You hatch a plan to even your odds in dealing with the pirate queen.
Quickly and quietly you fish some lengths of rope from your pack and tip toe to the soundly sleeping pirate, just as she begins snoring thunderously.
With feather-light caution, you tie the sleeping pirate's ankles together and attach the rope end to the foot of the hammock. Then you slowly tie her wrists and pull them, extremely carefully, up over her head, attaching that rope to the other end of the hammock. Once that's taken care of, you grab a worn knee sock near one of the discarded boots and work it slowly and gently between her teeth, drawing the ends up behind her head, and, eager to surprise the luckless woman, knot it roughly in place.
The pirate's eyes fly open, clear and murderous, without any hint of inebriation. Thank the gods you didn't accidentally wake her before she was restrained! Quickly realizing her situation, the bound pirate starts bucking and thrashing wildly, shouting likely unkind things into her gag, but the noise is easily swallowed up by the clamor of raucous partying downstairs. Soon the frenzied woman is covered in sweat and spittle and quite totally exhausted.
You crouch in a shadowy corner near the door to the hall and wait. You don't have to wait long.
Heavy, unsteady footsteps approach and the door is flung clumsily open.
"Ztrella!" A female voice shouts, "you musht cm dnstairs! Hic The celembration's jsht got started!"
"Huzzah! huzzah!" a second voice intones.
Two women, stumble arm-in-arm, into the room, one of them waving a sloshing bottle of grog, both wearing the unmistakable garb of Ruby's finest toughs.
Ztrella, the pirate bound and gagged in the hammock, renews her struggling and indecipherable shouting at the sight of her approaching comrades.
"C'mon, don't whine about it! Back into your boots and come with us!" slurs one of the pirates, wavering over her trussed up friend on unsteady legs. "How on Zenith did you get all caught up in yer hammock?"
"And gagged with your sock?" Asks the other pirate, staring sideways at her struggling friend, as her drunken mind labors almost audibly to piece together the situation.
But before that happens you're looming behind the two soused sailors and a quick expert hand chop to the nape of their necks sends them both sprawling to the floor unconscious. Ztrella groans and rolls her eyes as you beam her a dashing smile.
Soon both women are tightly hogtied with the laces from their corsets, and their mouths well stuffed and gagged with their own socks. That leaves just one more guard to take care of before you can face Ruby on more or less equal footing. You slink back to the shadows near the door and wait.
You nearly nod off a time or two waiting long into the early morning before you hear another set of footsteps, dragging and unsteady, approach the room. The door whines weakly open and the fourth of Ruby's elite squad stumbles sleepily in, tugging off her corset and kicking her boots away as she walks. She grunts and spins, nearly toppling as she pries her tunic over her head and tosses it to the floor. One hand working at her belt she trips over one of her hogtied companions, who barely stirs in her drunken bondage, and spills head first into hammock, falling immediately, soundly to sleep.
You stifle a giggle at the sight of the passed out buccaneer, barefoot and topless, with her pants hanging loosely around her waist, kneeling face down in the netting of her hammock. And while it's unlikely she'll wake up any time soon, you don't hesitate to gag her and maneuver her into a hogtie next to her similarly disposed friends.
Now, with the few remaining hours before daybreak, you can apprehend Ruby with much less difficulty! Of course, you could also take a quick peek at the locked door or Mesmera's room first ...
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