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SULA’S SONG : Part 70 : A WATCHER BLINDED : A World of Sea tale (Work In Progress)

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SULA’S SONG : A WATCHER BLINDED

Part 70

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De Writer (Glen Ten-Eyck)

158672 words presently written, WORK IN PROGRESS

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Captains Allison, Aril, Mogar and Hulden, along with their Battle Commandings, Danar and Daron were all studying the situation surrounding the construction raft.

It was Sarina, the Carlyle's Battle Commanding who pointed out, “We need to have a special sweep around the raft, Danar. Be as far out as you can and still see the target. If the Borens have another spy ship watching this raft, like the Petral was for the fleet, we need to either sink it or capture it.”

Around the table, heads were nodding agreement. “No sense in letting Karl know that we have his raft any sooner than absolutely necessary.”

Aril smiled grimly, “And when he does find out, we can make it as confusing for him as possible. Remember, we are still not actually part of the Corlis fleet at the present. Let's fly those Winternight fleet black banners.”

The others all looked at each other and nodded slowly, “Why not? A great notion, Aril.”

Captain Sile was striding the poop deck of Karl's Eye. In this choppy sea it was easier to move about a bit than it was to simply stand. His high lookout, in his bosun's chair on the tall whipstaff attached to the main mast, sent down a tallow-slate note. The loop of line bearing it also carried a fresh slate up to him.

The watch runner brought the slate with its puzzling message, “Small vessel approaching swiftly from east north east.”

Captain Sile shook his head at that. A small vessel coming swiftly from open sea and not the building raft that they were there to watch? It made little sense at all. Soon the regular lookouts had it, only thirty kilometers away. It had a bizarre sail plan, apparently, but high lookout was right! It was closing fast!

It made less sense the closer the strange craft got. Besides bearing crazy sails in masts like none seen before, it was flying a fleet banner that was simply a black flag with a line of white characters near the uphaul.

As it slashed its way into hailing drum range it arrogantly pounded out, “In the name of the Great Sea Dragons, surrender and return to Great Laws or be destroyed!”

Captain Sile snapped, “Catapults! Fire at that insolent boat!”

Aboard the Corlis Avenger, Danar watched the lances launched from Karl's Eye arch up high, for maximum range and splash harmlessly far short of them. To Behar, standing beside the drum, he called, “We have our answer! Load a rigging destroyer!”

Jims and Mahad leaped to load the proper round onto the loading ramp and slide it into place in the big already tensioned catapult! Danar swept the Corlis Avenger about to aim at Karl's Eye's broad side. She had been using only a pair of jibs and the mizzen gaff sail to basically hold her position relative to the raft that she had been watching.

As Cora and Kanahar gave Danar the range mark, he watched the aiming beads carefully. This choppy water was lifting the bow higher than usual, giving him a chance at a high rigging shot! His mallet slammed the release! While recoil drove both catapult and ship back at once, the rigging destroyer roared across the space between vessels, spinning madly!

It sailed high, almost to the mast tops, its wildly spinning heavy weights on their cables snagging and ripping away ordinary rigging and catching the vital mainbrace between the foremast and main, snapping it like a thread! Without its support, the force of the wind in the jibs began to bow the foremast toward the bow! With a slow crunching and snapping the mast crashed down alongside the bowsprit, crushing the forward catapult under it!

The crews of two of the remaining catapults were frantically sawing at the ghastly tangle of ropes and fallen ratlines to free their weapons!

Captain Sile watched the disaster happening up forward in disbelief! His mainyard and its big sail had broken under the force of the remaining rigging between it and the falling foremast! His catapulters were trying, but that deadly menace was staying far out of range!

Aboard the Corlis Avenger, the crew took a moment to cheer while Danar was working to bring them to a dead on stern shot. Jims and Mahad were heaving on their long winding levers to winch the catapult back to its lock. Danar gave them a thumbs up and called, “Hull breacher!”

As they wrestled the heavy round onto the loading ramp and pushed it into place, Mahad commented casually, “We sort of thought that you would want this. Rudder shot again, like the Petral?”

