Some IC and some OOC

((OOC: First off, I'd like to know how you evaded the myriadlighting strikes. With the frequency of strikes so high, it's highly unlikely that you missed them all. Secondly, as I stated in my post, the whales slammed the bulkheads under the water. I don't know about the 7.62 shells, but the shrapnel bombs would have little to no effect on their own people?

As for the Sharkmens tactics, they are intelligent enough and instinctive enough to get below decks, like I stated, and belly out the ship. They don't take prisoners. The air strike against them would have minimal effect once on board as they swarmed indoors and down into the cargo holds. There, they'd tear straight through the bulkheads to open water, effectively sinking the ship as so many tear holes all at once. Now, on with the show.))


The seaplane may not have hit and run, but neither did the masked marauder that slipped to the surface now. From his perch in the bridge, Parrish nodded, the massive deck guns unfolding. Not the sixteen inch variety surely, but the just as effective ten inch anti-aircraft guns arrayed in four sets of quadruple-barreled "pom-pom" guns. Immediately they began taking shots at the seaplane. A massive four tube-assault shrieked within the bowels of the ship as the armor piercing torpedoes ran in excess of fifty knots to their target. A single spread as the vessel turned, and a spread of two from the aft tubes as it pulled away, it's tail aimed at the broad side of the cruiser. The men manning the gunpods on deck scrambled to get under as the ship began to submerge. Chaff flared in the air to deflect air-to-surface missiles, and jam radar. The hydrodynamo went into overdrive and as it did, the sonar would pick up nothing more than mammalian life copulating. The marauder of the W.O. dove deep, deeper than most aquatic vessels, no doubt having suffered for it's audacity at the hands of the M.A. airstrike and cruiser assault. The story endeth here...the next chapter begins soon.



((OOC: Lowdown on the torpedoes. They're tipped with armor piercing heads and inside is a shaped projectile explosive. If they connect, the blow into the ship, causing structural damage. Enough of it could rend the hull open, but they're more of a crippling device than anything. The sub appeared off the aft starboard, the first spread moving for the rudders and propellers, or whatever propulsion exhaust lay there. The marauder then veered hard to port, it's arc swinging the tail wide to leave the last two shots at the midships ballasts. It then moved circa thirty-five knots until submerged at a depth of one hundred feet. For every hundred feet, it loses five knots. I would say that the distance to target at the best estimate for the M.A. is a thousand feet. Anyways, looking forward to the next post --- Parrish))