Skyjacks: Episode 44.5 Youngblood Interlude

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Opening descriptor of the estate of the Youngblood privateer family. Its in the plains surrounding the city of Aurum, one pf the Red Feather Syndicate's capitol cities. There are no natural bodies of water, only canals and manufactured pools fed by large catchment tools. Every thing, even the defenses is built in Rococo-style architecture and adorned with the Youngblood family crest. They have full docking towers for over a dozen skyships, half of which are occupied by crews. Barracks. Gardens surround the main household.

Pan into a window of an impressive office adorned by well-crafted maps, many bearing the mark of secrecy from the Xing? Trading? company that ensures that only those who have been in that office, or drafted the maps themselves, have seen them. The office walls are also decorated with many finely decorated compasses, clocks, sextants, and other navigation tools. There's a multitude of challenge coins on the wall as well, awarded by the Red Feathers and privateers to Olivia Youngblood for multiple successful military campaigns.

Description of Olivia Youngblood. She's looking over maps and journals on her desk, drafting a manifest. Interrupted by Remington Youngblood knocking. On entry, description of Remington. His eyes are swollen and bloodshot from crying, and he is unkempt. He tells Olivia that he has grave news that has distressed him, she dismissively tells him to tell someone else as she is busy preparring for deploying her fleet to Windrider Island tommorow. Remington responds that her fleet has been grounded at his command, and has been suddenly and non-negotiably been reassigned.

He then delivers the news that their younger brother, Tiberius, has died while on shore leave in Burza Nyth to compete in Aur Pióra. Remington states that he was slain in the joust competition, with an unusual form of magic that left no remains. Olvia gives her condolences and aknowledges Remington's affection for their siblings, and the burden of the role of family patriarch.

Remington cuts her off, stating that there was foul play and that it must be answered for: conspiracy between corsairs (the crew of the Uhuru) and the Broker. Olivia insists he assign any other ships in the Youngblood fleet name and whatever sellswords he wants to pay for instead of her fleet. Remington retorts that he's beentolerant of her independence, and far moreso than their father ever was, but that because she flies under the family name she has a responsibility to defend it. Olivia is angered, but Remington continues her Youngblood name puts her under his command. Olivia spits back that he'd disrupt her work to avenge the death of a spider, continuing that Tiberius would have done anything, and spilled any blood to command his own fleet, including Remington's.

Olivia states that she had no love for Tiberius even while living, and that she won't delay her travels now that he's found a just end. Remington says he needs Olivia's help, to which she again insists that he use any other captain in the Youngblood fleet. It is now that Remington reveals that the indivdual that killed Tiberius was an agent of Orimar Vale (this being Gable), to the suprise of Olivia. Remington states that Tiberius' journals revealed that their youngest brother Alisdair was killed. Olivia is suprised at this, as their family believed that he had been killed by his teacher and Orimar Vale's agents two years ago. Tiberius' journals stated that he was actually kidnapped by Vale, and had been flying with them under a false name (Dref Wormwood) until his death.

Remington instructs Olivia to destroy any evidence that Dref lived past his disappearance two years ago, including the men that were working under Tiberius when this was discovered. Her mission is also to hunt down and capture the Uhuru, kill the crew members that new their brother's secret, and bring Dref's journals and Orimar Vale to Remington. She begrudingly accepts, as long as he dispatches another competent privateer to Windrider Island in her stead, to fulfill a set of her orders. Sheepishly, Remington apoligzes for believing his sister's trip was recreational in nature. Olivia replies that her trips have been mostly non-recreational, as in the last year the island has become a critical strategic asset in ways she cannot share. Remington asks if she needs to talk about Alisdair, which she declines. He begins to leave, pauses to make an attempt at gentleness for his sister, then decides against it and exits the office.

Remington Youngblood was played by Ben Meredith. Olivia Youngblood was played by James D'Amato