![]() Tadashi was an ex-IJN officer and had nearly trained up his men to the navy standard of damage control techniques. Such as it was, Captain Tadashi went out of his way to recruit the best chief engineer he could find, and moreover, trained the rest of his crew to be able to patch up the ship at a moment’s notice. The men of the Blessed Crab couldn’t exactly tell anyone where they were going without risking the authorities coming down on them, so no one would even know where to start looking if they went missing. If the ship had engine trouble for instance, the crew would be on their own to fix it with what they had on hand. Chiefly, they had no way to call for help if they ran into trouble at any point along the way, even if it wasn’t Rodan related. Of course, that meant voyages for the Blessed Crab and her crew were extra dangerous in other ways. In his eyes, it was just simpler just to eliminate those possibilities altogether. Tadashi didn’t want to take the risk of someone forgetting, getting drunk, or a radio simply getting knocked over and turning on accidently. Warnings about using an open radio channel anywhere near the Rodans territory had long since trickled down from sources inside the Japanese military to the civilian population. The Rodans could usually find what they were looking for much closer to home.Īdditionally, Captain Tadashi ensured that the Blessed Crab carried no radio equipment whatsoever. The monsters didn’t generally venture out that far unless provoked. At present, their position was about one-hundred and fifty miles east of the Kamchatka peninsula. For starters, he kept his vessel well clear of the Russian coast. He took precautions to avoid detection by the Rodans. They had been making a killing at market with a full cargo hold time and again over course of the last year while their competition struggled.Ĭaptain Tadashi was bold, but not outright stupid. The whole area had become a hot bed for profit for the Blessed Crab and her crew. ![]() In particular, their ship’s own namesake had flourished beyond their wildest dreams. However, captain Tadashi knew many schools fish, along with other various forms of sea life, had congregated there since no other fishing vessels were willing to trespass into the waters. Most merchant and military vessels knew well enough to stay far outside of the Rodan controlled sea zone. They weren’t likely to run into any Imperial Japanese Navy ships though. In their eyes, it was a high risk, high reward venture. Captain Tadashi, along with his crew of about twenty-five, were brazenly violating the ban set by the Japanese government by entering the restricted waters nearby the Kamchatka peninsula. Her name was the Blessed Crab, and she was being captained by an ambitious sailor named Tadashi Orani. In the south-central Bering Sea, a Japanese fishing boat was sailing northward. I am hoping to get it all the details for chapter 22 wrapped up and posted before next weekend. Not so much…Īnyways, for the time being I can work a round that issue. I originally figured by the time I got to this part of the story I would have the game and Cold War era military vehicle pieces in my hands already. The creator claims that he is still going to get it finished, but he is slower than molasses in winter in making progress. The game is basically a WW3 what if scenario with pieces similar to Axis and Allies and will scale up with them. This was, and will continue to be, a problem do to a kicker starter project I supported being 3 years overdue for release. Namely the Migs and the heavy strategic bomber. I didn’t do photos in the last chapter because I was lacking the proper Russian air units. I’m planning to do photos for this chapter too, so that may set me back another day or so. Anyone who has watched the last season or two of Game of Thrones knows what happens when you stop caring about the story and just start rushing to the end. Nothing is worse than when a writer gets lazy and just has things happen faster than they should just for the sake of efficiency. I want the story to unfold in a natural way. I have specific goals in mind when I write my outlines, but once I get going writing I start to think about how I’m logically going to get there. If fact, I had to push off a big event I had planned for the end of chapter 22 until chapter 23 because this one kind of expanded organically as I was writing it. It’s sitting at about 32 pages presently, so it’s a pretty long one. Will depend on focus, energy, and distractions, which may or may not come up. If I am very lucky, I might be able to get through editing by Sunday evening. I got the first draft finished and am nearly finished with the second draft. ![]() Incidentally, I am getting close to wrapping up chapter 22. I thought I heard he was supposed to be an ogre or something, but that might just be me misremembering. Oh yeah, Gabara is definitely going to be somewhere in the mix. ![]()
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