<div class="floatleft">(https://i368.photobucket.com/albums/oo122/grizzly/Royce-Closeup.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Royce O'Malley<br/><strong>Location:</strong>The Esperanza, Main Deck<br/><strong>Time &amp; Date</strong>: Day 2<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Lourdes, Sarah, Open<br/><strong>Content:</strong>Getting Ready<br/><hr/><br/>Royce, seated on the ships rail, checked the load in her pistols for the umpteenth time.  It wasn't that she was nervous about the upcoming action, rather she was excited about it.  This was her way of keeping herself busy while waiting for the order to climb the mast and set the sails.  Her mismatched pair of pistols, each acquired from a different owner during previous adventures, had been cleaned during the voyage and had been freshly loaded with powder and ball from the ships armory.  She slipped them into her belts, one resting comfortably close to the hilt of her cutlass.<br/><br/>She was just slipping one pistol into place when Lourdes appeared and offered her a musket ball on a rope.  Royce watched as Lourdes demonstrated the ritual and decided that it couldn't hurt.  She kissed the lead ball and then tucked it beneath her vest.  "Thanks, Lourdes.  I'm not sure who Ogou is, but if they have you speaking on their character then that's good enough for me.  It's always good to know that there's someone watching over us and keeping us safe." she said with a smile.  "Are you ready for this?  Nervous?  Excited?"