Not feeling like myself today...

[oneofthelost]

Who: The Spade crew ... and the unfortunate souls who've swapped bodies with them
Where: Sun, Moon, Big Dipper, Little Dipper
When: Aug 21st-25th
What: Mist-Taken Identity event
Warnings: Varied; please put warnings in subject lines if/when necessary
Style: Any
Status: Open to crew/swapped crew

A catch-all log for the Spades and their shenanigans for the event.

If you aren't using icons for your character's swap and they are swapped, linking a picture of what they now look like would be helpful!

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[elissacousland]

Logan reached up to lightly touch his forehead as his expression turned sheepish. "Trust me - I have noticed the height difference. I hit my head more than once on the way up here," he confessed, the voice Marco knew easily speaking in Elissa's accent. "Ah... This is a strange day and a strange situation, so I suppose this cannot be helped, but..."

A big hand rubbed over Logan's bearded face. "I didn't see anything like a chamberpot when I awakened. Do you just... go over the side? I really need to pee." He looked downward. "If possible. Apologies - I can't seem to control that."

[fierybluebird]

Marco felt like laughing hysterically. As it was he half choked and nodded. And gestured over.

"Uh, but if you want I'll show you to the bathroom," he shook a hand through his hair. "Rogue is still a teenage girl he's looking after so..." a pause, "Assuming she is still herself? But aye... just the side would be... typical."

It was official. Barely an hour in and it was the weirdest day Marco had ever had. And he had spent several weeks teaching the Straw Hats navigation.

[elissacousland]

Logan grinned, but the impish expression was purely Elissa. "Show me the room, later. I may never get a chance to pee standing up at the railing again," he admitted with twinkling eyes. Did Logan just blush when he turned away to fidget with the unfamiliar fastenings of the jeans he was wearing? "I suppose that I shouldn't feel too embarrassed at seeing the private bits of a complete stranger - if he's traded places with me and not someone else, he might very well be naked when he awakens. Though... Did I put on a shirt when I got up in the night?" Elissa mused as he finally relieved his bladder.

Oh, that's impressive. And strange. Do not make mental comparisons to Haytham, Elissa.

[fierybluebird]

Marco just laughed at that and shook his head, turning around. "Ah, do you usually share your room with anyone? Because Logan and I have our own rooms for a reason. If we're woken up badly we can be pretty... violent?" Although Marco had no idea how much damage Logan would do in someone else's body. Which reminded him-- "Uh when you're finished, remind me I have to tell you something urgent." But it would be a very bad idea to do it while she was peeing. No matter how well Marco and Logan regenerated, the mere thought of Elissa accidentally stabbing Logan's junk with this claws was enough to make any grown man wince.

[elissacousland]

"I've shared a bed with Haytham Kenway for several months now," Logan's voice distractedly admitted while Elissa tried to get everything back into place. Maker's breath! How did men do this all the time? She was really careful with the zipper out of a sense of Logan-bit's preservation as much as awkwardness with the use of such a fashion innovation. Later, she would have to take a closer look at how the zipper worked to satisfy her curiosity.

"He's an early riser, however. Tis too late to warn either of them as I do not make a habit of waking that early."

[fierybluebird]

Awesome.

"Well, I guess if we hear him or your voice yelling a lot on the journal later that'll let us know, eh?" Marco shrugged. He was also never going to get used to hearing Logan sound so damn cheerful, and polite. And very un-Logan-y. He shifted nervously. Between the claws and Elissa being new to Logan's body in general, Marco had no idea what would set them off. Any sense of self preservation? Well they weren't out yet, so if he startled her that might make it worse. Might as well act casual for now.

"Oh, his cat's name is Pryde, by the way. Like a lion pride. She's usually basically attached to him at the claws. Logan can regenerate like me so that sort of thing doesn't faze him, but hopefully you're fond of lynxes, because she's been overprotective of him lately. We're missing a lot of crew members... even without the switching bodies."

[elissacousland]

"A lynx! I'd wondered what she was. She's sensed the change, I am sure. This morning, she was a typically aloof feline as I stood up and nearly knocked my head on the ceiling," Logan chuckled, though his expression darkened soon enough. "Missing? As in ... returned home? Or something more sinister?"

