[Tiburon] [U] The Sunken Barrel Tavern

[Kage]

Assuming they are referring to a winch near the mast, he looks around and finds one. Figuring he can't really make matters much worse, for him anyway, he goes ahead and spins it. Luckily being the correct one, the sail begins to slacken. Now that he wasn't gaining much momentum anymore, he and Kaia do what they can to help those who know how to properly handle the ship on board.

[Darby]

Darby attends to the wheel bit, and turns it a little bit to the right. Hopefully that helps it go in the right direction. If it's not the right direction, at least he'll be going in the right direction, even if it's wrong.

[Magikeeper]

The boat turns left.

...

Which turned out to be the right direction, so the crew doesn't interfere with Darby's steering.

In anycase, the addition of speed control makes bringing in the boat a simple enough matter. Dalton's boat is back in port just in time for those gathered to see the man himself racing across the harbor on a small, extremely swift sail boat. They also see how the speedy ship is almost immediately distracted with the arduous task of avoiding the large vessels that had entered the harbor earlier. Hopefully Dalton will realize the situation has already been dealt with..

Back on shore, four men run up to the docked boat. All of them are dressed in town guard uniforms - the crumbs on the tallest of the four's beard is explanation enough of why they weren't at their posts. "What is going on here?! We heard a boat was stolen?"

[Darby]

"I don't know what you might be talking about. Must have been a false alarm, we're all coming in just fine on this little lady here."

[Kage]

Kage smiled along, shifting his suit slightly to blend with the blood that had gotten on it making it look like just darker patches of his fur. "Yeah, just lost control for a moment, needed some help getting it taken care of."

[Ryker]

Ryker attempts to position the small sailing boat in a way that the floating Bandit's body can not be seen from the docks.

[Magikeeper]

The tallest narrows his eyes in suspicion. "That so?" He and the other guards take their time walking back to their posts, the lot of them looking out into the bay in search of anything going amiss. They don't find anything, however (although one of them grumbles about a sail blocking his vision of the harbor..) and the group is soon left to their own devices. It apparently never dawned on the guards to confirm that the rag-tag bunch actually owned that boat. Ryker's temporary crew laughs once the guards have moved mostly out of earshot. "So, about that round of drinks...?"

It looks like Dalton has left the harbor. Oh well, he'll probably be back shortly enough.

[Kage]

As the ships were worked being properly moored by those that know how to do such things, Kage disembarked and went to get a round of drinks for the sailors that helped and some water for himself. He returned and spoke to the group in a casual tone as he worked at getting the blood out of his suit before it set in. "Well, that went better than I had hoped. Thanks for helping with the boat. Anyone seen where Dalton went?"

[Magikeeper]

"He's returning now." replies John, his arm outstretched towards the little boat making its way back to port. The other men laugh as they renter the bar proper, the men having completed the mooring and more than happy to celebrate the occasion.

Dalton calls out to the group as his boat nears the dock. "WELL! I guess I underestimated the lot of you. Great work with the boat." He looks back out over the sea "If we set sail now we can make it most of the way before setting up camp for the night - wouldn't want to finish the trip during the hunting period."

"Or you can rest at my place and head out in the morning!" offers someone... lying in the small boat? The vessel isn't close enough to see who it is; the sides of the boat are in the way.

[Kage]

Kage looked at the source of the new voice to see who it was.