Alright. I'll maintain our current bearings. You're free to go get your beauty rest.
[The sun is rising, so Hector gets to work, leaving Alucard to swoon over his letter. Two or three days is not much time to prepare for taking on a Belmont hideout, and for a necromancer, preparation is key.
He makes sure they are on the right course, then brings up some of his tools and the components he's scrounged up so that he can supervise the crewmen while he works. He's working with what has tangled with his crew's nets, so that means mainly aquatic forges. Still, any reinforcement is good, and he feels better knowing there is something patrolling beneath the waves in case attack comes at them from below.
The day passes mostly without incident. At one point, Hector spots a ship on the horizon. Black sails, but from the wrong direction to have been following from the Caribbean. A vessel piloted by human pirates serving Dracula's court, not one controlled by vampires, if they are sailing during the daylight hours. It is a meeting of pure happenstance; the other ship is likely heading back to port after pillaging further north.
Hector sends one of his newly-assembled mer-creatures to stealthily disable the ship's rudder and leave them stranded. The flags his ship flies are a nondescript white, and the ship has no markings to declare it for or against any faction. Hector redirects their path to get out of their line of sight as quickly as possible. Attacking and sinking it will draw much too much attention, when they could more safely and easily preserve the illusion of being a trading vessel spooked into fleeing by the sight of an unknown ship in their path.
Hector doesn't call Alucard during the encounter. Best for him to stay out of sight, just in case. When the dhampir awakens, Hector will give him a briefing.]
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[The sun is rising, so Hector gets to work, leaving Alucard to swoon over his letter. Two or three days is not much time to prepare for taking on a Belmont hideout, and for a necromancer, preparation is key.
He makes sure they are on the right course, then brings up some of his tools and the components he's scrounged up so that he can supervise the crewmen while he works. He's working with what has tangled with his crew's nets, so that means mainly aquatic forges. Still, any reinforcement is good, and he feels better knowing there is something patrolling beneath the waves in case attack comes at them from below.
The day passes mostly without incident. At one point, Hector spots a ship on the horizon. Black sails, but from the wrong direction to have been following from the Caribbean. A vessel piloted by human pirates serving Dracula's court, not one controlled by vampires, if they are sailing during the daylight hours. It is a meeting of pure happenstance; the other ship is likely heading back to port after pillaging further north.
Hector sends one of his newly-assembled mer-creatures to stealthily disable the ship's rudder and leave them stranded. The flags his ship flies are a nondescript white, and the ship has no markings to declare it for or against any faction. Hector redirects their path to get out of their line of sight as quickly as possible. Attacking and sinking it will draw much too much attention, when they could more safely and easily preserve the illusion of being a trading vessel spooked into fleeing by the sight of an unknown ship in their path.
Hector doesn't call Alucard during the encounter. Best for him to stay out of sight, just in case. When the dhampir awakens, Hector will give him a briefing.]