high_seas | Intro Log: April 2015

WELCOME NEW CHARACTERS!
Have an intro log for the month of April!

Who: Any and all new characters, as well as anyone hanging out on or around Isla Empieza!
Where: Near the fountain in the town center.
When: New characters will arrive around April 9th! The log is good for as long as you need it.
What: You've just been dropped on your head in a weird new world. Time to figure out what the heck is going on!
Status: VERY OPEN.

Spring has arrived in Empieza! The days are cool and occasional thunderstorms growl through the night. If the citizens of Empieza seem more anxious than usual, it's because of the pirates that aggressively roam the streets, hunting for fresh meat -- either for shanghaiing or sport. If you don't wish to be coerced to sail under the flag of Ammon the Bloody, it's best to stay out of their way.

Feel free to throw your characters here if you need a place for them to get situated and start figuring things out! Start new threads, tag into others, meet the people who might just become part of your crew! Older characters will be in and out, too, depending who is on the island at the current time.

HAVE FUN! And welcome to High Seas!

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[He lets go of Vanitas' hand once he reaches the bakery. Roxas is the greedy sort, he orders a dozen assorted doughnuts in a box and as soon as they're out of there, he opens it, holding the box out to Vanitas.]

Anything you want.

[Looks at the doughnuts, then reaches in and picks a chocolate one and takes a bite]

[Oh. Oh this is good]

Wow...

[Roxas himself picks out a glazed one with fruit filling and takes a big bite. He has to lick glaze off his lips. He grins at Vanitas.]

This shop has the best doughnuts I've found!

[He takes another bite]

I like it.

I thought you might.

[Roxas puts the box down on a ledge between them.]

Eat as many as you ant. Last time I ate ten!

[He finishes the doughnut and sits on the ledge]

That sounds like a lot.

It's a lot but if you eat over the whole day, then you won't get sick. When we went to Candy Mountain I got really sick and Lea didn't even help me, he said it was my own fault.

[It was. He had no sympathy at all.]

[Is shoving another in his face, a red velvet one this time with cream cheese icing]

It was your fault. You need self-control.

[Something he's lacking right now]

I didn't know that could happen, I never ate that much before, at least, I don't think so.

[He scratches his head.]

I don't need to eat, I don't think so. I slept for a month once, nothing weird happened.

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[Vanitas nods and finishes the doughnut, deciding to show some self-restraint and not eat another]

Why'd you sleep a month?

[Vanitas is such a show off. He is working on his second doughnut.]

I don't really know. It had been a bad day. Someone told me my best friend was dead and I was feeling something.

[Grief. A hint of grief.]

Which makes no sense at all, or at least it didn't then. Then I just fell over. The next time I woke up it was a month later, almost, and I felt so...different. I don't really get it.

[Best friend? That sounds like Ventus stuff. But he thinks he understands the emotion Roxas felt at the time. Grief was a negative emotion, and Vanitas had those in spades]

How'd you feel different?

I don't know, I think I was more aware. Alert. I was feeling things which makes no sense at all because I don't have a heart. I guess if I asked Lea, he'd say that's when I started making my own.

[He scratches his head.]

Before then, I used to be a total zombie. The other Nobodies all had memories and remembered who they were. I didn't have anything inside me at all. I was totally empty. I had to learn to talk and stuff. By then I'd managed that much at least and then Demyx said Axel died and it was so weird, this rush of...sadness maybe. He wasn't dead though, he came back awhile after I woke up again.

[People in darkness can find each other.]

[None of this makes any sense to Vanitas, but it seems like it has Xehanort's fingerprints all over it. Empty vessels, no hearts, yup, that's what Xehanort likes.]

Do you know why you were so different from the others?

[Empty vessels, no hearts and they were gathered together.]

I think...it's because Sora was separate from me. The others, their Somebodies weren't still walking around somewhere, or in my case, sleeping in this egg thing. They were gone, dead or vanished or something. Sora was still alive, still walking around with his memories...so I didn't get them. We're supposed to be the same person but we aren't.

If they became Nobodies like how you did then they probably became heartless. The heartless don't have any memories so that's why their Nobodies got them.

[Makes a thoughtful sound] Sora sounds boring. Be glad you're not him.

Sora must have become a heartless too, but I don't know what happened after that. I don't have his memories, not really. Some of them but...just in dreams...I don't know. It's weird. Very weird.

[He smiles a little.]

I am glad I'm not him. I'd rather be Roxas.

Me too.

[And he means it. He just met this boy, but he means it]

I probably have to get back to the ship soon. I don't think we're staying here very long, which is too bad. One time we came I got a room and slept in a real bed and everything for a couple of nights. It was great. [He sighs contently. Little things please Roxas like nothing else.]

If you get lonely or something, we can talk on the journals until we see each other again okay? I'll come visit if you want, too!

[Roxas kinda comes and goes.]

[Vanitas nods. He should be finding Shiki's ship]

Okay.

Hey, you wouldn't happen to know where Ventus is going, would you?

Right now? No idea.

[Roxas shakes his head.]

But I think he's coming on our ship with us. I asked him to. I would ask you too, but you found someone already.

Putting me and Ventus on the same ship is a bad idea.

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Well it might be a bad idea for us too, I don't really know him that well yet.

[He shrugs helplessly.]

It's okay, you found a crew. If you didn't I'd be more worried, but you did so it's okay.

[His logic is infallible.]

[Vanitas isn't a liar, but he's not above planting suggestions in people's heads. He's seen Xehanort do it countless times. And did it to Ventus once, when he and Xehanort started their plan.]

Just be careful around him. He's strong. Stupid, but strong.

[Roxas is the type that is easily open to suggestion. His mind has been repeatedly touched and damaged, it isn't really his fault.]

I'll be careful. I'm usually careful.

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