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[Iris]

3. I'll be honest, I don't really understand how the Vestal-spawning process works or what to do for it, no matter what sort of Authority I eventually give them. All I've really got in my head for that is "protection stuff???"

This part is deliberately left vague. There is a wide variety of Geneses among Vestals - while they spawn when the Will of an object becomes strong enough, there are many ways this can be achieved.

Look at, for example, Mireille and Tuathlaith - two different Vestals, spawned in very different ways. Ancilla is symbolic of mankind's triumph, while Luca Dumas spawned a Vestal due to a single accomplishment. Both are equally valid.

[Sanyachan]

Hi y'all, meet Casey

Spoiler: Ship (click to show/hide)

Name: Carnet
Class and Role: Conquest-class Destroyer
Configuration Details:
Length/Beam/Draught: 120, 12, 4 metres
Main Batteries: 3 x twin 120mm turrets, superfiring pair ahead and single turret aft
Torpedos: 2 x quad 500mm launchers mounted amidships
AA: 3 x quad 40mm pom-pom guns, two mounted either side of the front smokestack, one aft above the 120mm turret   
   8 x AA machinegun nests
Propulsion: 3 oil/coal boilers, 2 geared steam turbines and 2 propellers.
Range: 3000 nmi at 20 knots


Statline:
Displacement: 3000 tons
Total Points: 8
Stealth:10 Carnet is a reasonably small and low ship
Firepower: 2 Carnet posesses 3 twin 120mm turrets, and two quad torpedo mounts
Speed: 3  Carnet has a flank speed of 40 knots.
Armour: 1 Carnet mostly leverages her speed to avoid being hit, with lacking armour and a basic AA setup
Intelligence: 2 Carnet posesses an improved, but still basic set for scanning equipment and standard radio communications.

Spoiler: Vestal (click to show/hide)

Name: Casey, the Unsinkable Will.
Appearance: Casey is of average height. She has rough white-grey hair, always messy as if she had jsut come in from a storm. One would be forgiven for mistaking her for an average person, if not for the pair of wolf-like ears above her head and accompanying short, but fluffy, tail. She usually wears a naval officer's uniform, although highly embelished. If you look closely, you can see multiple tears sewn expertly together.
Personality: Casey tends to keep to herself, but just as Carnet has been rebuilt from many parts, so too Casey is built up from fragments.
Genesis: Carnet has not had a shining track record. In just about every mission she was sent out on, she suffered some form of crippling or incapacitating damage, yet she has always managed to limp back to port, even when all of the rest of her fleet were sunk or needed towing. Serving on the Carnet had become an assignment disliked by most. However, since she had never failed to get her crew home, some saw the Carnet as a more resilient ship than mighty battlecruisers. Maybe. It was from this "always damaged, never killed" attitude Casey was brought forth.
Authority: Casey's authority manifests as a shimmering shield, broken yet whole, while it cannot fully absorb all blows, it will do its utmost to prevent total dstruction.

[DragonRage]

The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault.

Vestal:

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Name:  Ashley, Vanguard of Cinders
Appearance:  A thin, lithe woman who moves with runner's grace, Ashley's grey-black hair flows freely around her shoulders to frame a face often smeared with ash, powder-smoke, or engine grease and oil.  Her eyes are a fiery, flickering orange, and black, chitinous, beetle-like cases rustle on her back, protecting a pair of iridescent wings. 
Personality:  Much like her ship-self, Ashley is not one to take the spotlight.  Regardless of her own accomplishments, she's at her most comfortable having someone else's back.  While quiet, she's not afraid to speak her mind, even (or especially) if what she has to say isn't welcome.  It amuses her immensely when the truth hurts, especially if it involves deflating an excessive ego.
Genesis:  The cruiser Cavalière was put in for a modest refit when an immense fire started in the port town surrounding her drydock.  Frustrated by the limited reach of her pumps and hoses, infuriated by the injustice that would force her to watch, inanimate, as lives and livelihoods burned, Ashley stood up and brought her firefighting equipment to where it was needed.
Authority:  Ashley was brought into the world by a raging inferno, and she carries an echo of that catastrophic fire with her.  When it comes to igniting, fanning, and suppressing fires, things just subtly, so much so that you could almost mistake it for coincidence if it were less consistent, catch fire or are extinguished as she wishes.

Ship:

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Name:  Cavalière
Class and Role: Intrépide-class heavy cruiser
Configuration Details:  When Cavalière manifested her Vestal mid-refit, it was taken as an excellent opportunity to promptly outfit her with the most modern technologies available, ensuring that she would be as capable as possible.  While not built with the advanced all-or-nothing armor configuration, her six inch belt and two inch extended strakes and deck protect her machinery adequately, as do the six inch plates covering her turrets and conning tower.  Three triple turrets, one forward and two superfiring to the rear, carry her main battery of powerful, 203mm/60 caliber rifles, and four twin 127mm anti-surface and six single 90mm dual purpose turrets line each side of her superstructure, providing an enormous amount of artillery.  Comparatively, her torpedo armament is almost non-existent, with only a single submerged launcher on each side.
Statline
Displacement: 15,000 tons
Total Points: 14
Stealth:  7  Cavalière is fairly big for a cruiser, but nowhere near as easily-spotted as a capital ship.
Firepower: 7  Cavalière boasts a daunting array of guns for dealing with almost any opponent.  Her 203mm/60 caliber main battery may be slightly awkward to bring to bear due to its rear-heavy layout, but the high velocity guns have excellent performance for their size, combining a good rate of fire, fantastic penetration, and large bursting charges to hit far harder than their size would suggest.  8 twin 127mm turrets and 12 90mm dual purpose guns split between her broadsides add even more firepower to an already intimidating arsenal, allowing her to shred insufficiently-protected foes at close and medium ranges.  Only battleships can hope to withstand firepower of this magnitude.
Speed: 3  Cavalière's top speed of 28 knots made her class the fastest cruisers in the world when launched.  While since surpassed by more modern cruisers (and embarrassingly matched by some battlecruisers), her new oil-fired engines let her maintain top speed for much longer than any of her coal-fired contemporaries could.
Armour: 3  Cavaliere's armor is sufficient to provide adequate defense against other heavy cruisers and excellent defenses against anything more lightly-armed, and her 12 90mm dual purpose guns and sixteen anti-aircraft machine guns give her excellent protection against aircraft.  However, her armor is incapable of resisting battleship rounds effectively (and in fact is just thick enough to ensure they'll practically never overpenetrate), and will not hold up forever against peer opponents.
Intelligence:  1  Cavalière has a radio set, but is not equipped with hydrophones, aviation facilities, or even an especially tall mast.