Danar nodded briefly, his eye glued to the sighting plate and aiming beads. Cora and Kanahar gave him his range mark. As the bobbing of the Avenger brought the right bead onto the target, his mallet slammed down!

The impact of the massive hull breacher hurled Captain Sile from his feet! As he hit the deck he heard the creaking and smashing of Strong Skin inside his ship as it failed! He was trying to get to his feet as the mizzen mast, broken below-decks, came crashing down, smashing him to the deck! The last thing that he heard, his ear to the deck, was the sound of a torrent of water rushing into his now sinking ship.

The Avenger waited nearby until the Karl's Eye plunged into the depths. They found nine survivors in the debris field of the wreck. As they had done before, the survivors were bound and placed under a net.

The Avenger finished her sweep and rejoined the attack group closing in on the unsuspecting building raft.

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hycinthrt · 2 months

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people are calling what happened today in gaza “the flour massacre”

the flour massacre

these people just wanted to get food for their families, something as basic as flour, one of the things that the very core of humanity is built on, and israel used it as a trap to murder them in cold blood

evil is not enough of a word. there is not a word to describe what they are doing to palestine. they are bleeding her out, they are torturing her and crushing her and hoping that nothing is left to remember her by when they are done. how can anyone stand and watch what is being done with indifference? how can you watch this level of human suffering, this crime against life and feel nothing, do nothing

#i cant stop crying #the entire world is watching as they die #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #war on gaza #ceasefire now #israel #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

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wonderlandmoonrose7 · 5 months

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I’m just here to remind everyone once again that we can’t stop protesting and boycotting and spreading the word for Palestine, even if it’s been a while. The people in power (mainly the Israeli and US governments) are relying on us losing steam.

And I do want to mention that a small bit of hope to be found among all of this is that things aren’t losing steam. I still see dozens of posts about Palestine every day, I see footage of protests almost every day, and the boycotts are working. I just want to encourage everyone that we just need to keep it up! I’ve seen so many social issues fade out over time, a week of outrage and then things settle down, but that isn’t the case here and I really respect everyone who’s still posting and protesting and seeking out information to end this once and for all. Focus on that hope, and use it to keep going :)

#palestine #pro palestine #free palestine #israel #anti israel #us politics #world politics #social issues #protest #boycott #from the river to the sea palestine will be free

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violottie · 30 days

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"BREAKING: The UN Security Council has passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan. The resolution passed 14-0, with the US abstaining for the first time."

from BreakThrough News, 25/Mar/2024: caption cont under video

In response, Netanyahu immediately said he was cancelling his trip to the US.

The resolution, put forward by Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, Malta, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, South Korea and Switzerland, calls for an unconditional release of all hostages on all sides.

Russia attempted to put the word “permanent” into the ceasefire language but the US voted against it.

#united nations #palestine #ceasefire #ceasefire now #usa fucking up the world once again #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #i stand with palestine #rafah #save rafah #human rights #international law

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motherofplatypus · 20 days

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This is a post taken directly from the official account of WCK.

These are the heroes of WCK who were killed by IDF pigs. 1 from Palestine, 1 from Poland, 1 from Australia, 1 from USA, and 3 from UK.

6 of them aren't Palestinian.

None of them are combatant.

If you still think even for one second that those israeli pigs are the victim, that their actions are justified, or even give a single damn about humans' life you're lying to yourself or you're just as much of a pig as they are.

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chaiaurchaandni · 4 months

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have humans developed a language that can accurately describe the intensity of this grief?

