1875-04-12: The One Save the King!
The One Save the King
Summary: Augustin proclaims his loyalty to the Crown given the al'Mordran splintering.
Date: 2019-04-12
Related: The Birth of a New Kingdom
NPCs: One Officer of the Watch, and one Crewmember with questionable loyalties.
Players:
Augustin  

Sat at his desk aboard the HMS Redoubt, His Lordship, Captain Augustin al'Mordran of the Aequorian Royal Navy stared unblinkingly with narrowed eyes at the poor Officer of the Watch who'd just interrupted him. The silence, the uncomfortable nature of the pause between then grew until Augustin snapped, "What?!"

The voice cut through the cabin and beyond, a few who had been lingering beyond the doortook it as a sign to scurry off to fulfill their duties lest they suffer the verbal wrath of the ancient and ornery sea Lord.

"C-Captain… perhaps a few words to the crew would suffice?" The Officer suggested as he exhaled a ragged breath and braced himself for what was likely to follow. Only the Captain simply rose, nodded but once, and stalked past the Officer of the watch, treading up the stairs to the upper deck and turned to gaze upon the crew, who amidst the company of carpenters were going about making the Redoubt ship-shape as could be.

A quiet fell across the crew as Augustin stepped forward and rested his hands upon the ornate rail that had just been recently replaced and sealed against the elements, "My dear Aequorians." That raspy voice bellowed short and sharp across the deck, those who had not been paying attention quickly turned to regard their elderly commander.

"My family name may well have been tainted with treachery, if indeed it still even exists, but I care little for the trappings, and only for service to King and Country. Aequor is our home, not some nation carved with a knife stained with treachery, from a land of chivalry, nobility, and piety." The words spoken swift and measured as always, his liver-spotted hands gripping the rail firmly as his eyes swept across the crew.

The Captain pushed away from the rail and stalked towards a sailor who was cleaning, polishing, and testing the long cannon they had aboard the vessel, old weapons, but good weapons. They did the trick. From the man's grasp, the Captain took a primed long cannon and weighed it within his grasp, "We'll not leave our King and our Country wanting, nor shall I suffer traitors to the Crown to serve aboard this vessel, nor tread freely through our lands." And with a fluid motion, the long cannon turned as indeed did the Captain to point the muzzle of that well oiled weapon towards the a young officer of about twenty years of age. An officer who had been heard voicing opinions contrary to those of a true Aequorian.

The look of shock was pure, the young officer stepping forward as if to voice his defense, to request passage, yet no one would ever know for the Captain pulled the trigger, the hammer fell, the slow match exploded in a puff of embers, and a hot wad of smoking packing, soon followed by a hot ball of lead punched through the youth's chest, sending him stumbling back a step, swivelling and crumpling to the deck. Augustin passed the long cannon back to the equally surprised crewman who had just cleaned and primed that weapon.

The ragged and grasping breaths soon faltered and ended, and Augustin looked back to his crew, "We serve one master, we serve one country. The One bless Aequor, One save the King!" A veritable roar was followed by the crew's own growl of patriotism, "Now get back to work, and Mister Connings, take that traitor to the nearest Church, he's theirs to deal with, damn his rotten treacherous soul, and sand down the deck, he's bled across it." As if he was detailing a minor and mundane every day nuisance.

That said, Augustin watched as the men returned to their tasks, the traitor to the Crown was disposed of, and only then did he return to his quarters. Two simple letters were written and dispatched to the Admiralty, and the King's own hand by a titled Officer from the Redoubt, they simply read but five words.

The Redoubt remains true to Aequor.

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