[stoirtap]

Vestal:

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Elisa, Black Heart of the Fog
Appearance: Elisa has an average build, with billowing gray hair and piercing red eyes. She wears an eyepatch for aesthetic purposes, and a uniform more in line with the age of sail centuries ago down to the bicorn hat.
Personality: In a word, a tease. She's playful, and doesn't take things too seriously and while she jokes about getting closer, she always stays just out of arms' reach.
Genesis: In the age of sail, the Black Heart was a pirate vessel known for plundering trade lanes and ports the world over. No navy could catch it until one day, it vanished without a trace. While it was a very real ship, its mysterious disappearance made it a part of nautical legend and when [COUNTRY] gave its namesake to their battlecruiser, Elisa appeared, with a smirk on her face and a cutlass in her hand.
Authority: Elisa has a supernatural ability to slip away… when no one is looking at her, she becomes invisible. If enemy ships lose visual on the Black Heart while she's aboard, either due to weather, distance, or night, the Black Heart is gone and uncatchable.

Ship:

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Name: Black Heart
Class and Role: Battlecruiser Raider
Optional: Configuration Details (Go into as much or as little detail as you like for technical aspects. I will smart check this, so don't go overboard. If you don't know much about ships, feel free to not include.)
Statline:
Displacement: 40,000 tons
Total Points: 27
Stealth: 0
Firepower: 4
Speed: 10
Armour: 8
Intelligence: 5

[Iris]

Alright. Elisa, Ashley, Casey, Gustave, Mireille and Tuathlaith are in. I'll post the IC thread shortly.

Stoir, if you want help adding more to your sheet, I can help you.

And just to reiterate: This is my first game. It will be bad.

[Egan_BW]

oh, someone else had the pirate idea, it seems. Oh well, gonna post it anyways. Cuz I like cats.

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Name: Mittens the Outrider
Appearance: Tabby kitten with yellow eyes and a tiny, yet outrageous captain's hat.
Personality: Catlike. Sadistic, yet naive.
Genesis: The Blackhat was originally a simple merchant ship, then bought by pirates and converted into a raiding vessel. It successfully looted cargo ships in a far away and poorly patrolled tributary to the warm sea, yet the ship's crews over time became less and less enamored with greed, and instead became seduced by the trill of the hunt itself, giving rise to a purely predatory Vestal. That trillseeking behavior was so strong that it lead the ship on more and more risky ventures and the Vestal-Pirateship was eventually captured by the Romainsoix navy and, considering the value of the 'Ship's Cat', repurposed as a military vessel. As for Mittens, he doesn't care who he serves so long as his orders are to hunt.
Authority: Giga-Chomp! Fueled by fury and hunger, this Authority manifests as massive steel jaws which deliver a crushing blow. At close range, at least.


Name: Blackhat
Class and Role: Boarding Cruiser
Displacement: 13,500
Total Points: 13
Stealth: 7
Firepower: 2
Speed: 11
Armour: 3
Intelligence: 6

[Sanyachan]

oh, someone else had the pirate idea, it seems. Oh well, gonna post it anyways. Cuz I like cats.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Mittens the Outrider
Appearance: Tabby kitten with yellow eyes and a tiny, yet outrageous captain's hat.
Personality: Catlike. Sadistic, yet naive.
Genesis: The Blackhat was originally a simple merchant ship, then bought by pirates and converted into a raiding vessel. It successfully looted cargo ships in a far away and poorly patrolled tributary to the warm sea, yet the ship's crews over time became less and less enamored with greed, and instead became seduced by the trill of the hunt itself, giving rise to a purely predatory Vestal. That trillseeking behavior was so strong that it lead the ship on more and more risky ventures and the Vestal-Pirateship was eventually captured by the Romainsoix navy and, considering the value of the 'Ship's Cat', repurposed as a military vessel. As for Mittens, he doesn't care who he serves so long as his orders are to hunt.
Authority: Giga-Chomp! Fueled by fury and hunger, this Authority manifests as massive steel jaws which deliver a crushing blow. At close range, at least.


Name: Blackhat
Class and Role: Boarding Cruiser
Displacement: 13,500
Total Points: 13
Stealth: 7
Firepower: 2
Speed: 11
Armour: 3
Intelligence: 6

meow

[Egan_BW]

Is that so?

[Iris]

Just a small note: While I have led in the present tense, after thinking about it, I will be using the past tense from this point onwards.