#this is beyond words #i cant imagine who alone this person feels right now #and how alone all palestinians must feel #completely abandoned and forgotten by the world as your body is ripped to shreds in broad daylight #by 65k tonnes of bombs #this feels like the end of the world to me. i cant imagine anything beyond this #free palestine #palestine #gaza #glory to the martyrs #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #long live palestine #long live the resistance #death to israel

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sayruq · 3 months

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newsfrom-theworld · 20 days

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The writings on the walls of Al-Shifa Hospital

#free palestine #palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #pro palestine #boycott israel #gaza #news from the world #boycott starbucks #boycott disney #boycott mcdonalds #al shifa hospital #no one is free until we are all free

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ghiblin · 5 months

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The Secret World of Arriety (2010) Howl's Moving Castle (2004) Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008) The Wind Rises (2013) When Marnie Was There (2014) My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

#the secret world of arrietty #howl's moving castle #kiki's delivery service #the wind rises #ponyo on the cliff by the sea #when marnie was there #my neighbor totoro #studio ghibli #ghibli #ghibli food #ghiblisdaily #ghiblicentral #fyghibli #m*#useroro #forvy #eritual #dearestmillie #aleksbestie

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weirdlookindog · 1 month

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"Un de ces longs bras glissa par l’ouverture"

Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Long Arm Glided

Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870

#alphonse de neuville #long arm glided #jules verne #twenty thousand leagues under the sea #underwater world #sea monsters #ocean #sea #horror #fantasy #gothic romanticism #story illustration #art #illustration

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ask-de-writer · 3 months

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About SEE ST0RY, Part 2 of 5 :

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About SEE ST0RY, Part 2 of 5 he observed :

Ah, back when Master Juris was a kind, if strict master rather than the insufferable narcissist he would later become.

I still say that you should seek some way to publish these tales. They are so well written that they deserve a place on a real bookshelf. I know that you once gave me a reason why you do not, but for the life of me I can't recall..

True indeed. Those negative parts of his personality have not yet had reason to surface. They are there, though. He does give Kurin his best until . . . but that is another tale.

As for not publishing them, I have offered them as booklets but got not a single request for any of my work. Self publishing is a bit expensive out front and I am as close to dead broke as they get. All of the agents that I have seen advertising, offer services that have to be paid for up front. Publishers will take a year or more just to send a rejection slip or a contract offer.

I would love to have a publisher give me money! I could sure use it!

#@nevermord #SEE ST0RY #Part 2 of 5 #World of Sea #Written by De Writer

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montereybayaquarium · 3 months

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What a colorful world ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

Diving into a world of vibrant hues and underwater wonders at the Aquarium! 🌈🐠✨

#monterey bay aquarium #wonders of the world #i sea seas of greens #pink hopkins roses too #the colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sea

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spiderman-into-the-sapphiverse · 1 year

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I find it so refreshing that we are in this rare stage in western animation where disney is actually not monopolizing all the attention. If anything, 2022 has been one of their worse years yet in the animation department. Everything they have done has been completely eclipsed by other studios for once. Their Pinocchio "movie" was just obliterated by Guillermo del Toro's version. Strange World was completely forgotten because of poor marketing choices, allowing Dreamworks to come back with the Bad Guys and Puss in Boots, the first being very good and the second absolutely excellent (I'm being serious, this movie is SO MUCH MORE than a simple Shrek spin-off).

TMNT even got its time to shine with probably the best 2D animated film this year (in a technical aspect at least), rekindling an interest for the entire franchise (with another TMNT movie by Seth Rogen in production!!)

The Sea Beast was amazing. Wendell & Wild was a masterclass. 2022 has just been excellent throughout, and it's Disney that happens to be the weakest at the moment. Even the Minions 2 got more attention than most things that came out on Disney + Animation this year (not saying that the movie was great or anything, but it's saying a lot)

And when we look at the next Pixar movie coming out next year, the hype pales in comparison to the Mario movie, and let's not even TALK about Across the Spiderverse......everybody knows it's going to snatch everyone's wig, and all the awards under the sun to match it.

So yeah, western animation gets to breathe a little, and it feels amazing.

#i feel bad for strange world #but that's the mouse's fault #anyway. i have a final in three hours.#disney #pixar #spiderman across the spiderverse #across the spiderverse #puss in boots the last wish #pinocchio #wendell & wild #the sea beast #rottmnt #rottmnt the movie #strange world #animation #added a clarification about the tmnt movie in production! it will not be rottmnt but a new version entirely!! sorry for the confusion

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