With Aras on the enemy ship, and no direct instructions from the captain, Krim had swarmed up the mast, and now sat in the crowsnest in Aras' place. He called down to the captain, "I'll stay here and keep a weather lookout while Aras is galivanting about wi' his pointy things."

Shielding his eyes with his hand, Krim looked out at the sea.

OOC: *cough* shall i see anything, cap'n?

Not one to miss out on all the fun, Kia shouted "hey wait!" before swinging onto the Longboat, her scythe now put away and her Katana unsheathed.

OOC: Yes, me matey, ye shall. To the... uh... northeast, and heading westward across our bows.

Yosuke prefered to stay. Afterall, firing a bow from a longboat would be harder than from the deck of the Wyvern "Captain I will defend the Wyvern from any attackers making an attempt to board. Speaking of which..." Yosuke fired an arrow at an over-ambitious raider, hitting him in the face and sending him plunging into the water below.

OOC: there aren't any more scellians on board the Wyvern. They all got killed (only a few could have gotten across in the time it took us to get under weigh).
Edit: Ok, I'm going to take the initiative. I'm also changeing something, since I just realized, looking at the map, that what's happening technically couldn't happen. The first ship is ok, but the second is actually southward, heading norwest.

IC: Krim spotted the ship, south and heading norwest.
"Deck! Spotted her, starbord and heading for the River"

<Damn!> Brenu thought. <Can't let them get to port.> It was a known fact that the lakelanders would willingly arrange for scellians to be smuggled across Trinia in tact into their homeland along with any cargo and information they might have. "Lower the Longboat! Move to cut them off from port!"

The longboat dropped, and the ship tacked once more around. He pulled out his glass and turned to the dirrection that was indicated. The ship was still a far ways off, but Wyvern would have to fight the wind in order to to intercept its course. The necessary orders were given, and the ship came about to intercept. It would now be a race.

OOC: Just going to leave the three who boarded the other ship behind?

OOC: that's where the longboat is headed. Reinforcements are on their way. Don't worry, Brenu has enough of a sense of duty not to leave you behind (although with several of the PC's and a division of swashbucklers, you could probably take the ship on your own pretty easily, Scellians are not known as good fighters. Sneaky as hell, but not good fighters).

OOC: point taken.

IC: Yosuke was waiting patiently. It would still be a while until he would see some combat. He took a mental note of the Captain's intentions and jogged to the bow of the ship and readied himself

OOC: Thankyou tenjin for resurrecting this. I was hoping it wouldn't die completely. As for the rest of you, keep fighting, I'm going to *meanwhile* a maritime chase scene.

IC: The Wyvern was fast. There was no doubt about that. She was the fastest ship that currently graced the Trinian fleet. But Scellian Corvets were fast too. And were faster when fighting the wind then a Trinian ship. And it had more wind behind it than did the Wyvern.

But Brenu had the advantage of range. He needen't truely intercept the Scellian vestle, he need only get his cannons in range before it reached the neutral port. The tack they were coming in on would possibly allow for several broadsides before the two ships paths crossed.

Brenu gauged the distance as the two ships closed on their objective. "Fire one of the long-guns, a warning shot, give her something to worry about!" he ordered. Several orders were shouted, finishing in the shout "fire" and a resounding boom from one of the cannons. There was a splash only several yards from the Scellian Vestle. The ship changed tacts, now heading away from port, On a path that would not bring her in such convenient range of the Wyvern. "Continue on course, but prepare to come about as she passes our stern, I want at least one good volly in!" The two ships continued, but as the corvett passed the Wyvern, the frigget wore around, bringing its guns to bear. They were far away for a volley. Most of the shots would miss, yet...

As the guns went off, Brenu saw, to his contentment, one of the masts go down. The ship continued on, though at a noticably slower speed. "Should we pursue captain?" asked one officer.

"No, they're crippled. We'll over run them later with no problem. Bring the ship back around, head for the other corvett. Lets lend our friends a helping hand

OOC: Just a note, this all took place over an extended period of time. You should arrive by longboat before the Wyvern makes the intercept.

Yosuke had thought of something. He went and grabbed a small piece of cloth and wrapped it around an arrow. He ran down stairs and used one of the cannon wicks as A light before sprinting back upstairs and firing it at the Scellian's main sail "here it goes"