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Plain Jayne Green
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Tuesday, September 16 2003 @ 12:29 PM BST
Contributed by: Jayne
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 Jayne joined the guard having been recruited straight out of her orphanage. Having been called ‘Plain Jayne’ by the children she grew up around (and the guard even today), she turned into anything but. While Jayne may not be the most beautiful woman in Lord Bleys’ guard, she is the most willing to put her life on the line to accomplish her goals. (There are no ugly women in Bleys’ elite guard - come on.)
You won’t find Jayne messing with her hair or makeup or clothes, unless it’s part of a mission. Jayne is a bit of an adrenaline junkie and is most likely to be found charging into a battle against massive odds. Other preposterous things Jayne has done include: Jumping from a Derigible without a working parachute; Jumping from one train onto another at high speed; Pulling one of her men out of a battle via a rope hanging from a bi-plane, and dropping both of them into a pond; Placing people under Lord Bleys’ protection, while she’s on a horse with one crossbow, against fifty of some prince’s men; Talking said prince into taking Bleys’ side in a battle; and having her image used on the side of a ‘wine transport’ that was really a land submarine. Jayne has been seen climbing onto many burning, moving vehicles, including bi-planes, trains, derigibles, and ships. When drinking with her guard buddies she gets very into showing off her scars, but lets others tell the stories behind them.
Jayne can get quiet and often goes off to brood by herself, but doesn’t get stuck in long periods of depression. She is an eternal optimist, and believes she will come out of every battle, so long as she does her best. She also believes the best way to die is fighting.
Jayne may be a little obsessed with Lord Bleys. But who isn't?
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| Authored by: Spider on Tuesday, September 16 2003 @ 12:50 PM BST |
a little obsessed with Lord Bleys ???
If Jayne is only a little obsessed with Bleys I'd hate to see her if she got really obsessed by anything...
Its like saying Lorianne knows a little about sailing or Jeffery a little about fermenting rebellion! [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jefferey on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 12:36 AM BST |
| It's not a rebellion if you win: it's a righteous, spontaneous resistance movement to restore the rightful rulers. [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Yves on Tuesday, September 16 2003 @ 03:27 PM BST |
| Jayne is obsessed?
Are obsessions allowed in the Guard? When did this transpire? Is there something we should do?
I volunteer.
Does Captain Wesley know about this obsession business? ---
Arref [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jefferey on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 12:33 AM BST |
| Jayne is also the most willing to put others' lifes on the line to accomplish her goals: if we keep naming cannons after dead Sharks, we'll soon need a bigger ship with more cannons. [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Sol on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 01:19 AM BST |
| Speaking of which, I really hope Jayne is keeping track of how many Sharks have died in her service. It's going to be important a couple of adventures down the line.... [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jayne on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 02:27 AM BST |
I believe I came out of the last adventure with about half - the half that didn't get eaten by pirahna or taken down by savages. That's about 8.
Then I have Mark and Ron. That makes 10.
I don't think I have a list of survivors from all the other missions (excluding #1 - Mark, the shark, #2 - Ron, the Phoenix... then there were like 4 scenarios I was in with sharks before the last two - which 8 guys made it through.)
If I had to guess, I'd say 15 guys. Scarred, but alive.
Then there are the leftover survivors of the fanatical cult from the rescue of Lord Bleys. I think there were upwards of 15 of them - which surprised me at the time. I don't think they can be re-integrated with the normal sharks though.[ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Sol on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 02:47 PM BST |
| Dear, this is the list of how many are alive. I'm wondering how many are dead... [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jayne on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 06:06 PM BST |
Oh dear god. I have no idea. I think I've gotten between 9(my low) and 25 (my high) recruits per game I've played in. So if I average that I get 21.5 men x 7 games (I think) - 16 living men = ~134 dead men.
Oh my god. (My little Jayne's heart just stopped. It's no wonder she's starting to lose it.)[ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jefferey on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 10:07 PM BST |
134 dead men. Dang! If I recall, the HMS Victory was referred to as a 100-gun ship, which was enormous: the largest US sailing ships only carried 74.
We may be down to naming muskets, or naming cannons on a second ship, desperately looking for a third ship with cannons to name.[ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Spider on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 10:49 PM BST |
No muskets I'm afraid, gunpowder doesn't work that way on this shadow, nothing smaller than a bow-raker (small cannon) if I remember correctly.
So it looks like more ships may be required, however I'd point out that HMS Victory though large for her time isn't actually that big a ship...
So while Sol originally identified the Napoleonic era as the sort of time period/tech in uses for sailing ships that doesn't mean Philippe hasn't managed to come up with something bigger in the last few years.
Having said all that I don't actually remember this practice of naming cannons after fallen Sharks... I though Philippe was still naming them after past loves.
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| Authored by: Jefferey on Thursday, September 18 2003 @ 02:33 AM BST |
| I seem to remember it from when we lost a bunch of them in training while sailing the ocean to go to Raven. [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jayne on Thursday, September 18 2003 @ 04:01 AM BST |
| We only lost 6, that time. (More of that same group after that adventure, in the jungle to pirhana.) [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jefferey on Thursday, September 18 2003 @ 04:27 AM BST |
The piranhas, training with my tribe, the poisoned arrow attack by the other tribe on the river ...
I do hope Jayne won't let the death of a few of her Sharks get her down, because it seems they start showing up in greater and greater numbers. They die in greater numbers too, but you are building up their numbers and they are quite useful.[ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Lorianne on Tuesday, April 13 2004 @ 12:31 AM BST |
| Cannon fodder is always useful. :) [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Robyn Sage on Wednesday, September 24 2003 @ 03:12 AM BST |
In getting Raven, the Sharks casualty toll:
6 die in training before we reach South America.
2 are lost overboard in storms.
19 go down in the poison dart attack, when the medic was trying to pull Jayne and Zoe through being hit (Jayne five times).
1 loses both feet to piranas after ending up in the water during the dart attack.
The remaining 4 are returning by sea while we were off on the latest adventure. These numbers do not include the phoenix or the original shark. [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jayne on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 02:56 AM BST |
Don't forget that Prince I made such an impression on. Man, I should take some time off and go visit him.
Hopefully, he hasn't slept with my mother![ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jefferey on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 05:15 AM BST |
| I'm quite certain people are eagerly tracking this for the pool. [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Jefferey on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 05:23 PM BST |
We do names the cannons on Lorianna's ship after the dead Sharks, so it should be easy to count them.
If have a sneaky suspicion though that some of them we lost so rapidly that some of the cannons have names like 'tall blond with the scragly beard', because we never got around to remembering their names.[ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Li Ying Ko on Wednesday, September 17 2003 @ 05:50 AM BST |
| Jayne is plain only in that she does not allow herself to be distracted by frivolous matters of appearance. Her determination is admirable. The loyalty she inspires in her men is remarkable. Yet it is regretable that so many of them have fallen for the noble cause they serve. It is a difficult thing to send men to their deaths. Jayne bears this burden well. [ Reply to This ]
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| Authored by: Robyn Sage on Wednesday, September 24 2003 @ 03:32 AM BST |
I had the thought that Bleys in this game was much like Gaiman's Desire of the Endless... Obsessions, indeed.
Take great care what you desire, eh?
Because none of *us* are obsessed with *anything*...
Er. Much. [ Reply to This ]
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