The bit about regeneration sort of went over Elissa's head since she'd never met anyone like that before, but it is certain she will find out about it soon enough.

[fierybluebird]

"Missing like..."

Marco shifted on his feet and rummaged through his inside pockets to pull out a cigarette and light it up. He was going to murder Thatch when he got him back. This was probably not the kind of thing that would be un-alarming, but Marco figured it wouldn't activate the claws necessarily since it wasn't directly threatening per se.

"Thatch and Namur it would seem at least have been captured by slavers who are using the power-draining material from the navy. Either one or both of them tried to infiltrate the slaver ring, and got caught." A gulp. "Chandra... I don't think is with them or we would have had a lot more blown up islands and clues. Jean Grey might be with Chandra. But I know Chandra didn't go home. Her stuff is still here and she promised she'd take me and my brothers with her traveling the stars. I think maybe an accident or something happened... she plays a lot with magic, and her power source is the world itself, which means things like this are almost bound to throw her off."

Marco looked out at the ocean wearily. "Now our baby sister, Leanne, is also missing. If she's not with the others, then I just don't know." He shakes his head. "In any case, we know Roxas was kidnapped by navy, and his new crew rescued him. But we already took down one base and only found out that the navy was supplying the slavers with the power-draining chains. Beyond that, we're heading south and following whatever trail Thatch leaves behind."

[elissacousland]

"Slavers." The word was said with a great deal of disgust and it immediately brought to mind the Tevinter mage Caladrius and his cohorts in the Denerim Alienage. Logan's expression darkened to match Elissa's new mood as he folded his arms across his chest. "The slavers that I met back home did not live to tell the tale. I cannot abide those who trade others as goods. It is wrong."

"While I am in this body, I will gladly lend you my aid, if I am able. On the Mistress, I am an adequate rigger, so I can help you sail the ship. Find me a good sword and a dagger and I will fight at your side," he almost growled. One arm loosened to lift in a fist at shoulder height to emphasize his point... And that's when the claws activated.

Three, sharp blades erupted from the back of Logan's right hand and he sucked in a breath of pain as the wounds healed around them. "Maker's breath!"

1/2

[fierybluebird]

"Thanks," Marco grinned, blushing a little happier. He would never get used to so many people offering their help to deal with slavers. To rescue Ace, he barely had to say a word to get people volunteering to rescue him, but slavers were the oldest Whitebeard enemies there were. The oldest enemies of Marco's. Even Blackbeard fought against slavers. And yet, the sudden surge of multiple crews offering their expertise and strength to aid him was... amazing. Marco wasn't used to feeling so heartwarmed from a bunch of ships he'd consider loosely allied by circumstances at best. It was certainly different from the Whitebeard allies, but in no way less good.

"They're the oldest Whitebeard enemies too. Different in this world, but not so much so that we shouldn't be able to put a huge dent in the trade." He'd like to destroy it completely, but that would require destroying the market for it, and Marco had less faith in humanity than that. So long as people existed, some were going to try to enslave others, he was sure of that.

2/2

[fierybluebird]

And then Elissa activated the claws....

Welp.

"Right... that was what I needed to warn you about. Logan and I regenerate, but Logan has those claws... They're indestructible, but I'm not completely sure what brings them out? It could just be wanting them to come out. But you'll have to be especially careful until you know how to control it, since no other than me can regenerate that. Well, Thatch and Ace's bodies can, but who knows if they are even in the right bodies right now, and I'm not sure anyone else in them could control them." Not that Thatch was there anyway.

[elissacousland]

He held both hands out from his torso, peering from the right hand with the claws to the left hand that was normal. "Are there any other surprises I should expect? Do blades pop out of any other part of this body?" Indestructible blades and regeneration abilities? This man would be a formidable opponent in battle!

Three sharp and shiny daggers that were hidden in his flesh? This weapon was even more impressive than Haytham's hidden blade.

[fierybluebird]

"Each hand," Marco thought it over carefully, "And I think that's it since he wears boots. Marco held up his own foot and switched it over into talons. "Speaking from experience when you fight with these, you need the freedom, eh?"

So let's see, claws, regeneration, cat, Rogue. Was he forgetting anything? Jean Grey was still missing and even if she returned, she probably wouldn't rush to Logan's side. "I think that's it for surprises. I hope."