Game of Castles 2: A LitRPG Fantasy by Marcus Sloss

Author:Marcus Sloss [Sloss, Marcus]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Royal Guard Publishing LLC
Published: 2023-12-10T16:00:00+00:00

Elyse Chapter 1

The Sea Gull - South Swamp River, Name Unknown

The Pirate Queen and the Pirate Fool!

“But I thought you said all hands on deck, Captain Elyse. And look, all my hands are on the deck!”

Elyse rolled her head back and groaned. Larco had always been something of the ship’s clown. At least since they picked him up floating adrift in the deep waters of the Southern Ocean. He'd claimed to have flown all the way south in search of some great treasure. What's more, he claimed to have found it.

But when pressed, the best he'd been able to offer was something that resembled a foul-smelling piece of rotted driftwood.

But treasure or not, he had survived. More than that, he'd come as close to thriving as anyone on the pirate ship had been able to. Right now, he squatted on the top deck with two hands flat against the wooden boards.

"Get up, Larco," she said with a dismissive hand wave. "You can play the dunce with anybody else, but I know you know what a euphemism is."

"I know more than that," Larco said, springing to his feet and bouncing his eyebrows.

The former castaway wore only the most ragged clothing. A patchy, hole-filled, white linen shirt, and tan breeches that were so threadbare they were getting to the point where they were more bare than thread.

His long black hair fell in oily slivers all the way across his neck, and he refused staunchly to let anyone cut it. He also refused to wash it, or even go swimming in the ocean to wipe off the worst of the grease.

"It reminds me of my home," he would complain when pressed about it. "A grotesque location, and one that I love with all my heart."

Eventually, Elyse had stopped complaining. The reason she stopped was simple: Larco knew his way around the swamp region’s many rivers and she didn't. If her maps were correct, there was a single river that ran all the way out of the Northern Mountains to the Southern Seas.

If Elyse could find that river, she'd be able to hang up the pirate hat and become an honest trader. Not that she didn't love a bit of piracy, but she was starting to find a part of her that wanted to settle down.

She wouldn't be caught dead actually voicing the sentiment that she wanted a little child of her own, but that didn't mean it wasn't true.

"Can it, Larco," Elyse grunted, hoisting him to his feet. "Go get the others. We need to know which of these blasted channels takes us on the northern route, and we need you for that."

Compared to Captain Elyse herself, the difference couldn't have been more stark. Short and squat, Larco looked like something that resembled a rotting hay bale, while Elyse was long-legged, petite, and yet retained fine, powerful muscles.

Still, she didn't appear as though she were a day laborer, or one of those women who were trying to improve their station by showing the men that their biceps were larger.

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