In which we never actually use Gintoki as an anchor...maybe.

[seadevil]

Who: The crew of the Katabami, possibly the Bloody Roses if that's how we want to work this arrangement out
Where: At sea, to Malihini, and beyond!
When: After parting ways with the Strawhats at OH GOD GIANT SPIDERS EVERYWHERE through roughly the end of November
What: Catch-all log.
Warnings: May lower your IQ
Style: Any
Status: Closed.

Itinerary
- Greeting your new crewmate(s)
- Drinking excessively
- Shenanigans
- Sailing to an island paradise so Sakamoto can pick up chicks he really shouldn't be picking up (may also occur here, I assume.)

Comments

[seadevil]

He's a good judge of character. [Though Gintoki threatening to eat him probably didn't help.]

Ah well, I've learned my lesson about hiring mercenaries. I'll find him a nice island, give him whatever pay he's owed and not look back.

[fistingbonds]

I see. [He's just. Going to leave it at that. Who is he to question a bird's judgement?]

Ah, so he was just a mercenary? Never thought that you would hire such in the first place. [Well, you know. Minus the Saika, but everyone wants to hire the Saika.] Or at least, hire any here.

[seadevil]

Had I any other choice, I wouldn't have. We're expected to man our ships with others like us who've been spirited away here for no others will sign on. At the time I came it seemed as though everyone had it in their head to be captain of their own ship rather than joining with someone with the proper skills.

[Not untrue, but he was also too stubborn and prideful to join up with the captain who offered him a place on his crew.]

[fistingbonds]

Can you blame them though? Considering the kind of land we're in, most would jump at the chance to lead rather than follow. [Though that kind of sounds like home a bit.] Or some may wish to merely fill in the role of such until someone with the skills to captain a ship shows up.

[seadevil]

[Yes, Ieyasu, but that makes sense. Obviously what should have happened was everyone flocking to Motochika's side immediately. That's how things work, right?]

And no doubt sink themselves in the meantime. There are only four crews on this ocean worth calling proper pirates and sadly my own isn't one of them. Hopefully there's change on the horizon in that respect.

[He claps Ieyasu on the shoulder.]

Between the two of us, we should be able to find some more worthy men.

[fistingbonds]

[...totally. That's totally how things work.]

Well, everyone has to start out somewhere, right?

[MORE SENSE SINCE HE HAS TO BE THE VOICE OF MAKING SENSE IN MAGOICHI'S ABSENCE.

But you know he's got your back in this. Two commanders who know how to rally others for a cause? Let's do this.]

It may take some work, but I do believe we'll be able to.

[seadevil]

That's the spirit. We'll have a proper crew yet. [And for the first time in quite a while, he actually believes that.]