusty]

Ha! Try having a southern accent ON TOP of a Scottish one? Some say it makes me sound cute, I think they are insane. But I think you did well with the accent! I liked it!

And yes, he is a big boy. Big, hard and smart as a rock. But it's what makes him lovable. Even if you guys will not see that side. You just get to see his Axe to face side. Will must of you, good job if you get to see his nice side.

[Starbuster]

Actually guys, something came up, so i don't know that i can take a new RP right now. Sorry. I may join you guys later in story though, if that's alright. I will be watching the thread though, so make sure you guys have a good story. Sorry guys.

[shyshy]

Actually guys, something came up, so i don't know that i can take a new RP right now. Sorry. I may join you guys later in story though, if that's alright. I will be watching the thread though, so make sure you guys have a good story. Sorry guys.

all good mate, we still have the other one too n im waiting for starbuster to post in that one

[Starbuster]

all good mate, we still have the other one too n im waiting for starbuster to post in that one

Which one, Labyrinth? Because i've been waiting for a while for you to post there xD I think i'll be posting in all of the ones i'm already in tonight. I've almost finished one and then i'll be at my limit for a while.

[LordGecy]

Yay! I'm accepted also, I think that Gizmo is part of Slash's pre-made, four-pony crew.

nope! my four are an individual crew but they're gonna get split up so gizmo is gonna be my main character and (if allowed) I'm gonna get the other crew members into other crews to perhaps meet up and band together again (meaning I can fill holes in any crews till new people join or whatever XD or I'll just be gizmo and all the rest of the crew are currently more of a back story!)