Pirate Christmas

[arcadiasailor]

Who: Triton's Mistress
Where: At sea somewhere off the coast of Isla Empieza
When: Dec 13th to 31st
What: Catch all for Holiday mayhem
Warnings:
Style:any
Status:Closed to crew

13-24th

Random gifts appearing

25th- If Cat's gifts haven't driven us crazy the crew sits down to a Holiday dinner.

Feel free to start a thread for a date that catches your eye!

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[arcadiasailor]

Midday you'll find Harlock creeping down the corridors Cosomo Dragoon drawn. Is there an intruder on the ship? The past few days strange things have been appearing all over the ship. The space pirate is pointing at the what he believes to be the source of every little creak the ship makes. If you have very good hearing you might make out a soft bleating from somewhere but the goat is nowhere to be seen.

[chasing_waterfalls]

     These are by far the strangest 'gifts' he'd ever seen, stranger still for their method of delivery. They had no apparent rhyme or reason that he was aware of, although they didn't seem to hold any ill intent. The rings that had appeared this morning were very pretty, not to mention interesting for the fact that they shrunk down to size the moment he touched them.

     Lyrik turns along one of the corridors, brightening as he spies Harlock. He's eager to show the captain his findings, however once he gets closer he notices that the man's carrying his weapon.

     "Wha-?! Captain, what's going on??"

[arcadiasailor]

The sudden movement and noise has Harlock's gun coming to bare on Lyrik, before he recognizes the boy. He shakes his head.

"Sorry, it's loose again." Harlock assumes their problem with the goat known to Lyrik someone has to have mentioned it. "And I've had enough."

[chasing_waterfalls]

     Lyrik had seen the Navy men wielding those things enough to know that the thing in Harlock's hand was potentially harmful, so seeing it aimed at him even briefly is enough to make him jump.

     "Gah! H-hey, watch where you aim that, sir..!" he sputters. "Wait, loose? Aah, again? Wh-what are you going to do with it?" It surely can't be anything good if he's holding a gun!

[arcadiasailor]

"You startled me."
He is sorry for threatening the boy, he wasn't the type of kid he was hunting.

"The goat it tried to eat our map, and I think it's invisible."

[chasing_waterfalls]

     Clasping a hand to his chest, the young dragon gave a sigh of relief. "A-ah, sorry about that." He frowns a little, glancing around. Was that the sound of a goat just now?

     "Invisible? How did that happen?"

[arcadiasailor]

"Who knows, things keep appearing on the ship and it will eat anything."

He inches a little further down the corridor. They're not to far from the Galley at this point. There's the crash of pots and pans. Harlock swears

"Now it's after what's left of lunch."

[chasing_waterfalls]

     Lyrik manages not to jump at the sound coming from down the way. He spins around, wincing at Harlock's language although more for the tone than actually knowing what he's saying. Most likely he probably thinks it's some foreign language!

     "What? Oh no..!" he groans, watching as Harlock slips further along the corridor before trailing after him.

[bloodheels]

Lenalee had been wondering where the goat had gone, but she honestly didn't care about where it was or what it was up to. Instead she had been keeping to herself for the time. People she had cared about had gone and the numbers of crew have gone down considerably and it hurt each and every time she kept to herself.

But today she had left her room, knowing she should do something when she came across the other. Looking confused she looked over slightly. "Captain... what are you doing?"

[arcadiasailor]

Ah he was hopping to run into Lenalee. He had all sorts of ideas for diner tonight. He's done with that tin eating menace. Now he just had to convince the others this was one crew mate they could spare losing. Live stock war replaceable.


"Oh good how does making stew sound tonight?"

[bloodheels]

"Stew sounds okay. It's easy enough to do." She said thinking about if they had the right ingredients to be able to do such a thing. After a few minutes of thinking it over she nodded.

"It should be fine, but um... You didn't explain what you were doing."

[facelesshunter]

[17th]

Hester checks the rings for poison by putting them on some of the ship's livestock. When they don't keel over, she nods and tries some on for herself. If you've done the same, the map will appear, as will the other ring. She may put that one on. There will be no visible change to her personality.

[20th]
Hester, who has never been this well fed in her life, is in a constant state of bliss. She even licks her lips (an awkward thing when your mouth is as scarred as hers, but so necessary). And look, there's a cow! A whole one! Well, almost whole. The tendons look like they might be a bit skimpy, but she can deal.

She pulls out a comically large knife and points. "Steak ho!"

20th

[chasing_waterfalls]

     First Captain Harlock is looking to shoot invisible goats and now Hester's raising weapons against a cow!!! What's going on with this crazy week??? And when did they even get a cow?!

     "Uwah! What're you doing?!"

[facelesshunter]

"Getting us started on lunch." She looks at him as if he's asked her how to blow his own nose. "Get me a bucket. You wouldn't believe how much these things bleed..."

[chasing_waterfalls]

     "Wha-" Lyrik gapes at the woman a moment as that sinks in. "-wait! You're going to kill it?! Here???!"

[facelesshunter]

"No, this-" She waves her sword about. "Is to give it a bloody haircut. Of course I'm gonna kill it. It looks gods damned delicious."

[chasing_waterfalls]

     Whoa, she's serious. That's what scares him. "But...we don't even know where it came from! And what did it do to you? It's just a little thing too..!" Lyrik yammers.

[facelesshunter]

She turns back toward him.

"Listen, kid. Things that are small and helpless and don't know when to hide in this world get fucking eaten. Sooner you learn that, less likely it is to happen to you."

This isn't so much a statement of personal philosophy as a conviction that This Is How The World Works, and while she doesn't like it, she doesn't think she can do much about it.

[chasing_waterfalls]

     Lyrik takes a moment to swallow that bitter message down before he shakes his head and points back out at the cow. "B-but where's a cow supposed to hide in a situation like that!!" he huffs.

20th

[arcadiasailor]

Harlock blinks confused from over at the helm. They were after all sea. You normally you didn't run into red meat.

"What?"

He approaches the rail and looks to where she's pointing. Yes there's a cow on a garland and holly covered raft.

"I didn't think they came that small." Not that they normally came two stories tall like Big Beef Angus. His mind flashing to how is friend would always say he liked this steak so think you couldn't tell the front from the side.

[facelesshunter]

"Yeah, those legs are short. That makes less tendon to gnaw through though. I'll bring in our lunch."

She makes for the dingy, to begin rowing it in, swallows back drool.

[arcadiasailor]

"We have stake knives somewhere." Gnaw through a tendon you'd be chewing for hours.


He watches her scale down the side. Sea was relatively calm so he wasn't to worried about her ending up in the drink.


"We might need a pulley to actually get that cow on board."