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#ReturnToTheFateGear

16: Carson Napier

#FanFiction #OthersidePicnic #FateGear #EdgarRiceBurroughs
#wss366 #MastoPrompt

The trireme was now so close that the Otherside pair could read the name on the prow, Venus Falcon. The biremes had fanned out, threatening to flank the Fate Gear from the starboard and port. Meanwhile, the swift galleys marshaled to sweep in once the behemoth ex-prison ship was brought to heel.

“Hold your fire,” Mina bellowed. The order was as sudden as it was unexpected.

“Navigator, I wish to hail them,” the captain said.

Yuri flipped on the amplifiers.

"Hail, Captain Napier! You imperialist dog! Was Venus too hot a berth?" Mina’s voice boomed out.

The man at the prow of the Venus Falcon signaled, and a white flag swept aside the black. The thunder of a single cannon #report drew all eyes to the trireme.

Captain Carson Napier [Note 1] sheathed his sword before making a gesture not found in any book of signals.

“Fly the countersign,” Mina said into the hush that had fallen.

[Note 1] Captain Carson Napier: #Origin: The Venus series (also known as the “Amtor series”) written by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Continued next week in Burning Down the Heavens.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #Serial #NMPrompts #NMV366 #NMMP #NMRTTFG
#UraPi #Steampunk #Pirates #Metal #JMetal #Satire #PoliticalSatire

#ReturnToTheFateGear

15: Pirates of Mercury

#FanFiction #OthersidePicnic #FateGear #EdgarRiceBurroughs
#wss366 #MastoPrompt

It was true. The mergaunts had delayed the Fate Gear just long enough for the pirate fleet to catch up. The fleet was a ragtag bunch, comprised of everything from decrepit galleys resembling junks to gold-embossed, three-tiered triremes. Small, swift galleys were already in position to cut them off. Like gnats, they encircled the Fate Gear above, to starboard, and to port. Below, on the #surface, having finished the fallen mergaunts, magma worms waited hungrily.

The Fate Gear could have plowed through the galleys ahead of them, but the resulting hail of arrows, bullets, and cannon fire would have been difficult to withstand. Staying would be suicide.

“All hands to their stations,” Captain Mina bellowed. “Yuri, get this tub of ungreased gears moving. If she blows a boiler, so be it.”

“Aye aye, Captain,” Yuri replied, while Fate Gear whined.

(“All my gears are well oiled, and I don’t have any boilers.”)

“Get moving, you capitalist swine, or I’ll tear every one of your gears out and throw them overboard!”

(“Aye aye, Captain Tinbottom.”) The Fate Gear’s tone may have been sullen, and the insult ludicrous, but it surged forward. The beams creaked, and the generators throbbed as the ship threw every ounce of its power into outrunning the pirates.

“You two up there,” Mina yelled up at Sorawo and Toriko. “You are hereby #installed as gunner’s mates. If any of those mercurial scavengers come into range, pick them off. We’ll show them that the Fate Gear isn’t a lily-livered, limp-dick jellyfish. Our blood runs as true and red as any buccaneers.”

“I wish she wouldn’t describe our blood as running,” Sorawo said under her breath.

“It’s a saying,” Toriko responded, still smiling at becoming a gunner’s mate.

“Saying or not, I wish she wouldn’t do it.”

Behind the ship, the smaller galleys were losing ground. Ahead, many of the galleys turned away, fearful of the massive bulk of the repurposed prison ship hurtling toward them. The Fate Gear and its crew would have surely won free except for the trireme and two accompanying biremes. Their oars caught the ether, propelling them ever faster after the Fate Gear.

A simple skull and crossbones flew from the trireme's mast, and a muscular yet lean man stood at the bow. Unbound, his blond hair flew free in the wind. His bold face showed no signs of fear. His prey was almost within reach, and he would capture it as easily as a falcon snatches a dove from the air.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #Serial #NMPrompts #NMV366 #NMMP #NMRTTFG
#UraPi #Steampunk #Pirates #Metal #JMetal #Satire #PoliticalSatire

#JIdol: Daily Tsukishiro Himari
第317 🖤🐉🌙

＼✨Metal Storm Best of 2023👑／

Isiliel’s 1st full album Moonbow Genesis has been selected as one of Metal Storms Top 10 Best Power Metal Albums of 2023!

Voting for the top albums is currently underway - check out the great album review and vote here💝

https://metalstorm.net/awards/categories.php?cat_id=15&cb=65be557f6473e

Image source: Tsukishiro Himari

#月城ひまり #TsukishiroHimari #Isiliel #Necronomidol #Necronama
#地下アイドル #アイドル #Idol #JRock #JMetal #Rock #Metal #JMusic #MetalStorm #PowerMetal

#JIdol: Homicidols' Best of 2023 are out. (Alt and Underground Japanese Idols)

Points of interest:

* This is the first year kaigai wota didn't dominate voting. As different JP wota communities heard about the contest, they flooded the ballot box. #Babymetal, #LadyBaby, #Planckstars, #GangParade, #MadMedicine and #PPPR!! all joined in.

* Tsukishiro Himari (#Isiliel) took away 3 awards:
- Best Single
- Best Album
- Best Song

* #RieKaneko and #ReiKuromiya founding members of LadyBaby took two awards.
- Debut of the Year (Group)
- Surprise of the Year

* #MomoMetal / BabyMetal fans flooded the ballet taking
- Debut of the Year (Members and Soloists)
- Collaboration of the Year

* Best Reboot #MadJamie of course.

* Planck Stars took
- Performance of the Year
- Idol of the Year
- And of course Best Planck Stars Prank

There is lots more to see at:

https://www.homicidols.com/your-homicidols-best-of-2023/

#地下アイドル #アイドル #Idol #JMetal #JPunk #JRock #JPop #Rock #Punk #Metal #Pop #Homicidols #KaiGaiIdol #Music