ONE:
On Pegasus’ deck, SABRE is spinning around, about to shout orders. DRAKE is reacting, moving towards her. He didn’t realize the dire situation before, perhaps, but he knows that did next to nothing.
SMOKE is thick as the CANNON crews shift their positions – they’re abandoning the cannon, not bothering to reload.
1. DRAKE: They’re still coming.
2. SABRE: Noticed that, did you?
3. SABRE/shout: Adula!
TWO:
Angle past SABRE, turning towards us, with DRAKE, who is spinning around to watch as CREW leap for the lines, the SAILS filled and billowing.
ADULA is shouting orders to the CREW.
4. ADULA: SPILL THE CANVAS!!!
5. SABRE: Ballast to the fore!
THREE:
Angle on PEGASUS, the IRON CROWN still closing, easily within 100 yards.
PEGASUS’ sails are BUCKLING, CREW hanging from the lines as they draw “wrong” slack, spilling the wind from the sails.
SABRE is visible on the DECK, running back towards the QUARTERDECK.
The SMOKE is still thick from the cannon fire.
6. SABRE: Stomp the bow!
The advantage of being a smaller ship: more ability to maneuver. I suspect the wings of the Pegasus figurehead are more than merely decorative.
Is it me? or does the Iron Crown look like a fat angry owl?
Not just you.
And why do owls and fictional analogues of Deutschland/Germany go hand in hand in my mind right now? Not just Roy Thomas’ writings back in the latter 1990′s, I suspect…
Angry Birds!
Yikes, wonderful art, the ship seems ENORMOUS before them!
Dive! Dive! Dive!
That might be the result of “stomp the bow”, although I’m not sure since the first two hits on Google are for Lady Sabre and the rest assume I know what it means already.
after an exhaustive investigation, I found this:
Stomp – Mid-air method of forcing a kayak more vertical when running a waterfall.
Stomp the bow would seem to indicate a steep dive, which I think is a fore-gone conclusion at this point.
As for “spill the canvas”, I assume it’s not some indy band, but…
spill 1 (spl)
v. spilled or spilt (splt), spill·ing, spills
v.tr.
4. Nautical
a. To relieve the pressure of wind on (a sail).
b. To cause or allow (wind) to be lost from a sail.
I have Das Boot like images going through my head for what is happening below decks. I hope we get to see the stomp down there…say on one of the gun decks. (I doubt you can reload effectively while diving at 30 degrees.
Secret weapon will be in next page/s or cool move that will put the IROM CROWN in bad place
My hope is that Sabre is sneaky enough to zip away fast in Pegasus, but leaves behind an explosive going-away present for Iron Crown to open.
There will be some mega UBER stunt done by the Queen of Steampunk pirates here .