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imperial_stage2011-11-26 01:41 am
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I'M ON A BOAT
Who: Jade Curtiss and Guo Jia
Where: On board the Tartarus, near the Imperial City.
When: After Winter Court
What: Guo Jia joins Jade's unit.
"S-sir. The rest of the crew has arrived. I thought you might want to greet the strategic advisor, so I brought him here. He's waiting just outside..."
The new cadet was fresh out of airship training school and the row of brass buttons on his sleeves still gleamed in the light, betraying his trembling hands. He'd probably never imagined that one day, he'd be serving on board the Tartarus. The Tartarus was one of the fastest and most advanced airships in the Imperial fleet... and it was the personal ship of Colonel Jade Curtiss, a man who had once been known throughout Dagaria as "The Necromancer."
Jade didn't look much like a necromancer - or like a colonel, for that matter. He looked like a liberal arts professor sliding gently into middle age, and his office on board the Tartarus was more like a scrupulously tidy library than a mad scientist's lair. There was a book in his lap, and he wore slightly dowdy-looking reading glasses. But behind the lenses were a pair of intense, inhumanly red eyes.
"Excellent. I've been looking forward to having more experimental subjects." The cadet gulped, his starched new uniform collar straining against his throat. Jade's lips curled into a smirk as he set his book aside. "It's been so long since I had a fresh crew, I was afraid I'd have to start re-animating some of the old ones... well then, you're dismissed. Send in this 'strategic advisor.'"
Where: On board the Tartarus, near the Imperial City.
When: After Winter Court
What: Guo Jia joins Jade's unit.
"S-sir. The rest of the crew has arrived. I thought you might want to greet the strategic advisor, so I brought him here. He's waiting just outside..."
The new cadet was fresh out of airship training school and the row of brass buttons on his sleeves still gleamed in the light, betraying his trembling hands. He'd probably never imagined that one day, he'd be serving on board the Tartarus. The Tartarus was one of the fastest and most advanced airships in the Imperial fleet... and it was the personal ship of Colonel Jade Curtiss, a man who had once been known throughout Dagaria as "The Necromancer."
Jade didn't look much like a necromancer - or like a colonel, for that matter. He looked like a liberal arts professor sliding gently into middle age, and his office on board the Tartarus was more like a scrupulously tidy library than a mad scientist's lair. There was a book in his lap, and he wore slightly dowdy-looking reading glasses. But behind the lenses were a pair of intense, inhumanly red eyes.
"Excellent. I've been looking forward to having more experimental subjects." The cadet gulped, his starched new uniform collar straining against his throat. Jade's lips curled into a smirk as he set his book aside. "It's been so long since I had a fresh crew, I was afraid I'd have to start re-animating some of the old ones... well then, you're dismissed. Send in this 'strategic advisor.'"
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To be quite honest, Guo Jia had been rather surprised when he'd received his orders. It wasn't that he didn't like working with Jade or that they were a poor combination, quite the opposite, in fact. He foresaw them being a ruthlessly efficient combination. Too ruthless, perhaps, which is what was so interesting. He felt a little sorry for whoever they were tasked with fighting against. A little.