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Our fires high and the airbags tight
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Food's low but the skies are bright
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Props spinning all through the night
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|'''I've been trying to make it home'''  
We're low on cash but seen another target
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|'''Got to make it before too long'''
Goggles down and the cannons up
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My blood starts pumping as I drain my cup
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|'''I can't take this very much longer'''
I give the wheel a spin and I turn this girl around
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We're way above ground but we're closed in on our target
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|'''I'm stranded in the sleet and rain'''
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Flying Jib is filled with air
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|'''Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again'''
East India ships filled with despair
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We even up, her broadsides bare
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|'''The mornin' sun is risin''''
Our cannons flair but it's just a show of muscle
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|'''It's kissing the day'''
Steady on, she doesn't need to burn
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She tries to flee and she tries to turn
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|''- [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxGEVIvSFeY '''Wheel in the Sky'''], '''Journey'''''
Grappling fire, we latch her hull
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She's starting to roll, but we've got her on a leash
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'''
With a crew of drunken pilots
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== Captain's Log, Umbradate: 2517.0 ==
We're the only airship pirates
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We're full of hot air and we're starting to rise
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We're the terror of the skies, but a danger to ourselves now
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'''These are the voyages of the freebooter umbraship, ''the Perilous''.
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Manned by a small crew of intrepid umbral delving stalwarts, ''the Perilous'' strikes opportunistically at the unchecked forces of the Wyrm and the Weaver alike, generating renown and turning a tidy shared profit for the crew in the process.
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The rumors go that ''the Perilous'' is a cursed ratkin Munchmausen umbraship (a la the ''Flying Dutchman'' mythos) that has existed since at least the Golden Age of Piracy (the mid to late 1600s or so), though some say its been around long before then, and was used to go a'viking. It manifests in various locales around the globe, summoning forth a crew to man it as it carries out its preordained missions against the unbalanced forces of Wyrm and Weaver alike. It communicates its impending arrival through prophetic dreams delivered to ratkin with the highest Gnosis in the area, compelling them to assemble a crew along with providing the necessary spiritual markers that will lead the crew to the point of its arrival so that they can embark upon the missions to be undertaken.

Latest revision as of 20:50, 14 January 2014

I've been trying to make it home
Got to make it before too long
I can't take this very much longer
I'm stranded in the sleet and rain
Don't think I'm ever gonna make it home again
The mornin' sun is risin'
It's kissing the day
- Wheel in the Sky, Journey

Captain's Log, Umbradate: 2517.0

These are the voyages of the freebooter umbraship, the Perilous.


Manned by a small crew of intrepid umbral delving stalwarts, the Perilous strikes opportunistically at the unchecked forces of the Wyrm and the Weaver alike, generating renown and turning a tidy shared profit for the crew in the process.

The rumors go that the Perilous is a cursed ratkin Munchmausen umbraship (a la the Flying Dutchman mythos) that has existed since at least the Golden Age of Piracy (the mid to late 1600s or so), though some say its been around long before then, and was used to go a'viking. It manifests in various locales around the globe, summoning forth a crew to man it as it carries out its preordained missions against the unbalanced forces of Wyrm and Weaver alike. It communicates its impending arrival through prophetic dreams delivered to ratkin with the highest Gnosis in the area, compelling them to assemble a crew along with providing the necessary spiritual markers that will lead the crew to the point of its arrival so that they can embark upon the missions to be undertaken.